After Lou Wei finished his words, he saw the dark clouds above Wen Fan quickly disappeared and the gust of strong wind stopped suddenly. The penguin who was blown into midair slammed onto the ground. It rubbed its butt, struggling hard to pull itself up. The raindrops on top of Wen Fan’s head evaporated into midair and turned into a rainbow that spread across the screen.  

However, it would be even better if Wen Fan is able to appear in real life.

Lou Wei listened to the little teacher Wen Fan next to him, lecturing him on how to cook the dish. 

In the next few days, Lou Wei and the others didn’t relax after the game had officially released. On the contrary, they were even busier. The players and members of Yuancheng Technology were intensively looking for more ways to get the best of Compagnon and if there’s any upgrade that needs to be made.

Many players had left comments that they hope that their characters would be able to speak. They all felt that something is missing by merely communicating via speech bubbles.

It was indeed a valid suggestion, but it will be a very big project.

The staff of Yuancheng Technology frowned because of this. Sound synthesizing is not a simple thing. Although a lot of voice synthesis singers were available for many years already, they were still unable to completely eliminate the electronic sound. They not only need to develop a voice that was close to that of a human, but they also need to develop a voice that the players wanted for their virtual characters. This is simply a fantasy. 

They were already stopped by the first step of developing a realistic sound source for the players.

The staff of Yuancheng Technology has never heard Wen Fan speak. So, they had no idea that their boss had already managed to synthesize the sound source. What he is lacking, is the algorithm that can enable Compagnon’s system to automatically synthesize the sound source.

But because Lou Wei had the experience of synthesizing the sound source for Wen Fan previously, he composed all the pronunciations of the Chinese characters into a paragraph. As long as the player could clearly read the content of that paragraph, the sound input system of Compagnon would be able to automatically synthesize the sound source.

It took only three days for Lou Wei to develop the sound source synthesis algorithms and added them to Compagnon. They released an update to Compagnon and the new sound source and synthesis functions had gathered a lot of positive reviews.

Virtual characters that were able to speak with a voice that is close to that of a real person deepened the interest of the players. Especially to some fans of a certain celebrity or two-dimensional characters who were totally intoxicated by the voices of their idols. They desperately deepen their affinity value with the idol’s avatar, just to hear the confession from their idols.

However, the biggest winner from Compagnon added voice systems is Wen Fan. Everyone’s Compagnon virtual characters can now speak normally, this means Wen Fan can appear in front of others normally. 

Everyone would assume that he is a genuine mobile phone system. As long as Wen Fan doesn’t make any strange remarks, no one will be able to notice anything wrong with him.

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On the afternoon of the second day after the voice system was updated, Zhao Mengke and Lin Xiao knocked on the door and walked into Lou Wei’s office when he was still in the middle of approving some documents.

They were here to remind Lou Wei their meeting is about to start.  

Lou Wei lowered his gaze and looked at Wen Fan. Wen Fan was watching anime on Bilibili with the penguins and kangaroos. They were watching with intense attention and neither of them noticed Lou Wei’s gaze.

Lou Wei was about to tell Wen Fan that he’ll be away for a meeting, but suddenly, Zhao Mengke suddenly came up to him. He moved so quickly that Lou Wei simply had no time to hide his phone.  

At the first glance, Zhao Mengke saw Wen Fan…and the two animals beside him. 

The youth with blond hair widened his eyes immediately.   

Lou Wei frowned. He was starting to think about how to make Zhao Mengke forget the realistic APP that he just saw. He then heard Zhao Mengke said suspiciously, “Wei-ge, not that I wanted to nag you. Others use Compagnon to scan hot hostesses or female celebrities. And look at you! Not only did you scanned designer Wen Fan, you even scanned a penguin, kangaroo…” 

After that, he looked at Lou Wei pitifully, “Wei-ge, have you never visited the zoo?”

Lou Wei, “…”

At this time, Wen Fan, who had been watching Bilibili TV, heard Zhao Mengke’s voice. He turned his head around and saw the blond-haired youth staring at him. He sized up Wen Fan and said, “I say, our great designer, Wen Fan is really handsome!”

Wen Fan blushed and replied politely, “Thank you, you’re also very handsome.”

This is the first time that Zhao Mengke heard Wen Fan’s voice. He was so excited that he couldn’t talk properly. After stammering for a long while, he finally managed to spit out a sentence just when Lou Wei and Lin Xiao were about to go for the meeting, “You, your voice, is pleasant!”

Wen Fan pursed his lips and smiled at him.

At first, he thought that this was Zhao Mengke’s last sentence. But after he finished that sentence, he continued, “Little brother, tell…tell…big brother, you…you…are so cute. Did Wei-ge confess to you?”

Lin Xiao and Zhao Mengke knew about Lou Wei’s sexual preference. So they didn’t censor their jokes.

However, Wen Fan was suddenly lost for words by his gossipy nature.  

Lou Wei, who was beside Zhao Mengke, twitched his eyebrows. He carefully placed the mobile phone with Wen Fan into his pocket and tugged on Zhao Mengke’s collar, dragging the youth who was shorter than him out of his office. Lin Xiao, who was behind them, shook his head helplessly. 

But the moment Wen Fan was inside Lou Wei’s pocket, he suddenly realized a white dialogue box appeared in front of him. The dialogue box was facing toward the screen, so to Wen Fan, the text appeared to be inverted. 

Moreover, the wordings inside the dialog box were extremely large. Wen Fan had to walk a long distance to get to the front of the dialogue box to read the content properly.  

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