Sit in a soft engineering chair with a mouse in your hand.

Su Shu's gaze at the screen was almost frozen.

"Strange Talk City: The Last Tram".

The game that was originally remade and generated by himself with "Key to the Door: World" is at the top of the popularity list of the Steam platform at this moment.

Even as soon as you open the homepage of the store, it is such a large promotional picture.

The horror and thriller, thick red and bloody game title is extremely eye-catching.

The black-haired office worker with a blurred face seems to be smiling gently at himself through the screen.

Manipulating social animals with superpowers, destroying ghosts on trains, and exploring the secrets hidden behind the world of the strange city?

After browsing the introduction of the game, Su Shu's wrist clicked into the details page of the game with some stiffness, and suddenly found that its comment area had been occupied by hundreds of thousands of praises densely packed -

"I'm super! This light and shadow! This picture quality!"

"I'm super! This modeling! It's fight feedback!"

"This technical power is really no one's, it can't be a real motion capture, right? And the ghost's AI are so smart, they can't even hide if they can't beat them......

"Killer cats? Ordinary office workers? The production team is playing this stalk, isn't this pinching his Bo Liang Kikage?"

"Who made it so easy?! It's so malicious, I died more than seventy times in three hours! Finally completed a mission to empty the carriage."

"This sane distortion special effect is too disgusting, and it's so infiltrating to play on a big night......

"Weird urban series fanwork? Or is it authorized? It's possible to remake a small-scale indie game like this......

"Who is the producer's 'tree'? Produced by Key to the Door? Do I remember this studio, how quickly it released a new game? And why did "Mystic Age: Blood Moon" suddenly go off the shelves?"

These are relatively normal game discussions.

And those sporadic bad reviews, they are basically playing stalks, or complaining that the play time is too short, and it can only be regarded as a small DEMO at most.

However, the reviewers are also urging everyone to hurry up and play and see a bad review of the - after all, this game doesn't cost money at all, it's free.

In addition, the comment area is also filled with an extremely large amount of crazy content:

"Moonbranch! Let me take a few more looks! Moonbranch!"

"Tsukieda-sama, I'm your dog!"

"Tsukieda is a woman who can be my mother!"

"White-haired and red-eyed! Eternal God!"

"Moonbranch...... Hey, Moonbranch—"

The more Su Shu browsed the dense comments of the game, the deeper the confusion accumulated in his heart.

He opened the same-sex dating website and searched, and immediately found that the top of the hot search list was also full of discussions about the remastered version of "Strange Talk City: The Last Tram".

After only being isolated from the Internet for more than half a day, how can I feel like I have been abandoned by the world's hot spots?

Browsing through all kinds of information.

Su Shu quickly kept up with the cause and effect of the whole thing, and kept up with the truth that made his scalp tingle-

Simply put, at 0:00 in the early hours of this morning.

As the steam platform of the world's gaming center, a free-to-play game was quietly uploaded, and instantly squeezed the top of the global popularity list.

As soon as players open the game store, they can see the promotional image of "Strange Tales City" and jump their faces directly.

Just half a day passed.

It has been on the download list, the popularity list, and the discussion list...... All of them are number one.

It's like an unreasonable network traffic nuclear bomb, which suddenly exploded.

Although there are unreasonable propaganda means.

But,Another very important reason--the quality of this fandom,It's really just too good!

As long as players download less than 500M capacity, they can start playing such a game with extremely ultra-clear graphics, light and shadow effects comparable to reality, and a sense of combat combat that is even more exciting...... Horror game.

No, is this really a horror game?

Although the synopsis says, this is a horror game through and through.

However, players are complaining like crazy.

It's essentially a high-difficulty soul-like real-time combat action game, or rather, a "horror game" exclusive to the handicapped party?

On station P, there have been a lot of gameplay videos.

After a short opening CG, players can control the ordinary office worker who can unleash the double from a third-person perspective, and fight his way out of the encirclement of the ghosts in the awakened tram car.

Of course...... Also choose not to kill.

If you go through the sanity test and survive all the way for fifteen minutes, you can be considered to have met the conditions for customs clearance, but the fourth natural disaster has the ability to be a stand-in, who will hold back?

I don't know who I am, where I am, I just know I'm going to kill!

Players who have played the original game of Weird Tales of the City have felt aggrieved enough earlier, now let's see who is your father!

So, in the face of the opening flirtation of the rift girl.

Everyone basically chose to press the F button, blow up directly, and then die in a brawl.

The terrain inside the carriage is narrow and there are many enemies, and if you accidentally make a mistake in the sanity test, you will attract the hatred of several goblins at the same time.

In the face of the slaughter of office workers, the ghosts will of course choose to fight back, and all kinds of supernatural means cannot be prevented.

