"Ah, I see! The monster must have been killed with this stone, yes that's it."
Lin Xue picked up the stones on the ground, touched the monster quietly, and then directly pointed towards the monster's head!
"Slap!"
Lin Xue's throw was not very accurate, the stone flew over the monster's head, and made a crisp sound when it hit the monster in the distance.
The monster that looked like a baby immediately let out a piercing scream, and ran towards the place where the stone was!
Lin Xue froze in place for two seconds: "Ah? Is this how stones are used? Cough cough, it's almost the same..."
Lin Xue was afraid for a while, she thought she was hitting the monster with a stone, if it hit it, wouldn't it be cold...
Fortunately, the stone led the monster away, and Lin Xue hurriedly continued walking inside.
After knowing the correct way to play this game, Lin Xue's progress is much faster, but this process is still scary.
To put it simply, the gameplay of this game is to allow players to use sound waves to explore the way, turn around in a dark environment, avoid those forks, open various organs, and get out of this level.
In the level, there will be many very scary monsters. These monsters are of different types, but they all have one thing in common, that is, they will judge the player's location based on the sound.
Every time the player walks, wades in the water, or claps his hands to explore the way, these monsters will rush over screaming, putting great psychological pressure on the player.
At this time, players need to use some special methods, such as throwing stones to lure these monsters away, and then take the opportunity to open the mechanism to escape.
There is no future for being tough, and a few lives are not enough to die...
There are two types of scenes in the game. One is realistic scenes, such as the protagonist’s home, office, orphanage, etc. These scenes are made with real textures and modeling. Some mobile phone elements.
For example, newspapers of that year, orphanage brochures, and letters written by the wife to the protagonist, these are all collected elements, suggesting to the player the plot background of the game.
Through these scattered collection elements, players can roughly guess the identity and background of the hero.
Another kind of scene is the scene of Echo Pathfinder, such as the absolutely dark cave.
This kind of scene is often cramped and narrow, and there is absolutely no light source, and everything around can only be seen clearly through the echo.
These scenes are filled with all kinds of monsters, and the player must move forward with trepidation, fight wits with these monsters with sound, and then enter the next scene.
These two scenes are constantly alternating, making the player's spirit sometimes tense, and sometimes relaxing a little. Under such a rhythm of relaxation, the player can keep playing while being highly tense.
"This game knows how to progress step by step. Every time I think about quitting immediately, I still play here..."
"Wait a minute, I'll throw rocks to find my way... Huh?! This monster is invisible!!"
Lin Xue threw out a stone, and found that a red phantom almost instantly moved to the place where the stone was, and then disappeared!
Obviously, as the progress of the level continues to advance, the difficulty of the game also continues to increase.
The new monster is invisible, which means that it can only see the afterimage for a moment when it is moving, and it is impossible to see where it is at ordinary times.
Moreover, the complexity of the level has also increased. Lin Xue not only has to avoid monsters and detour, but also opens various complicated mechanisms.
Most of these organs are valves or gates, and every time they are opened, they will make a harsh sound, attracting monsters.
So Lin Xue could only lure the monster away by throwing stones crazily in advance, and dared to open these traps after calculating the distance.
What's more disturbing is that throwing stones to lure monsters away is also very risky.
Because the further the level is, the more sensitive the monster's hearing is, and even ordinary footsteps will attract them.
Lin Xue could only walk quietly or squat down, walking forward slowly, not daring to make any sound.
The surrounding environment can only be determined by the sound of water droplets around and the screams of monsters, and many times they are throwing stones blindly.
If one doesn't pay attention and throws a stone to the wall in front of him and bounces back, it will be cold...
Under such continuous mental torture, Lin Xue persisted in playing all the way, even she herself was very shocked.
As the level continued to advance, Lin Xue began to get more clues.
The male lead once tried to adopt a child, but somehow it didn't work out.
The leader of the company once wrote a letter to the actor, asking him why he has been absent-minded recently, and he has to take a long vacation to adjust his mood.
It seems that the hero's family has had a major change, and after the vacation, the hero's performance is good, and the company considers promoting him to the chief designer.
At the same time, Lin Xue also found a large number of medicines for treating depression in the hero's home. These medicines were actually banned in the early 1990s, because excessive use would cause suicidal tendencies.
In the end, after a long journey, in the distorted and terrifying memory, the protagonist experienced the past with his wife again, and finally came to a rooftop.
On the rooftop, the protagonist's wife leaps off and leaves him forever.
At that moment, Lin Xue's field of vision was blue screened instantly, a certain program was restarting urgently, and finally a dialog box popped up.
[Requires manual restart]
[y/n]
At this point, Lin Xue already understood that in fact, all of this is just a virtual world.
The hero and his wife are about to have a lovely baby after marriage, and even started to conceive, but they miscarried due to an accident. They wanted to adopt a child, but they failed in the end. His wife committed suicide by jumping off a building because of depression, and only the male lead locked himself in this nightmare forever.
Lin Xue chose not to restart.
This time, the hero wakes up in a room full of servers, with a virtual reality device behind him.
This is his home, but it has been fully occupied by servers one by one.
There is only a crib in the corner left, which can still remind people of the warm and happy home before.
After his wife died, the hero worked hard and earned a lot of money. He bought many servers and virtual reality equipment, and created an illusory dream for himself, allowing him to return to the happiest time.
However, this dream was not happy, because the guilt in the hero's heart did not let him go, and his dream turned into a terrifying nightmare.
A whole decade has passed, and for the first time, the male protagonist came out of this endless nightmare.
However, just when Lin Xue thought that the hero had let go of everything and accepted his wife's death calmly, he pushed open the door and walked out.
"Wait for me... I'm coming to you..."