After the college entrance examination, life began to follow one's heart

Chapter 284 sales surpass 100,000; the game is poised for a massive success.

It's drizzling outside today, and the wind is quite strong.

And because of the rain, the temperature was only 10 degrees Celsius.

It's quite cold.

Xu Lin can eat Ning Yuhan's cooking every morning when he wakes up.

The meal was quite plentiful, including stir-fried beef with chili peppers and stir-fried beef with pickled green beans, and the portions were relatively large.

Ning Yuhan is a skilled cook, so Xu Lin enjoyed the meal immensely.

"Honey, my mom sent over some more pickled cabbage."

Ning Yuhan pointed to three Coca-Cola bottles placed in the corner not far away.

"Please tell the auntie thank you for me."

“My mom said if we’re going to finish eating them, we should let her know and she’ll send them over.”

The newly sent pickled cabbage is the kind commonly found in the market, like the traditional pickled cabbage from an old altar.

However, any pickled cabbage available on the market is mass-produced, and mass-produced cabbage is unlikely to be hygienic. After all, it's rare to find something that tastes like a miracle, and it's disgusting to eat. The smell when you open the package is also very unpleasant.

But if it's prepared by a rural family themselves, then it's perfectly fine to eat it without worry.

The pickled cabbage that Wu Xiulin sent was chopped up before pickling because it needed to be put into a cola bottle, so it would be easier to put in.

Are you going out again today?

Xu Lin asked.

"Are you going out? If not, I'll stay here. If I bother you, I'll go back to school."

"It won't affect anything, let's stay here."

Xu Lin quickly finished eating.

Ning Yuhan was in charge of washing the dishes.

At nine o'clock in the morning, the two returned to their room.

The workbench in the room is three meters long, with one person on each side.

Xu Lin was working, and Ning Yuhan was writing her thesis.

Ning Yuhan is currently working on an SCI paper, and if all goes well, she should be able to publish one by the end of the year.

In some universities, some students can publish several, or even more than ten, papers over a few years. In this case, either someone is behind them or someone is behind them. Otherwise, with your limited abilities, wouldn't that be ridiculous?
People who actually produce several articles on their own are already extremely rare.

Ning Yuhan already had two second-author papers, which were written in collaboration with Professor Huang.

Xu Lin glanced at it. Ning Yuhan's research topic this time was about urban transportation planning and management, which is also a subject of economics. The topic is urban development, and the perspective is Jiangdu. Jiangdu is an international metropolis, and the sample size is sufficient.

In fact, if Xu Lin wanted to, he could easily give Ning Yuhan a very impressive paper. If he added his current title of Young Master Xu, the level of achievement would be elevated even further.

However, Xu Lin didn't do it, and Ning Yuhan, being an honest girl, obviously wouldn't use connections.

Xu Lin then opened the background of the game "Men's Guide to Counterattack".

How many copies have been sold?

The game was officially released at 4:00 AM, and it's a little past 9:00 AM now, about five hours ago.

Sales volume: 4567?

?

The sales figures are actually quite catchy?

And they sold so many in just five hours?

Don't be fooled by the fact that there are only four thousand copies. In just five hours, the base number will increase, and the virus will spread from one person to ten, and from ten to a hundred, which could easily lead to an exponential explosion.

Xu Lin's game is similar to a movie game, also known as a live-action game. For example, a very popular game called "Oops, I'm Surrounded by Beauties" is this type of game.

However, my real-life person is generated by AI, while your real-life person still needs to be filmed with actors.

However, in terms of gameplay, this game is actually similar to games like GTA, because it is a story-driven game, except that the 3D characters have been replaced with AI-generated real people.

"By the way, let's check the age of the users."

Xu Lin opened the data and started looking at it.

16-24: 1321 people.

24-30: 2125 people.

30-50: 1121 people.

Ok?
Where is my middle-aged self?

It should be noted that Xu Lin's initial target was for 36-50 year olds to be scrambled, but he ended up managing to get more than 3,000 people aged 16 to 30.

Do young people play more?
Xu Lin thought about it for a moment, and then suddenly realized what it meant.

