Interstellar Travel: Becoming a Dress-Up Game Designer

Chapter 373

Like fireworks, it was so dazzling that it blinded the players who saw it.

It is said that tragedy is formed by the complete destruction of the most beautiful things in front of those who appreciate and love them.

At this moment, the players understood this line from a certain storyline in Barbie Fashion.

Their eyes widened in disbelief as the phoenix transformed into clusters of flames, dazzling yet fleeting like fireworks. They fell to the ground, leaving not even a trace of sparks.

The fragments transformed into feathers that floated into the players' hands, and the players accepted them with tears streaming down their faces.

This was a truly heartbreaking moment; some players even cried so much that the holographic pod alarm went off.

How many of them have been waiting for the phoenix, for four or five years, six or seven years!

I always looked forward to it, but at this moment, the treasure I longed for turned into fleeting fireworks, scattering into countless feathers. The aura of death swept over me; this was perhaps the deepest sorrow imaginable. Could there be anything more sorrowful?

The feather transformed into a letter, which, when opened, contained a handwritten note by Lin Shu-ying:

"Final words to the players who gifted Qingfengyi: I'm sorry for making such a hasty decision about Qingfengyi's fate. I don't know what outcome you all received, and perhaps you won't even have the chance to see this letter. It's alright. If everyone creates the worst possible outcome, then this letter will be sent to Planet Huaxia. Perhaps Qingfengyi will reappear in the world a hundred years from now."

I'm so sorry, Qingfengyi is truly my treasure, the legacy of my most sincere longing and dreams for my past world. I simply cannot hand it over to anyone so carelessly. The real Qingfengyi is gone, and that's it; my works will become history, precious masterpieces. They will be cherished, and their value will increase even more because of my death. But the game Qingfengyi is different. It will continue to exist, played and modified by everyone. I'm very worried about it becoming something I can't imagine, hence this letter.

The spirit of Qingfengyi will return to the design space, and every player can unlock it by completing its settings. Once 80% completion is achieved, it will be unlocked. After unlocking, it will return to the world of Qingfengyi, continuing as you've seen it before, and will also create new stories alongside everyone. The purpose of this is to ensure that everyone can truly continue to develop Qingfengyi according to my will, design ideas, and the design style, rules, principles, and requirements of Qingfengyi.

Goodbye, everyone. I'm so glad you all liked Qingfengyi. Please wish me well as I leave. If you wish, just pray that I return to my hometown.

Lin Shu-ying's last words.

Handwritten, the neat, elegant, and beautiful font and handwriting, like Lin Shuying herself, exude an unparalleled gentleness. Beneath that gentleness lies a subtle decisiveness and strength; it can encompass all things, yet also shatter into countless stars in an instant.

After reading the letter, everyone will understand why Lin Shuying removed all the gods, most important NPCs, gameplay elements, and dungeons from the design space.

In order to train the players who have acquired ownership of Qingfengyi to follow the path Qingfengyi has always taken, and to ensure that everyone seriously develops Qingfengyi according to her ideas.

It seems to be a test left behind by a powerful cultivator before his death; passing the test will allow one to inherit his legacy.

The Qingfengyi Cultivation Dungeon is not widely available, but some players have unlocked the fortuitous encounter of the Great Power's Inheritance Cave, so they quickly understood Lin Shuying's actions.

Players obsessed with Phoenix were both crying and laughing at the same time. They were crying because Phoenix had fallen before their eyes, and laughing because they were going to unlock Phoenix right away!

I will personally rescue my beloved mythical bird!

After Lin Shuying's incident was completely resolved, Qingfengyi announced the complete termination of its relationship with Qingfengyi Games. The remaining staff of Qingfengyi Games' design department and game-related departments were transformed into Qingfengyi Museum management personnel, while those who still wanted to continue playing the game left to become Qingfengyi players and enter the Qingfengyi Design Space to continue completing and unlocking the subsequent parts of Qingfengyi games.

The other employees of Qingfengyi became staff members of the Qingfengyi Hairpin Clothing Production Museum and Studio, managing the museum while continuing to make and design clothes and hairpins.

Lin Qiaoqiao stopped all external plans and support, leaving only one: the Weaver Girl Medal and the award selection platform.

Lin Shuying left the museum and all the things she hadn't sold to her.

This is probably a final thank you to Lin Qiaoqiao, who truly was her most capable partner. Because of her, Lin Shuying was able to fully immerse herself in hairpin and clothing design; because of her, she had so much funding to purchase materials without any reservations. The materials Lin Shuying encountered in the interstellar world were things she would have rarely even encountered in her previous life. In her past life, how could she have dared to imagine using fabric costing tens of thousands of dollars per meter, or gemstones costing tens of thousands of dollars per small bead?

They even used it in StarCraft!

The joy of hairpin makers lies in being able to craft the main body of a hairpin from gold and inlay the floral patterns with gemstones; that is truly exhilarating.

Although the museum was left to Lin Qiaoqiao, she only had the right to manage and operate it; she did not own the property. The ownership was given to the government. The piece that Lin Shuying spent several years embroidering was a private gift to Lin Qiaoqiao—a multi-stitch embroidery of fifty-six flowers.

