Chapter 22: Something unexpected is strange

Ye Xuan wanted to follow, but it must be necessary for the system to directly put him into the laboratory where the player was not there, so he should not act rashly. It would be a wise choice to stay here obediently.

He analyzed the pros and cons of staying or leaving, and decided to observe the people in the laboratory for a while. After all, the assistant surnamed Fang had an unusually large role, and he would probably be a character that pushed the plot forward.

So Ye Xuan kept a close eye on Assistant Fang, following him wherever he went. If you didn't know, you might think this game had humanoid characters and pets.

Fortunately, his efforts were rewarded. Assistant Fang put the test tube containing the important medicine aside - she took the test tube with her when she sat back in the chair just now. She looked casual and did not value the tube of medicine as much as she did when she scolded the intern before.

Ye Xing thought that there should be a stopper on the test tube, but after she made such a fuss, he didn't know where the stopper had gone. In short, he watched helplessly as the medicine ignored Newton's laws and flowed up backwards, jumped from the mouth of the tube, and fell into a beaker filled with liquid, disappearing without a trace.

My goodness, this must be a spirit!

Ye Xuan stared blankly at the remaining medicine and beaker, feeling a chill on his back.

He saw the prompt box again: [An accident. Due to the assistant's momentary negligence, a serious mistake occurred in the experiment.]

No, a normal person wouldn't consider that a potion could violate the laws of physics and escape. Although Assistant Fang was wrong, isn't it too much to put all the blame on her?

Ye Xuan felt that something that could be considered a supernatural event could not be described as an "accident", and besides, who would have an experimental accident caused by drugs?

But Ye Xing had learned from past experience and knew that this was a ridiculous game and it was not easy to judge it using conventional methods. Moreover, he had never played any games and just visited forums more frequently recently.

The accident happened, and he also saw the negligence. What do you mean by "major mistake"?

Ye Xuan looked at the player's assistant after he came back. That person was like a thorn that had suddenly grown on the chair in the corner. He sat down for a while, then stood up and turned around a few times, over and over again, and even he almost felt dizzy.

A researcher took the beaker to an alcohol lamp and heated it, and bubbles began to bubble up.

When Ye Xuan had been circling around for countless times, he happened to pass by here and was attracted by this strange phenomenon.

The bubbles did not burst, but stacked up layer by layer, and the colors were actually gradient, with a strange beauty.

Ye Xing had taken chemistry lab classes and done a lot of lab questions on the test papers, but he had never seen a reaction like this. He glanced at his assistant's expression and saw that she looked a little off, so there might be something wrong with the experiment.

"Go do something else first," she shooed the researcher away, "This is the focus of our entire project, and I will personally oversee it."

The other party felt a little embarrassed to be driven away, so he rubbed his nose and walked towards other people.

Ye Xing followed them and heard the group of people whispering, "Assistant Fang really thinks she is the boss. Everyone knows how powerful she is. She always thinks that she is the leader when Director Qin is not around."

"How surprising," someone said, "She is so arrogant that she doesn't even know how to use the lab equipment. Director Qin is a recognized genius, and she became his assistant through connections. She really thinks she is so great."

Although they spoke in low voices, the laboratory was not very big and everyone could hear what Director Qin said outside the door.

Ye Xing thought that if Assistant Fang couldn't hear what others were saying about her, he was either deaf or it was planned by her.

The prompt box appears again: [This mistake did not attract the attention of the assistant at first, and she quietly concealed it.]

He was puzzled. The researcher should have also seen the strange phenomenon in the beaker. How did Assistant Fang hide it in such a small laboratory with quite a lot of people?

Ye Xuan shifted his gaze back to her, and saw her stirring the contents of the beaker with a glass rod and pouring them directly into several containers.

Well, based on the experimental attitude and methods, even if the potion doesn't work, this research institute will be finished sooner or later.

Ye Xuan felt that this was just a form of children playing house. For someone like this to be recruited as an assistant, his background must be very solid.

"Hello, Director!" Assistant Fang became more serious when Director Qin appeared. "Look, I have prepared all the experimental materials. You can start at any time."

Ye Xuan followed her gaze and looked at the young man who walked in from the door. When he walked in, he was not smiling like last time, but frowning, looking very impatient, and waved at Fang perfunctorily.

"Intern, please come closer and don't block Director Qin's way." An older researcher reminded the girl, "Director Qin is always in a bad mood after every meeting. Whoever he doesn't like will suffer."

The young intern quickly moved to the side, lowering his head like a quail.

