Chapter 24 Alleyway

The schedule of each year's game festival is determined. The first day is carnival day, and people coming to Santa Fe are busy with various offline gatherings, and comrades who have made life-long friendships gather together in the game. Of course, professional players also have their own feasts; the second day is the expo, which is exhibited by major game companies on this day. In a sense, the expo in the game industry's second day is equivalent to a grand press conference. Each game company and studio will produce their most satisfactory works on this day, one is to increase popularity, and the other is to thank all game enthusiasts who support them; the third day is the highlight of the game festival, the annual award ceremony, on which the annual Nebula Award will be awarded. The Nebula Award is equivalent to the Oscars to actors, and the Nobel Prize is one of the most important awards in the scientific community.

In comparison, WGA's Goblet of Fire is more than the Nebula Award, which is a very strange situation. In fact, although WGA holds great power, in addition to having some influence on the club, its personal constraints on professional players are almost zero. As the government administrative department with the least powerless government, WGA is quite embarrassing, both within the federal government and in the gaming industry. For example, ICELORD openly cursed: "You court hawks who are destined to die a bad death." Then WGA officials have since gained the nickname of court hawks. On the one hand, this is that WGA officials are indeed misconduct, and even ICELORD, who has always been laughing at, was annoyed by them. On the other hand, it also proves that WGA really has no status.

This shows that WGA has weak influence in the entire gaming industry. As the two major organizations in the gaming industry, neither WGA nor the underground gaming industry has a firm confidence. Professional players have very high freedom. Apart from the matter of principle, they are rarely bound by the terms of the organization.

For example, Visconti and TONY have been defeating WGA for three consecutive years and won the Best Game Partner Award at the Game Festival. Although the WGA bureaucrats believed it was too embarrassing and protested and put pressure on them, this award still belongs to the underground gaming industry.

Yang Hai is also very concerned about the ownership of this year's Nebula Award. In the future, those famous and legendary names will be his opponents. One is counted as one. From the league to the cup, and then to the title battle, he will definitely compete with those people as long as he debuts. In a sense, the Nebula Award means that the winning players are in full swing and are opponents that need to be paid special attention to.

He was also very interested in the press conference on the next day. The most cutting-edge technology and the most talented creativity in the game industry will gather in Santa Fe on this day. Some excellent games may even make exceptions and directly enter the Lyon Cup League competitions. If ETYPE wants to rise, it must pay enough attention to the game fair the next day.

However, the most important thing to pay attention to now is the party that TIGER invited him to in the afternoon. The most powerful group of professional players will gather together to discuss the compilation of the plug-ins of "Forgotten Continent" and "Jiuzhou Sword Immortals". This is a matter of making a lot of money. You can also say hello to the seniors in the game industry, why not do it?

Uncle King and Uncle Captain took the Imperial Hotel as their temporary hometown in Santa Fe. Although Santa Fe is crowded and prices soar, there is still some money. As for why you choose this hotel... this is Uncle King's choice. The king said that the name of the hotel is more domineering, and he felt happy when he heard it, so he chose this place.

"Hey—" TERRY was talking to Milk Tea with a smile on his face: "You are the legendary, that legendary, ahha?"

The lobby on the third floor of the Imperial Hotel was warm, but the chill emanating from the king was almost clearly visible. Seeing that TERRY had the idea of ​​hooking up with his woman, the king's eyes were red. Milk tea was indeed the best beauty, making men ecstasy and unable to extricate themselves. So whether in reality or in the game, there were always people talking to each other, trying to get the favor of beauties. In the past, when encountering such a thing, the king always treated it calmly, smiling and silently, because he would not take those people at all. He had absolute confidence in himself and was confident that his wife would not run away with others - maybe Milk tea was not the king's wife, and they had been like this for almost ten years, but overall, everyone knew that these two people were a pair.

But TERRY is different, completely different. The king did not have the confidence to defeat TERRY. When he was in college, TERRY raised his finger and seduced her two girlfriends away, which made him unable to let go. Seeing TERRY actually talking to Milk Tea with a smile, and Milk Tea was teasing other men as always, the king was really anxious this time.

TERRY also paid attention to the king's reaction. Seeing that his old rival's face turned pale, TERRY's pride in his heart... needless to say.

Milk Tea was very interested in this man who could make the king afraid of it, so she smiled and started to have a relationship with TERRY. At first, TERRY talked to Milk Tea with anger to death, but later he was a little unstoppable - the milk tea that released his charming to the fullest, making TERRY, who had been fighting for a long time, feel unable to bear it, and began to feel embarrassed in his words.

