Three months later.

With the advent of the summer vacation, the official Weibo, official blog and official account of Tianba Studio, which have been silent for many days, released a blockbuster news.

The new game "Love Staff" will be available for early access on platforms such as Steam, Ebao and Wegame on the 18th of this month, with a pre-sale price of only 68 yuan.

"Didn't you break the triple digits?"

Zhang Pengfei was a little surprised, but he didn't expect the pre-sale price of Tianba Studio's new game to be the same price as "Divine Grace Continent".

This was unexpected!

You know, when the Tianba community speculated on the price of the new game, many people felt that Brother Ba would definitely break the previous record this time and make a three-digit one, with a minimum of 98 yuan.

There are traces to be followed......

In general, the pricing of a game depends on many aspects, mainly size, quality, and genre.

A love development game like "Love Staff" is outrageously priced. In particular, the "mysterious confidence" price of many neon developers is incomprehensible.

The volume is not small, and it is also this kind of theme that is "seriously premium" in itself, and it is completely logical for everyone to guess a three-digit price.

As a result, only 68 yuan were sold!

Thinking of similar neon games, starting from a hundred, often two or three hundred, or even more than four hundred, Zhang Pengfei suddenly felt that it was really Brother Ba who felt sorry for his own people.

This has to be replaced by Neon Company, Steam Country, you can buy it without two or three hundred dollars?

Of course, 68 yuan is not a small expenditure for Zhang Pengfei, who has just entered the society.

After all, his monthly salary is only more than 5,000 yuan, except for rent, water, electricity, food and drink, and daily necessities, there is really not much money left.

It is impossible to save money.

It's not that I don't want to save, but the main thing is that I can't save money at all. With this income a month, excluding fixed expenses, how much money can you save in a year without eating or drinking?

"Xiaofei, when are you going to get married?"

Thinking of the problems that his parents and grandparents would always mention when he went home, Zhang Pengfei couldn't help but sigh.

The topic is too heavy.

He has neither a car, nor a house, nor a savings, and it is not easy for his parents to raise him, so how can they continue to pay?

The more he thought about it, the more he rejected finding a partner, and felt that it was good to be alone. At least he is not like other classmates or colleagues, who emptied the wallets of three generations of grandparents and grandchildren in order to get married.

Then within a few years, the little couple broke up and left.

That's not really worth it, right?

Thinking of this, Zhang Pengfei suddenly felt that it was very fragrant for him to spend 68 yuan to find a paper man's wife, except for his parents, the rest were all advantages.

"Bought it!"

As soon as the pre-order was opened, Zhang Pengfei decisively paid for a copy of "Love Staff".

He is a veteran of the closed beta.

To be precise, he is Guo Mo's white prostitution fan, usually bored to watch Guo Mo's live broadcast, and won an activation code in the last lottery, so he played the demo version.

It is precisely because he has played the demo version and is very satisfied that he pays so quickly. If it was a game he hadn't played before, he would have to hesitate.

"Lily, I'm on horseback!"

Since playing the demo version, Zhang Pengfei has fallen in love with a female doctor named Yan Lili.

After Tianba Studio issued an announcement saying that the early access version would retain the character data of the demo version, he couldn't wait to meet Lily.

The demo trial time is too short.

So at that time, he was still far from Raiders Lily, and this time in Early Access, although the game progress was reset, he was confident that he would take Lily.

"Why is the download so slow?"

Secretly complaining that the landlord's broadband is not good, Zhang Pengfei turned to the game community, wanting to see what changes the early access version has compared to the demo version.

There are still quite a lot of posts.

He glanced at it, opened the official pinned post and looked at it, and roughly came to a conclusion.

The career path has become more rigorous, and you need to be cautious when changing jobs! And the characters of the Early Access version will be more difficult to contact!

This is not an official covert change.

Mainly in the demo trial stage, the game content is not complete, and many functions have not been implemented, so it will be easier to contact.

But the early access version is no different from the official version, and a large number of new gameplay and new features have been implemented, and the difficulty of character contact and strategy will naturally increase.

One more point!

The online experience has also been optimized, with more content to interact with when other players enter the game world.

"Okay, not much has changed......"

After learning the details, it just so happened that the game was also downloaded. Zhang Pengfei rubbed his hands and clicked into the game.

Familiar account landing page, familiar male and female character selection, familiar face pinching and naming link, familiar game UI interface.

