Chapter 270 "The Stanley Parable"

Recently, there have been more and more customers in the experience store. On weekends, the PC experience area on the first floor is more than 90% full, and there are only a dozen empty machines left.

There are fewer people in the mobile game experience area and VR experience area, but they can basically be half full.

In the holographic projection viewing area, there are also people who are interested in this equipment every day, but after all, this thing will get tired of watching too much. When I first watch it, I will get used to it later.

The first floor lobby of the experience store.

Today is Thursday and there are not too many people.

Chen Mo was sitting on the sofa with a drink in his hand, and was flipping through a batch of new books that had recently arrived.

There are two large bookshelves beside the wall of the first floor hall. There are many books related to games, of course, mainly novels, comics, game albums, etc. There are also some professional books on game design knowledge, but few people read them.

"Store manager." A twenty-seven- or eight-year-old office worker in a suit swiped his ID card at the front desk and greeted Chen Mo.

Chen Mo nodded in greeting: "Isn't it Thursday today? Didn't go to work?"

The office worker nodded: "Well, I'm on leave."

This office worker is called Zhao Lei, and he is also a frequent visitor to the experience store. The Beipiao family is currently working in a financial company, where the salary is high and the work pressure is very high.

Unlike other players, he came to the experience store not all for playing games, but sometimes just to sit in the lobby for a while and chat with everyone.

Zhao Lei is a person with no social circle, and the work circle is also mostly socializing, but in this experience store, he found a long-lost sense of comfort.

Therefore, Zhao Lei often came here on weekends, and over time, he became acquainted with Chen Mo, Su Jinyu and some regular customers of the experience store.

Zhao Lei sat down on the sofa next to him, ordered a cup of iced coffee, and took a comic from the bookshelf next to him.

Chen Mo looked at Zhao Lei's tired face and asked, "Why, I've been under a lot of pressure recently?"

Zhao Lei nodded: "Well, I don't know why recently, but I've been encountering bad writing at work. There's a lot of entertainment. I drank three or four drinks last week, and I have to work overtime this weekend. I can't hold it anymore today. rest."

Chen Mo said with a little sympathy: "Well, your health is important. Take the time to go for a medical examination."

Zhao Lei smiled,

Half-jokingly and half-seriously, he said, "Check-up? I don't dare to take a check-up, for fear that something serious will be detected, and I won't have the money to treat it."

Chen Mo said, "Don't, it's your body that matters."

Zhao Lei nodded: "Well, of course I know that."

"By the way, the store manager, but there have been no new games for a while. Is it because you are busy with the game platform recently?"

Chen Mo said: "There is a part of this reason, but then again, it's been less than two months since "Minecraft" was launched. How can a new game be developed so quickly, and you have to get rid of your breasts."

Zhao Lei suddenly said, "Oh, it's only been two months? Alas, I've lost the concept of time a bit. It always feels like half a year has passed."

Chen Mo smiled and said, "You are under too much pressure at work. It's time to reduce the pressure properly. It's always in such a high-pressure state, and it's easy to cause problems."

Zhao Lei said: "There's no good way to decompress. I don't have any friends, and I don't have any special hobbies. I don't seem to have anything else to do other than work hard and earn money to support my family. , and relax a little."

Chen Mo thought for a while: "Actually, I just have a game for you. Would you like to play it? A new game."

Zhao Lei was a little surprised: "New game? Didn't you say it hasn't been developed yet?"

Chen Mo stood up and smiled: "Don't you know what my efficiency is? If you say that it has not been developed, it means that the game has not been launched yet, but it is already available for trial play. Come with me."

Zhao Lei quickly stood up and followed Chen Mo to the PC game experience area of ​​the experience store.

After letting Zhao Lei find a computer and sit down, Chen Mo logged into the management background and downloaded a game that had just been developed to this computer.

Zhao Lei looked at the name: "The Stanley Parable?"

Chen Mo nodded: "Yes."

Zhao Lei was a little puzzled: "You said this game is more suitable for me? What game is it, a puzzle game?"

Chen Mo shook his head: "You'll know after playing."

Zhao Lei clicked the game icon on the desktop with some doubts to enter the game.

There is no cool loading picture, no CG of the big scene, and it directly enters the game screen.

The top left of the screen is the game title "Stanley's Fable", and the bottom left is [Start Game], [Options], [Producer] and [Exit]. The whole screen is very simple.

However, Zhao Lei soon noticed the weirdness of this picture.

The picture shows a desk with a phone and a computer on the table, a filing cabinet on the left, and a decorative painting on the wall, just like what most companies would hang. A painting that looks nothing new and is better than nothing.

Strangely, the screen displayed on this computer in the game is the same as the game screen, with the game title, options, and even a small mouse cursor.

This kind of feeling is like picture-in-picture, everything the player does on the desktop will happen synchronously on the computer screen inside.

Zhao Lei moved the mouse to click [Start Game], and the same operation was performed on the computer screen in the game.

This made Zhao Lei feel a little weird, but he didn't think much about it, he just thought that this was probably some kind of bad taste of Chen Mo, just an interesting little egg.

In the process of reading the game, the screen is completely black, but there is a gray line in English: "THE END IS NEVER THE END IS NEVER THE END..."

This is an endless loop of English that stretches from the far left of the screen to the far right of the screen. If you break it into a complete sentence, it should be "THE END IS NEVER THE END", which means "the end is not the end", or "the game never ends".

It's just that this sentence overlaps the "THE END" at the beginning and end, resulting in such an infinite loop.

These clues make Zhao Lei a little puzzled. What kind of game is this?

With a lot of doubts, the game begins.

Before the picture appeared on the screen, a narration sounded in Zhao Lei's headphones.

The narration is a low male voice, UU Reading www.uukanshu.com articulates clearly, speaks at a moderate pace, and has a good sense of rhythm. There was not much emotion in the voice, as if it was telling a very ordinary story.

[This is the story of a man named Stanley. 】

[Stanley works for a company in a building, and he is employee 427. 】

Along with the very light and light BGM, the game screen began to appear, and the camera crossed the corridor of the company and came to room 427. In the room, a man is sitting with his back to the camera. His desk is the one he saw on the start screen of the game before, including the computer, phone, and filing cabinet, all of which are exactly the same.

[Employee 427's job is simple: sit at his desk and press buttons on his keyboard. 】

[The screen will display the corresponding instructions: what button to press, how long to press, and in what order. 】

The camera is switched to the monitor screen at the top, which deliberately gives a close-up of the hand movements of the characters in the game.

Stanley stared blankly at the computer screen, his right hand monotonously pressed the buttons on the keyboard, bowing his head and looking up from time to time, like a machine on an assembly line.