Chapter 400 - The Butterfly Game (1/2)

Cui Geng’s ‘Completion Forecast’ was very simply written.

“I am ‘The Tentacled Beast that Writes for His Life’. I want to tell all of you something from the bottom of my heart.

“I know that many friends hoped that there would be two, three, or even five million words in this book. Some of you even hoped that the book would never end.

“However, I don’t have enough experience writing Xuanhuan novels. This book’s framework wasn’t big from the beginning. The most exciting parts could be written with seven or eight hundred thousand words. After diluting the content, I stretched it to its maximum of a million words.

“All of you could tell that I sped up the plot recently. That’s because I was reaching seven hundred thousand words, and I was reaching the end of the novel’s plot. “I was afraid that if I ended the book too suddenly, none of you would have been able to accept it. That’s why I’m warning you now: the book is probably going to reach its conclusion in one or two weeks. Please brace yourselves.

“I’m preparing for the next book. Once I have something substantial, I’ll inform all of you at once.”

Just as Cui Geng had expected, the comments section immediately flooded with discussion.

Cui Geng decisively exited Zhongdian Chinese Network’s application and stopped its processes so that he would not have to read his readers’ comments. That was because he could probably easily guess what the comments would be about.

“So what if they start scolding me? As long as I don’t read the comments, it wouldn’t affect me. Even if I get scolded, I have to write out what I have in mind!

“I can sense that this idea would be the brightest moment of my writing career!” Cui Geng switched the computer on and created a new document. Then, he quickly wrote out his idea.

“Even at its best, a story set in the city would not be as good as traditional Xuanhuan and Xianxia stories. Still, there’ll probably be many readers. It’ll be a hot topic for sure.”

“However… at the moment, most stories set in the city are interesting because they’re about mindless boasting and romance, with powerful soldiers and campus flowers as the protagonists.

“That’s not quite my style.

“I can’t write about mindless boasting, and I can’t come across as preachy because that would not match the uniqueness of this idea.

“That’s why I’m going to write a story with a humorous tone.

“I won’t make readers just feel good like they normally would. Instead, I will make them feel like God-in control of everything…”

As Cui Geng brainstormed, he quickly thought of a pretty good framework for the novel.

It would be called The Butterfly Game.

He had not thought of a name for the protagonist yet. In any case, he would just be a tool.

The protagonist would be sitting at home one day, slacking. All of a sudden, a system would drop from above. A blue ball of light would smash him in his head and merge together with him.

The protagonist would subsequently realize that he could summon the light ball whenever he wanted. Through the light ball, he could even observe everything that was happening in a parallel world.

The light ball would contain a game called ‘The Butterfly Game’. The inspiration for that name came from ‘the butterfly effect’.

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The protagonist would not be the creator of that parallel world.

He would have certain powers in the game, but he would only be able to make relatively superficial changes in the parallel world. He would be just like a butterfly, gently fluttering its wings in the Amazon jungle.

The aim of the game would be to cause the biggest effect on the people and things in the game through a chain reaction to these superficial changes.

At the end, the game would measure the effect caused by the protagonist and grade him. He would then be rewarded according to that grade.

As the cycle continued, the protagonist would get more and more powers, and his area of influence would increase.

Thus, the protagonist would keep causing butterfly effects. Many people would begin realizing their dreams in that world due to a freak combination of factors.

Cui Geng had even thought about how to write the first scene in the beginning.

He would start with an independent game designer, who would be destitute and dejected… but never gave up on his dreams.

Since this game designer would be destitute and dejected, he would create a very simple and stripped-down game. However, it would be filled with sincerity.

Still, since he would have no money to advertise it, nobody would catch onto it. Helpless and desperate, the game designer would decide to give up on his dreams and return home to work in a factory, which his family would have found for him.

While observing the parallel world, the protagonist would notice this game designer. Thus, using his limited powers, he would find a UP Master in the game channel and then cause the UP Master to ‘accidentally’ download the game and start playing it.

The UP Master would recommend the game on his own initiative, causing it to become popular at once. From then on, things would spiral out of control. All of these would cause the game designer’s dreams to come true.

Of course, since this story was only the beginning, it would be relatively simple.

As the plot developed, the story would become more and more complicated.

For example, there would be an extremely wealthy antagonist in the book. He would be the boss of a multinational corporation, and he would love acquiring game companies all over the world if they had good reputations. He would then milk every last cent from those companies.