Wanjie Game Hall, I sent Kiana to Silent Hill

"Why are you so excited today?" Wang Xuanqiao felt a little helpless as Kiana dragged him along. "Could it be that those doctoral advisors added new courses for you?"

"Hmm? Ah! Yes, yes! Dr. Tesla and the others got information about the Herrschers of the previous civilization from Old Ancestor Kevin, so now I have eight more Herrscher power-related theories to learn! Just looking at that information makes me feel like I'm going to die!"

Kiana said quickly.

"Well, when it comes to learning, just take it easy." Wang Xuanqiao comforted as someone who had been through it.

"Every bit you learn is a bit you earn, and every bit you earn is a bit of happiness. Just think of it this way."

"That's what I said, but I seem to have a disease that makes me dizzy when I study!" Kiana said unjustly.

"It's okay, I can just play games for a while to cure this disease."

The two put on their gaming helmets and began their gaming journey. But not long into the game, Wang Xuanqiao noticed someone else had entered the arcade. Just as he was about to pause the game, he heard Kiana say:

"It should be Mei and the others. I left a message before I came, saying I would come over to play."

"Oh? Not bad. It seems that my help for you last time was not in vain, haha~" Wang Xuanqiao continued to immerse himself in the game.

He didn't take off his helmet, so naturally he didn't see that in the game hall, Mei Raiden, Bronya, Yulandel and others were holding a bunch of food and were tiptoeing through the first floor and heading towards the second floor.

They have been here many times, so they are naturally familiar with the place.

When passing by the game area, Bronya even squeaked to tell Wang Xuanqiao that she was there to play.

"Bronya is here? We are playing online right now, let's play together." Wang Xuanqiao took the opportunity to invite Bronya.

"Not yet. Bronya wants to sort out her ideas for modifying the mecha first. She might need to ask the store manager for his opinion on the design of the perfect mecha later."

"Oh, then you sort it out first."

Wang Xuanqiao didn't take it too seriously. Ever since Bronya had experienced the carrot game "MechWarrior", she would often come with various ideas to DIY her own car.

When he was free, Wang Xuanqiao would also enter the game and test the newly modified mecha with her. But now, Kiana came first, so of course he had to accompany Kiana first.

As the two were playing, the arcade's sensor door suddenly opened again. This time, Kiana failed to recognize the new visitor, so Wang Xuanqiao paused the game and took off his helmet to see who had arrived.

"Wow, let me see who this cute girl next to Xuanqiao is~"

Hearing the voice before seeing the person. As that familiar, clear voice reached his ears, Wang Xuanqiao knew it couldn't be anyone else but Alicia.

"Aili, if you want to go shopping, you may not have time today." Wang Xuanqiao looked at Alishia in gorgeous clothes and guessed that she might be here to cross paths with him.

After all, Alicia chooses her clothes based on her purpose. If she's playing games, she usually wears something more modest. Because once she's in the game, what she wears is a completely different matter.

"Oh, I didn't expect Xuanqiao to reject me right from the start. I'm so sad! But I'm not here to go shopping~" Alicia smiled with narrowed eyes, "I'm here to invite you to a holiday party. Everyone has prepared so many fun and interesting things to entertain you."

"Holiday party?" Wang Xuanqiao was stunned for a moment, then asked, "Is today a holiday?"

"That's right, a holiday party~ But it's Xuanqiao's holiday!" Alicia approached Wang Xuanqiao with a mysterious smile on her face. "Guess what we prepared for you?"

My holiday? Wang Xuanqiao pondered for a moment, then suddenly understood.

"Oh, you mean the Mid-Autumn Festival," he said. "But you can't say it's my festival. Since you're planning to celebrate it, it should also be your festival."

"So, when does the party start?" Wang Xuanqiao asked.

At this moment, Kiana, who had been holding her voice, suddenly jumped up.

"Wait, wait! Wait, wait!" Her tone was filled with panic. "There was a car crash! We were here first!"

"Ah?" Wang Xuanqiao couldn't understand what Kiana was saying for a moment.

But Alicia had already guessed what had happened in the game hall before she arrived, and she couldn't help but smile.

"It turns out that someone has already sent an invitation." Although she said this, her tone was not discouraged at all.

On the contrary, Alicia expressed the strongest persistence in the most gentle manner.

"But there's no first come, first served basis when it comes to this kind of thing," she said with a smile, "although I really don't want to disappoint a girl as lovely as Kiana."

"I see. Then we really can't give in." Kiana's response was no less than unyielding.

