Chapter 126 Magical Pancake

Three months later.

With the arrival of summer vacation, the official Weibo, official blog and public account of Tianba Studio, which had been silent for many days, released a major news.

The new game "Love Staff" will be available for early access on Steam, Ebao and Wegame platforms on the 18th of this month, with a pre-sale price of only 68 yuan.

“Didn’t it break three digits?”

Zhang Pengfei was a little surprised. He didn't expect that the pre-sale price of Tianba Studio's new game was the same as that of "Divine Grace Continent".

This is so unexpected!

You know, when Tianba community was guessing the price of the new game, many people thought that Brother Ba would definitely break all previous records this time and get a three-digit price, with the lowest being 98 yuan.

There are traces of this...

Generally speaking, the pricing of a game depends on many factors, mainly size, quality, and type.

The pricing of love-building games like Love Adviser is ridiculous. Especially the "mysteriously confident" prices of many Japanese developers are hard to understand.

The scale is not small, and it is a subject matter that is inherently "severely premium", so it is completely logical for everyone to guess a three-digit price.

In the end, it was only sold for 68 yuan! When Zhang Pengfei thought about the ridiculous prices of similar games in Japan, which started at 100 yuan and were often 200, 300, or even more than 400 yuan, he suddenly felt that Brother Ba really cared about his own people.

If this were to be changed to Neon Company, Steam Country, you would not be able to buy it for less than two or three hundred yuan? Of course, 68 yuan was not a small expense for Zhang Pengfei, who had just entered society.

After all, his monthly salary is only more than 5,000 yuan. After deducting rent, water, electricity, food and daily necessities, there is not much money left.

It is impossible to save money.

It's not that I don't want to save, it's just that I can't save any money. With this little income a month, after deducting fixed expenses, how much can I save in a year without eating or drinking? "Xiao Fei, when are you getting married?"

Zhang Pengfei couldn't help but sigh when he thought about the issues that his parents and grandparents always mentioned when he returned home.

This topic is too heavy.

He has neither a car nor a house, and no savings. It is already very difficult for his parents to raise him, so how can he let them continue to pay for him?

The more he thought about it, the more he rejected finding a partner, thinking that being alone was fine. At least he was not like other classmates or colleagues who emptied six or seven wallets of three generations of grandparents and grandchildren just to get married.

Then after a few years, the couple broke up and divorced.

That's really not worth it, right? Thinking of this, Zhang Pengfei suddenly felt that it was quite nice to spend 68 yuan to find a paper wife. Except for the fact that his parents didn't like her, the rest were all advantages.

“I bought it!”

As soon as the pre-order was opened, Zhang Pengfei decisively paid for a copy of "Love Staff".

He is an old beta player.

To be precise, he is a free fan of Guo Mo. He would watch Guo Mo's live broadcast when he was bored. He won an activation code in the last lottery, so he played the demo version.

He paid so readily because he had played the demo version and was very satisfied with it. If it was a game he had never played, he would have hesitated.

"Lily, here I come!"

Ever since playing the demo version, Zhang Pengfei has fallen in love with a female doctor named Yan Lili.

When Tenba Studios released an announcement that the early access version would retain the character data of the Demo version, he couldn't wait to meet Lily.

The demo time is too short.

So at that time, he was still a long way from conquering Lily. Although his game progress was reset during this early access experience, he was confident that he could conquer Lily.

"Why is the download so slow?"

Secretly complaining about the poor broadband of his landlord, Zhang Pengfei opened the game community to see what changes there were in the early access version compared to the demo version.

There are still quite a lot of posts.

He took a quick look, then opened the official pinned post and took a look, and came to a rough conclusion.

The career path has become more rigorous, so you need to be careful when changing jobs! In addition, the characters in the early access version will be more difficult to contact!

This is not an official modification.

It is mainly in the Demo trial stage, the game content is not complete, and many functions are not implemented, so it will be easier to get started.

However, the early access version is no different from the official version. A large number of new gameplay and new functions have been implemented, and the difficulty of character interaction and strategy will naturally increase.

One more thing! The online experience has also been optimized, and the content that other players can interact with after entering the game world has also increased.

"It's OK, not much has changed..."

After learning the details, the game was downloaded. Zhang Pengfei rubbed his hands and clicked to enter the game.

The familiar account login page, the familiar male and female character selection, the familiar face-pinching and naming process, and the familiar game UI interface.

