Forces of Temptation

Nanzhou's second arrival gave {Jiang Fang} some unexpected surprises.

He stopped embarrassing him, and sent out all the townspeople he could manage to help his puppet find fragments that might be left in a corner of the town.

He borrowed another doll from Nanzhou, brought it back to the house, and played with it curiously.

For the puppet operated by "Dance of Puppets", some body reflections and sensations will appear on the operator, allowing the operator to immediately discover what happened to the puppet outside.

At this moment, Nan Zhou was sitting on the eaves, letting his fractured and injured right calf hang down along the corner of the eaves, but unexpectedly felt...somewhat warm and comfortable.

Nan Zhou grabbed the eaves and leaned over to look into the house from the balcony.

A snow-white and clean puppet was placed neatly on the bed by {Jiang Fang}.

He is using a simple splint to immobilize the doll's injured leg.

When Nan Zhou was running away, {Jiang Fang} saw which leg was injured.

He can also infer the fact that "the dolls and their masters communicate with each other through their senses" through the way Nanzhou manipulates these inanimate dolls.

So he was willing to bind up the wound for the puppet, and he was also wound up for Nanzhou.

He caressed the short and fat puppet leg so carefully, because the action was too serious, and the object was too naive, revealing an unusual sense of humor.

Sensing Nan Zhou's gaze from outside, {Jiang Fang} turned around and raised his eyebrows flamboyantly: "Didn't you say 'he'? Can 'he' bandage you now?"

His eyes were full of unyielding light.

...The eyes are obviously the same shape as his Jiang Fang's, but they contain two completely different emotions.

Nan Zhou said, "You are not him."

This is the truth, and it is exactly the same as what {Jiang Fang} said when he revealed his identity.

After finishing speaking, Nan Zhou raised his body, and was about to sit up straight when his feet were suddenly empty.

{Jiang Fang} went up to the balcony a few steps, grabbed his hanging left leg like a prank, and pulled him off the roof.

It's still full moon, Nan Zhou's body is weak, even though he has been secretly adapting to the moonlight, but he can't stand it at all.

Seeing that he was about to fall downstairs again, a force lightly supported his waist, helping him to stand on the edge of the balcony lightly, without hurting his injured right leg.

{Jiang Fang} with a mischievous smile, looked up at Nan Zhou who was standing on the railing of the balcony, his figure shaking slightly: "... who wants you to be taller than me."

This person is naive and beautiful, but different from the real Jiang Fang.

...but just as vivid.

Nan Zhou ignored his joke, sat down on the railing, and began to think about the meaning of the game again.

He has always been good at considering problems from the perspective of top-level game design.

From the analysis of the current information, it can be seen that the difficulty of this game is different from the final goal of "accomplishing a certain game task" in ordinary games.

——The key to the game lies in the uncertainty of the "playstyle".

If the final battle of the five of them in "Cubic Ark" is divided into five independent games, and based on the game evaluations I saw on the sky screen, it is reasonable to say that this game belongs to Nanzhou. It is a high-degree-of-freedom exploration game that includes elements such as action, adventure, and sandbox.

for example.

If Gaowei people want to make this game into a regular action game, Nanzhou can give him a "ticket fragment" as a reward every time he successfully jumps over a world, which is also an interesting way to play.

But the high-dimensional people did not adopt this kind of game.

They chose to let the Nanzhou go into circulation.

"Ticket" and "iron box" are just introductions.

A primer that induces him to keep opening the box so as to get in touch with the world in the other two boxes.

Why do high-dimensional people limit the box world to three rounds and one cycle?And it's all limited to his relatively familiar environment?

Why didn't the Gaowei people set him up with a brainless and powerful [Nan Zhou], a {Jiang Fang} that was simply infected by the light charm virus and became extremely ferocious?

If the Gaowei people really set it like this, Nanzhou might really be killed in such a forceful wheel battle.

Is it because there are spectators watching, the combat power can't be too unbalanced, the boss can't be too difficult to kill, should we consider the balance of the game?

Of course there are reasons for this, but other than that, is there any need to endow [Nan Zhou] and {Jiang Fang} with such high-level personalities?

After all, among the three game boxes, the biggest difficulty is to deal with [Southern Boat] and {Jiang Fang}, two NPCs with their own independent thinking and personality.

If you are not careful, you, an "outsider", will be eliminated by them.

However, also because they have independent thinking ability, if they can be persuaded well, it is not impossible to form an alliance.

Most importantly, they have not had their memory wiped.

This saved Nan Zhou the trouble of having to deal with them again and again and explain the ins and outs.

According to this logic, for Nanzhou, as long as he can play well, form an alliance smoothly, and the NPC has a brain, the game will become easier as it gets to the later stage.

This is a dead end for him to find the "ticket", but it is of no benefit.

Because it's too peaceful.

He must try to break the game and find the real way to play this circular game.

Or, what is the really difficult "point" in this game?

Just like a sealed car window, only by finding an exact "point" can it be broken with a fire hammer.

Thinking of this, an idea suddenly appeared in Nan Zhou's mind.

