It was obviously her own game console, but someone else repaired it. This made Alice feel a little uncomfortable, but she didn't worry about it for too long, because the most important thing now is not this, but-

“Cassette!”

Alice suddenly shouted, then opened the drawer and searched it inside. She quickly found her cassette storage box and opened it. Eight cassettes were lying quietly inside, with a cold tone on the surface of the metal material. Alice found that her fingers were trembling and could hardly control her excitement, but when she reached out to take out a cassette from the storage box, she was unexpectedly calm, as if she was afraid that the game console and cassette would fall from the gap between her fingers and be crushed to pieces.

If it is normal, Alice will definitely make full preparations before playing games, such as locking the door in advance to ensure that no one can disturb her; using a bed sheet and a pillow to build a nest on the bed, so that she can lean on it comfortably to play games; or sneaking into the kitchen and bringing some nuts back as snacks, etc. But now she is not in that mood, and she doesn't even care that Linger is still watching, so she simply sits down cross-legged and gently presses the start button of the game console.

The dark blue light slowly flowed out, flooding the original kerosene lamp. A translucent virtual light screen pulled apart along the void. The game command company logo composed of cylinders, spheres, prisms and cubes appeared on the screen. The genius player took a deep breath.

Really fixed.

No, it's not certain, it's necessary to verify it. The game, yes, whether the game can be started is the most important thing! After Alice realized this, she rushed to insert the cassette she had just taken into the slot on the side of the game console, and then waited anxiously. She couldn't sit and stood there. Every few seconds she had to look at the progress bar below, and sometimes she would deliberately look away, as if when she couldn't see it, the progress bar would go faster.

Although this feeling is unfamiliar, it has a long-lost familiarity, as if she had experienced it when and where.

In fact, when genius players were still living on Earth, they saw some old players recalling the past and expressing their thoughts on the forum. In the past, playing games was not considered a normal hobby, but a manifestation of losing their ambitions. Therefore, children often had to play secretly while their parents were away. At that time, while they were staring at the loading interface of the game console and paying attention to the movements outside the door, the anxiety and urgency may be the same as themselves at this moment? Alice could not understand such a mood, but now she has experienced it in a wonderful way.

Only Linge knew it well, but he had no intention of speaking out, just watching this scene silently.

Finally, the progress bar of the game console reached the end. The picture on the virtual light screen darkened, and then it lit up again. The brightly colored game screen reflected bright light in the eyes of the two people at the same time, and was depicted with heavy fog, city, monsters and travelers, and the eye-catching game name slowly emerged in the opening animation of the city, monsters and travelers.

Is it a inevitable accident? The cassette that Alice took out from the storage box happened to be the first game she made by herself and the beginning of the journey. The four characters in the opening animation are her, Linger, Mettyn ​​and St. Charlie. As the vampire of the big boss, Linger had forgotten this name. She looked so powerful at the beginning. If Alice had not released her ultimate move in time, she might have really lost to her.

But in fact, she is just a vampire in Sequence 7. The gap between her and the witch is a world of heaven, not to mention the most mysterious or powerful among the witches.

Alice stared at the game screen in a daze.

It was indeed successfully started, but she was not happy at all. This may be because the girl did not feel the response from the king, which means that the game is just a game, and she cannot use these fantasy elements to change reality.

But, if that wasn't the case, why would she have to repair the game console?

If it's just for the sake of playing the game, it won't help the current situation at all!

The screen flashed again and again with prompts to start the game, but Alice was not in that mood. Her emotions fell to the bottom after reaching the peak, as if she could not accept such a gap, and she was a little dull for a moment. At this time, a chuckle came from beside her, pulling her back to reality.

The girl raised her head blankly and looked at the young man, not understanding why he could still laugh, but Linge said to her in a memory-like tone: "This reminds me of something in the past. Do you know what it is, Alice?"

The genius player shook his head dullly, but did he mean that he didn't know or that he didn't want to think about it?

"It was you who stayed in Tianxin Church. We held the seven-day ceremony together. You stayed up late, right? You didn't sleep all night and made strange laughs in the middle of the night, which made Metien a little scared and worried about something happening to you. As a result, when I came to you in the morning, you told me with two big dark circles, finally getting the game done, and now you can kill me." The young man couldn't help laughing when he said this: "I was shocked at that time, but the current situation may be very similar, right?"

After he said this, Alice also recalled that it was what happened when she first came to this world, but so long had passed in a blink of an eye.

"Alice." Linger looked at the girl and asked word by word: "Did you ever have the idea of ​​using games to change something?"

Alice didn't know why he suddenly asked such a question. Her mind hadn't even turned back from that memory, but she shook her head like an instinctive reaction.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Linger then asked: "So, what were you thinking at that time?"

What is the purest and most essential idea in your mind?

Alice's body trembled suddenly, she slowly lowered her head and stared at the game console in her hand. After a while of silence, she gently pursed her dry lips and said in a bitter voice: "I want to... play games..."

It's just that simple.

Even if she comes to a strange world and faces an unknown situation and does not know where to go in the future, she still has no confusion or hesitation because she knows how she should live, and deeply knows that she only needs to live like that. A person's lifestyle may be temporarily compromised due to changes in the external environment, but her original intention should not have changed.

But at some point, Alice lost the ability to feel happiness from the game.

This is the saddest thing.

"You can play games now," said Linger. "Just like it was in the past. If you have forgotten, I can teach you how to do it."

