He hung all the clothes he brought by suitcase into the closet of the master bedroom and put the suitcase into the cabinet of the second bedroom.
There might be only such a small amount of storage space in the entire room, but it was still enough for Qiao Liang.
There were some handicrafts in the huge living room and the decorative bookshelves could not be used as storage space but that also allowed Qiao Liang to concentrate on enjoying the 180-degrees lake view.
Qiao Liang felt that all was worth it as he nestled in the sofa to edit his video on his laptop!
For some unknown reason, his thoughts suddenly calmed down. He really wanted to think about some problems and then make a video!
Was that the magical effect of the Sloth Apartments?
It really seemed to help in his thoughts here…
Hold on, that wasn’t right.
It seemed that something was missing.
Qiao Liang suddenly realized that the Sloth Apartment that he rented seemed to be lacking its soul: the Fully-Automated Bickering Machine!
Yes, he had to get it!
He really wanted to buy it last night, but he decided to buy it directly in the Sloth Apartments, considering that he would have to carry it with him when he moves otherwise.
The Sloth Apartments might not allow them to add their own furniture or change the layout in principle, but the butler would tacitly approve of the Fully-Automated Bickering Machine.
Qiao Liang immediately found the purchase page for the Fully-Automated Bickering Machine.
He was shocked when he entered the page.
He saw a bold line on the purchase page.
“It is very expensive and boring, and it will not improve your mental capability. You may spend the money somewhere else on something more meaningful.”
Qiao Liang was stunned.
What did that mean?
It would not improve mental capability?
Did they officially deny the deep meaning behind the Fully-Automated Bickering Machine?
Qiao Liang remembered very clearly that this line wasn’t on the page when he looked at it last night.
Why did they specifically add this sentence?
Qiao Liang checked the comments of the netizens hurriedly, only to find that, other than this additional line of words, there was also a line of eye-catching text on the website of the Sloth Apartments: ‘living here would not improve your mental capability’.
The tone was neutral as if emphasizing an objective fact.
Qiao Liang was even more confused now.
What did that mean? I just moved in, and Boss Pei toy with me in this way?
What was his intention for emphasizing this? To deny himself?
However, this place indeed helped in mental capability!
Qiao Liang could clearly feel that this environment was very simple and artistic, which was really helpful for calming down and for inspiration.
Why then did the official website emphasize that it would not be able to improve mental capability?
Qiao Liang immediately comprehended the meaning behind it in less than two minutes.
“So that was it!
“I understand it!”
“Just that… I wonder if the netizens could discern it.”
Qiao Liang flipped through the comments of the netizens after having his answer in his mind. A gratified smile soon appeared on his face.
“What does the new explanatory texts added to the Sloth Apartments and the Fully-Automated Bickering Machine mean? Is it possible that what Boss Li said previously was all fake?”
“Yes, they are all fake; don’t rent, don’t buy! Leave everything to me!”
“I’ve already moved in. This environment can indeed help in your thought process. Moreover, this Fully-Automated Bickering Machine definitely can make one ponder.”
“Why add the two explanatory texts? Wouldn’t that be contrary to the effect?”
“These two sentences actually contained a kind of dialectical thinking. What is the connotation of the Sloth Apartments and the Fully-Automated Bickering Machine? They allow you to think independently without believing in what others say or following the trend. If you were to just blindly live in the Sloth Apartments and buy a Fully-Automated Bickering Machine, wouldn’t that go against the connotation of independent thinking?”
“I understand now! These two sentences are reminding us: if you don’t use your brains to think but just believe in what others say, then it will be useless even if you stay in the Sloth Apartments and use the Fully-Automated Bickering Machine. It is impossible for them to change one’s way of thinking. In other words, don’t over-exaggerate and deify the meaning of these two things.”
“At the same time, it is also hinting to us that we cannot just rely on foreign objects to change the way we think.”
“Yes, that makes sense! It is useless staying in Sloth Apartments if you just blindly follow a trend.”
“Having said that, the Sloth Apartments creates the environment, and the Fully-Automated Bickering Machine provides the carrier—which is helpful to our thinking. There is no doubt that they are only catalyst functions… and not a panacea for all diseases.”
“As expected of Boss Pei, he is able to make things so much more philosophical with just two lines of explanatory text!”
“I want to buy it even more now!”
Qiao Liang nodded slightly after reading these comments.
Yes, the netizens were now getting more used to Boss Pei’s way of thinking; there was no need for him to jump out to explain it.
Perhaps in the near future, the netizens would be able to comprehend Boss Pei’s deep meaning every time he gave a quiz. That was enough for him to complete his mission!
Boss Pei’s quiz was very simple this time. Everyone understood it in an instant.
Qiao Liang ordered the Fully-Automated Bickering Machine happily as he waited patiently for it to be delivered.
