<h4>Chapter 386 Chapter 386: He Is Fixing Your What!?? </h4>
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A video?
Late at night in the "Alliance" headquarters office area, inside the director''s studio, a woman with light pink hair turned her head from theputer desk and adjusted her stylish sses on the bridge of her nose, looking at the message from her assistant on the phone with confusion.
She was currently busy designing the most difficult 29th and 30th floors of the Miasma Contract, working overtime for this, so at such a busy time, her assistant was still watching videos on C-Station?
In response, the assistant on the other end quickly exined, "Director Lena, this video is about the Miasma Contract you designed. It went viral on C-Station half an hour ago. The uploader used a single lineup to clear from floor 18 to 28 in one go."
"Just that?"
The pink-haired woman sipped her coffee at the desk and shifted the position of her legs, clearly unimpressed.
Clearing ten floors in one go was indeed quite impressive, but it wasn''t something to make such a big fuss about, right? Even sending her a special message about it?
Until the assistant added, "That yer perfectly cleared all of them with the highest ''S+'' rating. I also watched the video, and many of the techniques and ideas felt very novel. I thought they might be helpful for Director Lena''s future level designs, so I''m disturbing you sote."
All S+?
Hearing this, the pink-haired woman finally showed some interest. Getting to level 28 in one breath was not difficult; she could do it too, but achieving all levels with an ''S+'' rating was a different story. Even as a designer, she found it challenging. This would require not just characters training and teamposition but also skillful handling and various micro-maniptions.
With this curiosity, Lena clicked on the video sent by her assistant and began watching it carefully.
The video wasn''t long, less than 15 minutes, but the pink-haired woman at the desk ended up watching it repeatedly for over an hour before finally stopping.
"..."
Lena was quite grateful to her assistant now for letting her see this video.
Indeed, just as her assistant said, the operations and techniques of the yer in the video were truly eye-opening. Some of the ideas even coincided with what she had in mind when designing initially, giving her a sense of being on the same wavelength.
For example, terrain kills that had been ignored by many yers before, and special synergies between certain characters.
The yer''s control over the timeline and theyout of various fronts on the battlefield were also exquisite. Even as a battle rey, it felt like a cinematic experience to watch.
What made Lena frown a bit now was that the yer''s unorthodox ystyle had pioneered a "suicide flow" tactic, something that even Lena as the designer had not thought of.
To put it simply, for example, if a character''s ultimate skill has a 45-second cooldown, but their revival time after death is 37 seconds, then if they re-enter the field after reviving, they only need 5 seconds to unleash their ultimate again. Adding it up, it''s 42 seconds, which is 3 seconds faster than waiting for the normal cooldown.
Don''t underestimate these three seconds. The more challenging the situation, the more critical every second bes.
Theoretically speaking, this should be a bug, a design oversight on their part. When designing the characters initially, they didn''t consider this point.
After all, normally people would think about how to protect their characters from getting hurt by all means.
The core of the game is about the deep camaraderie between the yer, who is the "Contractor", and the contracted characters under theirmand, as they struggle to survive in the apocalypse, resist monsters, and seek hope to save the world.
But now there''s this suicide flow...
What the hell is this?
If it bes popr, it will be a big problem.
Thinking of this, Lena immediately pulled her assistant into a group to discuss a solution. In the end, they decided to have the programmers add a point to make a temporary bug-fixing hot patch, adjusting the skill cooldown to prevent yers from doing this at the source.
However, although Lena, as the director, had the power to make this decision independently for such a big matter, it was best to ask her boss, Miyuki, who was also the original founder of "Alliance".
"Director Lena, this isn''t very good, is it?" The assistant in the discussion group looked at the clock, which was almost 2 AM, and wanted to stop her.
"What''s wrong with it? Are we the only ones allowed to work overtime, and the boss can''t stay upte?" It was clear that Director Lena had a strong personality and didn''t care about any unspoken workce rules.
"But, but Director Lena, President Yuki hasn''te to thepany these past few days. I heard she had some family matters. I think we should forget it." The assistant still tried hard to dissuade her.
This time it had some effect.
Huh?
Miyuki hasn''t been to thepany recently?
Lena had been busy designing game levels and really hadn''t noticed this. Now that the assistant mentioned it, she realized there was such a thing.
However, the pink-haired woman only hesitated slightly before leaving the discussion group and decisively dialing Miyuki''s number.
Reporting the sudden situation to Miyuki as her boss was one aspect.
On the other hand...
Lena wasn''t sure, but it was like she had a kind of intuition in her heart, telling her that she had to make this call tonight. And in many cases, Lena really trusted her intuition.
Beep...
Beep beep...
Beep beep beep...
The phone rang for about ten seconds, but there was still no answer.
Just as Lena was about to give up and hang up, the call was answered.
"Hello?"
Miyuki''s voiceing from the phone sounded very soft and sticky. It was the first time Lena had heard her like this.
However, Lena didn''t pay much attention to it, thinking that she had just been woken up and was still groggy. She quickly exined with some apology:
"President, it''s Lena. I''m sorry to disturb you sote. There''s an urgent matter I wanted to report to you. Are you avable now?"
"Go on, it''s okay~ ? "
Lena: "..."
?
"President?"
Lena obviously didn''t quite understand what her President meant by "Go on, it''s okay~ ? "
But soon, Miyuki on the other end of the line also gave an exnation.
"No, it''s nothing. I was just talking to the repairman fixing the, the pipes next to me... Lena, you go ahead and say what you need to. I, I''m listening."
Fixing pipes?
The pink-haired woman nced at the electronic clock on the office desk, which showed 2:30 AM.
However, when Lena listened carefully to the background noise on Miyuki''s end, she could indeed hear some moring.
Could the reason she took time off be that her house was being renovated?
Lena didn''t think too much about it and got back to the main topic. Since her boss said it was convenient, she went on to talk about the popr video on C-Station and their subsequent decision to use a hot patch to fix it.
Miyuki on the other end of the line mostly responded with "Mm~" and "Mm-hmm~" most of the time, only offering some minor suggestions at the end that weren''t very important. Overall, she very much affirmed Lena''s decision-making.
Being affirmed and trusted by her superior like this, Lena felt she should be happy about it, in principle.
But for some reason...
After talking on the phone with Miyuki, Lena instead became more and more restless and had a very irritated feeling.
Lena herself didn''t know where the source of this feeling came from.
If she had to say...
"President, is the signal on your end not good? I keep feeling like your speech is intermittent," Lena couldn''t help but ask.
"Ah! Yes, sorry, it might be that when fixing the pipes, they bumped, hit thework cable..."
Hit thework cable?
If they hit thework cable, shouldn''t it directly disconnect, what does that have to do with poor signal?
Lena felt that something was off and began to ask with some concern in her voice, "President, is the renovation going smoothly on your end? Do you need me toe over and help?"
"Th-thank you Lena, it''ste at night now, don''te over. The pipe repairman''s skill is, um~... very good, very good~. We''re almost… done~!"
"While I''m away these days, hng~...I will leave thepany and game matters to hya~… to you Lena... Well then, I, I''ll hang up first. Thanks fohaaa~... for working hard~ ?!"
Beep...
Beep beep beep...