System: Master Your Life-Chapter 829 - 203: Xu Lin’s First Money-Making Game, The Breaking-Out Rhythm_4
It must be understood that when men reach middle age, or after they get married, they generally become unkempt, and most of them look quite shabby.
This game aims to tell them, "Bro, no matter what, you need to tidy yourself up a bit."
Why?
Because it involves a man’s reproductive value.
The core element of the game is for players to control their character, allowing their character to continuously grow, achieving an appearance and sufficient financial capability, namely reproductive and survival value, focusing on two main aspects—this is called a counterattack.
In the first act of the story, you get fired, and end up drinking beer at a street stall. The beer is trashy, you get drunk, and afterwards, you open WeChat to find that no one cares about you, only the kids asking for living expenses. And your wife? They say she’s supposed to be your sidekick, but there’s not even a single message. When you get home, you find your wife cheating.
The storyline becomes extremely oppressive.
At this point, three options appear.
They represent three situations:
First, immediate retaliation, meaning a violent confrontation, for instance, the adulterer must be beaten up tonight.
Second, bide your time and collect evidence to ensure the adulterer and the adulteress are utterly disgraced.
Third, pretend you didn’t see anything, and continue being a wimp.
This is where the options start to get interesting.
For players, this game gives them a shockingly realistic experience right from the start.
How come the characters in this game are so lifelike? It feels as if they all actually exist in reality.
Are we sure this isn’t a movie?
Are we sure it’s not a video game?
But this is just the first part of the game, because later on, as the protagonist leaves the neighborhood, Xu Lin will introduce various realistic beauties who don’t exist in real life, allowing players to strategy them while improving and strengthening themselves.
Can a man’s counterattack happen without a woman? And would there be only one woman?
Obviously not.
Look at Master Shi Yongxin from the Shaolin Temple; he has several women, and it seems they even have to queue up to give him a son.
Starting from around four in the morning.
Night owl players were both fascinated and shocked as they played until dawn; some began to take screenshots or record videos to upload on Douyin, and then other players did too.
This is where things got interesting—players discovered, how come your content is different from mine?
For instance, this game allows you to edit your character’s dialogue.
For example, upon discovering your wife’s infidelity, you chose to confront her directly, exposing it on the spot. At this point, your character needs to speak, and the dialogue is edited by yourself, such as: "Why are you doing this to me?" or "XXX, screw you," and so on.
Something like that.
Moreover, the wife and the adulterer will respond differently based on what you say.
The level of freedom is unmatched.
Additionally, you could even pick up a weapon and hit someone, but you can’t kill them.
If you attempt to kill, a warning will appear.
[This action will lead to your game ending in failure, and your character will face severe legal consequences.]
So, you can’t kill anyone.
But within the first option, you can choose to expose it on the spot, and give the adulterer a beating. In other words, you can fight but not kill.
If you kill, it becomes a huge problem. This is a real person, not a 3D model.
At this point, what about the wife?
Don’t forget, Xu Lin’s character is capable of simulating realistic thinking, and at this point, the wife will kneel and beg for mercy, with tears and mucus, pleading for forgiveness. It must be known that the players are middle-aged men, and a large part of them are traditional men whose thoughts haven’t awakened. So next, the protagonist will choose to forgive based on the player’s will, for the sake of the children, for the sake of reputation, in short, for various reasons, they choose to endure.
At the same time, since the character can simulate realistic thinking, the wife won’t necessarily beg for forgiveness. For example, the player sets a dialogue saying, "Why did you betray me?" At this point, the player can also set the demeanor and tone for this sentence. After all these things are set, the wife’s character will react differently based on the tone and demeanor you set.
Moreover, since the wife’s character can simulate realistic thinking, she will also simulate a personality. So, is the wife bound to ask for forgiveness? Not necessarily; she might straightforwardly say, "Now that you’ve caught us, let’s get a divorce."
Xu Lin has crafted numerous personalities for the wife’s character, so the wife whom players face from the moment they enter the game is distinct from those faced by other players. Their behavior patterns and thought processes differ, making them unique for every player.
In short, it depends on how the players play—it can develop numerous different possibilities.
This game, since the characters are based on simulating realistic thinking, opens to every player with the overarching main story being roughly the same: leading middle-aged men out of the mire, reshaping their life, constantly striking back and getting stronger.
However, in terms of its actual development, on the micro-level, everything will be quite random, abiding by the logic of real human nature. To put it more straightforwardly, it’s like you’ve traveled to a parallel world where you can’t distinguish between the game and reality. 𝘧𝑟𝑒𝑒𝘸𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝓁.𝘤𝘰𝓂
Therefore, Xu Lin’s game is destined to break out of its niche.
It won’t be just as Xu Lin envisioned, where only middle-aged men play it, but rather, as long as they are game players, they might play it.
With this extremely high degree of freedom and ultra-realistic characters, this game vastly exceeds players’ imaginations.
Thus, it is no longer merely a game; currently, in the world, it is an unparalleled existence.
As the first practical application of an AI’s self-thinking model, Xu Lin’s five formulas are ultimately too advanced.
So, by noon the next day, this game gained some buzz within the gaming community, waiting to exponentially grow as it continued to ferment in the internet age.
However, Xu Lin hadn’t paid any attention yet.
When he woke up in the morning, he vaguely heard the sound of stir-frying vegetables downstairs.
Upon getting up and opening the door, Xu Lin caught the fragrance of food, the aroma of pickled green beans.
And it seemed to be stir-fried with beef.
"Senior sister?"
"Ah? Honey, I just got here."
Ning Yuhuan’s voice came from downstairs.
