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Beijing, winter, night, the cold wind howls.
When Wang Bo got off work, it was already dark outside. He looked at the pile of codes on the computer screen and breathed a sigh of relief: The overtime work was over and he could finally go home.
Subconsciously looking at the lower right corner of the computer screen, he was shocked by the time displayed. It was past ten o'clock in the evening. He didn't expect that he had worked overtime for four hours today!
"Damn it, when will days like this end? I work five days a week and work overtime four days, and there is no overtime pay. It's really hard for my mother to open the door for me, and I'm home." Wang Bo lamented helplessly. He was not afraid of being beaten. People heard that there was no one in the company at this time.
Turning off the computer, turning off the lights, and locking the door, after completing this routine skillfully, he grabbed the two mobile phones on the corner of the table and walked to the subway station.
The so-called test machine is an ordinary smart machine, but it is specially used to test run some programs or games. The IT company that Wang Bo worked for was not well-known and large, and there were not many places to make money. So as the mobile game market boomed, the company was ready to take advantage of the opportunity. It developed many games during this period and required all employees to participate in them. Closed beta.
The purpose of internal testing of games is not to play, but to find UG and bugs, so employees have little interest in these games. The leaders even refuse to play and leave their test machines to their subordinates to play instead.
After muttering, "It's great to be a leader," Wang Bo unlocked the screen. There was only a 3D heart-shaped icon on the dark black phone screen. I don't know what the game development department thought, but the heart-shaped icon was green instead of red. Yes, it's a bit contrary to common sense.
Click on the game guide, and there are a lot of complicated things introduced in it. Wang Bo didn't have the intention to take a closer look, and just glanced at the key points.
The guide says that after opening the game, players can get a 'Lord's Heart', which improves their physical fitness. No matter how weak a person is, he will turn into a humanoid beast if he has it. And if you bind the lord's heart to a territory, you will become the owner of this territory and control it.
In addition to the Lord's Heart, there is also a prop in the game called the 'Territorial Heart'. This 'Territorial Heart' can be seen as a split of the 'Lord's Heart', which can directly act on a certain part of the territory. There were a lot of introductions later, so he didn’t read them because he was upset.
Finally, this game can be deleted and restarted. If you are not satisfied with the territory, or there are problems during development, you can take away the heart of the lord and change the territory to develop again. However, in this way, all the development of the previous territory will be invalidated.
After reading the guide, Wang Bo reached out and clicked on the 3D-shaped Lord's Heart. Then the image of the earth appeared on the screen, and the green Lord's Heart with a 3D effect appeared in the upper right corner of the screen.
The title of the game adopts the animation style of 3D view. The round earth rotates on the screen, and then like Google Maps, the field of view stretches, and the earth changes from a distant view to a close-up view.
What follows is a bit like a geographical documentary, with various countries passing by on the screen. Wang Bo is testing the game to find loopholes, so he is not in the mood to watch the title. He casually pulls the green lord’s heart from the corner of the screen to the screen. That’s fine. It combines the heart of the lord with the territory.
When he lifted his finger, a dialog box appeared on the screen:
“Territory location: Southern Hemisphere, New Zealand, Otago, Canterbury, the sun never sets.
Territory area: 1,000 square kilometers (250,000 acres, 100,000 hectares).
Territory population: 1 (Lord Wang Bo).
Territory building: Roberts Castle.
Source: Unknown.
Territory Heart: None.
Receiving Territory: Yes? no? "
Wang Bo took a brief look at the information and then clicked the 'Yes' option. But after clicking 'Yes', he suddenly felt that something was not quite right. After thinking for a while, he didn't think of the problem, so he thought he was overthinking it and lowered his head to play the game.
As a result, after he made his selection, the phone screen froze, and only one line of words flashed on the screen: The territory is being received, please wait patiently, lord.
After waiting for half an hour, the subway arrived at its destination, and the words on the screen were still flashing.
Wang Bo tried to restart the game or even shut down the phone, but it was all useless. The phone seemed to be stuck and there was no response at all. He wanted to remove the battery, but he didn't know what brand the phone was. It turned out to be a very advanced integrated body. The cover couldn't be removed, so naturally the battery couldn't be removed either.
