RoleplayNovel #361 - The cycle ends! Lu Yu has fallen into a male succubus. Will there be a card battle in the new
#361 - The cycle ends! Lu Yu has fallen into a male succubus. Will there be a card battle in the new
It took Lu Yu quite a while to calm down and see the back-end data clearly:
The sales of "Final Frontier" since its release have exceeded 28 million copies!
This has led to a surge in sales of Taoyuan Light-Year consoles, which have now reached a record-breaking 35 million!
There's been a frenzy of purchases everywhere, with word-of-mouth spreading even overseas.
Unbelievable, simply unbelievable!
He finally understood why the company employees seemed so calm.
Because Xiaohutuxian's hardware was selling like crazy!
The game was also selling like crazy!
Although Taoyuan Township was frantically recruiting people, its current processing capacity was still far beyond the scale of this small company.
Whether it was the game development center or Xiaohutuxian Company, these little overachievers were starting to work themselves to the bone again; they didn't even have time to celebrate!
If that's the case, then the Leisure Points...
Lu Yu helplessly clicked on the system notification.
A massive flood of system notifications began to fill the screen:
[Zhao Yuhang used his rest time to handle the firmware upgrade for the gamepad peripherals, Leisure Points -700]
[Hu Tu spent a lot of time processing orders from the OEM factory, triggering a critical hit and a 7-hit combo, Leisure Points -700]
[Niu Naitang spent a lot of energy making game patches, triggering a critical hit and a 12-hit combo, Leisure Points -1200]
...
Lu Yu's blood pressure soared, and he didn't dare to look any further.
Since acquiring Xiaohutuxian, Taoyuan Township now has a total of 650 employees.
Compared to last month, the growth rate of Leisure Point income is -150%!
In other words, this month's point income is negative, deducting 50% of last month's income!
"Heh, hehe..." Lu Yu fell into a helpless, silly laugh.
At this time, the surrounding employees, seeing Lu Yu's reaction, whispered to each other in the development group:
"President Lu must have seen the game explode on the foreign internet and is finally smiling with relief, right?"
"But honestly, isn't President Lu's reaction a little too calm?"
"Look, this is truly worthy of being President Lu! Now, no matter what achievements the game makes, it can't shake President Lu's heart!"
"What is the real god of management? Tactical lean back.jpg"
Although he was smiling on the surface, Lu Yu's heart was churning!
Without a doubt, in this round of the cycle, he was once again subjected to a series of backstabs!
First of all, it was Xiaohutuxian Company, but this time he didn't have the strength to blame Xia Shangyu, because even in his eyes, Xiaohutuxian Company was quite laid-back. Who would have thought that it would directly perk up.
Then there was Niu Naitang's studio. Why weren't you guys affected by Xue Gao, you bunch of perverts?
And then there were those competitors. What the hell is wrong with you guys?
That Fan Langtao, I even thought highly of you, but you're even more useless than trash!
"CrossFire: Reverse Warfare Hero" originally surged to nearly 20 million sales, but you forcibly relied on BUGs and various bizarre operations to self-destruct, reversing the sales to 13 million copies, forcibly sinking your own flagship.
What's wrong? Do you have such a big feud with me?
In order to let me earn fewer Leisure Points, you'd rather commit suicide?
And that Wu Liang!
When you came to visit Taoyuan Township before, I thought you were a smart person, but how could I not see that you were such a stupid idiot?
My promotional video is already so bad, what are you promoting for me!
Also, the technology of the alternate-dimensional tactile belt, I let the company team hand it over to you without reservation.
I even spoon-fed you the food. With such a heavenly start, you can still screw it up?
I gave you a chance, but you're useless!
Looking at these originally highly anticipated competitors, Lu Yu was furious.
As for the competing products of some other small and medium-sized manufacturers, Lu Yu didn't want to say much more.
Whether it was Dili Dili, or Chuangmeng Tiandi, or Nanshanju, the new products were lukewarm and didn't even make a splash.
And what he had the highest hopes for, Mileyou, that PJSH project died in the womb!
Lu Yu was also dumbfounded when he found out about this news.
Cai Yuhao, what's wrong with you? Weren't you supposed to be personally leading the flagship project to ensure that nothing would go wrong?
While Lu Yu was dumbfounded, a system prompt popped up in front of him:
[This round of the cycle is about to be settled, the current Leisure Points are 53625 points, and they are being exchanged...]
[5,362,500 yuan has been credited to your personal account.]
[The next settlement cycle will be in: 120 days]
Seeing this prompt, Lu Yu, who was originally feeling lost, instantly cheered up!
Good heavens, the point income for one settlement cycle directly exceeded 5 million, which can be said to have set a new record!
Lu Yu could probably guess why he was able to create this record.
In this round of the cycle, because of the acquisition of Xiaohutuxian, the number of employees more than doubled.
And many of Xiaohutuxian's employees were hardworking workers who were miserably screwing screws on the assembly line. Where had they ever enjoyed this level of treatment and benefits!
It was simply like evolving from a primitive society directly to a cyberpunk era.
