"It's so complicated!" Li Xiaofeng's father had been excitedly studying the learning machine with his son in the beginning. Soon, he had learned how to type and practice.
However, there were only two main input methods for the learning machine. One was the Wubi input method, and the other was the Pinyin input method. In fact, even 30 years later, there were only these two main input methods for Chinese.
Although theoretically, the Wubi input method was faster, the problem was that the father had never learned Wubi before. Therefore, the two of them could only use the Pinyin input method to type.
However, because the father was not very educated, he did not learn the Chinese Pinyin very well. He could not distinguish the front nasal sounds, the back nasal sounds, the retroflex sounds, and the retroflex sounds. Moreover, the Pinyin input method these days did not have the advanced function of associative input. Therefore, the father soon realized that typing was a very boring and boring thing to do.
On the contrary, Li Xiaofeng was already in the third grade at this time. He had learned Pinyin for three years since he was a child. His Pinyin was much better than his father's. In the end, he could even take the initiative to point out his father's mistakes.
At this time, the father's dignity could not take it anymore. Moreover, he was already a little bored with the learning machine. Therefore, the father stood up and said very seriously, "Good son, you stay here and study well. I'm going out to earn money for you."
Then, the father turned around and went to the mahjong room to find someone to play mahjong.
This was where parents were very realistic. While they were teaching their son not to be playful and to study hard, they were also teaching their son not to be playful. However, they were holding their phones or iPads every day, playing all kinds of games and watching dramas.
When you asked them to tutor your child, they were even more impatient than a child. They were clamoring for their future mother-in-law to quickly take their daughter-in-law back to educate her. Did this mean that they were not as good as their own children?
Cough, cough. Back to the topic.
Li Xiaofeng's father left. After practicing for a while, Li Xiaofeng felt very bored. He wanted to go out, but he couldn't, because his father had locked the door completely before he left. He couldn't even open it from the inside.
Li Xiaofeng had no choice but to continue studying the instruction manual of the learning machine. Then, he realized that according to the instruction manual, this Little Top Student learning machine came with a random typing program called "The Police Catches the Thief". It was an educational game that was specially designed for typing practice.
Well, Li Xiaofeng didn't care about the police catching a thief, but the word 'game' caught the child's eyes.
He immediately took out the learning cartridge with the words "Police Catch the Thief" written on it. Then, he excitedly inserted it into the learning machine and started to play.
According to the instruction manual, the rules of the game were very simple. There would be five lines on the TV screen, a total of 100 different English words. These different English words formed a path that was specially used to escape.
The player had to play the role of the police. The thief would first follow this path and escape according to a certain speed. The player would play the role of the police and wait for a few seconds before starting to chase. The speed of the police was dependent on the speed of the player's typing.
As long as the player correctly typed the letter in front, the police would move forward one space until the police caught up with the escaping thief from behind. When the police touched the same letter as the thief, the thief was caught, and the game was declared a victory.
However, if the thief ran all 100 letters and the police still didn't catch the thief, then the thief won.
Simply put, it was a test of whether the player could finish typing 100 letters in the specified time. If it was a normal typing competition, it would be very boring.
However, with the addition of the concept of the police catching the thief, if the police wanted the sense of achievement when catching the thief, it would become very interesting.
Li Xiaofeng started the game in a daze. A thief who wasn't wearing an eye mask appeared. After a burst of sneaky laughter, the thief started to escape on the letter path.
In fact, the so-called thief was made up of a few light spots. It looked like an avatar wearing a mask. Every two seconds, the avatar wearing the mask would move forward one word.
At the same time, a countdown appeared on the path. After the 10-second countdown ended, the avatar of a policeman wearing a police cap appeared. Then, the first letter turned yellow, prompting the player to press the button for this letter.
"T" Li Xiaofeng searched for the letter "T" on the keyboard for two to three seconds before he found the letter "T". Then, he pressed it. The avatar of the policeman moved one step, and the next letter "H" turned yellow. However, the thief had already moved forward two letters.
In the beginning, because the typing was very clumsy, Li Xiaofeng had to look at the keyboard to press the letters. Therefore, even if the thief ran at the speed of one word per two seconds, by the time the thief finished all the letters and the police were still in the middle of the road, student Li Xiaofeng had lost miserably.
"Hehehehehe, you can't type fast, you little idiot!" The most infuriating thing was that after the thief won, a mocking voice came from the television. This voice was so despicable that it was almost comparable to SpongeBob SquarePants' voice. When people heard it, they couldn't help but want to punch this guy.
Later, many players were very curious about the owner of this voice. Therefore, there were many posts on Zhihu with all kinds of guesses.
Some people said that the voice belonged to the game's chief designer, Wang Xuan. This was because Wang Xuan was in charge of the game and he was the one who recorded it in the end.
However, someone refuted this very quickly. Wang Xuan was born with a dull personality. There was no way he could have recorded such a voice. This voice actually belonged to the chief programmer who was in charge of developing the game.
However, this was also refuted very quickly. This was because the programmer publicly stated on Weibo that he didn't record the voice and that it had nothing to do with him.
Therefore, the later generations argued about who the despicable voice belonged to for a full 20 years. In the beginning, they argued about it on BBS. Later, they argued about it on QQ. Then, they argued about it on Renren Web and Tianya Forum. In the end, they argued about it on Zhihu.
On Zhihu, more than 2,000 answers were given to the discussion about this answer. More than 300 related people became suspects.
Among the 2,000 answers, an anonymous account once said, "This is the voice of the company's chairman. When he was in a meeting to discuss the police and thief game, he was the one who suggested that the thief should make a despicable voice to mock the player after he won. This would stimulate the player's desire to win!"
However, none of the programmers present could make a despicable voice. In the end, the chairman had to demonstrate it himself. After that, everyone who participated in the meeting agreed that this was the best voice to mock the thief. There was no need to find anyone else.
Unfortunately, this anonymous account that answered the question was deleted in less than three minutes. Therefore, no one noticed this answer at all.
[PS: Police and Thief was originally a game on Jinshan Typing. It left a deep impression.]
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