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It doesn","game-development-starting-from-a-2d-game-chapter-77",77,"\u003Cp>On his previous Earth, identical external hard drives—counting the one in Qin Xiaoyu’s possession—totalled only four.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cai Qiu, Master, and Luo Ge each had one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The one in his hands was given to him that night, right after the Raiden Shogun gacha pool ended, handed to him personally by the three of them; along with the hard drive came a stock incentive agreement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was why, upon learning he had been reincarnated, Qin Xiaoyu had spent a long while cursing under his breath, feeling somewhat reluctant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But all that was in the past, and Qin Xiaoyu had no interest in dwelling on it anymore.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The real question now was: what exactly was going on with this hard drive in his hands?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Could it have been swapped out?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was nearly impossible—he’d carried it with him constantly, and Cai and Wei had only seen it twice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No one else even knew the hard drive existed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the data and code inside had been stolen, Qin Xiaoyu wouldn’t be reacting as wildly as he was now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the key point was…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A brand-new “game” had suddenly appeared inside the hard drive!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Strictly speaking, it wasn’t a new game at all—only new relative to this parallel world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, the game inside had already been running for a long time on his previous Earth, with solid reputation and decent revenue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was fucking weird!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Out of nowhere, something like this happened, and Qin Xiaoyu was genuinely stunned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He leaned back in his recliner, gently stroking the surface of the external hard drive with his fingers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly, a flash of insight struck Qin Xiaoyu’s mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His furrowed brows gradually relaxed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perhaps the external hard drive he now held had never been the same one he used in his past life—not from the moment he first received it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It just looked identical, and contained identical files.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he had subjectively assumed it was his own work hard drive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“G!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qin Xiaoyu silently murmured the letter, then suddenly wore a look of helpless amusement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Such an obvious hint—he should’ve figured it out much earlier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That makes sense!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Reincarnators and transmigrators always get some perks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now, Qin Xiaoyu felt he no longer needed this kind of thing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if the hard drive suddenly contained a new game, could he just pull it out and launch it publicly?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He’d spent tremendous effort just to slowly fill the holes in Genshin Impact—and even now, it wasn’t finished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he now pulled out another large-scale, fully finished game and launched it…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suspicion would be inevitable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He might even get dragged off for dissection and study!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he had no spare energy left to manage another game—there were still countless tasks waiting for him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>on the other hand,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the sudden appearance of a new game inside the hard drive was still a good thing for him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For the studio to grow and rise to become a top global game company, relying solely on Genshin Impact was clearly insufficient.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qin Xiaoyu never believed he could achieve his goal with Genshin Impact alone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The game now appearing in the external hard drive couldn’t be launched yet—but that didn’t mean it couldn’t be, someday.\u003C\u002Fp>",534,"2026-06-19T22:23:19.067Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","fa96a5745475167eeb7ffe50fd2c9edcfb3f0f9536fad852c3990b7eaa729159","game-development-starting-from-a-2d-game-chapter-78","game-development-starting-from-a-2d-game-chapter-76",89,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fgame-development-starting-from-a-2d-game-cover.jpg"]