As a result, Brian Clark actually took the initiative to come find him, and his attitude seemed to have softened.

“William Carter, the task I gave you yesterday—you said it wasn’t within your job scope. Well, today’s task is definitely within your responsibilities. Yesterday, Manager Foster told me to have you write the version plan for the next release.”

William Carter was a bit surprised. The version plan for the next release?

Usually, something like a version plan is written by the lead designer!

William Carter knew very well that this version was going live tomorrow, and the current version plan was written by Brian Clark and revised by Eric Turner; all of this could be found in the project files.

Why was he being asked to write the next version plan? And it was even requested by Manager Foster?

Brian Clark continued, “Oh, I know this task might be a bit confusing for you, but it’s fine, you don’t need to stress about it. Just write something up casually. Mainly, the development for this version is almost done, so there really isn’t much work left to give you.”

William Carter nodded. “Alright, got it.”

Brian Clark was very pleased. “Good, then I’ll add this to next week’s work plan. Do your best.”

William Carter ignored him. Judging from Brian Clark’s attitude, there was definitely a trap.

Since even Jason Foster knew about this and it was being added to the work plan, this version plan was definitely not something to be done “casually.”

But William Carter was more than happy to take it on. It was just a version plan—did they think he couldn’t handle it? Sorry, but he really could!

Chapter 10: Champion of Leaving Work the Earliest—Again

Although he had accepted the task, William Carter wasn’t in a rush.

Even though he already had a good grasp of the project, he still needed to carefully consider the new version plan, especially some details that required long-term planning. He needed to be clear about everything before starting.

So William Carter first looked over the previous version plans in the documentation to get familiar with the format, then started going through the design documents to think about what new features could be improved.

Brian Clark snuck a glance at him and sneered inwardly.

Sure enough, newbies who get assigned such big tasks are always at a loss, not knowing where to start.

In Brian Clark’s view, William Carter would at most just copy the previous version plan into a table and randomly fill in some suggestions for feature changes. Even if he found some minor optimizations, there was no way Manager Foster would be satisfied.

Besides, many features that seemed to have loopholes or problems weren’t left unmodified by Eric Turner and Brian Clark out of negligence, but because changing them would cause other issues. So for William Carter, writing the new version plan was full of pitfalls—one careless move and he’d step right into one.

Seeing William Carter flipping through the design documents looking completely lost, Brian Clark felt reassured and went back to his own work.

The new version was going live tomorrow, so tonight everyone definitely had to work overtime to finish everything.

……

When it was time to get off work in the evening, Brian Clark still ignored William Carter and went to eat by himself.

Compared to yesterday, even more people were working overtime today. The programming and art teams also showed no sign of leaving.

Since the new version was launching tomorrow morning, according to the schedule, all version content had to be finished tonight. Otherwise, if the update was delayed, it would be a minor operational incident, and they’d have to send compensation packs to the players.

Of course, sending out some compensation packs was a small matter—the main thing was not to leave a bad impression on the players.

But William Carter definitely wasn’t going to stay and work overtime. He left in style again, winning the honor of being the first to leave work on the project for two days in a row.

When Brian Clark came back from dinner and saw William Carter’s seat empty again, he couldn’t help but chuckle.

“Is this newbie arrogant because of his talent? Pretty cocky. But that’s actually a good thing. Heh, if he were desperately working overtime, that would be a problem.”

Seeing that William Carter still didn’t work overtime today, Brian Clark was actually quite pleased. He had thought about telling William Carter to stay late tonight, but then decided it wasn’t necessary.

With the new version about to launch, the whole project team was expected to work overtime by default, and Manager Foster would definitely be there too. When Manager Foster came by and saw that William Carter was the only one missing from the whole team… tsk tsk, what a scene.

Now that William Carter had been assigned a task he could almost certainly not complete, it actually didn’t matter much to Jason Foster whether William Carter, as an intern, could finish it or not—just getting something decent was enough. But the premise was that William Carter had to be working on it seriously, not slacking off.

If Jason Foster found out that William Carter hadn’t taken the task seriously and had a bad attitude, he would definitely be angry.

Sure enough, a little after nine in the evening, Jason Foster came out of his office for his routine inspection of the project team.

Even though the project was a bit stagnant, as the project manager, Jason Foster still had to pay attention to the new version. After all, every new release could potentially extend the project’s life by a few months, so it couldn’t be taken lightly.

“How’s the progress on the new version? Will it be ready to go live on time tomorrow?” Jason Foster went straight to Eric Turner’s desk and asked.

Eric Turner nodded. “Yes, except for the two mechas that were cut, everything else will be finished on time. The testing team has already run through it several times, and there are just a few minor bugs left. Once those are fixed, we can call it a night.”