Wang Xuanqiao, who was inexplicably sandwiched between the two of them, looked at Alicia, then at Kiana, and finally shook his head helplessly.

In the minds of the Azhong people, the Mid-Autumn Festival is a festival that symbolizes reunion.

So since it is a reunion, why should people who can be together be forced to separate?

"Since everyone wants to celebrate the holiday, why not just join together and celebrate it together." Wang Xuanqiao interrupted the "confrontation" between the two and said.

"I knew you would say that~" Alicia immediately took Wang Xuanqiao's hand, "I also think it would be happier for everyone to celebrate the holiday together."

Seeing this, Kiana immediately ran up and grabbed Wang Xuanqiao's other hand.

"That's right! If we want to celebrate, let's celebrate together! Monopolizing something is not allowed!"

Even so, Wang Xuanqiao could clearly feel Kiana exerting force, trying to pull him closer. If it weren't for his foundation, he might have become the rope being pulled in the tug-of-war.

Alas... Didn’t they say that Mid-Autumn Festival is not meant for me?

Wang Xuanqiao couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

"Anyway, let's talk to Bronya and the others about celebrating the holiday together," he said.

"And—Happy Mid-Autumn Festival!"

——The author has something to say——

I wish all book lovers a happy Mid-Autumn Festival!

Originally, this special chapter should have been about the preparations for the banquet and the entertainment at the banquet, but after thinking about it, one, it’s getting late, and two, if I finish writing it all, the price will probably be very high. So I might as well just publish the general outline first, and add the subsequent content through modification. This should allow book friends who subscribe early to not spend so much money, right?

Volume 095: : 'Mei's' Kitchen Troubles

Today's arcade achieved the highest attendance rate since its opening - a full six people!

After learning Theresa had left, Kiana stopped hiding and quickly ran down from upstairs, happily joining the group. Although... Ying and Dai E couldn't be counted as part of the group.

The two of them were brandishing swords and guns to their respective music. The system-provided "Beat Saber" game thoughtfully provided the function of changing the weapons in hand, so Dai E and Ying were holding not the traditional red and blue lightsabers, but the weapons they were proficient in.

Even the music library available for them to choose from consisted of songs they had already listened to.

For example, Sakura is now in the middle of a song that is a mix of rock, electronic music, Japanese style, and a bit of operatic abstract music. She is waving her sword to chop off the petals that are coming towards her with an intoxicated look on her face.

Yes, that's right, even the "blocks" can be customized. And it's not just the rhythm blocks that can be customized, even the scenes can be replaced with matching items.

This brings us to the scene Dai'e had set for herself. She was currently ten thousand meters in the air, with only clouds whizzing by at high speed below her. Meanwhile, Yulandel herself was riding a motorcycle-like aircraft, one hand on the handlebars, the other constantly firing her gun to pierce the scattered Honkai Beasts.

That's it!

It feels like I'm back in the training room!

Yulandel was a little worried that she would not be good at dealing with this kind of game, but now...

No one knows beat saber better than her!

Weird.

Wang Xuanqiao was honest: aside from the music game attributes, the Beat Saber game the system had given him wasn't the original Beat Saber at all. This was probably what they call a re-creation that retained the spirit of the original.

Wang Xuanqiao was originally planning to lead Raiden Mei to familiarize herself with the game, but Kiana suddenly showed up, so he simply gave his position to the two of them.

After all, the game that Mei Raiden unlocked was "Overcooked".

He and Bronya started "MechWarrior" to experience this classic mecha-themed game.

This brings us to one of the highlights of this game. It is the first game to include the ability to transform the human body, which means that players can not only transform the mecha, but also the driver, that is, the player himself.

After entering the game, Bronya stayed in the human body modification operating room for a long time. She felt that the things in front of her... looked more and more familiar.

Look, transform the human brain, increase shooting accuracy, enhance computing power, etc. In short, if you want to become stronger, then transform it.

It feels so familiar, like I'm back home! Haha!

"Manager, this game actually clearly supports players in body modification?" Bronya's expression looked very simple and clean, but only those who knew her could see that she was in a complicated mood at the moment.

"I guess so. After all, in the background of this game, people are almost not human anymore." Wang Xuanqiao replied.

"Indeed, the moon has fallen to the earth, and the planet has come to an end. Humanity has lost its sense of community, and even most of its armed forces have been taken away by autonomous AI. To survive in such a world, people will resort to any means necessary."

Bronya sighed slightly, and couldn't help but marvel at how magical the system the store manager mentioned was.

All I can say is that sometimes there is really nothing new under the sun, and humans always repeat the same mistakes they made over and over again.

