Chapter 193 Transnational Team (Update 1)
After receiving Tang Mo’s tip, Alan thanked Qiu Yu and said to Qiu Yu: “Look what’s in the water tank in the initial room?”
“Water tank? I searched for that thing from the beginning. It's been a long time, there's nothing there. Wait!"
Qiu Yu stared at the lines at the bottom of the water tank and felt something was wrong.
He carefully investigated everything in the Novice Village. He turned over every wild cat to see the male and female. He tried every egg to see if it could hatch a chick, and the water tank was no exception.
At a glance, this water tank can hide a person, and the porcelain is durable. There are grooves on it due to wear and tear due to long-term use.
There was water in the water tank. He cast a spell to empty it. Qiu Yu jumped into the water tank and checked inside for a long time. He even checked the traces inside according to the different light angles, and finally discovered some differences.
The cracks at the bottom seem to have increased a bit.
There are some cracks on the bottom of the water tank, which cannot be seen when filling water, and no player is willing to check the so-called lines.
If it weren't for Tang Mo's prompt, Qiu Yu wouldn't have paid attention to this detail at all.
After restarting the game, Qiu Yu compared the two screenshots of the bottom of the water tank, and then discovered that there were indeed a few more lines on the bottom.
The extra lines look like a special symbol, but the strokes of the symbol are perfectly integrated into other lines, making it difficult to tell what the symbol actually refers to.
The textures in the game will not be changed at will, so if Fangcheng Studio deliberately changed the texture of the water tank, it can only mean one thing, and it involves some very important function.
After discovering this, Qiu Yu showed an excited smile on his face.
Sure enough...
Fangcheng Studio indeed hid an Easter egg!
At this moment, Qiu Yu seemed to be enlightened. He suddenly woke up and began to search for relevant information again.
He restarted the game, and after each small stage, he would run back and observe the texture at the bottom of the water tank to compare and see any changes.
After playing through the game again with a new character, he restarted the game and came to the water tank again, and found that there was an extra line inside the water tank.
From this he came to a conclusion.
That is, the texture at the bottom of the water tank is related to the number of rounds completed.
Other players have stated before that the perfect ending requires clearing the high-level game. However, when the other party said this, it was obviously a rumor, but this rumor seemed to hit the truth.
Then, Qiu Yu discovered a new problem.
How many times do you need to pass the game?
Clearing the game is equivalent to reincarnation. Every time the final boss is defeated, the player will be sent back to the beginning of the game full of malice by the final boss, but the protagonist in the game remembers nothing.
The more rounds you complete, the more miserable the plot becomes, and the difficulty of the game will increase accordingly. By the end, it is already outrageously difficult.
Although he didn't know how many weeks it would take in the end, Qiu Yu decided to try it himself.
He has completed the game six times before and is currently playing the seventh game. The difficulty of the game has become so difficult that he wants to find a modifier. Unfortunately, "Tianmo", like other games from Fangcheng Studio, cannot be modified at all.
After struggling through the seven weeks, he found that the shading had changed again, but when pulled out alone it still looked incomplete.
Comparing the previous changes, he felt that it would take at least nine rounds to clear the level.
Realizing that this had reached his limit, Qiu Yu understood that he could no longer fight alone.
"Alan, is there a special game forum on the Internet?" Qiu Yu asked during a break.
"Yes, I have already found it for you. The ladder has been set up, just look at it." "
...You are really a good person."
"Don't think I don't know you are scolding me."
Landing Alan found it. Forum, Qiu Yu found that this forum was very large, with a large number of posts every day, and most of the posts disappeared as soon as they appeared.
Foreign players are more enthusiastic about the game "Tianmo" than Qiu Yu imagined.
These players are inherently more hardcore and have a strong ability to withstand pressure. It doesn’t matter if they suffer while playing the game, as long as it’s fun.
Moreover, although the degree of freedom of "Tian Mo" is not as great as that of other games of Fangcheng Studio, foreign players have not played other works. "Tian Mo" alone is enough for them to exclaim that it is incredible.
Therefore, even though it has been released for a certain period of time, the discussion in the forum is still lively, which made Qiu Yu discover that good games are really suitable for everyone.
What makes Qiu Yu even more outrageous is that in this forum, players do not call each other "buddy" or "companion", but "fellow Taoist".
They always praised their Taoist friends, and some even started to read translated online articles, talking about everything from fairy tales to fantasy.
Some players even taught themselves Chinese and used complicated-looking characters like "炁" as their IDs, which made Qiu Yu feel the magic of reality.
Players who have passed each week are called by them as having passed several trials. Currently, the strongest player has passed the eighth trial and has begun the ninth level.
What’s even more terrifying is that this section has also opened up a new Chinese learning section. Many players even started self-study in order to better understand the background of "The Demon", which reminded Qiu Yu of the time he spent playing "The Age of Discovery". The days when I memorized the world map.
Looking at the dazzling array of information and the appearance of a group of people exchanging Chinese learning experiences, Qiu Yu couldn't help but sigh: "This is the correct way to start the cultural invasion."
"Don't tell me, this invasion is quite effective." Alan said While eating spicy roasted rabbit, he said, "A few of my former colleagues kept asking me after playing "Tianmo", whether all Chinese people are like in the game, meditating every day, establishing the ground to become immortals, and then beating everyone." Gods and Buddhas."
At this point, Alan paused, then looked at Qiu Yu, and asked excitedly: "You are also an immortal, are you? Can you show me your skills?"
"Have you played too many games?"
"Don't be like this, you have to hide something from your good brother."
Qiu Yu pushed Alan away dissatisfied and continued to browse the forum.
Because there is no relevant cultural knowledge, foreign players have not noticed many small details, and they have not discovered some methods that can speed up the improvement of strength.
