"Young kite, young kite."
Shi Ye, who was sitting opposite, called Xu Youyuan, and Xu Youyuan suddenly came back to her senses.
"Well, yes, very good." Xu Youyuan replied.
"What the hell." Shi Ye laughed, "I asked if you could add roast duck to your new food game, it's very good. Why don't you think you have no energy, what are you thinking?"
Xu Youyuan watched Shi Ye and other friends in front of her, and then she remembered that the game was a big hit, and Sister Lu distributed another wave of bonuses to her. She only kept 10,000 yuan, and the rest went to Shiyue's side. The 10,000 yuan is used to invite friends to dinner.
Now they are having dinner at the Kagura izakaya.
She originally called Shi Yue to come with her, but Shi Yue didn't come.
"I want to calm down." When Shi Yue said this to her, she saw Shi Yue's unprecedented lost eyes through the crack of the door that was about to close.
"Well..." Xu Youyuan didn't force her, because she also felt that it was better for the two of them to calm down.
"Roast duck, yes, how can there be no such a classic dish, I'll write it down." Xu Youyuan took out her phone to unlock it, but she couldn't unlock it after shaking her face for a long time.
Jiang Yun: "Sister Bird, you held your phone upside down."
Xu Youyuan: "..."
Shi Ye: "What's wrong with you? You're absent-minded. What happened to you and Xiaoyue? What's wrong with living together?"
Ah Gan and Jiang Yun: "Huh? You two live together? When did it happen?"
Xu Youyuan: "Not long, less than a month."
"It's been almost a month, and you didn't tell the sisters! Sister Bird didn't come to share it to make us feel happy when she's done, you're too funny!"
Everyone was congratulating, and Sister Hui, who was sitting beside Jiang Yun, was watching, leaning on Jiang Yun's shoulder and saying, "You little brats, stop arguing, let You Yuan say for herself, she will definitely meet Some difficult situations."
As soon as Sister Hui spoke, everyone became quiet, staring at Xu Youyuan, waiting for her to speak.
"Actually, I encountered some difficulties in the game." The phone was turned over and over in Xu Youyuan's hands.
"Games?" Shi Ye said, "You mean that you are in the dark... ahem, are you having difficulties in the game? No, will there be any problems with a great god like you?"
"It's not the same." Xu Youyuan knew that Shi Ye wanted to help her hide her date with Shi Yue in the dark room, but now she doesn't mind, how many professional players the dark room season has attracted, no one will anymore Think of it as a simple dating software, the dark room is now a completely explosive love game, and it is not ashamed to mention it.
More importantly, Xu Youyuan doesn't have the energy to hide it now.
"Shiyue and I are stuck in the last stage of the secret love theme and the last scene of the preliminaries. The secret is the secret you know... "
Xu Youyuan popularized the game of the dark room to everyone, thinking that everyone should not play this former game of the next three. I didn't expect that there was no need to explain it, everyone knew it.
Well, it turns out that everyone is playing secretly, not even the best friend has revealed...
Xu Youyuan was shocked and looked around the circle of old sisters with wretched smiles: "Okay, if you all play, save me the effort, I'll just say it directly."
Four days ago, Xu Youyuan and Shi Yue entered the dark room with great interest, intending to clear the last scene.
How real the real world will be, Xu Youyuan is ready.
Even with strong mental preparations, this final scene was too much unexpected.
The rules of the third stage of the love theme are different from the previous two stages. The most important thing is the heartbeat index, but the partners do not need to play other roles, nor do they have to go through the process of searching. They even get it as soon as they enter the game. The appearance of the character is very close to the real appearance.
The names used by the characters are the same as their nicknames, and their ages are closer to reality. Xu Youyuan is 38 years old and Shi Yue is 29 years old.
This real feeling, in connection with the precautions displayed when entering the scene, has an even more mysterious atmosphere.
[Precautions…
Two: You and your partner share weal and woe, and have gone through countless ups and downs to get here. But it's a game, and you all know it's a game. What if it was real life
"Whether poor or rich, healthy or sick, you can cherish each other until death separates you."
Can two people who are in love now overcome everything with love
The real world has the answers you want.]
Entering the game scene, Shi Yue was still not around, and Xu Youyuan appeared in an old house with one room and one living room.
The character controlled by Xu Youyuan looks exactly the same as her, but with a different occupation.
She is a housewife, Shiyue is an office worker, and they have a sick 3-year-old child.
