Interstellar Travel: Becoming a Dress-Up Game Designer

Chapter 68

After reading the announcement, players excitedly rushed to the studio's account, eager to see the physical prizes given away in this event.

Five million gifts in total! Just thinking about it is so exciting. Maybe one of them will be one of so many people.

The prizes are tiered, with the top 200 being velvet flowers and birds, practice pieces by the artisans at Qingfengyi Crafts. Most are small ornaments like pearl birds, not hair ornaments; each little bird is adorably cute and brightly colored. Occasionally, various small flowers are added as embellishments, mostly single blooms, giving them a fresh and delicate feel.

The list of 200 entries clearly states that none of them are by Lin Shuying. She doesn't even have enough to sell, so giving them away as freebies is really going too far.

The boss is willing to give up the employees, but the employees are reluctant to give up the employees.

The second tier jumps directly to the top one million players, featuring very simple earring designs. Considering that most people in the interstellar community don't pierce their ears, only 100,000 pairs are pierced earrings, the rest are clip-on earrings.

Many of these are simple earrings made of gemstone petals, leaves, teardrops, and a small bead strung together. Enthusiasts can easily make them themselves by buying the necessary materials; you can now buy craft kits that include the materials and instructions.

All are officially licensed collaborations with Qingfengyi.

Lin Shuying is now living off her savings and can't even spend it all. She often sighs when looking at her accounts:

No wonder so many big companies in the past loved to play with IPs, merchandise, collaborations, and similar products—it was incredibly profitable!

You can make a lot of money without having to pay much in production, management, or operation costs.

Players who spend between two and four million will receive velvet flower earrings. The material is not as expensive as gemstones, and the designs are simple and machine-made. For example, feathers, leaves, or small red flowers. The machine holds a copper wire, hangs fine velvet on it, combs it, and then twists it.

It can produce hundreds of meters of velvet strips at a time. The velvet strips are placed into the cutting mold, and tens of thousands of identical strips are produced by cutting.

However, the products made this way are generally not very refined and require secondary identification by robots to remove defective items. Finally, manual quality checks are conducted, and only those that pass the checks will proceed to the packaging stage.

The last million players received molded flower earrings, which are simpler to make, but their texture and materials are not as good as the previous ones.

However, even if Lin Shu-ying's designs are good-looking, she can still force the quality to look high despite the poor materials.

Each one has a sample that has been photographed, with more than two hundred styles, all of which are Chinese-style designs.

Players are determined to go all out for these beautiful earrings!

"Ahhh, the maker of Qingfengyi has such skillful hands! Why can't I make something like this? Waaaaah!"

"This is what I made. It's supposed to be a Qingfengyi design, so why does mine look like this? Waaaaah! I suspect the materials supplier cheated me!"

"Upstairs, you should doubt your own hands. Go watch the video; the material supplier provided Qingfengyi's purchase receipts, and Qingfengyi acknowledged them."

"Ugh, look at the DIY kit I bought! What the heck? (Picture attached)"

'Hahaha, we all need a designer like Lin to guide us step by step.'

'Never mind, if I can't handle it myself, I'll handle the welfare portion! Charge! Game, here I come!'

After entering the game, players start farming like crazy.

Players who don't want to waste time farming have also discovered a new way to play – burning incense for the God of Wealth.

This is the route for players who spend money on in-game purchases. All they need to do is go to the shop and bring home a statue of the God of Wealth, and then burn incense every day.

The limit is ten high-grade incense sticks per day. Each high-grade incense stick can burn for three hours. During this time, you will continuously accumulate favorability and occasionally receive red envelopes.

The pay-to-win route isn't very favorable for rankings, getting red envelopes or items; it's mainly about building up favorability to get mounts.

However, no players have discovered the hidden page for mounts yet. They simply glance at the announcements in the server area and leave. Seeing that the red envelopes are dropping less frequently, they gradually stop refreshing them.

It's better to go out and encounter NPCs to unlock story collections.

However, some wealthy players manage to do both: they must cultivate the land and burn incense.

They carefully studied the details of the activity and the probability of winning red envelopes. They found that planting flowers with a longer growing time had a higher probability of winning red envelopes, but it required cutting them down repeatedly, which felt like a loss. Trees and flowers, on the other hand, had a very long lifespan.

But you can do a lot of things while you're waiting...

The detailed description of the hidden mount was posted on a separate announcement page, yet no one discovered it even three days after the event started.

Until the lucky leader of the Bird Alliance accidentally stumbled upon this page, where three large golden question marks caught his eye.

"Family members, what is this? Does anyone know?"

Players who hadn't looked closely replied directly: "The two guardians haven't been unlocked yet."

Currently, only two guardians are in this unlocked state.

The leader of the Bird Alliance recorded a video with three super-hidden golden question marks, indicating that he is not a protector.

She also specifically emphasized that the new feature is the hiding of activities.

"What! There are rare hidden treasures in this event? I need to check it out!"

"Is there a more detailed explanation?"

The leader of the Bird Alliance swiped several times, but found nothing. There was only a strategy guide, indicating it was a hidden feature of the God of Wealth event.

"This strategy is interesting! Burning incense, sending red envelopes, or taking on challenges? You can choose any of these three methods to get the rewards, and you can get them repeatedly."

