Where is your simplicity and shyness?

After Ya Ya Did Not Wear Today and Zhuan Lun Ge, Dream Builder did not stop recruiting.

It was just that there were no longer any candidates requiring Xu Meng to personally conduct interviews.

He was able to fully immerse himself in his work.

Thus, from his perspective, Dream Builder gradually entered a stable period, with every department working in full swing and tasks advancing methodically.

But in reality, from the employees' experience, Dream Builder had been undergoing drastic changes all along.

The impact of personnel turnover persisted.

Aside from the "Pests" Xu Meng had ruthlessly culled on his first day, there were also those who left subsequently.

—These people had already found their next jobs before Xu Meng even posted his announcement.

Although Xu Meng's series of actions had instilled some confidence in Dream Builder, the allure of higher salaries at other companies was stronger, so they left as planned.

Beyond these, former Art Director Yang Hui and former Narrative Director Meng Bing, after resigning, gradually persuaded a few trusted subordinates to leave with them.

Whether as a show of force or not, they came to the company on the same day to process their resignations, and their trusted subordinates also submitted their resignations on the same day.

This caused a minor stir among the employees.

But the primary target of their demonstration—Xu Meng—never even showed his face, remaining immersed in the world of code the entire time.

The Personnel Department kept recruiting and quickly filled the vacancies.

This small incident dissolved without a trace.

As for their attacks online, compared to the forces of the water army hired by Konjac Games, they were utterly insignificant. Aside from those at Dream Builder who knew them, no one outside cared at all.

After the personnel turbulence subsided, a major new move quickly followed—

At the request of boss Xu Meng, Dream Builder created the industry's first Social Network review mechanism.

This system was both extremely strict and extremely flexible.

The strictness lay in this: if you marked yourself as a Dream Builder employee on your account, then all your historical posts would be checked one by one.

Any extreme speech—whether male chauvinism, female chauvinism, hatred of one's country, or adoration of foreign lands—would be required to be deleted, along with a guarantee not to post such extreme speech again.

If the "concentration" was too high, it could even lead to termination.

The extreme flexibility lay in this: if you didn't indicate your relationship with Dream Builder on your personal account at all, then you could post whatever you wanted.

—Unless you weren't a grassroots employee.

For mid-level management and above, as long as they had a social account, they couldn't have any extreme speech. If they did, delete it!

The ACG Game circle in this world was so toxic that Xu Meng had to take precautions.

Not to mention, he never liked people who stirred up trouble.

Future recruitment would also include review requirements in this regard.

After the chaos of the Social Network review died down, the boss immediately pulled out a brand-new office software—[Intelligent Collaboration Development Tool].

At first, everyone thought the boss was pulling some ridiculous move like "cracking down on attendance right before the company goes under."

But once they actually used this tool, they immediately understood—that wasn't it at all! This tool was absurdly powerful! Allowing teams responsible for different parts of a project to sync progress, coordinate ideas, and save communication costs was just its most basic function.

It also had a large number of reserved interfaces, allowing it to connect with other development software and provide intelligent support for those tools.

Whether it was game development engines, or tools for drawing, modeling, sound effects, simulation, control, etc., they could all be integrated.

Its intelligent assistant functions could even write code, create melodies, and draw illustrations based on verbal descriptions of requirements!—Of course, this part of its capability was still relatively weak for now, far from replacing human labor.

But there was no doubt it could spark inspiration, save energy, and improve efficiency.

Some employees, bursting with curiosity, tried to find out which company developed this software, but searched the entire internet without finding a single clue.

Finally, Chen Mengling told them in the work group that the boss had coded it himself, which instantly stunned everyone.

They couldn't believe it.

But aside from their own company, they had indeed never seen this software anywhere else. In the end, they had to reluctantly accept this fact—their own boss was actually a programming genius? By the time they fully adapted to this new work software, half of May had already passed.

Xu Meng finally had the time to start wandering around the various departments, showing his presence.

As he wandered, he felt as if an age had passed.

The atmosphere in the Art Department had undergone a earth-shattering change—

Back then, they were like a group of painters with bound feet, shy and embarrassed about drawing even slightly sexy concept art, which had even led Xu Meng to change their office.

But now, as Xu Meng approached their office, before he could even knock, he heard a girl inside shouting boldly: "How many boobs have you all drawn today?"

"???" Xu Meng almost thought he had walked into the wrong place.

Even more absurdly, after this question was raised, responses came flooding in: "Two pairs!"

"Four!"

"Three!"

"Six!"

"How can there be three of them?" Xu Meng was dumbfounded.

Thump, thump, thump! He raised a hand to knock on the door, then pushed it open and walked in.

He thought his presence would make them tone it down, but everyone just glanced at him, shouted "Boss is here," and after greeting him, continued their heated discussion without a care—

"I'm telling you, I went undercover in a 2D group and collected tons of chat logs as evidence. Finally, I made a major discovery: players all love Round Milk!"

"Nonsense! Eight-Character Milk is the most perfect!"

"What's perfect or not? What players like is what matters!"

"How do you know players don't like Eight-Character Milk?"

"Stop arguing, you two. Players only like the big ones—whichever's bigger, that's what they like!"

"Impossible. Even among Big Thunders, there are differences!"

Xu Meng was covered in black lines.

Was this the kind of topic you could shout about and argue over? What was wrong with these people?

It had only been half a month—where had their original innocence and shyness gone?

Xu Fang was perceptive; just by looking at Xu Meng's expression, he guessed what he was thinking. He sidled over and explained, "They've been discussing how to make the characters sexier every day. After Tang Ya came, she suggested they look at more doujinshi, erotic illustrations, and paid art packs from adult Cosers."

"Slowly, the office atmosphere turned into this..."

"Every day, aside from Child Carts, they drive every kind of cart."

What else could Xu Meng say? "...Really not bad."

After all, their work efficiency over the past half month had been sky-high. They'd basically finished updating the character concept art and finalizing the standing illustrations.

Now that there were no urgent tasks, they'd already started drawing the second set of outfits for the characters.

This was also the strategy Xu Meng had set—rather than churning out new characters, it was better to give old characters more nice new clothes.

As long as the clothes were sexy enough or good-looking enough, the profit potential wasn't any worse than new characters.

After all, it took time for players to build emotional bonds with characters.

If too many new characters were released too frequently, players would gradually become indifferent. It would also drain the inspiration and creativity of the art team, and the livers of the modelers and animators—more harm than good for Dream Builder's scale.

So if they had abundant energy and wanted to exchange techniques and improve each other, then let them exchange...

He patted Xu Fang on the shoulder and said, "Have the employees from the other offices come over too. I've got a new task for you."

"A new task?" Xu Fang was a bit curious.

Xu Meng didn't hold back: "Yeah. Ever heard of the Battle Damage Clothing System?"