Chapter 9: Recruiting employees (5)

I noticed that the overall atmosphere had definitely changed since I first went to the library in this place.

Even though it’s said to be a relatively good town, the streets where I could feel the unique gloom were full of energy, and various races that seemed to be tourists were passing by, chattering.

There were times when it was so dark on cloudy days that I suspected the genre of this place was not an apocalypse.
Although it’s usually dark… on days when clouds covered or it rained in this already dark atmosphere, the darkness of this city was felt throughout my body.

The smoke from cigarettes or marijuana smoked on the streets made the air in the town seem hazy, and the smoke created made the air dirty, and the smell coming from the trash in the streets, which piled up as much as the cleaners were cleaning, made me frown.

Even so, I occasionally saw people working hard and trying to earn money honestly, but the people here didn’t like it.

They regarded those who took responsibility for their work and worked hard as foolish, and they regarded those who were kind as insincere people with ulterior motives.

That’s how much the city was full of a loser’s energy, and they took it for granted and had no will to change it.

It was clearly a place that was abandoned.
That’s what this place was.

But the atmosphere here has definitely changed now.
The hyena beastmen, who were always smoking in the alleys and staring at the sky with gloomy faces, weren’t saying that the complexion was good, but they were removing that gloom, and the goblins, who were wandering the streets drunk, were attracting people’s attention by wearing the demon masks of Doom.

The streets cannot be said to be clean, but they weren’t dirty enough to be unsightly.
The walls full of graffiti only had faint traces left.

The city of losers.
The abandoned city felt like it was being managed, as the dark energy faded away.

Tourists who had purchased games at the game shop visited nearby restaurants, and tourists who were tired of the long queues were browsing other products at nearby stores.

The dead town was coming back to life.

There were chances for people who would ruin this atmosphere to appear, but the police, who didn’t know where they came from, were patrolling the streets and blocking that possibility.

I heard it had changed, but I didn’t know it would change this much.
And in such a short period.

“Hoho, when I came here, it was like Necropolis, but it’s gotten better.”

“I agree.”

That just one game could bring such a change to people.
Honestly, I was still suspicious if it wasn’t a hidden camera.

The series of unbelievable situations made it unrealistic.
No, if you really think about it, it’s a fantasy that can’t be realistic, but isn’t this too unrealistic?

And if you say that Doom, which is mentioned as a representative in the case of violence in games, has saved the city’s economy and brought peace, who would believe it?
This is close to a kind of madness.

There’s nothing bad for me, but at this point, it gets scary.
In this place with numerous races, there will be at least one race that suits the taste, even if I release a bad game, but what will happen if it doesn’t suit the taste of the Earthlings here, when I release it as my own god game?

The inside of the game shop, which was entered with Kaela’s help, was quite clean.
I went to the display case, guided by a lizardman employee, who was somehow familiar, but there was only Doom.

Although many game companies have been created, seeing the possibilities of the game market and taking the pie, it takes a long time to develop a game.

But… there’s something that’s strangely bothering me.
This lizardman… I think I’ve seen him somewhere?

The other person seemed to feel the same, nodding at me, but in the end, we just passed each other.

I kept staring, but I couldn’t remember anything in particular.
I can distinguish the other races, but I can’t really distinguish the lizardmen.

Will I become a racial discriminator if I say this out loud?
I wonder if there’s PC here, but after thinking about it, it’s more likely that there isn’t.
The PC of numerous races… I don’t want to know.

Anyway, I decided not to care about the strangely familiar lizardman, and I bought one Doom and took it with me.
I should keep one as a collection and display it in the soon-to-be-created office.

“A developer buying the game he made with his own money, that’s strange.”

“It’s a souvenir. I contributed to the sales with this.”

“Does it have any meaning…?”

He tilted his head with an expression that he didn’t understand, but I couldn’t give him a proper answer because I didn’t have any particular thoughts about it either.
If you ask why, just because?

I visited the game company, ignoring the game shops that had sprung up all over the streets and the bustling crowd.
It doesn’t seem very big, but it looks like they’re using the entire building, which is 3 stories high.

“By the way, did you make an appointment?”

“?”

“?”

An appointment?
Didn’t I make one?

“Let’s just go in.”

Anyway, even if I just let them know that I’m visiting, they’ll come running and welcome me, so there’s no need to go back and make an appointment again.
If I were the owner of this company, I would try to grab them and talk to them right away.

It’s not that I’m bragging.
It’s a clear fact.

“Is that okay? Did the common sense of the world change while I was asleep for a moment?”

“It’s unlikely to change in a day.”

“A day? Ah, you can definitely think that way.”

What conversation are we having?
Are we really communicating?

It’s a day, a day.
What does it mean to say that you can think that way?

I glanced and avoided my eyes, ignoring it.
Hmm, no matter how I think about it, it’s not an ordinary person… Come to think of it, I don’t know this person’s identity at all.

I should have a conversation later.

When I opened the door, I saw someone who looked like an owl sitting at a place that looked like a front desk on the first floor.

A beastman?

“What’s the purpose of your visit?”

“Um, I came to see what other game companies are like.”

The owl tilted his head… looking at his neck turning excessively, it’s a bit strange.

“Did you come from another company? If so, where did you come from?”

Um, what was the company’s name?
I asked Grok to give me the company name, since I lacked the naming sense, and I’m sure I heard the company name from Grok, but I couldn’t remember.

Is this premature senility?
I’ve been feeling like I’m forgetting things lately?

“Um… I think you can just say I’m the Doom developer.”

“Doom? Ah, Doom!”

He was startled to hear my words, and then he urgently called someone on the phone and summoned someone.
He soon spoke hastily with someone and took me to the inside of the company, taking the elevator to the 2nd floor.

When I went up to the 2nd floor, it was almost a battlefield, but even though they were sitting quietly in their seats and doing something, it looked too busy and hectic.

“Damn it! Why is this character stiff!”

“Hey! I told you to express the hill, but why did you make a flat land that looks like a hill? You can just pass through it!”

Kaela watched them working carefully and threw a question at me.

“Kuhn. Did you make it like this too? It’s the first time I’ve seen you make a game, and it’s amazing.”

“I make it like this too. What’s the difference?”

Most game development is the same.

In the original world, the game market has grown and game engines have been created, so developers have become a little easier, but in this era, everything had to be covered by the developers’ capabilities.

Their development methods are certainly closer to the old ones.

The owl, familiar with this scene, guided me and led me to a deeper room.

By the way, it’s quite serious.

The concept of games hasn’t been around for long, but they’ve started a company on this scale and hired employees, so they must have needed a lot of funds, are they rich?

It could be a loan.

Whatever it is, it has nothing to do with me, but I hope that since a game company has been created, they’ll operate it properly and make some fun games.

After a while, the owl brought two cups of coffee and gave them to me and Kaela.
Hmm, when this outing is over, I’ll pick employees too, right?

Of course, I’m not the only one recruiting, and Grok will also be evaluating, but it was an event that I was looking forward to quite a lot.
In the original Earth, I was on the side of being interviewed, not evaluating someone’s interview, but it felt quite interesting to be in the opposite position.

What kind of interview will I see?
And what race will be interviewed and passed?

If they’re coming, I wish that only beautiful people will come.
It would be too personal if I thought like this.

I suddenly felt a sharp pain in my side.

“Ouch!”

I looked to the side and saw Kaela smiling and looking at me.
Did she suddenly poke someone’s side who was doing nothing and torment me?

I gestured that I should show a dignified appearance, but she ignored it.

And in the room, someone opened the door and appeared.