Chapter 28: Pictionary Relay Version
(Just thinking about what I'm going to write in this chapter makes me want to laugh.)
(This chapter contains a lot of terrible artwork; please do not enter if you dislike this style.)
Recently, the total number of users on ShanHai Live has been soaring. In order to improve user engagement, the technology department developed a game section. The first game launched was "Pictionary Relay Edition".
"Pictionary Relay Edition" is a multiplayer interactive game based on the classic "Pictionary" game, with the addition of a "relay passing" mechanism. The core fun lies in the information deviation during the "drawing-guessing-drawing" process, and it is suitable for 4 or more players.
On the first day of its launch, Zhang Yiming decided to generate buzz and randomly invited a large number of available streamers to participate.
They even specially arranged for Zhang Mo to be the last one in the baton, to play a safety net role.
Soon, these dozens of streamers were pulled into the game room, along with all these live streams combined, bringing the total number of viewers to over 2 million.
There are so many people!
[New feature? That's interesting!]
[Oh, I want to play games with the streamer too! Can this viewer participate?]
As the host and the first participant, Zhang Yiming first briefly explained the rules to everyone. He then reassured everyone, "Don't worry, the feature of hosts inviting viewers to play together will be added later."
Let's take a look at what our streamers are up to today.
And by the way, I'd like to remind everyone that since the audience has a God's-eye view and sees the answer from the beginning, any words related to the answer appearing in the comments will be directly blocked.
Please don't help your favorite streamer cheat by giving them hints.
Okay, okay.
[Open open open open open]
The game begins, the first player is [Xiao Zhang from the Planning Department] (administrator account).
At this moment, the audience's perspective is the same as Zhang Yiming's, seeing four options appear in the middle of the screen.
They are [Optimus Prime], [Hot Pot], [Acting Cute], and [Playing with Fire to Deceive the Lords].
Meanwhile, the screens of the other streamers are now filled with static, with only scrolling comments visible.
However, the keywords have been blocked, so watching the comments is useless.
After a moment of contemplation, Zhang Yiming chose a relatively simple and safe option: hot pot.
Then, you are taken to the canvas page.
Considering that his drawing skills were very average, and that even if he drew some hot pot ingredients, the later streamers might not understand them, Zhang Yiming simply drew a divided hot pot.
After finishing the drawing, he admired it for a long time, nodding smugly: "With this level of skill, anyone could guess it with their eyes closed!" Then, full of confidence, he clicked submit.
The second runner-up is [Master Lu Zheng].
The odd-numbered positions require drawing a picture, while the even-numbered positions require guessing a word. Therefore, Lu Zheng only needs to guess a word based on the previous person's drawing and pass it on to the next person.
To be fair, Zhang Yiming's painting is quite good; an ordinary person would definitely recognize it at a glance.
But he didn't consider one thing: Lu Zheng was the one who was next in line for him.
The prototype is Lu Ban, who has not been living in human society for very long. He is engrossed in the study of mechanisms and does not care much about food, so he has never eaten a hot pot with two broths.
The only hint is: [2 characters], which is the hint that all players can see.
So, after pondering for almost a minute, I hesitated and typed out two words using voice input: "八卦" (Bagua).
Lu Zheng also felt it didn't quite look like it, but he was at a loss; he really didn't know what the red half meant.
Players who have completed the task can see the actions of the players behind them, so when Zhang Yiming saw Lu Zheng's answer, his vision went black, and the cola he had just drunk sprayed all over the keyboard with a "pfft".
Hahahahahahaha
【It's over! It's over!】
I hereby declare the game over.
The third leg: [Stone carving].
As a stone guardian, Shi Gua Dang naturally knew what the Eight Trigrams were, but he remembered his boss saying that he should try not to reveal those supernatural and unscientific things in front of outsiders.
So he thought of another meaning of gossip, which is to watch the show and enjoy the spectacle.
Since it's the same two words anyway, as long as the meaning is clear, that's fine.
So he drew three little figures standing together, each holding a slice of watermelon, with happy smiles on their faces and word bubbles above their heads. Then he pressed submit.
The fourth batter is Zhang Chenxiao.
Yes, this time, I finally got to take Xiaoxiao out for team building.
She stared at the little figures on the screen and murmured, "Several people are holding watermelons and laughing so happily. What is this?"
After pondering for more than ten seconds, she came to the conclusion: "This is the joy of a bountiful harvest!"
Then, calmly and collectedly, he typed out two words: 【Harvest】
[So lively and bustling, hahaha!]
The people in the live stream were practically bursting with laughter.
The fifth segment is "Ali Loves Home Renovation".
Li Yue scratched her head, muttering to herself in confusion, "A bountiful harvest? How am I supposed to draw that?"
After thinking for a long time, she still felt that drawing grains was the most intuitive way to depict them, so she finally drew a field with many thick wheat plants growing on it, and a little person standing next to it with a smile on his face.
After finishing the drawing, she probably felt that her "smile" wasn't drawn very well and was afraid that the person following her wouldn't understand it, so she wrote many "ha"s next to it.