The boy walked over to Assistant Fang, put on gloves, and picked up a conical bottle: "This color is not right."

Fang replied, "It's nothing, Director. It's just, uh, a change in the ratio of the experimental drugs. It wasn't very successful last time."

Director Qin's face darkened, staring at the other party and said, "Can you change the ratio just by thinking about it? You change it arbitrarily without reporting it, without analyzing the consequences in advance, and I won't keep useless people here."

The assistant looked embarrassed and hesitated for a long time, not knowing what to say, so he just shut up.

Ye Xuan thought that she seemed to have been here for quite some time, and she had done nothing but cause trouble and slack off, but you hadn't kicked her out.

What’s even more bizarre is that after Director Qin criticized Assistant Fang, he actually continued his experiments with those obviously problematic materials as if he had never said anything.

Ye Xuan felt that something was wrong with this two-star mission. The potion that moved on its own, the experiments that continued, the assistant who would not be kicked out of the team, every single thing happened unreasonably.

He is a spectator, and he can only be a spectator. The game system puts him here before his character appears, but he cannot interfere with what happens here.

He seemed to be watching the filming of a movie, a spectator who was detached from the scene. The planner must have his own intention in making such an arrangement.

As Ye Xing was thinking, a reminder sounded: "The preliminary summary has been read. Employee '325074' can choose whether to exit the game."

He looked at the two options "Yes" and "No" floating in the air and was about to quit directly, but then he thought of the upcoming competition and decided to stay in the game.

…

There are too many and too diverse sections in Youmeng, some are busy and some are deserted. Ye Xuan does not favor one over the other and walks through each section one by one.

Most people can recognize him wherever there are gamers. Some people go online to ask for a photo, some concentrate on the game, and of course there are many people who take screenshots and make emoticons.

He didn't deliberately make any weird expressions, he just walked by normally as if he was shopping. He would stop to take photos, but then leave and never look back.

Although the emoji competition has not officially started yet, the atmosphere on the forum is already very lively. Not only the official game forum of "Dream Travel", but also other forums such as "a well-known" game forum have endless discussion posts, and the champion is almost determined.

Now, almost all the emoticons used in Yexuan’s mobile phone are his own. Many of them are indeed interesting. Many of them are made by contestants who want to canvass votes for themselves in advance in order to accumulate popularity. They probably don’t know that the judges have already used the emoticons they made.

Originally, the system would not let him sit idle, and it was common for him to be randomly assigned a few small tasks. But who said that this competition was more important, so he didn't have to take on any tasks other than the main tasks, and his gaming experience was greatly enhanced.

He just participated in the game like an ordinary player, went around for a few rounds and played several mini-games, and then he could understand why other people liked the game.

Next time if the interviewer recommends a game to him, he might not refuse.

At the same time, the interviewer who was about to buy the latest game released by Shazhou Company sneezed, completely unaware that it was Ye Xuan who was thinking about him.

There weren't many players during non-holidays, so Ye Xuan only wandered around the most popular areas and tried a wide variety of food, but unfortunately the chef's creations didn't seem to be among them.

Eating dessert does make you feel good, and it’s no big deal even if you have to work overtime.

After waiting for a long time until the day before the competition, something unexpected happened.

Ye Xuan did not expect that the forum would crash at this time. The timing was so clever that it seemed like someone did it on purpose.

The emoji contest was originally planned to be held by the official account of "Dream Travel" in the game forum, and voting could be conducted by pinning a post in the real NPC area. But this was risky, at least they did not expect the forum to crash.

As we all know, the game "Dream Travel" is not mature yet, and its most eye-catching selling point is the presence of real NPCs. This technology has not been developed much, and only a few large companies have mastered it. And they, a "small workshop" that cannot even be traced online, can attract a large number of players with this, which has already made some people jealous.

The competition held at this time focuses on "real NPCs". There is obviously only one NPC, but through the form of emoticon competition, more players can interact with real NPCs instead of being able to meet them in the plot.

Most real-life NPCs in other games maintain a sense of mystery, with a brand new look every time they appear. But Ye Xuan's face has never changed, and he is still active in the emoji packs of users of major social software. You can imagine how angry those "competitors" must be.

The company was in a state of chaos, and each department was doing its best to deal with this sudden challenge.

The programmers of "Dream Travel" raced against time to repair the damaged data in the forum, but the other party would not let go and continued to sabotage by repairing the west wall while I tore down the east wall.

When Ye Xuan didn't know what he could do, Sister Lin knocked on the door and walked into his office.