The sound of a child's cough and the strong smell of medicine occupy every corner of this small house.
[System prompt: You will experience real human events with your partner 'Plasma Cream Cake'. Please maintain a heartbeat index of more than 50 points during the fifteen-year game time. If it is lower than 50 points, it will be judged immediately for failure.]
"Ten, fifteen years?"
All those present were horrified when they heard what Xu Youyuan said: "You guys are going to spend fifteen years in the game?"
Xu Youyuan's throat was dry and she took a sip: "It's fifteen years of game time. In reality, it's only about forty-eight hours, but it will give players the feeling that it's as long as fifteen years in real life."
Sister Hui's expression also became a little serious: "For such a long time, you have to maintain a good impression of a person all the time, tsk... Who can do that?"
Xu Youyuan: "As many teams as you enter the competition stage, as many people will do it. At first, I thought it was scaring people again. Shiyue and I will definitely be fine with what others can do. Maybe it's too underestimated. , from the very beginning we were not very smooth. After all, there are more people entering the competition stage, and more people can be eliminated."
In this scene, various family conditions can be turned into floating windows that float above and below the field of vision. Xu Youyuan poured out the medicine, and after feeding the child to calm her cough, Xu Youyuan checked the current family situation.
Both Xu Youyuan and Shi Yue's parents are still alive, which means that in addition to supporting themselves and their children, they also need to support the elderly.
A 25-year-old urban old house with a usable area of 42 square meters and no possibility of demolition.
What made Xu Youyuan collapse the most was seeing the deposit column.
12,000 yuan…
What the hell, even poorer than when Xu Youyuan lived in the western suburbs!
Looking at the income and expenses of the last year, most of them are spent on children's medical treatment, the remaining 1/2 is living expenses, and 1/2 is spent on the elderly and members of the family.
Shi Yue works in a very ordinary technology company. At the age of 29, she is still an ordinary employee, receiving 14,500 yuan per month.
This character setting is not very scientific for Shi Yue, but it cannot be denied that it is indeed the life most ordinary people are most likely to experience in 2036.
After more than 10,000 yuan is spent every month, there is not a cent left. The deposit was still saved by Xu Youyuan from Shiyue's year-end bonus last year.
Xu Youyuan felt very awkward. Although she was poor, she did not live frugally in her family life and even brought her children to be poor.
If she felt uncomfortable, Shi Yue would definitely be even more uncomfortable. After all, Shi Yue had a privileged family since she was a child, and with her ability to be young and promising, it is estimated that she had never been at work and suffered from anger, let alone a hard life.
She and Shi Yue have been married for 4 years, and their heartbeat index is only 52 points.
In other words, if you drop another 3 points, you will immediately fail.
It's 15 years that people can't ignore for a moment.
Xu Youyuan was in a trance when the child suddenly rolled over and fell off the bed, crying.
Xu Youyuan had never brought a child, so she didn't know that the child would fall by herself, so she quickly picked her up.
"Mom, it hurts."
Xu Youyuan didn't know how to hold the child properly, and the way of holding her was not very sophisticated, but the child still kissed her and acted like a spoiled child in her arms.
When the child snuggled up to Xu Youyuan, Xu Youyuan looked at her little face seriously, her eyes were very similar to Shi Yue's, and she looked sweet when she smiled. The nose and mouth are actually nine points similar to their own.
If she and Shi Yue really had a child, it would be like this.
Thinking of this, Xu Youyuan immediately understood that the child was made by systematically extracting the appearance features of her and Shi Yue. The appearance that resembles the player will give the player a more real sense of investment, and will also have a deeper connection with the fate of the child.
After Xu Youyuan found out about this, she was more attentive when looking after the child.
Before the child's name has been chosen, the system prompted Xu Youyuan to ask her to name the child.
Let alone a child, even after the name of a cat or dog is established, this feeling is established. If you have deep feelings, you are even more reluctant to watch the child suffer, and you will invest more money in it.
Xu Youyuan intends not to be named first.
Find a shelf on the side of the bed to prevent the child from falling, and stand it up so that the child can't fall down.
As soon as the partition was put up, Xu Youyuan smelled a peculiar smell. She went to the kitchen looking for the peculiar smell, all of which were tableware and chopsticks that she had not had time to wash.
There is no dishwasher at home.
It's still winter.
Always have gloves! Xu Youyuan looked around, okay, it's easy to do with gloves.
