Chapter 41 The overtime competition begins!

All employees worked overtime on Friday night, even the cleaning lady was not spared, which shows how much importance the company attaches to the first competition.

I was so sleepy that I yawned and was forced to continue listening to the leaders' meeting.

Who told him to be one of the judges? He would rather lie in the game cabin than applaud here from time to time.

He finally understood that no matter what the matter was, a meeting was always necessary to have a sense of ceremony - group discussions could not be discussed directly, but had to be discussed in a small meeting room; the leader's work arrangements could not be discussed individually, but had to be discussed in a large meeting room.

Is this for security and openness? Is this necessary?

There were a lot of doodles on the open notebook. Ye Xing glanced at the interviewer who was speaking, then lowered his head and concentrated on slacking off.

The painful lessons of history tell us that we can concentrate on work, but we must be distracted when slacking off to avoid this situation.

"Okay, it's your turn." The interviewer handed over a microphone that was not even connected to the power line, and his movements were like a torchbearer.

However, at this time, Ye Xing did not pay attention to the other party's "handover of the sacred flame" action, and was still immersed in artistic creation.

"Xiao Xuan," Sister Lin, who was sitting next to him, could no longer turn a blind eye and tapped his desk twice to remind him, "It's your turn."

"Oh-oh," Ye Xuan suddenly raised his head and looked around, then he found the microphone like a baton in a relay race, and reached out to take it, "I..."

What to say?

He felt that his role in this competition was to be a source of material and a mascot, and such a position did not require any speaking.

Therefore, he did not prepare a speech before the meeting, and he didn't even have a mental draft.

"I will follow your instructions and obey your arrangements," Ye Xuan promised. "I have finished my speech, Sister Lin——"

He passed the microphone to the side. He thought that as the soul of the team, he would not be criticized too much.

Sister Lin completed the handover smoothly as expected: "Well, okay, I'll take over next..."

Ye Xuan looked at the notebook full of doodles, made up his mind to turn over a blank page, changed his ways, and listened carefully.

After all, the competition process is quite complicated. Since he has become a judge, he can't act as if it has nothing to do with him. He needs to show some attitude.

The main reason is that I’m a little afraid of losing face.

It would be bad if he made a fool of himself during the competition. His job meant that he was in some ways tied to the company's image.

Moreover, he can be said to be the "protagonist" of this emoticon competition, so he must be fully prepared.

But meetings are so boring...

Finally, the meeting was over. As soon as the words "adjourn" came out, Ye Xing immediately became much more sober, just like when he heard the teacher say "get out of class dismissed" in school.

He aimed at the door and tried to slip away, but was stopped by Sister Lin beside him.

"Xiao Xuan," she handed over a folder, "Thank you for taking the trouble to look at the entries again. Here are some forms. Just fill in the entries that interest you."

Ye Xuan originally thought that he only needed to fill in basic information such as the title of the work and the name of the contestant, but when he opened it, he did not expect to find the content so rich and the classification so detailed.

The scoring and evaluation based on composition, color tone, character matching, etc. are more difficult to understand than art homework.

Aren’t emoticons a simple tool to promote communication between people? How can they be so complicated?

…

This was the first time Ye Xuan stayed up so late since graduation.

He took a laptop from Sister Lin and temporarily put it in the dormitory. There was no light in the room, and the only light source was the light from the screen that spread into the room.

The dim light made people feel as if an unknown terror was spreading, and coupled with the half-hidden "rumors" from other people's mouths, he felt a little frightened.

There was a power outage without warning tonight, so I had to work on my laptop since I couldn't stay in the office too late.

Yexuan didn't even dare to light a candle, as he felt that the flickering flame would not be conducive to his working in peace in such a place.

There were so many entries that he probably couldn't finish reading them all in one night, so he decided to trust the public's opinion and take a look at the works of a few familiar contestants recommended in the forum.

Emoticons are about combining text and pictures. A combination of vivid and interesting text and pictures, static pictures are sometimes more "lively" than animated pictures.

Each contestant has his or her own strengths. Some contestants are good at selecting pictures. The pictures for each work should be taken by themselves and are rarely seen on the Internet. Some contestants are good at writing texts. Their sentences are concise and clear, and they get to the point.

Of course, he saw the contestant "Do it yourself and you will have enough food and clothing" who had been mentioned in the barrage. The flames in the sky of the Misty Mountain execution ground, the flying figure in the afterglow of the sunset, and the sensational but not exaggerated text really looked like a movie poster.

Ye Xuan himself is also optimistic about this contestant. His extremely high popularity did not come out of thin air. His distinctive personal style and highly emotional products prove his strength.

It is said that these emoticon packages have now become an important means for Youmeng players to promote the game to the outside world. Good works will naturally have good outputs, and the same is true for games.

Ye Xuan selected a record from them, gave it the highest score so far, and wrote a lot of comments in a very eloquent manner.

He believed that this contestant would definitely win the award, and this comment would come in handy during the award ceremony, so all he needed to do was prepare in advance.

