So along the way, Su Xiaowan held Lin Chen's phone, her fingers constantly swiping across the screen, while Shen Yue chattered away, asking all sorts of questions like a curious child.
Two hours later, the high-speed train arrived at Shanghai Hongqiao Station. The three of them got off the train with their luggage. Since it would be inconvenient to take the subway with so much luggage, Lin Chen took the two of them in a taxi and headed straight to the Minhang Campus of Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
Lin Chen looked out the car window at Shanghai. At that time, the housing price in Shanghai was only around 20,000 yuan per square meter. Before his rebirth, the average price had reached 60,000 yuan per square meter, and the most expensive ones even exceeded 200,000 yuan per square meter. Just thinking about it was frightening.
After arriving at the school, Lin Chen first went to a nearby hotel to book a room for Shen Yue, put her luggage down, and then went to the school to register.
As they entered the school gate, the sign for the freshman registration area was very eye-catching. The three of them walked over; two beautiful girls and one handsome boy—it was impossible not to attract attention. Soon, a senior student rushed up to them.
"Junior, are you here to register? I'll take you there. Come on, let me help you with your luggage."
Su Xiaowan nervously clutched her luggage and hid behind Lin Chen.
"Hey, junior, let me help you...wait, why don't you have any luggage?"
Shen Yue patted Lin Chen's head: "Excuse me, I'm here with my son for the start of the school year. Where do we register?"
"Ah? Um... cough cough... Hello Auntie, well... that's over there."
The senior student ran away awkwardly, while Shen Yue laughed until her stomach hurt and she couldn't straighten her back.
Su Xiaowan also secretly chuckled. Lin Chen glanced at Su Xiaowan and thought, "Wow, this girl looks so beautiful when she smiles." Then he glanced at Chen Yue and thought, "The school beauty looks pretty too when she smiles."
Both of them blushed under his gaze. Shen Yue gave him a push: "Let's go, hurry up and report for duty. You promised to go out and play with me."
Lin Chen majored in computer science, while Su Xiaowan majored in economics. After registering, Lin Chen first helped Su Xiaowan move her luggage to the girls' dormitory. After settling in, he took the two of them to the boys' dormitory.
"103, this is the right place."
As soon as the door opened, a shirtless man was standing inside. Upon seeing two girls, he shouted, grabbed his clothes, and rushed into the dormitory toilet.
After a while, the burly man, now dressed, came out and greeted them shyly: "Hello, classmates, I am Zhang Dacheng, from Harbin."
"My name is Lin Chen, I'm from Zhejiang. We'll be roommates from now on. Hasn't the rest arrived yet?"
"Not yet, I was the first one here. I just finished unpacking, it's a bit hot, hehe." Zhang Dacheng scratched his head sheepishly.
Lin Chen took out a cigarette he'd swiped from Lao Lin and offered one to Zhang Dacheng: "Want a smoke, brother?"
Zhang Dacheng took the cigarette, thanked him, and seeing that there were still girls around, he tucked the cigarette behind his ear.
Lin Chen quickly tidied up and then led Shen Yue and Su Xiaowan out of the boys' dormitory. Once downstairs, Lin Chen made a phone call to Fatty.
"Hey Fatty, are you free today? The Shanghai Quartet is one short."
"Alright, Brother Chen, where should we meet? I'm off right away."
"Of course the Shanghai quartet is going to Shanghai! See you at Nanjing Road subway station."
An hour later, the four met.
"Hey Fatty, is college fun?"
"It's much freer than high school, hehe. I've been staying in my dorm playing games these past few days and haven't gone out yet."
The four strolled all the way to the Bund, stood by the Huangpu River, facing the Oriental Pearl Tower, and took their first group photo as the Shanghai quartet.
It was already 9 p.m. when Lin Chen took Shen Yue back to her hotel. He then took Su Xiaowan back and was just about to return to the boys' dormitory when he received a QQ message from senior An Rou.
"You evil capitalist, the picture of the knife mark is finished. I'll send it to you first. I'll try to send you the background and the new fruit the day after tomorrow."
Lin Chen looked at his phone and smiled: "Senior, don't eat in the bathroom. I'll treat you to spicy hot pot when you come down."
"You've come to school?"
"Yes, I just reported for duty today, and I'm currently downstairs in the girls' dormitory."
"Okay, you wait, I'll eat you out of house and home today, otherwise I'll be letting down the pimples I got from staying up late these past few days."
Lin Chen waited downstairs at the girls' dormitory for a few minutes when a cute senior girl with long, flowing hair, glasses, and a onesie nightgown came running over. Most importantly, she was jumping and skipping as she ran.
Lin Chen looked at the girl in front of him, who only reached his chest, and asked, "Are you Senior An Rou?"
An Rou huffed and puffed, showing her two little tiger teeth, and said, "What's wrong? You can't allow your senior to be short?"
"Haha, let's go. I just arrived today. Senior, please lead the way."
For the sake of the late-night snack, An Rou snorted and led the way, introducing Lin Chen to some hidden gem shops on campus along the way.
"Looks like she's a foodie senior," Lin Chen thought to himself with a smile.
The mala tang (spicy hot pot) was really cheap in 2009. The two of them ate until they were stuffed and it only cost 30 yuan. While eating the mala tang, Lin Chen also told Senior An Rou about his upcoming update plan.
"Senior Anrou, for this update, I'm planning to add a skin shop that sells various skins with knife marks and backgrounds. Of course, not all skins will cost money. There will be achievement-based skins, such as completing 100 games or consuming 1000 stamina points, and there will also be consumer-based skins, such as accumulating 10 yuan or 100 yuan in recharges, and so on. So, when you're drawing the various skins, remember to make the consumer-based skins look even cooler."
An Rou, with one hand protecting her hair and the other holding chopsticks, looked up at Lin Chen and rolled her eyes: "As expected of a capitalist."
Lin Chen snatched the sliced beef she had just picked up with his chopsticks: "The capitalists are treating you to dinner."
"Hey, hey, hey, my sliced beef."
Lin Chen devoured a slice of beef and continued, "The second update is that I've decided to add a friend PK mode. Players can add each other as friends through their in-game IDs, and friends can PK against each other. And, most importantly, all kinds of skins can be seen by each other during friend PK. See, this will boost spending power, hehehe."
Hearing Lin Chen's malicious smile, An Rou felt that the man in front of her was a weird uncle. She really wanted to call the police, but she hadn't been paid yet. Oh well, she decided to just bear with it. An Rou subconsciously moved her chair away a little.
"The third update is that, with the idea of saving money for users, I have decided to add a feature that allows users to get free stamina by watching ads. Every 30 seconds of ads will give you one point of stamina for free, with a daily limit of 5 points."
In fact, the profit model of gaining stamina by watching ads is very common in later generations. It's just that it's only 2009 now, and the mobile game market is still in the exploratory stage. No one will study this profit model at all.
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