Otherworldly Architect

Mingyan never fights uncertain battles.

Every blue star in the last days is good at hunting. They will patiently observe the enemy's situation, set up traps, and prepare weapons.

When they are exposed to the sight of their prey, they must have been fully prepared and have the certainty of killing with one blow.

They will also calmly watch the prey dying before their eyes, and will not take it lightly until they successfully take away a corpse.

Of course You Mo himself didn't dare to show up, he was like a mouse in the gutter, he couldn't see the light at all.

But this matter will not change because of his presence or absence.

The court date is fast approaching.

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

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

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

Bluestar found 41 cases where player accounts were stolen and virtual property was lost, and all of them used Youmo's "third-party program" without exception.

And the first witness was a player whose account was stolen because of using You Mo's cheat.

Players who know how to use cheats are already vulnerable to the trend of interest.

Lan Xing just took the initiative to find him and "understand the truth". This 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 successively, all of which were blocked or directly stolen because of using Youmo cheats.

The third document is the evaluation report of the League One Association on the Youmo program.

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

And the third witness who produced the report was a core member from the branch of the First League in the Sixth Star Province.

His joining meant that the authoritative force from the game industry was completely on the side of Blue Star.

This "crime of obstructing public network security" has developed so far, and there is no suspense at all.

Hearing that the application had just been approved, You Mo's team of lawyers were all ashamed when they saw the title.

You Mo's face was earthy, and his legs trembled with fear for the first time.

"Is there really no other way?" You Mo asked tremblingly.

Wherever they looked, everyone avoided his sight.

Someone whispered: "You hit the iron plate this time. The other party not only has a backer at the top of the court, but also can hire the chairman of the branch of the League One in the sixth star province... Hehe, this backer! Don't say it's blue. Star Studio, even if you are a coal digger, you can still kill you with a single finger."

You Mo's team also has a backer, otherwise, they wouldn't be able to enjoy themselves for so many years and still do harm to one side.

Most of their income is not actually owned by them.

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

Even until now, You Mo didn't know who was so cunning that he was able to change the judge handling the case on the spot during an out-of-court settlement?

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

Unable to withstand even the slightest bit of trouble, they immediately began to fall over the walls, push the crowd down, and scatter the monkeys when the trees fell...

There was even a technical backbone who directly approached Lan Xing, wanting to be a tainted witness, so as to alleviate his criminal circumstances.

It can be described as betrayal!

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

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

In this situation where he must lose, the lawyer suggested that he directly admit one or two of the crimes, as long as he sticks to the most serious crime of "obstructing public network security", he still has a chance to get a suspended sentence.

In other words, the disaster of prison is close at hand, and this time he cannot escape.

The preliminary trial is just over here, and it's not yet time for the results.

But everyone is well aware of this, and the lawyers on the other side have already come to make friends.

You Mo walked out with a face like gold paper.

On Lan Xing's side, they discussed that they should have a good rubbing meal to wash away the bad luck on their body.

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

The leader held up a [Support Blue Star!Cheating is illegal! ] sign, looking around and looking inside.

It seems that Blue Star fans are cheering outside.

A few other reporters were also attracted, and when they saw Mingyan and others appearing, they immediately raised their spears and short cannons.

"Excuse me……"

Before they finished "asking", they expressed their gratitude to Bumin and said, "Please leave the question to our PR department, thank you."

After speaking, he had already slipped away quickly.

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

But seeing Mingyan appear, they were inevitably excited.

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

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

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

Before Mingyan got into the car, he heard someone shout: "Come on, Blue Star! The game you made is super invincible and fun! You are the best!"

Mingyan looked back at the team, smiled, and said, "Thank you for liking Blue Star's game."

Click.

The media faithfully recorded this shot.

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

……

The Youmo team was entangled in lawsuits and imprisoned. Naturally, there was no room for continued updates during this period.

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

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 has similar experience in handling it.

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

In the future, Bluestar'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 makes players who have seen the clues very happy.

Among other things, there are really not many studios and game companies in the sixth star province who dare to permanently seal their titles.

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

The player rebellion that everyone was worried about did not happen.

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

The execution of the Youmo team is considered to be a great deed of "eliminating harm for the people".

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

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

To be honest, Mingyan hasn't fired for a long time, because he's been too busy recently.

He rejected Ning and Feng's invitation...

When this matter happened to be mentioned, Xia Cheng looked grateful and a little proud, and said, "Oh, those people haven't grasped the knack of asking you out yet."

Mingyan: "???"

Xia Cheng said: "The most important thing about asking you out is not where to go, what to do, or who I am... but that you happen to have no work to do."

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

……

After the cheating 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 stand-alone game often takes more than ten months. Even after it is released, it is inevitable that a series of bugs will be reported one after another.

Bluestar needs to deal with these bugs as quickly as possible, apply a hot update patch for the new game, and ensure that it will be a perfect and stable version in the end.

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

Mingyan has rented the No. [-] Stadium in the city center, and has negotiated suitable contractors and sponsors.

After all, this is the first time that Blue Star Studio has held such a large-scale offline event, so it's better to leave it to professionals, so don't guess by yourself.

In the first year of the Blue Star Carnival, a total of about 5000 players were invited to participate.

Of the 5000 places, more than half of them were distributed through the lucky draw through the account system on Blue Star's official website.

A small part of the rest was donated internally by Blue Star Studios—including those seats specially reserved for employees and their families, the seats for "special thanks", and the seats for important figures in the local game industry...

But in general, the entire carnival is still a feast of communication between players and the production team.

Logically speaking, Blue Star Studio needs everyone to participate in the carnival.

However, one member in the current studio is in a very special situation.

He is a skilled programmer who joined the studio with a special offer last year, known as "Linglingqi".

