【ch: No.】

The other party seemed a little surprised, and after a while, sent a message, "Companies like Yuzhouhai, Hengxin, Bi II, and Lakla should have sent you invitations. Haven't you joined any of them?"

...The companies listed in this sentence are some of the most famous production companies in the gaming industry today.

Xu Piao had indeed received invitations from these companies to join - when "Shan Hai Lu" won first place in the innovation plan, many large and small game companies sent her invitations, some of which offered particularly good treatment, but those invitations are still lying in her inbox and she didn't even look at them.

She was doing well in the game, so why was she so desperate to create trouble for herself? Was it because the game was too free, or was she too productive and wanted to find something to slow her down?

You know, the reason why most other producers can only choose to join production companies is nothing more than that they don’t have enough mental strength, or they need the production company to invest in purchasing game area. Now these two are no longer a problem for Xu Piao.

She didn't reply immediately. She stared at the conversation for a few seconds, then looked at 079. "Can you tell if the person on the other end is the president of the Game Production Association?"

Xu Piao was not sure whether 079 could be identified through the Star Network, because the nature of 079's reliance on data to obtain information was similar to that of a hacker. It was obvious that a place like the Game Production Alliance would have a very strong defense wall.

"This is information from within the Game Production Association." 079's eyes flashed with fine blue data streams as usual. After a moment of silence, he told Xu Piao his conclusion, "It's impossible to detect the other party's identity through the data. There are at least five layers of encryption protection."

Xu Piao changed the way he asked, "Then how many levels of encryption protection do the other people in the Game Production Association have?"

"We have both level one and level two encryption, but this is the only person who has level five encryption or higher."

“…Okay, I understand.”

Xu Piao tapped the optical computing bracelet on his wrist with his fingers and thought for a moment before replying, "I'm sorry, I'm not interested in joining a game production company. Is there anything else I can help you with?"

[Hahaha, that's great, that's great. Not being interested in a production company is great!] For some reason, the person on the other end seemed a little happy, so happy that they even used voicemail. It was an unexpectedly cheerful, elderly voice. [So, are you interested in joining our association?]

After just a few words, he started talking about "our association". It was unexpected that he was so familiar with me.

Xu Piao had a sense of the association's president's style. [...If I say I'm not interested, will I be slapped and banned?]

[Of course not, our association doesn't do that! I'm just asking casually, it's okay if you don't come.]

[I'm sorry.] This was the sentence she was waiting for, and she immediately and decisively refused.

"Hey, that's quite interesting." Mei Jiangqiu, president of the Game Production Association, couldn't help laughing when he saw the last sentence.

The association member who had been robbed of the job of issuing notices stood by awkwardly. Seeing their president saying something to the person being notified, he suddenly laughed and called out, somewhat bewilderedly, "President?"

"Huh? You're still here?" Mei Jiangqiu turned around in surprise.

"...There are other people who need to be notified later." The association staff said silently.

"Oh oh..." Mei Jiangqiu coughed awkwardly a few times and cleared all the conversations between him and the producer of "Shan Hai Lu". "Then I'll cancel my account and return it to you. You can continue. I've already told that producer named ch. You can just notify the others."

After finishing speaking, Mei Jiangqiu left the fixed light computer and returned to the association building with his hands behind his back.

The reason why he came to find the producer of "Shan Hai Lu" on a whim was because when he was investigating the incident in which Unicorn Company invaded "Shan Hai Lu" with a virus, he discovered something he had discovered before - the game "Shan Hai Lu" had no protection outside the game world before the invasion of Unicorn Company. Even if protection has been added now, the protection method looks very unfamiliar and does not seem like the work of a game company.

However, Mei Jiangqiu, the president of the Game Production Association and also a seasoned producer, discovered this while also discovering some things that the unicorn companies had not noticed.

——Whether it was Kun transforming into Peng and sweeping up all the viruses, or Donghuang Taiyi dropping the Donghuang Bell to split the map of Beiming, they were all done by one person, and there were some traces of haste, not like they were prepared in advance, but rather like they were performed at the last minute.

We have said before that games made by collaboration and games made individually are subtly different because of the differences in the producers' thinking. After all, different people have different understandings of the same thing. This difference is difficult for players to distinguish due to the deliberate coordination of the producers, but for other experienced producers, there are traces to follow.

When Mei Jiangqiu first discovered this, he thought he had seen it wrong, but when he took a closer look, it was even more amazing.

Then he asked someone to check the list of producers registered with the association and found that the producer named 'ch' had not been registered with the Game Production Association.

——In other words, this is a genius producer who has never appeared before, has outstanding mental strength, has never joined any game company, and has not even studied in a specialized producer school.

It's no exaggeration to say that this kind of person is a genius.

Mei Jiangqiu was also delighted to see the talent, so he decided to come and take a look himself.

Then I got the answer "I'm not interested in joining a game production company", which was a pleasant surprise.

He wasn't unhappy about CH's refusal to join the association. As long as this newly emerged genius producer didn't have any thoughts of joining those production companies, it was already good news.

ch, Lake, and Mei He, whom Mei Jiangqiu doesn't really want to acknowledge. The more young producers like this who don't rely on production companies, the less invisible monopoly production companies have on the game market. This is what the production association would be most happy to see.

…

The players were unaware of the conversation that took place in this short period of time; their attention was all on "Peach Blossom Spring".

It is clear that the number of people participating in the internal beta test of "Taohuayuan" was only 30,000, but the number of active people in the newly emerged "Taohuayuan" discussion forum exceeded 100 million in just over ten hours after the internal beta test was opened.

Even in live broadcasts, more than half of the top ten most popular live broadcast rooms are related to "Peach Blossom Spring".

