Chapter 126 Magical Pancake Fruit

Chapter 126 Magical Pancake Fruit

Three months later.

With the arrival of summer vacation, Tianba Studio’s official Weibo, official blog and official account, which had been silent for many days, released a big news.

The new game "Love Staff" will be available for early access on Steam, Ebao, Wegame and other platforms on the 18th of this month, with a pre-order price of only 68 yuan.

"Didn't it break three digits?"

Zhang Pengfei was a little surprised. He didn't expect that the pre-order price of Tianba Studio's new game was the same as "God's Grace Continent".

This is so unexpected!

You know, when the Tianba community speculated on the price of new games, many people felt that Brother Ba would definitely break the previous record this time and get a three-digit number, with the minimum being 98 yuan.

This is traceable...

Generally speaking, the pricing of games depends on many aspects, mainly size, quality and type.

Love development games like "Love Advisory" are priced very outrageously. In particular, many neon developers’ “confident” selling prices are incomprehensible.

The volume is not small, and it is a subject with a "serious premium". It is completely logical for everyone to guess a three-digit price.

The result was only 68 yuan!

When thinking about Neon's similar games, which started at 100 and often went for 200, 300, or even more than 400, Zhang Pengfei suddenly felt that Brother Ba really cared about his own people.

This needs to be replaced by Neon Company, Steam Country. Can you buy it without two or three hundred yuan?

Of course, 68 yuan is not a small expense for Zhang Pengfei, who has just entered society.

After all, his monthly salary is only more than 5,000 yuan. After excluding rent, water, electricity, food, drink and daily necessities, there is really not much money left.

It is impossible to save money by saving money.

It’s not that I don’t want to save, it’s mainly that I can’t save any money at all. With this monthly income, excluding fixed expenses, how much money can you save in a year without food or drink?

"Xiao Fei, when are you getting married?"

Zhang Pengfei couldn't help but sigh when he thought of the questions that his parents and grandparents would always ask when he went home.

This topic is too heavy.

He has no car, no house, and no savings. It is already very difficult for his parents to raise him. How can they continue to pay?

The more he thinks this way, the more he rejects finding a partner and feels that being alone is good. At least he is not like other classmates or colleagues who emptied six or seven wallets of three generations of grandparents just to get married.

Then within a few years, the young couple broke up and divorced.

That’s really not worth it, right?

Thinking of this, Zhang Pengfei suddenly felt that spending 68 yuan to find a paper wife would be very good. Except for his parents' disapproval, the rest was all good.

"Bought it!"

As soon as the early pre-order started, Zhang Pengfei decisively paid for a copy of "Love Advisory".

He is a veteran beta player.

To be precise, he is a fan of Guo Mo. He usually watches Guo Mo's live broadcast when he is bored. He won an activation code in the last lottery, so he played the demo version.

It was precisely because he had played the demo version and was very satisfied that he paid so readily. If it were a game he had never played before, he would have to hesitate.

"Lily, I'm here on horseback!"

Ever since playing the demo version, Zhang Pengfei fell in love with a female doctor named Yan Lili.

After Tianba Studio announced that the early access version would retain the character data of the demo version, he couldn't wait to see Lily.

The demo trial time is too short.

So at that time, he was still far away from conquering Lily. In this early access, although the game progress was reset, he was confident of conquering Lily.

"Why is the download so slow?"

Secretly complaining about the landlord's poor broadband, Zhang Pengfei turned to the game community to see what changes the early access version had compared to the demo version.

There are still quite a lot of posts.

He glanced at it, opened the official pinned post, looked at it, and came to a rough conclusion.

Career routes have become more rigorous, so be careful when changing jobs! Moreover, the difficulty of getting in touch with the characters in the early access version will increase!

This is not an official secret change.

Mainly in the Demo trial stage, the game content is not complete and many functions have not been implemented, so it will be easier to get in touch with.

However, the early access version is no different from the official version. It has implemented a large number of new gameplay and new functions, and the difficulty of character contact and strategy will naturally increase accordingly.

Another point!

The online experience has also been optimized. After other players enter the game world, the content that can be interacted with has also been increased.

"It's okay, not much has changed..."

After understanding the details, the game just happened to be downloaded. Zhang Pengfei rubbed his hands and clicked to enter the game.

Familiar account login page, familiar male and female character selection, familiar face-picking and naming process, familiar game UI interface.

