Just like in small cities or towns in China, there would always be an electric amusement chair at the door of a convenience store, and a one-yuan coin would allow children to sit on a charmingly naive little animal and ride it for a while with cheerful songs. At this moment, this coffee shop in Manchester City also had corresponding game equipment for customers to relax and entertain themselves.
It wasn't like the joystick arcade machines in China.
At this moment, there was a rather old game console placed in the corner of the coffee shop. It had an electronic screen, and the console in front of it had nine small buttons arranged in a nine-square grid. On the side of the console, there was a cute cartoon image of a hamster pasted on the side of the console.
Tang Bingyao wasn't very familiar with this kind of gaming console, but No. 1 and No. 5 guessed Bullet's intention the moment they laid eyes on it. No. 1 raised his eyebrows with a look of interest.
"Gopher machine …"
"I haven't touched this thing in a long time."
Number Five smiled and said, "That's right, but I think we used a similar machine when we were training Lin Feng and the others, right?"
Number One shrugged. "It's not that big. At that time, it was the portable version that Steamed Bun bought online. Everyone had one … When they were bored or on the bus, they would take it out for training. Those guys were lazy and even secretly removed the battery, pretending that the battery had run out. They thought that I didn't notice —"
Number Five covered her mouth and chuckled. "In the end, didn't Number Three appear with a bag of batteries? Lin Feng and the others were all dumbfounded. They all wanted to cry but had no tears."
Recalling some interesting memories from back then, the two of them could not help but smile.
Tang Bingyao was a little confused, but before she could ask the two seniors what was going on, Bullet frowned and coughed, signaling No. 1 and No. 5 to stop talking. No. 5 smiled apologetically.
"Alright, let's not talk about this —"
"Tang Tang, just listen to Senior Bullet's arrangement."
Number One winked at Tang Bingyao.
"Don't worry."
"This kind of thing … is totally your specialty, lass."
There was a hint of encouragement in his voice.
Tang Bingyao was at a loss. She looked at the console in front of her, which she still didn't know what to do. She then carefully looked at Bullet.
"Senior?"
Bullet hummed in acknowledgment. His expression became indifferent and dignified again.
"This is a gopher machine."
"Ordinary people … Of course, they're just playing around."
"But for professional esports players, it's a pretty good tool to test their hand speed."
"Let me show you."
As he spoke, he turned to face the game console, took out a coin, and dropped it into the slot. Soon, the electronic screen of the game console lit up, accompanied by a burst of cheerful music. A cartoon image appeared on the screen, which seemed to correspond to the nine buttons on the console. There were nine holes in the ground, and in the middle of the hole, a cute little mole poked its head out, blinking its eyes as if looking at the people outside the screen.
Bullet casually pressed the button twice.
Then, the screen flickered, and three options appeared in the center of the screen.
Easy.
Difficult.
Nightmare.
Each represented a different game difficulty. After bringing up the interface, Bullet chose the last option, Nightmare, and pressed the button without hesitation.
The image on the screen flashed a few more times, and then the three options quickly disappeared, replaced by an official game interface. At the top of the screen were two numerical statistics bars. One was the time displayed at 0: 00, and the other was the number of hamsters displayed at 0.
Then, the cartoon word "Game-Start" appeared in the center of the screen.
The next moment.
Mole after mole began to appear in the nine-grid hole.
At the same time, Bullet, who had his right hand on the control panel, began to operate the console.
At first, the rate at which the gophers emerged from the burrow wasn't very fast. They appeared at the rate of one every second. It didn't seem to be at the level of "Nightmare". However, Number Five, who was standing beside Tang Bingyao, was already explaining the situation to the confused Tang Bingyao.
"The rate at which the mole appears in both the Easy and Hard modes is fixed.
However, the Nightmare difficulty has no time limit, and there's no upper limit. The rate at which the mole appears is slightly lower than the Hard mode, but as time goes on, the mole will appear faster and faster. "
Tang Bingyao understood a little and nodded. She couldn't help but feel curious.
"Then …"
"What's the fastest?"
"Is there really no upper limit?"
Number Five laughed. "No upper limit is just a gimmick. An ordinary machine like this definitely can't handle the crazy speed of the screen and the speed at which the data is written. Towards the end, it will stabilize at the upper limit. But … it's not easy to reach that limit."
While Number Five was patiently explaining to Tang Bingyao, the time on the screen of the mole machine was already close to one minute.
The rate at which the mole appeared in the nine-grid hole was clearly increasing.
At first, it was only one per second.
But now, after one minute, the number on the top right corner of the screen had reached 103.
Slowly, Tang Bingyao began to see some patterns. It seemed that every 30 seconds or so, the rate at which the mole appeared would increase. From the second minute onwards, it wasn't just one mole appearing at a time, but two mole appearing at the same time.
She could already see the meaning of the Nightmare difficulty.
"To be able to maintain this kind of hand speed, you've almost reached the standard of a professional gamer."
Number One commented in a leisurely tone.
He spoke in English, so Bullet, who was playing with one hand, sneered, "Is this the standard? Since when did the standards of a professional gamer become so low?"
As if to echo Bullet's point of view, the next moment, when the game time reached three minutes, the difficulty suddenly increased again.
The rate at which the mole appeared suddenly increased again!
It was already to the point where it was difficult to see clearly with the naked eye.
Moreover, in the nine-grid hole, three mole appeared at the same time.
Bullet's single-handed keyboard speed also increased abruptly. A series of crisp tapping sounds could be heard as he steadily kept up with the rhythm of the appearance of every gopher without missing a single one. The countdown on the upper right corner of the screen continued to increase at a dizzying speed.
Tang Bingyao couldn't help but widen her eyes. She subconsciously thought to herself in surprise.
So … so fast!
Number Five seemed to be able to read the girl's mind. He smiled faintly.
"No rush."
"This is just the beginning."
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