This piece is the one that Lin Shuying spent the most time on and put the most effort into embroidering. It features portraits of 56 ethnic groups, with the Great Wall and the Forbidden City in the background, and terracotta warriors, the Five Sacred Mountains, and the Three Rivers on the sides.

The painting is very large, two meters long and one and a half meters wide.

Very big.

It's a bit of a shame that the top right corner piece isn't finished yet; it'll probably be finished in another three or four months.

But sadly, Lin Shuying never expected to die so young.

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Qingfengyi's series of actions had been dominating the headlines of trending news, but suddenly a piece of news exploded to the top spot.

Sun Miaochu, a technician at Baiweida, committed suicide.

The Starman was still a bit confused as to why this person's departure could push Qingfengyi out of the top spot in popularity.

I was shocked when I found out he was the one who replicated so many of Baiweida's recent dishes!

Barway can no longer create delicious food.

The upper echelons of Baiweida Group were in an uproar. Everyone was demanding to know what had happened, why they hadn't looked after or taken care of the good people. Had someone bullied Chef Sun Miao?

The investigation revealed that everyone who had said even the slightest thing to Chef Sun was fired. But with those people gone, Chef Sun was gone too. Everyone looked at each other dejectedly, unsure how to solve the problem.

The official reaction was extremely strong because they received a farewell video from Chef Mai. The video conveyed the same message: he missed home, felt that interstellar travel wasn't his world, and the "he" in interstellar travel wasn't truly himself; he was merely a lost soul forcibly confined to a body and identity that didn't belong to him. No matter how much value he created or how much he gained, a hundred years from now, people wouldn't remember him as a person, but rather as Chef Sun from interstellar travel.

This event had a significant impact. The authorities began searching for Summoners scattered across different locations and established a dedicated mental health department to provide them with psychological analysis. It is hoped that these Summoners will live to a ripe old age and uncover more details of history.

After all, no amount of historical evidence and materials can compare to the firsthand accounts of those who lived through that era.

But for some reason, after Sun Miaochu, several other summoners also decided to leave. These included summoners from countries outside of China. No one understood why these people chose to leave.

Life here is so good, with more opportunities for development, a more advanced social system, higher technological level, greater level of civilization, and better welfare benefits.

This is not just twice or three times better, but thousands of times better.

On the other hand, something even worse happened.

Those summoners who are still alive are frequently experiencing genetic diseases, including memory loss, loss of willpower, and an exponential decline in physical function. Experts have spent a long time researching and testing but have been unable to find the cause, and no treatment has been effective.

The spacetime alignment has clearly ended, and energy fluctuation detection data shows that it is within the normal range and will not affect anyone.

The summoners gradually forget themselves, the people around them, and the things they did; some even forget basic life skills. Accompanying the severe amnesia and intellectual loss is an increasingly serious genetic disease. Each one has been cared for by numerous experts, but unfortunately, there has been no improvement.

The research institute's theoretical conjecture is that their souls and spirits experienced a rejection reaction with their bodies. This rejection reaction had always been present, but the bodies had been able to tolerate it initially. However, over time, the bodies' rejection of the unfamiliar souls became increasingly severe.

Just think, even the last Summoner arrived in interstellar space ten years ago.

Life is incredibly resilient, but it can also be incredibly fragile when it's vulnerable.

The moment a star begins its destruction can take decades or even centuries, while a person diagnosed with an illness may die in just a few seconds. Even with the most advanced medical technology in interstellar space, and with a level of understanding of life that could summon ancient people, they still cannot control life or stop its loss.

Some summoners who wanted to live pleaded with the experts to save him, but the experts were helpless.

A segment of the population has taken extreme measures and begun to retaliate against the world, causing considerable disruption. As those summoned here, they had no choice. Yet, those who summoned them ultimately disregard their lives; who could bear such a fate?

The StarCraft officials suppressed this matter to prevent it from escalating, because it was a negative issue that had to be addressed.

Nothing is all good.

If you only see the benefits, it means someone is silently bearing the cost of the harm. When the benefits are widespread enough that most people become beneficiaries, or rather, those who set the rules become beneficiaries, those who bear the cost will be the nameless victims of death.

Just like Lin Shuying is gone, the value of the hairpins and clothes she sold has increased exponentially. The museum displays priceless treasures, and people only marvel at the skillful hands of a hairpin maker, but no one knows the blood that flowed behind these things.

Clouds drift and rain weeps across the vast earth. All things flourish, the rain like oil and gold. The wind carries the remaining water, across rivers to the sea. The zither sighs and sings, for time passes silently.

Hands bound to mountains, gaze upon rivers and streams. Pen and knife exhausted, a hundred years of rotten mud. Singing of eternity, singing of eternity, who remembers the fleeting death on the dew?

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This concludes the article. Thank you for reading.

I've written so much without realizing it, and I have so many thoughts, haha. I hope everyone can be free to be themselves, and spend their lives chasing and worrying about what they love.

A quick note: almost all the poems and classical Chinese phrases in this book are original. I'm not a professional; the focus is on heartfelt observation and understanding of emotions. Please don't take it too seriously, as I just wrote it randomly, haha.