Doom Rose
[What is this person doing? ] X71 said angrily, [Is he being sarcastic on purpose? ]
[It doesn't seem like yin and yang.] Shang Jingyan touched his chin and said in surprise, [...It seems to be sincere.]
Before she could finish her words, she watched Su Shudong post the third update.
He reposted her fans' updates, which listed in detail the differences between the two monsters in "Mountains and Seas" and "Hunting Dreams". It was well-organized and logical, and it was amazing that Su Shudong had locked on to the most convincing clarification so quickly.
The chaos was quickly put out before it could get any bigger, and the dust settled.
The comments section was also shocked by Su Shudong's behavior. There is still some time before the agreed deadline, but he gave up in advance.
Yes, the gap was indeed obvious, and there was no need to confirm the result. However, everyone thought that Su Shudong would be stubborn to the end.
Shang Jingyan's laptop stopped ringing, and editor Mu Xiu sent a message to her instead, telling her: "I'll take care of the rest."
——She felt that her editor’s mood was probably very delicate. Originally, the way this kind of thing was handled would definitely make people feel suffocated. The person who was rumored had to come forward to clarify and prove himself, otherwise the label of "suspected plagiarism" would always follow him.
This is the purpose of the mastermind behind the scenes. He knows that he can't cause any real harm to her, but he just wants to annoy her.
The reason why the other party chose Su Shudong was because she and he were in a period of conflict, and she thought that Su Shudong would never speak up and would just laugh and watch her misfortune.
But now, Su Shudong has taken the initiative to clarify, so there is no need for Shang Jingyan to come forward again.
And because of this, netizens reacted quickly.
[Someone is upset with Director Shang and wants to trick her, right? ]
[The rumormonger dragged Su Shudong into the water. Did we, the players of "Dream Hunter", agree? Although his character needs to be proven, he is also a fan of his works. 】
[Who is it that Director Shang is blocking your way? You don’t have the ability, but you still want to do something crooked! ]
[I thought it was Su Shudong who was trying to scam me, I wrongly blamed him.]
[Just tell me, how could Director Shang do such a thing! ]
[Even Su Shudong couldn't bear to watch it anymore, tsk tsk...]
Shang Jingyan observed the wind direction for a while and determined the next direction.
The other party seemed to have no face to buy popularity anymore, and the tag dropped sharply, with the total time it stayed on the list not exceeding three hours - in terms of pure marketing, it was a complete loss of money.
Su Tong also called her: "...Su Shudong definitely didn't do this, and he doesn't have the connections right now. I have a few suspects, and I'll tell you after I've sorted them out."
In the video, Su Tong's expression was relatively relaxed, and it was obvious that things were still under control.
Shang Jingyan nodded: "Thank you, President Su."
She knew in her heart that anyone who would do this must be a dream builder above three stars in the main galaxy.
They will definitely be unhappy that Shang Jingyan, an outsider, has suddenly emerged and taken away their original piece of cake.
On the contrary, for less famous dream builders, she is not only not a stumbling block, but has helped them open up new hot topics.
"What are you thanking me for?" Su Tong said with a smile, "This is originally within our job scope."
——Now Shang Jingyan is in the main galaxy. Although the editor and assistant are still Chang Qingqing's people from the exile galaxy, Chang Qingqing's resources are only in the exile galaxy after all, and she has no reach to the main galaxy.
Therefore, Su's Culture and Tourism took the opportunity to reach a cooperation with Chang Qingqing, which brought certain benefits to both parties.
The handling of this incident can be described as perfect so far, and Su Shudong's reaction played a significant role in it.
[It seems he is not that bad.] Shang Jingyan said this in his heart and downloaded Su Shudong's Weibo.
The other side.
Shang Jingyan casually clicked the "like" button and then stopped paying attention to the follow-up, but he didn't know that Su Shudong had been staring at his "like" for a long time.
"She didn't have any other reaction?" Su Shudong said, "I already said I would write an apology letter!"
His tone was a little bit incredulous and a little bit indignant.
"..." His friends were speechless. To be more precise, all of Su Shudong's actions during this period made him speechless. He could only say, "Maybe he was busy and didn't have time to pay attention."
Su Shudong frowned: "I have already taken the initiative to be cannon fodder, what else is there for her to do?"
The friend didn't want to argue with him about this issue anymore, so he said, "You know what, the Shanhai Tuben is quite interesting. Hey, I really want to catch the 'Rose of Misfortune'."
The "Doom Rose" is a special species in the main galaxy, and all players have been missing it recently.
"What the hell? I don't understand." Su Shudong's expression was calm.
