Story of a pixel village next to the mantra

You take out your old phone and want to find a photo from the past. After charging and turning it on, you find an unfamiliar game app, but you don’t remember downloading it, maybe you clicked it wrong before.

The app icon is a retro pixel style, the pattern is a grass field, and a wooden sign "XX Village Story" is inserted on it.

The name sounds like a retro construction and farming game. You really like this kind of game, so you clicked on the app with the mentality of trying it out.

After a while, the screen went black, and several complicated icons appeared on the screen one after another, which looked like a hybrid of Taoist spells and magic circles.You think these are the game company’s logo, so you frantically tap the screen to make it skip quickly, and a large section of text that lights up on the screen is also skipped quickly, you guessed it’s something like “don’t exit while the game is being saved” I clicked OK casually.

Then the mobile phone fell into a black screen again, and a small loading 1% appeared in the lower right corner... a bit slow. You changed the wifi connection, and the progress bar still moved forward at a slow speed.You simply put down your phone and poured a glass of transparent happy water. After adding ice cubes to your stomach, you returned to the table refreshed. Unexpectedly, the game was not only downloaded, but even more than half of the opening animation was played.

Contrary to your expectations, the quality of the opening animation is comparable to that of a Final Fantasy CG movie.The animation uses first-person perspective. At this time, the story comes to an end. You received an inheritance from a mysterious relative on your 18th birthday. You inherited a whole village on the outskirts of Tokyo, but now the village is almost deserted and needs you to run it. .So you get on the Shinkansen to Tokyo. fin.

Emmm... It's quite ordinary, but the picture is so beautiful, you decide to watch the CG again after entering the game.

After the opening animation ended, it entered the customary pinching interface.The game returns to the pixel style. You, the protagonist, are a pixel villain with three heads and a body. I just didn’t expect this villain whose facial features can only see eyes. From skin color, hairstyle, eyes, clothes to various accessories, the items that can be pinched are: There are more than 20 items, and there are as many as 100 choices in each item. The color options even give you the entire color palette for you to adjust.

Unlike friends who can pinch their eyes for an hour, in fact, you are the most impatient to pinch your face while playing games, and you usually use fine-tuning data found online.Besides this rough pixel character, it is estimated that you can see a square in the game.

You resolutely click the random generation button in the upper right corner.

After vetoing Shamat's green comb head and bald appearance, the game generated for the third time a character with lake blue curly hair, purple eyes, and white long-sleeved trousers. Although the skin is a bit pale, there is also a character on the mouth The decoration is similar to a mask (the pixels are too rough to see the specific shape), but there is no major problem when viewed from a distance, so you click OK.

After the image is confirmed, the next step is to name the village and the character. You have always chosen a name very casually. After looking at the owl pen holder at hand and the curtains with feather patterns at home, the village name "Owl Feather" is confirmed.As for the character name, if you have a Japanese background, you open the Japanese name generation website, and "Hino Tingyin" decides.

After officially entering the game, your character is standing in a remote tram station, and there is a line of task prompts on the top of the interface: Please arrive at the bus stop outside the station within 5 minutes and look for the No. 2 stop sign.There is a red countdown on the right that has started.You hurriedly search for the setting buttons of the game, and want to pause the game to see the basic operations, but the screen is clean, only the circular button with “Move” written on the lower left corner and the button with “Interact” written on the lower right corner.You suspect that this is a semi-finished game, you can only do the task first.

Fortunately, this remote tram station only has two exits, east and west. When you manipulate the character to pass a sign, the sign glows faintly. You go back to the sign and click "Interact" in the lower right corner, and 3 options pop up in the middle of the screen : 1 reading, 2 destroying (destruction of public property evil value +0.01), 3 altering (information confusion and confusion value +0.01)

"..." You ignore the next two strange options and choose 1 to read.

【East Exit Direction: Shopping Street, Bus Stop, Bookstore】

After exiting the East Exit ticket gate, you will find a stop sign on the left and right.There are 1 seconds left in the countdown, you go to the left first, and after confirming that it is No. 60, you quickly turn around and rush to the right stop sign.

There is already a pixel villain waiting for the bus under your target stop sign, with black hair and clothes, you consciously line up behind that person, and finally arrive before the end of the countdown.

The screen immediately shows that the novice task is completed, and a bucket of black paint will be automatically stored in the game system backpack.

You open the space backpack that comes with the character [black paint, quantity 1, effect: can paint an entire wall evenly, and has good heat insulation function]

You, who are looking at the properties of the item, did not notice that the little pixel man in front of you has turned to face you.

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Xia Youjie is a first-year freshman of the High School of Conjuration, but he has already passed the examination of a level 3 conjurer, and his real strength has reached the level of a level 2 conjurer.He just started school for a month, and today he came to the shopping street next to the station to buy some daily necessities.Although it is in Tokyo, the tram station closest to the High School of Magic is an inaccessible terminal, and all the people who come and go are local villagers and people related to Magic High.So from the first moment that strange man with lake blue hair appeared, Xia Youjie kept staring at him.

After the man got off the tram, he stood on the platform and stared at the rails motionless, feeling like he was about to jump off.Just when Xia Youjie was hesitating whether to notify the station staff, the man suddenly ran towards the exit, stopped suddenly after running past the sign, and then walked back to the sign.But Xia Youjie didn't think that the other party was looking at the content, because the person's face was too close to the sign, so close that the pupils of a normal person would definitely not be able to focus on the text in front of him.After a while, the man ran out of the ticket gate, ran to the bus stop on the other side, and repeated the strange behavior of sticking his face to the stop sign just now.

Not long after posting, the strange man suddenly turned around and ran towards Xia Youjie at a speed of [-] meters.

"?!" Xia Youjie thought that the other party was about to attack him, and just as he was about to avoid it, the man suddenly stopped in the waiting line behind him and remained motionless.

The people behind him didn't make any sound, but Xia Youjie was terrified, as if he was being targeted by a monster.Curse Master?killer?Or super magic spirit?At this moment, Xia Youjie made up all kinds of situations and strategies against the enemy. He gently took out his mobile phone, turned on the front camera and secretly observed the people behind him.

The man was wearing a strange white jumpsuit adorned with an excess of black belts and metal triangle buckles, and the lower half of his face was wearing an exaggerated white plastic mask that extended behind the ears on both sides and had ventilation holes in the mouth and nostrils .

Xia Youjie recalled the American TV series he and Gojo Satoru watched last week, quickly turned off the camera, and clicked on the line,

"Glass, have any mental patients escaped from the hospital where you practiced recently? The kind that can eat people."