There were more and more customers in the experience store recently. On the weekends, the PC experience area on the first floor would be more than 90% full, with only a dozen or so empty machines left.
There weren't as many people in the mobile and VR experience areas, but they were almost half full.
In the holographic projection viewing area, there were also people who were interested in this device every day. But after all, after looking at this thing for too long, one would get tired of it. At first, it was something new, but later on, they would get used to it.
In the lobby on the first floor of the experience store …
Today was Thursday, so there weren't many people.
Chen Mo was sitting on the sofa with a drink in his hand, flipping through a new batch of books.
There were two large bookshelves by the wall of the hall on the first floor. There were many gaming-related books. Of course, most of them were novels, comics, game art books, and so on. There were also some professional books about game design, but not many people read them.
"Manager." An office worker in his late twenties in a suit greeted Chen Mo after swiping his ID.
Chen Mo nodded, "Isn't it Thursday today? You're not at work? "
The office worker nodded. "Yes, I asked for leave."
This office worker was called Zhao Lei, also a regular customer of the experience store. Drifters from the north were currently working in a financial company. They were well paid and under great pressure.
Unlike the other players, he didn't come to the experience store just to play games. Sometimes he just wanted to sit in the lobby and chat with people.
Zhao Lei didn't have much of a social circle. Even in his work circle, there were many social events. However, in this experience store, he felt a sense of comfort that he hadn't felt in a long time.
Therefore, Zhao Lei would often come over on the weekends. As time went by, he became familiar with Chen Mo, Su Jinyu, and the other regulars of the experience store.
Zhao Lei sat down on the sofa, ordered a cup of iced coffee, and picked up a comic from the bookshelf.
Chen Mo looked at Zhao Lei's tired face and asked, "What's wrong, have you been under a lot of pressure lately?"
Zhao Lei nodded. "En, I don't know why, but I keep meeting idiots at work recently. Last week, I drank three or four times, and I have to work overtime this weekend. I really can't take it anymore. I'm taking a day off to rest. "
Chen Mo said sympathetically, "Yeah, your health is more important. Take some time to do a physical examination. "
Zhao Lei smiled and said half-jokingly and half-seriously, "Physical examination? I don't dare to have a physical examination, for fear that I might find out something serious and have no money to treat it. "
Chen Mo said, "No, your health is more important."
Zhao Lei nodded, "Yes, of course I know that."
"By the way, manager, we haven't released a new game in a while. Is it because we've been busy with the gaming platform?"
"That's part of the reason, but then again, it hasn't even been two months since Minecraft was released. It's impossible to make a new game so quickly, we'll have to do something about it."
Zhao Lei suddenly understood. "Oh, only two months? Sigh, I've lost track of time. It feels like half a year has passed. "
Chen Mo laughed, "You're under too much pressure at work. It's time to reduce your stress. It's easy for problems to occur if you're always under pressure."
Zhao Lei said, "There's no good way to relieve stress. I don't have any friends, and I don't have any special hobbies. Other than working hard to support my family, I don't seem to have anything else to do. I only come to your place occasionally to relax a little. "
Chen Mo thought for a bit, "I actually have a game that suits you, do you want to try it? New game. "
Zhao Lei was surprised. "New game? Didn't you say it wasn't ready yet? "
Chen Mo stood up and smiled, "Don't you know how efficient I am? When I said it wasn't ready yet, I meant the game wasn't released yet, but I can already try it out. Come with me. "
Zhao Lei immediately stood up and followed Chen Mo to the PC gaming experience area of the experience store.
After getting Zhao Lei to sit down on a random computer, Chen Mo logged into the management system and downloaded a newly developed game onto the computer.
Zhao Lei looked at the name, "Stanley's Fable?"
Chen Mo nodded, "Yep."
Zhao Lei was confused, "You're saying this game suits me? What game is it, a puzzle game? "
Chen Mo shook his head, "You'll know once you try it."
Zhao Lei clicked on the game icon on the desktop and entered the game.
There weren't any cool loading screens or cinematics, he entered the game directly.
On the top left of the screen was the title of the game, Stanley's Fable. On the bottom left were 'Start Game', 'Options', 'Producer', and 'Quit'. The entire screen was incredibly simple.
However, it didn't take long for Zhao Lei to notice something strange about the screen.
The screen showed an office desk with a phone and a computer on it. On the left was a file cabinet, and on the wall was a decorative painting, just like the kind that most companies would have. It looked like nothing, but it was better than nothing.
Strangely, the screen displayed on the computer was the same as the game. There was also a title, options, and even a small mouse cursor.
It felt like a painting within a painting. Everything the player did on the desktop would be synchronized with the computer's screen.
Zhao Lei moved his mouse and clicked 'Start Game', and the in-game computer did the same thing.
This made Zhao Lei feel a bit strange, but he didn't think too much about it. He only thought that it was probably Chen Mo's bad taste, and that it was just an interesting easter egg.
The screen was completely black when the game was being read, but there was a line of grey English:
End … "
This was an endless loop of English, stretching all the way from the left to the right of the screen. If it was broken into a complete sentence, it would read "the
End ", meaning" the end is not the end ", or" the game never ends ".
The only difference was that this sentence had the beginning and the end of "the
End "stacked on top of each other, creating an endless loop.
These clues puzzled Zhao Lei. What kind of game was this?
The game began with all these questions in mind.
Before the screen even appeared, Zhao Lei's voice was heard in his headphones.
The narrator was a deep male voice. He enunciated each word clearly and spoke at a moderate pace with a good sense of rhythm. There wasn't much emotion in the voice, as if he was telling a very normal story.
"This is the story of a man named Stanley."
"Stanley works in a company in a building, he is employee 427."
The game started to appear with very light background music. The camera zoomed through the corridors of the company to room 427. In the room, a man was sitting with his back to the camera. His desk was the same as the one seen at the start of the game, including the computer, phone, and file cabinet.
"Employee 427's job is very simple: Sit at the desk and press the buttons on the keyboard."
"The screen will show the corresponding instructions: what buttons to press, how long to press, and in what order."
The camera switched to the monitor at the top of the room, giving a close-up of the character's hand movements.
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