Let's All Grind!

"Do you know how many employees the company has?" Xu Meng asked, looking directly into Yang Hui's eyes.

"?" Yang Hui blinked, "I don't know, what's up?"

"101. There are 101 people in the entire company now."

"So?" Yang Hui didn't understand why Xu Meng was bringing this up.

But Xu Meng was already getting a little angry: "Out of 101 people in the entire company, 60 are married. Whether the game can turn things around and whether the company can survive is linked to at least half the income of 60 families."

"Without this half, their mortgage payments, car loans, rent, and money for raising children will all be in trouble!"

"For the remaining unmarried people, how much money does it take for young people to establish themselves in the city?"

"If the company goes under, who will arrange jobs for these people!?"

"I'm talking about work here, and you're throwing accusations at me? Do you think this conference room is Weiguang?!"

Yang Hui was speechless, her face shifting from pale to flushed.

But in the end, she stubbornly shook her head and said, "No matter what, I can't accept this."

"Fine," Xu Meng nodded. "Go through the process with HR. Starting tomorrow, you don't need to come in anymore."

Yang Hui looked at Xu Meng in surprise, as if she hadn't expected him to fire her so decisively, without a second's hesitation.

After the surprise came a strong sense of humiliation.

She angrily slammed the conference table and said hatefully, "You won't succeed!"

"We'll see. Everyone will boycott you! This isn't over!"

She stormed out, slamming the door.

As Xu Meng watched her retreating figure, he was reminded of something—

Before starting work, he needed to conduct a self-inspection of the company personnel to prevent anyone from secretly hiding personal projects in the game—especially the copywriting and modeling departments.

In this regard, even a small personal project could often cause immense damage.

Xu Meng made a mental note of this and instructed his assistant, "Mengling, go call the associate director of the Art Department."

The little assistant, who had been staring blankly in the direction Yang Hui had disappeared, immediately snapped back to attention: "Ah, okay, I'll go right now!"

As she left the office, Xu Meng's voice sounded from behind her again:

"Regarding character costumes, your first task from now on is to upgrade the texture of black silk stockings."

The assistant's steps faltered, and she almost tripped.

"...What?" Chen Wanzhong thought he had misheard.

"Black silk stockings," Xu Meng repeated calmly. "Of course, you can also research white silk stockings first if that's your preference."

"No! Wait, boss!" Chen Wanzhong waved his hands repeatedly.

"I don't like white silk stockings!"

After a brief pause...

"It's not that I don't like them... I mean, not that kind of like..."

The little assistant slowed her steps, wishing she could stand still and listen to the entire conversation.

But driven by professional ethics, she continued to walk away.

The voices behind her grew fainter, and she could vaguely hear Chen Wanzhong trying to steer the conversation back on track—

"Don't our current characters already have stockings?"

The boss's voice was very clear, audible even from half an office away: "You call these stockings? This is just a piece of black cloth!"

"Some don't even have the texture of cloth, they're just black legs!"

The Art Department's office area was in a state of panic.

Yang Hui was not a woman with a good temper. She passed by with a furious expression, her high heels clacking loudly.

Without waiting for her subordinates to ask anything, she grabbed her bag and angrily left the company.

Chen Mengling only saw her back. The little assistant stretched out her arm, trying to stop her: "Hey! You haven't handed over..."

But in the next second, Yang Hui's figure completely disappeared.

The little assistant could only sigh and quickly call out names: "Ding Nian, Xu Fang, the boss wants to see you."

After saying that, she quickly walked away, heading straight for the office.

Ding Nian and Xu Fang exchanged glances and quickly grabbed their notebooks to follow.

When the assistant returned to the door, the discussion about stockings was still ongoing in the office—

"Boss, what kind of effect do you want to achieve?"

"Make the smooth and delicate effect of silk stockings, with semi-transparency, a fleshy feel, color gradients, and the elasticity when they dig into the skin," Xu Meng said, his voice remaining perfectly serious. "They should be made more alluring than real silk stockings."

Chen Wanzhong, however, was stammering:

"Boss, I avert my eyes whenever I see someone wearing black silk stockings on the street… I have no experience doing this…"

The little assistant outside the door quickly covered her mouth, almost bursting into laughter.

Chen Wanzhong's honest remark left Xu Meng speechless.

Seizing the moment of quiet, the assistant gently knocked on the door to signal, bringing Ding Nian and Xu Fang in.