He took out the laptop that he brought with him on the sofa. He read that long Weibo post over and over again as he watched the lake.
As expected, he had new comprehension every time he read.
Qiao Liang had not given up even to this day. Boss Pei once told him that he would be able to obtain the real answer to the video of Thriller Hostel as long as he gave up interpreting ‘Struggle’ with Products of the Gods.
Therefore, Qiao Liang had been using He An’s long Weibo as the key to his understanding.
Qiao Liang felt that He An’s long Weibo post on ‘Struggle’ should be perfect in its own way. It was impossible to get something new out of it no matter how much more he delved into it.
What about outside the game ‘Struggle’ then?
Qiao Liang vaguely felt something after the recent incident with the Sloth Apartments and the Fully-Automated Bickering Machine, but he found it difficult to grasp.
He could feel that he was now just one clue away from stringing everything together.
All his confusion would be solved once he managed to find this clue!
Qiao Liang tried to think about all the contents during this period, including the Thriller Hostel, Fish-Catching Take-Out, ‘Struggle’, Sloth Apartments, Fully-Automated Bickering Machine, Deposit Fitness, Tengda Life App, etc. He searched for these key phrases while looking up this information online.
Qiao Liang’s eye suddenly lit up.
He found a post with the title: ‘Boss Pei shared the Full Text of His Speech on Wealth Outlook in the Science Hall’ in the internal forum of Handong University.
That was a popular post in the internal forum of Handong University. There were many replies, but it seemed like it was not widely reposted on the internet.
Qiao Liang was not a student of Handong University so he could not reply to it, but he could read the entire text.
“Boss Pei’s speech?
“It seemed real.
“It is actually not reposted?”
Qiao Liang originally had
doubts about the authenticity of this manuscript since everyone should know if a celebrity like Boss Pei were to give a speech in school, right? How can he be so low profile that his manuscript was not circulated?
However, looking carefully at the replies below, Qiao Liang realized that Boss Pei did not give the speech personally, but he got someone else to read it.
“No wonder it wasn’t made popular online. However, the contents of the speech seemed to have moved the students.
“Hmm… there is a need to read into the speech since it was written personally by Boss Pei.”
Qiao Liang started reading the text.
This speech was targeted at all the needy students funded by Tengda. The topic was ‘view on wealth’. The full text was actually only on one thing, which was Boss Pei’s outlook on wealth.
Obviously, the speech was in hope that the needy students could use the money donated by Tengda to them wisely.
However, what surprised Qiao Liang was that Boss Pei did not emphasize for the needy students to be frugal or save money. He explained it from another angle.
Many needy students had a misunderstanding about the outlook on wealth, that was to equate ‘wealth’ with ‘money’ at their disposal and mistakenly believe that the correct outlook on wealth was to do everything possible to spend less and consume less.
However, Boss Pei proposed a new concept in his speech. To young people like them, the most precious wealth was not the money they had at their disposal, but their attention.
Therefore, they shouldn’t save all their money without spending them; neither should they buy meaningless things just to satisfy their vanity, let alone spend it on distracting and indulgent entertainment activities.
Where should their money be spent on?
It should be spent on places where one could concentrate and think… use their money to create leverage with their attention so that you can maximize your wealth.
Qiao Liang suddenly felt like this, the clouds in front of his eyes dissipated.
He seemed to have finally grasped that thing he was searching for!
Chapter 655 - Everything You Need to Understand Outside the Game 'Struggle'
Many of Boss Pei’s remarks might seem to be contradictory on the surface, but they could achieve a state of unity on a higher level after digging deeper into it!
The keyword ‘focus’ here made Qiao Liang involuntarily think of the nearest Sloth Apartments and the Fully-Automated Bickering Machine.
Moreover, the poor made Qiao Liang think of ‘Struggle’.
It seemed like there was a really a clue that connected everything together!
However, everything had to be smoothed out.
First, he had to start from a seemingly contradictory concept!
Qiao Liang took his computer excitedly and recorded all his thoughts down.
In his speech, Boss Pei hoped that these needy students would not spend their money on distracting and indulgent entertainment activities.
At the same time, however, Boss Pei was a game designer who designed many good games and invented the Fully-Automated Bickering Machine which seemed totally useless.
Wasn’t this contradictory?
For those who did not play games and did not understand games, that was obviously contradictory because they would regard games as a waste of time and meaningless entertainment.
However, to an experienced game enthusiast like Qiao Liang, he did not think that games were meaningless.
The game had at least two beneficial aspects:
It could allow stressed people to relieve their pressure and obtain rest and comfort. It could soothe the soul like most entertainment activities.
From an artistic point of view, certain games themselves had connotations, to express certain contents, and were inspirational to the players.
These two aspects happened to be what Tengda Games was pursuing.