Because he is an old Demo player, after logging in to his account, his original game character was restored. If you don't want to restore, you can also randomly generate a batch of new game characters like new players.

Zhang Pengfei will definitely not be randomly generated.

He also wants to continue to attack Lily and randomly generate a batch of new characters, so that he will never see Lily again.

After entering the game, Zhang Pengfei wanted to ask Lily directly to go out for fun, but he came to his senses when he saw the personal panel. The game progress was reset, and he had to get acquainted with Lily again.

Not only that.

He had to find a new job, and it was a job where he could interact with Lily, otherwise he would have no chance to get to know Lily.

"It's broken. I can't get into the hospital."

The best way to get in touch with Lily is to enter a hospital and become a doctor.

But "Love Staff" is a crappy game that requires you to answer questions before joining the job. If he can pass the test, he won't be so distressed.

During the demo trial, he met Lily because the character fell ill and went to the hospital for treatment, and happened to meet a playable character.

Should we use the same method?

But this is not reality!

In reality, you can still pretend to be sick, and even go to the hospital for a while when you are not sick, but in the game whether you are sick or not is not something that the player can decide.

If the system says you are sick, then you will be sick even if you are not sick. If the system says you are not sick, then you will be kicked out of the hospital...

Zhang Pengfei, who was suffering from headaches, decided to stick to his old ways, first find a job with low threshold and wait for the character to get sick.

But he forgot one thing!

This is a meat pigeon game with great randomness.

According to his experience, he finally waited until his character got sick and went to the hospital happily, only to find that the doctor who treated him had been replaced!

Where is Lily?

Where is my Lily? Why did he become a bad old man to treat me?

Help, help!

Zhang Pengfei asked for help, and soon two players responded to him and entered his game world.

"Why only two people?"

"The game has just launched and everyone is still figuring it out. How can there be so many people dedicated to helping others?"

"That makes sense!"

Zhang Pengfei nodded, feeling that the big brother named "Don't Eat Tomatoes" had a point.

In addition to "Don't eat tomatoes", another player named "Kobayashi-san" also spoke.

"What's going on here?"

"Female...girl?!"

Hearing the soft female voice on the voice channel, Zhang Pengfei and Buchi Tomatoes screamed in surprise.

"Is it so strange?"

Xiao Lin didn't seem to expect such a big reaction from the two of them, and said speechlessly: "Isn't this game only for you boys to play, and girls can't play it?"

makes sense.

After being surprised, Zhang Pengfei and Don't Eat Tomatoes also realized that it was indeed the case. This game also has an otome template, and the players are asked to choose male and female characters before making fun of them.

It's just that they both subconsciously felt that the people playing this game should be male players, so they were surprised when they met Xiaolin.

"Is such that……"

Although a female military advisor came and looked unreliable, Zhang Pengfei decided to believe it first and then question it.

So he introduced the situation.

After learning that Zhang Pengfei was an old closed beta player, he wanted to use the closed beta experience to continue to explore the role of "Lily". However, after finding that the closed beta experience didn't work, the two gave him an idea.

The first suggestion is to apply for a job as a doctor!

This is the most reliable plan. After all, if you want to conquer the role of Lily, you must create contact opportunities and become colleagues. The first to get the most advantageous.

Second suggestion, keep waiting!

The first time he gets sick, the person who treats him is not Lily, so just wait for the character to get sick, and he should be replaced next time.

"What if we never meet?"

"Then just keep waiting! Characters get sick quite frequently anyway. If you keep waiting slowly, you will encounter them sooner or later."

Zhang Pengfei thought for a while. He couldn't get 90 points when applying for a doctor, so it would be safer to continue waiting for the opportunity.

So he nodded and said: "Okay then, I'll continue to wait for the character to get sick and then go to the hospital for a check-up. I'm sorry to bother you!"

"It's okay. If you make any progress, please let us know."

Don't eat tomatoes and leave.

Xiao Lin was not in a hurry to quit. Instead, he stayed in Zhang Pengfei's game world and wandered around.

This made Zhang Pengfei very curious and asked her what she was shopping for. Aren't they all the same?

"no the same!"

"I am playing a female character, and you are playing a male character. Although the map and scene are the same, I have never seen these NPCs before."

"I see."

Zhang Pengfei realized that it was because different NPCs appeared randomly among different players, so she stayed and wandered around.

It happens to be fine.

