Chapter 253 Hiding in the closet doesn't work?

It's Qingming Festival.

While everyone was enjoying the rare Qingming Festival holiday, Tianba Studio's official Weibo, WeChat public account and Pili Pili official account released a promotional video for the new game "Mountain Village Past" without any warning.

This move did not attract the attention of players at first.

After all, it's just a promotional video, so just post it. Tianba Studio's official account always posts funny and abstract videos, so it's reasonable for it to be serious once in a while.

Besides.

Brother Ba has been silent for several months, and there has been no posting from him in the community. Everyone has guessed that he is making a new game.

Preheat in advance...

Huh? Isn't this a promotional video? Players who mistakenly thought that this video was just a promotional video by Tianba Studios for the new game suddenly realized that something was wrong.

Isn't this a pre-promotion? Why did you start selling directly?

And this time, even the "early trial version" was not open, and the official version of the new game "Mountain Village Past" was directly released.

Such an unconventional scene simply left the players confused.

I have known Brother Ba for such a long time and have played so many Tianba games, but this is the first game that was released directly in its official version without any publicity or pre-release.

Hey, hey, hey! Isn't this inappropriate? We don't even know what the game is about, is this how you do things? Whether the players are surprised or complain, it can't change the fact that the official version of "Mountain Village Past" was quietly released online.

I also saw the ice cola.

In fact, he was one of the few people who knew about this in advance, and he knew it two months ago.

However, he did not expect that Tianba Studio would act so quickly. They just received the news two months ago and released the game directly two months later.

I looked at the price, 68 yuan! There is no discount, no version, only one version to choose from, and the game has no accompanying DLC. The page is quite simple.

Game introduction: Your adoptive father passed away. You returned to the village to deal with the funeral, but unexpectedly found that the familiar village seemed to have some problems, and the cause of death of your adoptive father was also shrouded in a fog...

Game terms: horror, suspense, puzzle, plot, first-person shooter, action! Bing Kele chose the Nobug platform, on which there is little game introduction about "Mountain Village Past" and only four or five pictures.

In fact, we can't tell much from these four or five promotional pictures. Apart from knowing that this is a horror game, we know nothing else.

"Forget it, just buy it."

I have been looking forward to this game for so long, but it is quite refreshing to pay for it with iced Coke. It is only 68 yuan. Even if the game is not fun, it is still a good deal to make a video based on the popularity.

With this idea in mind, Bing Kele bought and downloaded the game "Mountain Village Past" and turned on the screen capture and recording function in advance.

“This isn’t scary!”

After taking a look at the game icon and the UI screen that appeared after entering the game and completing loading, Bing Coke was a little puzzled.

Isn't it a horror game?

Since it is a horror game, why does the game interface look so warm and peaceful to him, without any sense of horror at all?

Oh! So the plot hasn't started yet? After being stunned for a moment, Bing Kele scratched his head and quickly manipulated the mouse to quickly click to skip the plot.

The protagonist's name is Hu Xi!

He comes from a small mountain village in the remote southwestern region. His adoptive father, Hu Zhibing, is the only doctor in the village who has communicated with the outside world and has been to school.

Old Hu is dead.

When the news came from his hometown, Hu Xi was so sad that he didn't even have time to pack his luggage. He quickly bought a ticket and took his belongings and headed straight for his hometown.

“Why is it so remote?”

Ice Coke is very strange. In modern society, how can there be such a remote village that doesn’t even have roads?

The background of the game is probably what reality looked like in the early 2000s, but even if it was in the early 2000s, Bing Kela doesn't have the impression that such an "isolated place" existed.

No kidding!

The Sandong Village that the protagonist Hu Xi goes to is indeed isolated from the world according to the performance in the game. Some people even believe it is the real-life version of "Peach Blossom Spring".

Why do you say that?

After Hu Xi got off the bus, he walked on the muddy road for an hour, and then started climbing the mountain and going through the woods.

We walked until dark, but there was no so-called "road" in the mountains and forests. We had to rely on pulling out branches and weeds, exploring bit by bit based on our memory, and climbing over mountains to reach Sandong Village deep in the mountains.

The first thrilling part was probably going into the mountains and forests with a flashlight after dark.

