Secret Laboratory

"Alright, thank you everyone for your hard work. We're off work now, so everyone can go home first. We can get the tables and chairs ready tomorrow."

Meng Shu carried a bag of drinks and placed it in front of everyone with a smile.

"Are you tired? Come on, take a couple more bottles of water back with you."

Xu Hong, Chen An, and the other employees were already parched. When they saw that their boss had brought back drinks, they eagerly opened the bags and started picking out drinks.

"Wow, the water's here! Thank you, boss!"

"Thanks, boss! Oh wait, there's a Want Want snack!"

"Damn, how many years has it been since I was single?"

"I say!"

Seeing the group of people tilting their heads back to drink water, Boss Meng smiled.

The company has finally finished relocating, although it was mainly the moving company staff who did the work.

However, the subsequent tidying up and arranging, as well as the assembly of the new furniture, still need to be done by the few of us.

Fortunately, before moving, Meng Shu had planned the layout of the entire floor.

Now, all that's left is to organize things according to my ideas.

"You must be tired from moving the company today. Be careful on your way home."

The people drinking water nodded in response.

"Understood, President Meng."

"Yes, President Meng, we understand."

"Well then President Meng, we're off."

Goodbye, President Meng.

Meng Shu smiled and watched her employees walk into the elevator one after another, waving goodbye to them.

The moment the elevator doors closed, the once bustling company fell into complete silence.

Under the bright lights, he stood alone in the hall, silent.

Then, he shrugged, glanced around, and silently lit a cigarette.

Then, puffing on a cigarette, he began to look around the new company.

Only now can he properly look at this place.

It is located on the 7th floor of Jichuang Industrial Park, with a total area of over 500 square meters.

There used to be several companies here, but for some reason that Meng Shu can no longer remember, they moved out, leaving the entire floor empty.

Such an opportunity is extremely rare and hard to come by.

So Meng Shu rented the entire floor and knocked down all the walls except for the load-bearing walls.

Then, the renovation was completed.

Now, with enough space, plus his planning...

The entire floor was arranged perfectly.

As soon as you enter the elevator, you are greeted by a spacious and bright lobby.

To its left and right are two corridors, leading to two large, open office areas, Area A and Area B, respectively.

These two locations are planned to accommodate around 100 employees each.

Therefore, hiring is now a necessity.

In addition, Meng Shu personally places great importance on health.

To prevent employees from sitting for long periods, he specially ordered a large number of height-adjustable, thick wooden desktops, along with decent office chairs.

This allows employees to work standing up when they get tired of sitting, and they can adjust the desk height as needed.

So after the moving company left, Meng Shu and her employees started assembling tables and wiring, and were busy all day.

At the same time, he also set up a small gym on his own.

It is equipped with 4 treadmills, 6 massage sofas, a ping-pong table, a bowling area, and a large number of fitness equipment.

Of course, the company's original Motion Capture Room and motion capture equipment have also been fully upgraded and expanded.

Even the conference room is twice the size of the original one.

A new recording studio has also been added for creating game sound effects and voice-overs.

However, since this is just the beginning, the voice-over work still needs to be outsourced to other companies.

In addition, there is a tea and rest area.

He equipped the place with sofas, vending machines, and a huge snack shelf so that employees could relax after a hard day's work.

Moreover, since it's a game company, in addition to the tea and rest room, Meng Shu also specially built an entertainment room for employees to enjoy.

It contains four arcade machines, a discontinued FC retro game console, a large metal TV, and the latest game consoles and PCs equipped with 98-inch LCD screens, among other things.

Of course, a section is reserved for VR.

It can also be seen as an expression of aspirations and sentiments towards the development of games.

As for Meng Shu's own office, it was of average size and contained a sofa chair that could be converted into a bed.

Next to it is the finance office, which is slightly smaller.

Next are several vacant offices, one of which belongs to art director Fang Yuancheng. The rest are not being considered for the time being.

Meng Shu smoked a cigarette as she looked around the messy new company.

In the quiet environment, only the sound of his footsteps echoed.

If the lights weren't on, this place would actually be quite frighteningly large.

After all, at first glance, there was hardly anyone around, and it was utterly desolate.

Meng Shu arrived at her office and sat down on the sofa.

Then, I took out my phone and started looking at the piles of replies and private messages on the Danmu Network.

He glanced through the comments and found that most of the players' messages focused on the abnormal issues of "Control Failure" and curious inquiries about the new "Space Horror Games".

In response, Meng Shu put down her phone, leaned back in her chair, and looked up at the bright incandescent light overhead.

Now that things at the company are settled, all that's left is to clean up with Chen An and Chen An Xu Hong in the next couple of days.

At the same time, he moved out of the old house where he had lived for more than 20 years and moved to the 35th floor of Building 3 in Jinjiang Residential Area, which is not far from the company.

This is just an ordinary commercial apartment; Meng Shu isn't particularly interested in so-called villas or luxury homes.

On the contrary, a house that is too big and empty will make the home feel cold and deserted.

After all, the two elders had gone back to their hometown, and it wasn't appropriate for just the two of them, Meng Xiaoya, to live in a luxury villa.

