Otherworldly Architect

Ming Yan never fights uncertain battles.

Every Blue Star in the apocalypse is good at hunting. They will patiently observe the enemy, set up traps, and prepare weapons.

When they are exposed to the sight of their prey, they must be fully prepared and have the certainty that one hit will kill them.

They will also calmly watch their prey die before their eyes, without taking it lightly, until they successfully remove a carcass.

Of course, You Mo himself did not dare to appear. He was like a mouse in the gutter, unable to see the light at all.

But that doesn't change because of his presence or not.

A court date is quickly looming.

What caught You Mo's lawyers off guard was that Blue Star Studio had successively applied for three documents and two important witnesses!

The first document is a technical analysis of Youmo's "third-party programs", pointing out three high-risk vulnerabilities and countless medium-level security vulnerabilities.

The second document is an analysis of the severity of the hazard.

Bluestar found 41 cases where player accounts were stolen and virtual properties were lost, and all of them used Youmo's "third-party program".

And the first witness was a player whose account was stolen because of using Youmo's plug-in.

Players who can use plug-ins are already vulnerable to the trend of interest.

Blue Star just took the initiative to find him and "know the reason", the player known as You Mo's "three-year old customer", betrayed You Mo without hesitation.

He chose to testify in court: he had four accounts, all of which were suspended or directly stolen because of the use of Youmo plug-ins.

The third document is the evaluation report of the League A Association on the process of swimming in ink.

In the summary of the document, it is written in bold font: After identification, this program is indeed a plug-in program.

The third witness who presented the report was a core member of the League A branch in the Sixth Star Province.

His joining means that the authoritative power from the game world is completely on Blue Star's side.

The development of this "case against public network security" has completely disappeared.

Hearing that the documents had just been approved, the lawyer team on You Mo's side looked at the title, and they were all like mourning.

You Mo's face was ashen, his legs trembled in fear for the first time.

"Is there really no way?" You Mo asked in a trembling voice.

As far as the eye can see, everyone avoided his sight.

Someone whispered: "You kicked the iron plate this time. The other party not only has a backer in the high-level court, but also can invite the chairman of the branch of the League A in the sixth-star province... Hehe, this backer! Don't say it's blue. Xing Studio, even if you are a coal digger, you can still kill you with a finger."

The Youmo team also has backers, otherwise they wouldn't be able to live happily for so many years, and they would still be harming one side.

Most of their income is not actually owned by them.

But compared to the power behind Blue Star, this backer is nothing.

Even until now, You Mo didn't know who was so skillful that he could change the judge handling the case on the spot during the out-of-court reconciliation?

At this time, You Mo's entire team is basically an integration of interests.

He couldn't stand the slightest bit of tossing, and immediately began to push the walls and everyone, the trees toppled and scattered...

There is even a technical backbone who directly found Blue Star, wanting to be a tainted witness to alleviate his crime.

It can be described as a betrayal!

After the first trial ended, You Mo himself was in the dock, feeling like he was being scorched by the dog days of the sun, sweating profusely.

A series of resentful eyes shot on his back, including former enemies and colleagues who had just betrayed.

In such a losing situation, the lawyer suggested that he directly admit one or two of the guilts. As long as he bites the most serious guilt of "obstructing public network security", he will have a chance to get a suspended sentence.

In other words, the calamity of prison was close at hand, and this time he couldn't escape it.

The first trial has only ended here, and the results have not yet come out.

But everyone already knows this, and the lawyers on the opposite side have already come over to get close.

You Mo Mian walked out like golden paper.

On the Blue Star side, they discussed that they should rub a good meal to wash away the bad luck on their body.

Unexpectedly, as soon as they left the court, Blue Star and his party saw a team waiting outside.

The leader held a [Support Blue Star! Plug-in illegal! ] sign, looking around and looking inside.

It seems that Blue Star's fans are cheering outside.

Several reporters were also attracted, and when they saw Ming Yan and others appear, they immediately raised their spears and short cannons.

"Excuse me……"

Before they could finish "ask", Mingyan said thankfully, Bumin: "Please leave the question to our public relations department, thank you."

After he finished speaking, he had slipped away quickly.

The players cheering outside, standing behind the white line drawn by the court, were originally holding signs in a proper manner.

But seeing Ming Yan appeared, they were inevitably excited.

