Virtual Empire Begins with a Game
Chapter 42

Kicking the Livestream Dark with One Foot

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"Hahaha, illiterate exposed!"

"Once golden breeze and jade dew meet, they surpass countless encounters in the mortal realm. This is Magpie Bridge Immortal! Magpie Bridge! Double Seventh Festival!"

"I wanted to laugh earlier, a fish that slipped through the nine-year compulsory education with a brain full of yellow filth."

The viewers laughed loudly, leaving Qi Huahua speechless.

But it's a loss! The loli cat-girl in the picture raised her head and puffed out her chest again: "Hmph! I'm a kitty!"

"Kitty hasn't read books and doesn't understand you humans' complicated things."

"But kitty can listen to big sister play the zither!"

Qi Huahua turned up the game volume, and the viewers then realized that Tong Que wasn't simply posing, but was actually playing the zither.

Although limited by the amount of effort put in, they couldn't make the detail of each finger plucking the zither strings individually, the changes in the position of both hands on the strings and the music played corresponded one by one.

Qi Huahua controlled the mouse, which had turned into the shape of a hand, and clicked on the playing Tong Que.

Then the camera rose, bypassed the square table, and approached Tong Que, and the picture became closer.

Tong Que looked up at just the right moment and gave a smile to the camera: "Don't you like this song?"

Options appeared:

[No, I like it very much, please continue.] [Change to another song.] [I want to take a walk with you.] [Your clothes are messy, let me help you tidy them up.] — "Your clothes are messy! Let me help you tidy them up!!" Qi Huahua instantly made her choice.

Then the camera continued to zoom in, coming to Tong Que's side.

Tong Que tilted her head to look at Qi Huahua, revealing her slender neck.

Qi Huahua tried to touch Tong Que's smooth shoulder with her hand, but unexpectedly, this light touch actually pushed Tong Que onto the long chair!

Golden chains scattered, jade stones rolled, and the soft moonlight shone on Tong Que's fair skin, as if putting a Weiguang on her, truly like a fairy descending to earth.

Tong Que, whose character design and art style were both of a cold and alluring big sister, looked weak and frail at this moment, slumped on the wooden stool with a slightly flushed face, and said softly to the camera:

"It seems... my clothes are indeed messy."

"Then I'll have to ask the Investigator to help me tidy them up n-i-c-e-l-y."

"Ugh!" Qi Huahua made an obvious nasal sound, "I'm going to have a nosebleed!"

"Sister, you're too lewd!"

"Leave it to me, my family's three generations of skills, I'm best at tidying up people's clothes."

Qi Huahua operated the mouse, which had turned into a small hand, and tentatively clicked around on Tong Que, who was at her disposal.

She quickly discovered that Zhu Meng had invested heavily in the design of this interactive scene! The number of interactive actions and the richness of Tong Que's voice acting far exceeded her and the viewers' expectations.

Touching Tong Que's head, arms, shoulders, clothes, belly, waist, hips, thighs, calves, feet...

All had different actions and voice feedback! Gentle, shy, teasing, encouraging...

It was so rich and colorful! As one of the first two interactive scenes launched, Xu Meng's only requirement was—

Spare no expense to maximize playability! It must be a hit with players, and it's best to create a reputation that "Zhu Meng's interactive scenes are a bargain."

This way, it will be easier to sell interactive scenes in the future.

If he can earn more money, he will have more funds when he leads the team to transform and make other games.

Under this guiding ideology, the things that the Modeling Department and Animation Department finally made not only far exceeded the players' expectations, but even far exceeded Xu Meng's expectations.

—Even this small pavilion is only part of the interactive scene.

The corridor bridge connecting the pavilion and the small round platform in the lotus pond surrounded by lanterns can be walked over to trigger interactions! Not to mention the corridor bridge for strolling, picking lotus pods, and feeding each other lotus seeds, the small round platform surrounded by lanterns is actually a small stage.

As long as players raise Tong Que's favorability high enough, they can have Tong Que dance for them on this small stage.

This dance was completed by Zhu Meng using motion capture technology + manual keyframing, inviting a professional dancer to record it.

—It's just that the employees don't quite understand: Why did the boss have to put on motion capture equipment and go up and dance a round himself after the dancer finished recording...

On the live broadcast side, Qi Huahua became more and more addicted to playing, and finally couldn't help but stretch her sinful little hand towards Tong Que's chest.

So Tong Que's chest swayed, and the golden chain jingled.

Tong Que raised a hand to protect her chest, and simultaneously lifted a long leg, placing her foot in a slightly lower part of the screen, as if using it to block the player from leaning down and doing something naughty.

Tong Que's actions were a rejection, but her words said, "You can't do that here, Mr. Investigator~"

Qi Huahua and her viewers' eyes passed over Tong Que's rounded toes and smooth instep, following her straight leg downwards...

"Pfft—"

Qi Huahua's virtual avatar spewed nosebleeds, excitedly making hamster noises: "Ah!!! Ahhhh!!!"

The next moment, click.

The livestream went black.

The entire livestream, with over sixty thousand viewers, was kicked out.

The viewers were all dumbfounded, unable to tell if the scene was too lewd and the livestream was censored by the platform, or if Qi Huahua was too excited and accidentally kicked the power cord.

And Qi Huahua herself was completely frozen.

Her heart ached to the point of almost being unable to breathe! Despite having 770,000 followers, her livestream usually only had a little over 10,000 viewers, sometimes even less.

Now, thanks to the popularity of Frost Snow Project creating a new standard for eroge games, she was finally experiencing this explosive popularity.

But then she got banned by P Station...

Qi Huahua stomped her feet in anger, but there was nothing she could do.

Qi Huahua was clearly not the first streamer to be affected, nor would she be the last.

More and more victimized streamers continued to emerge.

And it wasn't just streamers on P Station who were affected; streamers on other platforms were also experiencing similar issues, but because of different censorship standards, the situation wasn't as severe as on P Station.

The Zhu Meng employees watched with concern.

Xu Meng also felt annoyed.

But as long as he looked down at the players' spending revenue, his mood would greatly improve!—From the moment the game was updated and open for login until now, the revenue had been soaring every moment! After the trailer was released yesterday, the daily revenue surpassed the previous 30 days of May, and the revenue curve back then was already quite astonishing.

But looking at it today, even yesterday's almost straight curve had become a small step.

It immediately became less noticeable! In the two hours since the server opened, the total amount spent by players exceeded 12 million! This speed made one suspect that all the players were passionately spending! Zhu Meng, the entire company, had been working passionately for a month, the creative department had squeezed out every last drop of inspiration, and the execution department had squeezed out every last drop of blood and sweat, finally presenting these 8 remade characters to the players, who had lived up to everyone's expectations.

It wasn't just a simple response, but a response multiplied tenfold!

The players' willingness to pay, compared to the average eroge game, was astonishingly high! There had always been a rumor in the industry: the payment rate of mobile game users would roughly hover around 5%.

This was even including many 6 yuan first-time purchase packages, 1 yuan newbie gifts, and things like that.

The actual payment rate might be even lower.

But at this moment, for Frost Snow Project, that number was an astonishing 16%!

Asking for monthly tickets, asking for following reading, asking for recommendations.

Thanks to [De Huan Dang Zuo Le] for the 500 points reward.

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