Because he is a veteran demo player, after logging in to the account, he restored his original game role. If you don't want to recover, you can also randomly generate a new batch of game characters like a new player.

Zhang Pengfei will certainly not be randomly generated.

He also wants to continue to attack Lily, randomly generate a batch of new characters, and never see Lily again.

After entering the game, Zhang Pengfei wanted to ask Lily to go out to play directly, but he came back to his senses when he saw the personal panel, the game progress was reset, and he had to get to know Lily again.

And that's not all.

He also had to find a new job, and it was a job that he could get in touch with Lily, otherwise he wouldn't have had a chance to get to know Lily.

"Oh no, I can't get into the hospital."

There is no better way to get in touch with Lily than to go into the hospital and become a doctor.

But the broken game "Love Staff" needs to answer questions before joining the job, and if he can pass the answer test, he won't be so distressed.

During the demo trial, he met Lily because the character was sick and went to the hospital for treatment, and happened to meet a playable character.

Is it going to be the same way?

But that's not reality!

In reality, you can still pretend to be sick and go to the hospital twice if you are not sick, but whether you are sick or not in the game is not something that the player can decide.

The system says that if you are sick, then you have to be sick if you are not sick, and if the system says that you are not sick, then you will have to be kicked out of the hospital......

Zhang Pengfei, who had a headache, decided to stay the same, first find a job with a low threshold and mix, and then slowly wait for the character to get sick.

But he forgot something!

It's a meat pigeon game with a lot of randomness.

According to his experience, he finally waited until the character was sick and went to the hospital full of joy only to find out that the doctor who treated him had been replaced!

What about Lily?

Where's my Lily? How did you become a bad old man and treat me?

Help, help!

Zhang Pengfei called for help, and soon two players responded to him and entered his game world.

"Why are there only two of them?"

"This game has just been launched, and everyone is groping, how can there be so many people who specialize in helping others?"

"Makes sense!"

Zhang Pengfei nodded, feeling that the eldest brother named "Don't Eat Tomatoes" made sense.

In addition to "Don't eat tomatoes", another player named "Kobayashi-san" also spoke.

"What's going on on your side?"

"Female ...... Schoolgirl?! ”

Hearing the soft female voice in the voice channel, Zhang Pengfei and Don't Eat Tomatoes screamed.

"Is it that weird?"

Xiao Lin didn't seem to expect the two of them to react so much, and said speechlessly: "Isn't this game only played by you boys, and girls can't play it?" ”

That's right.

After being surprised, Zhang Pengfei and not eating tomatoes also reacted, it is true, this game also has an otome template, and players are allowed to choose male and female characters before pinching their faces.

It's just that the two of them subconsciously felt that the people who played this game should be male players, so they would be surprised when they met Kobayashi.

"That's ......"

Although there was a female military division and she didn't look very reliable, Zhang Pengfei still decided to believe it first and then question it.

So he gave a briefing.

learned that Zhang Pengfei was a veteran of the closed beta and wanted to use the closed beta experience to continue to attack the role of "Lily", but after finding that the internal beta experience did not work, the two gave him an idea.

The first piece of advice, apply for a doctor!

This is the most reliable plan, after all, if you want to attack the role of Lily, you must create contact opportunities and become colleagues.

Second suggestion, keep waiting!

The first time he got sick, it wasn't Lily who treated him, so he continued to wait for the character to get sick, and the next time he came, he should be replaced.

"What if you haven't met it all along?"

"Then keep waiting! Anyway, the characters get sick quite frequently, and if you wait slowly, you will encounter it sooner or later. ”

Zhang Pengfei thought about it, he couldn't get 90 points when he applied for a doctor, so it was more reliable to continue to wait for the opportunity.

So he nodded and said, "Okay then, I'll continue to wait for the character to get sick, and then go to the hospital to have a look, I'm sorry for you!" ”

"It's okay, remember to tell us if you're making progress."

Don't eat tomatoes and go.

Xiao Lin did not rush to quit, but stayed in Zhang Pengfei's game world and walked around.

This made Zhang Pengfei very curious and asked her what she was shopping, isn't it all the same?

"It's different!"

"I'm playing a female character and you're playing a male character. Although the map is the same as the scene, I have never seen these NPCs before. ”

"I see."

Zhang Pengfei reacted, it turned out that it was because different NPCs appeared randomly between different players, so she stayed and wandered around.

It's just fine.