Inside the office, all three had very interesting expressions.

"No way, man…" Peng Linmu couldn't help but complain, "You're not that conservative, are you?"

Chen Wanzhong looked a bit embarrassed.

Xu Meng intervened in time, "Stop spewing nonsense here, or I'll make you wear silk stockings for reference."

"Uh." Peng Linmu immediately shut up.

The little assistant, Chen Mengling, slightly shifted her right foot, intending to contribute a little – her roommates constantly praised her, and she was quite confident in her figure.

But before she could speak, Xu Meng said, "Prepare the camera and motion capture equipment. Have the marketing department contact talent agencies to send out invitations for eighteen-line models with good figures who are open-minded to record material."

"It's best to invite some foreign models to collect data on different body types."

"Understood." The little assistant quickly took notes.

"Also prepare the costumes in advance. Not just silk stockings, but also swimsuits, qipaos, JK uniforms, maid outfits, bunny girl costumes, reverse bunny girl costumes… basically all the common 'decisive' outfits in ACG games. Frost Snow Project will have them all, whatever we can prepare, we will."

"Ah." The little assistant, who was furiously taking notes with her brush, blushed slightly.

"Or, we could just find a photo studio that specializes in taking pictures for cosplayers and hire them along with their costume and makeup artists."

"In short, gather your materials diligently, and then start the character remakes as soon as possible." Xu Meng summarized, while also looking at the two associate directors who had just entered.

Ding Nian was also a young woman, three years older than Chen Mengling, but wearing a pink printed short-sleeved shirt, her face looked even more youthful than Chen Mengling's.

Xu Fang, on the other hand, was a man, but perhaps due to some characteristic of artists, he dressed much more refinedly than most men.

This was especially true when compared to the rough guys Xu Meng, Peng Linmu, and Chen Wanzhong, who were all working overtime like crazy.

So much so that Xu Meng's first impression was that the guy seemed a bit flamboyant.

"Yang Hui has resigned. You two will lead the Art Department for now."

"The next task is to comprehensively update the character illustrations and work with the modeling team to complete the character costume changes."

"Start with the female characters, draw them sexier. We'll tell you later which male characters need to be deleted and which need to have their genders changed."

"Oh, right…" He paused here. "Do you have any problems drawing these kinds of character illustrations?"

When Ding Nian and Xu Fang heard this question, they thought the boss was doubting their professional capabilities and quickly stated with full confidence:

"No problem!"

"None at all!"

Very good.

Xu Meng nodded with satisfaction.

Qualified workers.

He then presented the next task:

"After the costumes, it's the physical dynamics for character modeling."

"To put it more bluntly: the characters' breasts and butts need to be elastic, not just move like plastic models."

"Let's see what the players say—" Xu Meng rotated the computer screen, showing everyone player comments.

"[Stone Boobs]!"

"Do you feel any shame providing such a product to the players?"

Peng Linmu and Chen Wanzhong lowered their heads in shame.

Xu Meng then stated his requirement: "Put in the effort! Create that bouncy, jelly-like elasticity and dynamism for both the breasts and butts!"

"Not only should they jiggle, but they should also have different dynamic changes according to the character's actions – walking, running, jumping, fighting."

"In short, push the characters' sexual tension to the extreme!"

Chen Wanzhong's eyes went dark listening to this.

Making parts of the character models jiggle wasn't just a matter of being lewd or a technical issue, but purely a matter of sheer effort!

Stone boobs and plastic butts were indeed unsightly, but fewer polygons reduced the workload significantly.

However, the effect the boss was demanding…

Not to mention anything else, just the butt alone would require the number of polygons to skyrocket from 3000 to 30,000!

And that might not even be enough!

Few ACG games on the market had such a level of detail.

By this standard, all the company's modelers would have to work overtime like crazy from now on!

Peng Linmu felt similarly. Xu Meng's requirements weren't just for the modelers; programmers, animators… none of them would be spared.

But with the boss giving the order, what else could they say besides going back to grind?

"Yes."

"Understood."

"You all go back and have a meeting with your teams. Give me a schedule by the end of the day."

Xu Meng looked at the assistant again. "Mengling, next up is the Director of Operations. Please call him for me."

For everyone at Dream Building Game, it was a chaotic and hurried day.

Xu Meng had hit the accelerator for the entire company.

It was like a runaway train, not caring about flying parts, about to charge forward at full speed!