Release The Other Two Versions

Seeing Li Xinyi leave, Chen Yize was stunned before he slowly reacted.

Damn, how could he talk to the boss like that?

If Li Xinyi resents him, will she lower his salary? Suspend him from work? Or even expel him directly?

Should he do something?

'Sigh' Forget it, don't be too impulsive next time, and find a chance to make amends to her later.

If he goes to ask for forgiveness now while Li Xinyi is still in a bad mood, he won't be able to ask for forgiveness but for trouble.

Maybe, tonight. Or maybe, a day or two later, he will do it.

However, he would still insist on using this song and not any other one.

He didn't think any other songs could be more suitable and could replace the original. And he felt that replacing it would be disrespectful to the original creator.

So, still the same sentence. "It can only be this one - no matter what."

But Li Xinyi was his boss, who also paid him a salary. So, he still needed to rely on her in the future.

He was stubborn, but he also needed to consider Li Xinyi's position as a boss.

If possible, it's better not to have any conflict with her in the future.

Thinking to this point, Chen Yize shook everything out of his head, thinking: Forget it. Work first and show it to her when [Tetris] is done.

And so, he began to search for more information about the app called [Easy Music Score] that Li Xinyi had recommended.

Since she asked him to find and download this app, he wouldn't mind trying.

The search results somewhat surprised him.

As it turned out, [Easy Music Score] is an app that, as long as you have a mobile phone, could listen to any voice or sound, including a human's humming, and instantly write it out in musical notation.

It allowed people to transform their 'based-on-feelings' songs into actual songs. The ones that professionals could help polish further.

Chen Yize could only sigh as he remembered that this world's technologies were even more developed than his previous ones.

Eventually, after some research, Chen Yize didn't hesitate and downloaded this versatile app that could be of great help later into his mobile phone.

He opened the app, and then...

"Ahem."

He started humming the tune, humming the [Tetris theme song] with his mouth.

And soon it's done, the notation, the music score for this song.

The rest could only be completed by professionals.

It was already evening, and he was about to leave work for today when suddenly, Zhou Wei came up and asked.

"By the way, Brother Ze, what about the computer and the web versions of [Choice of Robots]? Shouldn't we release them?"

As if being reminded, Chen Yize was stunned as he suddenly realized. Yes, they had finished developing those two versions but hadn't released them yet.

Originally, they should have released those two first before doing something else, but recently,

Several novel-reading platforms had attempted to implicate [Choice of Robots] success, so they released [XINT] to counter them.

Then because of a threat from the Shuowen platform, he brought out [Pong] and [Breakout] for others to develop.

As a result, they seemed to completely forget about these other versions, as neither of them had been released until now.

Chen Yize pondered for a moment before giving Zhou Wei a reply. "I will discuss this matter with the president tomorrow. You don't need to worry about it."

He knew that, for this matter, he couldn't make a decision on his own, so it still needed to be discussed.

And with that, Chen Yize completely left the matter behind as he left the company building.

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By nightfall, Chen Yize eventually returned to his apartment, tired from his own work.

Back home, he started to seriously consider how to complete the song for the game [Tetris].

He still lacked an understanding of how songs are usually produced.

However, he didn't feel discouraged about this as he immediately used his mobile phone to open the internet.

He knew that, on the internet, anything could be searched and answered as it had always been known for its versatility.

Searching and searching, he found a lot of information. Some of them seemed kinda helpful, while others were utterly useless or irrelevant.

Maybe, the keywords he used for searching were wrong?

For instance, the first time he searched, the website he got basically showed the next steps of how to produce a qualified song after having its music score finished.

They're things like writing out the lyrics, arranging, refining, recording, etc., things like that.

At that time, he still felt incomprehensible about the meanings of these specific terms.

What the hell is "the lyrics"? What is "arranging"? What is "refining"? ...

For an absolute novice like him, only by having in-depth research would he know how irrelevant they were to what he wanted.

Like the lyrics, which he now understood as "words that are spoken throughout the song," he immediately translated it to "Since Tetris theme song has no spoken words, it will have no lyrics either."

As for arranging and refining, he only understood these steps as "just leave them for those professionals to understand."

Of course, there were also those he thought helpful, like this website which mentioned several professions he should find whenever he needed musical assistance.

Eventually, he decided to rest as it approached midnight, intending to finish this matter tomorrow.

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The next day...

It was Friday, the last day Chen Yize needed to go to work this week, and of course, also his usual happiest day.

However, he didn't have much time to be happy as, the moment he arrived; he walked straight toward Li Xinyi's office.

Knocking on the door, opening it, and seeing Li Xinyi sitting behind her desk, he could see her stunned, unexpected by his arrival.

She put down the phone she had just picked up, coughing slightly, she asked: "What's wrong?"

Chen Yize was unambiguous and asked directly,

"The other two versions of [Choice of Robots] have been completed. Should we release it now? Or should we wait a little longer?"

"Release it now of course, why not?" she answered.

Chen Yize hesitated for a moment before he decided to tell her. "The Shuowen platform... will there be any problem?"

"They can't cause any trouble in this matter, or at least even if they can, the trouble can't be too much." Li Xinyi waved her hand, calmly dismissing the possibility he assumed.

"Plus, they don't have any reason to deal with [Choice of Robots] which has already entered the eyes of many app stores and has already been recognized as a pretty good app for attracting users while possibly making some money.

"It's not cost-effective for them to negotiate this matter with those major app stores.

"Their main concern now should be to stop us from monopolizing an interactive novel market in advance so that they can have a share, or even the largest share in the market.

"As for us releasing one or two interactive novels of our own? They probably didn't feel the slightest concern about it.

"They do indeed have their own strength with a group of great-god authors working for them and a massive amount of funds. It actually won't take long for them to dominate the market.

"Of course, the premise was to stop [XINT] from being spread and used on a large scale, by then being unstoppable."

She finished analyzing all of this in one go, looking at Chen Yize, seemingly totally undisturbed.

Chen Yize sighed in response after listening to her analysis. "Yeah, you're probably right."

"So, just to let you know. We will immediately act according to our previous plan, releasing [Choice of Robots] as we've already discussed."

With that being said, Chen Yize left without saying anything more, knowing that Li Xinyi should understand what he meant.

Returning to the development department where everyone usually works, he immediately organized everyone to send [Choice of Robots]'s mobile phone version to any mobile app stores they knew.

The reviewing process should take a while before it was officially released.

The website version of [Choice of Robots] was also launched together.

Different from the mobile phone version of [Choice of Robots], the website version didn't need to be sent for review.

It could simply be launched by themselves.

When the site was launched, Chen Yize and the others began to check without delay whether there was any minor issue, hopefully, there was none.

...

Meanwhile, inside the president's office at this moment...

Li Xinyi sighed, picking up the phone she had just put down and making a call.

"Hello..."