Chapter 270： "The Fable of Stanley" (one more)

Recently, there have been more and more guests experiencing the store. On the weekend, the PC experience area on the first floor can be over 90%, leaving more than a dozen empty machines.

There are fewer people in the mobile game experience area and the VR experience area, but they can basically fill half of it.

The holographic projection viewing area, every day, there are also people who are interested in this equipment, but after all, this thing will be too tired to look at, and it will be taken for granted.

Experience the first floor lobby.

Today is Thursday, people are not too much.

Chen Mo is sitting on the sofa, holding a cup of drink in his hand, and is looking through a batch of new books that have recently arrived.

There are two large bookshelves on the first floor of the hall. There are many books related to the game. Of course, there are mainly novels, comics, game albums, etc. There are also some professional books on game design knowledge, but there are few people watching.

"The store manager." A 27-year-old office worker wearing a suit brushed his ID card at the front desk and greeted Chen Mo.

Chen Mo nodded and said: "Isn't today's Thursday? Didn't go to work?"

The office worker nodded: "Well, take time off."

This office worker is called Zhao Lei and is a frequent visitor to the experience store. The North drift family, currently working in a financial company, is highly paid and has a lot of work pressure.

Unlike other players, he came to experience the store is not all for playing games, sometimes just to sit in the hall for a while, chat with everyone.

Zhao Lei is a person who has no social circle. In the work circle, he is also a lot of entertainment. In this experience store, he finds a long-lost comfort.

Therefore, Zhao Lei often came over during the weekend, and over time, he was familiar with some of the frequent customers of Chen Mo, Su Yuyu and the experience store.

Zhao Lei sat down on the sofa next to him, ordered a cup of iced coffee, and took the comic from the side shelf.

Chen Mo looked at Zhao Lei's tired face and asked, "Why, has the pressure been so strong recently?"

Zhao Lei nodded. "Well, I don't know why recently. I always met with pens at work. I have more entertainment. I drank three or four drinks last week. I have to work overtime this weekend. Today, I can't hold it anymore. rest."

Chen Mo said with a little sympathy: "Well, the body is tight. Take time to do an individual check."

Zhao Lei smiled and said half-jokingly and half-heartedly: "Physical examination? I don't dare to have a physical examination. I am afraid that I will find out what is wrong with me. I have no money to cure."

Chen Mo said: "Don't, it's still important."

Zhao Lei nodded: "Well, of course I know."

"To the store manager, there is no new game for a while, is it because of the recent busy game platform?"

Chen Mo said: "There is part of this reason, but then again, "My World" is online in less than two months. How can new games be developed so fast, and milking has to be solved."

Zhao Lei stunned: "Oh, only two months? Hey, a little lost the concept of time, it always feels like it has been half a year."

Chen Mo smiled and said: "You have too much work pressure. It is appropriate to reduce the decompression. It is always in such a high pressure state that it is easy to cause problems."

Zhao Lei said: "There is no good way to decompress. I don't have any friends, and I don't have any special hobbies. In addition to working hard to earn money to support my family, there seems to be nothing else to do. I will come to you occasionally. And you can relax a bit."

Chen Mo thought for a moment: "In fact, I just have a game for you, want to play it? New game."

Zhao Lei has some surprises: "New game? Don't you say that you haven't developed it yet?"

Chen Mo stood up and smiled. "I don't know what efficiency is it? If you don't develop it, it means the game is not online yet, but you can already try it. Come with me."

Zhao Lei rushed to get up and followed Chen Mo to the PC gaming experience area of ​​the experience store.

After Zhao Lei casually found a computer to sit down, Chen Mo entered the management background and downloaded a game that had just been developed to this computer.

Zhao Lei looked at the name: ""Stanley's Fables?"

Chen Mo nodded: "Yes."

Zhao Lei has some doubts: "You said this game is more suitable for me? What game, puzzle game?"

Chen Mo shook his head: "You know when you play."

Zhao Lei entered the game with some doubts by clicking the game icon on the desktop.

There is no cool loading map, no big scene CG, directly into the game screen.

At the top left of the screen is the title of the game "Stanley's Fables", and at the bottom left is [Start Game], [Options], [Production] and [Exit]. The whole picture is very simple.

However, Zhao Lei soon noticed the strangeness of this picture.

The picture shows a desk with a telephone and a computer on the desk, a file cabinet on the left, and a decorative painting on the wall, just like most companies will hang. The deputy seems to be nothing new and better than nothing.

The strange thing is that the picture displayed on this computer in the game is the same as the game picture, there are game titles, options, and even a small mouse cursor.

This feeling is like a picture-in-picture. Everything the player does on the desktop will happen synchronously in the computer screen inside.

Zhao Lei moved the mouse to click [Start Game], and the same operation was performed on the computer screen in the game.

This makes Zhao Lei feel a bit strange, but he did not think much, just think that this is probably some kind of bad taste of Chen Mo, just an interesting little egg.

In the process of reading the game, the screen is all black, but there is a line of gray English: "THEENDISNEVERTHEENDISNEVERTHEEND..."

This is an infinite loop of English, extending from the far left of the screen to the far right of the screen. If you break it into a complete sentence, it should be "THEENDISNEVERTHEEND", meaning "the ending is not the ending", or "the game never ends."

Only this sentence is superimposed on the beginning and end of "THEEND", resulting in such an infinite loop.

These clues make Zhao Lei somewhat puzzled. What kind of game is this?

With a lot of confusion, the game started.

There is no screen on the screen, and Zhao Lei’s headphones have already sounded narration.

The narration is a low male voice, with a clear bite, a moderate speed, and a good sense of rhythm. I can't hear too much emotion from the sound, as if I was telling a very ordinary story.

[This is the story of a man named Stanley. 】

[Stanley works in a company in a building. He is a 427 employee. 】

With the very light and light BGM, the game screen began to appear, and the camera crossed the company corridor and came to Room 427. In the room, a man is sitting back to the camera, his desk is the one that was seen at the beginning of the game, including computers, telephones, file cabinets, all in exactly the same way.

[Work of 427 staff is very simple: sit at the desk and press the button on the keyboard. 】

[The screen will display the corresponding command: what button to press, how long to press, and in what order. 】

The lens is switched to the top monitor screen, which specifically gives the player a close-up of the hand movements.

Stanley stared at the computer screen, his right hand monotonously pressed the button on the keyboard, from time to time to bow, look up, like a machine on the assembly line.