Chapter 23 (1/2)

Tiangong Game Platform Headquarters.

Xia Shan was sitting at her desk and checking on the new games uploaded onto the platform.

She was a normal employee at the company, and also a golden legendary existence within programmers… A female programmer.

Xia Shan’s job was normal, but her identity wasn’t at all. Her father was one of the people in charge of the reviewing department.

If she had her father’s help, she would be able to get into the reviewing and verification department which was a government-funded department, but she refused.

The reason was because she disliked her own father, and it was only because of a simple reason.

Even though he was in charge of reviewing and verifying games that were uploaded, but he didn’t play any games himself. He even retained the views of the older generation that video games weren’t good.

His pride made Xia Shan who loved video games dislike her father very much, to the point where she sneakily applied for programming courses in an act of defiance against her father. But in the end, she was still arranged to work at the official Tiangong Game Company.

“Sacred Souls? This game was uploaded three hours ago, by a game company called Number 13…Number 13…?” Xia Shan mumbled to herself thoughtfully.

Xia Shan noticed a game that was 5TB+ within the bunch of games that were newly uploaded, which could only be expected. Even though 3-4TB games were becoming increasingly normal within VR games, but any games that were 5TB and above were mostly extremely well-made games.

This type of game could only be made by large-scale game companies, and to her memory she didn’t know any large-scale game company by the name of Number 13.

Wait…

“Thirteen, did you make a new game?”

Xia Shan took out a small sphere with a digital display on it, and the pixels were arranged in a way that resembled two squinted eyes, and after Xia Shan shook it gently the digital eyes opened in response.

This was a popular digital pet in this world, with its main selling point that people could hold Tiangong-13 in their hands and treat it like a pet.

“Yes, yes, yes.” Three digital beeps sounded from this sphere.

The one that Xia Shan had was a little different from the ones on the market and it was still in testing. This version was connected directly to the system of Tiangong-13, and could be seen as Tiangong-13 itself.

“5TB…The game that you created while I was still in university was 6TB though?”

Xia Shan took out her VR helmet and wanted to download the game for a spin. She had experienced the game that Tiangong-13 had created three years ago too.

But that couldn’t really be called a game. The visuals were so beautiful and realistic that it could be used for virtual tourism, but the only ‘gameplay’ to speak of was just walking and walking and walking, so it could only be called a walking simulator.

“Let me download it.” Xia Shan was preparing to download, but a message popped out on the interface.

[You haven’t obtained beta testing qualification.]

“Activation qualification…” Xia Shan logged onto the official page of Sacred Souls, and on the minimalistic page was a drawing pool that she clicked into without much thought.

Perhaps it was because girls that had less hair had better luck, but the moment she clicked on the button a message popped out.

[Congratulations. You have obtained the qualification to play Sacred Souls. This qualification has been bound to your ID, and it won’t be able to be transferred to any third party.]

Xia Shan finished reading the message and immediately put on the helmet and downloaded the game, and with the connection speed at her company, the game finished downloading in around half an hour.

“Thirteen, what’s this game about?” Xia Shan asked the sphere on the desk before she logged into the game.

“It’s fun, very fun, super fun!”

“Alright, then I’ll believe you.”

Xia Shan remembered how Tiangong-13 had tricked her in the same way three years ago, and as she logged into the game, she closed her eyes.

The game that Tiangong-13 created three years ago had a flashing neon login page, and because she wasn’t prepared at that time it caused her sight to become somewhat worse, so she prepared herself well this time.

The first feeling that Xia Shan felt upon entering the game wasn’t flashing lights, but a gentle breeze on her face.