Chapter 355 Self-Consistent Setting (Second Update)
Cutting off all the branch lines is not a simple matter.
They don't have a console, so they have to push the missions one by one, accurately calculating which guys can be killed without affecting the main plot later, and which guys can't be killed at this time, but just wait until the mission advances to the next step.
The derivation of the first NPC alone took a day. After they completed the calculation, Qian Xiaohao and Eric found the first important NPC in the hard mode, the Riddle Boss.
This NPC is definitely the most annoying NPC in Avengers Hard Mode. He never speaks completely, and all kinds of content are vague. The plot becomes fragmented here, and there are still a bunch of tasks waiting for players to complete. Clean up.
But the Riddle Boss looks a little different at this time.
In the past, the opponent's state was comfortable and relaxed. He seemed to have anticipated the player's arrival, and would explain the player's intention in a condescending manner, and then give some ambiguous words for the player to explore on his own.
And when the player comes back confused, he will give new prompts and let the player continue running.
It can be said that most of the player's torture comes from this shameless old guy.
But today, Riddle Boss looks unusual.
All his side tasks have been cut off, and all useless NPCs have been chopped up by the maids sent by Qian Xiaohao. He has no redundant tasks anymore.
But the mission mechanism of the game forces him to respond to the player's words. As a result, he can only tell Qian Xiaohao and Eric the most critical answer to the game.
"Go out from here, enter the third building and then go to the basement, find the B9 elevator there, and then go up to the ninth floor. There is what you want to know there." "
Well, thank you." Qian Xiaohao said with satisfaction.
If they follow the normal game flow, they must constantly wander around more than a dozen NPCs in order to know this key information.
However, after simply eliminating the other NPCs, they directly obtained the game information and could start the next step.
After directly shooting the riddle boss down, Qian Xiaohao informed the maid that they could go to the next destination. At the same time, he said to Eric beside him: "It seems like this is the first time we have gotten this information."
"Yes, this should be related to the mission. Logic matters, we cut off the logical chain of the task directly here, then we can jump directly to the answer." "
But we actually don't know what the question is."
"Yes, but who cares about it? "
The two looked at each other and smiled, then rushed towards the next stop.
NPCs were killed one after another, and task chains were cut off one by one. They used extremely violent methods to solve the problems here, and fought all the way to the final destination.
In the end, all the named NPCs were killed.
This process is not easy. After all, some NPCs have extremely strong combat effectiveness. In order to kill these NPCs, they must formulate a good plan, then purchase various weapons step by step, and finally kill the opponent so that the task chain can be completely interrupted. .
The empty Titan City has become quiet. The disappearance of super criminals has made the security here extremely good. The three people covered with scars are walking tiredly on the streets of Titan City, recording in the notebooks in their hands. The location of the next target.
"What number is this?" Qian Xiaohao said helplessly, being supported by the maid, "I feel like I have been killing and killing. How many key NPCs are there in breaking the game?" "
But this is not bad, we At least a complete task chain has been analyzed. As long as we kill them in this order, we will definitely get the final answer we want." "
Don't tell me that the final answer is the magic of friendship, otherwise I will have to kill everyone here. **Knock it down!" the maid said harshly.
"Add me one more." Qian Xiaohao and Eric said tiredly.
Following the instructions this time, they continued forward and walked to the main entrance of the TV station.
With one shot, the guard at the door who wanted to stop them was driven away. The three of them staggered into the elevator and pressed the button for the fifteenth floor.
In the slowly climbing elevator, Qian Xiaohao suddenly asked: "Guess what the end of this line will be?" "
I don't know, but I was shot." Eric looked at his abdomen and said, " I should have bought a medical kit just now... Forget it, can any of you help me treat it?"
The maid came over and took a look, and then said: "It's hopeless. It's poisonous. According to your bleeding speed, you probably It will be over in five minutes."
"Unfortunately, I may not be able to see the next NPC. If the other party is the last one, please show me the screenshot. If not, then we will play another game together."
The crawl of the elevator Extremely slow.
It was rising slowly at a rate of half a minute, letting Eric know that he couldn't hold on any longer.
Smiling helplessly, he waved to Qian Xiaohao and the maid: "Sorry, I have to take a step ahead."
Then, he lay on the ground holding his belly, completely out of breath.
Pointing at the stiff Eric in front of him, Qian Xiaohao smiled weakly: "He looks like a crayfish. Maid, come and laugh at him with me! Maid?" Qian
Xiaohao, who was sweating, turned his head and found that the maid had fallen. In front of him, there was no breathing.
"Really, say this before you die."
Spreading out his clothes, he found that his body armor had several bullet holes.
One of them broke his ribs and pierced one of his internal organs. He didn't have much time to live.
Looking at his two dead companions, he wiped the cold sweat from his head and grinned with his purple lips: "I'm the last one, let's see who dares to challenge me."
Panting weakly, he watched the elevator continue rose, and finally slowly stopped on the sixteenth floor.
Qian Xiaohao thought about many possible scenes here, but he never expected that it would be like this.
In the universe, a huge disk is floating in the sky. An eight or nine-year-old girl is sitting on the edge of the pure white disk, blowing bubbles with a straw.
She was wearing a white dress with a very indifferent expression on her face. When she saw Qian Xiaohao coming here, she just turned around and looked at him indifferently, and then continued to blow her own bubbles.
In front of them, a huge planet floated in the void, with satellites surrounding it, but it seemed to have no real significance.
The moment he saw the girl, Qian Xiaohao suddenly understood that this was the end.
Their riddle has not been answered. From the moment they took the shortcut, they were destined to miss the answer.