Seeing that the king was about to explode, the captain stood up in time to stop a possible conflict.

"Burke! Fred! Enough!" said the captain with a look of evil look: "If you two are here to destroy the atmosphere, I'm afraid I will have to drive you two out like I did during the graduation party."

"Graduation party?" asked Sky.

"How to drive it out?" asked the devil.

"Catch Burke's collar with his left hand," the captain glared at TERRY: "Catch Fred's collar with his right hand"--glare at the king------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The captain was rarely angry. Seeing that the captain was about to explode, TERRY and the King both honestly gave their face and gave them honesty.

"Wow, Uncle Captain, you are very strong." Yang Hai whispered from the side.

"Hehe." The captain showed off his biceps proudly: "I went out to sea to fish with my father when I was very young. If you wrestle with your arm, you can beat them with one hand."

"That's right." TERRY shrugged and said to Yang Hai: "The captain's muscle pounds are higher than the IQs of the king and me combined."

"..." The captain thought for a while and asked, "Okay, is this irony?"

Everyone laughed.

"It's been more than three hours of flight, so let's eat something first." The captain led them to the oversized ancient strip dining table and sat down, and asked, "OK, fat boy, won't you introduce your friends to me?"

BAN and Yang Hai’s newly released agent Wagner are both here. BAN has been a professional player for many years after all. The gaming industry is an industry closely related to many wealthy people, so he is used to being pompous and has no discomfort; but Wagner couldn’t help but be a little restrained.

It was simply unimaginable for Wagner to take a whole star hotel in Santa Fe now. Looking at the kind middle-aged man who was asking him about his blond hair and blue eyes like an uncle next door, Wagner felt his heartbeat very fast.

This man...he saw him in various magazines more than once, including magazines with great influence such as Times and Economy.

Carrey Ralph, the world's largest channel dealer and the helm of the aircraft carrier Galix Trade, is now alive before him. Before that, for Wagner, it was impossible to know Carrey Ralph.

Yang Hai patted Wagner on the shoulder to relieve his tension. He didn't want his agent to be embarrassed in front of his teammates, and then introduced to the captain: "He is a professional player of ETYPE, BAN, and a new friend; this unkempt guy next to him with hair like a bird's nest is my agent, Wagner."

"Ahh!" The captain couldn't help but stare at Wagner and looked at him. "Happy."

Uncle the king said with interest: "You must be very good at becoming a military advisor's agent."

Wagner blushed, he was excited because he recognized who praised him - Greenham Fred. This was a big chaebol who was born in an ancient English nobleman. He was talked about his experience of starting a family and being talked about. Now he is the president of Deep Sea Medical Technology Company. Such a person is simply a legend for Wagner.

Others don’t think Yang Hai’s economic man would be so embarrassing. He blushed excitedly because others praised him. In their opinion, Yang Hai’s agent blushed because he was shy. The king shook his head and said, “Being an agent requires being a thick-hearted person. If you have such a thin face, how can you be a good military advisor’s agent?”

"Oh, King, this is wrong." The captain narrowed his eyes and said pretentiously: "We are the bosses of the fat boy. If you teach his agent well, you are not afraid that you will be slaughtered by your 'apprentice' when you negotiate the contract?"

"Oh?" the king blinked: "It seems like that, Wagge...what are you called? Wagner, right? You said, what should I do about this?"

Wagner's face suddenly turned red again, which made his already red face look like it was mature. He didn't know how to speak to this big man, for fear of offending him and being afraid of being looked down upon by others.

"Okay, okay, don't worry about this honest man." Yang Hai smiled and shook his head: "Wagner is not very adaptable yet - Wagner, don't pay attention to them."

Wagner was even more ashamed when he saw that it was his subordinates who had helped him to relieve him. The agent should have sheltered his stars, but now it seems that his boss was making excuses for him. Wagner clenched his fists secretly and swore that he would never be so embarrassing in the future.

The captain and the others didn't take Wagner too much, and the group of people laughed and joking while chatting.

Offline gatherings do have a different charm, which Yang Hai realized after ten minutes. Although the online game is very realistic, offline gatherings still bring extraordinary freshness, which will make people see the situation of his teammates in reality. In just a moment, Yang Hai was happy.