Someone shouted to Ming Yan's back: "Come on, Blue Star! Blue Star is awesome!"

A girl seemed to have forgotten the reason why she was waiting at the door of the court, and she came up and said, "Chief Master Ming! When will a new game be released!!!"

In just a short time, Blue Star's special car finally arrived.

Before Ming Yan got into the car, he heard someone shout, "Come on, Blue Star! The games you make are super invincible and fun! You are the best!"

Mingyan looked back at the team, smiled and said, "Thank you for liking Bluestar's games."

Click.

The media faithfully recorded the footage.

Maybe in the future, this will become a milestone shot in Blue Star Studio's documentary.

...

The Youmo team was mired in lawsuits and imprisoned, and naturally there was no time to continue updating during this time.

Immediately, with a hot update of "League of Legends" by Bluestar, the Youmo plug-in immediately lost all its effects.

The cheat detection mechanism is more accurate, ensuring that every player who tries to cheat will be warned as soon as the game is turned on.

And for this incident, Blue Star also had similar handling experience.

Mingyan contacted a well-known risk management team in the industry, and they did a security assessment of the entire League of Legends game.

In the future, Blue Star's games will become more and more secure, and it will be more and more difficult for these speculators to find loopholes.

This series of small changes made players who saw the clues very happy.

If nothing else, there are really not many studios and game companies in the Sixth Star Province who dare to carry out permanent titles.

Blue Star is the toughest one among them, it can earn money while standing!

The incident of the player rebelling that everyone was vaguely worried about did not happen.

Major forums, news sites and self-media basically showed a happy attitude towards this incident.

The Youmo team's execution was considered a great deed to "eliminate harm for the people".

In this incident, Xia Cheng can be said to be a great hero.

Ming Yan originally wanted to invite him out for a big meal, but Xia Cheng still prefers his home-cooked dishes.

To be honest, Ming Yan hasn't opened fire for a long time, because he's been too busy recently.

He rejected Ning Yufeng's invitation...

Just mentioning this matter, Xia Cheng looked happy and a little smug, and said, "Oh, those people haven't grasped the trick to asking you out."

Clearly: "???"

Xia Cheng said: "The most important thing about asking you out is not where to go, what to do, nor who I am... but you just happen to have no work to do."

Well, although this sentence is completely correct, I always feel that there is a hint of sadness in it.

...

After the plug-in incident came to an end, the time soon came to the beginning of May.

During this period, Blue Star's main job was to maintain the new game "Blue Star Doom".

In the interstellar era, the production cycle of a single-player game is often more than ten months, and even after the release, a series of bugs will inevitably be reported one after another.

Blue Star needs to deal with these bugs as quickly as possible, hot-update patches for the new game, and ensure that it will end up as a perfectly stable version.

At the same time, after intense preliminary preparations, the overall process of the Blue Star Carnival was finally finalized.

Mingyan has rented the first stadium in the city center, and has negotiated suitable contractors and sponsors.

After all, this is the first time that Bluestar Studio has held such a large-scale offline event. It should be left to professionals, so don't make guesses.

In the first year of the Blue Star Carnival, a total of about 5,000 players were invited to participate.

Of these 5,000 places, more than half of them were distributed through lottery draws through the account system on Bluestar's official website.

The remaining small part was donated by Blue Star Studio - including those seats specially reserved for employees and their families, seats for "special thanks", seats for important players in the local game industry...

But overall, the entire carnival is still a feast of communication between players and production teams.

It stands to reason that Blue Star Studio needs to participate in the carnival activities as a whole.

However, one member of the current studio has a very special situation.

He is a technical master who joined the studio with a special offer last year, a programmer known as "Ling Lingqi".

——Because of physical reasons, he has never participated in any offline activities, and basically only appears on the Internet, which can be called ghostly.

When Mingyan tried to contact him this time, he finally knew the truth behind it.

It turned out that Ling Lingqi was suffering from a serious illness, and the whole person was hanging on to his life, and there was no way to move even a meter away.

His body is already on the verge of collapse, and his consciousness can be kept roaming the Internet through special medical equipment.

It was also thanks to this technology in the interstellar age that he was able to live longer.

Ling Lingqi's special situation allows him to live on the Internet 24 hours a day.

In order to pass the time, he taught himself a lot of techniques, and also spent a lot of time on the works of Blue Star Studio.

