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Chapter 388: Mercy against Heaven?

At this point the game has completely gotten out of control.

Even Lecturer Ding's brain went into a short-circuit state.

Logically, he should have pressed alt+F4 to exit the game immediately, but the problem was that the game was connected quite well. Since it was originally a small game of passing levels, Lecturer Ding had been pressing the W key and controlling the mouse to climb over obstacles, so he was still immersed in this muscle memory.

The changes in the surrounding environment were almost instantaneous. At first, I thought it was some outrageous bug and did not react immediately. But when Alvette and countless monsters appeared, the game unexpectedly switched back to the previous state of breaking through levels and escaping seamlessly and naturally.

However, this time, the cute girl who was originally chasing behind turned into a scary monster. White Walkers continued to appear below, emerging from the frozen swimming pool and climbing up while making low roars.

Lecturer Ding's brain short-circuited for a moment because the monsters were chasing him very closely. If he released the W key and pressed alt+F4, the character in the game would stop and be eaten by the monsters.

So he ran for some distance before he finally had time to free his hands to turn off the game.

"saved!"

Lecturer Ding breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the healing background on the computer screen again.

But Alvette's horrifying face still caused him serious psychological damage, making him unable to calm down for a long time.

"I don't want to play anymore, I don't want to play anymore, no matter what!
"Against Heaven, this is terrifying to death!"

If Lecturer Ding were to make his own summary, this scare would almost rank among the top three in his gaming career, and he might even be in the top two and fight for first place.

why?
In fact, Lecturer Ding has played quite a few horror games. Although many of them were forced by the audience, in terms of the horror level alone, they are much scarier than "Heartbeat Dreamland".

But why is "Heartbeat Dreamland" still ranked so high?
The reason is simple, because of psychological expectations!

Before playing other horror games, Lecturer Ding had already prepared himself mentally and knew that this was a horror game. So even if there were some scary scenes, he was probably prepared.

But "Tokimeki Dreamland" is different. Against the Heaven has never said that this is a horror game. Everyone plays it as a love game.

Although some weird scenes were used before to give players a little surprise, these scenes looked too much like bugs, so that after the players calmed down, they still did not realize the seriousness of the problem. They were on guard, but not much.

This is why I was so scared when the final showdown came.

Just like in real life, if players see some scary scenes when visiting a haunted house, they will be scared but not that seriously; but if players are riding a roller coaster through a tunnel and the passenger behind them suddenly turns into a ghost and pats them on the shoulder, it can be fatal!
At this time, the barrage of comments had become a mess, with some people shouting "WTF", some cursing, and some even wanting to shut down the live broadcast and run away.

Although these viewers did not play the game themselves, it was scary enough to see a ghost face suddenly pop up while watching the live broadcast.

There were also some players who were playing while watching the live broadcast, and they were even frightened earlier than Lecturer Ding.

After all, Instructor Ding has to take the audience's feelings into consideration, so he plays slowly in many places. If other players play on their own, they will make faster progress in chasing girls, and naturally get scared faster.

In the barrage, players were filled with righteous indignation and denounced the immoral behavior of Nitiantang.

"Shit! It's actually a horror game! No wonder there's no official label!"

"So it seems that Ni Tian Tang did this on purpose? Just to scare people, right? This is not fun at all!"

"Damn it, I almost punched the monitor to pieces."

“Uninstall! Refund! Give a bad review!”

"Please play another game, this one is too scary!" "Hey, can you log in again? I found that there seems to be a small loophole in this game. You can exit the game at any time by pressing alt+F4. If you log in again, you can skip the horror game part directly, and there are also generous rewards!"

"…Damn it, don't try to trick me!"

"I'm not lying to you, it's true! That's what I did, and now I've got two sets of treasure-level swimsuits!"

Amidst the condemnation, there were also some other voices.

Although most players’ first reaction after being scared is to ask for a refund or give a bad review, there are always some players who choose to play differently.

For example, if you are being chased by ghosts, you don’t quit the game, but just treat it as a horror game and complete the entire level.

For example, you can log out of the game immediately and then log in again to check the situation.

As a result, this test actually proved to be something new!

Lecturer Ding logged into the game again with some doubts, and found that it was just as the barrage said, the horror game content was gone, and rewards were even given out!
Why is Lecturer Ding so sure that the horror game content is gone?

Because this time his autosave was not corrupted, and instead saved at the point where he and Alvette were after they finished the pool mini-game.

In other words, the system helped him skip this mini-game plot by default.

Moreover, everything around has returned to normal!
Alvette turned back into a beautiful girl in a swimsuit. The swimming pool was no longer frozen and no White Walkers crawled out anymore. Lecturer Ding could continue to travel around with Alvette.

Not only that, the game also distributed rewards. Although they were not as generous as the previous time and there were no invitation tickets, gold coins, training points and treasure-level swimsuits were still distributed as usual.

Lecturer Ding fell silent again.

Oh my god, I was just about to quit the game!

“Is this a bug?
"Or... Against Heaven's Mercy?"

This soul-searching question arises again.

If the game is played normally, after the player quits the game, the system save point must be stored before the player quits the game and at the beginning of the mini-game. Then when the player logs in again, the game should continue from the moment when Alvette turns into a ghost and chases the player.

But "Heartbeat Dream" is different. The system's save point is actually after the player quits the game?
Of course, this is unlikely to be a bug, and it is most likely intentional by the game designers. But why would they do this?

Regardless, the result is that this provides players with a huge, exploitable loophole.

Players don't need to experience the content of horror games seriously. If something doesn't seem right, they can just quit the game immediately.

When you log in again, it's a sunny day with a clear sky, nothing has happened, and you can directly skip the challenge content of the horror level and happily get the costumes and various other rewards for free.

Of course, there will definitely be players who will choose to quit the game directly, but there will definitely be players who choose to continue playing, because the love part of this game is really well done.

Many players also want to invite more new characters, give them more swimsuits, or have various other contents they want to play.

As the saying goes, curiosity kills the cat!

(End of this chapter)