Giving Interstellar Players a Horror Ghost Game Shock - Chapter 68
Liu Yuling wasn’t surprised at all by the invitation to join.
She downed the rest of her coffee and set the cup down lightly on the table.
“I’ve been meaning to say this—why do you still call me ‘Senior Liu’? We know each other so well by now. Can’t you just call me by my name?”
Ye Yuxi was stunned for a second, but then she quickly caught on. Delighted, she grabbed Liu Yuling’s hand.
“Yuling! Please, join me! Let’s rebuild the glory of horror games together—I promise you’ll live the good life!”
Liu Yuling pretended to think it over, but she barely lasted a second before breaking into laughter.
“Sounds promising. I’m in.”
Ye Yuxi cheered and gave Liu Yuling’s hand a few enthusiastic shakes.
“Great! Then I’ll leave the studio location, renovations, and all the paperwork to you!”
Liu Yuling’s hand twitched. She looked both amused and exasperated.
“So you just wanted someone to handle all the busywork for you, huh?!”
Ye Yuxi quickly reassured her, “Don’t worry! I won’t shortchange you! Your monthly salary will be this much!”
She gestured with her hands, and Liu Yuling’s composure instantly shattered.
“Wait, are you serious? This salary…?”
It was way above the market rate.
Ye Yuxi nodded firmly. “Of course! You deserve it, Yuling. You’re doing so much! Plus, we’re counting on you for all the studio’s network infrastructure too!”
With her first official teammate secured, Ye Yuxi suddenly became much more attentive.
She had originally wanted to check on Liu Yuling—after all, she had stayed up all night playing the game to help promote it.
But then she remembered what Liu Yuling looked like without her glasses. Her gaze landed on her friend’s face, peering past the lenses.
“By the way, Yuling… you look surprisingly well-rested today?”
They had both stayed up all night—so why did Liu Yuling look perfectly fine, while she herself felt like she’d been completely drained?
Liu Yuling touched her own face.
She was used to getting dark circles whenever she lost sleep.
When she woke up today, she had expected to look like a panda again and was planning to cover it up—but to her surprise, her skin looked fine, and she actually felt refreshed.
“I was surprised too. Now that I think about it, even though I got scared a lot in the game, I didn’t feel any lingering stress afterward. In fact, it was almost like getting a massage—I feel completely refreshed.”
Ye Yuxi was momentarily stunned, then suddenly realized something.
In this era, entertainment wasn’t just for fun—it also helped people release excess psychic energy.
Now that she thought about it, her game was strangely stress-relieving. After all, what could be more cathartic than getting scared out of your mind?
A horror game perfectly suited for interstellar-era players!
Feeling proud, she clapped Liu Yuling on the shoulder, ready to rope her into working even harder—when suddenly, her neural interface chimed with a notification.
She quickly pulled up her screen and saw a message from her designer account.
**[LuoDiChengHe]: Teacher, first of all, congratulations on the great launch of Residential Area Battle Royale! Our CEO, Mr. Lin, is very impressed with a talented designer like you and would love to meet you.
So, when would you be available to visit the headquarters? We’ll cover all your travel and accommodation expenses. This is a formal invitation!”**
Ye Yuxi raised an eyebrow. She shot Liu Yuling a quick apology before replying.
[Miss Ye]: On my way.
[LuoDiChengHe]: ! Teacher, no rush! You just finished a new game—take a couple of days to rest first! Mr. Lin said there’s no hurry. It’s completely up to your schedule!”
[Miss Ye]: I’m not in a hurry—I just feel like today is a good day to go.
Besides, the headquarters of Doudou was located on Blue Ocean Star, a planet famous for game design. It would take less than two hours by car—so why not?
Oh, right! Ye Yuxi’s eyes suddenly lit up.
“Yuling, how about I ask Doudou if you can come with me? Since you’re one of the founding members of my studio now, shouldn’t a top designer bring at least one of their own people when heading out?”
Liu Yuling shook her head firmly.
“No way, we haven’t even properly set things up yet. You go on ahead—I’ll check out potential studio locations for us. Since you’re paying such a high salary, I’d better start working hard, right?”
Ye Yuxi was touched. “Bestie, I’m treating you to a meal later!”
Once Ye Yuxi left, Liu Yuling also had things to take care of.
She thought for a moment, then returned to her room, took off her glasses, changed clothes, and headed out.
A faint blue light flickered across the lenses.
It was a message notification on her neural interface, which had been automatically folded away. Since she hadn’t opened it yet, it was projected onto her glasses.
[β]: Miss Liu, regarding some of the incidents that occurred during your Residential Area Battle Royale livestream yesterday, we would like to get in touch with you for more details.
If you don’t mind, we would also like to take you to the Central Hospital for a check-up.
We suspect that Miss Ye may have used a strictly prohibited…
Since Liu Yuling hadn’t opened the message, the projection dimmed, hiding the last sentence.
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Ye Yuxi took the dedicated hovercar that Doudou had arranged for her. It flew along a specialized track, and sure enough, she arrived at the game tech incubator park in just over an hour.
As she sat in the car, she glanced at the empty driver’s seat and the fully automated controls beside her. She felt an itch to switch to manual mode.
But she didn’t want to risk damaging company property, so she reluctantly gave up.
She wasn’t the same as before—she had a studio to run now. Every star coin had to be spent wisely.
Upon arriving at Doudou’s headquarters, she was quickly led upstairs to the CEO’s private reception room.
“My apologies, Teacher. President Lin is dealing with an urgent matter and will be here shortly,” the assistant said.
The young woman seemed a little nervous. When she poured tea for Ye Yuxi, her hands slipped, and some spilled over the table.
She forced a smile and pretended nothing had happened, promptly summoning a service robot to handle the tea instead.
Ye Yuxi glanced at the assistant’s chest—clean and badge-free. She simply smiled and didn’t touch the tea.
After a while, the girl seemed unable to sit still. She suddenly stood up and strode toward Ye Yuxi.
Finally running out of patience?
Ye Yuxi tensed slightly but kept her expression calm, ready to show off her lightning-fast reflexes as a designer if the girl tried anything.
The assistant charged up to her with a determined expression and then—
Bowed at a perfect 90-degree angle and shouted:
“Miss Ye! I—I’m a huge fan! Can I have your autograph?!”
“…Huh?!”
Ye Yuxi almost choked on her own saliva.
That’s it? That’s all you wanted? This is completely different from what I expected!