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

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 his whole body was hanging by his life, and he couldn't move even a meter.

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

It is also thanks to this technology of the interstellar era that he was able to live for this period of time.

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 was able to make many "Minecraft" mods, and even built a redstone computer by himself.

——He really put a lot of time and effort into it, probably far more than any other player.

But now, Ling Lingqi might not be able to hold on anymore.

"Boss, thank you very much for giving me the opportunity to join Blue Star." Ling Lingqi said with a wry smile, "The attending doctor issued a notice the day before yesterday, and my life expectancy is only 3 to 10 months. I'm afraid I won't last longer." When this project is completed. So I may have to say goodbye to you in advance..."

In fact, parting between life and death is something that Ming Yan has already gotten used to.

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

He was inevitably caught off guard.

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

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

The first thing Ling Lingqi donated was an artificial intelligence he wrote himself, named "Redstone No. [-]".

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

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

It exists entirely for the purpose of developing games.

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

In the alien games of the interstellar era, under normal circumstances, the government or private individuals excavated the entrance of an alien world, and then sold it at a high price to an alien game company with development qualifications.

The company will hire people to explore the different world, and after making preliminary preparations, it will be opened to the players as a game, and the players will go to open up wasteland on their own initiative.

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

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

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

Ling Lingqi smiled helplessly.

"After about two years of operation, the capital chain was completely broken, and my father declared bankruptcy. The other world that had already been developed had no auction value, and was left to me in the end. It was also a place for fun in my youth. 'back yard'."

The main purpose of the foreign world game is to plunder resources, so the developed foreign world naturally loses its own value.

These conventional games developed by the interstellar people are obviously not fun at all.

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

After the game ceased operation, there was naturally nothing left in this second-hand different world.

The best situation is that there are still undiscovered rare veins, or other resources.

But generally speaking, there is no leakage.

All that's left inside is the devastation and the natives who've been through it all.

Even so, there is still a certain value in second-hand different worlds, depending on the situation, it can still be sold for a seven-figure price.

Ling Lingqi said: "I don't have any worries in this world, and my inheritance has already been donated. Blue Star is the most beautiful piece of paradise I have seen in my last days... This different world is given to me. You, you can be a warehouse, a reference, whatever you do, I am very happy to be able to help Blue Star."

Things in the world are often unsatisfactory.

No matter how advanced technology is in the era, 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 will be the third anniversary of Blue Star Studio. In the second half of this year, this building will belong to Blue Star. We will move together to a more spacious place. Next year, we will release a new one. This game is code-named 'Soul'. You have just come to Blue Star, and there are still many wonderful things you haven't experienced with us... Next time Blue Star Carnival, you will also participate online, okay?"

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

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

Ling Lingqi 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 familiar with it first.

That day, people in the technical team were very silent.

The group leader also smoked a cigarette on the rooftop for half an hour.

And that different world was sent to Blue Star Studio through a special channel.

The entrance to the other world is bound to a key card, which requires special equipment to open and reach the corresponding entrance to the other world.

After Mingyan received it, a small meeting was also held.

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

Mingyan 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, occupy 10% shares."

Ling Lingqi was speechless for a while, looking at Mingyan with red eyes.

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

"En!" Ling Lingqi nodded solemnly.

……

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

The Blue Star Carnival is confirmed to be held on May 5 every year!

This year's offline activities include: internal visits to Bluestar Studios, exhibitions of original paintings and original soundtracks, opening and closing performances in the gymnasium, and Bluestar Game Experience Hall, etc.

And there are more online activities.

The most important thing is that in addition to the player meeting, there are also corresponding activities in each game.

A carnival festival has been added to "Minecraft". Every May 5st, all monsters will change their appearance. They will wear a small top hat with the Blue Star LOGO on their heads, and at the same time increase the food of "Blue Star Biscuits" 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 very joyful.

For example, the carnival skin of the shooter has turned into a small water gun, spraying water on the enemy biubiubiu.

The new game "Blue Star Doom" has released a piece of CG, which is a short story about Russell and Louis celebrating their birthdays 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 have fun together.

There is also the early concept promotion of the new game "Soul", which should also be the first player meeting.

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 invitation letters for the carnival in the major games have also been distributed.

Players who have received the invitation letter can easily confirm online whether to attend and whether to transfer the opportunity to others.

There are a total of more than 5000 qualifications, which are already full.

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

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

[Where is the live broadcast?Are the recordings arranged?I want to go to the live broadcast room ahead of time, and I have already taken the annual leave on the 21st... I really lost my mind if I didn't get an invitation letter]

[Hahahaha I bought one, I'll show it to you]

Players trying to buy invitations are pretty normal.

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

【Master Ming, I have spent a total of 6000 minutes in several of your games.You didn't invite me, I decided to hang myself on your beam tonight, quietly and silently]

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

Clearly stated: "..."

Mingyan silently pretended not to see it.

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

These players quickly turned to the arms of other Blue Star players.

For example, Varian has been urged by the players to gain experience, experience, and a set of mature and smooth solutions.

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

Sissy, the golden retriever.

[I am a great swordsman: really gone. (attached: video)]

Clicking on the video, I saw Xixi lying happily on the floor, playing with an invitation letter for the Blue Star Carnival.

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

Xixi immediately sat up, yelling "Wow, woof, woof" in protest.

Voice-over: "You asked me for an invitation letter? Do you think I have one? I'm fucking lost. I need to get in with a backstage work permit! The last one is for my wife!"

Sisi: "Wow!"

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

Xixi: "Wow, woof!"

Voiceover: "Are you still not convinced?"

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

Sissy: "..."

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

The voice-over said: "No invitation letter, no new game, only dog's life!"