He was really prescient.

After sorting out the tables of several works that he thought were good, the thought suddenly came to his mind: "Working overtime is not so bad."

Something is wrong. It must be that the overtime pay is a bit too much, not that he agrees that this job is really interesting.

"I'm so tired from working overtime--" Ye Xuan stretched and prepared to go to bed.

The competition is tomorrow, so you need to get enough rest.

The electricity was still not back on, and it was already very late when I finished washing up in the dark.

Except for staying up late to do homework at school, he had never stayed up so late except for staying up late on New Year's Eve.

I remember that there was a classmate in the dormitory who was addicted to games. He would not fall asleep unless he played games until two or three o'clock every night. Sometimes he would even stay up all night. When I woke up the next day, I would see him playing games with dark circles under his eyes. His skin was dull, but his eyes were glowing.

Although he looked a little tired, he was mentally very fulfilled.

Ye Xing himself didn't like playing games, and he couldn't understand why this classmate would rather sleep in class and be punished by the teacher than stay up late at night playing games.

He seems to understand a little bit now. This is a kind of love.

Everyone has something they love, be it studying, working, or playing games.

But he seemed to have not found it yet, or maybe it already existed but he ignored it without paying much attention.

Maybe late at night is really a good time for daydreaming. While recalling the interesting past events in my school days, I wonder if I am clear in my heart.

A person is made up of many sides, some of which are beyond our reach.

When he was working overtime just now, he felt that "the unknown" represented fear, but not entirely.

At this moment, he also believes that the mystery of the "unknown" is the most attractive and wonderful scenery in the endless exploration process of human beings.

…

On Saturday morning, Youmeng's official forum was unprecedentedly lively.

The last time the forum was restored to normal use, people were not this active. This competition really brought out a lot of people who were usually lurking.

Real NPC: The competition is coming soon! ! ! [Explosion]

1L LZ Is this the right way to divide the area? Forget it, the real NPC guy is the soul of this competition, even if he jumps into another area, the administrator should not care about me!

2L hhhhh the OP is so arrogant, I will notify the administrator to kick you out (dog head)

3L competition! I am so looking forward to it! Although I didn’t participate in the competition, I have already decided who to vote for!

4L The above statement made me think that I had mistakenly entered the election voting...

5L Please don’t let anything happen to you. Please don’t let anything happen to you…

6L Uh, LS, what's wrong? The more you do this, the more anxious I get.

7L LZ Ahhhhh! The countdown to the competition has begun! The registration channel is about to close, and friends who still want to participate should hurry up!

8L! Thanks for the reminder! I almost forgot I have a new work!

9L I seem to see the name above in watermarks often! Thank you for your hard work!

The 10L competition is held in the forum, right? I saw the official said that there will be a full live broadcast!

Ye Xuan realized something was wrong when he saw this. The "live broadcast" job had always been done by him. It would have been ok if he had done it on a whim before, but why wasn't he told in advance about the live broadcast task of such an important event?

He thought that he would only be on screen when the judges were speaking, but after reading the discussions in the posts a few levels down, he realized that the job of "host" also fell on him.

He unconsciously spoke out what was in his mind, and Sister Lin who came to see him happened to hear it.

"I've already told you that," Sister Lin shook her head helplessly, "Xiao Xuan, were you not listening in the meeting again?"

Having been exposed, Ye Xuan had no choice but to accept the established fact and prepare for his job as a host.

In order to avoid incidents, this competition is only open to Youmeng players. Voting and watching the game require a Youmeng account for verification, and the user must log in with the real name.

Some players who are used to the anonymous version of the forum are not used to this and are a little hesitant to post a barrage. But overall, the feedback is quite good, and the barrage was blocked as soon as the live broadcast started.

As a temporary host, Ye Xing needs to warm up the atmosphere first before officially starting the various stages of the competition.

But he felt that there was no need to be "heated" about the dense barrage of comments on the screen, so he quickly got to the point.

"Good morning, real NPC guy! This is the first time I see you so early!"

"What you said before is right. Why does the game start so early? It's hard to get up early on Saturday, so I set five alarms to avoid missing it."

"I don't think so. After all, I haven't slept yet! I spent the whole night researching my entry!"

"Friends in front, please take care of yourselves and don't try too hard..."

"Let's start voting! I'm really looking forward to this!"

Ye Xuan first read out a prepared opening speech, and then invited the leader to speak.

He looked at the leader sitting behind the camera and fell silent.

“Hahahaha, are the leaders all voice-overs? Real NPCs, at least manage your expressions better.”

"That's a real expression. My homeroom teacher had the same expression when our school held a sports meet last time. I can't say that they are unrelated, but I can say that they are exactly the same."

"I want to watch the leader's speech. Can you help me turn the camera?"

"If you really transfer it, I guess you will be fined, right? Real NPC guy, try it now (dog head)!"

Ye Xuan smiled at the camera, indicating that he would not listen to them.