As he was speaking, he glanced at a comment: [However, how could Su Shudong find clarification so quickly? The post was first posted on the forum, and only a few comments were forwarded here before he forwarded it. Did he also read the discussion of our "Shan Hai" fans? ]
Su Shudong looked away calmly and waved his hand, "Goodbye, I'm offline now. I have to continue writing my apology letter."
After finishing speaking, he hung up the phone. The friend said: “…”
Putting down the laptop, Su Shudong stared at the paper in front of him and slowly began to write.
…Writing an apology letter was not as difficult as he had imagined.
Maybe he just lacks an opportunity to really "let go" of himself.
After the bet began, his mental changes could be staged in an 800-episode TV series.
In fact, contrary to what the outside world thinks, Su Shudong knew he had lost as early as the first day of the release of "Dream Hunting".
Creators are often like this. Before releasing their works, they feel that they are unique and the best in the universe. Only after releasing them and seeing the feedback from the audience do they calm down and look at their works objectively.
At that time, "Shanhai" had not yet been launched, and the gossipers looked at the trend chart of "Liemeng" and made a fuss, thinking that it was a good example.
But Su Shudong is a senior game dream builder, and he is extremely sensitive to data. Compared with his expectations, this appearance was just mediocre.
Looking at the first day's data that night, Su Shudong felt unwilling.
And after "Shanhai" was launched, this unwillingness became even stronger.
Shang Jingyan's performance was so outstanding that he clearly realized the gap between the two.
“…Tsk.”
After Su Shudong wrote a paragraph, he felt sad again and stopped writing.
Then... he picked up the light screen and opened the "Illustrated Book of Mountains and Seas".
Su Shudong: So what if I am unwilling? Why not play "Shanhai Tuben" for a while?
If he wasn't held back by his sense of morality and responsibility as a dream builder, he would probably have given up and no longer be willing to care about the updates to his game.
And the reason for stopping the update is very real - he is addicted to his opponent's game.
Even his friends didn't know this.
Su Shudong put on a mask, glasses and a hat like a thief and sneaked out of the house.
On the road, you can see many people like him, walking around with light screens in their hands and wearing virtual glasses, but everyone else is doing it openly, and he stands out because he is fully armed.
When he showed off his pet, the eyes of passers-by suddenly turned into admiration:
Wow, the special species of the main galaxy called "Rose of Doom"!
The monster's huge branches spread behind him. Su Shudong raised his chin, as proud as a peacock spreading its tail.
He walked and stopped, pausing from time to time to look for clues.
Su Shudong was working on a mission in a game and had been stuck for several days. The game was so immersive that he had been dreaming about collecting the flower seeds required by the mission.
The biggest advantage of games that combine reality lies in the "sense of reality" and "huge map size", which virtual holographic games cannot match.
The map of "Shanhaituben" is a map of the real world, with a very high degree of freedom. In just a short period of time, the game has divided into several mainstream gameplay styles.
The first type is leisure life players, who are not too obsessed with collecting cards, but are more interested in experiencing the "scenery of another world".
There are many small plots and NPCs hidden in "Shanhai Tuben". The monsters you meet on the road will discuss how to hunt, the NPCs in the flowers will ask the player for help, and sometimes ghosts will follow the player inexplicably just because they are lost...
Shang Jingyan is not the only one who made these little easter eggs. She has opened a submission window to dream builders. As long as they write stories within the world view of "Shan Hai", they will have a chance to be selected.
A large part of the fun for daily players comes from watching the love, hate and emotions of the characters.
The second type is the technical battle players, who have a strong obsession with PK and have researched various tactics and monster combinations, writing them up as guides and posting them on the forum. Similarly, dungeons are also their favorite place.
The latest update preview of "Shanhaituben" shows that the monster upgrade system will be officially launched. This has actually been traced before. Players have noticed that some monsters look very similar, as if they are in different stages; and a few players have accidentally transformed their monsters into other forms.
The second type of players had the biggest reaction to this news. Once the upgrade system is released, it will definitely have an impact on the current battles and will also lead to more gameplay.
The third type of players are story-oriented. Although it is a card-drawing game, Shanhai also has a main plot. It has a high degree of freedom, and if players like to just collect and draw cards, they can ignore it completely.
Su Shudong is the third type of player. He chose the profession of [Investigator] because it seemed to be the best way to explore the plot.
In the main storyline, as the heir to the mysterious notebook, the player needs to explore the secrets of the notebook's owner and gradually piece together the full picture of this world.