"I must have fallen into a misconception. This game is absolutely groundbreaking in terms of genre. As for the game's plot, it can be ignored because my skills are unmatched by other games."

Each time you enter the game, the character's interactions are different.

It makes you feel like you're in a parallel world.

Even in your films and television shows, it wouldn't be like that. Look at "Journey to the West," is there a plot where Sun Wukong kills Tang Sanzang?

Obviously not.

But Xu Lin's situation is different.

When you first open the game, the protagonist goes out and runs into a neighbor, who will say, "Little Li, are you going to work?"

The second time I opened the game, I went out again and ran into the same neighbor. If the protagonist was carrying trash, the neighbor would say, "Little Li, going downstairs to throw out the trash?"

They are like real people, just like your neighbors.

This is the scariest thing.

Have you ever seen a game like this?

Xu Lin downloaded the Little Black Box app and decided to see what was going on.

Anyone who plays Steam games will know about Xiaoheihe, which is a game forum. Xiaoheihe has over 80 million users, and its Steam account binding rate is over 80%, meaning there are over 60 million Steam players here.

Xu Lin plans to use this place as a platform for game promotion; it couldn't be more direct.

Therefore, Xu Lin registered an account.

Nickname: Gongzi Lin.

Introduction: Developer of "The Man's Guide to Success".

Xu Lin was straightforward: he hacked into the backend and created a banner hotspot for himself.

Do you want to turn the tables?

"Both characters and visuals are generated by AI. The characters simulate human thinking and possess almost human-like autonomous personalities, offering a truly high degree of freedom and taking you to a parallel world."

In addition, the banner image features five stunningly beautiful women, real-life beauties created by Xu Lin using his Moon Goddess technique. These women do not exist in reality, but they are so lifelike, like real-life photos.

Banners, trending topics, pinned posts.

Set it to the top for 72 hours first.

Xiaoheihe already has a large user base, with tens of millions of users and around a million daily active users.

In addition, it's now a banner pinned to the top of the homepage.

Everyone saw the banner immediately.

Looking at the five beautiful women in the picture, they would definitely be goddesses in real life; they are very eye-catching.

Men are just so materialistic. If they see a beautiful woman and don't click on her profile, they're either gay or Yang Wei (a character from Journey to the West known for his lewdness).

Therefore, any man who saw the banner immediately clicked on it.

"Movies and games? Are all these beauties the female leads? And what kind of big production is this? The female leads are so beautiful and have such great figures?"

"Five beautiful women, is this a game for otaku?"

"The visuals and characters are all AI-generated. These beautiful women are being told they're AI-generated? Author, don't you need to look at what you're saying?"

"If this were AI, I'd eat shit upside down!"

"I laughed too. And the author even said that these characters can simulate human thinking and have almost human-like autonomous personalities. Are you kidding me? Has technology advanced to this extent now? Aren't we going to be invaded by Skynet tomorrow?"

The post was mostly met with criticism or ridicule, mainly because the content was too exaggerated and violated people's scientific understanding.

This is like saying that the country only has three aircraft carriers in service, and the fourth one has not even been officially commissioned yet, but then someone says that he has built an aerospace carrier or even an interstellar warship.

Isn't this funny?

But besides the criticism, there were naturally other voices as well.

"For the sake of these five beautiful women, I'll have to give them a good critique!"

"Wait for me, I'm going to give it a good critique too."

"Holy crap! Guys, I saw other posts about this game, but something seems off about it! What the author here is saying seems to be true!"

"Tsk tsk, I was playing it this morning. I can only say that this game is bound to be a huge hit within three days. If it doesn't, I'll eat shit on live stream!"

"Someone on Douyin is already streaming how to play it, and I'm watching it right now. I also think it will definitely become a huge hit within three days. This game is amazing! The poster didn't lie at all!"

Netizens have been commenting extensively.

Some curious netizens have already clicked on other posts.

Actually, at this point, related posts had already been published in the black box.

The game actually started gaining traction at 7 a.m.

One of the more popular posts was published just an hour ago, but it wasn't pinned yet, so not many people saw it.

