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Chapter 333 - 125: Firecrackers usher out the old year, colleagues help me unfold grand plans!_1

Chapter 333: Chapter 125: Firecrackers usher out the old year, colleagues help me unfold grand plans!_1

Ultimately, Ke Jun was unable to formally discuss the matter with his siblings.

He thought he had made full psychological preparations.

But when the words came to his lips, they felt as heavy as a thousand pounds of cement sealing his throat.

Mentioning this meant he must make clear to them the issues regarding Sir Ke.

Just thinking about it weighed heavily on Ke Jun’s heart.

The shadows of childhood memories pressed down on him like a nightmare, making him unable to speak in the face of his siblings’ clear eyes.

This couldn’t help but make Ke Jun sigh deeply in his heart.

What I am afraid to confront,

Is it the game,

Or the version of myself that’s trapped in the past?

Mrs. Ke also noticed all this.

She understood too well the temperament of the man she had been with all her life.

That dust-covered past event—if he didn’t speak of it himself, the knot in his heart couldn’t be untied.

So, if he didn’t want to speak, she wouldn’t initiate the topic either.

On the contrary, the two little ones from the Ke family were on tenterhooks when they returned home.

Seeing that neither dad nor mom had said anything, they immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

After dinner and returning to their rooms, they secretly exchanged messages via voice chat.

"Scared me to death, just now dad’s hesitant expression, I thought he knew... But he just reminded me to study hard," Ke Yu patted her chest.

"I told you there was nothing to worry about. You were trembling next to me just now, what’s there to fear? As a mature man, I, your brother, have already seen through everything," said Ke Jin nonchalantly. "Dad could not possibly be interested in an art festival."

"Oh, really? I wonder who, after getting off the plane, insisted on dragging me to get a fortune told by the street-side old man, and only dared to return home after getting a great fortune, now acting all tough?"

"Aye, you little brat, have you been itching for a beating since I haven’t thrashed you for a few days?" Ke Jin suddenly roared, "Talking too much is useless, log on! Watch as my Goose Duck Kill annihilates you in minutes!"

At the same time, he began to scheme.

It was time to release a competitive game where one could go solo.

Just look at Baby Yu, how cocky she’s become!

She could be beaten when she was small, but as she grew up, not to mention she was too pretty for me to lay a hand on her.

More importantly, as the top player, you can’t lose your Chief Beauty, it’s like... I forgot the rest.

But!

If you can’t beat up your little sister in life, then there’s no joy to speak of!

If I can’t beat her offline, then we’ll compare skills online in a solo game!

I won’t stop until I make Baby Yu cry and tame her arrogant spirit!

Such a pretty face.

Looks even prettier when crying!

...

Time flies.

In the blink of an eye, the end of the year arrived.

Since the top player had participated in the art festival in advance, and thus the gaming community only began their own annual festival, the "Game Winter Festival" in early December, they had already run out of ammo, unable to squeeze out a single drop.

They could only miss out on this Winter Festival.

However, by this time, the top player was no longer the small company from a year ago, no longer needing to rely on the Winter Festival to increase their influence.

The application to become an S-level company had already been submitted and reported, although it required a period of time for procedures to be followed, still, being officially listed as an S-level game company after the New Year was a certainty.

During this period of recuperation, Ke Jin also tried out the various new titles from Blue Star at this year’s Winter Festival.

While there were still some deficiencies, it was clear that some of the small and medium-sized companies were intentionally innovating.

For example, in the B~A level company race, a 2D platform action game called "Slaying Monk Revelation" emerged as the leading title this year.

It had some of Hollow’s creativity and design infused within it.

The art style was somewhat similar, and the hit feedback was optimized through extreme subtraction.

It no longer followed the flashy visuals of traditional action games, instead being known for its cool, light, and fast gameplay.

It also integrated some background story elements into the finer details, blending Huaxia Nation’s well-known monk system with Western religious settings, creating a strong cognitive dissonance and thereby a sense of novelty.

Of course.

If it was just this, then it would appear to be nothing more than a reskinned, high-quality clone of "Hollow Knight."

The designers behind "Slaying Monk Revelation" at Cool Play Game did make some differentiated changes.

For instance, in terms of the upgrade route, it did not follow Hollow’s torture stream. The so-called upgrades in torture stream improve the player’s feel and operation, making the player stronger.

"Revelation" followed the traditional monster-killing leveling template.

It lowered the entry barrier and increased the rewards for killing monsters.

And it even incorporated microtransaction elements.

The monsters were not random, but there were many kinds of weapons to choose from at the start.

This opened up multiple weapon streams, with different weapons providing different gameplay experiences.

From these aspects, one could see that the designers of small companies indeed intended to change.

But they still retained some of the pay-to-win mechanics, unable to remove them entirely.

From Ke Jin’s full experience,

He found the most exhilarating "flying knife stream," which involves increasing the limit of flying knife projection, eventually turning it into a screen filled with flying knives annihilating the enemies, much like a thunderous fighter jet.

There was also "stick flow," where one hit stuns the monsters instantly, and after knocking them all out on the screen, a burst ignites, creating a grand feast for the graphics card.

And "penetration stream," where weapons can ignore terrain barriers and sweep to the other side of the wall, eventually allowing one to clear the screen.

These three most exhilarating streams... damn it, require card draws...

Only by drawing the corresponding weapons can you play the corresponding streams.

Moreover, some weapon upgrades continue to require drawing the "Soul of the Weapon," similar to the "destiny seat system" from Ke Jin’s previous life.