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Chapter 633 Where is my Lin Yao!?
Actually, the poster girl of this year's "Easter Egg Adventure" is not much different from last year.
At least the appearance is not much different.
As for the lines.
In fact, they were changed last year.
The line "Although the world outside has changed a lot, there are still many interesting things here" moved countless players at the time...
So, Li Yu was not too surprised by the change of the poster girl's lines.
He just wanted to see if there were more clues and tried to trigger more lines.
Unexpectedly,
in the end, he saw the line "The guardian needs to be changed"...
Of course, Li Yu thought it was just a joke.
After all, although Linmu Studio did not say it explicitly, since the first Linmu Carnival was held and Lin Yao wore a traditional maid uniform on stage at the opening ceremony.
All players acquiesced.
The poster girl of Linmu Carnival is Lin Yao!
Is this going to change Lin Yao?
Isn't this funny?
Anyway, Li Yu didn't believe it.
He stared at the dialogue that popped up for a while, then tried to press the left mouse button and clicked to continue.
Soon.
A new dialogue popped up.
The maid stopped talking about changing people and started talking about the tips of "Easter Egg Adventure" again.
The character setting is the same as before.
Li Yu tried for more than ten minutes without giving up.
But he could not trigger the previous dialogue again.
He could only give up first and control his own character to enter the castle that was getting bigger and bigger every year to find the Easter eggs first.
However.
Although he could not trigger the dialogue again.
Everything just now seemed to have never happened.
But Li Yu still couldn't forget it, and as time went by, he became more and more worried.
It's like a thin thorn, deeply embedded in the flesh, it hurts when you press it, and you know there is a thorn there.
But you just can't find the wound, and you can't find the tail of the thorn.
Very concerned!
...
The next day.
Linmu Studio started to promote this year's Easter Egg Adventure
as usual. More players learned that this year's Linmu Carnival would be held.
And because of the outrageous revenue of "Day of Reincarnation", mobile games are extremely valued, and even colleagues who once turned a deaf ear to mobile games have also learned about this news.
To be honest.
When they saw that Linmu Studio's carnival was announced to be held again,
they had mixed feelings.
Linmu Studio has become a daunting mountain in the field of traditional games.
Then,
when all peers had accepted their fate and thought that they could only survive under the feet of Linmu Studio,
they opened the era of mobile games on their own and told everyone how profitable mobile games are through a game called "Day of Reincarnation"!
Now, just when all peers know how much money mobile games make and are ready to go all-in on this field,
and the potential of this blue ocean market is gradually emerging,
Linmu Studio turned around again like last year and held a carnival...
Not only do players think that Linmu Carnival has nothing to do with mobile games, but peers also think so...
So in their opinion, this turn of Linmu Studio is really remarkable.
Put yourself in their shoes.
If
your company has made a game called "Day of Reincarnation" and the monthly turnover is as high as 3 billion,
then why make traditional games?
No matter what the consideration is, you should directly bet on mobile games, right?
Because this is the right choice.
How many high-quality mobile games are there on the market now?
In fact, there are only a few at most.
In this market, even if Jesus comes, peers will say that there is a lot of room for development.
And what about traditional games?
Let's not talk about other game companies.
Linmu Studio's own traditional games can be listed in a long list...
On one side is the mobile game market that has taken the lead and is far from saturated and rising.
On the other side is the traditional game market that seems to be close to saturation, and Linmu Studio has confirmed its leading position.
Whether from the perspective of interests, strategies, internal pie distribution, etc.,
choosing the former is the wisest choice.
If it were them, they really couldn't think of a reason... not to increase investment in mobile games, but to continue to invest in traditional games.
Because mobile games are now a blue ocean market, and Linmu Studio has seized the opportunity, and "Day of Reincarnation" has proved how promising this market is.
At this time, not continuing to expand the advantage? Wouldn't it be stupid?
So, peers really think that there is no reason to choose to do so.
But Linmu Studio did just that.
Oh...
If you really want to be picky, there is actually a reason.
That is to consider from the player side...
mobile games are an emerging market after all, and many players currently do not know about mobile games.