Moreover, she usually lives at school and rarely goes home.

Therefore, Meng Shu ultimately chose a two-bedroom, two-living-room apartment.

Now, both company and family matters are almost settled.

It's time to consider the next steps.

As always, Meng Shu didn't reply to any of the private messages on the Danmu Network.

But he still noticed the players' problems.

That mysterious ' Space Horror Games ' has players eagerly anticipating it even just by hearing its name.

But Meng Shu shook her head; that game was too early for them.

The most urgent task is to develop the DLC for "Control Failure," namely "Secret Laboratory."

Because of future plans, there's also a VR version of "Dark Forest" waiting to be produced.

Then it was time for the new works.

So work is still quite busy.

Thinking of this, Meng Shu closed her eyes and recalled the various aspects of the game "Secret Laboratory".

This game was originally a free multiplayer survival game.

Like "Control Failure," it tells the story of a website that also experienced a loss of control.

This caused a large number of bizarre and extremely dangerous anomalies to emerge from the control room and slaughter everything in their path.

Meanwhile, D-Class Personnel, researchers, and security personnel also began scrambling to escape.

Therefore, in order to resolve this control failure incident, Mobile Special Task Force Epsilon-11 ' Nine-Tailed Fox ' was ordered to enter the site to rescue the researchers and regain control of the escape anomaly.

On the other side, the instigator of the control failure—the Chaos Split Organization—was also ordered to enter the site.

Their mission, however, is to rescue D-Class Personnel, extract intelligence from them, and brainwash them into becoming members of the Splitters.

Meng Shu remembered that there were three major factions in the game.

These are the Mobile Special Task Force, the Chaos Insurgency, and the Anomaly.

Twenty players will be randomly assigned to one of four roles in the game: D-Class Personnel, researchers, security personnel, and anomalies.

Nine- Nine-Tailed Fox /Splitter will not appear in the early stages of the game.

Players will only be resurrected and re-enter the game as a new identity in one of the Nine-Tailed Fox /Splitters teams after a certain number of deaths.

In the game, D-Class Personnel have nothing.

If the player starts as D-Class Personnel, there is only one goal: to escape the station at all costs and use all available items and resources to avoid anomalies.

And all armed security personnel and researchers are enemies!

Except for the Dividers, because the Dividers will rescue Class D.

If you start as a researcher, you're only slightly better off than D-Class Personnel; at least you come with a yellow keycard and a medical kit specifically for researchers.

In addition, the researchers' goal is the same as that of Class D: to use all available resources to avoid the anomaly, kill Class D, and escape the site.

It would be even better if you became a security guard, as you would start with a submachine gun, strap-on, radio, flashbang, security key card, medkit, and a functional tablet.

The objective is to kill or bind D-Class Personnel and rescue the researchers. Players who have died are then resurrected as Nine-Tailed Fox agents and, together with them, delve deeper into the site to control any escape attempts.

As for the anomaly, whether it's strong or not in the game depends on whether the player controlling it knows how to play.

If a novice player gets the anomaly but doesn't know how to play, even if they become W-FBC-0096 ' Shy Guy ', they will only be a tragic figure who is impotent, Rage, and runs around like crazy, getting kited to death.

Boss Meng is just a noob.

Looking back on those days... well, let's not dwell on those embarrassing moments.

Although he doesn't have a deep understanding of this game,

But it's not a big problem.

Once he buys the game from the system, the entire work will be deeply imprinted in his mind.

It can be said that it can be learned instantly without any obstacles, and there is absolutely no situation where there is a lack of understanding of the game.

Moreover, this game itself is derived from "Control Failure".

Therefore, the map area does not need to be changed, and there is no plot in it.

Even the various negative effects, items, drugs, characters, anomalies, interactive scenes, etc., were all added during the creation of "Control Failure".

It can be said that from the very beginning, Meng Shu planned to create "Secret Laboratory" based on the original work.

Therefore, with the readily available material of "Control Failure," creating this multiplayer survival game was almost effortless.

You could even add more player-controllable anomalies to the original version to enrich the gameplay.

The plan was set, and Meng Shu would begin production of "Secret Laboratory" as soon as he could officially start working at the new company.

Meanwhile, the company's other employees were responsible for the art production of the VR version of "Dark Forest".

Let these two things proceed without delay, so that they can be completed as soon as possible.

Then, we can start developing new games.

Just as Boss Meng was planning his work, his phone suddenly rang; it was a WeChat.

Upon picking it up, I saw that it was personally sent by Mr. Liang, the CEO of Infinite Network Entertainment.

The above content is very simple, just one sentence.

[Good evening, President Meng. E3 Expo will be held this June. Do you have any games or games that you'd like to participate in?]

Seeing this, Meng Shu narrowed her eyes slightly.

E3 Expo in a parallel world!

Interesting.

I finished this chapter last night, but fell asleep before I could even revise it. I was going to post it at the office this morning, but then I was called away to the factory for training. Everyone else left work at 6 PM, but I was still on my way back. I didn't get off work until almost 10 PM, hence this late chapter...