To ascend, I had no choice but to create games-Chapter 619 - 354 Consistent Settings (Part 2)_2
Chapter 619 -354 Consistent Settings (Part 2)_2
Chapter 619 -354 Consistent Settings (Part 2)_2
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Drenched in sweat, Qian Xiaohao turned his head and found that the maid had already fallen in front of him, breathless.
“Really, give me a heads up before you die,” he muttered.
He spread open his clothes and saw that his bulletproof vest had several new bullet holes.
One of the bullets had broken his rib, piercing through one of his organs; he didn’t have much time left.
Looking at his two dead companions, he wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and, with his lips turning purple, cracked a smile, “I’m the last one standing; let’s see who dares call me weak now.”
Gasping weakly, he watched the elevator continue to rise, eventually coming to a gentle halt on the sixteenth floor.
Qian Xiaohao had imagined many different scenes that could be waiting for him here, but he never expected this.
In the universe, a giant disc floated in mid-air, and a girl around eight or nine years old sat on the edge of the pure white disc, blowing bubbles with a straw.
She was wearing a white dress, her expression indifferent. Upon seeing Qian Xiaohao arrive, she simply turned her head to give him a detached glance, then continued blowing her bubbles.
In front of them, massive planets hovered in the void, satellites orbiting around them, seemingly without any real purpose.
At the sight of the girl, Qian Xiaohao suddenly realized that this was the end point.
Their puzzle had not been solved; from the moment they chose to take a shortcut, they were destined to miss out on the answer.
“Sigh, I have no idea what this place is all about. This game is way too enigmatic,” he said with a sigh.
Sighing, Qian Xiaohao clutched at his abdomen and slowly walked over to the girl.
After sitting down, he no longer had the strength to speak; he could only watch as bubbles floated up in front of him and burst.
The colorful bubbles drifted off into the distance, making him feel as though he was on the verge of understanding something, yet at the same time, understanding nothing at all.
But whatever the answer was, it no longer mattered. He had reached the end of the game.
Closing his eyes, Qian Xiaohao fell into an eternal slumber.
And then, he was abruptly pulled from the gaming pod by his maid, who slapped him awake.
“Stop sleeping! Tell me what the ending was!” she demanded.
“I don’t know,” he said, covering his throbbing face, furious, “Did you just hit me?”
“Or are you trying to keep this secret all to yourself? Oh, I get it; you want to sell the secret for a good price! Cut the crap, take my money and spill it!” she insisted.
“Could someone really be that terrible?” he protested.
“I am,” she declared.
“Damn it…”
Once they knew what Qian Xiaohao had seen at the end, the three of them began pondering the meaning of the conclusion.
Judging by the last performance in the game, this must be the end; after all, the backdrop had shifted to the universe itself, and there probably wasn’t anything beyond that.
But what did this ending mean?
The empty cosmos, the solitary little girl blowing bubbles— the finale seemed to say something, yet at the same time, it said nothing.
They had skipped too much content, so they couldn’t piece together the final part of the story.
As they were at a loss, they could only record the end of the game into a video and leave it to other players to ponder.
While the three players were busy creating the video, Fang Cheng was observing their actions.
When he saw that they had actually advanced the game’s main plot by taking out NPCs one after another, Fang Cheng felt these gamers were quite impressive.
They had unwittingly taken a path of brute force over cunning; no matter the complexity of the mysteries on the outside, they simply eliminated each obstacle in their way.
This showed that players are agents of chaos, but in this chaos, they would inadvertently find themselves on a path that suited the place, and then discover the puzzles he had laid out for them.
However, the true end of the riddle is actually the Gui Xian here, which is the girl in the white dress.
She is the manifestation of the Gui Xian, whose existence is unfathomable to present-day humanity, yet her existence also provokes continued contemplation of her own meaning among players, culminating in the theme of “the joy of ignorance.”
This is also the trap he laid out for the players; after arriving here, they’d inevitably fall into his schemes, ultimately finding the previous gameplay more enjoyable.
Through layers of settings, continuous defenses, all content served to cater to the players; Fang Cheng felt that this time, his game was truly filled with sincerity, and not achieving success in proving his Dao would be somewhat indefensible.
However, just as he was preparing for matters related to proving his Dao, he noticed something was amiss with Dustfire.
Calming his mind, he listened to the voice of Dustfire and then realized that the players’ thoughts had greatly diverged from his own.
“Holy shit, a rampage, there actually is another ending!”
“That girl… slick move!”
“The vast universe, endless space, this is another world, symbolizing infinite breadth. Fang Cheng, I’ve realized it!”
“Realized what?” Fang Cheng asked in confusion, “A Gui Xian, everything is unknown, what could you have possibly realized?”
To spread his discovery and to attract more people to explore the meaning of the ending, Eric began recording a video, collaborating with Qian Xiaohao on the content.
In order to make the video more interesting, they introduced how they met, how Qian Xiaohao discovered this Easter egg, how they conceived the idea of using killing NPCs as a method to reduce branches, and finally, how they managed to find their way through step by step.
The video was presented in Mandarin, but with Prussian and English subtitles added, so players from all regions who had access to the game could watch it.
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Unsurprisingly, the video went viral.
Discussions about “Wonderful Life” should have ended last week; by now, people should be talking about the New Year, but the video from the trio was undoubtedly a bombshell, drawing everyone’s attention back to the game.
The method devised by Qian Xiaohao, Eric, and the maid was dubbed the Razor Method, aiming to directly eliminate those who posed questions.
Though such actions could render the storyline enigmatic and confusing, the question is, isn’t it thrilling?
Once players knew there actually was an answer to the puzzle, their enthusiasm was further ignited.
As long as they knew their efforts weren’t futile, players were willing to continue on their journey.
Eric’s video also fanned the flames of interest, and while he described their quest to solve the riddle with some ease, the data showed their journey was anything but simple.
After repeated failures and attempts, when hope seemed out of reach and their companions were ready to give up, they diligently found a path and boldly followed it through.
Hardcore!
Damn hardcore!
Today, the trio stood as representatives of hardcore gamers, their adoration flowing ceaselessly like a river and as uncontrollable as a flood bursting its banks.
Out of adoration for their idols, players reopened “Wonderful Life,” organized themselves, completed tasks one by one, preemptively planned around key NPCs, and then continued to delve into the content here.
When Fang Cheng saw players seriously analyzing, he really wanted to tell them: “It’s useless, you can’t analyze the content inside.”
After all, it is the product of the Gui Xian, corresponding to all things chaotic and unknowable; without sufficient strength, success is impossible.
In fact, most of the players’ analyses are indeed futile. The insights they derived didn’t hold water, with too many loopholes that only added to the bewilderment about the game’s content.
Just as Fang Cheng felt things were about settled, a Dao adversary made his move.
A web novelist who had just finished his old book and was idling away came upon the online discussion and was greatly shocked.
He immediately began collecting materials and then compiled them into a setting collection at Game Inn, synthesizing all the data he had gathered.
In this setting collection, he synthesized ideas of parallel universes, quantum mechanics, the uncertainty principle, and other concepts into an ultimate patchwork monster.
After reading it, Fang Cheng realized that the entire setting was incorrect.
But the problem was, it was internally consistent!
It was internally consistent!
