Chapter 100: The Game of Childhood
The dynamic world in memory is more lively than the farmers' market three streets away, especially at night, laughter, shouting, screaming, and crackling keys are more disturbing than the ghost crying wolf howl in KTV.
The dynamic world in front of you, standing in the old place, quietly, looks old and dilapidated compared to the adjacent ramen restaurants and Internet cafes, like a gradient gray filter.
Li Ming hesitated, Yao Yi was surprised: "This place is really eye-catching, it is perfect for making a horror thriller, with Hitchcockian mobile zoom, with music like "Yin Wind Gusting" and "Old Corpse in the Mountain Village", I have thought of the name of the movie, it is called "Death Arcade Hall", well, a mysterious place to play games with life." ”
"What zoom? Do you still understand this?" Li Ming didn't understand at all, and only sighed, "It's only been six years, why has it changed so much?"
Yao Yi really wants to say that this change is not big, compared with the earth-shaking changes in China in the past few decades, and then compared with the world changes in the next ten years, the decline of the arcade hall is just a drop in the ocean, and it has not attracted any attention.
However, Li Ming just said casually, there is no need to analyze or correct him, everything must be found from other people's words, that is not called erudition, that is called bar essence.
Yao Yi is not a bar spirit, so he echoed: "Yes, everything is changing, six years, not a short time, we have both become elementary school students and college students." Besides, there's an Internet café next door. ”
Li Ming quickly adapted to this unexpected contrast, smiled, and said: "Yes, after all, computer games are much more fun than arcades, and if you open an Internet café next to it, the business of the arcade hall will definitely not be good." ”
"If it's deserted like this, it's better to transform it into a horror house or a real-life escape room, and the business will definitely be much better. Yao Yi glanced at the stairs behind the door and made a joke.
"Escape room?"
Li Ming's face was full of question marks, he heard too many unfamiliar words from Yao Yi's mouth today - escape room games were probably only popularized in China between 12 and 13 years, and Li Ming, who was addicted to video games, had not yet heard of it.
After the release of this movie, some foreign merchants created a real-life escape room, which is a kind of situational experience game, where the customer, that is, the player, is 'locked in' in a well-designed room, and let them play the role of the theme, relying on reasoning and collaboration to find a way to escape the escape room. ”
Hearing this novel gameplay, Li Ming became interested and asked, "Sounds quite interesting! Where did you hear about it?"
"My friend told me. Yao Yi glanced at Li Ming, and said in his heart, you may not believe it, but you are the one who pulled me to play the escape room!
Before Li Ming asked again, Yao Yi took the lead to change the topic: "So, shall we still go in?"
Li Ming thought for a while and said, "Go! ”
Well, what a good and impossible reason to refuse.
Yao Yi nodded, followed Li Ming up the stairs, and sighed in his heart, I'm here, just take a look, it's really a brainwashing spell!
On the second floor, it is the dynamic world arcade hall with infinite scenery in the past, the area of the second floor is much larger than the entrance on the first floor, and there are more than 300 arcade machines dotted inside, except for those coin-operated video game machines that are not much younger than Yao Yi and Li Ming, and there is a row of brand-new crane machines on the right hand side of the door.
It seems that the owners of Dynamic World have tried to embrace new things and want to attract a new generation of gaming consumers with crane machines, but this obviously doesn't work out much, because no one wants to go to an old-fashioned arcade to clip dolls, and they have a better option: video game city.
The owner of Dynamic World is as old and decadent as his arcade, he is thin, unkempt, untrimmed and disheveled like a chicken nest, and has an inexplicable smell of decay.
After Yao Yi and Li Ming walked to the bar, he glanced up and did not put down the pirated novel as thick as a dictionary in his hand.
"...... you" Li Ming stared at him for a long time, and then asked, "Are you Boss Wen?"
"What are you doing?" Boss Wen was impatient.
Li Ming seemed to sigh, but he stopped talking.
"No, it's okay, buy coins. ”
"Three dollars a dollar, buy twenty dollars and get ten free. ”
"It's still so cheap. Li Ming finally found some familiarity, he touched his hands around his body, and finally looked at Yao Yi with some embarrassment, "Do you have change?"
Yao Yi nodded, put twenty yuan on the bar, Boss Wen took an iron cup and pressed the banknote, opened the drawer and seemed to grab it casually, grabbed a handful of tokens and poured it in, and then took out three coins with his fingers and put them into the cup.
Li Ming took the cups and counted them one by one, and after counting, Boss Chongwen gave a thumbs up and said loudly.
There was no more, no less, exactly seventy coins in the cup.
"If you can't use it up, you won't return it. Boss Wen waved his hand, too lazy to take care of it.
Li Ming was not annoyed, and pulled Yao Yi straight to his childhood favorite Devouring Heaven and Earth II. Battle of Red Cliffs.
This is one of the most popular games of the year, after investing tokens, Yao Yi clicked the joystick and buttons randomly, and after being a little familiar, he chose his favorite character of the year: Zhao Yun.
Li Ming was entangled between Guan Yu and Zhang Fei for a moment, and chose Guan Yu, who had a stunt for the tiger.
The game went smoothly at the beginning, Zhao Yun held the sword, Guan Yu was barehanded, and the two started from the battle of Bowangpo, and successively defeated Li Dian and Xiahoudun.
But Li Ming and Yao Yi are not arcade masters, and they haven't touched it for so many years, the operation is unfamiliar, and the button stick of the arcade machine is in disrepair and will fail from time to time, so the token consumption speed is very fast.
When he hit Xinye City, Xu Zhu's wheel collision and flying pressure caused Yao Yi's first death.
When it came to the Battle of Changbanpo, Chun Yudao, who was beheaded by Zhao Yun in a round in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", ruthlessly ravaged Zhao Yun controlled by Yao Yi.
When it came to the Battle of Chibi, Li Ming didn't have the time to laugh at Yao Yi's rookie operation, because his two small bosses, Zhang Liao and Xu Huang, died five times in a row.
followed by Lu Bu who used a horse sword and a long whip, Lu Bu also brought three female assassins, this level consumed the most tokens, with Yao Yi's oil bottle, Li Ming fought alone, and was not Lu Bu's opponent at all.
In the end, the tokens were exhausted, and the two Five Tiger Admirals let out an unwilling roar and fell under Lu Bu's sword.
Li Ming stomped his feet and smiled helplessly: "Hey, I also said that I would go to fight the alloy slug after clearing this, but I didn't expect to clear the customs, haha." ”
"I'm too vegetable, you can't take it. Yao Yi told the truth and asked, "Why don't I go buy some tokens again?"
As soon as the words fell, there was a clang, and the iron cup full of tokens was placed on the operating table.