He searched in the drawer, found the matching handle for the game console, then sat cross-legged in front of Alice, and gently pressed the option to start the game. The nostalgic pixel style was reflected in the girl's red eyes. Although the lack of the iconic narration dubbing made people feel a little regretful, everyone knows that the essence of the game is not how exquisite, strange, and fun it is, but how much fun it is, but the player itself. When you learn to satisfy yourself and get fun from a simple life, even the most boring little game can still be played with relish.

Ringer was not that kind of person, Alice was not that kind of person.

Linger has become that kind of person now, but Alice still doesn't know what kind of person she will become.

The former played the game with a controller, while the latter watched him play the game blankly. The four pixel characters controlled by the young man fought against the vampire boss who came from the blood moon in the dark and dilapidated city. The gorgeous skill special effects and the damage numbers occupying half the screen flashed everywhere. Alice deliberately added it. She remembered very clearly that when she developed this game, she thought that relying on pixel style and turn-based alone was not interesting enough, so she added a lot of messy things, which eventually led to it becoming a bit cheap. When playing the game together, Ovela and the others complained about their aesthetics a lot. At that time, she refuted it with striking remarks that this was a mistake that every beginner in the field of game design would make. She just kept her original intention, but now she suddenly thought that the original intention was still retained?

The young man skillfully controlled the characters to fight. He had hardly played this game, but the battle at that time seemed to emerge from the memory of the night, vividly remembering it, allowing him to compare the scenes at that time and perfectly reproduce the characters' operations. In the end, just like that battle, he used the hero character symbolizing Alice to release the ultimate mystery [Caitian and Earth Founding Sword] to use the ultimate secret [Caitian and Earth Founding Sword], and directly killed the poor boss in seconds.

This familiar scene and the final victory made Alice suddenly recall that when she set her career, she did not choose other careers that looked cooler and more powerful, but chose the most clichéd hero in traditional adventure stories. Didn’t she just take a fancy to her gorgeous ultimate move and her ability to turn the tables in the most desperate adversity? She has always been a person who loves to show off. How many times did she fantasize about being a brave man, creating miracles in desperate situations, saving her companions and receiving praise and thanks from them, but when did the legendary brave man not even get enough of her 20 courage points?

"Um." Linger frowned. Through the reproduction of the battle just now, he suddenly realized something: "It seems that the fight was a bit rough. I think that battle can actually be won easier."

In order to verify his guess, he also reopened several games in front of Alice, each time he played better than before. From the beginning, he used the hero's ultimate move to pass the level thrillingly, and later he could defeat the boss without losing his players. Finally, through repeated attempts, he even found a way of playing that Alice had never thought about when developing the game. It was not that Alice, who was responsible for output, as the core, but through the cooperation of two healing professions and the destiny of the Queen's Destiny BUFF, he kept recovering and controlling the field, so that the whole team could maintain the full health, and with the meager damage from his sister, he kicked the boss to death.

This scene made Alice a little dazed. She vaguely remembered that she seemed to have joked about Mettyn ​​at that time, but it was just a joke. She never thought that one day, Linger could achieve it with a special style of play. At this time, she suddenly remembered that are not all such people. They are bold, fearless, creative and adventurous. They never stick to a fixed format, but are committed to creating their own unique path. Every different style of play, every level-passing idea, and even every skill use, they have their own understanding, and they will never repeat it. The only thing they can't do is to stick to the rules and admit that they are bound by the game.

For real players, games that can restrain their thinking have never appeared, but when did they lose the courage to continue to study, challenge, and constantly explore, and to find a new path among the mountains. Instead, they are scared by the enemy's strength and are just trying to use the safest way to pass the level? They will only follow the existing path. Once this path is not done, they will complain loudly, or even feel irritable and anxious, are not players at all, right?

That's right.

When did you start and you are no longer a player?

It seems that from the day when the girl no longer calls herself a "genius player". Faced with the cold reality, she suddenly realized that she had never been the kind of genius with fantasy ideas, nor was she the kind of player who dared to study and explore.

She admitted her ordinary and mediocre.

Although some people have not admitted it yet - Linge does not admit it, he still calls Alice by a genius player, and there is no meaning of ridicule; Saint-Chariya does not admit it. In her mind, although Alice is usually unreliable, she never loses to anyone in terms of game matters; in addition, there are Ovela, Iyeta, and even the Sino who was once stopped by a girl... No one will admit it, so they are disappointed with Alice, the premise is to have expectations.

Also, she wouldn't admit it.

At the last moment, Alice suddenly remembered that the day when the Heavenly Termis disappeared, she tried to stroke her cheek with her hands.

The touch of that time seemed to have been inherited to the present.

Linge had put down the handle at some point and stared quietly at the girl in front of her, with her expression focused and gentle. Alice seemed to have had something foreseeed. She slowly raised her head and looked at him, her beautiful ruby ​​eyes were filled with loneliness and fragility. A belated sour feeling washed over the tip of her nose, making her feel uncomfortable, unable to breathe, and want to cry.

"Linger..." she asked in a trembling voice: "Can I... cry..."

"Yeah." The young man nodded slightly and asked, "Do you need me to lend you your shoulders?"

The girl shook her head sadly, just stretched out her hand, took his palm, and gently pressed it on her cheek. Then she slowly bent down, bent down, and buried her whole body in his palm, as if buried in the warmest quilt, which was a place to cry.

After a while, a cold and wetness came from the young man's palm.
Chapter completed!