To ascend, I had no choice but to create games - Chapter 369

Chapter 369: Chapter 228: The Underground Passage (Part 1)_1

“This is getting a bit boring,”

Xiemen Waidao watched the victory settlement screen and felt that he had pretty much had his fill of “Happy Adventure”.

He wasn’t particularly fond of overly cartoonish family-friendly games, and even though he’d been addicted for a while, in the end, games like “The Healer” that were darker and more grotesque were more to his taste.

It was already one in the morning, and Xiemen Waidao, lying sideways on the floor and yawning, was thinking about getting some sleep. But as soon as he stopped moving his hands, he noticed the Little Bear on the right side of the screen continuously pouncing at him.

Once, twice, thrice…

If it were any regular character, Xiemen Waidao would definitely have remembered their name and paid them back in kind during the game.

But this wasn’t just anyone, it happened to be his “Xiemen Waidao’s Mukuai 1234”.

Bringing NPC companions into the game was a new feature added in an update a while back, allowing players to bring along no more than one NPC from other Fang Cheng Workshop games into “Happy Adventure” for a two-player mode, which made it convenient for solo players to enjoy the two-player experience.

This feature seemed a bit mocking, but upon its release, it received a wave of positive reviews and revived the somewhat flagging “Happy Adventure”.

A certain game media journalist now posts videos of himself in the game daily, where he and his Mukuai are always playing “Happy Adventure”, which made Xiemen Waidao wonder if the kid was planning to virtually marry Mukuai.

But he wasn’t one to talk, as he himself also played this game every day with Mukuai 1234.

Unlike him, Mukuai 1234 particularly liked this game.

Mukuai 1234 would be on him to play every day, fifteen hours of intense gaming round the clock, seizing every opportunity to play—whether it meant doing it thirty times in the morning and forty in the afternoon, or forty times in the morning and thirty in the afternoon.

Although Mukuai 1234 would say every day, “Xiemen Waidao, if you have something to do, just do your thing, don’t mind me,” Xiemen Waidao felt they had a pretty good relationship, so indulging them occasionally did no harm.

Besides, he was both wealthy and idle, with nothing much to do.

And the game would eventually become tiresome after playing for a while, so it wouldn’t be long before Mukuai 1234 lost interest.

But this went on for a good half a month.

Noticing Mukuai 1234 still flinging himself at him, Xiemen Waidao could only sigh, get up and grab the controller, showing him with actions: “Alright, alright, let’s continue playing.”

Just as he was preparing to continue, he noticed that the ground beneath a Little Bear in the scene suddenly opened and another Little Bear popped out.

But that wasn’t the end of it. A Little Bear disappeared in the corner, and yet another one came out.

“Two gatecrashers, huh? Looks like there’s something to see today.”

Gatecrashers are system NPCs that appear occasionally. Their method of appearing is different from players’, so they’re quite easy to tell apart.

Some of these gatecrashers, like players, have IDs appearing above their heads, while others don’t.

Different gatecrashers have different personalities, like the guy named “Fang Cheng My Boss” who is the timid and addictive type, playing the game with lots of hesitation and often getting killed in retaliation.

But another one, a red Teddy Bear without a name, is different.

This one is no pushover and very addicted.

These two NPCs appeared the most frequently, but it was the first time Xiemen Waidao happened to encounter both on the same day.

Already feeling somewhat sleepy, Xiemen Waidao felt that this game was going to be interesting.

Warming up his fingers, he decided to have a real man’s showdown with the red Teddy Bear and began his journey after the countdown.

Fang Cheng My Boss was eliminated in the first round, which was no surprise.

However, in the second level, when Xiemen Waidao was preparing to join Mukuai 1234 to take down a player named “Black Tech”, he encountered a problem.

The opponent seemed to be a new player, with many movements that were not proficient. However, when confronted with the joint attack of Xiemen Waidao and Mukuai 1234, the player managed to find remarkable angles to dodge their assaults.

“Happy Adventure” doesn’t have a high skill ceiling, and many players reach the top as they play, but this Black Tech seemed to have pushed the limit of anticipation up a notch, making them almost uncatchable.

After realizing that Black Tech was quite formidable, Xiemen Waidao decisively took Mukuai 1234 away from the player and continued the game until only four players were left, including them.

The nameless red Teddy Bear, Black Tech, Xiemen Waidao, and Mukuai 1234 all made it to the final round, ready to have a life-or-death match, when the game suddenly paused.

The light in the room abruptly went out as if the power had been cut, leaving only the sensation of the ground moving beneath.

This situation had never occurred before, and its sudden appearance puzzled Xiemen Waidao, but also excited him slightly.

Is this… an Easter egg?

Filled with the thrill of discovering another Easter egg, Xiemen Waidao quietly stood in place, waiting.

Finally, after a few minutes, the trembling of the ground stopped, and then suddenly, the ground collapsed, and they fell together to the bottom.

Accompanied by a series of exclamations from Xiemen Waidao, he and Mukuai 1234 were bounced around in the corridor for several minutes before landing.

Struggling to get up, he found that they were now inside a dark cave.

Bluish moss grew on the cave walls, constantly emitting light and masking the path forward in a hazy mist.