Lucy explained Minister Wu's bizarre, face-changing behavior to Lin Ze. It turned out that Old Wu's Honor of Kings golden finger had an aging system, and whenever he used a hero, he involuntarily picked up some of that character's distinctive verbal tics.
That finally cleared up all the questions in Lin Ze's head.
"Then why doesn't the department upgrade his system?"
Lin Ze was puzzled, but Lucy answered him with a single sentence.
"You think every game company offers after-sales service as 'good and cheap' as miHoYo's?"
Oh-so basically, upgrades and maintenance cost too much, and he was making do.
Ring, ring. Ring, ring.
The phone vibrated. Minister Wu was calling back.
Lin Ze hadn't even asked his questions yet, so he hurriedly snatched the phone from Lucy and answered.
Naturally, both of them got a thorough scolding from Minister Wu.
For hanging up on her superior, Comrade Lucy received the deluxe package of a two-thousand-word self-criticism, while Lin Ze, as her accomplice, seemed to have been dragged into it too.
After hearing Lin Ze's request on the return call, Minister Wu was deeply moved by Comrade Xiao Lin's trust in him as a leader. Then he rejected it immediately, without a second thought.
"Young people shouldn't always look for shortcuts."
Minister Wu began giving Lin Ze a "heartfelt" lecture. "There's a good saying: classics are always hard to replicate. Blindly copying someone else won't work. Ahem, ahem, you need to learn to forge your own path. You can't count on anyone else. You have to rely on yourself. Yourself."
Lin Ze didn't dare hang up like Lucy, who had all the fearlessness of a newborn calf facing a tiger. He could only listen and keep agreeing.
Seemingly reminded of his younger self, Minister Wu's voice grew choked. "Sigh... back