The younger generation, starting from where the wind blows...

Chapter 18: The Birth of a Hit (Part 1)
As expected, Xie Zhiyao failed in his challenge yet again.

Glancing beside him, Yang Guanjun was still showing off his secrets to passing the game in the QQ group. Gritting his teeth, he picked up his phone and recharged 3 yuan into the school's intranet.

I used up all nine chances to try again, but I still couldn't beat the game.

Xie Zhiyao felt like she was about to become depressed!

I opened the QQ class group, intending to see who was online, and then privately messaged the person to help me register a school intranet account to give them free challenge attempts.

Xie Zhiyao is usually very popular in class and actively participates in group chats. If you ask for help, the other party will definitely help you.

Unexpectedly, we were still a step too late.

A classmate has already posted a registration link in the class group, asking classmates to help him accumulate free challenge attempts.

Xie Zhiyao sat blankly in front of the computer, with only one thought in his mind.

Tired, destroy it!

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Around 9 p.m., Yang Muye received a friend request on Renren.com.

When I clicked on it, it turned out to be star fruit.

I had just clicked "agree" when the other party immediately sent me a message.

"Oh, you're online."

Yang Muye was typing a reply when Yang Tao's second message arrived.

"Great! Please do me a favor and click this link to play a mini-game. I'll get a free challenge. Please!"

A "please" emoji was added at the end.

Yang Muyi deleted the text he had typed but not sent in the chat box, and then sent a string of ellipses.

Yang Tao first responded with two question marks.

Then he asked, "Have you already played 'Niu Le Ge Niu'?"

Yang Muye typed back: "Isn't Senior Sister at work today?"

"Working the early shift."

"I thought my senior would stop using Renren after graduation."

"Many people are like this. I don't keep in touch with most of my classmates on Renren anymore. I only go online once in a long while. I mainly added some junior students when I was in the student union to see their daily lives and reminisce about my youth."

"It seems you were quite popular during your school years, with many suitors, right?"

"I'm pretty good at saying no to people."

They're quite vigilant!

Yang Muyi's fingers flew across the keyboard:
"I was even saying I'd set a time to treat my senior to dinner!"

"No need, no need. It would be a waste not to use my 60% discount privilege for executive suites. I'll post more daily life updates on campus so that senior students can enjoy the gossip online."

Yang Tao wasn't lying; she really is good at saying no.

Yang Muye didn't press the matter further. He sent an OK emoji and ended the conversation.

A few minutes later, Yang Tao suddenly sent a message.

Do you know Kaixin001?

"I know, what's wrong?"

"Um... do you have an account on Kaixin.com?" Yang Tao asked cautiously.

"Is this going to be about some game again?"

Yang Tao first replied with a "facepalm" emoji, then explained that she had a close friend who had just messaged her asking her to help register on Kaixin.com to accumulate free game challenge attempts for her.

After registering a Kaixin.com account, Yang Tao curiously clicked into the game and discovered that it was practically a nested doll of "Niu Le Ge Niu" (牛了个牛), a game she played on Renren.com.

Even their names are twins. Yang Tao's first reaction was that one of these two games must be plagiarized, but she wasn't sure which one.

After some research, I was surprised to find that both games were developed by the same company called Shanye Network Technology.

Now the fake matryoshka doll has become a real matryoshka doll.

Yang Tao had used up all her challenge attempts in "Niu Le Ge Niu", so she decided to play "Yang Le Ge Yang" instead.

The problem is that she even spent money this time, but she still couldn't beat the game.

Still furious, he went back to school to replay "Niu Le Ge Niu" and spent three yuan to buy nine chances to try again.

The result is still the same.

This led to the scene where he sought out Yang Muye again.

"Senior, gaming should be done in moderation," Yang Muye advised.

"You don't know, these two games are so infuriating. The first level is super easy, but the second level is so hard it will make you question your existence."

Yang Tao became increasingly angry as she spoke:
"I just glanced at the leaderboard. On campus, out of all the universities in Beijing, only one male student from Yantai University has successfully completed the game. Tsinghua University, Peking University, and Renmin University all have zeros. On Kaixin.com, in the entire city of Beijing, only six people have completed the game so far. I suspect the game developers are deliberately trying to prevent most people from completing it."

Be confident, and drop the estimates.

With these thoughts in mind, Yang Muye typed at a rapid pace:
"Before you clicked on this game, were you thinking, 'What a little game? I won't play it'? Then you played the first level and thought it was too easy. But when you got to the second level, you couldn't clear the spiral stacked blocks no matter what you did, and you started to doubt your life. But you also wanted to prove that your IQ was no less than your friends who were also playing this game, so you had to try again."

"Game developers deliberately use extremely low pass rates to arouse users' competitive spirit and manipulate human nature. It's just like love; if you take it too seriously, you lose."

Yang Tao immediately sent two question marks.

"Your analysis is spot on! Be honest, did you play both games and spend money on them? Otherwise, how could you have such a painful realization?"

“Because I made both of these games,” Yang Muye replied.

A straight ball completely stunned Yang Tao.

After a long pause, she finally remembered to type a reply: "So the 'wild' in 'Shanye Technology' is you? Then who is 'Shan'?"

"The guy who brought me to the hotel that day was named Ma Qiushan. He had just graduated with a master's degree in computer science from Yenching University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. I provided the money and ideas for both games, and he was in charge of their development."

"How much did it cost?" Yang Taochun asked curiously.

"Not much, just two hundred thousand," Yang Muye replied.

Yang Tao nodded subconsciously; there really weren't many.

"But you must have spent a lot of money on advertising, right?"

"Two million, I've staked all my savings on it."

so much!
Yang Tao covered her mouth in surprise, then quickly typed a reply:

Aren't you afraid of losing everything?

"Don't worry, if I lose, I'll just find a rich girlfriend at school, swindle her from her savings, and continue my business!"

Yang Tao replied with a string of ellipses.

She had never encountered someone who was so shameless and took advantage of her kindness.

If a man had said that, Yang Tao would definitely have felt disgusted.

But Yang Tao found Yang Muyi's words quite interesting.

The double standards are extremely thorough.

"By the way, since you developed both of these games, could you please remove the limit of only spending 3 yuan per day? It's like I, your senior, don't have the money to support your junior's startup!"

"Senior, don't bother spending money, just take care of me!"

puff!
Yang Tao was immediately amused and quickly replied with a single word:

"roll!"

(End of this chapter)