Oh, the project was intriguing. They were creating rooms and halls, as they would be for any video game project, but the plans called for novel features—audio and temperature sensors, as well as cameras built into the ceilings, the walls, and even the floors in some places.
The problem wasn't the futuristic virtual world they were building; the part they could not quite grasp was the main murder scenario that this game was being built on, the central premise.
Namely a woman walking from the top of one building to the top of another, knowing all those cameras and sensors were recording her journey in minute detail—and then committing a murder they were supposed to highlight in their animation as "cold."
That, and the idea of cameras and sensors and machines watching, recording, your every movement, this for people in the Chinese capital, where Internet and other communication was monitored . . . and their working at the Beijing branch of an American tech firm . . . a video game studio!
Guo smiled briefly as he imagined some government official sitting up late at night, monitoring their communications to see what sorts of dissident activities might be taking place . . . and intercepting their modeling files, and sitting down to watch this crazy panda-eyed woman deliberately killing a naked man using . . . an air conditioner.
One of his colleagues shook his attention back.
“Na, ni youmeiyou wen Chen Li . . . zheige xiaojie weishenmo yao sha ta ne? (Did you ask Chen Li why this woman wanted to kill someone?)”
“You, (I did),” Guo answered.
“Ta shuo shenmo? (What did he say?)“
Guo let a look of confusion take over his face, then answered in a thoughtful voice.
“Ta shuo keneng shi yinwei . . . yinwei yu xiade tai duo le . . . (He said maybe it’s because . . . because it rains too much . . .)”
>> Read more in Clouded Ambitions (coming next month), the sequel to Flying the Coop: The Video Game Mystery Novel.
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