The second season of the "Lord of Mysteries" anime, "The Faceless Man," started airing in January 2106 and lasted for more than half a year before it came to an end.
But now let’s go back in time, let’s go back to the Spring Festival period in February 2106. During this period, many events worth mentioning also happened.
The first is Liegui Company, one of the four wholly-owned subsidiaries of Qingyu. Since announcing the project to develop a new product in May last year, there is finally further news.
As an online game, "Ghost Hunter" has inevitably gradually lost most of its vitality after more than three years of operation.
Therefore, Ghost Hunters, which was still a studio before and has now become an independent company, has already begun to produce game works that are ready to take over.
Regarding the new online game that will succeed "Ghost Hunter", the public does not know any other information except that it is called "Epic of Life".
When the name of the game "Epic of Life" was just announced on the forum, it triggered a curious discussion among players.
The main reason is that just from these 5 words, I really can't tell what the theme of the game is, so I can only develop my own imagination and start making random guesses.
Among these random guessing posts, the most popular and recognized one is Nebula, which started with the theme of the previous game of Ghost Hunt.
I think that since Ghost Hunting Company has successfully achieved success with "Ghost Hunter" before, it should not rashly change the subject matter that it is good at and set foot in a field that it has never touched before.
But on the other hand, we also take into account that Qingyu is a company that is unique in its characteristics, so we cannot directly and arbitrarily conclude that Ghost Hunt will copy the successful old path and make a purely traditional gun battle online game.
In summary, Nebula combined with the game name "Epic of Life", speculated that the new game may be a gun battle online game with a magical color.
Perhaps in "The Epic of Life", players, as a group of gunmen, can also control the powers derived from life. The theme of the story revolves around this group of supernatural gunmen, so the game is called "The Epic of Life".
Xingyun's post on the forum speculated about "The Epic of Life" and even affected Dai Wenquan's old rival Ren Jiafu. He formally combined this speculation and decided to develop an online game "of the same type" as "The Epic of Life" to compete in the competition.
The game proposed by Ren Jiafu is called "The Lost Soul". It is the first large-scale online game developed by the Jiafu Game Company he founded since it received angel investment.
After the Jiafu Company established the project, it was not as silent as the Ghost Hunters. Apart from a name and type, no other information was disclosed.
It can be said that in order to increase its own popularity, "Dead Spirits" has a small news every three days and a big news every five days, whetting the appetite of players who pay attention to the game.
The theme of this game is also very attractive. It is generally a battle between paleontological protection organizations and poaching organizations in the future where time travel technology has been invented.
Since it is a future science fiction game, the characters are naturally focused on gunfights. In addition, due to its own theme, it can also add a lot of paleontological content, which has successfully attracted the attention of many players in a unique way.
After more than half a year of development, "Dead Spirits" is actually ready for public beta and server launch.
However, Ren Jiafu has been delaying this step. On the principle that the game needs to be improved, he has repeatedly delayed the launch of the "Dead Spirits" server.
So why does Ren Jiafu have to do this? In fact, the reason is very simple, it is to let "Dead Spirit" and "Epic of Life" be launched in the same month, so as to compete with each other to complete the suppression.
For the shareholders of Jiafu Game Company, this kind of operation can be said to be lacking in virtue. You must know that in terms of funds, compared with Jiafu and Qingyu, they are in the sky and on the earth.
After all, Qingyu Company has been established for 4 or 5 years, and has also launched a popular online game "Ghost Hunter". The company's revenue can be said to be considerable.
But Jiafu Game Company is different. Their previous business was just some small games. They can only be said to have great potential, but they cannot be said to have made any big money.
In this case, if you are quarreling with Qingyu Company, aren't you deliberately trying to make yourself uncomfortable? So in the eyes of those investors, this kind of thing is completely unnecessary.
However, compared to a company boss, Ren Jiafu has always been more of a geek, with a geek style that few bosses have.
He fell down with Qingyu Company in the past, so he must make amends with Qingyu Company today, otherwise it will make his thoughts unclear.
So Ren Jiafu has been procrastinating like this, hoping that one day his "Dead Spirit" can beat Zhong Shanze's "Epic of Life" head-on in the game market.
In fact, only people like Ren Jiafu are still obsessed with "The Epic of Life", and none of the players on the forum are so active.
After all, this game only announced its name and theme, and there was no other information other than that. After a few points were discussed over and over again, the popularity on the forum naturally began to decline.
It took several months for the popularity to drop. Basically, only those die-hard fans would stay on the forum and follow the latest developments of the game every day.
When players almost forgot that there was a game called "Epic of Life", the game trailer CG was finally released in February 2106, allowing the public to see its true face.
As an ordinary college student, Xingyun's most popular post was that of the one on the forum who swore that "The Epic of Life" was about a fantasy gun battle.
As a result, he hadn't even officially started yet. He was watching the trailer CG for "The Epic of Life", and the cover of the video alone made his heart skip a beat.
Although the video cover cannot provide much information, as a literary master, I can still see from it that it is consistent with my guess, that is, it is unlikely that "The Epic of Life" is a fantasy gun battle-themed game.
In an instant, Xingyun's heart was filled with bitterness. He recalled an unsightly past in his high school days, which was all caused by ghost hunting.
After the song "Corpse Bird" was released in the suspicion mode of "Ghost Hunter", he was one of those "literary masters". His analysis of the lyrics was very clear, and everyone already knew the result.
Although their analysis was not completely useless, Zhong Shanze later took him to his own world of invitees and conducted the collective final battle of the invitees, but this was not of any comfort to Nebula.
As a result, he encountered the same humiliation in the same company a few years later. At that moment, Nebula almost wanted to put this company on his blacklist.