In this exploration process, there is no map guidance and no task highlighting, and it all depends on the players to explore on their own.

Fortunately, the protagonist is not mute.

When you go in the wrong direction, the protagonist Hu Xi will remind himself: "This is not the direction back to the village!"

With the help of the protagonist Hu Xi's reminder, Bing Kele finally walked out of the forest and arrived at Sandong Village at 8:30 in the evening.

"Fuck! It's so dark?"

I thought that Sandong Village should be brightly lit at this time, and I could see the lights in the villagers' homes from afar.

But what Bing Kele saw when he walked to the village entrance almost scared him to death.

Brightly lit?

It was hilarious! There was no light in this shabby place, and the few lights were just flickering candle flames.

You rely on this for lighting? Bing Kele was very surprised, but he didn't think much about it. Whether it was candlelight or lamplight, he finally arrived at the place. There were a few uncles and aunts chatting under the tree in front.

Should that spark a conversation?

Based on previous gaming experience, Bing Kele realized that the several figures under the trees in the distance were likely the key NPCs that would trigger the second phase of the mission, so he planned to go over and communicate with them.

But when he got closer and saw the true faces of the figures in the faint and flickering candlelight, he instantly broke out in a cold sweat.

Zhuo! Who is so wicked as to place a few paper figures here to scare people? They also lit a few white candles and placed various offerings on the table?

The dream engine is too powerful.

The light and shadow were rendered just right. I don't know if the protagonist Hu Xi was frightened or not, but Bing Coke in front of the screen was so frightened by this weird scene that he almost dropped his wireless mouse.

“I almost forgot, this is a horror game!”

I took a deep breath and finally remembered what the theme of "Past Events in the Mountain Village" was. I became nervous at this moment.

If he hadn't been frightened by these paper figures and candlelight, he would have really forgotten that this was a horror game. Now that he remembered it, he couldn't help but feel a little nervous and terrified.

Something seems to be wrong with this village? Will the so-called monsters and demons greet him? Can the weird things in this game be half as good-looking as Jiahui?

"Let's go. The elderly in the village go to bed early. Let's go home first!"

The protagonist Hu Xi's voice temporarily gave Bing Kele courage, so he held up a flashlight and slowly walked towards a wooden house not far away.

Due to inconvenient transportation, Hu Xi has not been back for many years.

So usually, Lao Hu is the only one living in his house. The layout is quite simple, and the furniture is purely handmade, without any modern industrial products.

After returning home, the protagonist Hu Xi quickly triggered the first mission, which was also the first puzzle level: Lao Hu's belongings! Lao Hu died, and Hu Xi only knew that he died of illness, but he didn't know what the specific illness was, so Bing Kele needed to search for clues at home to see if he could find some of Lao Hu's belongings.

This is easy! Bing Kele rubbed his hands in anticipation. He was a man who often played escape rooms, so this kind of puzzle-solving was a piece of cake for him.

First, rummage through the boxes...

It goes without saying that useful clues or props are most likely hidden in various boxes or cabinets and cannot be thrown on the ground at will.

But we can't ignore the things on the ground or in the corners. What if this game is unusual and important clues are being stepped on? "Get the clue: the mysterious copper coin!"

When Bing Kele found a few strange copper coins in the cabinet beside Lao Hu's bed, the system prompted him that the divination system had been unlocked and he could use the copper coins and compass for divination.

"Oh? There is such a function?"

As soon as the new function was unlocked, Bing Coke clicked on it and took a look at the details.

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

According to his experience, this function should not be added randomly, it will definitely have miraculous effects and will be of great use in the subsequent gaming process.

But what’s the use of fortune-telling?

You have nothing to do, so why not tell your own fortune? Bing Kele was amused by this idea and clicked "Start Fortune Telling" with his mouse.

He threw the coin upward in his hand, and then it landed steadily on the compass which looked like the Bagua. The hexagram showed a small bad omen and he would be in danger.

I tried the ice cola a few more times.

Obviously, this hexagram is fixed. He tried it several times and each time the result was minor misfortune, with no other changes.

"The interpretation of this hexagram..."

Logically speaking, as one of the top 100 UP hosts, Bing Kele's knowledge base must be above the passing line, but he knows nothing about fortune-telling and divination.