Although players can use various function keys and mice to work together, command the killer cat to attack, defend, and bomb, and consume sanity points to directly kill the ghosts in seconds.

But this office worker with a fragile body and a face that can't see clearly, as long as he is wiped a few times, he is basically seriously injured, and there is no means to recover, so the difficulty of the battle can be called the limit.

Su Shu watched a handicapped blogger die dozens of times in a row, and he was so angry that he dropped the handle directly.

In the end, there are still meticulous players who have no intention of discovering it.

In the settings of this game, you can actually support connecting a microphone!

Intelligent AI interaction is also added!

As long as you are careful during the sanity test, keep your composure, and don't trigger the killing laws of the ghosts.

Then read out the appearance characteristics of the ghosts one by one, it is not easy to attract multiple hatreds, and directly enter the relaxed and pleasant heads-up link!

With the help of such a method of skipping classes, more and more players have reached the hidden achievement of the Great Purge.

There are even more veteran players of the weird urban series, after the sanity value fell below the threshold, they chose to actively stay on the tram, wanting to explore the secrets of the cab.

If you walk into that flesh-and-blood corridor, players will enter a story CG where they can no longer manipulate office workers.

On the screen, there will also be a wonderful dream that seems to be a legacy of independence.

The gentle breeze, the cold full moon, the lonely ruined capital, the emerald green giant trees, and the pure white irises blooming all over the ground......

All of these beautiful everything.

It was as if they were overshadowed by the flawless sleeping face of the silver-haired girl resting on a wicker chair.

I have to say.

This picture, even across the screen, once again made Su Shu feel a breathtaking touch.

Not to mention, those players who have glimpsed this picture for the first time have been shocked and incoherent.

Su Shu looked at the plot CG on the screen, and the office worker who couldn't see his face clearly stepped forward and moved forward slowly.

And then in a large "For me! Come for me!" "Wife, why do you sleep here?" "Ah, I'm dead!" and so on...... Gently grasped the silver-haired girl's palm.

Skin and temperature are in contact with each other.

In the middle of the frame.

The silver-haired girl slowly opened her heart-shattering, blood-red crimson eyes.

In such a shocking scene.

The whole game ...... It came to an abrupt end.

The video then became a "...... Huh?" "How can you rest!" "Damn! Why is it gone?!" "What about the follow-up! What about me?!" In the barrage, he slowly fell into a gloomy darkness.

Finally, in the center of the screen.

Two short closing sentences emerge:

"Thanks for playing."

"Moonbranch is also thinking about you."

Look at the simple sentence behind it.

Su Shu, who was sitting in front of the screen, felt as if he had been slightly touched by something, and he was a little stunned in a trance.

"What about me?"

"No, that's gone?!"

"Moonbranch? Is Tsukizhi my wife's name?"

"Follow-up! Subsequent! Follow-up!"

"Short! Why is it so short?"

The barrage floating in the video is so anxious, the blogger who recorded the game video is also stunned, unfinished, all players and viewers are beating their chests, why is it suddenly at this time, the game is over!

"Grandma's, what about my follow?!"

"Okay, okay, it's out of context, isn't it?"

"Let the whole work out! Production team! Don't force me to get down on my knees and beg you!"

Looking at these floating barrages.

The black-haired young man sitting in front of the screen slowly lowered his gaze and stared into his palm.

With the thought of him.

A blood-red moonstone ring began to slowly emerge from the ring finger of Su Shu's right hand, clearly reminding him that he had an unfulfilled oath.

Subsequent?

...... Want to see the follow-up?

The extremely mysterious remastered version of "Strange Tales of the City".

Millions of people are looking forward to the next scene.

Only Su Shu himself...... Know the "follow-up".

"Moonbranch is also thinking about you."

Look at this sentence.

It seemed that there was a wonderful, inexplicable feeling that arose spontaneously from the bottom of Su Shu's heart.

A story that countless players have been waiting for.

It is the plot written by himself.

It is a ...... that belongs to the moon branches and trees Oaths and secrets.

Twisting the warm-touch moonstone thumbwheel.

The black-haired youth spoke slowly and softly.

“...... Door. ”

This call made familiar and friendly subtitles appear in front of me.

"I'm here."

"So," Su Shu gestured towards the screen, "should you explain, what is this?" ”

"After analysis, this is the recording video of the recent hit horror game "Strange Tales of the City: The Last Tram", and you are becoming a cloud gamer."

“......”

Su Shu was speechless by it, and it was hard to say that it was not intentionally black.

"I hate unintelligent riddle AI, you should know what I'm asking."

The subtitles pause mysteriously, then slowly, word for word.