Even different live broadcast rooms have different ways of playing. Some viewers watch more than one and want to watch several live broadcast rooms. They can't even use their eyes to watch them all on a split screen.

After Xiaobaicai was forced to close his live broadcast room by the "anti-addiction" function in the morning, he finally reopened it after three or four hours of rest. The first thing he did after opening the live broadcast room was to log in to "Taohuayuan"

There were already fans waiting in the live broadcast room early on, and they all came out as soon as they saw the screen light up.

【Xiaobaicai is back! Finally!】

My happiness is back

What keeps me waiting? It's the mushroom that didn't open before the livestream ended.

[Hahaha, I feel the same way. I feel like other anchors are missing a certain feeling. They don’t look exciting. Only Xiaobaicai is particularly fun to watch.]

[Speaking of which, I suddenly realized that many big streamers with a lot of fans are broadcasting "Peach Blossom Spring". I just saw Xiaoye broadcasting this on the homepage, and that guy, the one who used to broadcast "Floating Fighter"...]

[You mean An An? She has previously broadcast a card draw on "Shan Hai Lu"]

[But our Xiao Baicai is also a big anchor, haha]

[This is off topic, so what exactly did you dig up before?! ]

"Hmm... I remember it was chanterelles, I think I'm not wrong." The cabbage that was in a difficult situation answered.

After the answer was announced, there were different reactions on the barrage from those who guessed it and those who didn't. Xiaobaicai, who was in a difficult situation, smiled and glanced at the barrage for a few seconds before his attention was drawn to the notification that popped up in the game.

[Game Announcement: Fishing activities will be open in the game from 12:00 to 15:00 every day. During the event, all players can participate in the activity at the fishing spot in the back mountain lake. The activity is divided into groups of ten Peach Blossom Springs with adjacent coordinates and added to the real-time ranking list.

During the event, the drop rate of all fishing items will be increased, and there will be a chance to obtain rare fish and lake bottom treasure chests. At the end of the event, rewards will be distributed based on the ranking, and the last person will be guaranteed 15 tokens. Tokens obtained during the fishing event can be exchanged for village seasonal skins [Spring] [Summer] [Autumn] [Winter] in the [Catch] store.

This activity is a permanent activity.

The familiar announcement style brings a sense of familiarity.

...The young cabbage, which was in a period of transition, looked at it and silently covered his liver.

[Oh, look at this familiar probability up]

【Familiar Tokens and Stores】

[But there is a guaranteed reward, which I think is pretty good. I can redeem it after a few days of playing.]

"Wait, twelve o'clock, doesn't that mean it will start in twenty minutes? But I haven't learned the skill of fishing yet!" As soon as Xiao Baicai, who was in a period of transition, noticed the time, he didn't even have time to feel the phantom pain in his liver, and hurriedly ran to the thatched hut.

Amidst a barrage of laughter, he almost arrived at the lake behind the mountain with land and fishing equipment just one minute before the event started.

After quickly watching the fishing tutorial, Xiao Baicai threw the fish hook into the lake regardless of whether he learned how to fish or not.

Then he breathed a sigh of relief, "Fortunately I made it in time."

The activity had already started at this time, and thick fog appeared on the lake. Looking around, Qinghuangdui found a wooden sign standing next to the fishing spot, with ten names, including his, appearing on it.

This should be the ranking.

Out of habit, he glanced at the top of the leaderboard and saw that the first place was a player named [Soul of the Dark Knight]. Only two or three minutes had passed, and the number of fish caught had already become 1.

...So strong!

Xiao Baicai, who was in a period of transition, was startled and became serious. He took the fishing rod and lowered his head to carefully study the tutorial.

Bait...wait, do you have to put this on the metal hook? He didn't put anything on it just now!

【There are now four first place winners.】

[Five now, so fast]

[Congratulations! There's even one in ninth place! Xiaobaicai is now the last one!]

【It’s stable, the bottom line is stable】

【……】

[I see Xiaobaicai didn't add the item called "bait," didn't he?] Someone with good eyesight saw the truth.

"It's okay, it's okay. At least there's a bottom line." Xiao Baicai, who was in a period of transition, was still in a good mood. After reading the tutorial, he found the bait in his backpack. When he was about to take the fishing rod back and put the bait on it, he felt a force in the water pulling the rod in the opposite direction.

"Huh?" He blinked in surprise, a little bit unbelieving, "It seems... there's something?"

This feeling, could it be that I have caught something?

He used some strength, but felt that the reverse pulling force was even stronger, almost pulling him into the lake.

Xiao Baicai, who was in a period of transition, felt a little panicked, but also a little excited. He stood up from the fishing stool, gripped the fishing rod tightly with both hands, and pulled hard.

Use force——

pull--

【Is there finally something? Come on, come on!】

[…What did you catch? It was too much effort.]

[Water monster?]

Along with various speculations in the barrage, Xiao Baicai, who was concentrating on pulling, didn't know how long he had persisted. He just felt that the opposing force loosened, and something of a large size in the lake was pulled out by him in one go.

There was a "splash" sound of someone falling into the water.

A shadow was pulled by the fishing rod and fell onto the shore.

The comments in the live broadcast room were completely silent for a minute at this moment, and then question marks gradually filled the entire screen.

What is this?! ! !

——No one would have thought that the person who was caught by the cabbage during the transition period was actually an old man who was also holding a fishing rod and had a confused look on his face!

The author has something to say:

I forgot whether I saw this about fishing and catching the person on the opposite side in a fishing bar or it was just a meme. I can't find the source, so I'll just take it from the Internet.

Because this fishing activity is online, sometimes you can catch your neighbors, which is an Easter egg gameplay.