The post was made by a veteran game reviewer.

Title: Guys, let's pre-order the phenomenal game of the year!

Contents:

"I know you might not believe it, or even think I'm bragging, that I'm going to pre-order the phenomenal game of the year."

But what I want to say is that this game will absolutely cause a sensation in the entire gaming industry in the next few days—yes, the entire gaming industry, including overseas!

Why do I say this? Let me explain in detail…

The reviewer listed three points: First, the game characters are generated by AI and possess human thinking abilities; simply put, they are like real people. Second, the character interactions are different every time the game is opened. Third, he bought the game three times and ran it on three different computers, and surprisingly found that the wife character's personality was different each time, and consequently, her behavior patterns and thinking logic were also different, meaning that the game's direction would also be different.

With pictures to prove it, netizens couldn't sit still.

"Holy crap, is it really true?"

"I'm already playing it. This game is really amazing. It's like opening up a parallel world through the game. I've already recommended it to my friends and colleagues."

"Does anyone else have any suggestions?"

"What the poster said is true, but he didn't play for long. I can only say, keep exploring. Also, I'd like to mention that the poster has three types of wives, while I have a fourth type. Even my lover's personality is different from his."

"Well, to be honest, I don't even dare to treat this game as a game; I think of it as a parallel world. Yes, I said parallel world, not just a game world. It feels so real. For example, I had my character beat up the adulterer, and guess what? The movements were just like a real fight! I swear, this is the first time I've ever seen game characters fight so realistically. It doesn't act like game characters should at all. This game is simply amazing!" "What's terrifying is that the characters are all generated by AI, but how can they think like humans? Has artificial intelligence really advanced to this level?"

"Young Master Xu just published two papers recently, and it's only been a little over a month since his second paper. Has he already achieved practical results?"

Opinions varied, and as the news spread, the number of people buying the game began to increase rapidly.

In just one hour, Xu Lin saw 12,000 new users added in the backend.

However, at 29.9 yuan per game, having over 10,000 users isn't much; he won't make any money yet. He needs to expand the game further. Without a million or more game users, don't even talk about making money.

For example, the domestically produced "Black Monkey King" has already sold over 30 million copies.

Then there's GTA 5, an unmissable game in gaming history, which sold a staggering 200 million copies.

Therefore, Xu Lin remained calm.

During that hour, Xu Lin was also doing game maintenance.

The code he used was the most advanced I Ching code he had at the moment. Due to various simplifications, the game size was not large and it was very stable.

But Xu Lin has to take care of the users who come later, because if the number of users increases, he won't be able to handle it.

As for the server, Xu Lin also bought Alibaba's Shenlong Cloud server.

Currently, only the first part of the game has been released.

This part of the plot mainly takes place in the residential area, focusing on the male protagonist discovering that he has been cheated on and then starting to fight back.

Although Xu Lin gave three options, or three paths, if you want to turn the tables, you can only choose the second path, which is to pretend you don't know for the time being, then collect evidence to ruin the adulterers' reputations and make it impossible for them to live in this city.

Because of the short production time, Xu Lin has not yet expanded the storyline and map.

But now, Xu Lin wants to extend the map further.

This part of the map shows the city.

A fictional city, Haicheng.

However, the main locations for the second part are currently only two: the protagonist's company and his wife's workplace.

The wife and her lover worked in the same workplace.

Next, the protagonist discovers the adulterous couple but chooses to remain silent for the time being.

So he's in a very bad mood right now.

But when he returned to the company, he was bullied by his boss, who, as usual, trampled on him.

Actually, this boss has been bullying the protagonist for a long time. A long time ago, this boss was the protagonist's apprentice. But after he rose to power, he turned around and suppressed the protagonist, since the protagonist was easy to bully.

Moreover, this also reflects a problem: the protagonist is actually a good-for-nothing. Look, in a private company, your apprentices have all been promoted, but you've been stuck in middle age without any advancement. Now, even your former apprentices are bullying you. It's incredibly humiliating. Thinking about your wife at home who's disgusting you, and then reflecting on yourself, you can't help but feel incredibly resentful.