Don't get me wrong! He knew every word and could read them together, but interpreting the hexagrams was really difficult for him.

He has never studied this area, so he certainly doesn't understand what this hexagram means, let alone what the so-called divination is for.

Forget it, forget it! After trying several times to get the iced coke without any results, I decided to focus on the task first, to find as many relics as possible left by Lao Hu and find out the cause of his death.

There is a packet of Chinese medicine in the drawer.

After opening the ice cola, the system prompts that these herbs are all "tonics" used to make up for the body's deficiencies! This should have nothing to do with the cause of Lao Hu's death. After all, there is a thick layer of dust on the wooden box containing the herbs, which means that the herbs have been there for a long time and are not newly obtained.

But Lao Hu has always been in good health, why does he need so many tonics? Did he find a partner?

As a player, Bing Coke doesn't have that much respect for Lao Hu. After seeing these tonic Chinese medicines, the first thing he thought of was that Lao Hu had kidney deficiency.

If he doesn't have kidney deficiency, why do he take so many tonics? If a bachelor has kidney deficiency, he must be secretly having an affair with a widow.

"Keep looking!"

"This is Lao Hu's private money, and there are two large yellow croakers in it. It's amazing. Where did he get the large yellow croakers?"

The so-called big yellow croaker refers to gold bars that have undergone rough processing but not yet purified.

The ice cola was put away.

Now that Old Hu is dead, he naturally cannot take the inheritance with him. It must be left to his adopted son Hu Xi. It would be a shame not to take it away.

While rummaging through various boxes and cabinets, Bing Coke suddenly heard the sounds of breathing and footsteps in his headphones.

"Who's coming?"

"Hmm, no one is there?"

When he turned his head and looked behind him, he found that there was no one behind him, and the footsteps and breathing sounds seemed like hallucinations.

But he was sure that this was not an auditory hallucination! Are you kidding me? How could he not be able to distinguish between auditory hallucinations while playing games? The breathing and footsteps were definitely real, and they were very close to him, but he just couldn't see them.

"Something weird is coming!"

After a little thought, Bing Kele realized that he seemed to have encountered something strange in the game. He had to pause his exploration and find a cabinet or curtain to hide behind.

Why hide in the closet?

This was Bing Kele's personal experience when playing horror games in the past. No matter what strange things he encountered in the game, he would just hide in the closet or locker, and the strange things would naturally leave.

There is no doubt about it, this is true! There is a law in horror games, that is, strange things and dirty things will never open the cabinet on their own initiative!

Don’t be fooled by their ferocious and scary looks. They can even kill people with one bite or one claw, but they cannot open the cabinets and cannot see the people inside the cabinets.

This is amazing!

Even when he was playing a horror game, Bing Coke crawled into the cupboard in front of the monster, and the monster didn't bother him.

Maybe they are blind! The players were clearly hiding in the cabinet right in front of them, but they acted as if they didn't see it and just went around the cabinet, allowing the players to escape.

With this experience, Bing Coke naturally did the same this time.

There just happened to be a wooden cabinet in front of him that he could find shelter and hide in.

"It's stable, let's go!"

Bing Kele said speechlessly: "What else can you guys do besides making all kinds of noises to scare players? You can't even open a cabinet, it's simply... huh?"

I really like what a player of "Mountain Village Past" said: Huh? You can open the cabinet? No way! They are both horror and thriller monsters, why can you open the cabinet to find people, while the monsters in other games can't open the cabinet? [You are dead! ]

Looking at the text displayed on the screen, the frightened Bing Kele took a deep breath and fell into deep thought.

That thing was really scary, wasn't it? That face was bloody and mangled, and there were maggots crawling on it, and the eyeballs were popping out. Just one look at it would give you nightmares.

This is not the point. The point is why did that thing open the cabinet? Where did it come from?

At this time, Bing Coke seemed to have thought of something.

That hexagram!

Did the hexagram just now predict this situation in advance, so it showed "minor misfortune"? "That's not right!"

"It's useless to just tell me good or bad luck. Why don't you give me some hints on how to pass this level? If you don't give me any hints, I can't...eh?"

Ice Coke suddenly woke me up.

He can't afford to offend, so can't he just run? The door is not locked, and there is no other way but to hide in the closet!

(End of this chapter)