The party TIGER mentioned was at 3:00 pm. After a sumptuous lunch, Yang Hai went for a walk alone and felt the fanatical atmosphere of the game festival. The city is indeed a bit crazy now. Yang Hai saw that many people had oil paints on their faces. Some of the oil paints were club logos and some were personal marks of some professional players. They used this method to express their loyalty as a supporter.

Among the people who painted the oil, Prince William's personal emblem - a wavy and twisted letter W is the most, which shows that His Royal Highness is unmatched in the game world.

Yang Hai passed by a group of parades (they held up the sign "If TONY cannot be elected as the best player of the year, then the organizing committee will be composed of thirteen shits"), bought a fake beard mask from a vendor, and a rag doll that screamed loudly when pinching hard, and joined the carnival with the crowd. In the morning, everyone basically had to play offline parties, and now it was the time for parade. Everyone used this method to cheer for the club or professional players they admired.

Because the nominations for the Nebula Award will be produced tomorrow, and who will be elected in the several nominations for each award will be announced at the award ceremony the night after tomorrow. In this way, whether the popularity of people's parades can affect the selection results of the organizing committee to a certain extent.

For the Game Festival, the Santa Fe police were dispatched. Although robots were maintaining public order, the chip embedded in the back of the federal central processing unit also stopped criminal behavior to the greatest extent when everyone was born, but there were too many people now, and the police were afraid of accidents. Moreover, artificial intelligence was obviously better than humans in handling certain things. Machines were just programs, so they would not understand human favors.

However, the police would not pay attention to such demonstrations because it is a tradition. If the Game Festival lacks the shouts of these loyal supporters, there may be less fun and such a hot atmosphere. What the police do is to stop fighting. For example, supporters of GODLIKE and supporters of VIVA often fight because they dislike each other. This is because VIVA has been chasing behind GODLIKE for many years and has been extremely close. Of course, everyone will remain rational in this normal competitive relationship, but the supporters of the two of them often fight because of their personal grudges. This is what the police must be wary of and vigilant.

While following the supporters with interest, Yang Hai stopped by the roadside and visited the open-air game venues on the street, not caring about the slightly rough and simple game equipment.

Since he was a child, King Nuo Tian is relatively quiet. Lin Bo is not a talkative person. He has never been so lively after going down the mountain. Therefore, this scene made him feel very new to Yang Hai.

Because there were road signs and the police also carried a backpack and distributed free city maps to those who were lost. Yang Hai, who was lost, began to walk around. The whole city was immersed in the game. Yang Hai enjoyed this atmosphere very much. He walked from this street to that street, from that street to another street, and soon found that he gradually distanced himself from the noisy crowd and came to a somewhat secluded street.

This street looks a bit cold because the alley is full of shadows. The sun is covered with sunlight outside the entrance of the alley, and the whole alley is covered with shadows, which looks like something isolated from the sun. What is blocked from the plastic roads in other parts of the city is that this alley actually uses ancient bluestone roads, so it looks particularly special.

Yang Hai was attracted by the mysterious and special atmosphere.

There are not many people in the alley, although there are much fewer than the streets outside. Most of them are in a hurry and their expressions are relatively indifferent, and they look like they are wearing "NOFACE" masks.

Yang Hai thought this might be an interesting place, so he raised his legs and walked in.

The roads in the alley are not clean and there are water stains inside, which is absolutely impossible to appear on the plastic road. Moreover, this place also emits a smell similar to cabbage that has been left for a long time but has not yet broken. Yang Hai noticed that this pedestrian is more open-air playground than the sparse alley outside, and the open-air playground is more dense than the outside.

However, the bosses of those game venues did not have the habit of attracting customers. They were just silent, reading books, smoking, but they just didn't say a word. People didn't talk much here, mostly walking alone, occasionally a few came together, and they also whispered quietly. The whole alley was quietly, and Yang Hai was shaking.

The sky was so bright, but the alley seemed to be covered by a layer of gray.

He thought curiously in his heart as he walked.

However, at this moment, an open-air game venue not far away in front suddenly came from a shout: "Stop talking nonsense! If you have the ability, you will be useless!"

Yang Hai was a little uncomfortable by the inexplicable gloom. His loud shout shocked him and his eyes were involuntarily attracted.

The open-air game venue was surrounded by a group of people, and the crowds seemed particularly dazzling in this somewhat cold place.

After shouting inside, the sound became smaller, but there were still quarrels, but it was too far away to hear clearly.
Chapter completed!