Chapter 354: How to Solve the Puzzle (Update 1)
The Red Dust Fire unfolded, and Fang Cheng began to listen to the voices of the players at this time.
"The more I play, the more confused I become. I'm obviously a detective, why can't I solve a case?" "
My character is very painful, and I can understand the pain. There is nothing like knowing that there is a secret here, but you can't even hide it yourself. There are no clues more painful."
"Who am I and where am I? I want to go on a killing spree, but who can I kill?"
The mortal fire of "It's a Wonderful Life" has turned into the milky white of chaos, and this is It's within Fang Cheng's plan.
Based on his previous experience, he changed his approach and made his style of play more versatile.
Since players like to hunt for Easter eggs, let them become part of their plan.
I make you think you have found the Easter egg, but in fact it is still under my control. When you find that the original path is a more interesting path, my desire to ask can also be fulfilled.
Looking at the milky-white red dust fire, Fang Cheng felt that it was quite interesting to compete with the players in this battle of wits and courage.
Opening Station B, Fang Cheng found that the number of videos related to "Wonderful Life" was also increasing.
Previously, the relevant videos in the game were about the fastest gameplay of each profession, as well as the preferences and specialties of each NPC in the game.
But now, related videos have become a way to activate Hard Mode for each profession.
Through some detailed adjustments, each professional character can detect the anomalies in this world, and then get deeper and deeper into the weird atmosphere, and begin to become confused.
After enough confusion has accumulated, the player will fall into confusion like his character, and then realize that normal gameplay is better.
Feeling that the situation was ready, Fang Cheng decided to start the next plan.
"Huang Ping, is the ranking system ready?" Fang Cheng asked.
"Okay." Huang Ping nodded, "But boss, are you sure you only want to add a racing ranking list? I feel that the current players' focus is no longer here." "
It's okay, just a racing ranking list. Just make one for each profession and let players focus on racing."
After all, a lot of confusion has been accumulated, and it is time for players to return to the key point of the joy of ignorance.
Soon, after a small update, the racing rankings were online.
After discovering that "Wonderful Life" had been updated, players excitedly updated the game, but when they discovered that the update was a ranking list, they were even more confused.
I thought this update was a supplement to the difficulty mode, making it clearer for players to play this mode.
But no one expected that the updated content would be this.
We haven't even cleared the hard mode yet, and you actually let us race?
This ranking list is basically prepared for ordinary players, but with high difficulty, who will challenge the normal difficulty!
You are insulting our gaming skills, do you understand?
But right away, players felt that speedrunning was actually quite fun.
The rankings also play a diversion role. Some players give up exploring the puzzles of the game and start chasing rankings on the rankings.
In order to speed pass, various new and efficient gameplays have been discovered, and more game mechanisms and combinations have been revealed due to speed pass, making the game more diverse.
And some professions exist just for speedrunning, which makes speedrunning in these professions particularly enjoyable.
For example, the fisherman's speed pass is to catch a hundred kinds of fish. To achieve this goal, players need to know where all the fish are found, know their habits, and then use different items to match them to finally catch all the fish. The goal.
The fishermen were hooked after seeing the relevant video, and non-fisherman also found that the first player’s hand speed and awareness were astonishingly high. Even if he was not pursuing the puzzle, it was highly enjoyable to watch, allowing them to discover that even if there was no puzzle , this game also has a lot of interesting content.
Looking at the red dust fire that had been transferred, Fang Cheng was very satisfied.
As soon as his combo punch came out, the players finally understood what he wanted to express, making him feel that his arrangement this time was not in vain.
Possible problems have been contained by myself, and the game experience of "Wonderful Life" has been close to the feeling I want to give players, and it is also very consistent with Fang Cheng's ideas.
Although there are still some hardcore players who are constantly pursuing the truth behind it, these players are already very few.
As long as their number is small enough, you can attain enlightenment.
Thinking of this, Fang Cheng couldn't help but laugh softly, feeling that his ascension was right in front of him.
Unlike Fang Cheng who is satisfied, Qian Xiaohao and others are still studying these puzzles assiduously.
He and Eric joined a group called "Hardcore Gamers". The players in this group were all out-and-out hardcore gamers. There were also many program tycoons in it to solve a rumor. Pack the game, and then test the rumored powerhouse at the program level.
Their goal is to decipher all the urban rumors in the game and make the game fewer secrets day by day.
But even they failed in front of "Wonderful Life".
At present, the anchor line has been abandoned by them, and the Avengers line is the line closest to the truth that has been verified so far.
In this career line, the player plays the role of a detective who has been framed. In order to clear his name, he wanders around a large crime city, mediates with different forces, and visits various people to find out who he was framed for. the truth.
This career line is also recognized as the most exciting line. Players need to constantly move between various forces. This feeling of dancing on the tightrope is irresistible.
In normal mode, players can get help from many people, such as beautiful dancers, police detectives who are cold on the outside and hot on the inside, gangsters, beggars on the roadside... These people will become good helpers for the player, and then help the character complete his revenge.
However, once you enter the hard mode, these people will disappear one by one, and the enemies in the game will become more hateful.
Even if the boss in normal mode is defeated, there will be more clues indicating that the real murderer is someone else. The player's character will be trapped in a web created and then lost in this huge city.
When Qian Xiaohao entered the group, he saw that the people in the group had made some breakthroughs last night. Some people had already posted their latest progress in the group, but more puzzles followed.
Opening the documents in the group, Qian Xiaohao found that there were thousands of unknown puzzles, but they couldn't even solve the original puzzle.
After reading this document, Qian Xiaohao returned to the group and found that another big boss announced the suspension.