In short, Xu Lin needs to maximize his buffs; the character must be very repressed so that his later outburst can be satisfying.

Moreover, this isn't a novel; it's a visual narrative, so it can't be generalized.

The direct impact of visuals is unmatched by mere words; the impact of words tends to be more appreciated in retrospect.

And now, his boss is bullying him again, ordering him around, making him work faster, and giving him all the chore work.

Can you bear this?

In reality, middle-aged people might actually tolerate it, because many people at this age have had their edges smoothed out by various factors, and their youthful vigor has been drained away.

Besides, when you're under someone's roof, you have to bow your head. Now that you're packing your bags and leaving, it's hard for middle-aged people to find work. You don't have any core competitiveness either. After all, if you were competitive, you wouldn't be stuck at the top.

But this is a game, and the people playing the game are the players.

[Option 1: Endure it. You've been a coward your whole life, what's a little more?]

Option Two: Should I avoid his sharp edge? Or should I give him a good beating before resigning?

[Option 3: A new boss is about to be parachuted into the branch office. You accidentally took a picture of your former boss sexually harassing a female colleague in the office. You can use this to your advantage against the new boss. Feel free to use this information; your goal is to stay with the company.]

Next, the new CEO arrived.

The new boss was parachuted in from head office; she was a beautiful divorced woman in her early thirties.

She's over 1.7 meters tall, with a large frame, big breasts and a big butt—a top-tier figure.

That is, one of the female leads, a top-tier beauty.

Not only that.

Xu Lin also wants to make all the female leads over 1.7 meters tall, with amazing figures, all of them having big breasts and big butts.

The problem is coming.

What if someone gets upset if this happens in the gaming market?
Isn't it true that women are undefinable?

Ok?
If you report me, I'll change my surname to yours and show you what kind of titanium alloy plate you kicked.

Xu Lin was fearless.

Now, he is experimenting with the latest technology to show the world what it means for artificial intelligence to simulate human thinking, and what a groundbreaking era is.

His game could never be reported and taken down.

Say.

His backing is really terrifying now.

One game is nothing.

The plot continues.

The beautiful woman, dressed in a white suit and pencil skirt, arrived. She was 1.75 meters tall, wearing high heels, with a large bust and a big butt, a top-notch figure. She walked with a swaying gait, exuding a noble and elegant air. She was simply over the top in terms of figure, and she had simply reached the age when she was most charming as a woman.

All the men present held their breath, their bodies stirring with desire. Everyone wanted to possess this kind of woman, but she was a woman only Celestial Dragons could have, and even if the Celestial Dragons didn't want her, she wouldn't be available to ordinary people.

Or rather, she herself is a Celestial Dragon.

Now, she appears before you, looking so radiant and beautiful.

[The Devil's Question: Do you want to win her over? Do you want to possess this kind of woman?]

Of course you want to, but you have the desire but not the courage. A greasy, middle-aged man, a loser with no redeeming qualities—why would she possibly be interested in trash like you?

But if you really want to, the first thing you need to do now is go to the gym, find a way to get a good physique, and take care of your appearance.

Xu Lin is very image-conscious. He was born in 07, and boys and girls of this generation pay a lot of attention to their image. The idea of ​​an ugly man having a beautiful woman doesn't work for him. It's disgusting. You don't even have a basic image, so what are you talking about in terms of a comeback? You're not a rich man. Only rich people can ignore their image. He can use money to pry open a woman's legs and make some women who like money pretend to love you.

But you can't be without good looks, but you at least need to have a good figure, and a good figure can be achieved through exercise.

Next, the gym will be set up.

Although this is a game, it's not something players can achieve with a single click.

Xu Lin also wants players to take initiative in designing fitness plans, including exercise and diet calculations.

This is similar to a city management game, where players need to slowly manage their city (its physical condition) and make it develop (its physical condition improves). This process is quite troublesome and time-consuming. In general games, players wouldn't have that kind of patience, but Xu Lin's game doesn't have any competitors, so he can do whatever he wants.