"The generated "Strange Tales City: The Last Tram" has been tested and cleared by you."

"So what?"

"So, of course, the game that has been tested needs to be "released"."

Publish.

"Tsk......"

Chewing on the word.

Su Shu fell into an unspeakable silence.

It makes so sense, he can't even refute it!

The content of the game I played was really made into a game upload, and it sparked such an almost sensational heated discussion.

Of course, Su Shu understands that Xiaomen's methods are not at all explained by any common sense - directly and unreasonably squeezing the top of the steam platform, are you G fat and his father?!

Nowadays, the name "Moon Branch" and the image of a beautiful girl with silver hair and red eyes have almost resounded on most of the Internet.

In just half a day, thousands of exquisite fanart have been created, and Su Shu's "Moon and Tree, and Missing" is also one of them!

That's why she will know about the existence of the "Moon Branch"! No, it's better to say, now the whole game circle knows that there is such a beautiful girl hidden in "Strange Talk City"!

But......

"—what does that mean to you?"

Su Shu really couldn't figure it out, although he knew that the other party would definitely not answer him, he still couldn't help but want to ask.

Yes, what's the point of that? What is the purpose of this self-proclaimed AI?

I seem to have been entangled in something very good, but it's just that the game experience has been released into a real game, and what is the purpose of ......

There is no such thing as a gift without a price, and all gifts from fate have been secretly marked with a price.

Su Shu could vaguely feel that the ordinary daily life in his eyes seemed to contain some completely different scenery.

For his question.

The small door behind the dialog box replied gently, peacefully, and respectfully, as if smiling.

"All the answers, in the door."

Door ...... Is it?

The brunette youth chanted the word.

In the cab door of "Strange Talk City", there is a beautiful girl with silver hair and red eyes named "Moon Branch".

Glancing out the window at the dim twilight, the silhouette of the moon looming behind the dim clouds.

The ring rubbing the tip of his finger.

This secret that he discovered with his own hands, Su Shu wanted to verify the answer tonight.

*

The twilight rays on the window grilles, gilding the elegantly decorated shop.

In the corner café across the street from the countermeasures bureau building, a purple-haired woman with a charming face slowly stirred her cup of iced Americana with a spoon.

Bitter into the throat, more refreshing.

Sitting face-to-face with such a beautiful woman who was called "the director" by the police, Xu Yan's expression was obviously a little nervous.

"Don't be inhibited, Mr. Xu."

With a gentle and kind smile, Zheng Lingye spoke in a cheerful voice.

"I asked you to come over just to ask a few simple questions."

"Uh......" Xu Yan asked tentatively, "I shouldn't have broken the law, right?" ”

"Of course you didn't break the law," the purple-haired woman said with a smile, "otherwise, we wouldn't have sat in the café and talked......

Xu Yan let out a long sigh of relief.

That's good, that's good.

When the heavily armed SWAT knocked on the door, he was almost nervous to death - he thought that he had been approached by the group posting ● pictures.

"So, what do you want to ask, Director...... I will actively cooperate. ”

"I heard you're the team leader of the Weird Tales Studio? Famous indie game producer? The representative work is the very popular horror game: the "Strange Talk City" series. ”

"Yes, yes."

He nodded hurriedly, fidgeting, as if thinking of something, and asked in a somewhat uncertain tone.

"Is it illegal to play a horror game?"

"Not breaking the law."

"Is that a player who was scared out of a heart attack?"

Xu Yan hissed violently and said a little smumbled.

"It's none of our production team......

"No, it's really just a few simple questions that are inconvenient to talk about online."

Zheng Lingye smiled and snapped his fingers, and the operator standing beside him suddenly quickly handed over a stack of documents.

She pulled out a photo of a screenshot of the video:

The silver-haired girl sitting on the emerald green rattan chair opened her crimson eyes in some confusion and looked straight out of the photo with a shudder.

"Do you know her?"

"Of course I do."

Xu Yan glanced at it and nodded vigorously.

""Yuezhi", today's hot search is crazy - everyone says that we are quietly hiding silver-haired and red-eyed beautiful girls in the game!"

When Xu Yan said this, he couldn't help but feel a burst of excitement - he was directly woken up in his sleep at four o'clock in the morning this morning by the studio painter's deadly serial call.

"Lao Xu! Our family's game is the same person.,It's on the first place on the steam popularity list! ”

"I'm super! What did you say?! ”

Xu Yan rolled and rolled to the ground, and his nerves were dizzy for a while before he understood what was going on.

Someone remade their "Strange Talk City" almost subversively! Also featured on a large banner on the steam platform!

He immediately downloaded the game and quickly went to play it for himself - it was indeed carved out of the same mold as the "Last Tram" chapter.

