Chapter 480: This Game’s Logic Is Seriously Weird!
Lin Xue immediately felt that this Chen Duxiu was a total goofball player.
Obviously, that couldn’t be his real name, right? Who would share the same name as a revolutionary martyr?
Lin Xue asked, “Chen Xiu, which way should we go now?”
The moment Lin Xue finished speaking, she saw Chen Duxiu walk over to the little snowman, grab it with both hands, and throw it off the edge...
Threw it off the edge...
Lin Xue was dumbfounded. What the hell? What kind of nonsense was this?
But the next second, the little snowman fell from the sky and landed right in front of Lin Xue again.
Chen Duxiu explained, “Don’t worry, just giving him a little love and care.”
Lin Xue was speechless. She had a feeling this adventure wasn’t going to go smoothly.
Maybe choosing single-player mode was the right way to play...
A few lines of text appeared on the screen, giving Lin Xue some basic instructions.
The basic controls were very simple: WASD for movement, spacebar to jump, mouse to adjust the camera angle. The left and right mouse buttons controlled the character’s left and right hands—if they touched an object, they would grab it.
Beyond that, there were some more advanced moves, like grabbing the edge of a platform with both hands to climb up, or grabbing objects and dragging them.
As she got familiar with the controls, Lin Xue quickly confirmed her earlier suspicion: the physics engine in this game was so bad it would take a dozen people to hold down Newton’s coffin lid...
The character moved like it had some kind of motor dysfunction, walking as if it were floating. It seriously felt like it might fall over at any moment. When jumping, walking, or grabbing things, the whole body wobbled in weird, unsettling ways—basically no different from a lump of Play-Doh...
Just imagine a patient with rickets and motor neuron disease, and that’s pretty much what it looked like...
The first level was very simple. All you had to do was control the character to press a button on the wall to open a door. Clearly, it was just a tutorial level.
But Lin Xue’s team still ran into some problems, because this Chen Duxiu guy loved grabbing people and throwing them off edges. Even though the thrown person would fall back down from the sky, obviously no one wanted to do free-fall for no reason.
So conversations like this kept happening.
“Don’t grab my head!”
“Dude, why did you throw me off, you cop!”
“Damn it, just you wait!”
What was supposed to be a cooperative game had turned into a full-on wrestling match, all because of this red-hatted police officer, Chen Duxiu...
Lin Xue was speechless. Chen Duxiu, the little snowman, and Penguin Guy were all tangled up in a brawl, while she just found the exit and cleared the level...
Soon, Lin Xue realized something: this game really wasn’t out to screw you over! And it was actually pretty fun!
There were many save points in the game. Once you reached one, the game would auto-save, and if you fell off a cliff, you’d respawn at the last save point.
Also, in team mode, if one person activated a save point, everyone else would respawn there. If one person cleared the level, everyone else was considered to have cleared it too.
Lin Xue discovered that playing in a team actually made the game easier!
For example, some mechanisms required you to grab a box and place it on a pressure plate to open a door. But if you had multiple players, one person could just stand on the plate while the others went ahead to trigger the save point.
It was a puzzle game, but it also had some action elements—you had to jump well, grab walls, and there was a bit of a skill requirement.
But unlike *Getting Over It*, if you fell, you’d just go back to the nearest save point. Basically, you never wasted any effort. So even though the game had some difficulty, it never made you feel frustrated.
The best part was that this bizarre physics engine actually created a very strong comedic effect...
Watching these gummy-like characters perform difficult moves in all kinds of weird poses—like grabbing a chandelier to swing across a river, or stacking boxes to jump to high places—actually had a strange kind of cuteness...
Even with this Chen Duxiu guy dragging them down, Lin Xue’s progress was still pretty smooth. They soon reached the castle level.
After using a nearby rock to smash open the lock on the door, the group entered a large room. There was a door straight ahead, but it was too high to climb. On the left, there was a wooden fence blocking the way completely.
Lin Xue was the first to enter and fell into thought.
The wooden fence on the left definitely couldn’t be opened—there didn’t seem to be any mechanism to unlock it. So the key to clearing the level must be figuring out how to climb up to the high platform and open the door, right?
But before Lin Xue could say anything, the little snowman had already grabbed a rock from the corner and charged at the wooden fence.
Lin Xue: “...”
Under the not-so-forceful impact, the wooden fence didn’t budge...
As for Penguin Guy, he was holding a long wooden plank, trying to build a makeshift bridge to reach the high platform.
Lin Xue studied the room for a long time. She felt like the solution was to grab the edge of the nearby window and shimmy across. She was about to ask Chen Duxiu to give it a try when she saw that he had already walked right through the wooden fence...
Walked right through...
Lin Xue was dumbfounded. How the hell did he do that?
She typed, “Chen Xiu, how did you get through!”
Little Snowman: “The fence that couldn’t be smashed with a rock can actually be bent by hand. Once it’s bent, you can squeeze through sideways...”
Everyone: “...”
Lin Xue was at a loss for words. What kind of crazy game design was this? Chen Mo’s brain must work completely differently from normal people!
Everyone followed through the wooden fence and arrived at an open area. There was a catapult there, with a bunch of large rocks next to it.
In front of the catapult was a cliff. They had to cross it to reach the next save point.
Lin Xue stood in front of the catapult and started her reasoning mode again.
“Okay, based on previous experience, we definitely need to put a big rock on the catapult, smash the wall on the other side, then cross the bridge to the other side and jump through the hole!”
“Come on, everyone, help me lift this rock!”
No time to waste. Under Lin Xue’s leadership, everyone wound up the catapult and placed a rock on it.
“Fire!”
With Lin Xue’s command, the rock was launched into the air—and landed behind the wall...
Lin Xue wasn’t discouraged. “That rock was too light. Let’s try a heavier one!”
She grunted and carried an even bigger rock over, wound up the catapult again, and fired.
This time, the rock still flew behind the wall. It still didn’t hit the wall!
Lin Xue was a bit annoyed. “Why does it feel like the distance has nothing to do with the size of the rock? Maybe we should move the catapult? That’s it! We need to pull it back so the rock hits the wall!”
Just as Lin Xue was about to order the little snowman and Penguin Guy to move the catapult, Chen Duxiu typed a message.
“Why not just use the catapult to launch a person over there?”
Lin Xue: “...”
Little Snowman: “...”
Penguin Guy: “...”
That... actually made sense!
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