As you explore the game a little bit.
Song Ren soon discovered that what was special about this game was not just the Chinese background of the funerary culture in the game.
The more important point is that Song Ren discovered that in "Fireworks" there is no unique plot that belongs to horror games, that is, he was suddenly surprised.
Jump scare, that is, the scene where there is nothing high-energy in the first two seconds when you look in the mirror, but in the third second, a sharp scream suddenly sounds in your ears, and a fish-eyed grimace appears in the mirror.
For horror games, this kind of design will be disgusting if abused, but if it is a clever arrangement of a certain link, it can have unexpected effects.
Including many horror games developed by Nebula Games before, such as biochemical and pt which are just demo content, they have been applied in some aspects.
But in "Fireworks", at least so far, Song Ren has not encountered it at all. The fear in the entire game mainly comes from the depressive atmosphere and his own suspicion of scaring himself.
After playing in this environment for a while and never finding anything scary, Song Ren's fear was greatly reduced. At the same time, as more and more content was collected, his attention also focused on the game. On the plot itself.
At the same time, I also gained a deeper understanding of the background of the game.
In the game, Lin Lizun, whom he plays, has a very special physique and can see and hear things that normal people cannot see.
To use an easy-to-understand description, it is psychic. The previous scene seemed to colleague Zheng Ming that Lin Lizun fainted and fell to the ground, but in fact, Lin Lizun saw something that ordinary people could not see.
"So we promised to talk about science and break superstition, but this is not scientific at all!" After playing here, Song Ren couldn't help but complain when he thought of the painted slogan he saw at the village gate.
He controlled Lin Lizun to get up from the bed, and some news was playing on the announcer behind him.
'On September 15, four members of a family in Qingtan Town were found dead at home... '
'The head of the household, Tian Moumou, his wife He Moumou, and his granddaughter Tian Moumou died of rat poison, and the head of the household's daughter-in-law, Zhao Moumou, hanged herself. '
'The police speculated that Zhao, the daughter-in-law of the head of the household, might have killed three other people and then hanged herself due to mental problems...'
Song Ren couldn't help but smacked his lips when he heard the tragedy of killing his family.
That’s it!
Combined with some clues collected previously, it is obvious that this murder case should be related to the previous fire case.
I just don't know if I still want to pay back the two yuan I owe Wang Jincai.
Following the prompts in the game, Song Ren controlled Lin Lizun to explore.
After communicating with the smoking doctor Ye Jingshan in the health center, I got some key information. According to him, Wang Jincai was killed by a ghost.
Because he had spread the news during his lifetime that the Tian family's daughter-in-law was a madman, and she went mad and killed the whole family before the ghost demanded her life.
But after leaving the health center room, Song Ren met another teacher named Chen Qingsui.
It is different from the information given by Ye Jingshan before, according to Chen Qingsui.
Zhao Xiaojuan is the Tian family's daughter-in-law and the mother of the Tian family's granddaughter Tian Fangfang. It is absolutely impossible for her to kill Tian Fangfang.
She suspected that the killer was Ye Jingshan, a doctor in the clinic, and believed that the other party had a motive.
Tian Yu, the son of the Tian family, was sent to a clinic in the town due to an epileptic seizure, but in the end, he was declared dead after resuscitation failed.
Tian Fangfang's grandfather felt that the doctor had killed his son, and the doctor broke the doctor's ribs.
The doctor was Ye Jingshan, and Zhao Xiaojuan also went to the clinic on the day of the crime based on the clues provided by Chen Qingsui.
But after returning, four members of the Tian family were killed.
Song Ren explored the game content bit by bit and got a lot of information from the fragmented clues.
Zhao Xiaojuan's father-in-law, Tian Xiangrong, once worked in a bank and was fired by the bank. After that, he opened a Gonghua supermarket in the town. However, his true identity is that he is a tomb robber. He makes money by robbing tombs and stealing the burial objects in tombs as cultural relics. He is also vain. He has a strong heart and still borrows money even if his family has no money, and he still hopes to win lottery tickets.
There are also Zhao Xiaojuan and Ye Jingshan. Through some clues in the conversation between the two, we can know that neither of them are locals of Qingtan Town. Zhao Xiaojuan was married and Ye Jingshan was trafficked since childhood.
The death of Zhao Xiaojuan's husband Tian Yu was because Tian Yu had suffered from epilepsy since he was a child, but Tian Xiangrong's parents-in-law never sent him to the hospital. Instead, they used various home remedies to treat the disease, which ultimately led to no cure.
Tian Fangfang's diary also revealed that her former teacher always disliked her and often punished her for writing.
But after Chen Qingsui came, Teacher Chen was very kind to her and would play games with her, so she liked Teacher Chen very much.
At the same time, some important information was also revealed in the diary, that is, after Tian Yu's death, his grandparents had found someone similar to a goddess to summon the soul.
During the entire game, Song Ren was a little nervous at the beginning because of various weird scenes.
For example, the pig head birthday cake, the weird mourning hall, the Tian family mansion that makes strange noises, the sewing machine and the radio.
But there was no high energy in the whole process, especially after he met teacher Chen Qingsui who also wanted to investigate the truth of the matter halfway, Song Ren even felt that this horror game had turned into a love game.
Especially when investigating Zhao Xiaojuan's photo studio, Lin Lizun and Chen Qingsui took a photo, which made the whole game full of warmth.
But because of this, Lin Lizun saw the past of Zhao Xiaojuan.
In this plot, the target of Song Ren's manipulation changed from Lin Lizun to Zhao Xiaojuan, and she seemed to be really possessed by Tian Yu's soul.
She who had never smoked started smoking, and who would retching when she smelled fish, she also started eating fish.
But the next moment the scene changed, the object became Lin Lizun again, and he came to a hell-like scene.
Here Lin Lizun saw Tian Yu's soul. Because his father robbed the tomb and he enjoyed the benefits, he needed to suffer the punishment for his father.
Thinking of the previous character setting of Lin Lizun being able to channel spirits, if it is true that Tian Yu has been tortured in hell, then who is possessing Zhao Xiaojuan
Or is there no such thing as possession at all
Was everything pretended by Zhao Xiaojuan on purpose
Song Ren had an inaccurate guess in his mind.
At this time, a phone call from the past rang. After answering, the conversation between Zhao Xiaojuan and Chen Qingsui could be heard on the phone.
It turns out that Chen Qingsui is not a support teacher but a reporter. She came to Qingtan Town to work as a support teacher for a list of tomb robber buyers in Tian Xiangrong's hand.
She reached an agreement with Zhao Xiaojuan. If the other party could get the account book, she could find a way to help Zhao Xiaojuan leave the town that trapped her in the mountains.
After playing here, based on the clues that have been collected, the truth of the entire game has been gradually revealed.
Although the scene in the game is still very underworld, the atmosphere is still very depressing.
But at this time, Song Ren had no fear at all.
Instead, it feels more like a heaviness.
At the same time, I finally understood what the six big characters "Speaking of Science and Breaking Superstition" painted in white paint on the red brick wall at the beginning of the game meant.
Because the entire game is a tragedy completely caused by feudal superstition.