After a lot of hard work, I came to the conference hall and pushed the door open.

What awaited them was not the fireflies who had come to connect them, but the cold corpses and the soft optical fibers that shot into the hall.

The firefly soldiers who were waiting for them no longer knew why they died.

And Tess was so panicked that she didn't even look at the surrounding environment, and rushed up in a panic to find some clues.

Seeing Tess's appearance made Ye Tao startled.

Despite the short duration of the game, Joel's conversation with Tess in quarantine when she wakes up, as well as Tess when she traces Robert's whereabouts, make it clear that she is a standard woman.

And in the apocalypse, she is also unusually decisive.

Even before that, she had never panicked when faced with infected people, against pursuing Provisional Government forces, or even when soldiers pointed a gun to her head after leaving the quarantine area.

Joel is also a little disappointed when he sees this scene in the game, because he understands that the handover seems impossible, but Tess's unusual behavior makes Joel feel strange.

'Tess, what are you doing?' Looking at Tess, who kept turning over the corpse and seemed to be looking for something, she stepped forward to Joel and asked.

Maybe they have a map or something that lets us know where they're going. Tess didn't look up, still searching for the clues she wanted to see.

'Where are we going to send her?' Hearing Tess say this, Joel already seemed a little impatient.

'Delivered!' Tess shouted as she shouted as she thought of something and asked Ellie for some clues.

Looking at the abnormal Tess, Joel, who was standing next to him, pressed his hand: 'What the hell are we doing?' That's not what we're supposed to do! ’

'How much do you know about us?' What about me? Tess stood up abruptly and looked directly at Joel.

I know you're not going to do such stupid things. Joel looked at the corpse on the ground, then said to Tess.

He clearly understood that the woman in front of him, just like him, was living for himself in the apocalypse.

Now they've taken a big enough risk, and the people of the Firefly Connector are dead, traveling through Boston with a child to the Firefly base?

Are you kidding!

In the face of Joel's words, Tess did not do the same as before, but opened her arms and said, "We are the ones who live in secret, Joel!" It has always been that way! ”

No, we're trying to survive! ’

'This is our chance!' She ......'

'It's over, Tess! Joel's emotions also got a little out of control, and he yelled at Tess loudly, "We've tried, let's go home." ’

After a pause, Tess looked at Joel and took two steps back: 'I'm ...... I'm not going anywhere, it's my last stop. ’

'What? Joel sensed something and approached Tess, but was stopped by Tess.

'Sooner or later our good fortune will run out. ’

'Oh my gosh. Ellie, who was next to her, seemed to see something, and she could barely believe her eyes.

She saw a heart-wrenching wound in Tess's collar.

'She's infected!' ’

Tess stood there like ashes, the council hall was empty, and the slightest sound echoed in a lonely feeling.

Joel couldn't accept the reality that he needed Tess to pull open her collar and see the infected wound with her own eyes to believe it all and Tess did so, she slowly pulled the collar open, and the bite scar was clearly visible between the right collarbone and the shoulder, and the wound was surrounded by white blisters.

Tess walked up to Ellie, pulled Ellie's sleeve, pointed to the wound on her arm, and showed Joel the wound on her shoulder, convincing him that Ellie wasn't lying, that she was really an immune body, and that the virus really wasn't spreading in her body.

'You've got to take this girl to Tommy, he's been with Fireflies, and he knows how to find Fireflies!' Tess shouted at Joel with some excitement.

Looking at the emotional Tess, Joel didn't agree, but took a few steps back.

No, this is your holy war, and I won't do it. Joel refused.

In his 20-year post-apocalyptic career, he is not a good old man, he will not do such things that seem to be impossible to succeed at all, and he knows very well what kind of danger there will be along the way.

The ubiquitous infected, the shortage of food, and the most terrifying presence of the apocalypse - humanity.

Tess begged Joel from the bottom of her heart to take Ellie and send her to Firefly.

But Joel still firmly refused.

It wasn't until the pursuers of the Provisional Government Army rushed over, and it wasn't until Tess, the woman who had fought so hard to survive with him in the apocalypse, died in front of him that Joel seemed to silently agree to the impossible task.

Taking Ellie in the corridor leading to the second floor, Ye Tao controlled Joel and saw Tess lying in a pool of blood in the hall, and next to her there were the corpses of two government soldiers.

Ye Tao took a deep breath, and his heart was touched.

Although he understands that this is the premise made by the game team to better immerse the player in the story, after all, tragedy is more impressive and immersive than drama.

But he was still touched, and until now the game has not been much longer, but the charismatic portrayal of the woman Tess is vividly expressed.

Joel, who accepted the escort mission by default, took Ellie to avoid being chased by the provisional government forces, and in the room full of spores, looking at Ellie, who was not the slightest bit strange even without a gas mask, this time Joel really believed that Ellie, everything she said before was true, she was really an immune body.

However, although it seems that Ellie is an immune body, she may be the key to saving the apocalypse, but in fact, Joel is not interested at all, he is not there to save some hellish world, the reason why he is willing to escort Ellie at first is just to get his weapons, and now it is more just to fulfill Tess's last wish...... Probably, probably.

Looking at Joel, who strictly forbade Ellie to mention Tess in the game and asked her to obey her words, Ye Tao, who was leaning on the sofa, sat up straight.

He felt that he had almost understood the game, and he felt that he had seen it all.

One of Pixar's 22 rules of storytelling is this: what the characters are good at and what they like to do, give them the opposite, and see how they solve it.

Cold, selfish, and just wants to live in the apocalypse, saving the world has nothing to do with him, and combined with the death of Tess just now, it is likely that Joel will also die in order to save the world in the end.

Through the journey with Ellie, Joel accepts Ellie's existence little by little, and then saves the world together.

Stone hammered!

Ye Tao sighed, quite regretful.

That's what he's not good about as a game practitioner!

Always subconsciously figure out the subsequent storyline of the game, as well as the moral of the various events in the game.

This is a spoiler for myself, it's uncomfortable!