Schrödinger's Panties

Xu Meng didn't act immediately but waited until the next day.

Starting that day, the work attitude of every single employee at Dream Builder underwent a shift.

After the fashion show team-building event the day before, the dissatisfaction and doubts about the boss's decisions had greatly diminished.

They had truly felt the unique charm exuded by the models as they showcased their figures.

This, in turn, gave them confidence in the boss's decisions.

--If they revised things according to the boss's requirements, the "Frost Snow Project" really might be able to turn things around!

As long as they gave it their all and made the in-game characters convey that kind of charm, the players would surely feel it too!

The company's revival was no longer a pipe dream.

Bankruptcy, layoffs, rent—none of those were problems anymore.

Thus, almost everyone's work enthusiasm soared to unprecedented heights.

Xu Meng first went to find Ding Nian, asking her to temporarily set aside the work of changing outfits for the red-haired mature woman Tong Que and focus entirely on refining the concept art for the curly-haired girl He Yin.

After that, he took the concept art and went to find Peng Linmu and Chen Wanzhong, asking if they could make the model run, jump, and fight freely in the game without ever exposing anything it shouldn't.

The honest Chen Wanzhong was completely stunned.

"Boss, you want to... model a character who isn't wearing underwear???"

Even Peng Linmu found it a bit extreme: "Boss, the industry standard is to add safety shorts. I can understand not wanting safety shorts, but not even underwear..."

"Isn't that a bit..." He fumbled for words, finally settling on a relatively tactful one, "too open?"

Xu Meng immediately shook his head in denial: "No, we still need to add underwear. Otherwise, if the censors catch it, the game might get taken down."

After all, they weren't making an adult game.

"But that's not the point. Whether there's underwear or not doesn't really matter."

Xu Meng continued: "Doesn't the character have a hem that goes past the knees?"

"Set all the dynamic details so that no matter how the character moves, the cheongsam hem perfectly covers the key areas."

"That way, no one can tell whether she's wearing it or not."

"Then, as long as we never confirm it ourselves, it becomes a pair of Schrödinger's Panties."

"Our goal is: even though we put underwear on the character to pass censorship, we want most players to be willing to believe she isn't wearing any."

Peng Linmu and Chen Wanzhong's eyes went wide, their faces screaming, 'You can do that?'

"So, can you do it?" Xu Meng asked finally.

The two exchanged a glance and saw the same answer in each other's eyes--

They could do it.

But it would be an absolute grind!

"Boss, we can do it, but the workload is enormous," Chen Wanzhong said bluntly. "If we do this for every character, we won't be able to remake more than a few in a month."

"As long as you can do it, that's fine." Xu Meng was satisfied. "Just work on this one for now. Don't worry, only He Yin needs this treatment. The rest will use the conventional method."

Chen Wanzhong breathed a sigh of relief and hurried off to start grinding.

After two days of rest, Xu Meng felt his body had improved considerably, so he returned to his office to dive fully into work.

He needed to write out that Intelligent Collaboration Development Tool from the system as quickly as possible.

This was something that could massively boost work efficiency. If he hadn't died from overwork and transmigrated, he would have been glued to his computer for three days and nights straight to grind this thing out.

The code volume for this tool wasn't staggering, especially the "intelligent" part—the AI wasn't even as smart as current market products when first written and would need a lot of data to train.

For now, Xu Meng didn't care much about the "intelligence" and focused more on the "collaboration."

In his past life, he was an indie game developer, grinding out games entirely on his own.

Even before leaving the company to go solo, he'd led at most an 8-person team, so he had a serious misunderstanding of how efficiently a large team could collaborate.

--Earlier, when he learned the company had 100 employees, he calculated based on 80 times his own work efficiency.

That already factored in a 20% efficiency loss.

But after reading the development logs, he was shocked to find he'd underestimated it! Once the headcount hit triple digits, the drop in average efficiency was terrifying--

The loss wasn't just 20%; it was probably over 50%! The reasons could be many, like Dream Builder being a makeshift team started by two fresh graduates, or the new game's poor sales killing morale, or people keeping their options open and looking for other jobs... and so on.

In short, the reality was that work efficiency was a glaring weakness at Dream Builder.

So, this tool—which could easily sync development progress, coordinate multi-department thinking, greatly reduce communication costs, and boost overall efficiency—was absolutely necessary.

Xu Meng threw himself into the work, losing all track of time.

Except for one interruption by his assistant Chen Mengling to eat and take medicine, he kept his head down until four in the afternoon.

Until a chat window suddenly popped up--

"Boss, it's done! Come check it out!"

This is Ding Nian's message.

Xu Meng snapped back to attention, first receiving the file Ding Nian had sent, then saving the code he'd written.

Switching back to the chat window, the file had already finished downloading.

Xu Meng opened it, and a high-definition image instantly filled the entire screen.

A girl with green curly hair was falling through the air, the ink-black hem of her cheongsam fluttering in the wind, her long legs dazzlingly pale. Her small, delicate bare feet pointed diagonally upward, a red string around her ankle slipping slightly.

After glimpsing her toes, his gaze reached its limit and instinctively returned to her upper body.

First, at the end of the skirt's slit, a portion of her hip curve and a large expanse of side hip skin were exposed.

Higher up, the fabric's color grew richer. Her abdomen was almost completely transparent, like a layer of black gauze, her belly and navel clearly visible.

Above the abdomen, the color deepened rapidly, shifting from black gauze to something like sharkskin, clinging tightly to her body, outlining a chest that could be held in one hand—with a subtle sheen.

Continuing upward, her collarbone was faintly visible beneath the V-neck stand collar.

Finally, there was her lively face, topped with a head of unruly green curls, brimming with a playful smile.

That was He Yin.

Her hands were extended forward, each gripping a pistol, firing upward.

Though it was a static image, it was bursting with motion, youth, vitality, and sensuality all mixed together, hitting him straight in the face.

The impact was overwhelming! "Well done! Perfect, I have absolutely no complaints!"

"That's it! Organize the details of each element, and we can start on the animation and modeling."

After giving Ding Nian a firm round of affirmation and encouragement, Xu Meng didn't forget his original purpose—

While the announcement was still hot, with paid trolls cursing loudly and plenty of clueless netizens watching the spectacle, he wanted to release the new-style character concept art as quickly as possible.

Black fame is still fame; traffic from insults is still traffic.

Besides, seizing the ecological niche now meant sniping Magic Taro's new game!

Who told you to be slower than me? Serves you right for eating my dust!

After briefly editing the caption, he began posting this "New Version He Yin Character Design" to social networks.

Weiguang went smoothly—posted and passed in seconds.

But on the 2D stronghold, the video site Bilibili, the upload failed.

Staring at the System Prompt reading [Content involves suggestive behavior and clothing exposure issues, unsuitable for display], Xu Meng was stunned on the spot.

Seriously, bro? You're my distributor, I'm your partner! And you're sitting on fifty percent of the revenue share from the "Frost Snow Project" channel!

I'm trying to expand your earnings and boost your profits, and you jump out to block my review??

With all that time, why don't you go review your own dance section???