Chapter 15 (1/2)

Translator: Exodus Tales  Editor: Exodus Tales

Translated by Coldtaco

Edited by Aelryinth

At that moment, Chen Mo’s phone rang. The caller was a buddy from uni, Zhao Zihao.

“Hello?”

Zhao Zihao replied in a casual tone, “Chen Mo, you’re pretty good! First place in a video game designing competition? How could you leave your brothers so out of the loop?”

Chen Mo laughed, “I just settled down, there’s been too much doing on recently. How did you know?”

2Zhao Zihao said, “You’re asking me how I know? You’re going viral! The negative comments towards the judge during the competition are all over the internet!”

Chen Mo was speechless. “Huh?”

Zhao Zihao said, “You can check it out yourself. Also, are you free tonight? Us three haven’t really met up since we graduated. Coincidentally, you just got your identity as a videogame designer, and earned yourself an experience store. You better be buying us dinner!”

Chen Mo laughed, “Sure, I’ll buy us dinner. Could you get Lin Mao too?”

3Zhao Zhao replied, “Sure, it’s decided then! How about this: I’ll pick up Lin Mao, then we’ll head right over to your experience store, then grab some food. Let’s do 4pm. We’ll see you there.”

Chen Mo said, “Alright, I’ll see you then.”

In his memory in this parallel world, Chen Mo had two close buddies from university. Although the three of them were studying different areas, somehow they all entered the video game industry.

Zhao Zihao had rich parents, his family was probably involved in traditional businesses. Chen Mo wasn’t too sure about the details, all that mattered was that Zhao Zihao didn’t lack money.

However, Zhao Zihao wasn’t a video game designer. He acquired a studio for a video game guild, providing services such as boosting, gold grinding, promoting video games, and so forth.

The company wasn’t big, but the pay wasn’t low, either. Every single hire were elite gamers, they had a no pay policy if they didn’t do a good job.

These workers could also be viewed as people who were hired to play games with Zhao Zihao, the other tasks can be viewed as extra work. Nobody cared if the company was losing money, as in the end it was something Zhao Zihao had started for fun.

Chen Mo had previously heard that Zhao Zihao was considering starting a clubbing business. However, as it was a considerable investment, he had yet to decide.

Zhao Zihao didn’t give off the usual vibes of someone born with a silver spoon, as he wasn’t arrogant, spending most of his time playing video games. He would often join Chen Mo and the others at the internet cafe, and was commonly referred to as having the body of a noble, the heart of a peasant by Lin Mao, another one of Chen Mo’s buddies.

As for the other buddy, Lin Mao, he was also a video game designer like Chen Mo. He got his D-grade video game designer as soon as he graduated and was now focusing full time on designing his own games.

Among the three of them, Chen Mo studied languages, Zhao Zihao studied finances, and Lin Mao was the only one who actually graduated studying video game design.

The three of them met in the video game society in their first year and had been friends ever since. This gang was the few in this world whom Chen Mo viewed as close friends.

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When the afternoon came, Chen Mo went out to familiarize himself with the environment around the experience store. After finding a restaurant, he went inside to grab a meal.

Casually taking out his phone, he checked the news.

Indeed, many news outlets had written about what had happened at the video game design competition in their gaming section. Furthermore, there were many who participated in the discussion.

“Video game design competition concluded, the three hundred thousand prize money experience store belongs to?”

“A mysterious bird takes the crown at a video game designing competition!”

“Live audience: This is the most torturous game in history!”

“Seven hundred people three hundred and fifty hours playtime, this game is infectious!”

“Judge criticizes: Is this even a game?!”

“Flappybird designer: Judge incapable of objectivity.”

“Founder of hengyang.com strongly promotes this game.”

Chen Mo looked through the news articles, basically recounting the scene at the competition, putting emphasis on the confrontation between Shi Huazhe and Chen Mo. Obviously the journalists were trying to clickbait the article in an attempt to make it a hot topic.