"Boss, please bring a bowl of spicy snails, a bowl of crayfish, and a beer." At this time, Li Qiang said to the owner of the food stall, his tone was very familiar, as if he and the boss were old friends.
"Okay!" The owner of the food stall was a middle-aged man. He was shirtless and covered in sweat. He was frying a large pot of snails and took the time to acknowledge Li Qiang.
Huang Yi and the other three found a seat closest to the river and sat down, leaning on the backs of plastic chairs, smoking and waiting.
Not long after, the boss personally brought up a pot of snails.
The snails are steaming hot and fragrant. There is plenty of red pepper. The snail meat is dripping with chili oil and reflects an attractive luster. It is full of color, flavor and flavor.
"Come on, come on! Suck the snail!" Li Qiang swallowed, then reached out to pick up a snail, put it in his mouth and said "yunxi".
His movements were very skillful. With a slight slurp, the snail meat came into his mouth, leaving only an empty shell, which he threw into the river.
Huang Yi and Monkey had been hungry for a long time, and their stomachs were already growling. They each picked up a snail and started chewing it.
Huang Yi rarely eats snails, but this one was well cooked and could be chewed out easily. The snail meat was very tasty, just the right amount of spicy, the meat was tender and chewy, and it was simply delicious.
"I have eaten spicy snails in many places, including five-star hotels, but they are not as delicious as this one! The more high-end the place, the more unpalatable the food is. If you want to eat real delicious food, you have to
Come to a small place like this." Li Qiang sighed with emotion as he sucked the snails over and over again. His lips were already covered with chili oil and he was enjoying eating them.
"It's much more delicious than the food in our school cafeteria!" Monkey said vaguely with his mouth full of oil.
Soon, the boss brought another basin of crayfish and a box of beer. The table was immediately enriched.
Li Qiang skillfully bit open three bottles of beer, gave one to Huang Yi and Monkey each, and said: "Here, cheers!"
The three of them picked up the wine bottles, clinked them, and drank directly from the beer bottles. The cool river breeze blew in. Coupled with the ice-cold beer, the summer heat was quickly dissipated.
"On such a hot night, I sat by the river with three or two friends, slurping spicy snails, eating crayfish, and drinking beer. It was like a fairy-like day!" Li Qiang put down the bottle and enjoyed it.
said.
"Brother Qiang, are you staying up all night tonight?" the monkey asked while peeling the crayfish.
Li Qiang nodded and said: "All night long! I'm going to join the army tomorrow. I have a train ticket at eight o'clock in the morning, and I can play Legend in the evening. I can't play when I get to the army."
"Are you leaving tomorrow?" The monkey was slightly startled. One hand grabbing the crayfish stopped in mid-air and looked at Li Qiang blankly.
"Yes!" Li Qiang looked a little sad, "I don't have a diploma, and I have been doing odd jobs in the past few years. It is not an option to continue like this. Being a soldier is at least one way."
"Then I'll forget about it and spend the last night with you." The monkey said, turned to look at Huang Yi and said, "Brother, will you stay up all night tonight?"
Huang Yi chewed a snail, threw the empty shell into the river, nodded and said: "Okay! It doesn't matter whether you play Legend or World of Warcraft, I don't care."
Li Qiang took a big sip of beer and looked at the vast river. He said with emotion: "After five years of playing Legend, my youth has been wasted. I can no longer play it when I get to the army. When I come back from the army, I don't know if there is still a game like Legend. At that time,
I also want to find a wife, get married, have a baby, and work hard to make money."
Monkey chuckled and said: "Even if there is still Legend, I don't know what it has been changed to. Domestic games are all about making money. World of Warcraft is better. A few cents an hour is fair to everyone."
"That's true. Playing Legends now is not as fun as before." Li Qiang said, with a flash of memories in his eyes, "At that time, when fighting monsters, I lit candles, held Bahuang in my hand, and wore 1-1 on my head.
Wearing a helmet, wearing 0-1 clothes, drinking from a milk bottle, but playing with passion. Now, as long as you are willing to top up your money, you can afford any top-notch equipment, but it’s no longer fun.”
"People who play games now are also very utilitarian. When we used to play games, people were very friendly to each other." The monkey chewed out a snail, looked at Li Qiang and asked: "Brother Qiang, what is the most unforgettable thing about playing Legend?"
What's the matter?"
"The most unforgettable thing!" Li Qiang looked at the river at night and said quietly: "The most unforgettable thing for me happened many years ago. I remember that at that time, I was just a level 31 mage.
Strange, here comes a little level 22 female mage, her name is Xiao Zuchuan. She is so small, she is often killed by black maggots, she will keep dying, keep coming, there are many more from the Demon Sealed City to the Overlord Hall
It took a long time, but she would go back and start over every time she died. Then I took her to upgrade, and she stayed with me for two days and two nights. I liked her so much, and we fell in love in the game. That was my first time.
Online dating. But one day later, she never came online again. Over the years, every time I went online, I would first check to see if she was online, but I never saw her once. Now I miss her so much! That was 2001
It happened last year, hehe! It was so good back then, I really miss that one called Xiaochuzhan.”
The dim yellow lights of the food stalls shone on Li Qiang's face, and he stared at the river, as if immersed in the long past. A gust of night wind blew, and the river rippled, just like Li Qiang's
The eyes are the same.
