Cultivation Shura Field

After all, unlike the last game "Awesome", this time we want to make a qualified or even excellent product, rather than a trial program that you don't even know whether you can complete it.

Xu Zhe originally expected that the project, which had been started in the last semester, would be completed by mid-August. However, it was not completed and inspected until the end of August, two days before the start of the semester.

That night, Xu Zhe walked out of the study, stretched lazily, took out an empty cup, filled it with water, and drank it all.

Seeing this, Xu Guowei, who was originally slumped on the sofa, stood up and asked, "Have you finished using your computer? Let me play with it for a while."

Xu Zhe: "What do you want to play, connect the dots?"

Xu Guowei nodded, and suddenly felt a little embarrassed. In other families, the children wanted to play while the parents had to do work, but in his family, hey, it was the other way around.

Xu Zhe said, "Since you're going to play anyway, why not try a new game."

Xu Guowei was stunned for a moment, and asked in surprise: "The game you made is already playable? It's finished?"

“It’s done, but not completely done.”

Xu Guowei was confused by his son's words. But soon, when he sat down on the sofa, picked up his son's phone, and opened the game, he realized what "not fully done" meant.

The gameplay of the game "Fruit Cutting" is very simple. Various fruits will continuously appear on the screen, and players only need to swipe their fingers. If they swipe fruits, they will get extra points, and if they swipe bombs, they will lose points.

However, what appeared on the screen at this time were not fruits, but circles of varying sizes with words such as "watermelon", "apple", and "orange" marked on them.

The same is true for the so-called bomb. It is a circle with the word "bomb" inside. However, compared to most fruits, the circle of the bomb is smaller.

Xu Guowei played for a while and exclaimed: "It's fun! This is my first time playing a touch screen game. In the past, I either used a mouse and keyboard or pressed buttons... But aren't the bombs you made a little small?"

Xu Zhe smiled and said, "It will get bigger after the materials are attached. The circle you see now is the collision volume in the game. The bomb texture will be larger than the actual collision volume, while the fruit texture and collision volume are about the same. Do you know why not?"

Xu Guowei thought about it for a moment and immediately said, "I understand. You want to make it harder for people to cut the bomb and make the game easier!"

Xu Zhe: “To be precise, it is to create a thrilling sense of achievement.”

Xu Guowei: “Wouldn’t that be too simple?”

Xu Zhe: "No, you will know if you continue playing."

Just then, after passing the first level, Xu Guowei played the next level and immediately understood the difficulty setting of the game, because he gradually found that the speed at which fruits and bombs appeared seemed to be getting faster and faster.

Finally, Xu Guowei cut the bomb and the game ended.

Xu Zhe took the phone from his father and asked, "How do you feel?"

Xu Guowei said thoughtfully: "I know why you insisted on buying this phone. It turns out that this is the kind of game. This game requires this kind of phone."

"That's right!"

After Xu Zhe finished speaking, he went to the doorstep to change his shoes and prepared to go out.

Seeing this, Xu Guowei quickly asked, "Where are you going?"

Xu Zhe: "Find more people to try it out, like Tang Lingfei."

He did tell Shen Lan to avoid meaningless social interactions, but finding a trial version of the game was undoubtedly a serious matter, wasn't it?

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Tang Lingfei is different from Xu Guowei. She couldn't put down the game for a long time after she started playing. Girls who play games frequently have much better reactions and agility than middle-aged people, and they are much more focused when playing.

Xu Zhe was getting a little bored waiting by the side, so he picked up her summer homework and flipped through it casually...

Finally, the bomb exploded and the game was over.

Xu Zhe asked again: "How do you feel?"

Tang Lingfei thought for a while and shook her head: "I know how to play this game, but it feels a bit boring."

Xu Zhe: "Is it because there are no art and sound effects?"

Tang Lingfei: “Art and sound effects…”

Xu Zhe: "Imagine that every time you cut a fruit, the juice will burst out, leaving a trace that will slowly disappear after a while. And every time you cut a fruit, you will hear the sound of a sharp blade cutting through it."

