Odd Containment Specialist.

Chapter 1188 Research on Dead Files (Part Two)

"Ah? Died already?"

[Should I increase Spirit Vision, decrease other attributes, and choose again?]

In "Kyoto Sinks," plot-driven deaths like this are commonplace, and it is precisely because of these plot-driven deaths that the cruelty, darkness, and horror of the worldview are highlighted.

After each scripted death, players can choose from various negative buffs to revive and make new choices, thus finding the correct path.

Although these negative buffs are negative, they can combine with other buffs in the game to become positive, so they do not reduce the gameplay. On the contrary, they add a gambling element, making people more addicted.

Jiang Wengao did not hesitate to start over, and then chose the second option, ignoring the other party.

[...Just as you're about to get back to what you're doing, the wall suddenly explodes, and a giant lizard, whipping its tail, mercilessly smashes through your room, shattering everything in its path.]

You were bitten by a lizard, your body torn in two, and you died.

“It’s 678.”

This time, because he didn't hide in the closet, there was an ending illustration showing the lizard's appearance, which must be 678.
Jiang Wengao sighed softly and once again chose to lower his intelligence to revive.

Having restarted twice in such a short period of time, it's almost as if the save file is ruined. But regardless, we'll definitely have to see how things develop.

So Jiang Wengao was resurrected and chose to rush out of the room to the corridor to see.

[You hear a strange noise and curiously look outside, only to find a giant lizard bulldozing towards you like a bulldozer. You try to run, but a human's running speed is no match for this ferocious beast, and you are trampled to death.]

"bump!"

Jiang Wengao slammed his fist on the table.

"Damn! That's so unreasonable!"

Even Jiang Wengao rarely encountered such a mindless plot-driven death.

It's important to understand that in a game, mindless, plot-driven deaths without any hints can severely impact the player experience.

A game can be difficult, or it can be easy to die, but dead-end options are really frustrating!

After the three selections are completed, the screen returns directly to the main game interface. The "Continue Game" option is gone, and only "Restart" is available.

Jiang Wengao frowned, carefully considering this short trip.

If all three options are guaranteed to lead to death, then this means that the preconditions for certain death had already been triggered in this save file.

What are the prerequisites?

Are the clues in the death descriptions of the three options?
Hmm... I can't figure it out.

While analyzing the situation, Jiang Wengao started a new game.

As usual, he chose a name, then improved his character's stats, and finally entered the game, joining the management bureau according to the process, and taking a written test and interview.

He initially thought the problem might lie in his conversation with Murong Shangjin, but as he was taking the job entrance test, a text box suddenly popped up!

You feel very sleepy... Even though this test is important and you shouldn't be sleeping, you're just too sleepy...

Jiang Wengao craned his neck, staring at the strange unfolding he had never seen before, then clicked the proceed button, and the interface immediately returned to the main menu!

And this time there wasn't even a "continue the game" option; the main menu only showed "restart"!
"What the hell is going on? I've entered a special side quest?!" Jiang Wengao stared at the game menu in disbelief, momentarily stunned.

Without hesitation, he immediately restarted the game.

Five minutes later, he still died!

Jiang Wengao was completely baffled. His situation was like a player opening a sword and magic game, and after a brief conversation with the village chief in the starting area, being asked to choose a class. The player chose swordsman, and then… died immediately after making the choice.

Jiang Wengao felt he needed to sit up straight and play the game properly, so he immediately started a new game, but this time he chose to start as the finisher.

He thought that by changing his route, he could continue the game, but in the new save file, he died again while filling out the job application form!
For the next half hour, he kept restarting, but each time he would die for no reason shortly after the game started, without any opportunity for the player to make any free moves.

"Damn it, does this game mean it's completely unplayable?" Jiang Wengao frantically pressed the keys on the keyboard, chose a name, and entered the game.

He didn't even have the patience to adjust personal attributes; he only wanted to exhaust all methods to see how to keep the game going.

He operated the system with practiced speed, choosing to become a cult member and then undergoing the initiation ceremony of this nameless little cult.

He had even planned in his mind that if he died again, he would try to lower all his attributes to the lowest level and see if he could continue the game with a completely idiotic start.

While he was figuring out how to optimize the start, the ritual on the screen proceeded smoothly.

[Bishop: Very good, FLIHGLIJ, you have successfully passed the divine approval, and from now on you are a member of our sect! Although you are not very powerful, as long as you are devout enough, you will still be blessed by the gods.]

!!!

Jiang Wengao's pupils suddenly contracted, his crooked neck was straightened again, and his eyes were fixed on the screen.

He swallowed hard, his index finger trembling as he clicked the right mouse button.

Text boxes popped up one after another, and the plot progressed very smoothly, all of them featuring familiar, fixed lines from the main storyline!

"Okay?"

He couldn't believe it himself.

He tried starting with the cultists, but it didn't work the first few times. How come it suddenly worked this time?
Did I do something or meet some strict conditions that made a game that was originally unplayable now playable?

Jiang Wengao opened his task panel attributes with a puzzled look and began to examine them.

Unremarkable.

There is absolutely nothing eye-catching about it.

He didn't bother to improve his starting attributes in all the subsequent games, so his stats were fairly evenly distributed, making him a completely ordinary person, no different from the previous games.

In the previous few games, ordinary players all died at the start, so why was it possible this time?

What exactly was changed to make the game work normally?

Jiang Wengao stared blankly at the game, like an illiterate man staring at "War and Peace," trying to decipher the shapes of artillery fire from the characters.

He stood there dumbfounded, repeatedly clicking through and comparing the panel, backpack, and all other functions, but found nothing amiss.

"What the hell? Oh well, let's keep playing." Jiang Wengao let out a long breath and carefully controlled his character to talk to the bishop.

Bishop: FLIHGLIJ, is there anything else?

Your test is over. I still need to test other devout believers. Go find Master Labod; he will arrange your personal life here.

Jiang Wengao closed the chat window, selected a route, and went to find Labod, which the other party had mentioned.

He had just clicked the mouse a few times when he suddenly froze in front of the computer desk, gasping for breath.

"No way! Could it be because of that?!"

(End of this chapter)