[No, these puzzles are giving me a headache, so I can’t continue. I'm going to play the racing mode for a while, so I can change my mind. ] The other party has not left the group, but he probably won't come back for a while.
Exploring these truths is an unpleasant process. Many people suspect that the difficult mode is actually an infinite mode, and this mode will not have an end at all.
Players will just continue to cycle through puzzles and puzzles, but they will never get to the truth.
In other words, there is no truth to this game at all.
And if you return to the original normal mode at this time, you will find that the normal mode is unexpectedly fun. The tortured soul finally reaches its own oasis at this time, and it will be difficult to come back.
Qian Xiaohao: [Another one left. I feel like everyone has started playing the racing mode recently, and not many people play the hard mode anymore. ]
Eric: [The same goes for me. My audience asked me not to play the hard mode, and said that there is no way this mode has an ending. They are tired of watching it. Qian Xiaohao, do you also want to give up? ]
Qian Xiaohao: [I won’t know how to do it for the time being. I feel like unlocking the secrets of this game has become my daily routine. I’m going to prepare myself until I can’t stand it anymore. 】
Eric: 【Me too, I feel that if I don’t solve these problems, it always feels a bit incomplete. But, it’s really a bit tiring. 】
They are the first group of people to discover the difficult mode. If they cannot clear the difficult mode, they always feel that the problem is not completely over, and it will always hang in their hearts.
After exchanging yesterday's experiences with each other, Qian Xiaohao called the maid, and then logged into the game together through the game cabin.
They have finished their single-player mode and can now play together in multiplayer mode.
According to their previous findings, in multiplayer mode, when multiple players choose the same profession, their main missions will be merged with each other and become the same main mission.
They all chose the Avengers. They appeared in the sin city of Ditan, and then met together in a roadside cafe.
Di Tan is also the place where the difficulty mode is most likely to be triggered. As long as you write a mysterious symbol somewhere, the way people around you look at the player will change, and a new game plot will unfold accordingly.
After completing this preliminary task, the three of them ordered a cup of coffee, but no one spoke.
They have gone through the next process many times. It is nothing more than contacting a mysterious NPC, then going to chat with a guy who speaks in riddles, then completing tasks one after another, and going to the mysterious laboratory to face their own problems. Clone, chatting with guys who look exactly like you.
The process is already very clear, and I know exactly where I will die in the end. There is no passion left in playing.
Pointing to a place not far away, the maid said: "In normal mode, there will be a very cute girl there. If you give her flowers more than ten times, you will get an achievement, and then you can give her clothes. There is an item in the game They are the emperor's new clothes. When you give them to her, she will call you a pervert, but if you go to her house at night, you will find that the so-called emperor's new clothes are actually mosaics."
Qian Xiaohao asked weakly while lying on the table. : "What are you talking about?"
"I want to say that I feel that normal mode is more fun than hard mode. As long as you don't trigger these messy things, then these things don't exist. Don't you think, this is a wonderful thing Is it something?"
Looking at the exhausted maid, Qian Xiaohao knew that she had reached her limit.
After all, sorting out puzzles is a very troublesome task, and these mysteries seem to be solved, but in fact there is no clue at all, making people doubt that there is no truth at all in the end.
The words to give up were on his lips, but he really couldn't say them.
It was rare for him to put so much effort into a game, but in the end it ended like this, and he really couldn't accept it.
Eric turned the coffee cup in front of him and said helplessly: "To be honest, I didn't play hard mode last night."
"Huh?" Qian Xiaohao raised his head and looked at Eric in confusion.
"My father is back, and I played Fighter mode online with him. I have to say that after playing hard mode and then playing normal mode, you will find that normal mode is unexpectedly fun. I always felt that The normal mode is too monotonous, but now I find that a little monotony is good."
"It's okay, I don't blame you." Qian Xiaohao sighed, "It seems that we have stopped here, we might as well... wait!"
With a flash of inspiration, Qian Xiaohao felt like he had discovered something.
Facing the maid, he asked: "Do you still remember the incident when the female college student lost control when I was playing anchor?" "
Remember, what happened?"
"Why did she lose control?"
"There are no follow-up tasks, so we can only force It's time to perform a necessary task. This is part of the game mechanism...I'll choke you!"
The maid sat up suddenly, then looked at Qian Xiaohao and said, "That's it!"
Eric also understood, looked at Qian Xiaohao and said, "You What a genius, why didn't we think of it!"
Qian Xiaohao's method is actually very simple, that is, chop.
If you cut off all the side tasks on an NPC, he will only be able to perform the most necessary tasks in the end.
The game mechanism forces NPCs to perform tasks, so NPCs will inevitably use all means to complete their only tasks.
Spreading out the notes taken by each other, they found that they had summarized many important NPCs from their past explorations.
However, these NPCs all have different tasks attached to them, and until players complete some tasks, these NPCs will not proceed with the main mission, which results in more and more puzzles for players to complete.
After understanding the action plan, the maid asked: "Then how do we cut off the branch line?"
"It's very simple. If the NPC corresponding to the branch line disappears, won't the branch line disappear automatically?" Qian Xiaohao said immediately.
"You mean, those NPCs?" Eric asked.
"It seems like this is the only way. We need to calculate the relevant branch lines of each NPC, and then reduce the other party's tasks to only the main line. This process will be very troublesome, but I believe we can do it. Okay, get ready to do it.
" After drinking their respective coffees, the three of them stood up.
They put on a black suit, put on sunglasses, loaded their pistols and turned on the safety, and walked towards their target.
(End of chapter)