This made him feel more relaxed. He didn't want to go home after working overtime for a long time and have to work overtime - although this was playing a game, what was the difference between playing a game he didn't like and working overtime
After walking out of the subway station, a gust of cold wind blew. Wang Bo tightened his down jacket and strode into the rental community.
At the gate of the community, a middle-aged man was selling roasted sweet potatoes with an oven cart. Wang Bo knew him but was not familiar with him. He only knew that his surname was Liu and he usually called him Brother Liu.
Brother Liu is very economical. He sets up a stall at the entrance of the community to do a small business. He sells vegetables in spring, fruits in summer, snacks in autumn, and roasted sweet potatoes and fried chestnuts in winter. The business changes throughout the year and he can always make money.
Seeing Wang Bo, the middle-aged man greeted Wang Bo enthusiastically: "Xiao Wang, why are you back so late? Why don't you buy a roasted sweet potato to eat? It's hot. The sweet potatoes from my hometown are fragrant and sweet. You can definitely eat them. sleep tight."
Wang Bo was thin-skinned. He was embarrassed to leave after being greeted in this way, so he went over and said, "Brother Liu, you haven't closed the stall yet? Well, pick me a sweet potato—hey, hey, I don't need such a big one." ?”
When he just said to pick a sweet potato, the middle-aged man directly chose the largest one and put it on an electronic scale for him. While weighing it, he said: "You don't know, brother Xiao Wang, the younger the girl is, the more fun it is, and the bigger the sweet potato is, the more delicious it is. That Xiao Tao, what are you doing, why didn't you say hello when your Uncle Wang came?"
A little boy wearing a thick down jacket came out from the other side of the oven and said in a crisp voice: "Hello, Uncle Wang."
Wang Bo smiled awkwardly and said: "Just call me Brother Wang, I'm not even close to my uncle's age yet."
As soon as the child came out, he was too embarrassed to ask for smaller sweet potatoes. After all, it was not easy to do business with a child in the cold weather.
The middle-aged man wrapped the sweet potatoes in newspapers and handed them to him. He turned to his son and said, "How do you usually teach your father? You only say hello? You don't say anything else?"
Wang Bo cooperated and asked: "Yes, Xiaotao, what else does your father teach you?"
The little boy rolled his eyes and grinned: "Yeah, dad also taught me Tang poetry and Song lyrics. Let me read it to you. If you don't work hard when you are young, you will work in IT when you grow up..."
When Wang Bo heard this, he almost slapped a sweet potato on the middle-aged man's head. What hatred or resentment, teaching children at night is so irritating to me.
The middle-aged man was also embarrassed and said quickly: "I'm just kidding. Don't worry, Xiao Wang. Sweet potatoes are ten yuan each. Just give me ten yuan."
Wang Bo gave the money, took away the roasted sweet potatoes, and went back to his small house. The house was shared with a friend. At this moment, the friend had been sleeping with his girlfriend in his arms for an unknown amount of time.
He carefully changed his slippers and returned to the room. He peeled off the skin of the sweet potato and took two bites. The sweet potato tasted really good. It was glutinous and sweet. After peeling off the outer skin, he revealed the roasted golden yellow and slightly brownish-red inner flesh. The sweet aroma stirred up. It's appetizing.
Looking at the howling cold wind outside the window, Wang Bo, who was eating sweet potatoes, recalled for no reason the winter in his hometown in the countryside during his childhood. The family would sit around the fire, and his father would roast a sweet potato for him. The sweet potatoes grown at home were not that big. But it tastes better than this.
After eating half a sweet potato and thinking about it for a while, he took out his mobile phone and looked at it. The screen image still did not change, and he still couldn't turn off the phone. So he could only put the phone up to wash and sleep. When the battery ran out, it would automatically shut down.
Turn off the lights, go to bed, close his eyes, and sleep. After a tiring day, he soon fell asleep. In the dream, a paradise-like land slowly appeared: hundreds of miles of fertile soil, rolling hills, singing birds and fragrant flowers, shady trees, wind and waves flying, wild beasts leisurely, and finally a majestic and simple medieval-style castle...
**** Please note that the new book issue is tentatively scheduled to be updated twice a day, with one chapter each at 12 noon and 6:30 in the evening. Please understand that the new book issue cannot be updated in bursts.