But this has nothing to do with Bronya.

Because Bronya is here to play!

Bronya stopped hesitating and left the modified operating room directly and ran towards the hangar.

Although technically speaking, the operating room is also in the hangar, this large facility that serves as a hangar, repair shop, and modification factory is the player's core base and arguably the safest place in the game world.

Bronya came to the bottom of the lifting platform bracket, raised her head and looked at her own steel mecha, the curve of her mouth gradually became more difficult to suppress than the guns she picked up when she was a mercenary in the past.

Mecha! Mine! Modifiable! Upgradable!

Bronya was visibly trying to "sublimate" herself... Wang Xuanqiao had no choice but to use the handheld terminal in the base to wake her up from her fanatical fantasy.

So, how should we transform this steel behemoth? The answer is - attack, and then farm materials.

The evil brush game finally showed its fangs here...

The two people, who were suffering from the fact that a good cook cannot cook without rice, boarded their own mechas and rushed into the battlefield of the desolate world.

So, Bronya realized another feature of this game - the plot is full of mecha-themed jokes, and players who don't know the jokes can hardly understand what the story is about.

For example, the entanglement between the Shenhong Emperor and the devil, players who don’t know the love, hatred and vengeance between the ducks and mules will definitely not perceive the value of the plot.

Of course, it doesn’t mean that if you understand the plot of “MechWarrior”, you can understand the story…

As the saying goes, people do not share the same joys and sorrows. Bronya only felt that these guys who suddenly started fighting on the communicator were noisy.

Although the two worlds didn't share many common stories, they did share many similar themes. Bronya wasn't completely unaware of the emotions of these mecha warriors, although she hated to admit that she could actually sense some of them.

"Store manager."

After the mission was completed, Bronya climbed out of the cockpit and turned to look at Wang Xuanqiao who was already standing on the elevator next door.

"what happened?"

"Is this the price a mecha pilot has to pay? Having to listen to other people's passionate speeches on the communication channel?"

"Haha, this is the romantic part of the mecha theme."

Wang Xuanqiao walked down the elevator, quit the game, and prepared to see how Mei Raiden and Kiana were playing next door.

He took off his helmet and leaned forward in his seat, turned on the screen of Mei Raiden on the other side, and initiated a broadcast request.

The game footage quickly appeared on the screen, but surprisingly, it was broadcast from the same bird's-eye view as the original. The only difference was that the two "little people" busy in the kitchen had been redesigned as Mei and Kiana.

Mei was seen constantly rushing around to get vegetables, cut vegetables, and cook. She ran like the wind, moving as fast as she could between the workbenches that were deliberately placed like obstacles.

And what about Kiana?

Kiana, who was serving the dishes, secretly took a bite of the dish that was about to be served to the customers...

"Kiana! That's for the guests, you can't eat it!" Mei caught a glimpse of this scene and hurriedly spoke out to stop it.

"Ah! I don't have it!" The white-haired dumpling quickly swallowed the food into his stomach, and at the same time tried hard to hide the plate in Mei's blind spot, but he accidentally dropped the food on the ground.

"......Oh, I'll make another plate." Mei Raiden's hands paused briefly while cutting vegetables, but immediately increased the speed.

"I'm sorry, Mei." Kiana quickly squatted down and picked up the vegetables on the ground. "The food Mei cooked was so delicious that I couldn't help it..."

Then she put the dish she picked up from the ground on the serving tray.

"Ah! Wait a minute!"

After the dishes were taken away, Kiana suddenly realized that she had put them in the wrong place. She had originally wanted to find a place to put them first and blow on them when she was done, but she had accidentally put them on the serving tray.

As expected, this operation resulted in points being deducted.

As a bystander, Wang Xuanqiao could only say that the two of them had no problems passing the novice level probably because the novice level only required cutting lettuce and tomatoes, and Kiana would not be able to resist eating these semi-finished vegetables.

In the next two levels, when the dishes started to become more complicated, Kiana naturally started to show her skills.

Fortunately, the Kaslana family's talent for cooking should have been suppressed by the game, otherwise Wang Xuanqiao felt that it would not be as simple as stealing food.

In fact, he had guessed wrong. Her talent for cooking had already been used, so Mei Raiden decided to let Kiana just serve food and wash dishes.

In a sense, this is also a connection between the Mei clans. Dr. Mei passed on his talent as a kitchen assassin to the Kaslana family's genes, and now it happens to have caught up with another Mei in modern civilization, Raiden Mei.

It’s not unfair, it’s really not unfair.

When the time was finally up, Mei Raiden chose to quit the game.