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The morning sunlight slanted into the room, and dust floated in the sunlight, like mayflies.

A sock, which I don't know whether it has been washed, is half-way in the gap between the sofa. On the coffee table is a mess of take-out boxes and empty beer cans strewn about.

The TV had been left on all night, and the morning news was playing.

“Yesterday morning, a death occurred in the campus of No. 1 Noble Middle School in Pulang District.

A 16-year-old student fell from a building late at night and died on the way to the hospital.

According to the police investigation, it was initially determined that the student was under too much pressure to study and had thoughts of committing suicide.

In response to this incident, the school stated that the widely circulated rumors about the murder of a ghost in red are completely unfounded, and the school will reserve the right to pursue legal responsibility against those who spread the rumors.

What I will report to you next is the impact of the excessive increase in oil prices in Udon District on our district..."

"Crack!"

Suddenly, a hand stretched out from under the gap between the coffee table and the sofa. He raked the coffee table a few times and swept down a few empty cans. Finally, he successfully touched the TV remote control and turned off the TV.

Zhuang Xie stood up from the gap between the sofa and the coffee table, and stared confusedly at his eyes that looked a little swollen after a hangover.

I took a look at the somewhat old-fashioned electronic clock on the wall.

June 22, 2019, AM08:12, Monday.

Zhuang Xie has been having some troubles recently.

He runs a small studio that develops games.

Due to financing problems, the studio's capital chain is almost broken. To put it simply, Zhuang Xie is almost out of money.

Zhuang Xie actually worked as a game designer in a large game company nicknamed the Pig Farm. His unique concept of game design and his almost genius-like control over the player's psychology made him young at a young age.

He holds the position of supervisor in the design department of the company.

If the game experience provided by the Pig Farm Goose Factory game to players is: play with your ringgit without recharging money.

Then the game experience that the pig farm gives players is: play with your ringgit.

In recent years, the card game "Soul Master", which has brought huge benefits to pig farms, caused players to suffer from cirrhosis of the liver, and made players crazy with krypton and gold, and has gradually begun to become an IP, is led by Zhuang Xie and is deeply involved in it.

to one of the games.

Logically speaking, Zhuang Xie, who finally made a hit game, should start enjoying the credit he deserves.

The company indeed values ​​Zhuang Xie very much and lets him serve as the game design director and lead a separate department responsible for the subsequent development and maintenance of "Soul Master".

The salary will be doubled and the bonus will be generous. If this continues, becoming a high-level wage earner and achieving financial freedom will be just around the corner.

But for some reason, Zhuang Xie felt more and more boring. "Soul Master" was like a child he had cultivated with all his efforts. Every step of his growth from the beginning gave him a sense of accomplishment.

But after making it a phenomenal hit, Zhuang Xie, for some unknown reason, began to gradually lose this sense of accomplishment.

It seems that after this game became bigger and stronger and started to explode, the company began to focus more on the development of big IP for this game, and the focus on balance and updating to bring freshness to players was greatly reduced.

It is very different from the ultimate gameplay that Zhuang Xie pursues.

On the one hand, Zhuang Xie can understand the company, but on the other hand, he feels that doing such a job is too boring.

If he lets others know his thoughts, it will definitely...

He-tui!

And I have to add, what a bitch, you are so pretentious.

You may also think that this person may not have a brain problem.

…

Yes.

There is indeed something wrong with Zhuang Xie's brain.

Since childhood, his parents felt that this child was too withdrawn and self-centered, but in the end they felt that he was just a withdrawn and introverted child. Although they cared about it, they did not think about psychological problems. They always felt that the child could be taught a lesson (beat him up)

), it will be fine when you grow up.

Later, when Zhuang Xie was 12 years old, he suddenly understood the source of his differences.

That year, his father died due to an accidental fall from a building. At his father's funeral, Zhuang Xie watched the relatives around him shouting and crying, while his mother cried beside him. He stood in the corner, but his heart was unmoved.

