Chapter 68:
The influence of internet celebrities is sometimes even more terrifying than you imagine!
With ten million fans, if even 1% listen to your call to action, you can still make a fortune, right?
The worry on Da Wei's face disappeared. He smiled and asked Tang Yu: "Boss, what do you think is a good price to sell our game at?"
Sell for money?
Tang Yu looked at Da Wei with a face full of question marks. "Sell what money? Our game is free."
"Ah?"
Da Wei's mouth hung wide open. Now it was his turn to be full of question marks.
Everyone else also looked at Tang Yu with puzzled expressions.
Not selling for money?
Are you doing charity here?
No one could help but feel confused.
In this world, all games were buy-to-play. Free games had never existed before!
Seeing the confusion on everyone's faces, Tang Yu chuckled and said: "I'm not doing charity, but have you ever heard this saying?"
Everyone shook their heads together.
The corner of Tang Yu's mouth curled up. "The free ones are the most expensive."
"We'll use the free-to-play gimmick to attract users, then charge through a gacha system inside the game."
"The gacha can be divided into several tiers. The highest tier is 648 Xia Country coins per pull, then 328, and so on."
648 Xia Country coins?
Da Wei and the others all sucked in a cold breath.
Normally, a game's buy-to-play price was between 100 to 200 coins.
One single gacha pull here could buy three or four full games!
This…
Only an idiot would pull, right?!
They had originally thought Tang Yu's idea was very good.
But after hearing the price, they instantly lost confidence.
Expensive!
Way too expensive!
Tang Yu saw their expressions and could guess what they were thinking.
But he didn't want to explain too much.
Once the game officially launched, they would understand the charm of gacha.
After leaving miHoYo, Tang Yu didn't go home. Instead, he headed to Wangsheng Hall.
He hadn't seen Hu Tao for several days.
With Genshin Impact about to launch, he needed Hu Tao to cooperate with him in shooting a short video for pre-heating promotion.
Half an hour later, Tang Yu parked his car outside Wangsheng Alley and walked in.
Compared to before, Wangsheng Alley was no longer as eerie.
But walking inside still sent a chill down his back.
"Hu Tao, where are you?" After entering Wangsheng Hall, Tang Yu found no one at the front desk, so he called out loudly.
There was no response.
It was noon, twelve o'clock. Where had Hu Tao gone?
If she went out, she should have closed the door!
With some confusion, Tang Yu walked toward the back hall of Wangsheng Hall.
The back hall was where the coffins were placed.
The moment he entered, Tang Yu saw rows of neatly arranged coffins.
For some reason, he suddenly felt his body turn ice-cold.
"Hu Tao, are you here?" Tang Yu didn't walk into the coffin area. He shouted from the doorway.
Still no response.
"Whatever! Since no one's here, I'll head back first." Tang Yu thought to himself and turned to leave.
At that moment, a "creak" sound came from behind him.
It was the sound of a coffin board moving.
His body instantly stiffened.
There were coffins behind him — could there be corpses inside?
And they were coming back to life?
The more Tang Yu thought about it, the more scared he became. "Don't come after me. I'm just passing by. Go find Hu Tao instead."
He muttered under his breath and carefully walked forward.
From beginning to end, he didn't dare turn his head once.
Then, at that moment — "Bang!"
The coffin board behind him was pushed open and fell to the ground.
Tang Yu shuddered in fright and quickly quickened his steps.
"Where are you going!" A familiar voice came from behind.
He turned his head and saw Hu Tao climbing out of the coffin.
Tang Yu: "....."
"Where are you going?" Hu Tao stood up from the coffin and waved at Tang Yu.
Seeing it was Hu Tao, the tension in Tang Yu's heart finally eased.
He walked over, lifted her out of the coffin.
"You… why do you sleep inside a coffin?" Tang Yu rolled his eyes at Hu Tao and said grumpily.
He really couldn't understand this girl's hobby.
Hu Tao tilted her head indifferently. "Coffins are pretty nice! After we die, we'll all have to sleep in one eventually. I'm just getting some early experience."
Tang Yu found Hu Tao's reasoning surprisingly sound.
For a moment, he couldn't find any words to refute her.
Hu Tao tugged at the corner of Tang Yu's clothes and said with a mischievous smile: "Tang Yu, what did you come to find me for?"
Tang Yu thought for a moment and said: "Genshin Impact is about to launch. The Hu Tao in the game is based on you, so I want you to do the voice acting for her. Of course, you also need to help me shoot a short video later to promote the game."
"Oh!" Hu Tao's smile disappeared, and her face turned expressionless.
Seeing that Hu Tao seemed unhappy, Tang Yu frowned and asked: "What's wrong?"
Hu Tao turned her head away, refusing to look at him.
This left Tang Yu completely confused!
Why did she suddenly get angry for no reason?
"Hu Tao, what happened? Did I make you angry?" Tang Yu grabbed Hu Tao's shoulders and turned her around to face him.
Hu Tao said resentfully: "Do you still remember what you said before?"
Hearing this, Tang Yu fell into deep thought.
He racked his brains but couldn't remember what he had said.
"Hmph!" Seeing that Tang Yu still hadn't remembered,
anger appeared on Hu Tao's face. She broke free from Tang Yu, flipped back into the coffin.
"Trouble you to close the coffin lid for me. I'll do the voice acting with Silver Wolf tonight when I get back."
Tang Yu: "...."
Looking at Hu Tao lying in the coffin, he suddenly remembered what he had once said.
But…
That was just a joke!
This girl actually took it seriously?
"I remembered, Hu Tao. I'm sorry." Tang Yu lowered his head to look at Hu Tao in the coffin and smiled.
After saying that, he flipped himself into the coffin as well.
Because the space was too small, Tang Yu and Hu Tao could only lie on their sides.
But that was fine too — the position was perfect, and the equipment was immediately deployed!
The bitter tea seeds were thrown out.
After that, the coffin began making indescribable shaking noises.
"Creak… creak… creak!"
This sound added a strange, eerie atmosphere to the originally quiet Wangsheng Hall.
At that moment, a customer arrived at Wangsheng Hall.
Seeing no one at the front desk, he walked to the back hall.
The next second, he was so scared that he wet himself and ran away in panic.
In the middle of the coffin rows, one coffin was shaking violently, and from time to time came the miserable cries of a young girl.
"There's a ghost!" The customer screamed and fled.
Hearing the noise, Tang Yu and Hu Tao poked their heads out of the coffin.
Seeing no one,
both of them looked a little confused.
"Did someone just scream?"
"Must have misheard! Let's continue!"
"Okay, but go slower… I can't take it."
"Alright, baby!"
"Ah!"
"..."
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