"Yo, our Monster Master has finally arrived?"
In the high-rise building, the former designer, sporting dark circles under his eyes, made a rare appearance at the company's business department.
As a tech geek, he usually dislikes these kinds of meetups; to him, they're a waste of time.
Isn't playing games during breaks from work great?
Socializing, meeting people, eating and drinking—it's such a waste of time.
Many people know that he is not easy to invite. When Mr. Ma personally came to inspect the project, he didn't attend the big employee gathering. Instead, he invited a few close friends to spend the whole night playing Alliance Master.
But this time, he personally attended an offline gathering between a gaming guild and a gaming company, which surprised many of his colleagues.
This person, who doesn't even give face to CEO Ma, actually gives face to a group of gaming guilds.
Who is Yan Lifeng?
The chubby designer asked breathlessly as soon as he arrived.
The crowd's expressions were strange, and their gazes soon fell on a person not far away, in a corner, looking down at their phone.
She was a freckled girl who looked extremely timid.
She trembled as she spoke to anyone nearby; she was clearly a socially anxious, introverted girl.
When everyone looked at her, she inexplicably lowered her head, her face as red as a monkey's bottom!
"Are you Yan Lifeng?" a nerdy guy asked as he stepped forward.
"Hmm," the girl said cautiously, surprised that the other person had specifically sought her out. "Is there something you need?"
"Ms. Yan Lifeng, this is our company's chief designer, her name is..."
"Shut up!!" The otaku impatiently interrupted the staff member's introduction, stepping forward and saying, "Did you seal away the Mother and Child Ghosts I designed?"
"You designed this?" The girl looked up in surprise. "You are?"
Answer me first!
"Yes!" The girl's eyes lit up instantly, a stark contrast to her previous evasive gaze, now resembling that of a fangirl.
How did you do it?
" The Mother and Child Ghosts are conjoined twins. Although they appear to be separate, you can tell from their names that the two monsters must share some kind of weakness," the girl said seriously. "If you were designing it, you wouldn't be like those lousy designers out there who just come up with a name and try to piggyback on the horror genre, right?"
"So I was thinking that children depend on their mothers, so if something happens, they will definitely want their mothers to protect them first. And the mother's only weakness is her child. In the design of the Mother and Child Ghosts, the Ghost Mother is incomparably powerful, with almost invincible abilities, but she cannot completely control her child. Designing around the ghost child must be the breakthrough point!"
The designer was silent for a while. During the closed beta, the staff complained a lot about the monsters he designed. Many of the monsters were so difficult that even after more than a year since they were released, no one had been able to conquer them, leading to various complaints. In the end, he was forced to personally create a strategy guide.
That's how he became famous.
Many players take pride in being able to defeat the monsters designed by this monster master!
But for the first time since he became famous, he was defeated by a monster during the closed beta. He believes that this design of the Mother and Child Ghosts is definitely among the top ten in terms of difficulty among his works.
And yet, this was solved by such a young girl in just two days?
The thread is now in an uproar, with all sorts of sarcastic remarks about his declining design skills flooding the internet, making him incredibly curious about the player who managed to defeat the monster he designed.
"You figured that out so quickly?"
"Wow, what luck!" The girl stuck out her tongue. "You have no idea, I led the team to fight this monster all night, and I was so angry! This kind of monster is simply unbeatable!"
But when I calmed down and thought about it while I was sleeping, I realized something was wrong.
"What's wrong?"
"There are no unsolvable monsters." The girl looked at him seriously and said, "You yourself said that there are no unsolvable situations in your designs, because monsters are meant to be defeated by players. An unsolvable monster represents an incompetent designer!"
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Yan Lifeng.
Chen Qing stood on the deck, gazing in the direction of Nanming Prefecture in the distance, his mind racing.
Is it a coincidence?
He was unaware that, based on his understanding of the local culture and customs, it was relatively uncommon for women to be given this name in ancient times.
Folks don't dare to name their girls after the character "phoenix", but in aristocratic families, they choose the character "phoenix". It's too ostentatious, and "leifeng" means beautiful phoenix, which is also not a very clever choice of characters. Even in modern times, this name is too vulgar, and few family members are willing to choose it.
But it can only be a coincidence, right?
Chen Qing thought to himself with some uncertainty.
But I also felt a little apprehensive.
To say that the ancients sealed the Dragon Palace is indeed too difficult. After all, according to the calendar, when the Dragon Palace opened, it was an era of frenzied demons. The demons inside the Dragon Palace were very powerful, but in that era, Magic City powerful!
Therefore, in the original design, the Dragon Palace forces retreated, choosing to avoid that era. After cultivating a group of fanatical followers, they went into hibernation, closed the gates of the Dragon Palace, and sealed themselves away.
In his own design, the human race had never defeated the Dragon Palace.
But now history has deviated from his original plan, Chen Qing has long suspected that something else has infiltrated his world.
What if the King of Qin was a time traveler?
What about Yan Lifeng?
It would be very difficult for the human race to seal the Dragon Palace on their own. Chen Qing felt that even he himself would have found it very difficult in that era of countless demons, when even martial artists did not exist.
But if it's Yan Lifeng...
"Sir, we've arrived."
An announcement came from the front of the ship, and everyone looked over, including Chen Qing.
The Nanming Prefecture at this time is very different from before!
Your Highness.
On the deck, the Duke of Wei stared in astonishment at what lay before him. "Was Nanming Prefecture like this before?"
The eldest princess was also stunned and remained silent for a long time. In a moment, the Duke of Wei understood.
This only appeared after the eldest princess left!
"Oh? How magnificent!" The scholar's voice came from not far away, clearly also somewhat surprised by what he saw.
The entire Nanming Prefecture was enveloped in a giant bubble, a layer of visible energy enveloping this largest city in Jiangnan!
"How is this possible?"
The one who spoke was the eldest princess's husband, who had remained silent until now.
As a top-tier warlock, he knew exactly what this was!
Barrier!
Warlock's Barrier!
An enormous barrier capable of covering the entire Nanming Prefecture!!!
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"How is this possible?"
Inside Nanming Prefecture, the Duke of Duke of Qin, who were approaching the Nanming Prefecture, also looked at the sky in shock.
This huge bubble wasn't always there; it suddenly appeared about an hour ago.
They witnessed countless bubbles rising into the air, linking together in the sky, eventually forming a gigantic bubble that enveloped the entire sky!
In an instant, the spiritual energy of the entire Nanming Prefecture surged. They even saw some armored soldiers patrolling in the air through the giant bubbles!
"Your Excellency, what is this?" The Provincial Governor asked, looking shocked and bewildered.
"This..." Mu Hongqing was also shocked. "It should be... a barrier."
"A barrier? A barrier has this effect?" the governor asked curiously.
The people around remained silent, and even the Duke of Qin was at a loss for words.
He participated in the construction of the capital city, whose protective barrier is hailed as the greatest design in a thousand years, especially the imperial palace, which was almost completely sealed by the barrier.
But that's a network of thousands of barriers connected together, and it usually takes ten great sorcerers and hundreds of Third Rank sorcerers to operate it to barely cover the palace.
The capital city is actually not very large, only about two-thirds the size of Nanming Prefecture, but even the capital city has never created such a barrier that covers the entire city!
Not only is it unheard of in the capital, but Lu Ming has never heard of such a thing anywhere in the world!
Cloud Capital a protective barrier, Nanyang City, where the Shen Family is located, also has a famous barrier, but both are only located at the city gates, covering the entire city.
Is this Chen Qing's source of confidence?