Therefore, Lu Yu re-examined the records and realized that during the period immediately after acquiring Xiaohutuxian Company, the assembly line workers were frantically generating points, and even giving them some extra pocket money could trigger hundreds of critical hits!
Seeing this, Lu Yu breathed a sigh of relief.
That's right!
Since this world is so competitive, there are still mostly working people.
As long as he, Lu Yu, continues to spread Taoyuan Township's various benefits and corporate culture, there will still be many opportunities to earn points!
The system continued to prompt:
["Amazing Task Two: The Era of Play" is being settled...]
[The host has successfully acquired a subsidiary that develops toys. The host has accumulated 34,995 Leisure Points from the employees of the new company.]
[Unfortunately, because there are still 5 points that have not met the standard, the host has failed the task.]
[Task failure penalty: Male Incubus]
[Penalty Description: The host will receive a new debuff. This state lasts for 120 days. When the host is alone with a romantic partner, the probability of attracting the other party to actively start a battle is greatly increased, and the combat state "Bottom Power Lv1" is applied to the combatant.]
[Bottom Power Lv1: During combat, even if exhausted and mentally confused, the combat stance will continue to be maintained until the end of the battle (this skill will be upgraded with the number of battles)]
Seeing this system prompt, Lu Yu almost coughed up another mouthful of old blood!
5 points! Why was it only 5 points short!!!
Lu Yu slid the system record with trembling fingers.
Sure enough, the success of "Final Frontier" greatly increased the work intensity of Xiaohutuxian Company in the last month, completing the ultimate backstab on him!
Lu Yu's heart was bleeding. He remembered that the buff rewarded by this task could directly triple the Leisure Points he would get in the next cycle!
What a pity!
Originally, if it weren't for this group of little overachievers backstabbing him, he would have earned much more in this round of the cycle. Now, not only did he lose points, but he was also precisely backstabbed by them, causing the task to fail. He was extremely distressed.
He won't give this group of little overachievers a chance in the next round of the cycle!
Just as he was pounding his chest and stamping his feet, he suddenly caught a glimpse of Liu Mengyuan, sitting in the next seat, secretly glancing in his direction.
The way this girl was looking at him was almost drawing silk...
Huh?
Could it be that the halo took effect so quickly?
Lu Yu looked at the debuff effect description again and muttered in his heart:
Come to think of it, Liu Mengyuan has become more and more daring recently, using not only her hands and feet, but even her absolute territory.
Moreover, on that trip to Japan, he was directly taken to the restroom of the carriage by the other party, and did this and that for an hour.
Heaven knows what tricks this girl will use on him, I hope his body can handle it...
A prompt continued to pop up in front of Lu Yu:
[Congratulations on completing the additional cycle task: Reward a random surprise lottery once]
Then, the lottery turntable started spinning and burst out with orange light:
[Grand Gathering Lv3: In the next 120 days, Taoyuan Township's fans will receive a 200% increase in Leisure Points when attending game exhibitions.]
Lu Yu was overjoyed when he saw this.
Another good buff for earning points!
Last time at the EASTJOY game exhibition, he harvested a lot of Leisure Points from the visiting fans.
In this round of the cycle, if he participates in an international exhibition with a larger scale of influence, it might have miraculous effects!
Moreover!
When participating in international game exhibitions, Taoyuan Township will face international giants such as Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft.
Their experience in the game market must be higher than that of domestic manufacturers.
At that time, facing the pressure brought by this level of competition, the employees will definitely be completely exhausted, give up on the internal competition, and lie down in a Buddhist way, right?
This is simply a brilliant plan that kills two birds with one stone!
[You have received a new additional task for this round of the cycle]
[Additional Task: Before the end of the cycle, release a new VR game made by Taoyuan Township. The game must be a two-player battle mode, and the budget invested in the project needs to be no less than 500 million.]
[Task Reward: Random Surprise Effect]
Lu Yu felt a little relieved when he saw this new task.
Two-player battle!
That's fine!
In fact, through playing card games these past few days, he already has a preliminary idea in his mind.
That is, Taoyuan Township's next main product will be a collectible card battle game that can be played on VR devices!
Moreover, this product is not only a game software, but Taoyuan Township will also release physical cards offline!
The reason why Lu Yu made such a decision was not to expand new business lines.
On the contrary!
Through the success of "Final Frontier", Lu Yu deeply reflected on his past operating strategies.
He previously thought that choosing a niche track would inevitably become a market unpopular, and at that time, he would be beaten to the ground by the giants, and the employees would be completely disheartened, and the anti-internal competition cause would be stable.
But he didn't expect that although the theme was niche, there was also less competition, which instead allowed Taoyuan Township's group of little overachievers to accidentally succeed!
And now, he decided to advance into the TCG card field, which was already blood red, and fight to the death in this red sea market!
Lu Yu used the word fighting to the death, which is not an exaggeration!
Now, the global card game market is monopolized by three giants: Magic the Gathering, Pokémon, and Yu-Gi-Oh!.
