I Am the Mastermind Behind the Scenes
Chapter 7

Full Score Evaluation

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The game was released on the third day.

During this time, the number of Battle Online players increased to 48, most of whom were recommended by Chen Ziyu, Wang Damang, and others who wanted to form the first guild in the game.

Basically, everyone was highly skeptical of this game before playing it. However, after playing it, they realized how epoch-making this game was. Its playability was so high that once players experienced it, they were reluctant to leave.

Lu Wu and Bei Li, who often observed their every move through the artifact, also understood Chen Ziyu's ideas and planned to add a guild option in the game's subsequent optimizations.

To facilitate checking the players' situation, Lu Wu and Bei Li went to the Underworld again and had Bei Li create a sub-ring of the Battle Ring in the laboratory.

This ring did not have any autonomous ability but was attached to the main ring. It also added the function of viewing players and issuing tasks, and Bei Li officially became the game's GM.

Mu Qingshui is a full-time game reviewer for the Platform173. His daily task is to try out various new games and then write experience reports, which he publishes on the website platform. Although the salary is not low, he finds it very boring.

After closing another game and taking off the virtual helmet, Mu Qingshui rubbed his head with a helpless expression: "How do they come up with such clichéd creations? They even want to participate in the new game PK list. What a waste of my time!"

Then he opened the webpage, gave the game a score of 2 points below, and discarded it to the elimination list.

Pulling up the review directory and seeing that there were still more than 100 games to test, Mu Qingshui felt a burst of irritability.

He glanced at the other reviewers who were also testing games, took a deep breath, and clicked on the directory again, selecting the next game to be tested in order.

"Huh?"

He originally planned to start playing directly, but the game's introduction stunned Mu Qingshui.

An 800mb realistic game? Are you kidding me?

Mu Qingshui laughed. Such a game dared to participate in the competition, really having no self-awareness. It seemed that he had to suggest raising the entry requirements next time.

Originally, Mu Qingshui planned to give it 1 point directly after reading the introduction and then throw it into the elimination list.

But thinking of the company's requirement of a minimum of ten minutes of experience for each game, Mu Qingshui had to sigh, download the game to his virtual helmet, put on the helmet, and start experiencing the game.

But everything that followed made him doubt his life.

From the moment he entered the Underworld, the surrounding environment, the breeze that blew, everything was so real, as if he had traveled through time in an instant.

After experiencing the job selection, Mu Qingshui was completely conquered by the game's opening. His original intention of playing for a while and then quitting turned into exploring the fun in the game.

1 hour... two hours... five hours, time passed quickly, and he was completely immersed in the game, completely forgetting that he still needed to review many games today.

On the way to the Ghost Mountains, he was also very lucky to pick up a newborn ghost mentioned in the task panel and received a reward of 100 Soul Coins, which made him excited for a long time.

After selling it to the mall, he proudly bought a blue quality dagger with Soul Coins, making killing monsters extremely efficient.

Since he chose the Terminator, with the improvement of attributes, Mu Qingshui really experienced the feeling of flying like a martial arts master in a movie.

Just as he was exploring, the game's 12-hour limit reminder appeared, and then he was ejected from the game.

Frustrated, Mu Qingshui gritted his teeth: "Damn! I almost soloed the Warrior of Wreckage. Who made this damn time setting? Bad review!"

Mu Qingshui took off his helmet with a depressed look, but was immediately stunned, because the reviewers around him had changed a wave, and it was already three o'clock in the middle of the night.

"Damn, today's review tasks..." Mu Qingshui had a toothache. As a professional game reviewer, he was so obsessed with the game that he even forgot his work.

However, Mu Qingshui was speechless with admiration for this game and decisively gave it 10 points in the evaluation.

Then he spent half an hour writing a review report of the game and published it below the game, pulling it into the cycle review list.

Due to the fairness of the game, all games must be reviewed by each reviewer once, measured by the average score of each person, so Mu Qingshui's review data alone cannot determine whether a game passes or not.

At this time, Mu Qingshui was still very excited, because he felt that he had really discovered a treasure.

After taking out his mobile phone, a trace of hesitation appeared on his face. After hesitating for a while, he gritted his teeth and dialed the phone of the 173 platform boss.

Beep~ Beep~

The phone rang seven or eight times before someone answered: "Hello?"

"Hello boss, I am Mu Qingshui, a game reviewer from the 173 platform!" Mu Qingshui took the lead in introducing himself.

Hearing that the caller was a reviewer from his subordinate company, Wu Guoyi was stunned for a moment, then looked at the time displayed on his phone, and his mood suddenly became very bad: "What's the matter? Also, how did you know my phone number!"

"Boss, don't be angry, I want to report something to you, maybe this is an opportunity for us to rapidly grow the 173 platform, overwhelm other game platforms, and become number one."

Wu Guoyi, who was about to get angry, suddenly felt happy, thinking it was a good thing that an employee was considering the platform's development. However, calling so late at night was impolite, and besides, couldn't any issues be discussed with their supervisor first?

However, Wu Guoyi didn't voice these thoughts. After thinking for a moment, he decided to listen to what this oddball employee had to say:

"Speak, I'm listening!"

This made Mu Qingshui excited, and he decisively said, "Boss, you know about our platform's Best New Game evaluation event, right?"

"Nonsense, I proposed this event!"

As a seasoned game enthusiast, it was his love for games that led him to the idea of building a game platform, thus creating one of the largest game platforms in the country, Platform173. This evaluation event was implemented after his proposal was approved by the board of directors.

"Boss, we've found a treasure in this event! During the evaluation, I discovered a game with a near 100% level of realism. I experienced it for a full 12 hours and didn't find any flaws. Moreover, the game's enhancement methods are completely different from current virtual games. It's simply a groundbreaking game!"

Hearing this, Wu Guoyi's expression immediately turned serious. He turned on the bedside lamp and sat up:

"What game is it? Which game company produced it?"

Realizing that Wu Guoyi was interested, Mu Qingshui quickly replied:

"It's produced by a small game platform, called 'Battle Online'. And what's strange is that the game's data package is only 800MB in size. After testing it, I also found it unbelievable."

Hearing this, Wu Guoyi almost thought that Mu Qingshui on the other end of the phone was mentally disturbed from testing too many games.

800MB is barely enough to make a prop in a realistic game, let alone an entire game. It's simply a joke.

Taking a deep breath, the anger in Wu Guoyi's heart surged again: "What's your name?"

"Boss, my name is Mu Qingshui, employee number 387!"

"Alright, you can go to the finance department to settle your account tomorrow!"

The originally excited Mu Qingshui felt as if he had been doused with a bucket of cold water, and he sobered up a lot.

Realizing that he was about to be fired, Mu Qingshui anxiously said, "Boss, I beg you, if you have the equipment, you can log in to the game and experience it. If everything I said is false, then you don't need to fire me, I'll resign immediately tomorrow!"

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