Thinking about Lily in his head, Zhang Pengfei, who wished that the character would get sick quickly, so that he could go to the hospital to find Lily, was also very bored at this time, so he simply accompanied Xiaolin's classmates to go shopping.

The map of "Love Staff" is still very large.

On this map, thousands of NPCs live. Of these NPCs, only a handful of them can be raided by the player, and most of them are tools that issue quests and act as a tool for the game's background.

"What does Otome look like?"

Zhang Pengfei is very curious, what is the difference between the "Love Staff" played by Xiaolin and the one he played?

"There's a big difference!"

"I'm a kindergarten teacher over there, and the playable characters around me are all boys......"

Kobayashi introduced the difference between the female protagonist's perspective and the male protagonist's perspective, one is an otome love game, and the other is a male love game, and the gap is quite obvious.

"Listen to it!"

Zhang Pengfei has never played an otome game, so I want to know what the handsome guys and beautiful men that Kobayashi meets are like.

"There are a lot of them, the boss is a warm man, an iceberg man, and a little brother ...... Qingmei"

Chatting and chatting, it seemed to open the conversation, and the two asked each other about each other's ideal type and the original intention of playing this game.

"It's nothing!"

"I just think that the current atmosphere is not very good, so I don't want to go on a blind date to find a partner and play games to pass the time." Zhang Pengfei didn't care.

He was a man who always told the truth.

Although Xiaolin is a girl, he is not taboo at all, in front of Xiaolin, he said that the current atmosphere is not good, and girls must have a car and a house to find a partner.

"Well, the atmosphere is really bad."

I thought that Xiaolin would stand in the position of a girl and refute his complaints, but what I didn't expect to get was recognition.

"Huh? You don't refute? ”

"What you say is the truth, why should I refute it?" Kobayashi said calmly, "When my parents got married, my dad was still wearing clothes with patches. ”

"At that time, there was nothing at home, and they were still very happy, and my mother always said that she married a good husband......

"It's a different age."

When Zhang Pengfei heard this, he couldn't help but pouted and said: "The mate selection criteria of that era will not work at all now. ”

In the past, it was popular to get married first and then fall in love, and the blind date looked at the right eye, that is, for a lifetime, marry a chicken and a dog......

Not now.

Don't talk about wearing a dress with patches and holes when you get married, you just dress like this when you go on a blind date, and the girl turns around and leaves, there is no need to talk about it at all.

"This game is quite detailed, and the street food sellers can interact!"

"Really?"

Zhang Pengfei really didn't find out about this, after all, he always thought that these NPCs pushing carts and selling things couldn't interact.

When he stepped forward, he realized that there was indeed an interactive option.

This is an NPC uncle who sells pancakes, and the cart is exactly like in reality. Interact with him, you can buy a pancake fruit for 5 yuan.

"The first time I bought this street food in the game, it was pancake fruit......"

Zhang Pengfei finished buying pancakes and fruits, and was about to say what this thing was for, when he suddenly saw a new interactive option added to the screen.

"I bought it for you, and I tried it!"

What does it mean?

This interaction item was all too familiar to him, and when he asked Lily to go out to dinner before, he had a similar interaction option.

But the question is......

He didn't attack NPCs either! Except for the uncle who sells pancakes and fruits, there are only him and Kobayashi classmates.

Where did this interaction come from?

You can't pop up an interactive item, return the pancake fruit you just bought to Uncle NPC, and then smile and say: I bought it for you, try it!

No, I can't hold it back.

Zhang Pengfei thinks that no matter how brain-dead Brother Ba is, it is estimated that he will not make such an anti-sky design, this is not "Divine Grace Continent", how can anyone be able to attack it?

Since it's not Uncle Pancake, that's ......

With the idea of giving it a try, Zhang Pengfei clicked on the interactive button.

"I bought it for you, try it!"

"General Feipeng" gently handed the pancake fruit in his hand to the "Kobayashi-san" beside him.

The voice channel fell silent instantly.

I don't know how long it took, but Kobayashi, who came back to his senses, clicked to accept, looked at the pancake fruit in his hand, and suddenly said, "I still have something to do, let's go first!" Bye! ”

"I'm ...... too"

The atmosphere was too embarrassing, and Zhang Pengfei barely used his toes to pick out three bedrooms and one living room on the floor.

How can this be interactive?

What about Brother Ba? Brother Ba quickly come out and explain, what is going on with this strange interaction?

(End of chapter)