“What’s wrong?” Lin You had been watching the only player present, and immediately noticed.
“This mural…” Princess said hesitantly, “It feels strange to the touch. It looks like there’s a thick layer of paint on the stone wall, but it doesn’t feel like it. It’s a bit strange.”
“This…” Lin You was a little stunned. His mind was full of game mechanics; in his concept, a mural was a collectible achievement item, similar to a photograph—you just looked at it. He hadn’t considered that someone would touch it carefully, so he hadn’t paid attention to the feel of it.
Besides, he’d never touched a mural like this before.
“This is my oversight. I didn’t realize the material issue. Can you describe what it should feel like? I’ll try adjusting it.”
Lin You didn’t contact Xiaomeng. He pulled up the control panel and, based on Zhu Cixia’s description, gradually changed the material parameters, adjusting the mural’s texture.
It took him a long time to solve it.
Lin You simply decided to collect player feedback in advance and asked her, “Do you have any other suggestions?”
Princess hesitated for a moment, then said, “The feel of the red silk cloth of the cloak and scarf could be more comfortable. Also, the cut of the cloak, I feel it’s not delicate enough, and it’s a little stuffy to wear…”
Wow, another blind spot.
When he played *Journey* in his past life, his greatest pleasure was flying around—flying around was incredibly fun.
So now, when creating the virtual version, he focused on adjusting how to make flying more enjoyable, how to set the lighting, and how to make the scenery more beautiful.
He wasn’t unconcerned about the materials, but he didn’t prioritize them enough. He never imagined that female players, when taking off with cloaks and scarves, would be thinking about whether the cloaks and scarves were comfortable enough to wear.
He just made it according to the appearance of the game in his past life, with almost 100% restoration. As for comfort, what was that? Besides, in his past life, he always wore T-shirts, hoodies, and jeans. He didn’t know anything about tailoring! However, Lin You thought again, maybe he could sell appearance skins, a profit point? No, no, no! Lin You shook his head vigorously, throwing the cheesy tactics of a pay-to-win game out of his mind. He didn’t want to bring this kind of cancer over to torment the players here.
But the idea was still usable. He could make personalized scarves a hidden reward for multiple playthroughs, allowing loyal players to create scarves in their own style.
Mm, plan successful! Lin You, with Princess’s help, began to adjust the material and cut of the cloak and scarf.
This made Lin You fully realize one thing: making games wasn’t just about having Xiaomeng; professional talent was really important! Especially for virtual reality games, the more detail, the higher the requirements.
Xiaomeng could instantly generate a game world with more than 95% realism, but the last 5%, unless he, Lin You, was omniscient and omnipotent, knew everything, and had experienced everything, would require a huge amount of effort to patiently adjust.
“After this, I need to put establishing a studio on the agenda.” Lin You made a plan.
However, thanks to the fact that the various elements of *Journey* had been streamlined to the greatest extent, there weren’t many similar blind spots, and soon Princess was once again immersed in exploring the sand sea.
Lin You silently followed behind, and didn’t deliberately mention the hidden runes and murals. He just watched the first player’s initial game experience.
He saw that the Princess was completely transformed. Looking at the tall broken bridge, she kept exclaiming “Wow!” After activating the red cloth with Resonance, watching the glowing red silk connect the broken bridge together, she couldn’t help but shout, “Yay!”
She even lunged towards the glowing runes from afar, but missed and fell into the sand. She didn’t care about her image at all, and directly rolled around in the sand sea to grab the runes.
She completely transformed from a reserved lady into a mischievous monkey.
Lin You never expected that Princess had this side to her.
“Ah—hahaha!” At the Quicksand Stage, Princess cheered as she slid down rapidly with the quicksand, not forgetting to call out to Lin You, “Lin You, Lin You! Come on! Let’s slide together! It’s so fun!”
“Ah!” Zhu Cixia let out a short gasp of surprise, then skillfully vibrated her cloak, and flew freely, even quickly changing direction in mid-air to fly through a narrow stone gate without any fear.
Just as she ran out of energy and was about to fall, Lin You flew to her side and used Resonance to replenish her energy.
She looked at Lin You in surprise. You could do that? She immediately started using Resonance, trying to replenish Lin You’s energy, and quickly became proficient.
The two of them chased each other through the sand sea, occasionally taking flight, calling out to each other and using Resonance in the air, having a great time. Princess, like a child, kept cheering and laughing.
Passing through numerous stone gates, they reached the end of the quicksand and, following the turn of the quicksand, entered a horizontal corridor.
Majestic columns stood silently, one after another, with red silks fluttering in the wind. Outside the corridor were ruins that had existed for an unknown number of years, and in the distance stood the majestic Holy Mountain.
Clouds and mist swirled around the mountainside, and the huge setting sun was mostly blocked by the top of the Holy Mountain. The unblocked portion was perfectly symmetrical, emitting a warm, honey-yellow halo, the light reflecting off the sand in a golden glow, immersing the entire corridor in a warm and gentle atmosphere.
They followed the quicksand without stopping, leaving the columns behind them one by one.
In this magnificent, beautiful, and poetic scenery, Zhu Cixia slowly calmed down. She suddenly felt an immense peace, her heart filled with emotion, like waves of warmth surging from her heart, warming her whole body.
She looked at Lin You, who was also looking at the scenery, and her heart suddenly beat uncontrollably faster, a smile creeping onto her lips.
But when she saw Lin You turn his head, she quickly turned her head to hide it, but no matter how hard she tried to purse her lips, she couldn’t erase the smile from the corners of her mouth. She shyly covered her face, her heart beating faster and faster, her face turning red.
She was glad they were both wearing red cloaks, and the surroundings were dyed golden by the setting sun, so Lin You didn’t notice.
Beyond the corridor was a long drop, directly into the darkness below—the entrance to the underground level.
But their game time was coming to an end.
Xiaomeng had already reminded Lin You that the bodyguard was knocking at the door outside.
So he looked at Zhu Cixia: “We have to end this. Your bodyguard is knocking at the door.”
“Ah? No!” Princess instinctively protested, but quickly realized, “What time is it?”
Lin You hadn’t yet adapted the control panel for the player, so Princess didn’t know the time.
He pulled up the control panel and glanced at it, “We’ve been playing for about three hours.”
“It’s been that long? I didn’t feel it at all!”
“Okay, let’s log out, or your bodyguard is going to break down the door.” Lin You took Princess out of the Virtual World.
(End of Chapter)