Traditional game players definitely still want to play more familiar traditional games.
If you consider it from this aspect.
Linmu Studio's operation is understandable... everything is for the players.
However.
Players' concepts can be changed.
Just for the players, it's really not worth it...
but Linmu Studio seems to think it's worth it.
This makes many colleagues feel... complicated.
"Everything is for the players... but is it really possible?"
Tianhu.
Mou Feng looked at the promotional materials about the Linmu Carnival and sighed softly.
Then.
He looked at the LOGO of the Linmu Carnival and suddenly thought of a possibility.
If.
This year Linmu Studio is going to use the carnival, a well-known player event, to promote mobile games... Using the huge attention, directly push a new mobile game to the forefront, then everything makes sense...
But as soon as this idea came up.
He smiled self-deprecatingly.
How is it possible?
Linmu Studio will not do this.
If he thought so, let alone the players.
It is impossible that Linmu Studio would not have thought of such a thing...
maybe.
They have never even thought of this idea, right? In order not to stimulate traditional game players, they might even deliberately stagger the joint activities of "Day of Reincarnation".
Everything is for the players...
When Mou Feng thought of this, he was a little absent-minded.
But soon, he came back to his senses, stopped his thoughts from wandering in disorder, shook his head, and held the mouse.
He planned to see what the players thought of this carnival.
Open the web version of "Game Circle".
Click on the carnival section that was newly established not long ago but has already exploded in popularity.
Originally.
Mou Feng expected that he would see the players jubilant and crazy discussing what game will be announced at the Linmu Carnival.
He was ready.
But the reality... is different from his imagination.
[Look, I also triggered this line! Maid-sama, what does this mean? Change the guardian? Lin Yao is going to change? ]
[Can you guys take a look at this, what does this mean? Miss Maid quits? 】
【I read all the posts today, but I still can't find a convincing answer, so I'm more concerned. 】
【Is Lin Yao going to resign? Will she no longer be in charge of Linmu Studio! ? 】
【Although I don't know what this means, I always feel that something is not good. If Lin Yao resigns, what will happen to Linmu Studio...】
【Impossible! Linmu Studio is almost a one-man show of Lin Yao, and there is no news of any factional disputes within Linmu Studio. There is only the Lin Yao faction... How can she resign? 】
【Damn, I'm so panicked. 】
【...】
Mou Feng looked at these posts without a beginning or an end, and slowly put a question mark.
Then he spent more than half an hour, looking up the posts that he was interested in one by one.
Finally, I understand the whole story.
Because of a line in "Easter Egg Adventure".
Then.
These players are like this.
Yes, Li Yu was not the only one who triggered that line that seemed like a casual chat.
Many players triggered it.
Then some players posted it on the forum.
More players tried it, and there were more and more related posts.
Soon, even the triggering conditions were summarized by the players.
That is, as long as the players who found the Easter egg in "Easter Egg Adventure" for two consecutive years talk to the poster girl, such a conversation will be triggered.
But it will only be triggered once.
It's like saying goodbye to an old friend...
This is really too explosive!
Then the players exploded...
"How is this possible?"
After understanding the whole story, Mou Feng said with a smile: "You don't know how healthy the ecology of Linmu Studio is, and how high Lin Yao's prestige is inside Linmu Studio... As long as she doesn't want to leave, even if all the senior executives are tied up, it is impossible for her to resign! What
are you kidding... Thinking so much because of a line, stupid players!"
Mou Feng didn't take it seriously at all. After cursing, he shook his head and was about to close the page and go to work.
But that's what he said.
The moment he closed the page.
Mou Feng couldn't help but sigh.
Lin Yao's popularity is really high...
...
Mou Feng didn't take it seriously at all.
But the players are different.
They care a lot.
We even discussed this for two days, which made the overall progress of "Easter Egg Adventure" much slower than in previous years
.
This does sound a bit too outrageous...
The player subconsciously linked that line to Lin Yao's resignation.
But Linmu Studio is not a listed company.
Because of Youmei Technology, Linmu Studio's foundation has been almost completely exposed.
