With a glass of champagne in his hand, Wang Xu sat on a chair and looked out the window quietly.
It's dark outside, the moon is hanging in the sky, and the sky is dotted with stars. It looks beautiful.
Wang Xu just watched like this, it was very quiet, only the ticking of the grandfather clock told the never-ending sound of time.
Boom, boom, boom...
The bell rang twelve times in a row, which was the clock at twelve o'clock at midnight.
Wang Xu took a deep breath, picked up his mobile phone, logged into the Internet, and found a timekeeping website.
As soon as I see it, the date on it shows 0:00 on June 11th.
"Haha!" Wang Xu smiled and closed the phone. Just as he guessed, the protagonist's immortal time will not be reset, even if no player takes over.
The world of Grand Theft Auto is like a dull procedural world.
Wang Xu can be sure that this world will never be that advanced, because judging from the current situation, it only has two judgments: yes and no.
The protagonist dies, no, the world is reset.
The protagonist exists, yes, time continues.
This world is as if it has been set by someone. It never gives a third choice. The biggest weapon is to load and reset.
Wang Xu smiled happily. The test of extending the game time was over. The next step was the file loading test.
Looking back at Li Huang, who had countless eyes, Wang Xu pulled out the pistol from his arms and whispered: "Good night, Li Huang... Bang!"
...
On the morning of June 11, the weather was slightly cool.
Wang Xu put Li Huang's body into a black garbage bag, drove it and threw it into the sea.
Today is a new round of experiments. If the protagonist dies the next day, how will time be reset?
Is it reset to the early morning of June 11th or June 10th when it started? Is the reset related to time?
Wang Xu drove aimlessly. The answer to this question will be revealed tonight, but before that, he planned to take a good look at the world.
Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown: There are two exciting aspects of this game.
The first is the main plot, in which the player controls the character Li Huang and participates in gang vendettas, fights, dirty deals, and struggles for power.
The other is free play. You can control Li Huang to do whatever he wants regardless of the main plot.
There are three districts in Liberty City, with hundreds of vendors in total. From each vendor, you can buy goods with different prices.
In free play, players can control Li Huang and engage in buying and selling with vendors.
Buy goods from places with big sales and ship them to places where they are urgently needed, thereby earning the difference in price.
Once you have money, you can buy a safe house to escape police pursuit, cars of various grades and uses, or privately customize a batch of weapons.
There are also special tasks you can do with some special NPCs, and you will be rewarded with various rewards after completing them.
Under normal circumstances, the rewards are just money, and a few will give you things like iron finger cots, baseball bats, chainsaws, flamethrowers, and Molotov cocktails.
Wang Xu drove around, exploring area after area.
Of course, he will no longer find vendors to engage in small business of buying and selling, but is observing the overall structure of Liberty City.
First of all, the Southern District is the center of the city. There is an international airport, many large shopping malls, weapons stores, jewelry stores, automobile malls, and large banks. This is the most prosperous area in the city.
The North District is an industrial area, with numerous industrial parks of various types ranging from shipbuilding factories to cement factories and canneries.
The East District is a leisure resort with various game arcades, casinos, sea view beaches, red light districts, striptease nightclubs, and racing clubs.
Wang Xu compared it and found that the Liberty City template was modeled after New York City.
Almost everything in New York can be found here. The only difference is that in the real New York, the gangs are not so rampant. Also, you can’t see any of the cities around New York here, and you can only see the endless horizon.
sea.
Wang Xu crossed the bridge from the South District to the North District, and then crossed the bridge from the North District to the East District. No matter where he looked from, he could not see the city outside Liberty City.
After asking others, the residents here or game NPCs gave the answer that Liberty City is composed of three islands and is not connected to the surrounding cities. To go to other cities, you need to take a plane or a ship.
"In Grand Theft Auto, a map is a dungeon. This is the world where the game evolves. Doesn't anything other than the dungeon exist?"
Wang Xu walked around and thought of a crucial question: is this place composed of a complete world, or is it just a city like Liberty City?
If it's the former, the value of this world will be greatly increased. If it's the latter, Liberty City will be a bit useless to him.
Wang Xu drove to the dock. In order to verify his idea, he decided to sail the boat to take a look outside himself.
"You want to charter a boat to Philadelphia?"
In the dock, someone in charge of ship rental asked Wang Xu with a surprised look on his face.
Wang Xu nodded lightly, took out 20,000 US dollars, and said, "Yes, I plan to go to Philadelphia. You just need to rent me a yacht."
"I only have medium-sized yachts here. The rent is US$10,000 per day, and a deposit of US$50,000 must be paid first." The person leasing the boat did not object, but his asking price was not low.
Wang Xu touched his body and found that he only had 20,000 US dollars with him, which was not even enough for the basic deposit.
After discussing for a while, the charterer did not relent. Wang Xu sighed and took out the memory eraser and said: "Look here!"
"What?"
Uh-huh!!!
A flash of red light flashed, Wang Xu took off his sunglasses and said, "We discussed the price a minute ago. You agreed to rent the yacht to me for twenty thousand dollars, because we hit it off right away."
After saying this, Wang Xu looked at the beautiful knife in his hand, hesitated for a moment and then said: "I have already given you the money."
"What, oh, yes, I remembered, we agreed." The memory within a minute was erased, and new memories were added, making the businessman who chartered the boat seem to have changed into a different person.
Wang Xu put 20,000 US dollars into his pocket, and soon he got a white yacht and an extra barrel of gasoline.
Standing on the yacht, even with Wang Xu's face, he was a little embarrassed.
But thinking back, this is just a game world. Maybe the world will be reset tonight, so why worry about so much?
"Goodbye, my friend!" Wang Xu sailed out to sea, and the businessman who rented him the yacht waved goodbye to him on the dock. He really regarded him as a good friend who fell in love at first sight.
Wang Xu waved his hands with a strange expression on his face, thinking that the memory eraser was really powerful.
Shaking his head and taking back his thoughts, Wang Xu drove the yacht south.
On the sea, there are many people driving motorboats and yachts. You can often see these people when they just leave the port.
As time goes by and the distance from the port becomes further and further away, fewer and fewer people are seen.
An hour later, Wang Xu was alone on the sea. He didn't notice anything at first. It wasn't until he accidentally turned around that he realized something was wrong.
At the beginning of the day, it is as big as the hood of a car, and at the middle of the day, it is like a pan. This is not so small if it is far away, but as big as if it is close.
This is a sentence from the debate between two children. It means that when we see things, the closer we look, the bigger we see, and the farther away we see, the smaller we see.
The size of a mountain seen from a few kilometers away is definitely different in our eyes than that of a mountain seen up close.
But Wang Xu looked back and saw that Liberty City behind him was just that big when he went to sea not long ago.
Now that we have walked south for nearly an hour, Liberty City is still so big, and it doesn't seem to be getting smaller because of the distance.
"It's a bit evil!" Wang Xu half-squinted his eyes, looked at Liberty City behind him, and then at the sea ahead.
The sea is calm and calm, what it was like when I went out to sea, and what it is like now.
According to the speed of the yacht, it would cover at least hundreds of nautical miles in an hour, and it would be normal for the yacht to lose sight of Liberty City.
But looking back, Liberty City seems to be not far away, with no change in size at all, just as it was just ten minutes after he went out to sea.