Chapter 27 Han Brocade Armguard
Chapter 27 Han Brocade Armguard
"It easily gives people the feeling of 'all show and no substance'." Lu Shinian raised his hand and gestured lightly, "It's similar to the skin-changing mini-game you mentioned before. If you look closely, it's just a specious name and can't stand up to a deeper investigation."
——There are even quite a few games that are quite ridiculous... Those incomprehensible characters piled together are really a headache to look at.
"Is that so... then that's easy to say." Bai Miaomiao clapped her hands in response, "Since the more complicated Qimen theories are difficult to learn, then we might as well not use those theories."
"After all, we know all this mainly for the purpose of making games, not because we really want to become Taoist priests... Taoist priest, I think the things you mentioned at the beginning, such as the Five Sounds, Five Aspirations, Five Seasons, and Five Stars related to the Five Elements, are very good."
"——Simple, clear, interrelated and easy to integrate and adapt... In addition, your countrymen have heard about metal, water, wood, fire and earth since childhood, so they are widely used. When we really do it, we don't need to explain it in too much detail."
"Moreover, these elements are very suitable for helping us control the length of the game's plot!" An Qing sat up straight with an "ah". "At least three chapters, at most five chapters. Even if we add a prologue and an epilogue, it will only be seven chapters at most."
“As a stand-alone puzzle game, this length is just right - it doesn’t seem dragged out or filled with nonsense because the chapters are too long, nor does it feel unsatisfying because the effective experience time is too short.”
"We can start with some cultural relics and historical materials... and then think of an angle to connect the Liao-Song dispute with traditional theories of the five elements and the 'Legend of the Yang Family Generals' that we are going to create..."
"Five elements, five stars, five colors, five aspirations... Five elements and five stars..." An Qing muttered while counting on her fingers. Xu Yichi listened to her mouthful of "five" and his mind somehow drifted to a certain cultural relic that was often turned into evidence by some marketing accounts on the Internet that "the ancients were time travelers."
——It seemed as if there were five stars, five colors, and five spirits gathered on that thing.
The one unearthed in their new province...
The little girl's thoughts couldn't stop drifting farther and farther away. Across the coffee table, Bai Miaomiao saw that her unlucky producer looked like he was about to lose his mind, and suddenly she raised her eyebrows thoughtfully.
"Xiaoyi." Bai Miaomiao smiled, then slammed the table and stood up, bent her waist, and moved in front of Xu Yichi.
——Although Xiaoyi in their family is recognized as the smartest in the family.
But from time to time, her clever little head can come up with some fantastic ideas that most people wouldn't think of... This is a fact that everyone in the studio has to admit.
So, she suddenly wanted to hear the opinions of their boss Xu.
Bai Miaomiao was smiling, while Comrade Xiao Xu was holding his chin up and thinking intently. When he came to his senses, he saw the smiling baby face right under his eyes, and he was almost scared to fly into the sky.
"Ah? What? Damn it, Xiaobai, don't get so close to me!" Xu Yichi screamed in shock, his head tilted back subconsciously, and his body almost fell to the ground.
Fortunately, Lu Shinian and Yang Yan'an, who were standing on both sides of her body like door gods, were quick-witted and immediately reached out to support her shoulders, thus saving her from falling headfirst.
"Tsk...Xiao Xu, you are already such a grown-up, how can you still be so startled when something happens!" Yang Yan'an, who was holding the little girl's shoulder and pushing her back to her original position, looked disgusted. When he let go, he did not forget to pat Xu Yichi's shoulder vigorously, "As an adult, you must learn to be mature and steady. Next time you encounter something like this, remember to learn more from Sister An and the others, oh!"
"Hiss~" Xu Yichi, who was suddenly knocked crooked by the spirit, grinned, "But I have obviously become very mature and steady recently, Senior Yang." - At least this time she was not scared to run around when she first saw the "ghost". She also knew to check the surveillance and the door and window locks, and knew to go to Yaoshan Temple to ask the Taoist priest... and call the police if it didn't work!
"Oh, is that so?" Yang Yanan did not comment. She just crossed her arms and sneered. Her voice frightened Xu Yichi's forced momentum so much that it completely withered away.
So Comrade Xiao Xu, who had learned his lesson, quickly avoided the topic, straightened the stool under his butt, and looked at Bai Miaomiao seriously again: "Ahem... well."
"Xiaobai, what did you just call me for?"
——Come and save her! Don’t let that ancestor continue to tangle with her on the topic of “maturity and stability”!
——She can’t beat her!
"Oh, that's nothing." Bai Miaomiao leaned her elbow on her chin, "I just wanted to ask you what you were thinking about, Xiaoyi."
"——From the look on your face just now, it seems like you already have some ideas in your mind."
"Oh... So it's about this." After hearing the question clearly, Xu Yichi raised his hand and stroked his chest. He raised his eyes and pretended to scold Bai Miaomiao, "If you want to ask this, then just say it directly! Why do you have to scare me like this!"
"That's it... it's our Master Xu's fault for being distracted just now~" Bai Miaomiao said with a playful smile, "To be honest, Xiaoyi, just based on the way you were distracted just now, let alone me, even if a goose feather fell from the sky and landed right in front of you, you would still be scared!"
"Go away! You bitch who only knows how to hurt my heart all day long." Xu Yichi grumbled in dissatisfaction. After complaining enough, he finally calmed down and told her the cultural relic he had just thought of.
"Well, I did have some idea in my mind just now - when Qingqing was muttering about the five stars and five colors, I suddenly remembered the Han Dynasty brocade arm guard."
"It's the one with the words on it." The little girl said, squeezing her eyebrows vigorously. "Before, many people who have only a vague understanding of the ancients' thoughts took it as evidence of someone's 'time travel'."
"Han brocade arm guard, five stars in five colors." Bai Miaomiao murmured, "Oh, you mean that one! The Han brocade arm guard with the words 'Five stars rising from the East, benefiting China'!"
"Yes, yes, that's it!" Xu Yichi nodded his head quickly, "Xiaobai, Qingqing, what do you think... we use this Han brocade arm guard - or the brocade that this arm guard was made of - as the clue and starting point of the story?"
"For example... as the chief restorer of the museum's cultural relics, one day he received the task of repairing this fragment of Han brocade, or accidentally obtained a damaged piece of Han brocade?"
"Look at this idea... Is there any hope?"
I originally wanted to title the chapter "Five Stars Rising from the East, Bringing Good Luck to China", but I was afraid that it wouldn't be accepted.
Forget it
(End of this chapter)