Zhang Pengfei, who was thinking about Lily and wished his character would get sick quickly so that he could go to the hospital to find Lily, was also bored at the moment, so he simply walked around with Xiao Lin.

The map of "Love Staff" is still very large.

On this map, there are thousands of NPCs living. Among these NPCs, only a handful can be conquered by players. Most of them issue tasks and serve as tool men in the background of the game.

"What is Otome like?"

Zhang Pengfei was very curious, what was the difference between the "Love Staff" played by Xiao Lin and the one played by him?

"A big difference!"

"I'm a kindergarten teacher there, and all the playable characters around me are boys..."

Kobayashi introduced the difference between the female protagonist’s perspective and the male protagonist’s perspective. One is an otome-oriented romance game, and the other is a male-oriented romance game. The difference is quite obvious.

"It sounds fine!"

Zhang Pengfei has never played an otome game, so he really wants to know what the handsome guys Xiao Lin meets are like.

"There are many, including the domineering and warm-hearted Iceberg Man, and my little brother Qingmei..."

As they chatted, the conversation seemed to open up. The two asked each other about each other's ideal type and the original intention of playing this game.

"It's nothing!"

"I just feel that the current atmosphere is not very good, so I don't want to go on a blind date to find a partner, and just play games to pass the time." Zhang Pengfei said nonchalantly.

He always tells the truth.

Although classmate Xiao Lin is a girl, he has no taboo at all. In front of classmate Xiao Lin, he said that the current atmosphere is not good, and girls must have cars and houses when looking for a partner.

"Well, the atmosphere is really bad."

I thought that Xiao Lin would stand on the girl's side and refute his remarks, but unexpectedly, what he got was recognition.

"Huh? You won't refute?"

"What you said is true. Why should I refute it?" Xiao Lin said calmly, "When my parents got married, my dad was still wearing patched clothes."

"There was nothing at home at that time, and they still lived happily. My mother always said that she married a good husband..."

"Times have changed."

When Zhang Pengfei heard this, he couldn't help curling his lips and said: "The standards for choosing a spouse in that era simply don't work now."

In the past, it was popular to get married first and then fall in love. If you meet each other on a blind date, you will be together for the rest of your life. If you marry a chicken, follow the chicken, marry a dog, follow the dog...

This is not the case now.

Forget about wearing a dress with patches and holes when you get married. If you dress like this on a blind date, the other girl will turn around and leave. There is no need to continue the conversation.

"This game is very detailed, and even the snack sellers on the street can interact with each other!"

"Yeah?"

Zhang Pengfei really didn't notice this. After all, he always thought that these NPCs pushing carts and selling things couldn't interact with each other.

When he came closer, he found that there was indeed an interactive option.

This is an NPC uncle selling pancakes and fruit. The cart is made exactly like in reality. Interact with him and you can buy a pancake fruit for 5 yuan.

"The first time I bought this kind of street food in the game was pancake fruit..."

After Zhang Pengfei bought the pancakes and fruit, he was about to think about the use of this thing when he suddenly saw a new interactive option on the screen.

"I bought it for you, try it!"

What does it mean?

He was very familiar with this interactive item. When he asked Lily out for dinner before, he had a similar interactive option.

But the problem is...

He didn’t conquer the NPC either! Except for the uncle selling pancakes and fruits, he and classmate Xiao Lin were the only ones here.

Where did this interactive item come from?

You can't pop up an interactive item, return the pancakes you just bought to the NPC uncle, and then say with a smile: I bought it for you, try it!

No, I can't hold it any longer.

Zhang Pengfei felt that no matter how stupid Brother Ba was, he probably would not come up with such a heaven-defying design. This is not "God's Grace Continent", so how could anyone be able to conquer it?

Since it’s not Uncle Pancake, it’s...

With the idea of ​​giving it a try, Zhang Pengfei clicked the interactive button.

"I bought it for you, try it!"

"General Feipeng" gently handed the pancake fruit in his hand to "Classmate Xiaolin" beside him.

The voice channel was silent for a moment.

I don’t know how long it took, but Xiao Lin, who came back to his senses, clicked Accept, looked at the pancake fruit in his hand, and suddenly said: "I have something else to do, so I’ll get off first! Bye!"

"I got off too..."

The atmosphere was so awkward that Zhang Pengfei almost dug out the three bedrooms and one living room with his toes on the floor.

How can this be interactive?

Where is Brother Ba? Brother Ba, please come out and explain, what is going on with this weird interaction?