These three companies are quite large and have formed relatively mature rules, secondary markets, and global events.
Over the years, new card games have continued to emerge, trying to challenge the status of these three, but they have all been killed without leaving a trace.
With Taoyuan Township's current size, the result of rashly entering this market can already be imagined.
To put it bluntly, TCG games that want to be made in the direction of explosive hits are not easy to make, and there are requirements for card faces, IPs, and game rules.
But to make them in the direction of mediocrity and rottenness, there are too many failed card games to refer to. Bandai Namco's card games alone are countless, and one is made and one fails.
Isn't it so easy to make a failed product?
Thinking of this, the corners of Lu Yu's mouth curved into a beautiful arc.
...
At this time, Liu Mengyuan, who was sitting not far from him, also had a system prompt pop up in front of her:
[You have obtained 83,050 proficiency points in this round of the cycle]
[Among them, the proficiency points related to business development are 39,392 points]
Liu Mengyuan's pretty face instantly froze.
Good heavens, she finally managed to make the business share of obtaining proficiency points exceed 50% in the previous round of the cycle.
Why did it drop again in this round of the cycle?!
Where is the problem?!
She clicked on the details of the system interface and was instantly dumbfounded.
It turned out that although she earned a lot of proficiency points from the employees of Xiaohutuxian Company, because Lu Yu arranged even more exaggerated company benefits, the employees were all crazily showing off the points of enjoying life in the first three months!
"Ah... this... ah, I I..."
Once again backstabbed by Lu Yu, Liu Mengyuan clutched her chest in pain, almost spitting out a mouthful of old blood.
At this time, the surrounding colleagues covered their mouths and snickered:
"They are indeed a couple. Even the happy mood after the success of their careers is exactly the same."
After that, the system continued to prompt her:
["Amazing Task Two: Playing with Things Doesn't Lose Ambition" is being settled]
[Your company has successfully acquired a new toy company and has accumulated 35,000 proficiency points related to your career]
[Congratulations on receiving the task success reward: 35,000 proficiency points]
"Yay!"
Liu Mengyuan cheered.
In one round of the cycle, the proficiency points related to her career exceeded 110,000!
The goal of becoming a female business tycoon is another step closer!
"So, what kind of talent scrolls should I buy for the employees again..."
Without a doubt, the reason why Taoyuan Township was able to achieve its current success in the previous round of the cycle was because the three sets of employee talent scrolls purchased by Liu Mengyuan played a role.
Xia Shangyu's [Singularity Discovery] allowed the company to successfully acquire Xiaohutuxian Company.
Li Hongmei's [Network Topologist] made it easier for the company to recruit talented players who matched the project when expanding recruitment.
And Chu Xiong's [Mutated Hacker] was even more amazing, it seemed to directly mutate Melissa with anti-hacking technology.
Which employees should be transformed in this round of the cycle...
Liu Mengyuan was rubbing her fists with joy,
Suddenly!
The system popped up a prompt:
"Due to your proficiency gained from work being less than 50% this cycle, the system store has adjusted the goods for you. The following are exclusive goods for the Succubus skill tree."
Subsequently, a flash of light appeared before Liu Mengyuan's eyes, and the store interface immediately displayed a dazzling array of goods.
The moment she saw these goods, Liu Mengyuan's face turned red to the roots of her ears:
Whips, candles, masks, blindfolds, garter belts...
What is all this nonsense!
Liu Mengyuan was about to exit the store, but found that the exit button was gone!
System prompt:
"As a reward for having less than 50% work proficiency points, you must choose one item from the above goods before the countdown ends. If you fail to choose, the system will randomly select an item for you when the countdown ends."
Liu Mengyuan was shocked: System, you call this a reward?!
There were only 30 seconds left on the countdown.
Helpless, if the system randomly gave something, who knew what strange thing it would randomly pick, it was better to choose herself.
Liu Mengyuan chose and chose, and finally chose the garter belt that looked relatively normal.
At the moment of paying the proficiency points, a flash of white light flashed in the void in front of her, and the garter belt was in her palm.
The system displayed the equipment information:
[Little Devil Garter Belt]
[Type: System Skill Tree Exclusive Item]
[This equipment is passively effective and is soul-bound to the host, cannot be discarded]
[Effect Description: When engaging in any form of combat with the opponent, the opponent's ammunition firing rate is increased to 2 times]
“……”
Liu Mengyuan helplessly supported her forehead.
What the heck is doubled ammunition firing rate!
She couldn't help but recall that when she went to the dessert shop to buy breakfast this morning, the clerk was probably an intern, so he didn't count at all when making cream puffs, and directly added double the cream. In the end, the cream puff bread that Liu Mengyuan bought was completely filled with cream, and the overflowing cream flowed everywhere, looking terrible.
Liu Mengyuan couldn't help but cover her face.
Not this kind of scene...
But!
She suddenly felt that Lu Yu, this kid, looked more handsome than usual for some reason, making her unable to take her eyes off him.
Oh, this damn attraction!
Something is probably going to happen again when I go home tonight...