Put on gloves to wash dishes, turn to the hot water side with a little luck, and turn to the end. OK, no hot water.
I just washed a bowl and found that my gloves were torn and cold water was poured into it. Halfway through the bowl, my fingers were frozen, so I had to boil some boiling water and wash it.
The kettle was covered with scale, Xu Youyuan glanced at the internal situation, and could be miserable for a year.
Boil water first, and then clean up after washing the dishes. Xu Youyuan stuck the kettle on the chassis. There was some movement in the kettle, and the room was dark with a "pop". The only light source came from the balcony full of debris.
power cut
Xu Youyuan went to the door vigilantly, wanting to look out from the cat's eye to see the situation first, wondering if there would be a sudden danger.
I walked to the wooden door and looked around, but there were no cat eyes.
Xu Youyuan: "..."
The wooden door was slowly opened. Fortunately, there was a layer of iron door outside. The lower half of the iron door was solid, and the upper half was hollowed out with gauze. This kind of iron gate, Xu Youyuan, remembers seeing it when she was a child when she returned to her grandfather's house. It is very old-fashioned.
The part connecting the gauze and the iron gate is broken in several places. I don't know if it was broken by myself or someone cut it. It seems to have been broken for a long time, but no one has repaired it.
What has been the day...
There was no one else in the corridor. There were three households on the first floor without elevators, two on the left and one on the right. The fire safety door was tied by a rope and forced to open. The corridor was full of debris and dusty strollers. The property asked the owners to take away the sundries as soon as possible, otherwise the notice that it would easily cause a fire was posted in the most conspicuous position, but it was obvious that the owners were indifferent.
Xu Youyuan opened the door and went out and saw that the electricity was out. The system prompts that you need to find an electricity card to go to the bank to buy electricity.
As a modern person whose monthly utility bills are automatically deducted, Xu Youyuan has never gone to the bank to buy electricity. Not to mention electricity, she rarely uses cash, and feels that old-fashioned banks are very inefficient, and I don't know why they have not been eliminated.
Now she understands that there are still many old houses that cannot be settled online, and water and electricity have to go to the bank and the water company to pay.
Xu Youyuan rummaged through the box and found the bank card. When she went out, the child began to cough again and asked her where she was going. Xu Youyuan was a little worried that this silly child stayed at home by herself, pushed the baby carriage over, and carried her in.
It was only when I went out with the cart that I remembered that there is no elevator in this old house!
Looking at the sweaty child in the stroller who was struggling to breathe, he asked her, "Can you stay at home alone?"
The child pouted and said nothing.
Forget it, take it with you...
Let the child wait for her at home first, Xu Youyuan carried the cart downstairs and put it aside, and then came up to carry the child down.
Fortunately, the child was sick and thin, so Xu Youyuan didn't have much trouble picking it up and walked down from the sixth floor to make a living. It's just that when I go down the stairs, I can't see the road under my feet. The elder has to stretch his neck so that he can look forward and step on each step carefully.
Afraid of falling down with the child, Xu Youyuan on the sixth floor took a long time to finish. Her muscles were tired from holding the child and tense from tension, and her physical strength dropped rapidly.
Putting the child in the cart, Xu Youyuan found that her physical strength decreased faster than all previous scenes when she pushed the cart to the bank.
Is it because of the emphasis on realism at this stage
The bank is not far from home, 1.8 kilometers.
Anyway, she is a housewife and doesn't have to go to work in a hurry. She can walk slowly with a cart.
However, this old street has many steps up and down, and the flat road is also bumpy and not easy to walk. There are construction sections along the street, not to mention pushing a car, even walking alone is tiring enough.
After finally tossing to the bank, Xu Youyuan was so tired that she was out of breath, sweat on her forehead.
The feeling of low back pain was real and clear, Xu Youyuan supported her waist with a cart and entered the bank. As soon as the automatic door of the bank opened, the human voice drowned her out.
Well, so many people!
Xu Youyuan glanced at the crowded bank hall, dumbfounded.
The bank staff came up to ask her what business she needed to do, and Xu Youyuan said that I would buy electricity.
The staff pointed her to the automatic payment machine next to the ATM machine outside and asked her to pay there.
Relieved, Xu Youyuan immediately went to the automatic payment machine to pay the bill, inserting both the electricity card and the bank card. When I got to the payment page, I was in a waiting state, and it took almost a minute to tell her that I failed.