He looked at his father's remains in the crystal coffin, which had been carefully restored by the undertaker but still looked a bit ferocious. He felt neither scary nor sad. At that time, Zhuang Xie understood that he might not be a normal person.

At the very least, the psychology is abnormal.

After that, Zhuang Xie searched the information on the Internet and compared his daily performance, and found that he was most likely to have the legendary heartless personality disorder, which in popular terms is antisocial personality disorder.

After knowing all this, Zhuang Xie looked at the information in front of him for a long time, then silently closed the computer. The moment before leaving the Internet cafe, he had a sudden idea and smiled at the network administrator with a very charming smile. The coldness in his eyes

The other party was frightened and staggered.

Before the somewhat annoyed network administrator could recover, Zhuang Xie had already walked away.

...

After that, Zhuang's mother, who was heartbroken because of her husband's death, suddenly found that her son, who had been slightly withdrawn before, seemed to have grown up overnight. His temperament became much more cheerful and he became more likely to laugh.

This was a rare comfort that Zhuang's mother felt in her grief.

Anyone would think that Zhuang Xie became sensible just to appease his mother, but in fact Zhuang Xie himself believed that this was the best choice he could make.

Before she has the ability to take care of herself, she still needs an adult to take care of her daily life. Therefore, her mother cannot fall. She needs a spiritual support, and she will be the support herself. This is the strange thing about the young Zhuang Xie.

logical thinking.

It is difficult for Zhuang Xie to understand other people's emotions. He doesn't know why they are inexplicably happy, and he doesn't understand why they are inexplicably sad and angry.

He couldn't understand, he just thought they were noisy.

It's just that Zhuang Xie suddenly discovered that the people around him seemed to prefer himself wearing a mask, and it seemed that he could achieve his goals more easily when he wore a mask.

Whether he is asking for something from his mother or arguing with his classmates, everyone will trust the cheerful, steady and sensible Zhuang Xie more than his true self who is taciturn and maverick.

So until he reached adulthood, Zhuang Xie was the young, steady and gentle young man in everyone's eyes.

Apart from being extremely obsessed with the game, there are almost no shortcomings.

This is something that others don't understand. Zhuang Xie is very obsessed with games, almost to the point of madness. Even the job he chose after graduation is related to games.

If Zhuang Xie hadn't been worried about his grades since he was a child, and if he had done well in the game industry when he grew up, with his obsession with games, he would have been sent to the middle school of Thunder Academy with Professor Yang, the king of thunder and lightning.

Went face to face with the line.

There is naturally a reason why Zhuang Xie is obsessed with games.

Antisocial personality disorder makes Zhuang Xie's increasingly aggressive tendencies extremely strong. In order to maintain the personality of a normal person, Zhuang Xie cannot fully display this tendency. Only in games can he

Free yourself to your heart's content.

Whether it's the thrill of the hail of bullets or the thrill of punching the flesh, whether it's going straight, accepting and completing tasks based on the basis, or looking for plot easter eggs, it can give him a sense of satisfaction that he can't get in reality.

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Later, the state of being able to control thousands of players by designing games made Zhuang Xie unable to stop.

Since his mother passed away due to illness a year and a half ago, Zhuang Xie has felt that his mood has not changed much, except that after occasionally cooking, he will habitually place two more sets of bowls and chopsticks in front of the dining table.

The death of his mother was also an opportunity for Zhuang Xie to resign from the company and set up a studio. After all, his direct blood relatives in the world no longer exist, so he can now live purely for himself.

Unscrupulously.

Almost no one around him knows or understands that on the surface, Zhuang Xie is gentle and steady, ambitious and enterprising. From his teenage years until now, he often watches videos alone in the bathroom, facing the mirror over and over again.

Practice over and over again how to show off an impeccable, gentle smile showing eight teeth.

After more than ten years of camouflage, almost no one, including the mother who is closest to him, can break through it.

"Didi didi"

After washing up, Zhuang Xie sat on the sofa and looked down at the messages on his phone.

"Money is tight lately, please borrow some money!" and added a meaningful smile at the end.

If you slide the information up, you will find that almost all the information sent by this number is about borrowing money.