Chapter 298: 192 Chapter Transnational Team (One More) _1
With Tang Mo’s hint, Alan thanked him and then turned to Qiu Yu, “What’s in the water jar in the initial room?”
“The water jar? I’ve been searching it for a long ti at the beginning, but there’s nothing. Wait a minute!”
Qiu Yu stared at the patterns at the bottom of the water jar, feeling sothing was off.
He had thoroughly investigated every item in Newbie Village, checked the gender of every stray cat, and tried to see if each egg could hatch a chick, so naturally, the water jar was no exception.
At a cursory glance, the jar was big enough to hide a person, and its porcelain was solid and durable, showing grooves worn from prolonged use.
There was water in the jar, and with a pinch, he cast a spell to empty it. Qiu Yu jumped into the water jar and inspected it closely for a long ti, even checking the traces inside from different angles of light, eventually noticing sothing different.
The cracks at the bottom seed to have increased a little.
There were originally so cracks at the bottom of the water jar, which were not visible when it was filled with water and no player would care to inspect such supposed patterns.
If it wasn’t for Tang Mo’s hint, Qiu Yu would not have noticed this detail at all.
Starting a new ga, Qiu Yu compared screenshots of the water jar bottoms from two runs and discovered that the patterns at the bottom had indeed increased by a few lines.
The additional patterns looked like a special symbol, but the strokes blended perfectly into the other patterns, making it difficult to discern what the symbol actually signified.
Since the ga’s textures wouldn’t change arbitrarily, if Fang Cheng Studio had deliberately replaced the water jar’s texture, it could only an one thing, that it was related to so very important function.
After realizing this, a thrilled smile appeared on Qiu Yu’s face.
Indeed…
Fang Cheng Studio had indeed hidden an easter egg!
At that mont, Qiu Yu felt an epiphany, instantly alert, and began to search for relevant information anew.
He started the ga over, and after each small stage, he would return to observe the water jar’s bottom patterns, comparing them for any changes.
After clearing the ga with a new character again, he restarted the cycle, and when he returned to the water jar, he discovered that an additional pattern had appeared on the inner side.
From this, he concluded the following.
That is, the patterns on the bottom of the water jar were related to the number of cycles of clearing the ga.
Other players had already stated that a perfect ending required a high number of playthroughs, which obviously seed like a rumor at the ti, but this rumor seed to have accidentally struck the truth.
Afterward, Qiu Yu encountered a new problem.
Exactly how many tis did one need to play through the ga?
In the ga, clearing it counted as one cycle of reincarnation. Each ti the final boss was defeated, players were maliciously sent back to the beginning of the ga by the boss, but the protagonist rembered nothing.
The more cycles they cleared, the more tragic the storyline seed, and the difficulty of the ga also increased, becoming ridiculously hard in the end.
Although he didn’t know exactly how many cycles were necessary, Qiu Yu decided to give it a try himself.
He had already cleared the ga six tis and was now on his seventh cycle. The ga was now so difficult that he was considering using a cheat tool, but like other gas from Fang Cheng Studio, “Heavenly Demon” was completely unmodifiable.
Struggling through the seventh cycle, he noticed another change in the patterns, but looking at them in isolation, they still seed incomplete.
After comparing with previous changes, he felt he needed to clear at least nine cycles.
Realizing he was reaching his limit, Qiu Yu understood that he couldn’t do this alone.
“Alan, is there a dedicated gaming forum on the external network?” Qiu Yu asked during a break.
“Yes, I’ve already found one for you. The ladder is already set up, you can just go have a look.”
“…You really are a good person.”
“Don’t think I don’t know you’re cursing .”
Upon logging into the forum Alan had found, Qiu Yu discovered it was quite large, with a high volu of daily posts, most of which disappeared as soon as they erged.
Foreign players were even more fanatic about “Heavenly Demon” than Qiu Yu had imagined.
These players were hardcore and had high stress tolerance. They didn’t mind suffering while playing as long as the ga was fun.
Moreover, although “Heavenly Demon” didn’t have as much freedom as Fang Cheng Studio’s other gas, foreign players hadn’t played those other gas, and “Heavenly Demon” alone was enough to astonish them.
So, although the ga had been released for a while, discussions in the forum were still lively, convincing Qiu Yu that a good ga truly had universal appeal.
Even more outrageous to Qiu Yu was that, in this forum, players didn’t refer to each other as buddy or comrade, but as Daoist friends.
They addressed each other as Daoist friends, and so even started reading translated xianxia and fantasy novels, discussing everything from cultivators to mystical adventures.
So players even taught themselves Chinese, adopting complicated characters such as Qi as their usernas, giving Qiu Yu a sense of magical reality.
And those who had cleared multiple cycles were referred to as having passed through several trials, with the strongest player having cleared eight trials and embarking on the ninth.
Even more terrifying was that this section had opened a new Chinese language learning forum, and many players, eager for a deeper understanding of “Heavenly Demon’s” context, even started to learn Chinese on their own, reminding Qiu Yu of his own days mastering the world map to play “The Age of Great Navigation.”
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