In short,
Linmu Studio is actually owned by Lin Yao alone.
In this case, it is impossible for Lin Yao to leave.
In addition,
there is a saying... Emotions are time-limited.
Although this sentence may not be appropriate here.
But many things are indeed very concerned at the moment, but after two days, the emotions are not so strong.
The same is true for players.
When countless evidences indicate that Lin Yao cannot leave Linmu Studio.
And the more the players think about it, the more outrageous it feels.
As time goes by, the heat of the whole thing begins to fade quickly.
No one thinks that Lin Yao will not appear at the Linmu Carnival this year...
Everything.
Soon returned to the track.
The last day of May.
This year's number one player is decided.
As usual.
On the big screen outside the Linmu Studio headquarters, the IP of the top player was announced, and the first ticket for this year's carnival was given.
At the same time, on the same day,
the first batch of carnival tickets were released.
They were sold out in three seconds.
Because the tickets were too popular.
Players complained that in order to participate, they forgot everything and only had the tickets in their minds.
As for the following days,
the process was even simpler. Players tried their best to get tickets...
Three years.
Linmu Carnival is already in its third year.
As long as conditions permit, no one wants to miss the opportunity to go to the scene.
At the same time,
Linmu Studio released the promotional video of this year's carnival on the first day of June.
In addition to the characters that players knew before,
at the end of the promotional video,
there were also characters that players did not know.
Or lines that they had never heard before.
Among them, the most impressive thing for players was the crazy laughter that suddenly sounded at the end of the promotional video...
The laughter that instantly gave people goose bumps instantly turned the carnival into a horror movie.
If it weren't for the appearance of the carnival logo at the end,
players would have thought they had seen the wrong promotional video.
However, this also made players more interested in the games to be announced at the carnival!
Related discussions began to increase.
The discussion about the lines of the poster girl in "Easter Egg Adventure", which had been slowly decreasing, became even less noticeable with the release of this wave of game discussion posts...
Everything seemed to be back on track in previous years.
"Look, isn't everything going well?"
Linmu Studio.
Lin Yao looked at Zhong Xiu, spread her hands, and had an expression of "everything is under control".
"Okay, I admit that it's quite normal now..."
Zhong Xiu nodded unwillingly, and then immediately said: "But the carnival hasn't started yet."
In fact.
A few days ago, he also noticed the post where players discussed the lines of the poster girl. At
that time, he immediately went to find Lin Yao, wanting to use this matter to convince her.
Lin Yao was also confused at the time and began to hesitate.
But who knows.
The players discussed it for a few days and then stopped discussing it...
So in the end.
Zhong Xiu still failed to convince Lin Yao.
"It's the same at the beginning of the carnival."
Lin Yao shook her head gently: "I just looked back at the previous two carnivals. My appearance time in the two carnivals only added up to 17 minutes, which is less than 10 minutes on average... Let alone my appearance, even if the more than 10 minutes of the meeting was removed, it wouldn't matter, right?"
"..."
Zhong Xiu didn't know how to refute, but he still insisted on his opinion: "You are different."
Lin Yao smiled: "I can't understand it at all."
"You will see when the time comes! It will definitely have an impact."
Zhong Xiu gritted his teeth: "I bet with you!"
"What bet?" Lin Yao blinked and asked curiously.
Zhong Xiu showed an expression that he wanted to put his wife and children on it, but he said shameful words: "Bet my hair! The only hair left on both sides of my head!"
Lin Yao: "..."
Who wants it!
...
Time came to June 7th.
The third Linmu Carnival officially opened!
Li Yu still failed to become the number one player this year, but he was lucky. He
still got the ticket this year.
Just like in previous years.
He rushed to the scene early.
But this time, he didn't get to the front row.
Because this year, there were many players who arrived earlier than him.
Faced with this situation,
Li Yu was stunned.
He even saw someone holding a sleeping bag...
It was outrageous!
Is this a doujinshi exhibition?
Li Yu complained while standing in the middle of the line in a sullen manner.
But soon,
he became happy... Because he found that this position could better appreciate COS.