It's different for players who upload their own personal avatars. After they get into fitness mode, their in-game appearance will be the same as, or close to, their real-life physique, since games often involve enhancements and embellishments.

While exercising, the protagonist, having already stayed on, went back to the beginning, where he reported his boss for bullying him. The beautiful new boss happened to be someone who hated such scoundrels, so he directly fired the boss. The new boss, who happened to be in need of manpower, had the protagonist take his place, instantly turning the tables and allowing the protagonist to get his revenge.

This is quite dramatic. Of course, it's unlikely to happen in reality, but it's fine if the story goes this way. It's a game, so as long as it's fun, who cares about all the other nonsense?

Xu Lin spent four hours working on the various settings for the second part. Once the second part was finished, he uploaded it to the game.

Xu Lin posted an update notification on the game's homepage.

There's also a cover, which features a picture of the first female lead along with some information.

Yu Anman: The first female lead, 1.75 meters tall, the new CEO parachuted into the head office, a president, 32 years old, divorced with no children, a lonely and proud woman. Do you want to have this kind of woman?
"Wow! Is the female lead really that amazing?"

"Author, is this really AI-generated? How can it be so realistic?"

"How could someone with this figure, this height, and this face possibly exist in real life? Author, is AI really that powerful now? All those beautiful female celebrities are so weak compared to this! This height alone is enough to make even the most beautiful female celebrities in the Chinese entertainment industry afraid to look up!"

"Damn, I'm rambling. This game is absolutely groundbreaking. How did your company manage to create it?"

The first female lead, Yu Anman, caused a small-scale sensation in the gaming community.

Four p.m.

Game sales: 69582.

The game continues to unfold.

Even now, with the game updated to the second part, if you simply follow the story without exploring other areas, the plot will only last for four hours. Therefore, players will soon see the female protagonist's official appearance.

It differs from the picture, but is better than the picture.

All the players were stunned.

"Wow! This is amazing! The Chanel vibe seems to leap out of the screen, and the way she walks is absolutely captivating!"

"Damn, those huge breasts and that perky butt! And that innocent yet alluring look, I'm blown away! To think they let a player like me enjoy this so much, I'm about to cry! I never see a woman like this in real life. Developer, you're practically my dad! *sobs*"

"And this was actually generated by AI. I feel like celebrities are going to lose their jobs, right? AI can even generate real people now."

"I don't know if celebrities will lose their jobs, but the big companies in the gaming industry are definitely going to be trembling. How can those companies compete with this kind of technology?"

"I'm curious which company developed this game? Why is there only one 'Gongzi Lin' character displayed? Is there no company behind it?"

"A game developed by an individual?"

"It can't be that bad. It's impossible for an individual developer to do this well. Besides, there are already more than 60,000 players. An individual developer can't support that."

As time goes by, "The Guide to Men's Comeback" continues to gain traction.

At 6:30 p.m., just as Xu Lin was setting off to return to school, sales officially surpassed 100,000 units.

Before leaving, Xu Lin glanced at the number. It was over 97,000 at the time, and in just over ten minutes, it had exceeded 100,000. Now, the growth rate is getting faster and faster. As long as the base is sufficient, the growth will be rapid and gradually reach a peak before finally declining in a parabolic curve.

Xu Lin has to go back tonight for roll call, mainly because he hasn't been back to school for a long time.

Moreover, Xu Lin plans to stay in the dormitory tonight.

"Is it cold?"

Xu Linwen was hugging Ning Yuhan from behind; it was a cloudy afternoon.

But it's past six o'clock now, and it's already dark.

Xu Lin was driving the No. 9, its two wheels whistling in the wind.

"not cold!"

"Tell the truth."

"It's not cold at all. Look how thick I'm dressed, and I'm even wearing a hat."

"That's good."

"Honey, are you cold?"

"There's no way I could be cold. I'm still wearing the sweater you knitted for me last year. How could I possibly be cold?"

"Humph!"

Ning Yuhan gave a soft snort as Xu Lin put on the sweater she had knitted for him around this time last year.

(End of this chapter)