That's why he can make a lot of Minecraft mods, and even built a redstone computer himself.

- He really spent a lot of time and effort, probably far more than all other players.

But now, Ling Lingqi may not be able to hold it any longer.

"Boss, thank you very much for giving me the opportunity to work at Bluestar." Ling Lingqi said with a wry smile, "The attending physician notified me the other day that my life expectancy is only 3 to 10 months, and I'm afraid I won't be able to last any longer. When a project is completed. So I may have to say goodbye to you in advance..."

In fact, the separation of life and death is something that Ming Yan has become accustomed to.

But the technology of the entire interstellar era is so advanced that there are quite few incurable diseases left.

He must have been caught off guard.

Ming Yan asked: "Is there no other way? If you have any difficulties, you can tell me."

Ling Lingqi said calmly: "I can find the game I love in the last few months of my life, and I can make a little contribution to it in such a good studio, I already feel very satisfied. If I have any wishes, I have two things that I would like to donate to the Blue Star Studio..."

The first thing Ling Lingqi donated was an artificial intelligence he wrote and named it "Red Stone No. 7".

It can be seen from the name that he really loves the redstone circuit of "Minecraft".

This artificial intelligence is fully equipped with the advanced level of the interstellar era, and its main functions are to write programs independently, correct bugs, organize data, and so on.

It exists entirely for the purpose of developing games.

The second thing turned out to be a second-hand different world.

In otherworldly games in the interstellar era, under normal circumstances, the government or private individuals excavated the entrance to a different world, and then sold it at a high price to a qualified developer of otherworldly game companies.

The company will hire people to explore different worlds, and then make preparations in advance, and open it to players as a game, and players will send them to open up wasteland.

In essence, players are equivalent to the second batch of mercenaries, who are going to reclaim virgin land.

And second-hand different worlds, as the name suggests, are different worlds that have been developed into games.

"The game I developed before is called "Expedition", and it is not well-known. The number of players is only a few hundred thousand. It was a project invested by my father and some partners, but in the end it was lost..."

Ling Lingqi smiled helplessly.

"After more than two years of operation, the capital chain was completely broken, and my father declared bankruptcy. And the other world that has been developed has no auction value, and was finally left to me, which is also one of my childhood entertainment. 'back yard'."

The main purpose of otherworld games is to plunder resources, so the developed worlds naturally lose their value.

These regular games developed by Interstellar are not fun at all in Ming Yan's view.

Basically, it is to implant a game system, and then issue tasks to players, let them bring back what resources, suppress local rebels, explore a new continent... and so on.

After the game stopped operating, there was nothing left in this second-hand different world.

In the best case, there are still undiscovered rare mineral veins, or other resources.

But generally speaking, there is no leakage.

All that's left inside is the devastation and the aboriginal people who have gone through everything.

Even so, second-hand different worlds still have a certain value, and depending on the situation, they can still sell for seven-figure prices.

Ling Lingqi said: "I have nothing to worry about in this world, and I have already donated my inheritance. Blue Star is the most beautiful piece of paradise I saw in my last days... This other world is given to You guys, you can be a warehouse, a reference, no matter what you do, I'm very happy to be able to help Blue Star."

Things in the world are often unsatisfactory.

No matter how advanced the technology is, there will still be many regrets in the end.

Mingyan walked into the office, found the projection of the future "Blue Star Building", and showed it to Ling Lingqi.

He said: "Next month is the third anniversary of Bluestar Studio. In the second half of this year, this building will belong to Bluestar, and we will move together to a more spacious place. Next year, we will launch a new one. This game, code-named 'Soul'. You have just arrived at Blue Star, and there are still many wonderful things that you have not experienced with us... Next Blue Star Carnival, you will also participate online, okay?"

Ling Lingqi smiled and said: "Okay, I promise you. If I can, I will try my best to play new games! Master Ming, I really like your games, thank you for bringing me so much happiness. ."

"Thank you for liking my game too." Ming Yan said.

Ling Ling Qi really donated those two items to Blue Star Studio.

The artificial intelligence arrived at the technical team on the first day, and the latter held a small meeting and decided to get acquainted with it first.

That day, everyone in the technical team was silent.

The team leader also smoked cigarettes on the rooftop for half an hour.

The other world was sent to the Blue Star Studio through a special channel.