Exit the two cards and try again, each step is frustratingly slow. I finally came to the payment page again, and after waiting with my scalp numb, I failed again.
Xu Youyuan endured her anger and went to the staff. The staff came over slowly and repeated the same thing she had done twice, but it was still a familiar failure.
"Oh, it may be broken." The staff member said, "Then you can take a number and go to the window to handle it."
Looking at the window that had been flooded by old men and ladies, Xu Youyuan asked, "Is that the window over there?"
"Yes." The staff member had printed out a small note and handed it to her, "You can go there when your number is called at the window."
The number 1023 was written on the paper. Xu Youyuan looked up at three windows. The nearest number was number 814.
asphyxia.
"I've been to that old-fashioned bank." Ah Gan said, "I used to work in a small company in the suburbs when I first started working, and I often had to go to the bank when I was working. Don't look at the rapid development of technology now, but some older people People really can’t keep up, and they don’t like to deal with AI, so old men and women still like to go to the bank to meet people face-to-face to be at ease.”
"That's right!" Xu Youyuan said, "It's that kind of place!"
Sister Hui, who was born in the 1990s, said, "Isn't it normal to wait in line at the bank to do business? You children, just let you wait for a while and then scream."
"It's really not as simple as waiting a bit..."
Xu Youyuan pushed the cart and had nowhere to sit, so she just stood aside and waited.
From the conversations between the old men and the old ladies, it is probably heard that half of them have children at home who go out to work and do not know how to use APPs. Many businesses do not know how to operate on mobile phones, so they come to the bank to ask people. The other half want to buy financial products such as treasury bonds and gold, but do not trust mobile software and want to consult with bankers.
There are only 3 windows, no financial manager, and they are all handled together. People sat chatting for a long time, and the teller was slow and not in a hurry. Xu Youyuan waited until her back legs were almost broken, and didn't go home until the afternoon.
She and the child are hungry and plan to order takeout.
Just a dish and a soup cost more than 60 yuan, so what kind of takeaway is there to eat... Xu Youyuan's flesh hurts, why don't you cook it yourself.
Cook the rice, open the fridge and see what's available
There was only a frozen tenderloin and a half-eaten can in the fridge, and a big bag of pickles.
Xu Youyuan: "..."
"This is just the beginning." Xu Youyuan said to her sympathetic friends, "Cook some porridge with pickles, and eat it as you go. But Shiyue's side is under even more pressure."
After Shi Yue entered the game, she found herself in a very small company, with an old-fashioned computer in front of her, and dense tables full of data.
Shi Yue pulled down the table and looked at it. This is the order statistics table. There are many mistakes but it is very simple. She can quickly modify it.
The small office was very stuffy, filled with the smell of smoke, which made Shi Yue difficult to breathe and made her eyes even more uncomfortable.
However, the monitor of this broken computer has aged so much that the screen keeps flashing.
Shi Yue insisted on finishing the form, but she couldn't save it.
Shi Yue: "?"
The boss came out of the office, snapped his fingers at Shi Yue, and said impatiently, "How long do you want me to wait?"
Shi Yue has finished, but she can't give it to the boss.
"Two minutes." Shi Yue smiled at him.
Boss: "Within two minutes, if you don't receive the form, get out of here."
Shi Yue didn't answer him, just copied the final data into the text, and sent the screenshot to the boss.
Afterwards, Shi Yue pulled the wire behind the monitor forcefully, and the monitor screen instantly became blurry.
"What's the matter! Just give me a screenshot? Where's the form!" The boss rushed out again.
Shi Yue pointed at the computer that was already blurred: "The computer is broken. Fortunately, I rescued the data."
The boss saw that there was indeed a problem with the screen, so he lowered his voice and went back to the office cursing.
When the boss closed the door, Shi Yue dismantled the case and finished the show.
It was half past six, and no one left the office. Shi Yue saw that there were either games or chat windows hidden in the slanted computer screens of her colleagues. Staying here to play without going home was a waste of time.
This is her least favorite way.
Shi Yue wholeheartedly looked forward to going home and meeting Xu Youyuan as soon as possible.
You know, this time it's not some way to find her in the crowd, the two of them are legal wives and wives! It's a couple! Open the panel to see it! Not only married but also have children!
Of course, people with families have to rush home to accompany their wives. Who cares about going to this ghost class!
Shi Yue wanted to send the pennant directly to the project team, thanking her colleagues for fulfilling her wish for many years.