Because he is an old player of the Demo, his original game character will be restored after he logs in. If he does not want to restore, he can also randomly generate a batch of new game characters like a new player.

Zhang Pengfei will definitely not be generated randomly.

He still wants to continue to conquer Lily, and randomly generate a batch of new characters, but then he will never see Lily again.

After entering the game, Zhang Pengfei wanted to ask Lily out for a walk directly, but he came to his senses when he saw his personal panel. The game progress was reset and he had to get to know Lily again.

That’s not all.

He also had to find a new job, and one that would allow him to come into contact with Lily, otherwise he would have no chance to meet Lily.

"It's broken. I can't get into the hospital."

The best way to get in touch with Lily is to enter the hospital and become a doctor.

But this crappy game "Love Staff" requires answering questions before joining the job. If he could pass the test, he wouldn't be so distressed.

During the demo, he got to know Lily because his character fell ill and went to the hospital for treatment, where he happened to meet a playable character.

Do we have to use the same method? But this is not reality! In reality, you can pretend to be sick and go to the hospital even if you are not sick, but whether you are sick in the game is not something the player can decide.

If the system says you are sick, then you will get sick even if you are not sick. If the system says you are not sick, then you will be kicked out if you enter the hospital...

Zhang Pengfei, who was in a lot of trouble, decided to do the same as usual. He would first find a job with a low threshold and then wait for the character to get sick.

But he forgot one thing! This is a pigeon game, which is very random.

When he followed his experience and finally waited for the character to fall ill, he went to the hospital happily, only to find that the doctor who treated him had been replaced!

Where's Lily? Where's my Lily? How come she's turned into an old man treating me?

Help, help! Zhang Pengfei asked for help, and soon two players responded and entered his game world.

"Why are there only two of us?"

"The game has just been launched and everyone is still figuring it out. How can there be so many people dedicated to helping others?"

“That makes sense!”

Zhang Pengfei nodded, thinking that what the elder brother named "Don't Eat Tomatoes" said made sense.

In addition to "Don't Eat Tomatoes", another player named "Kobayashi-san" also spoke.

"What's going on here?"

"Girl...Girl?!"

Hearing the soft female voice in the voice channel, Zhang Pengfei and Don’t Eat Tomatoes screamed in surprise.

"Is it that strange?"

Xiao Lin didn't seem to expect the two to react so strongly, and said speechlessly: "It's not like this game is only played by you boys, so girls can't play it?"

That’s true.

After being surprised, Zhang Pengfei and Don’t Eat Tomatoes also realized that this was indeed the case. This game also has a maiden template, which allows players to choose male or female characters before shaping their faces.

It's just that they both subconsciously thought that only male players would play this game, so they were surprised to meet Kobayashi.

"It's like this..."

Although the female military advisor seemed unreliable, Zhang Pengfei decided to believe her before questioning her.

So he introduced the situation.

After learning that Zhang Pengfei was an old beta test player and wanted to use the beta test experience to continue playing the character "Lily", but found that the beta test experience was useless, the two gave him some advice.

The first suggestion is to apply for a doctor position!

This is the most reliable plan. After all, if you want to win over the character of Lily, you must create opportunities for contact and become colleagues. The one who is close to the water will get the moon first.

The second suggestion is to keep waiting! The first time he got sick, it wasn't Lily who treated him, so keep waiting for the character to get sick. The next time, someone else should be the one treating him.

“What if we never meet?”

"Then just keep waiting! Characters get sick quite frequently anyway, so you'll encounter them sooner or later if you just wait."

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

Zhang Pengfei thought about it and decided that since he couldn’t get 90 points in the doctor’s job application, it would be safer to wait for an opportunity.

So he nodded and said, "Okay, I'll continue to wait for the character to get sick and then go to the hospital. Thank you for your help!"

"It's okay. Remember to tell us if you have any progress."

I left without eating tomatoes.

Xiao Lin did not rush to quit. Instead, he stayed in Zhang Pengfei's game world and wandered around.

This made Zhang Pengfei very curious, and he asked her what she was shopping for. Aren't they all the same?

"no the same!"

"I play a female character, and you play a male character. Although the map and scene are the same, I have never seen these NPCs before."

"I see."

Zhang Pengfei realized that it was because the NPCs that appeared randomly were different among different players, so she stayed and wandered around.

It's okay.