Speaking of which, whenever the world in the box collapses, what is the significance of those game reviews that appear in the sky?

Is it... He needs to brush up the favorability of those "outsiders" to get the game's evaluation up?

When jumping from the second box world to the current world for the second time, Nan Zhou deliberately looked at the outside sky, and when the world collapsed again, he saw a comment:

[A boring game with mixed reviews, it is better to play it with caution].

As those bad reviews said, the decline in the competitive nature of the game is the main reason for them to give bad reviews and make the game score drop rapidly.

The first time he saw the evaluation, he had a hand-to-hand fight with [Southern Zhou], and he knocked the iron box out of his hand.

At that time, the ratings and comments Nanzhou saw were relatively positive.

Then... if he tries to increase the competitive difficulty of the game and directly improve the playability and options from within the game, will he get some rewards?

...For example, a bus ticket?

Noticing Nan Zhou's gaze on him, {Jiang Fang} was extremely keenly aware of the change in his thoughts.

He sneered: "Ah, I saw something that disgusted me."

As he said that, he took a step closer: "...you want to kill me?"

Nan Zhou said honestly: "I thought about it just now, but I don't really think about it now."

{Jiang Fang} does not have the good habit of clicking and stopping like [Nan Zhou]. When suspicious, his knuckles clicked strangely, and he practiced again in his mind how to pinch Nan Zhou's neck until it became red and swollen One piece, so that he can obediently obey his own scene.

Since he wanted Nan Zhou to tell him the truth about the deduction in his mind just now, Nan Zhou simply did so.

More than half of the game time, he has not yet found the clues to clear the game, of course, there is no need to offend his allies and make the game more difficult for himself.

After describing and roughly understanding Nanzhou's demands, {Jiang Fang} put his hands on the railing, and hit the nail on the head: "That is to say, you want to please people, so maybe you can get a ticket?"

Nan Zhou: "Yes."

{Jiang Fang} said sarcastically: "It's reasonable to think so. If your activity space is only the three boxes you mentioned, even if you drill the boxes out of the flowers, you won't be able to find any trains or stations."

Nan Zhou: "Yes."

{Jiang Fang} tilted his head: "Then I have to ask Mr. Nan, what do you have to do to me to please others?"

According to his own memory, Nanzhou truthfully recounted the evaluations and requirements that had appeared in Tianji.

It involves various high-degree-of-freedom fights and fights, as well as various difficult and unimaginable positions.

Of course, Nanzhou never considered the latter.

But even if it is the former, Nanzhou will not try it lightly.

No one knows whether improving player ratings is the real way to play the game.

If he really killed the only self-aware NPC in the box with his own hands, would the world in the box collapse completely?

Will he cut his own way and be trapped here to death?

By then, it was too late for him to regret.

Nan Zhou has always been indifferent on the journey of love, so he retells the content of those evaluations, of course he doesn't think there is anything wrong.

{Jiang Fang} gradually blushed.

Finally, he even slammed the railing with a small crack.

He glared at Nan Zhou angrily: "You...you are shameless!"

Nan Zhou: "...???" He was stunned.

However, he also quickly understood the crux of it.

{Jiang Fang}'s 25-year career in a box has been lacklustre, and he does not have the insight to travel around the world like Jiang Fang.

He is used to letting other people's blood splatter his face, but he is not used to someone discussing bed matters with him openly.

{Jiang Fang} was angry and ashamed, turned around hard, went back to the house, slammed the balcony door, slapped the doll to the ground, and angrily confronted Nan Zhou through a glass sliding door .

Nan Zhou thought: ...children.

In order to guide his mind back to the original thinking track faster, Nan Zhou opened his game interface casually, wanting to re-read the game rules.

At a glance, he saw five superimposed, unobtrusive small pop-up windows in the lower right corner of the page.

This small pop-up window is hidden on the withered bark of the background of the "Tree of Life", which is not eye-catching.

Nanzhou had only used the shortcut key to call out the inventory in one direction in an emergency before, and did not notice the existence of the pop-up window at all.

...Another visual trap that can be overlooked if you are not careful.

Nan Zhou tapped it, and a total of five [achievements] jumped out vying to be the first.

【Travel around the world】Congratulations to our little ants, they have completed a great world tour!

【Call for Friends】Our little ant has found two reliable partners, let's touch the tentacles together and cheer happily!

[The price of growth] Little ants will inevitably have to pay some price when they are exploring.This is probably growth.

[Journey Restart] Let's visit the two partners again. The little ant is lonely and needs companionship.

[Box Collector] Congratulations!Little Ant has already opened 5 boxes, and there are endless futures waiting for you to explore!

This corresponds to traveling through the three worlds, establishing a temporary covenant with [Southern Boat] {Jiang Fang}, injuring his right leg in a fight in the basement, opening the second round of circulation in the box, and the box that has been opened so far. quantity.

These are his game records along the way, and it doesn't seem to have any special significance.

Nan Zhou noticed a confusing thing.

- Each of these achievements has nothing to do with the so-called "ticket".

...just because he hasn't found any clues about the ticket yet?