Alice yawned, her face full of tiredness: "I'm going to bed."
Ringer, who was putting the dishes and chopsticks back in the cupboard, didn't say anything, but nodded slightly. Alice stood on tiptoes and slipped out of the kitchen quietly, fearing that Ringer would ask her to do something else on a whim.
.Just like just now, she wanted to chat with Metien after dinner, but she was caught by Lin Ge and washed the dishes in the kitchen for half an hour. She was so tired that her back ached and she didn't dare to say anything anymore.
Big words like "I want to be the best maid in the world".
In the meantime, she also used various means to make insinuations and asked Ringer about Mr. Yangke and Mrs. Maggie, but the latter completely ignored her questions. When he felt that she talked too much, he would turn his head and stare at her with calm eyes.
. Alice, who felt that she already had a psychological advantage, felt guilty for some reason when faced with this gaze, and did not dare to say another word.
This made her feel ashamed and regretful, and she was even more certain that Ringer must have concealed something important. It didn't matter if he didn't tell her now, she would definitely find out later. The good days are yet to come!
With this in mind, Alice proudly went to the second floor, intending to harass Metien, but found that the pink-haired girl had already turned off the lights and went to bed. She suddenly lost all interest and returned to her room to change out of her maid uniform.
Finally, he fell down on the quilt and fell into a deep sleep...
Wait, I seem to have forgotten something?
Alice, who was sleeping poorly while hugging the quilt, suddenly opened her eyes. She turned over and her eyes fell on the small round table in the corner. To be more precise, it fell on her game console and cassette storage box.
During the three days she traveled back in time, she started up the game console every night, hoping to see the progress bar stuck at 99% jump to 100% one day and start her counterattack as a true protagonist. Unfortunately, the results were always disappointing.
Yes, this tiny gap is like a huge chasm, insurmountable.
Want to try it tonight too?
Maybe it's simply broken?
In that case, no matter how many times you try, it will be useless.
But...what if?
Alice lay on the quilt and blinked. In the darkness, she was like a cat hiding quietly in the cracks, with a pair of shining ruby eyes. Suddenly she moved, as if following some mysterious premonition, from
He climbed up from the bed and crawled towards the small round table. It only took him a few seconds to reach it, stretched out his hand and grabbed the silver-white cube.
She fumbled skillfully and gently pressed the power-on button of the game console, and then the familiar faint blue light screen appeared in front of her eyes again, refracting the deep and blurry light, making the girl's face look a little pale.
The counter-intuitive logo of GI Club flashed for a few times and then disappeared. Alice held her breath, like an Internet-addicted girl who secretly got up late at night behind her parents' back to play video games. She watched nervously as the progress bar crawled forward, from 15% to 15%.
to 50%, from 55% to 95%, and finally stuck at 99%, motionless.
After waiting silently for a few minutes, when there was still no movement on the progress bar, Alice let out a sigh of relief. She sighed in disappointment and muttered: "Sure enough, premonitions are not trustworthy."
After saying that, she went to press the power button, intending to turn off the game console. Her fingers were already bent, and she would press it with just a little more force, but suddenly her eyes widened, and with great willpower, she held back the button.
She felt the urge to exert force because she saw the progress bar on the light screen seemed to jump, and then, 99% became... 100%!
Am I hit!?
I'm going to start a counterattack!?
Did the genius player Alice’s single-life clearing performance start from here?
She looked at the suddenly darkened light screen in disbelief and full of surprise. She was searching for the right words in her mind to express her current excited mood, but a pop-up window popped up on the light screen, taking away her attention.
:
【No game data detected, please insert the cartridge.】
Cassette? Oh, yes, you still have to insert the cassette. Although GI was criticized as a "cassette merchant" when it announced that this game console supports both holographic sensory simulation and traditional peripheral operation modes, I was fortunate enough to contact it.
Alice, who has created many classic game masterpieces in this generation, did not mind this nostalgic approach. She quickly took the storage box next to her, opened it, took out the cassette with the serial number I, and inserted it into the game with a little excitement.
into the slot on the machine side.
She inexplicably heard the sound of gears clicking together, a bit like the movement of a clock. Could this be the legendary "the gears of fate began to turn"? After taking a closer look, she discovered that there was indeed a live clock in the lower right corner of the pop-up window.
The rusty metal gear is turning, probably another form of progress bar.
The content of the pop-up window has changed: [Game cartridge detected, starting to scan cartridge data. 】
Alice's eyes were unblinking, staring at the game pop-up window. The waiting time was always very long, maybe only a few seconds passed, but she felt that a century had passed. Finally, the metal gears clicked and turned.
After stopping, the content of the pop-up window also changed: [No cassette data detected, do you want to re-edit? 】
There are two options below: [Yes/No]
What!?
Alice was stunned for a moment.
What does the cassette data not detected mean? Is there no data in this cassette? His grandma said, the game command company is really not a human being, how dare you sell fakes... Although she got it without spending a penny.
, but no matter what, it still violates the legitimate rights and interests of consumers!
She wants to complain, report, and compensate!
But in the Kingdom of Great Brita in the 19th century, there was obviously no consumer association, so Alice had no way to complain, so she could only accept the fact in frustration. Besides, it might not be impossible to play, I didn’t see it.
Does it also thoughtfully give you the option to re-edit?
I want to see what this is all about!
The indignant Alice stretched out her hand to fumble around on the left side of the game console, and pressed another button hard. A faint blue light suddenly flowed out, and the appearance of a game controller was outlined in the void, which she held in her hand.
She controlled the controller and chose [Yes].
At this moment, the content on the light screen changed drastically. The UI of the game interface became a combination of steel, gears, metal bearings and mysterious runes, which perfectly fit the steam and fantasy background mentioned in the game promotion.
Under the majestic iron dome, the gears are connected through metal bearings and fit perfectly together to form a giant machine with precise structure, shaped like a clock tower and a temple. Mysterious runes with a faint blue light are placed between the tower and the temple.
The surface of the hall spread, and finally different characters were outlined on the exposed gears. Should they be the characters of the earth? Or the characters of another world? Alice couldn't tell, after all, she could recognize both kinds of characters now.
The contents written by these mysterious runes are neither mysterious spells nor unimaginable magic, but terms that Alice is very familiar with: [Game Type], [World Background], [Main Plot], [Main
Characters], [Combat Mechanism], [Core Gameplay], [Map Design], [Branch Plots], [Collection Elements], [New Elements for the Second Week]...and so on, after a rough sweep, there are a total of twenty
Several major items.
Faced with so many options, Alice was confused, and a thought came to her mind: The so-called re-editing of the cassette data meant that she was going to create a new game from scratch, right?
But she is a genius player, not a genius game producer!
Isn’t this too overwhelming?
The hand holding the handle began to tremble.
No, no!
You've already reached this level, how can you back down so easily? Alice, Alice, you even dare to say that you have the goal of becoming the best maid in the world, why don't you dare to say that you can become the best game producer in the world?
What about people? After all, in a different world in the 19th century, the profession of game producer probably didn’t exist yet, right?
Sometimes, the transition from a genius player to a genius game producer is not difficult to overcome as long as you bite the bullet.
Alice thought over and over again, thinking over and over again, with countless thoughts flowing out... In short, after experiencing some psychological struggle, she decided to bite the bullet, and would rather suffer for herself than to suffer for the game machine.
——Especially the SLP game console which is a global limited edition.
With trembling hands, he pressed the handle hard.
What's the saying? The gears of fate start turning from this moment...