Zhang Pengfei, whose mind was full of Lily and who wished that the character would get sick so that he could go to the hospital to find Lily, was also very bored at the moment, so he simply accompanied Xiao Lin for a walk.

The map of "Love Staff" is still very large.

There are thousands of NPCs living on this map. Among these NPCs, only a few can be conquered by players, and most of them are tools that issue tasks and serve as background characters in the game.

"What is Otome-mu?"

Zhang Pengfei was very curious. What was the difference between the game "Love Staff" played by Xiaolin and the one he played? "It's very different!"

"I'm a kindergarten teacher there, and all the characters I can play around with are boys..."

Mr. Kobayashi introduced the difference between the female protagonist's perspective and the male protagonist's perspective. One is a love game for girls and the other is a love game for men. The difference is quite obvious.

"That sounds okay!"

Zhang Pengfei had never played an otome game, so he really wanted to know what the handsome guys that Xiaolin met were like.

"There are many, including the domineering boss, the warm-hearted man, the cold-blooded man, and the childhood sweetheart..."

As they chatted, it seemed as if they had opened up the conversation, and the two began to ask each other about their ideal type and the original intention of playing this game.

“Nothing!”

"I just feel that the current social atmosphere is not very good, so I don't really want to go on blind dates to find a partner. I'd rather play games to kill time." Zhang Pengfei said indifferently.

He always tells the truth.

Although Xiaolin is a girl, he has no scruples at all. He said in front of Xiaolin that the current atmosphere is bad and girls have to find a partner who has a car and a house, etc.

"Well, the atmosphere is really bad."

I thought Kobayashi would stand on the girl's side and refute his complaints, but I didn't expect to get approval.

"Ah? You don't object?"

"What you said is true, why should I refute it?" Xiao Lin said frankly, "When my parents got married, my dad was still wearing patched clothes."

"At that time, the family had nothing, but they still lived happily. My mother always said that she married a good husband..."

“Times are different.”

Zhang Pengfei couldn't help curling his lips when he heard this and said, "The mate selection criteria of that era simply don't work now."

In the past, it was popular to get married first and then fall in love. If you hit it off on a blind date, that would be your life. Marry a chicken and follow the chicken, marry a dog and follow the dog...

That’s not the way it works nowadays.

Forget about wearing a dress with patches and holes on it at your wedding. Even if you dress like this on a blind date, the girl will just turn around and leave. There's no need to continue the conversation.

"This game is quite detailed, you can even interact with the street vendors!"

"Yeah?"

Zhang Pengfei really didn't notice this. After all, he always thought that these NPCs pushing carts and selling things could not be interacted with.

When he got closer, he found that there was indeed an interactive option.

This is an NPC uncle who sells Jianbing Guozi. His cart is exactly the same as in real life. If you interact with him, you can buy a Jianbing Guozi for 5 yuan.

"This is the first time I buy this kind of street snack in the game, and it's Jianbing Guozi..."

After buying the pancake, Zhang Pengfei was about to ask what it was used for when he suddenly saw a new interactive option on the screen.

"I bought this for you, try it!"

What does that mean? He was very familiar with this interactive item. When he asked Lily out for dinner before, there was a similar interactive option.

But the problem is...

He didn't have any guides for the NPCs either! Besides the old man selling pancakes, there were only him and Xiaolin.

Where does this interactive item come from?

You can't just pop up an interactive item and return the just-bought pancake to the NPC uncle, and then say with a smile: I bought it for you, try it!

No, I can’t hold it anymore.

Zhang Pengfei felt that no matter how stupid Brother Ba was, he probably wouldn't come up with such a heaven-defying design. This wasn't "The Divine Grace Continent", how could anyone be able to conquer it? Since it wasn't Uncle Pancake, then it must be...

With the idea of ​​giving it a try, Zhang Pengfei clicked the interactive button.

"I bought it for you, try it!"

"General Fei Peng" gently handed the pancake in his hand to "Xiao Lin" beside him.

The voice channel fell silent for a moment.

After an unknown amount of time, Xiaolin came to his senses and clicked to accept. Looking at the pancake in his hand, he suddenly said, "I have something else to do. I'll log off first! Bye!"

"I'm getting off too..."

The atmosphere was so awkward that Zhang Pengfei almost dug out a three-bedroom, one-living-room apartment with his toes on the floor.

How can this be interactive?

Where is Brother Ba? Brother Ba, please come out and explain what is going on with this weird interaction.

(End of this chapter)