GOG was constantly pursuing the ultimate gameplay, entertaining yet allowing people to relax. However, games such as ‘Game Designer’, ‘Repent and be Saved’, ‘Struggle’, and the rest were constantly pursuing the ultimate artistry, inspiring and thought-provoking.
Under what circumstances were games harmful?
When players are dominated by negative emotions and spend too much time in some low-interest games… when the game is not regarded as a pastime but as a substitute for an escape from reality, it would be harmful.
Such negative-emotion-inciting games were precisely something that Tengda Games never touched.
Of course, good games could sometimes make people addicted, but one could not blame that the ‘game was too fun’ but rather themselves for not having self-control.
The crux of these people without self-control was that they didn’t realize that their focus was their most precious wealth, and they squandered these precious things wantonly.
Even if there were no games, they would find some other things to squander their attention away.
Even if there was no entertainment in the world, they would not do meaningful things but in a daze.
In such a case, it would be beneficial to them if they could spare time to play a game like Struggle.
Other entertainments such as movies, TV series, novels, etc. had the same effect. If they could allow people to relax and get better at work after a break, then that—in itself—was meaningful.
It would be much better if it could give people a bit of inspiration.
Qiao Liang suddenly had clarity thinking of this.
He understood why Boss Pei told him not to comprehend Struggle with the Products of the Gods now!
That was because the thoughts expressed in ‘Struggle’ were not limited to the field of games. He naturally should not simply use the pure-game thought process from Products of the Gods to interpret it!
Just like what He An once said, ‘Struggle’ was actually a game that broke the dimension wall, and the game itself was actually connected!
Big Boss He An’s design comprehended ‘Struggle’, but it was obviously not complete.
That was because he did not connect to reality.
For example, Big Boss He An wrote in the long Weibo post that Boss Pei encouraged everyone to curb consumerism, then what was the consumerism and IQ tax that Boss Pei meant? Was it the same that they had in mind?
They were obviously different.
Qiao Liang also finally understood why he would be able to find out what was lacking in the Thriller Hostel video if he gave up using the Products of the Gods to interpret Struggle.
All the contents were all referring to the same thing in the end.
Qiao Liang felt an explosion of inspiration with the support of the Sloth Apartments. He immediately began to write a new document file for the video.
The Silent Expresser, First Issue (Continued): Everything You Need to Understand Outside the Game ‘Struggle’!
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September 16th, Friday…
He An woke up early as usual, walked two rounds in the garden in his villa, sipped on his tea, and read the news.
GOG’s international invitational tournament was now on the second day of the second round, but that did not have He An’s attention.
He was getting on age so his attention was now more concentrated on the standalone games in the industry.
Suddenly, he realized that many people seemed to have privately messaged him on his Weibo last night.
The contents of these private messages were about the same. They were all to send him a link from Aili Island website to watch a certain video.
Such a situation did not happen often.
He opened the link to Aili Island with some curiosity.
“Everything You Need to Understand Outside the Game ‘Struggle’?
“Hm?”
He An was a little surprised. The ‘Struggle’ mentioned here was obviously referring to the game ‘Struggle’.
However, the meaning behind ‘Struggle’ shoul
d have been nailed onto the coffin after he posted that long Weibo text, right?
Could it be that this UP Master…
Stole his manuscript…
And made it into a video?
He nearly thought that his content was being stolen, but he realized that probably was not the case upon careful inspection of the summary. This video was not discussing the game itself.
That meant to say that it probably was not the same as He An’s long Weibo post.
He then looked at the author; it was Teacher Qiao.
He An had an impression of this UP Master since the Products of the Gods was produced by Teacher Qiao.
He An was very clear that Teacher Qiao might not have professional knowledge, but he was one with more perspective among the players. He often tried to interpret Tengda’s games.
However, Teacher Qiao had not posted his understanding of Struggle with the Products of the Gods, obviously because all the contents were interpreted by He An.
What was Teacher Qiao’s purpose in uploading this video then?
Could he have found a new angle to explain Struggle?
He An instinctively did not believe it, but he still played the video out of curiosity.
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“My dear daddies, greetings, I’m the same old Godfather of Games you guys know me as, Teacher Qiao.
“I’m sure many people are in doubt looking at this title.
“Why was the interpretation of ‘Struggle’ delayed? Why was ‘Struggle’ not part of the ‘Products of the Gods’ series, but in ‘The Silent Expresser’ series? Why is it a continuation of the first issue?”
“Please be patient… I’ll reveal everything for you!”
“I have to clarify that this video is not an interpretation of the ‘Struggle’ game itself because Big Boss He An’s long Weibo post has already done it justice.
“Those who have not read the long Weibo post, please click the link in the description below the video and read it first. This is very important because the entire content of this video has to be read and interpreted together with the long Weibo post!
“Those who have read it may want to pause this video and re-read the post again.
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