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Chapter 395 Deleting Elliot's File

"Deleting or copying character files does not seem to cause any critical consequences, and the impact on the game is also very limited.

“Isn’t that the problem?
"Hey, wait, why are there files on Elliot in here too?"

Zhang Qifeng suddenly frowned, realizing that he seemed to have discovered a blind spot.

So far, he has simply tested various operations.

Directly deleting a character file that should be in a game will cause the archive to report an error and become unreadable.

But if you paste other archive files in, it will run normally.

In general, even if these files are pasted together, it will not have a fundamental impact on the game content.

If it is a female character that the player has not yet activated, it doesn't matter if the file is deleted, because when the save file runs to the point where the character goes to the island, a new file for the character will be automatically created in the folder.

But there is only one character that is a little different.

That's Elliot!
Because Elliot exists as a guide, although she is a character in the game, she is not attackable at all.

There is no story line between players, no intimate interaction, and no data such as favorability.

Even if players go to the front desk to communicate with Elliot, they can only assign her to complete some basic functional operations, such as changing the appearance (decoration) of some scenes in the game, choosing to activate new props in the mall, etc.

Of course, there are options for small talk, and there are quite a few conversations, but players generally won't go to the same locations repeatedly.

As everyone knows, the character dialogues in this game are basically generated by fake-AI. The amount of text itself is extremely large, and there are a few golden sentences interspersed among the large amount of meaningless dialogues.

Chatting with other female characters can improve their favorability and may also unlock some special plots or mechanisms.

But Eleos is not a conquerable target, so there is absolutely no benefit in chatting with her.

In this case, players will not spend too much time on her. After all, the girls in this game have their own merits and are all very beautiful, and Elliot cannot stand out from the crowd.

Even as a guide, her personality seems a little thin, and she doesn't have the distinct personality traits like other girls.

But in the root directory, there are also character files of Elliot.

Zhang Qifeng couldn't help stroking his chin and fell into deep thought.

“Logically, there is absolutely no need for the authorities to release her documents.

“Because the character files here are probably not real game data, but part of the game mechanics?

"So, what will happen if I delete Elliot's file?"

Thinking of this, Zhang Qifeng made a prompt decision and deleted it!

Not a trace of hesitation.

After all, he has done similar operations many times. Even if the archive is damaged after deletion, it is not a big problem. He can just copy it from other archives.

After deleting, Zhang Qifeng entered the game again. What happened in front of him shocked him: the game could be loaded normally, and Elliot was indeed gone!
This is quite outrageous. According to Zhang Qifeng's guess, the game will most likely report an error and then discard the save file. There is a small chance that nothing will happen, after all, Elliot's data should be stored somewhere else.

However, there is really no Elios in the game.

The person sitting at the guidance desk, responsible for receiving players and handling related matters, became Alvette.

"Huh? Is this okay?"

Zhang Qifeng was a little confused. He observed carefully and found that this change had no reflection in the game at all, as if there had never been such a person as Elliots from the beginning.

Alvette's first letter is A, so it is ranked first in the folder by default. Zhang Qifeng is different from Teacher Ding. He did not choose Alvette before, but chose Ying, so Alvette should not be on the island yet.

All of Elliot's original work was replaced and completed by Alvette.

Zhang Qifeng wanted to find out the specific differences between the two, and finally found that except for slightly different lines, other functions were exactly the same.

“The lines are different, maybe it’s because of the fake-AI?
“There are differences in interjections and speaking habits. Elliot is more gentle, while Alvette seems to be more aloof.

“But overall, the difference is small or even negligible.

"The dialogues should be done by fake-AI, but the fact that the character changes to become the receptionist must be part of the game content, right? After all, this kind of thing must be specially developed!"

Zhang Qifeng couldn't help but feel encouraged. Although he had not yet found the real hidden mechanism, he changed the way of playing the game by deleting files, which showed that he was on the right track.

Continuing to advance the game process, Zhang Qifeng soon discovered that the horror content in the game seemed to have completely disappeared!

At first he thought he was lucky, after all, the horror content in this game was triggered randomly, but it was not until he had played for more than an hour that he realized that it was really gone!

After all, the time it took to trigger horror content previously ranged from 5 minutes to 30 minutes.

In the very beginning of the game, this time will be longer, and the game will patiently wait for the player to take the bait, but once the horror content appears for the first time, the subsequent appearance time will be greatly shortened, and it will definitely be triggered once within 30 minutes.

But now Zhang Qifeng had been playing anxiously for more than an hour, but still nothing happened.

You can still date girls as usual and unlock various activities as usual, but Alvette is no longer among the girls you can invite.

After all, she is already serving as a guide on the island and can no longer appear as a playable character.

“This is a lot of information. Could it be that the content of the previous horror games was actually created by Elliot?
“Otherwise why did it disappear after she was deleted?

"Alvette can also be a guide. If I delete Alvette again, will it be passed down in the order of the folders?

"If all the files are deleted in the end, will I be the only one left in the Garden of Eden?
"Or should I copy Elliot's files in now? Who will be responsible for reception on the island then, Elliot or Alvette?

“Could it be possible to force Elliot into a playable character by doing this?”

Many thoughts suddenly popped up in Zhang Qifeng's mind, because once the "out-of-the-box tricks" were discovered, the number of fancy moves that players could perform would obviously increase.

Although it is not clear at present what the connection is between these fancy operations and the gameplay, Zhang Qifeng vaguely feels that there seem to be many mysteries of this game waiting for him to uncover.

(End of this chapter)