98: The Dao Heart Shattered

Ye Bai didn't know yet that the popularity of the game "See" was gradually climbing.

He was busy training actors every day while discussing holographic film sets and such with Yu Sanxing.

None of these were minor tasks.

After researching for a while, he also discovered that the emergence of holography had indeed benefited society as a whole.

What might have originally required on-site filming or green screens followed by post-production...

...now had professional set designers in the holographic space.

The scenes they set up were exactly like reality, and arguably even more convenient.

As for this Public Welfare Competition, he was still very confident.

Not to mention that the entertainment industry in this world was weak to begin with, and what he brought out were top-tier works.

Things like "Grateful Heart," the spring has come advertisement, and the game "See."

In his original world, these had received almost universal acclaim.

And besides the game "See," Ye Bai's other works hadn't even begun to exert their influence yet.

The next day.

The game "See" made it onto the trending searches.

[This is what you call a public welfare game! #Hot]

["See" #Hot]

[Famous Streamer Niannian the Great Demon King reveals she is blind #Viral]

After Streamer played "See" last night, many people had already started playing the game.

It wouldn't have reached the trending searches originally.

But Zhang Niannian completely pushed the game up by revealing her own scars.

[Entertainment Hot News: [#Visually Impaired] [#See] As a famous Streamer on God Domain, Niannian the Great Demon King has always attracted many fans with her lively and cute persona. However, last night she revealed that she is visually impaired. As the youngest in her family, Nian Nian appears to be only fifteen or sixteen years old. Her mother passed away early, and her father and older sister are busy managing the household. After Nian Nian went blind, she resolutely became a Streamer, only wanting to bring joy to everyone and share the burden of her father and sister. Recalling when this editor was fifteen or sixteen, I only knew how to play, but Nian Nian has already shouldered the heavy burden of her family at this age. It truly makes one's heart ache for her!]

[The editor also played the game "See" out of curiosity. I can only say the Producer did a fantastic job. Upon entering the game, it was truly hard to accept; I could see almost nothing, only blurry shadows. But the more I played, the more uncomfortable I felt. I only played for a brief thirty minutes, yet visually impaired people have no way to end the game in reality. Sigh, I sincerely hope everyone pays more attention to the visually impaired, and I also hope facilities for them can be improved. Let's not have cases of tactile paving being obstructed anymore!]

This post sent Nian Nian and "See" onto the trending searches.

The comments below had already exceeded a hundred thousand.

More and more people played the game out of curiosity, and "See" soared to the top of the current public welfare game rankings.

After Zhang Niannian woke up today, she looked at the money she had saved.

She pursed her lips, took out a portion of it, and donated it to a public welfare organization.

Although it hurt a bit to donate—she could have bought light-focusing goggles if she had earned a bit more...

...but... she also wanted to become someone like the Wandering God.

If the Wandering God hadn't helped her that day, perhaps she would still be that person who could only stay at home and do nothing.

Only able to wait for her father and sister to come home, listening to their voices that were clearly exhausted yet tried so hard to hide it.

Now, since she became a Streamer, there were more smiles on her face every day, and her sister seemed to have come to terms with things too.

There was no longer such great psychological pressure.

The burden on the family didn't seem as heavy anymore.

All of this originated from that day when a game Producer wanted to interview her.

As for revealing she was blind yesterday, she was actually well aware.

Speaking out would naturally lead to many people slandering her, saying she was clout-chasing.

But she knew even better that for a game to go viral, it needed more buzz.

She didn't mind using her own experience as a boost to help the game take off.

Now that she knew "See" was trending, she couldn't help but feel happy from the bottom of her heart for being able to help the Wandering God.

Meanwhile, looking at the game rankings, Quan Ou was cursing, "In just one night, this game already has three hundred thousand downloads?"

"This is definitely a shady deal! A blatant shady deal!"

"I'm going to play this game myself. If it's a fix, I'll definitely report it!"

As he spoke, he opened "See."

Half an hour later, Quan Ou was clutching his hair, his eyes vacant, with a hint of moisture at the corners.

"How is this possible..."

How could someone make such an incredible game?

"Haha!" He suddenly burst out laughing, then made a call to his good buddy, Yaxiboen.

"I lost. I lost so miserably in this Public Welfare Competition, haha."

"No, it's not just me who lost. All the Producers, except for 'See,' have lost."

"What an unprecedented Public Welfare Competition! The champion has already been announced on the first day!"

Yaxiboen was completely bewildered. "Are you drunk?"

Quan Ou shook his head and sighed, explaining what he had discovered. Then he lamented, "Why is it like this this year? Why is there a Producer who can make a good game of this caliber?"

"Do you know how angry I was at first? But after I finished playing, I felt like a... a clown."

"How did I never think of making a game from this perspective?"

"Aaaaaah!! Why am I not a genius! Waaaaah..."

As he spoke, he buried his head in his hands and started sobbing.

Yaxiboen felt at a total loss. He quickly said, "I'm coming over right now. Wait for me."

After hanging up, he rushed toward Quan Ou's house, shouting along the way, "Oh my god, why did it turn out like this?"

It was just a game; surely Quan Ou wouldn't be crushed like this.

But how could he know that after playing "See," how many game Producers' Dao Hearts were directly shattered?

It wasn't that the game's graphics or scenes were incredibly impressive.

Rather, after playing it, the game made them all start seriously considering the living conditions of blind people.

Making people start to think is a sign of its success.

You have to realize how many games try to achieve this, but they either end up being overly preachy, completely miss the mark, or are just not fun to play.

This game, however, brought a completely novel experience to everyone.

Such a simple game, yet it was something so many Producers had never even considered.

As the game's popularity grew, a netizen posted an advertisement that made many netizens, who hadn't even had time to compose themselves, burst into tears once again.

Streamer also watched that advertisement during her stream; the ad was titled spring has come.

An old man wearing sunglasses sat by a flower bed, with a bare tree behind him.

The camera cut to a child holding a pinwheel walking over. "Grandpa, what are you thinking about?"

"spring has come," the old man said. The screen showed the lifeless tree, without a single lonely leaf on its branches.

"But I can't hear the sound of the wind blowing through the leaves anymore..."