Reborn not to be a beast of burden, I set the rules.

As evening fell, Li Yue typed the last few keys and turned her chair to face the crowd.

"Alright, the new UI integration is complete. This is the first version for internal testing. Let's run it and see."

She opened her browser and entered the local test address.

The screen lit up, no longer displaying the monotonous black and white text interface of the past.

The light gray background resembles the paper of an old book, while the dark blue border neatly frames the text area.

Li Yue clicked "Start a New Life," and the page smoothly flipped to the left, like turning a page of a book, with subtle shadows along the edges.

"The response time is controlled at 0.2 seconds, so that users can feel that 'the page has been flipped' without feeling that it is sluggish."

Li Yue moved the mouse and demonstrated the halo effect when drawing cards and the color feedback when clicking buttons.

Although it is still a text-based game, the overall quality and interactive experience have been significantly improved.

"It's wonderful!" Ruan Xing exclaimed first, her eyes shining. "It's like reading a book that automatically turns the pages!"

Ye Ming stared at the screen and nodded.

"The texture is right. Next, we need to find the bugs."

He stood up and faced the group of people surrounding him.

Li Yue, Zhang Yuan, Xu Wei, Ruan Xing, and Chen Mo, Zhao Kai, Sun Cheng, and others who were willing to help.

"Let's divide the work. Yuejie, you'll focus on the front end, including compatibility, UI fidelity, and interaction feedback."

Li Yue gave an OK sign.

"Yuan-ge, monitor the backend, look at the log output, and pay close attention to the event triggering logic and database query efficiency. We can observe the effect of the optimization scheme proposed by Teacher Zhang during this test."

Zhang Yuan had already opened the terminal window, and the green command line cursor was flashing.

"Um."

"Xu Wei," Ye Ming looked at her, "You lead the content team. Lin Zhixia, Zhao Kai, and Sun Cheng, the four of you will conduct a thorough search of the trigger events, focusing on finding errors in the copy, logical contradictions, and unreasonable conditions. If you find any problems, write them down immediately."

Xu Wei had already opened the newly created document and looked up when she heard this.

"Okay. Zhixia, let's start with campus-related events. Zhao Kai, you're in charge of workplace-related events. Sun Cheng, you're in charge of the imaginative events. Pay attention to the attribute conditions when triggering them, and synchronize immediately if there are any anomalies."

Her voice was calm and clear.

Lin Zhixia and the others immediately agreed and returned to their computers.

"Ruan Xing," Ye Ming turned to her, "you'll be in charge of coordinating feedback, recording the types and frequency of problems everyone finds, and coordinating their reproduction. And... pour everyone some water."

"Understood!" Ruan Xing smiled, turned around and pulled out two cases of mineral water from the corner. "It was all prepared!"

The test has officially begun.

The sound of keyboards clicking filled the air, occasionally interspersed with hushed conversations.

"I have an event here. The description says 'gain 100 gold coins,' but it only adds 50 in reality," Zhao Kai said, raising his hand.

Zhang Yuan glanced at the log: "What's the event ID? Send me the trigger conditions."

"The color of this button's hover state is incorrect in IE6." Li Yue frowned. "Never mind, I'll make a note of it. IE6's market share is negligible."

"Weiwei, regarding this 'Library Encounter' event, I've set my Intelligence attribute to 8, and according to the instructions, it should trigger a hidden option, but it hasn't," Lin Zhixia asked, turning her head.

Xu Wei walked over quickly and leaned down to look at the screen.

"The trigger condition is an Intelligence level of 8 or higher, and a daily stress level of less than 3. What is your current stress level?"

"5".

"That's right, the conditions aren't met. Continue."

Ye Ming stood in the middle of the computer room, his gaze sweeping across the entire room.

A wonderful sense of fulfillment welled up inside me.

This is his team, working towards a common goal.

He walked back to his seat, opened the MOD system editor, and continued testing "Regenerating Tang Sanzang's White Horse" while optimizing the MOD system's rule logic.