But thanks to the huge base, they still discovered many routines and played many tricks, which benefited Qiu Yu a lot.
And they prefer to share their various insights and experiences gained in the game, and some short stories seem a bit touching.
In addition, there are a large number of users who are working tirelessly to create various secondary fanfics, and many people's writing looks pretty good.
They worked hard to write a different ending for every NBC seen in the game, but unfortunately, most of the endings ended in tragedy.
Someone once asked, why did the author have to arrange such a tragic ending? Then an author explained that in that general environment, he really couldn't think of how to use normal methods to give this group of people a less tragic ending. Some of them seem very refreshing, often involving forceful intervention through time travel or deus ex machina, but this will lose the atmosphere of "Demon" itself, making it impossible to write fan fiction.
Seeing this, Qiu Yu felt that this script was really good, and it could actually drive fans to death.
Qiu Yu's English is good and there is no problem in reading what others write in the forum.
And Alan was there to help, so he quickly understood how to use this forum, and then started searching for what he wanted.
After flipping through various guides and texts, he found that no one had mentioned the crack under the water tank, which showed that no one had discovered this easter egg yet.
He had no choice but to leave a post on the forum and write down his findings in the game intact.
Not long after he posted this post, the post disappeared.
There are too many people posting in the "Tianmo" forum every day. A large number of players exchange their experiences here. Without something special, it will be difficult to post.
And there are too many rumors about the perfect ending of the game. Every day, people claim to have discovered new easter eggs, but in the end they are basically just rumors.
After finding that the post had disappeared, Qiu Yu could only go back to "Tian Mo" and continue playing the game. He would also pay attention to the forum from time to time to see if anyone found anything interesting.
Not long after, a player logged into the forum. Start searching for information.
Eric is one of the few players on the forum who has reached the ninth trial.
The plot of "The Demon" shocked him so much that he didn't even think about food and drink every day, and was obsessed with finding the perfect ending.
Although many players have stated that there is no so-called perfect ending in this game, there is only the deepest despair in the game.
However, a small number of players who have played other games of Fangcheng Studio said that there must be easter eggs in the studio's games, and the easter eggs will definitely reverse everything.
Although he has never played other games, he believes that the perfect ending of the game must exist.
This belief has become his belief. Even if he is tortured to death by the ninth game of the game, he still adheres to this original intention and continues to play the game.
Tonight, he searched for information in the forum as usual, flipping through the pages in chronological order.
He also saw Qiu Yu's post, but he only paused for a moment and then started to read the next one.
There were more than 300 rumors like this every day at its peak.
Although it has gradually calmed down now, there are still more than a dozen of them every day, and most of them are logical and well-organized. They seem to be true, but in the end they are all rumors.
After looking through the new posts, Eric didn't find what he wanted, so he restarted the game again.
Between playing games, he took out his notebook and remade his plan.
By the ninth week, the difficulty of the game has risen to incredible levels, making it an extremely masochistic game.
The difficulty of monsters will become higher, there will be more moves to kill in one hit, emergencies will become more frequent, and most of them will bring negative results.
If you are not careful, you will lose everything.
In the nine-week game, time management must be done well. The game itself has a time loss setting, so what to do needs to be planned in advance to avoid running out of time to deal with many events.
In this case, personal skills are no longer very important, because the skills are not enough, and it is impossible to pass the first few weeks.
He did not live broadcast today, but was preparing to challenge the nine-week program from the beginning.
He had just entered the game and was about to hurry up and leave when his attention was attracted by the water tank on the side.
Originally he didn't want to care about this thing, but recalling the posts he had read before, Eric Zong felt a little uneasy.
He walked over mysteriously, drained the water in the water tank, and then began to observe the lines on the bottom.
At first, he didn't notice anything wrong.
But just when he was about to leave, the change in angle made him realize that the lines on the bottom seemed like some kind of symbol.
Looking at it from this angle, he found that the pattern did not appear to be formed naturally, but rather a mark left deliberately by someone.
Cutting out the pattern and searching it using image search, he found that the symbol was similar to some kind of rune in Taoism, but it always felt incomplete.
Like Qiu Yu, he also restarted the game, and then compared the pictures from the weekend and found that this picture was indeed extraordinary.
As a streamer who knows a lot about the game, he knows very well that this thing means that the developers of the game have buried an easter egg here, which may very well mean a truly perfect ending.
At this moment, Eric's heart beat wildly.
He couldn't wait to log in to the forum again, found Qiu Yu's post, and then replied in it: [I verified it again and confirmed that the content of this post is true. There are indeed cracks under the water tank in the initial room, and the crack pattern looks like this. 】
Crack.jpg
【Fellow Taoist Qiu Yu, how did you discover this Easter egg? So what do these cracks have to do with it? ]
Qiu Yu was browsing the forum boredly before seeing Eric's reply.
When he saw this post appearing, he immediately became energetic and quickly replied:
[Friend Eric, we got this easter egg through inquiring. The person who revealed the easter egg is the original author of Tianmo, so I believe in the authenticity of this product. So far I have only experienced seven trials. But I am certain that the more trials we go through, the more lines we will have, and the closer we will be to the truth. Eric
: [I see. So, Fellow Daoist Qiu, how many trials do you think it will take to finally activate this symbol? 】
【Probably Jiuchong. 】
Looking at this reply, Eric breathed a sigh of relief.
He is now in the ninth week. As long as he works hard, he may not be able to overcome the final difficulty and see the final outcome.
But if he wants to discover the easter egg as soon as possible, he needs more people to help him.
So, he asked in the post: [Fellow Taoist Qiu Yu, are you Chinese? I want to find someone to overcome this difficulty together. Would you like to come with me? 】
【certainly. 】
A temporary "Tian Mo" transnational strategy team was established.
(End of chapter)