Chapter 572 Battle for Takeru (13)
“What kind of shit game is this!”
Masato Shichijo punched the table, his eyes fixed on the screen, the screen In it, an old-style anime girl with eyes taking up half of her face was walking towards him with a kitchen knife and her face covered in blood. Then the screen went black and the credits screen appeared.
In order to understand Takeru's obsession and better trap him, Masato Shichijo directly brought an old-fashioned computer to the office to run this old game that is no longer compatible with current versions of computers. Fortunately, there are many such old computer companies in the company, and many departments are still using them, so it is not a problem.
After finally fumbling around with the installation, he was finally able to play it, but this game gave him a disincentive.
It's obviously just a galgame (a two-dimensional beautiful girl type visual novel), but it's unexpectedly hard-core, with countless branch endings. If you often choose the wrong option, or if certain conditions are not met, you will enter some strange branches. In the end The endings are also all kinds of weird. Sometimes if you don't pay attention, you will step into a bad ending. There is no logic at all. The ending just now even gave him the feeling of playing a horror game.
"So where is Masaki? I can't find him at all!" Masato Shichijo rubbed his temples. This game is so unpopular that even the guide can't be found. The reviews on the Internet are also negative. Shit, coupled with the fact that many games of that era were difficult to play without a strategy guide, Masato Shichijo is now stuck.
After much thought, he gritted his teeth and found the employee who found the game. This employee was from the technical department, with a somewhat sparse forehead and a typical stereotype.
"Mr. Shichijo, are you looking for me? Ah, this is..." The employee looked at the computer screen curiously, and then showed a subtle expression: I didn't expect Mr. Shichijo to be so good.
Shichijo Masato stared at him and thought: It seems that the overtime is still too short.
"It's not what you think. I was...ah, forget it." Masato Shichijo sighed and said, "You found this, right? Where did you find this game? Do you have a guide?"
"It's a friend of mine, a senior otaku." The employee said: "He has been tinkering with these things since he was young. He currently has a store in Roppongi, specializing in selling some anime and game-related products. I It was only after asking him that I found these. If it’s him, he must know a lot about it.”
Shichijo Masato said, “Ask him how to trigger the character line called Masaki in this game.”
The employee said: "Okay, I'll call now. He should still be in the store."
Soon, the call was connected. The employee explained his purpose and turned on the speaker of the phone. A middle-aged man Human voices came from inside.
The person said: "I didn't expect that there are still people who like this type of game~ It's really rare... But it's normal that you can't find Masaki, because Masaki is a hidden character in this game, and you need to adjust the computer's system date It becomes the zero o'clock hour of the 'appointed day' in the game, Then open a new file and enter the [Battle Royale] ending to have a chance to trigger it, and the 'promised day' date of each file is also randomly generated..."
"Wait... the promised date What the hell is that?" Masato Shichijo frowned, feeling like he was missing out on a hundred dollars.
“It’s another hidden element.” He said: “If you maximize the favorability of one of the supporting characters, ‘Puppy Poch’, then as long as you choose correctly in the subsequent branches, you will enter [Alien Line], after that, in the spaceship scene, you can see a line of text on the corner screen, which is the alien language created by the game. You need to By converting the strokes into Morse code, we can finally get the exact date of the 'appointed date'..."
"What a devil!" Masato Shichijo roared: "Someone can really find it! Such a clue? "No wonder this game is recognized as a shit game, its sales are dismal, and the company closed down before even finishing the game. It really deserves it!
"Don't tell me, there is really a person who discovered this clue on his own." The other end of the phone sighed: "That guy was the first to reveal this hidden character. He can be said to be a super fan of this game. Although this game is indeed a shit game, it still had a group of loyal fans back then because of its hidden routes... It's a pity that he later froze outside my store because he wanted to be the first to buy the unfinished sequel. One night, when I found him the next day, he was already hopeless... Sigh~ It's really sad."
The corners of Masato Shichijo's mouth twitched: "The person you are talking about...isn't his name. Ajian?"
"Ah? So you know about this?" There is something unexpected there.
Shichijo Masato covered his face, lowered his head and said: "I just heard that your shop is in Roppongi... Is the Reiku Office upstairs above you?"
"Do you know me? "It's even weirder over there.
"No, I just passed by there before." Masato Shichijo felt very sad. He asked people to investigate Takeru and Takeru's obsession with great fanfare. After spending so much effort, the answer was close at hand. No wonder Takeru knew how to do it. After becoming an employee of Qian Xiaoyi, it turned out that the place of death was downstairs... Now, everyone in the company probably knows that he is looking for "Masaki", and I don't know what the rumors have become.
It was too late to regret now. Masato Shichijo resisted the urge to smash the computer with a punch and said with a straight face: "Thank you, Mr. Manager."
" You're welcome." The store manager said enthusiastically: "You helped me clear a lot of useless inventory. If you have any questions next time, you can ask me directly."
Hang up the phone. Masato Shichijo asked the employees to leave and close the door. Then he took a deep breath and began to explore the hidden routes of this shit.
According to the store manager, he indeed entered the special alien ending and found alien writing in the corner of the scene.
The line of text was composed of long and short lines, which were converted into Morse code in sequence, and then translated into time, and the time of the "appointed day" was obtained.
Then I modified the system time, opened the game again, opened a new file, and entered the battle royale route according to the store manager’s instructions. The male protagonist was captured and taken to an isolated island, where he and others participated in the battle royale. Finally, he When he was about to be killed, he escaped to the mysterious altar on the island, and the time in the game scene happened to point to 0 o'clock...
The light is coming! A UFO appeared in the sky! From the UFO's beam of light, a girl slowly fell.
——It is none other than [Cosmic Idol] Masaki-chan!
(End of this chapter)