The sixth team: the Mountain and Sea Undercover Investigation Team.
The siblings Lin Qing and Lin Hong looked at the questions together, and they were sure that their intelligence would double.
Moreover, Li Yue's strategy was correct; the next player accurately understood the two elements of "wheat" and "laughter".
Just putting them together doesn't make sense.
Lin Qing murmured, "Wheat? Haha? Wheat...haha..."
Listening to her brother's mutterings, Lin Hong suddenly understood and resolutely typed out two words: "[Selling smiles]".
After finishing, Lin Hong proudly analyzed, "Wheat plus smile equals 'wheat smile'! Young people these days love puns!"
Lin Qing suddenly realized: "That makes sense, that makes sense."
Zhang Yiming, who was watching from the sidelines: "..."
System notification: [Zhang from the planning department has logged out of the game]
[Hahahaha, Xiao Zhang is so upset!]
[Calculate the area of Xiao Zhang's psychological trauma!]
[Is this someone going down to write a self-criticism in advance?]
I laughed so hard my face mask almost fell off.
The seventh member is the "Master of Ink Painting".
"Selling smiles?" Wu Yun's face scrunched up as he looked at the two words. He knew what the word meant, of course, but how did he draw it?
While he was feeling confused, he suddenly understood when he saw the crazy laughing emojis in the live stream.
So he drew a round, smiling emoji with crescent-shaped eyes and upturned lips, and wrote "100 yuan/each" in a flamboyant style below.
After finishing the drawing, he laughed at himself: "Perfect! This is obviously for selling smiles, no doubt about it!"
Eighth relay: [Xiao Jiang, please don't throw cigarette butts into the sea.]
As everyone knows, Jiang Mian is an honest and simple fish. He and Wu Yun are both aquatic creatures and usually have a good understanding of each other, but this time, their thought processes are completely different.
Honest fish Jiang Mian pondered for a moment, then cautiously gave his answer: [Mask]
Actually, he felt that a more accurate wording would be "selling masks," but since the prompt only had two words, he had to remove "selling."
The ninth item: [Sleep-aiding pillow].
This was Zhou Mei's first time participating in an online event with so many people, and she was a little excited and wanted to do her best.
So she drew very carefully. To highlight the mask element, she drew a person with a smiling face in the front and a crying face in the back.
The tenth member is [Emotional Mentor Jiu'er].
Jiu Xuan stared for a long time but still couldn't figure out that the face in front was a mask. She could only guess based on the more externalized state of the person.
"Is it two-faced?"
Jiu Xuan frowned, then gritted her teeth and typed out two words: 【Insidious】
Eleventh runner: Dream Catcher Studio.
[Haha, who arranged this? They deliberately put Teacher Meng second to last.]
[They probably initially thought that even if things went astray, Teacher Meng's paintings could still salvage the situation.]
[He can't be saved, he's simply beyond saving.]
Meng Yuan's drawing skills certainly did not disappoint. After seeing the keywords, she quickly and skillfully created a striking picture within seconds.
A person with a gentle, almost effeminate smile, eyes crinkling at the corners and lips upturned, ripped out the heart of the person opposite them. The stark contrast between the bloody heart and the gentle smile created a powerful visual impact.
(No picture is provided; please use your imagination.)
Finally, the last leg of the relay has arrived: [System Administrator Mr. Zhang]
In fact, Meng Yuan's painting portrays the two-faced, ruthless, and cunning nature of a villain quite well. Zhang Mo naturally understood it, but hesitated over which word to use.
She muttered to herself, "Insidious? Betrayal? Villain?"
Then she looked at the screen area, trying to glean some clues from it.
[Ready, laugh!]
Hahahahaha
Zhang Mo: "......"
The comments were mostly just "hahahahahaha" and laughing emojis, offering absolutely no help.
Just as Zhang Mo was hesitating and had already typed out the word "insidious," the system gave her a prompt because she had taken more than a minute to think—
【diet】
Zhang Mo's expression went blank.
She looked at the heart that had been pulled out of the picture, then at the word "food and drink," and fell into a deep silence.
The comments section was filled with the word "ha" as the barrage of messages scrolled by.
After hesitating for a long time, she finally frowned, deleted the original answer, and typed two words—
Cannibalism
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The hashtag #YouDrawIsGuessCannibalismIncident# quickly became a trending topic, with the number of views exceeding 100 million in just half a day. Netizens went wild with their own creative works: some turned each drawing into an emoji, while others compiled a collection of the streamers' reactions, which spread like wildfire across the internet.
Zhang Yiming cautiously walked into Zhang Mo's office with the data report in hand: "President Zhang, this Sunday, active users increased by 30%, with 5 million new users, and the platform's gift revenue has also doubled."
Zhang Mo looked at him expressionlessly: "That's all thanks to your excellent planning."
Zhang Yiming wiped the sweat from his forehead and asked obsequiously, "So, so... I just wanted to ask, there's a mini-game going to be released next week, 'Who's the Spy'."
Mr. Zhang...would you like to participate?
"...Don't even think about it."
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