Now Linmu Carnival no longer needs Linmu Studio to invite COSERs.
Since the second carnival, many players have spontaneously come to the scene to COS their favorite game characters.
And this year, because "Day of Reincarnation" became popular, the temperament of this game is there...
So this year, there are many young ladies with super white thighs on the scene...
Li Yu feasted his eyes...
At this time, he didn't worry about whether it was a mobile game or not.
In fact, 99% of players will not be entangled...
And although "Day of Reincarnation" did increase the number of young ladies.
But in fact, the total number of COSERs for other games has not changed.
As long as you take your eyes off the young lady, you will find that there are players wearing strange costumes everywhere.
Their COS levels are uneven, and the makeup levels are even more different.
But whether it is COSER or player.
No matter what level, no matter what kind of COS.
Everyone is very happy.
This kind of happiness comes from the heart.
Even seeing Illidan holding two table legs as an egg knife...
Li Yu looked around and smiled gently.
He witnessed with his own eyes that the Linmu Carnival, the best player event in the world, is getting hotter and hotter.
To be honest.
It is really full of emotion.
Especially after thinking about the situation of the first carnival.
After the emotion, it is extremely strong expectation.
Li Yu raised his head and looked at the front row of the team and the entrance.
He couldn't help thinking.
This year.
What surprises will Linmu Studio bring to everyone?
...
Nine o'clock.
Li Yu finally entered.
This time he did not meet Yi Wenwen because there were too many people.
But he believed that the other party should also be watching this carnival somewhere or in front of the screen.
So there was no regret.
Soon,
the opening ceremony of the carnival's fixed program came.
Symphony medley!
When the curtain slowly opened and
saw the orchestra behind,
Li Yu immediately smiled and couldn't help saying, "We're back, we're all back..."
As the grand theme song of the first game sounded,
the COSER entered.
Li Yu exclaimed.
Other players also exclaimed.
Because these old players all know this COSER!
Lei Hongguang, the producer of "World of Warcraft"!
This time,
Linmu Studio no longer invited professional COSERs, but asked internal staff to come on stage in person!
As if to confirm their guess,
soon,
the second COSER came up.
He was also a producer... Many players have an impression of him.
So soon, cheers rang out.
And when Qi Jianhua, Zhong Xiu, Zhu Nianqiao and others who were more familiar to the players appeared,
the cheers were even louder...
"Ohhhh!!!"
The atmosphere was set.
As the theme songs were played one by one,
more familiar faces appeared,
and the players' necks stretched longer.
Because they all thought of that woman... Lin Yao.
Will she COS a game character? What game character will she COS?
Although everyone knows that she will most likely come in a maid outfit.
After all, she is the poster girl.
But there is still some expectation.
And this expectation.
As the theme song of "Fantasy OL" gets closer, it becomes stronger.
But... it's a pity.
The theme song of the last game was played, and Lin Yao still didn't come out.
Offstage.
Li Yu smiled.
A little disappointed.
But it soon disappeared.
In fact, maids are not bad...
With this thought in mind, he straightened his back and prepared to welcome Lin Yao's appearance.
The other players were similar.
And soon.
The last piece of music was played...
accompanied by the 8-bit music slowly turning into a symphony.
The game characters of Linmu Studio appeared on the screen
one by one. When many game characters gathered together and stood on the screen.
Click.
Footsteps sounded.
However, no figure appeared at the entrance.
Instead, on the screen.
A virtual maid walked out from the edge of the screen, then stood in front of all the game characters and slowly opened her hands.
[Welcome everyone to... Linmu Carnival! ]
A line of huge artistic words appeared at the top of the screen.
Lin Yao did not appear, and never appeared.
So far.
The entire opening ceremony ended.
But all the players were stunned.
"Eh!?"
The audience.
Li Yu was also confused. He looked at the screen, then at the entrance. He suddenly came to his senses and said excitedly, "Where is my maid? Where is Lin Yao?!"
In the past few days, there may be a lot of typos, and the number of words updated will be affected to a certain extent. I apologize in advance.
Sorry, I went home... but my laptop was soaked in water...
(End of this chapter)