The entrance to another world is bound to a key card, which requires special instruments to open to reach the corresponding entrance to another world.

After Ming Yan received it, a small meeting was also held.

In the end, Blue Star does not define this precious thing as a donation, but as an investment.

Ming Yan said to Ling Lingqi: "The project code-named 'Soul' is about to start, and we are raising new funds. And this key card is your investment in the new game - you, as a capital investor, account for 10% shares.”

Ling Lingqi was speechless for a while, and looked at Ming Yan with red eyes.

Ming Yan smiled at him: "New projects always have to meet shareholders, you have to remember to check them all the time."

"Yeah!" Ling Lingqi nodded solemnly.

...

Because of taking care of Ling Lingqi's physical condition, this player meeting has been decided to be held online.

The Blue Star Carnival is confirmed to be held on May 21 every year!

This year's offline activities include: Blue Star Studio Tour, Original Painting and Soundtrack Exhibition, Opening and Closing Performances in the Stadium, Blue Star Game Experience Hall, etc.

And more online activities.

The most important thing is not only the player meeting, but also the corresponding activities in each game.

A new carnival festival has been added to "Minecraft". Every May 21st, all monsters will change their appearance and wear a small top hat with the Blue Star LOGO on their heads. At the same time, the food of "Blue Star Cookies" will be added. formula.

A new set of "Carnival" skins has been added to "League of Legends". The first batch of skins has five classic occupations, all of which have become a very happy style.

For example, the carnival skin of the shooter has become a small water gun, which is aimed at the enemy's biubiubiu.

The new game "Blue Star Doomsday" released a CG, which is a little story about Russell and Louis's birthday on the road, which is warm and touching.

Of course, limited-time promotions for all games are inevitable.

Let those players who can't come also have fun together.

There is also the early concept promotion of the new game "Soul", which should also debut at the player meeting for the first time.

Mingyan himself will tell the players the good news.

Before that, the official announcement only said: It was a surprise!

As the date of the carnival is approaching, the carnival invitations in major games have also been distributed.

Players who receive the invitation can easily confirm their attendance online and whether to transfer the opportunity to others.

There are more than 5,000 qualifications in total, and they are already full.

The players who got the invitations were naturally overjoyed, and the fans who didn't get them started their performances.

[Receive two invitations to the Blue Star Carnival, the price is negotiable. 】

【Where is the live broadcast? Is the recording set up? I want to step over to the live broadcast room ahead of time. I have already asked for the annual leave on the 21st... I really lost my mind when I didn't get the invitation letter. 】

[Hahahaha I bought one, I will show it to you]

Players trying to buy invitations are normal.

And some simple and direct players posted directly in the Blue Star forum: [Dad! I want to attend your birthday party! Don't lose me, Dad! 】

[Master Ming, I have spent a total of 6,000 minutes in your several games. You didn't invite me, I decided to quietly, quietly... hang on your beam tonight]

【A new game? ! Can we play tomorrow? What? can not! What do your programmers do! 】

Clearly: "..."

Ming Yan silently pretended not to see.

Anyway, he disappeared from the media not once or twice.

These players soon turned to the arms of the others at Blue Star.

For example, Varian has been urged by players to experience, experience, and a mature and smooth solution.

I saw that he brought out the image ambassador and head of the propaganda department of Blue Star Studio——

Sisi the golden retriever.

[I am a great swordsman: really gone. (Attachment: Video)]

When I clicked on the video, I saw Xixi lying happily on the floor, playing an invitation to the Blue Star Carnival.

It played for a long time, but the invitation was taken away by the hand outside the screen.

Sisi sat up immediately, shouting "Wang Wang Wang" in protest.

Voice-over: "You asked me for an invitation letter? Do you think I have it? I don't have any of myself, and I have to rely on a backstage work card to sneak in! The last one is for my wife!"

Xixi: "Wow!"

Voice-over: "The new game hasn't started production yet, don't rush me, I want to hang myself at your door!"

Xixi: "Wang Wang Wang!"

Voice-over: "Are you still not convinced?"

Hearing a "ding" sound, one hand placed a shiny kitchen knife beside Xixi.

Sisi: "..."

Xixi was so frightened that her ears drooped, and she sat upright with a look of "I'm so good".

The voiceover said: "No invitations, no new games, only a dog's life!"