The sounds of Xu Wei and Lin Zhixia discussing could be heard from time to time.

The breeze stirred up by Ruan Xing's movements gently brushed past him.

The test lasted about an hour, and more than twenty initial issues were recorded, most of which were minor bugs.

Xu Wei finished organizing the first batch of feedback and walked over with her notebook.

"Currently, we've identified three main types of issues: seven instances where the text descriptions don't match the actual values; three instances where the event triggering conditions are vaguely described; and two instances where the UI is slightly misaligned at different resolutions. I've sent you a detailed list and reproduction steps via QQ."

Ye Ming took the laptop and quickly browsed through it.

"Okay. For the copywriting and numerical issues, we need to check the original event library files. The descriptions of the triggering conditions that are vague need to be standardized and optimized. As for the UI misalignment issue, Yuejie should prioritize fixing it."

"Understood." Xu Wei nodded.

Their eyes met briefly.

Her eyes shone brightly under the screen light, but her expression was purely that of someone working.

"In addition, I suggest that the campus and workplace categories in the event database be further subdivided with tags, such as 'study,' 'clubs,' 'internships,' and 'interviews,' to facilitate future event database management."

"That's the right approach. You can plan this out." Ye Ming handed the notebook back to her. "Thank you for your hard work."

"No problem." Xu Wei took it and turned to walk back to her seat.

The dark long dress she wore had a neatly fitted waist, with a smooth curve from her shoulders to her waist to her hips.

Ye Ming glanced at it and then looked away.

"Hey, deskmate," Ruan Xing's voice came softly from behind, "What does this 'random seed' mean? I keep seeing it mentioned in your code."

Ye Ming turned his head and found that she had moved a chair to sit behind him at some point, and was peering at the code on his screen with genuine curiosity in her eyes.

"It's the base value for generating random numbers."

Ye Ming enlarged the code window a little.

"For example, in this event, whether the White Dragon Horse will appear or not, we don't want players to be able to predict it completely, so we need a random factor. But complete randomness makes it difficult to control the probability, so we use the system time plus the player ID to generate a unique 'seed,' and then generate random numbers based on this seed. This way, the result is both unpredictable and has a certain degree of repeatability."

"Oh..." Ruan Xing nodded as if she understood, but her eyes were still fixed on him.

"So you're not really messing around, you're just pretending to, but you actually follow the rules."

Xiao Ruan, you'd better be talking about code.

"That's one way to understand it," he said calmly.

"Amazing," Ruan Xing said sincerely, then leaned forward again, her finger hovering over another line on the screen.

"So what is this 'weighting'? What is it used for?"

Her breath carried a faint fruity fragrance, wafting over with her movements.

Ye Ming subtly moved aside and continued explaining.

Slightly ahead, Xu Wei paused almost imperceptibly in her typing rhythm.

At the other end of the server room, Zhang Yuan let out a long breath and stretched his neck.

"The initial parameters of the connection pool have been adjusted. We can do a stress test tomorrow to see the effect."

"Brother Yuan is very efficient," Ye Ming turned around and praised.

"Your notes are very clear," Zhang Yuan rarely said more, "You're on the right track, all that's left is to test the parameters."

On the other side, in the School of Information Science and Technology's laboratory.

The fluorescent lights were on, casting a cool white light across the lab bench, illuminating the tools and parts on the surface with crystal clarity.

There was a faint scent of pine in the air, mixed with the residual heat from the burning solder wire.

Shen Zhiyi sat at the front of the stage, her white coat sleeves rolled up twice, revealing a section of her slender white wrist.

Her long hair was loosely tied at the back of her head, with a few stray strands slipping down from behind her ears, clinging to her chin, and swaying gently as she lowered her head.

The light fell on her profile, like a thin layer of frost.

The temperature of the hot air gun was stabilized at 320 degrees Celsius, and the nozzle was suspended five millimeters above the chip.

She held her breath and stared at the 256MB RAM chip through her goggles.