However, she can't leave yet.
Emotionally, she can't wait to run home immediately to enjoy the warmth and sweetness of home, but she also sees the basic situation of the family now.
The child's health index is very low. The scene assumes that Xu Youyuan had high blood pressure when she gave birth to the child. She is also a bit older as a mother. She risked her life to give birth to the child, and the child was seriously ill. After falling ill and unable to go to work for the time being, the family's income depends on Shi Yuechao's 9 to 9 working overtime and working hard to earn back the living expenses.
What's scary is that their savings is less than a month's salary, and Shiyue has no way out. The job must not be lost now until a new one is found.
Biting the bullet, she finally held out until a colleague left work first, and Shi Yue also clocked in quickly, planning to slip home.
"Wait a minute, come here." The boss suddenly appeared again and stopped her, "What time are you running? You are the fastest every day!"
Shi Yue smiled and said, "Boss, do you have any other orders?"
"It's a lot! Do you want me to do all this work alone?" The boss loosened his belt and relieved his painful stomach a little, "You want to run even before I leave, who is it? boss?"
Shi Yue didn't argue with him, went into the house obediently to get work, and came out with a pile of documents.
Damn, what era is this scene, and paperless office has not yet been realized
Shi Yue, who was under special care, worked until 8:30 in the evening. After everyone left, she finished the temporary work assigned by the boss. When I left the office, the whole building was empty.
When entering the last scene, Shi Yue already understood the special mechanism of this scene.
Since it is called "real world", it is to let players experience the real human suffering and test the tacit understanding and love of both parties in the cruelest life.
Human essence? nonexistent.
genius? also does not exist.
Similar to the previous two stages, the description of this stage states that the difficulty of the game will be adjusted according to the player's IQ.
Before entering the game, the two of them entered the closed passage respectively, and the scene was loading in front of them. Because there was fifteen years of game time, it took a little time to load, and the progress bar was much slower than before.
In the process of waiting for the scene to be built, players have a questionnaire to fill out. After filling in, the number of failures in this scene can be increased to four times.
"Shiyue!" Xu Youyuan called Shiyue in a private chat.
Shi Yue said, "Have you seen this questionnaire too?"
Xu Youyuan: "I saw it... So there is a limit to the number of times this scene?"
Shi Yue said: "Yes, but the number of replays is not to increase the difficulty, but to reduce the difficulty, which is for the player's consideration. After all, after playing the whole scene, it will feel like you have spent fifteen years in the real world, so play it a few more times. The player's mental state may collapse. If you come to us to settle the account, it will not be settled."
"No wonder there are so many teams participating in the preliminaries, and less than 1/1000 of them entered the competition stage. It turns out that there is a elimination mechanism." Xu Youyuan said, "Let's just fill out the questionnaire, or have one more chance. ."
"Fill in, I've already filled in."
Xu Youyuan glanced at the questionnaire. The questionnaire is very simple. Fill in the real age and occupation, and basic user group statistics.
During these normal operations, Xu Youyuan saw a question: "What do you most want to do with your partner in the scene? Answer: Do ____"
Xu Youyuan wrote a word expressionlessly.
Shi Yue asked her at the right time: "What did you write in the last question?"
Xu Youyuan asked back, "What did you write?"
Shi Yue: "I wrote a word."
"It's a coincidence, I also wrote a word. Is there anything tricky about this questionnaire?"
Xu Youyuan's feeling was too keen, Shi Yue immediately said, "No, no."
"That's it."
"Hey you, don't you believe me and ask me?"
"Go in the opposite direction of what you said, and you'll get the real answer. Your words work just as well."
Shi Yue: "… "
After completing the questionnaire, there is also an IQ test that must be taken.
IQ test Xu Youyuan has seen the explanation in the scene description, the higher the IQ of the player, the more difficult the scene will be.
Xu Youyuan walked forward, and the question came face to face. When she answered a few questions on purpose in the test, the channel instantly turned red.
[System prompt: Please choose the answer that you really agree with, otherwise it will be regarded as cheating.]
Xu Youyuan had no choice but to take a few steps back and choose the correct answer before she could move on.
The two finally passed the passage and were about to enter the scene. Shi Yue asked Xu Youyuan, "What's your IQ score?"
"166, how about you?"
"It's a coincidence, I'm also 166." Shi Yue sighed, "So it means that this time it must be hell difficulty."