The girl tilted her head and thought for a while, then muttered, "That might be more interesting. But when can the art and sound effects be arranged?"

Xu Zhe: “A few months.”

Tang Lingfei: "Does it take that long?"

Xu Zhe: "It is impossible to complete the art and sound effects for online connection in one go. They must be modified back and forth... I can imagine the efficiency."

Just then, the Xiaolingtong phone rang.

Hearing this voice, Xu Zhe subconsciously reached into his pocket, but found nothing. Then he realized that the pager had already been given to the girl in front of him.

Tang Lingfei glanced at the caller ID and answered the call: "Hello, what's the matter? He's next to me. Oh... OK, it's okay, it's okay as long as I have Xu Zhe. Um, um... Bye then."

After she hung up the phone, Xu Zhe asked, "What happened?"

Tang Lingfei: "Aren't you two going to tutor me tomorrow? Xiao Ye told me that she might not be able to come tomorrow because of something else. I said, you can stay here too."

Xu Zhe: "I will tutor you alone, one-on-one, right?"

Tang Lingfei: "What's the matter? Do you feel tired?"

Xu Zhe said thoughtfully: "Alright, I have no objection. School is about to start, and tomorrow is the last tutoring session of the summer vacation..."

Tang Lingfei didn't understand the deep meaning of his words for a moment, and simply nodded: "Yes, tomorrow is the last time of summer vacation."

Xu Zhe smiled slightly: "In that case, it's time to verify the effectiveness of this summer tutoring. Tomorrow I will prepare a few test papers for you, and I will mark them and give you grades when you finish them. Then I will compare them with your previous test papers, and you will know how much you have improved. Not only Chinese, math and English, but other subjects will also be tested, so you may need to write for a day, which may be a little hard."

Hearing him say this, Tang Lingfei was dumbfounded.

She came back to her senses, grabbed Xu Zhe's arm with both hands, and shook it vigorously: "Doing a whole day's test? No way!"

Xu Zhe: “This makes sense…”

Tang Lingfei: "No! It's not reasonable at all! Do you have any humanity at all?"

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Thanks to Samoyed who loves fish and master1217 for their tips! Thanks to everyone for their recommendations and monthly tickets!

Chapter 100 Let You Down

2023-09-06

As the night deepened, Song Xingye had already changed into her pajamas and went to bed. However, she did not cover herself with a blanket, but covered her head with it.

Despite this, the sound of her parents' quarrel still drifted into the girl's ears through the bedroom door and quilt.

"The child is going to school tomorrow, can you please be quiet?"

"Oh, you also know that she's going to start school? It's been so many times since I told you to pick her up, where are you?"

"The child is already this big, and she also said there's no need for me to pick her up."

"That's because you weren't around for several times, and Xingye waited until dark but couldn't find you, and she had to call me to find out! Instead of waiting there foolishly, it's better to walk home by yourself. Didn't you dote on your daughter in the past? Why do you take it less and less seriously now?"

"What nonsense are you talking about? I have always cared about my daughter."

"Haha, you care about your daughter? I think you are more concerned about your contracts..."

"Can you please stop talking about that!"

"Why can't I tell you? Oh, you hid it from me, from everyone, secretly took the money and lost it, and now you don't allow me to tell you?"

“I did that for this family.”

"To burn money for fun for the sake of your family?"

"Then what do you want me to do? You're the one who said whether I was ambitious or not, what do you want me to do?!"

The voices of her parents were getting louder and louder, especially her father's shouting. Song Xingye could not only hear it clearly, but she even felt that the neighbors in the next unit could hear it clearly.

The girl finally couldn't bear it anymore. She jumped out of bed, ran out of her bedroom, and pushed open the door of her parents' bedroom.

The two men did not go to bed. Instead, they stood beside the bed and quarreled, glaring at each other tensely. Their expressions could even be described as gnashing of teeth.

Song Xingye said, "Are you guys fighting over money? I made money tutoring Feifei, can I give it all to you?"