The tin ball gradually melted, revealing a subtle, silvery sheen.

She carefully moved the heat gun away and gently touched the edge of the chip with tweezers.

The chip only wobbled slightly and did not fully adhere.

Her heart sank. She continued heating, adjusted the angle, and did it again.

Still no success.

Turn off the heat gun.

After waiting for the board to cool down, she turned on the power and pressed the switch.

The power indicator light is on, but the screen is completely black, and the serial port debugging assistant has no output.

The welding failed.

She took off her goggles and quietly looked at the unresponsive development board.

The laboratory was so quiet that only the faint hum of the instruments could be heard.

She didn't show much expression on her face, but simply reached out and picked up the board, carefully examining the solder joints under the light.

The light shone through her fingers and fell on her cool face, making her skin almost transparent.

The gaps between some of the solder balls are too small.

She put the board back on the table without sighing or frowning.

She simply raised her hand to tuck the stray hairs behind her ear, revealing a small section of her earlobe, which was bright white.

Let's try again tomorrow.

As midnight approached, the number of people in the server room gradually decreased.

Chen Mo, Zhao Kai, Sun Cheng, and Lin Zhixia left first; they had early morning classes tomorrow.

After fixing several urgent UI misalignment issues, Li Yue yawned, saved the code, shut down the computer, and left.

Before leaving, she sent the test server's address and password to the core group again.

In the end, only Ye Ming, Zhang Yuan, Xu Wei, and Ruan Xing remained.

Zhang Yuan was still debugging the efficiency of an index query in the command line window.

Ye Ming has perfected the core logic of the MOD system and is currently conducting final self-testing.

Xu Wei saved the final version of the test report and tidied up her desktop.

Ruan Xing said he would wait until everyone had left before checking the doors, windows, and power supply.

Xu Wei slung her backpack over her shoulder, stood up, and her movements were clearly visible in the quiet computer room.

She stopped at the door without turning around, her voice calm as she spoke.

"I've sent you the test report on QQ. See you tomorrow."

Ye Ming looked up from the screen.

"Okay, be careful on the road."

Xu Wei's figure paused for a moment at the doorway before disappearing into the shadows of the corridor.

The hem of her dark long dress swayed gently with her steps, her waist cinched neatly.

Ye Ming stared at the disappearing shadow for two seconds before looking away.

Ruan Xing waited until the footsteps were completely out of earshot before standing up with a grin.

"Alright, I'm off too! Desk mate, Yuan-ge, don't stay up too late, we have a tough battle tomorrow!"

She picked up her small bag, walked to the door, suddenly turned back, and gave Ye Ming a "good luck" gesture.

The hem of the pale yellow sweatshirt fluttered slightly with her movements, revealing a small section of her slender waist.

Ye Ming glanced at it, then looked away.

After another ten minutes or so, Zhang Yuan leaned back in his chair and let out a long breath.

"The index optimization is complete. Preliminary testing shows that for the same amount of data, the response time can be reduced by 40%. Tomorrow, we will combine it with connection pooling for load testing, which should result in a significant improvement."

"Thank you for your hard work, Brother Yuan," Ye Ming said sincerely.

Zhang Yuan doesn't talk much, but he does his work extremely well.

"I'm leaving now, you should go early too."

He turned off his phone, packed his things, and left quickly.

Now, Ye Ming is truly all alone.

He released the mouse and leaned back in his chair.

He stared at the blinking cursor in the code editor, going over the day's events in his mind.

My phone vibrated.

He opened it and saw a message from Shen Zhiyi.

"The chip soldering failed; we'll try again tomorrow. How did your game testing go?"

Ye Ming's lips twitched slightly as he typed back, "The test just ended. We found some minor issues and are fixing them one by one. Soldering failures are normal; be careful not to burn your hands."

After sending it, he looked at the screen and added, "Get some rest early, don't stay up too late."

Only after sending the message did he realize—this was exactly what he had said to Xu Wei earlier.