"Oh, I have no idea what this place is for. This game is too Riddler."
With a sigh, Qian Xiaohao covered his abdomen and slowly walked to the girl's side.
After sitting down, he no longer had the energy to speak, and could only watch the bubbles fly out and explode in front of him. Colorful bubbles flew into the distance, making him feel like he understood something, but nothing.
But it no longer matters what the answer is, he has reached the end of the game.
Closing his eyes, Qian Xiaohao fell into an eternal dream.
Then he was pulled up from the game cabin by his maid and slapped awake.
"Stop sleeping! Tell me what the ending is!"
"I won't do it!" Covering his aching face, Qian Xiaohao said angrily, "Did you hit me just now!" "
Then do you want to keep this for yourself? Secret! Oh, I see, you must want to sell this secret alone for a good price! Stop talking nonsense, take my money and tell me!" "
Can there be such a bad person!"
"I am! "
Nah..."
After knowing what Qian Xiaohao saw last, the three people began to think about the meaning of this ending.
Judging from the final game performance, this must be the ending of the game. After all, the universe environment has been released, and there should be no other content beyond that.
But what does this ending mean?
In the empty universe, there is a little girl spitting bubbles alone. This ending seems to say something, but it seems to say nothing.
They skipped so much that they couldn't piece together the final story.
After thinking hard to no avail, they could only record the final ending of the game as a video and then leave it to other players to think about.
While the three players were making videos, Fang Cheng was also observing their actions.
When he discovered that they actually relied on killing NPCs one by one to keep the main line of the game focused, Fang Cheng felt that these three players were quite powerful.
They unintentionally embarked on the path of defeating cleverness with strength. No matter how many mysteries there are in the outside world, they just need to kill the guys who stand in the way one by one.
It can be seen from this that the players are the existence of chaos, but in this chaos, they will inadvertently embark on the path suitable for this place, and then discover the puzzles they have set for them.
However, the end of the puzzle is actually the strange fairy here, that is, the girl in the white dress.
She is the embodiment of the strange fairy, and her existence is incomprehensible to current humans. However, her existence can also stimulate players to constantly think about her own meaning, but in the end it will still fall on the core element of "the joy of ignorance". .
This is also a trap he has set for players. When players come here, they will still fall into their own arrangements, and finally find that the previous mode is still fun.
Layers of settings, constant deployment of defenses, all the content is to serve the players. Fang Cheng feels that his game this time is really full of sincerity, and it is really unreasonable not to let himself succeed in proving the truth.
However, just as he was preparing for matters related to his enlightenment, he discovered that the state of Hongchenhuo was not right.
After calming down, he listened to Hongchenhuo's voice, and then discovered that the player's ideas seemed to be very different from his own.
"Fuck me, Niu Ben, there really is another ending."
"That girl... Qi Liu!"
"The vast universe, infinite space, here is another world, symbolizing infinite breadth. Fang Cheng, I've realized it!"
"What have you realized?" Fang Cheng said doubtfully, "As a strange fairy, everything is unknown, what can you realize?"
In order to spread his discovery, he also In order to attract more people to explore the meaning of the ending, Eric began to record videos and recorded related content with Qian Xiaohao.
In order to make the video more interesting, they began to introduce how they met, how Qian Xiaohao discovered this easter egg, how they came up with the idea of killing NPCs to reduce branch lines, and finally how they did it step by step Walk to the back.
The content of this video is introduced in Chinese, but it is equipped with Prussian subtitles and English subtitles so that players from all over the world who can play this game can watch it.
Not surprisingly, the video went viral.
The discussion about "Wonderful Life" should have ended last week, and everyone should be discussing the New Year now, but the video given by the three people was undoubtedly a huge bomb, bringing everyone's attention back to the game again.
The method that Qian Xiaohao, Eric and the maid came up with is called the razor method, which is to directly deal with the person who raised the problem.
Although this kind of behavior will make the plot complicated and confusing, I just ask you if you are happy!
After knowing that the question actually had an answer, the players' enthusiasm was further aroused.
As long as players know that their efforts are not in vain, players can continue.
Eric's video also played a role in boosting the momentum. He described their process of exploring this puzzle as somewhat easy, but judging from the data, their path was not easy.
After failing again and again, trying again and again, when their companions couldn't see hope and gave up, they worked hard to find a path, and then walked on with strength.
Hardcore!
So damn hardcore!
The three of them have become representatives of hard-core gamers today, and their admiration for them is like the endless flow of a surging river, or like the Yellow River flooding out of control.
Out of worship of idols, "Wonderful Life" was reopened, and players began to organize themselves, complete tasks one by one, plan out key NPCs in advance, and then continue to explore the content here.
Finding that the players were actually analyzing it seriously, Fang Cheng wanted to tell them: "It's useless, the content inside can't be analyzed."
After all, this is the product of the strange fairy, and everything corresponding to it is chaotic and unknowable. Sufficient strength simply cannot succeed.
In fact, most of the player's analysis is really useless. The content they analyze cannot be justified. There are too many loopholes in it, which makes people even more confused about the content of the game.
Just when Fang Cheng felt about it, one of his Taoist enemies took action.
A certain Internet writer who had just finished his old book and was doing nothing was shocked when he saw the content on the Internet.
He immediately began to collect information, and then compiled all the information in the game inn into a set collection.
In this collection of settings, he integrated parallel time and space, quantum mechanics, uncertainty theorem and other things, and finally gathered them into the ultimate suture monster.
After watching it, Fang Cheng found that this setting was completely wrong.
But the problem is, it’s self-consistent!
It's self-consistent!
(End of chapter)