The mother shook her head: "It's not just about the money."

The father also shook his head: "Your change is not enough, keep it for yourself."

Song Xingye gritted her teeth and said, "I don't want to spend money, I just hope you guys stop arguing!"

Both parents fell silent.

Seeing that everything seemed to have quieted down, Song Xingye turned around and went back to his bedroom and closed the door.

Then she went to bed, picked up her cell phone, and dialed Tang Lingfei's number again.

Not long ago, she called her best friend. She wanted to talk about her troubles in the past two days, but when she heard Xu Zhe was there, she suddenly didn't want to talk anymore.

Although he couldn't explain why, Song Xingye just didn't want Xu Zhe to know the current situation of his family, and didn't want him to know how bored and miserable he was at home.

Even after the call was connected, she didn't know what to say to Tang Lingfei.

"Hello, Xiaoye? What's wrong with you?"

Tang Lingfei's tone is still so energetic.

Song Xingye sighed silently and asked in a low voice: "Is Xu Zhe still at your house?"

Tang Lingfei: "He has gone back. I get angry when I talk about this guy. Let me tell you, he is going to tutor me tomorrow, but it's not a real tutor. He actually wants to assign me a lot of papers, saying it's a baseline test or something... Tell me, he made me do a lot of papers on the last day of summer vacation and he even wants to grade me, does he still have any humanity?!"

"Hehe..." Song Xingye smiled, but the laughter was weak.

Tang Lingfei: "What about you? What are you doing?"

Song Xingye hesitated for a moment, and finally said: "I was listening to my parents quarreling. Oh, they were still quarreling just now, but now it seems to have stopped because I went over and said a few words to them."

Tang Lingfei: "Did your parents quarrel? Why? I always felt that your mother seemed to be a very polite and shrewd adult."

Song Xingye: "Being polite is for outsiders. She is really smart. But sometimes I would rather she be a little confused."

Tang Lingfei: "Did your mother pick a fight with your father?"

Song Xingye: "It's not entirely my mother's fault. In fact, it should be more of my father's problem, but I don't understand it. My father seemed to have used the family's money to buy some futures, and then lost money. He said that his position was liquidated or something..."

Tang Lingfei: "I don't understand either."

Song Xingye: "I know you don't understand."

Tang Lingfei: "If you ask Xu Zhe, he might know what's going on..."

However, Song Xingye quickly said, "No, no, no, don't tell him. It's no use telling him. I don't know how much money my dad lost, but it must be a lot. I heard my mom say that if this continues, she should consider selling the car."

Tang Lingfei on the other end of the phone was stunned for a long while, not knowing what to say, and could only sigh.

Song Xingye suddenly said, "It's better not to tell Xu Zhe about this."

Tang Lingfei: "Why?"

Song Xingye: "Because it's useless to tell him."

Tang Lingfei: "But it's no use telling me."

Song Xingye: "But I will feel better if I talk to you. Besides, isn't Xu Zhe busy making games recently? He is also very busy, so..."

Tang Lingfei: "Okay, okay, I won't tell him. Don't worry, I'll keep my mouth shut!"

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On the first day of school, Song Xingye didn't expect that Xu Zhe next to him would see through her just two minutes after she sat down.

"Is there anything bothering you?" he asked.

Song Xingye was stunned: "How did you know?"

Xu Zhe: "There are too many things wrong with your body language and micro-expressions. And you usually greet me proactively, but today you were staring at the table in a daze, not reading a novel or a book. It's obvious that something is wrong."

Song Xingye: "..."

Xu Zhe: "So, what happened?"

Song Xingye suddenly smiled bitterly: "I told Feifei to keep the secret for me, but I didn't expect that I would be the first to reveal it. Well, actually my parents had another fight."

"Again?" Xu Zhe noticed the problem, "Not once or twice?"

Song Xingye whispered, "They started quarreling three days ago. In the past two or three days, whenever they opened their mouths, they quarreled non-stop..."

Xu Zhe: “What’s the reason?”