He thought he had met another Little Ma.
He sighed, but still answered truthfully.
"I know that there is no room for AAA single-player games to survive in China. No company will invest money in a game that has a long production cycle, consumes a lot of funds, and has a low or even zero return rate."
Lin Chen nodded. That's just how the game industry is in China. Just imagine how high the cost would be to develop a AAA title like this? Manpower, time, technology, equipment, and so on. But what about the return on investment? It's often zero. No capitalist would be that stupid.
Seeing Lin Chen nod, Feng Ji hurriedly said.
"But our country needs games like this! Our players need higher-quality domestically produced games! Not just endless games like Happy Landlords and Candy Crush every day!"
Lin Chen looked at the excited Feng Ji and said with a smile.
"Who said I disagreed? I'm officially informing you now that you've been hired. Moreover, Star Technology, and I, are setting up a separate department for you, called the 3A Games Team, under the Games Department. You will be in full charge of the entire team."
Feng Ji stood up excitedly: "Really? President Lin!"
"Of course it's true. Why would I lie to you? Come on, I'll take you to see the director of the game department."
Lin Chen led Feng Ji to Brother Dawei's office.
"Brother Dawei, come here, let me introduce you to someone."
Dawei stood up and looked at the slightly thin young man wearing glasses in front of him. However, the moment their eyes met, he knew that this person, like him, was someone who truly loved games.
"This is Feng Ji. He just switched from Tencent. I set up a 3A game team under your game department, and he is the team leader."
"Hello, I am Liu Wei."
"Hello, Director Liu, my name is Feng Ji."
"Bro, are you making a AAA single-player game?"
"That's right, I already have a complete proposal."
"Then why didn't you work for Tencent?"
"Well... it might be related to the company culture."
As soon as he heard the words "corporate culture," Dawei understood.
"Hey bro, let me see your proposal in a bit, so I can broaden my horizons."
"No, no, Director Liu. To be honest, Genshin Impact was a very important reason why I decided to leave Tencent. I saw hope for the rise of domestic games in this game. I was not willing to make games just to make money every day."
Dawei scratched his head sheepishly.
"Well, actually, the idea for Genshin Impact came from the boss; I was just responsible for implementing it."
Feng Ji stared wide-eyed at Lin Chen, never expecting that his young boss was not only his mentor but also more capable than himself.
Feng Ji suddenly grabbed Lin Chen's hand and said excitedly.
"President Lin, please take a look at my proposal and give me some feedback. Thank you!"
Lin Chen withdrew his hand in disgust.
"Haha, no problem, no issue. Did you bring it? How about we do it now, the three of us can work on it together."
"Yes, I brought it."
Feng Ji took out the project proposal from his backpack. He had originally planned to show it to Lin Chen during the interview, but Lin Chen didn't even wait for him to finish before hiring him and even set up a separate 3A game team for him to focus on making games.
While Lin Chen and Dawei were reading, Feng Ji was explaining it to them. An hour later, they finished reading the proposal and Feng Ji finished explaining it.
He took a sip of the mineral water on the table and looked at Lin Chen and Brother Dawei with anticipation.
Brother Dawei was stunned. My goodness, how did he come up with this story? It completely transcends his understanding of Journey to the West. This is too awesome! Everyone is a chosen one!
Lin Chen pondered for a moment and said, "Your story sounds familiar. Have you ever read a novel called 'The Legend of Wukong'?"
Feng Ji's eyes lit up: "President Lin, you've read this novel too?"
"Yes, I've seen it. I still remember one of its classic lines."
Great Sage, where do you intend to go? To traverse the Southern Heaven, to shatter the Lingxiao Palace. If you go and never return… then so be it…
"Yes, yes, yes, that's also the sentence that touched me the most. When I first read Journey to the West, I felt that there were many strange things in the story. For example, Lion Camel Ridge is right at the foot of Mount Ling, but it is littered with corpses, with skeletons like mountains and bones like forests. However, all the Buddhas in the sky of Mount Ling pretend not to see it. Is it just to create a tribulation for Tang Sanzang and his disciples?"
Brother Dawei nodded in agreement: "Me neither, Sister Li!"
Feng Ji continued, "Later, I saw a post online where a netizen suggested I read Journey to the West backwards. I tried it, and it really gave me a different feeling."
If you turn the whole story upside down, it becomes like this.
Buddha wanted his disciple Jin Chanzi to descend to the mortal realm to gain experience and improve his cultivation. So he sent Sun Wukong, Sha Wujing, and Zhu Wuneng to escort him. The three, who were inexperienced in the ways of the world, were initially filled with a sense of justice and would help any demons or monsters they encountered. But miraculously, each time a demon or monster was encountered, it was rescued by the gods in heaven.
But so many people died? You, a deity, say a few kind words and this monster will be fine?
This gradually made the three of them understand the rules by which this world works.
Sha Wujing was the first to be unable to accept it, and in the end, he stayed in the Flowing Sand River and refused to leave.
Pigsy couldn't accept it later and stayed in Gao Village as a live-in son-in-law.
Only Sun Wukong escorted Tang Sanzang all the way to the Tang Dynasty in the East.
But just as Sun Wukong was about to complete his mission, he was struck down by Buddha's palm and placed under the Five Finger Mountain.
In the end, his disciple Tang Sanzang alone received the credit and was worshipped by thousands of people.
Sun Wukong was suppressed for five hundred years before finally breaking free from the seal of the Five Finger Mountain.
If the Buddha is unjust, then he will go to the Heavenly Court to seek justice from the Jade Emperor.
But little did I expect that the Heavenly Court and Mount Ling were birds of a feather.
So he started causing havoc in the Heavenly Court, and in one go ate all the peaches in the Peach Garden and all of Laozi's elixir.
The Jade Emperor sent many heavenly soldiers and generals to besiege Sun Wukong, but Sun Wukong had been suppressed for five hundred years and had nothing to do but cultivate every day, so his cultivation level increased greatly. He also ate so many peaches of immortality and golden pills that he had already transcended the Three Realms and was no longer invisible. No one could defeat him.
In the end, the Jade Emperor had no choice but to recruit Pigsy and Sandy to serve in the Heavenly Court, on the condition that they fight Sun Wukong.
When Sun Wukong saw Zhu Bajie and Sha Wujing, he couldn't bear to see his former brothers fighting each other, so he turned around and left, going overseas, where he happened to meet the Bodhi Patriarch.
After being enlightened by the Bodhi Patriarch, Sun Wukong, disheartened, threw his golden cudgel into the East Sea, where it transformed into the Sea-Stabilizing Needle. He then dissipated all his cultivation, turning into a stone.
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