Monkey also seemed to be reminded of the past, saying: "When I first played World of Warcraft, I was only over level 10. One day when I stayed up all night, I saw on the Internet that it was possible to farm the Death Mine, so I ran outside the Death Mine.
, I wanted to form a team with someone to clear the dungeon. I just clicked and found a full-level 60-level priest! The pastor didn’t talk much. After knowing that it was my first time to clear the dungeon, he took me with him.
When there was a dangerous place, he would briefly talk about what he should pay attention to. In this way, he and I spent the whole night playing the dungeon. When we were about to go offline the next morning, I told him to see you tomorrow, and he
He just said that we would never see each other again, and that he was leaving the game. He said that we were destined, so he gave me all the gold coins he had. The next day, I didn’t see him online, and I haven’t seen him since.
Therefore, every time I see priest players, I feel very special. I have played World of Warcraft for so long and have played other professions, but I have never played priests. I can’t explain why.
Li Qiang withdrew his gaze, opened another bottle of beer, and said: "Come on, come on, cheers, I'm leaving tomorrow, have a good drink tonight, and wait until I come back from the army. Monkey, you should also go to university outside.
I don’t know if I can still see it.”
After that, the three of them drank another drink.
The night is getting deeper and deeper, and the food stalls are already empty. The tables of Huang Yi and three people are already full of empty wine bottles, and there are only a few leftovers in the pot of snails and crayfish. The three of them are full.
, sitting contentedly on the plastic chair.
"When you've eaten and drank enough, let's go!" Li Qiang said, turning to look at Huang Yi and Hou Hou, "You two go back to the Internet cafe first. I will go back to get my luggage and I will go to the Internet cafe to find you later. I will stay up all night until tomorrow.
In the morning, I just took my luggage and left." After that, he stood up and went to check out with the boss.
Huang Yi and Hou Hou walked towards the Internet cafe under the light of the street lamp.
The night was already very late, and the night snack bars on both sides of the road had already closed. Only the footsteps of the two of them could be heard far away in the deserted night.
There were only a few cars on the road, and occasionally a car passed by. The bright car lights illuminated the shadows of the two people, which flickered, just like a scene in a dream.
"There are strange merchants in the world who specialize in selling ridiculous dreams to comfort the frustrated. Those who hear them buy like the wind. Don't ask when you wake up from the dream. What is life when you are in a dream? A hundred years of dreams." The monkey suddenly chanted.
In a poem, he looked at the empty streets and said: "Sometimes, I really wonder if there really is a parallel space in this world. In that parallel world, everything is still the same. It's like
The Emerald Dream in World of Warcraft maintains the original appearance of that game world, and all our memories are there."
"Parallel world...Emerald Dream? Is there such a place?" Huang Yi was startled and turned to look at the monkey.
"Yes, the Emerald Dream is a legendary place in World of Warcraft." Monkey nodded, "Our World of Warcraft is called the continent of Azeroth. In the Emerald Dream, there is also an identical continent of Azeroth.
But the continent of Azeroth in the Emerald Dream has not been interfered by players, and everything remains as it was originally. If life is just like the first time I saw it, in the Emerald Dream, it remains the same as when I first saw World of Warcraft. I am here today
I saw a post online, saying that there is a mission in the Emerald Dream, which is quite interesting, I will do it later."
Huang Yi's heart moved, and he immediately thought of a sharp sword.
He had been thinking about how the sword could have the ability to enter another server to obtain those legendary epic equipment.
Now it seems that if there is a place in the second world similar to the Emerald Dream, even more complete, more complex, and more like a real world than the Emerald Dream, and Li Jian happens to know the entrance to such a place, then he can obtain the same
Equipment, no wonder.
Huang Yi touched his chin and said, "I'll take a look at your mission later."
"Okay, I have to explore it anyway." The monkey nodded.
After a while, the two of them returned to the Internet cafe. At this time, the Internet cafe was empty, with only a few players staying up all night, and the computers of the three of them were still hanging there.
Huang Yi and Monkey sat back at their respective seats, but this time, Huang Yi stopped playing and watched Monkey do the task of the Emerald Dream.
"This mission in the Emerald Dream can only be done by druids. It seems that other professions cannot do this mission..." Monkey explained to Huang Yi while controlling his character.
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Someone asked if these chapters are my gaming experiences over the years. Some of them are indeed my experiences, but some are other people’s gaming experiences I saw online. In fact, I haven’t played much of Legends or World of Warcraft.
, especially Legend, I have only entered once. My most advanced account in World of Warcraft is only over level 60, and it was brought in by someone else.
The descriptions of legends and World of Warcraft in this article, including place names, skills, professional names, etc., were written by me while checking the information. I personally think it is quite true and accurate. I don’t know if there are any common sense errors. Maybe
Some friends are very familiar with these two games, so please forgive me if I see any mistakes.
I saw the experiences of Monkey and Li Qiang on the Internet. I remembered my memories of playing other games, so I wrote them down. Although the games I played were different, the feeling was the same. I have never played games before.
Friends, you may not understand that feeling. The friends I played with gradually left. The scenery is still the same as before, but the people are no longer there. I once wrote an article about my playing games, called "A Game for One Person"
", I posted it in the work-related section, and also posted it on Sina Weibo (@黄华义). Friends who are interested can check it out.