It is currently known that the owner of the notebook is a woman who lived in the era when the ancient times entered the modern times in the last star calendar, so the contents of the notebook are a mix of Chinese and Western, ancient and modern.
She was the founder of a certain occult organization. After her death, the notebook acquired its own activity and split into countless parts to seduce new humans.
Because she has the triple identities of writer, investigator and archaeologist, players can choose from them.
As the main storyline is gradually unlocked, many players have discovered that the world view of "Shanhai" is extremely complete, and the monsters in it also have their own civilization and writing.
Therefore, analyzing these settings has become a pleasure for players who love textual research.
Shang Jingyan will never let them down, and every detail setting can withstand close scrutiny.
The forum has sorted out that the monster world is divided into two civilizations. One is huge in number and occupies a dominant position. The characteristic is that all of them have entities - more than 90% of the cards in the monster album are composed of them.
This school of civilization is also divided into multiple races and classes. There are low-level monsters like the Xuanyi Rabbit that only have animal thinking, and there are high-level monsters like the Clown and the Ghost Bride that have the characteristics of intelligent creatures.
All the monster characters and languages currently appearing in the "Shanhai Tuben" come from them. They have their own historical chronology and national maps.
The other school of civilization is very mysterious and has never appeared in person.
It was first discovered when a player found a strange-looking tentacle in a monster's brain while fighting it. The player posted a thread on the forum asking what monster the tentacle belonged to. However, after hundreds of threads of discussion, players discovered that the tentacle could not be matched to any monster in the existing atlas.
Many people suspected that this was a bug, or that the player had faked the picture, and the poster said that he was wronged. Later, similar situations occurred one after another, and everyone realized that it was not fake.
"Shanhai" is a game, which is carefully designed by people. Since it is not a bug, it must be a hidden setting.
This conjecture was not confirmed until a great scholar - the famous researcher "Don't Like Sugar" - studied all the data on monster civilizations.
Don’t Like Sugar made an astonishing inference, saying that those tentacles came from another monster civilization. The monsters in that civilization had no entity when they were alive, but they could subtly influence the main monster civilization.
Many major events in the history of monsters may have involved them. They are likely to feed on some kind of energy spillage of physical monsters.
This post has been featured, and the comments below honestly reflect the players' feelings:
[Fuck, I'm horrified by what I heard. We don't know the monsters, and the monsters don't know another kind of monster. This is a case of the mantis stalking the cicada while the oriole is waiting behind!]
[Director Shang is really amazing. Even a hidden Easter egg can scare people QAQ]
[It’s really scary when you think about it… Director Shang is so amazing, how did he come up with this idea! ]
The horror in "Shanhai" is a nested horror. For human spiritualists, there is another "real world" in the world, which completely overlaps with human daily life, but most people are unaware of it.
As for the monsters, they could not be complacent, because most of them were unaware of the existence of another race, and they thought they were the masters of the underworld, but in fact they were just tools to be herded.
Obviously, "the gaze of the unknowable" is the core of "Shan Hai Tu Ben".
The more Su Shudong played, the more frightened he became, and he also felt a sense of extreme envy.
In the previous star calendar, it would take a team several years to create such a complete and rich world view. But in this star calendar, due to the existence of spiritual power, it can be launched in a few months.
People with high-level mental powers have a rush of thoughts, and can generate, deduce, and screen countless inspirations in an instant, with inhuman efficiency.
Su Shudong's mental strength was not bad either, and he knew how valuable this ability was. Therefore, now that they were on the same track, he realized how amazing the gap between him and Shang Jingyan was.
He couldn't tell his friends, and couldn't show off that he already had the "Rose of Misfortune". For a gamer, this was so hard.
Su Shudong felt very lonely playing alone, so after struggling for a long time, he registered a small account on the forum, named [不写西南江南]. Now he is one of the well-known bigwigs among the forum members.
"There are no flower seeds here either..." Su Shudong was concentrating on searching when he suddenly saw a figure appear in front of him.
A young woman in a pink dress was looking around under the tree, only a bush away from him. As if it was too hot, she took off her hat and fanned it impatiently, revealing a head of pink hair that he was very familiar with.
It’s the flower Feitian who was exiled to the galaxy!
Su Shudong immediately walked back and hid behind a tree.
...As the challenged, Su Shudong's only remaining bottom line is: not to let the public and Shang Jingyan know that he is playing "Shan Hai Tu Ben".
Not to mention that Hua Feitian knew about this!
He thought it was bad luck and was about to leave, but a light flashed in his mind and he stopped in his tracks.
Su Shudong: Wait a minute, why does it seem like she is also playing "Shan Hai Tu Ben"?
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