At this time, many players came to the guild, opened this page and studied it carefully, sharing their opinions on the world channel while thinking about it.

"Is there still a challenge?"

"You can only challenge the God of Wealth, the one riding the black tiger. But what does it mean to let him have his fill of beating him?"

"They're not going to find us and then lie on the ground and let us beat them up, are they?"

"...What a unique idea upstairs."

"I'm good at this. It's my standard strategy when challenging ghost soldiers: when I get tired, I lie down and wait to be taken away, hahaha."

A player from Zhilan Mountain happened to encounter the God of Wealth wearing armor, and immediately ran up to him and lay down, intending to verify the method of lying down to let him hit him.

The God of Wealth paused for a moment, then said with a smile, "You lay down on your own, I didn't bump into you."

He then patted the black tiger on the back, bypassed the player, and continued walking forward.

As he walked, he muttered to himself, "What a fine young man could do, running around trying to scam people, tsk tsk."

The player was a little embarrassed. He got up and chased after him, asking, "How can I get the item from you?"

God of Wealth: "You want money?"

He then pulled a handful of copper coins from his pocket and threw them at the player, saying, "Pick them up."

The player was speechless. No wonder he's the God of Wealth; he showers people with money as soon as he sees them. It fits the character perfectly.

"I want to hide it."

God of Wealth: "What's hidden?"

The player thought for a moment and realized that there were very few online mission-based games like this in the StarCraft genre, and he wasn't quite sure how to get started.

Unlike PC games and mobile games where you click to pop up dialogue, holographic games require you to ask questions that fall within the scope of the intelligent matching to unlock them; otherwise, NPCs can chatter with players all day long.

"what do you want to do?"

The God of Wealth's intelligent module understood this, and he touched the long golden whip in his hand, saying, "It's been a few days since I've had a chance to practice with an expert. If you know any kung fu, young friend, would you be willing to have a match with me?"

Forehead........

The player was a little confused; was a fight about to break out?

Sure!

He's one of the best combat players, a pro who can at least drag three ghost soldiers away.

But let me ask a few questions first: "Won't the heavenly soldiers capture me?"

Fighting is fine, but getting all that bad luck is not; the event is very much dependent on luck.

The God of Wealth laughed heartily: "Although I, Zhao Gongming, am just a minor deity, my incense offerings are quite prosperous, so it's no problem for the Heavenly Court to give me some face. Besides, I started the duel first, so come on, come on. If you win, I'll give you some fine treasures."

The player felt relieved and charged forward with the Ink Chrysanthemum Sword in hand.

The God of Wealth sent him back to his homeland with a single golden whip, leaving the players completely bewildered.

That's it?

He hasn't even touched the hem of the God of Wealth's robe yet!

After being resurrected, a gold ingot dropped from his body. He picked it up, and a message popped up: "The God of Wealth's ingot, but you're too weak, so you only get one."

The player was furious, put away the gold ingots, and stormed out.

This player then focused on finding the God of Wealth. The God of Wealth wearing armor is relatively rare to encounter, with the highest probability of appearing in Zhilan Mountain. However, with hundreds of thousands of servers across the entire game, it is indeed very difficult to find one.

He shared his extraordinary experience in the chat channel, and soon players from the Killing Pavilion contacted him, inviting him to join. That's how this player ended up in Qingfengyi's most unlucky player pavilion...

The bad luck is contagious to teammates. As soon as he entered the room, a dark, oppressive aura of bad luck hit you, scaring you to death.

Especially the Slaughter Ancestor, whose aura wasn't just bad luck, but malevolent energy.

How many NPCs do you have to challenge to train this kind of bad luck?

It no longer affects his luck; in fact, it enhances it!

The Slaughter Ancestor wasn't interested in the God of Wealth; he only wanted to summon the White Impermanence and Erlang Shen.

The conditions for Bai Wuchang's appearance are currently unknown; he did not appear even after players ganged up on and killed his subordinates.

As for Erlang Shen, he can't defeat the Heavenly Soldiers yet because their weapons are too powerful.

Armor too.

The player only has one usable weapon, the Ink Chrysanthemum Sword. The homemade wooden weapon is too poor; it can be shattered by the NPC's internal energy or magic when you get close.

While the players were having a blast, Qingfengyi Studio prepared all the prizes for the second tier and below, and spent four days checking them all to ensure there were no damaged or defective items.

As a boutique customization studio, this kind of mistake cannot be made; even gifts must be guaranteed to be intact.

This is the foundation of a business. Although many companies in Lin Shuying's previous life had abandoned these qualities, she insisted on sticking to them.

Thirteen people work on this for eight hours a day, and Lin Shuying can check five or six people per second. She grabs one with one hand, glances at it, and that's it.

The others took out the things she had checked and found that there really was no problem!

"Boss, your typing speed is just too incredible."

Lin Shuying said, "Practice makes perfect."

The hand speed of operating the sewing machine is very fast.

With frequent practice, you can easily spot what's wrong and what's not good enough.

This is based on experience.

Even after the robot inspected everything, tens of thousands of defective items were still found. Fortunately, an extra 200,000 items were made this time.

Lin Qiaoqiao asked, "Boss, where should we send the rest of the food?"

Lin Shuying said, "Keep the damaged or flawed parts, disassemble them into smaller components, and use them to add to things later. As for the extras... are there any charitable organizations in interstellar space?"