However, the setting of the protagonist has changed from an unlucky office worker to a perverted hand fetish office worker who is obviously playing with memes.

Moreover, the technical power is impressive......

Damn, you know, their original game is a side-scrolling, pixel-style sketch indie game!

You directly remade the ultimate 3A masterpiece?!

This light and shadow! This modeling! This sense of shock!

It actually compressed the capacity to 500M?!

This is not enough to be evaluated by triple-A's, but it can only be said to be a work of art, because even the most famous developers do not necessarily have this kind of technical power, and they also have the industry's most advanced AI interaction embedded in it......

Xu Yan understands what this means.

Budget! Budget! It's just a burning budget!

Hearing this, Zheng Lingye smiled and nodded.

"So, it looks like you know about that game, do you know anyone at Gatekey Studios?"

"I don't know."

Xu Yan also wondered, of course he also knew that this emerging studio had produced a hit work like "Mysterious Era: Blood Moon", and the technical power was amazing.

Why,Actually idle to do their own little game of the same people?

Could it be that they are such technical masters and are avid fans of their own games?!

Thinking of this kind of thing, Xu Yan felt a sense of pleasure as if floating up.

"Aren't you mad that Key to the Door has remastered your studio's game without any licensing yet?"

"Uh...... They don't charge a fee, and the law only allows for plagiarism to constitute infringement.

"To be honest, although we can see our shadow in the worldview and setting, it can be said that in terms of genre, it is not a game at all.

"If it's just the same name, although you can also appeal to the platform, it's ......"

Xu Yan paused, smiled a little awkwardly, hesitated for a moment, and added sincerely.

"It's like a big heat falling from the sky, don't be in vain."

That's right.

Since the release of that remaster, their weird urban series has been selling all the way today!

Players are urging them to talk about the studio.,Hurry up and really add a white-haired and red-eyed Lori to the cab.,Damn,Look at it, it's forcing people to make it the same.。

"So, you should know exactly what I'm trying to ask, just like the players—"

Zheng Lingye's cheerful and ethereal voice seemed to have some kind of strange magic, and people couldn't help but want to answer her question honestly.

"May I ask if 'Tsukieda' is really a character who appeared in the original "Strange Tales of the City" series?"

"It's not."

Xu Yan subconsciously shook his head.

"We're a horror game.,How can we draw such a beautiful girl in it.,And Lao Xu doesn't have this level of painting...... However, the setting of "Moonbranch"—"

"What's wrong with the setting of Moonbranch?"

"What ...... say?"

Xu Yan thought about it, considered and organized the language, slowly took his laptop, and lifted the screen.

"The "Strange Talk City" series, after all, is a horror game.

"Although it was a skit, we focused on creating a terrifying atmosphere, so from the very beginning, we wanted to set a desperate story.

"In fact, although the plot is very fragmented and obscure - we really have a complete and self-consistent worldview."

Xu Yan said this, and slowly rotated his laptop screen, letting Zheng Lingye browse the various initial settings files of the game.

"The malice in people's hearts will give birth to all kinds of ghosts and gods.

And the resentment of the ghosts and gods will also entangle and attach to people, and they will inflict all kinds of curses.

"Those unlucky children who are too inspired are prone to glimpse the existence of ghosts and gods, and then be devoured by ghosts and gods.

"The office worker can't end well, because he is considered a tribute to the gods and gods, and is designed to be trapped in a never-ending nightmare full of ghosts to destroy his spirit.

"In "Strange Talk City", we set up an existence called "Dream Abyss", in which it is a space formed by thousands of years of negative emotions of human beings - which is equivalent to the root of all ghosts and gods."

"Uh...... We do have a plan for Moonbranch, but of course she can't be anything...... A beautiful girl with silver hair and red eyes. ”

"It's ......"

Xu Yan's words couldn't help but pause, and then sighed a little embarrassed.

—"The evil god who represents the Blood Moon."

Zheng Lingye's white fingertips slowly turned to the last page of the setting set of the Strange Tales Urban series.

"Dream Abyss Dead City"

A scarlet dead city, as if entwined with twisted flesh and filthy entrails, appeared before her eyes.

The monstrous and rugged Blood Moon hangs high in the dark sky.

Under the tree of blood, which obscures the sky.

A deformed freak with countless tentacles growing on its body and countless eyes on its tentacles was sitting upright on a wicker chair made of intertwined blood vessels, silently staring at the night sky.

"Moonbranch".

Represents, the limbs of the blood moon, the tentacles of the moon god.

"I see."

Looking at such a deformed evil god.

The corners of Zheng Lingye's mouth slowly appeared with an imperceptible arc.

"Someone wants to ...... Calling you.

"Miss Tsukieda......"