The target has been decided: Kevin Lu, one of the current professional designers of League of Legends!
This is why Lu Kaiwen came to Mingyan to ask for leave.
Mingyan chuckled and said, "Are you preparing to write a textbook?"
Lu Kaiwen blushed slightly, rubbed his hands together, and said, "I've always had a lot of ideas about teaching and nurturing students, and I've written quite a few articles on my blog, but I just haven't had the time to write a book. You see, the seventh season just ended successfully recently, and I don't have any important tasks right now..."
Mingyan patted him on the shoulder and said, "I'll approve the leave. It's nothing. Is there a replacement for the work?"
Lu Kaiwen nodded quickly and said, "Yu Bing can take over."
Yu Bing was the rookie contestant back then. Now that he has successfully completed his studies, the first thing he did was to come to Blue Star to participate in campus recruitment. Then, he was spotted by Lu Kaiwen and kept on. He is currently spending his probationary period in the League of Legends team.
Lu Kaiwen made the arrangements perfectly, and Mingyan nodded happily, saying, "Leave is granted, but not for too long. Come back as soon as you finish writing."
Hearing this, Lu Kaiwen felt that his boss valued him highly, and said happily, "Definitely, definitely."
Taking this opportunity, Mingyan also went to see Yu Bing.
Four or five years have passed in the blink of an eye, and Yu Bing has matured a lot. She is no longer the naive student who was speechless when she was challenged on the field.
He had only been interning on Blue Star for three months, but his face was beaming with happiness; anyone who didn't know him would think he was a newlywed on his honeymoon.
This is the kind of smile only a boy who has just achieved his dream can have.
He remains a huge fan of Mingyan, even his phone's screensaver features the Blue Star logo and the caption, "Has Chief Designer Ming released a new game today?"
I heard that during the interview, the interviewer asked Yu Bing, "Why did you choose to come to Blue Star?"
Yu Bing, head held high and chest puffed out, said excitedly, "I've loved Blue Star since before my college entrance exam! I wanted to make games, Master Ming is my idol, and Blue Star has always been my dream. That's why I applied for a game design major, participated in the Star Show Competition after graduation, interned at the Dragon Slayer Studio, and then went on to further my studies in the Second Star Province... all for the sake of one day realizing my dream and working at Blue Star Studio!"
After he finished speaking, his words circulated among the interviewers.
"Silly kid, who says that in the final interview? In other companies, if they see someone's strong interest, they might try to lower the minimum wage."
Fortunately, Blue Star has plenty of money; they can afford the best prices and provide the best creative environment for the best game developers.
When Mingyan talked to Xia Cheng about Yu Bing, he was quite emotional, saying, "How time flies! I'm getting old, and the next generation has grown up."
Xia Cheng looked helpless and said, "You thought you were old when you first graduated. Seven years have passed, and you haven't changed at all."
Mingyan asked blankly, "Huh? Did I really say that back then?"
"You rarely smiled back then, and you always seemed so otherworldly, like an old sage." Xia Cheng's face was full of reminiscence of those difficult years. "When I went to your house to spend the Lunar New Year with you, the way you looked at Lan Xing was full of melancholy and deep thoughts. Later, I pursued you for over a year, and you had no idea about it at all!"
Mingyan said guiltily, "No way, I'm pretty cheerful and outgoing. And...and I'm not that slow-witted...right?"
Xia Cheng breathed a sigh of relief and said, "It's better this way."
The transformation happened gradually.
Mingyan used to be restless and even kept his suicide note under his pillow when he slept.
He was terrified—terrified that he would fall asleep and never wake up again, afraid that this unfamiliar world would never accept him, and perhaps even a sense of loneliness that "I am all alone on this planet."
But now, he is like a recovered patient, gradually stepping into the warm sunshine.
Xia Cheng, the conscientious nurse, was still watching Mingyan like a mother hen: "What time did you go to bed last night? Did you eat well tonight? Come to the gym with me this weekend, okay?"
Mingyan leaned against him, playing with Xia Cheng's fingers, and said, "Someone just asked me for leave today. He went to write a book. Well, anyway, the finals are over now, and the League A banquet is still a while away... I might as well give myself a break too."
Xia Cheng smiled, and with a touch of emotion, lowered his head to stroke his cheek.
After more than seven years, the old fossil has finally let go of its past and truly embraced a new life.
...
Chief Engineer Ming and her boyfriend went on vacation.
Moreover, it's said to be another wilderness survival club, and this time they went straight to the frozen wilderness in the north.
Although they maintained contact via satellite phone, they certainly wouldn't handle daily affairs during the journey, leaving everything to their deputies, assistants, and secretaries.
This month at Blue Star Studio is estimated to be the month with the lowest attendance rate ever.
Mingyan went on vacation, Lu Kaiwen went to write a book, Ling Xiaoman, realizing she had been tricked, went to "reflect on her mistakes" (go to her writing room), and Varian went to keep her elderly mother-in-law company as she suffered from severe morning sickness...
So much so that the players who brought in the little blue badges to visit were shocked to find that the offices of several big shots were completely empty.
[Shocking! Blue Star Studio, overwhelmed by AR game demands, has collectively absconded!]
[Chief Designer Ming has disappeared again. Is he planning to repeat the "miraculous two months" incident and return with 18 new game concepts?]
[The people left behind on Earth are all programmers. Is this a lack of humanity or a moral decline...?]
Schrödinger and Horace, forced to stay behind: "...Ha!"
At this stage of the game development cycle, the programmers are indeed busy working on the underlying architecture and simply can't get away.
Horace on the backend is tackling a major problem: how to randomly generate dragon eggs on the map of the Chaoyang Alliance.
The open beta of "Dragon Hunter" will at least be open to all players in the Sixth Star Province. At that time, tens of thousands of inhabited planets in thousands of star systems across the entire region will need to be able to produce dragon eggs out of thin air.
However, determining the exact location where the dragon egg will hatch requires a precise algorithm.
Ming Yan has made specific requirements: the location must be accessible to humans on foot, at a suitable altitude (neither too high nor too low), on roads posing traffic risks, in overly formal public places, in serious political environments, in restrooms (due to gender issues), and within protected cultural relics...
Based on this, in the remaining safe areas, dragon eggs will be spawned at random locations and at random times.