Recently, there have been more and more customers in the experience store. By weekends, the PC experience area on the first floor can be more than 90%, and only a dozen empty machines are left.

There are fewer people in the mobile game experience area and VR experience area, but they can basically account for half of them.

In the holographic projection viewing zone, there are also people who are interested in this equipment to watch every day, but after all, you will get tired of watching this thing too much. At the beginning, you will get used to it.

The first floor lobby of the experience store.

Today is Thursday, and there are not too many people.

Chen Mo sat on the sofa, holding a drink in his hand, looking through a batch of new books that had recently arrived.

There are two large bookshelves beside the wall of the first floor hall. There are many books related to games. Of course, they are mainly novels, comics, game albums, etc. There are also some professional books about game design knowledge, but few people read it.

"Shop Manager." An office worker in a suit in his 27 or 28 years old swiped his ID card at the front desk and greeted Chen Mo.

Chen Mo nodded and greeted: "Isn't today a Thursday? I haven't been to work?"

The office worker nodded: "Yeah, I've asked for leave."

This office worker is named Zhao Lei, and he is also a regular customer of the experience store. He is a migrant worker in a financial company. He currently works in a financial company and has a high salary and a lot of work pressure.

Unlike other players, he came to the store not all for playing games. Sometimes he just wanted to sit in the lobby for a while and chat with everyone.

Zhao Lei is a person with no social circle and is mostly socializing in his work circle. However, in this experience store, he has found a long-lost sense of comfort.

Therefore, Zhao Lei often comes over on weekends, and over time, he gets familiar with Chen Mo, Su Jinyu and some regular customers in the experience store.

Zhao Lei sat down on the sofa next to him, ordered a glass of iced coffee, and took a comic from the bookshelf next to him.

Chen Mo looked at Zhao Lei's tired face and asked, "Why, the pressure has been very high recently?"

Zhao Lei nodded: "Well, I don't know why recently. I always meet bad people at work. I have a lot of social engagements. I drank three or four drinks last week and had to work overtime this weekend. Today I really can't hold on. Please leave and rest."

Chen Mo said with some sympathy: "Well, your health is important. Take the time to have a physical examination."

Zhao Lei smiled and said half-jokingly and half-seriously: "Physical examination? I dare not have any physical examination, for fear of being diagnosed with some major problems and having no money to treat."

Chen Mo said: "Don't, your health is still important."

Zhao Lei nodded: "Well, of course I know this."

"By the way, the store manager, but there has been no new game for a while. Is it because I'm busy with the game platform recently?"

Chen Mo said: "There is part of this reason, but then again, it's less than two months since "Minecraft" was launched. How can the new game be developed so quickly? You have to relax your worries even if you have to eat."

Zhao Lei suddenly realized: "Oh, have you only been two months? Alas, I have lost the concept of time a little bit, and I always feel like half a year has passed."

Chen Mo smiled and said, "You have too much work pressure, so it's time to reduce the pressure appropriately. If you always have this high pressure state, it is easy to have problems."

Zhao Lei said: "There is no good way to relieve stress. I don't have any friends and I don't have any special hobbies. I don't seem to have nothing else to do except work hard to earn money to support my family. I just come here occasionally and I can relax a little."

Chen Mo thought for a moment: "Actually, I just happened to have a game for you. Do you want to play it? A new game."

Zhao Lei was a little surprised: "New game? Didn't you say it hasn't been developed yet?"

Chen Mo stood up and smiled: "Don't you know what efficiency I am? It means that the game has not been developed yet, but it can be tried. Come with me."

Zhao Lei hurriedly stood up and followed Chen Mo to the PC game experience area of ​​the experience store.

After Zhao Lei casually found a computer to sit down, Chen Mo logged into the management background and downloaded a newly developed game to this computer.

Zhao Lei looked at the name: "Stanley's Fable?"

Chen Mo nodded: "Yes."

Zhao Lei was a little confused: "You think this game is more suitable for me? What kind of game is it? Is it a puzzle game?"

Chen Mo shook his head: "You will know after playing."

Zhao Lei clicked the game icon on the desktop in confusion and entered the game.

There are no cool loading pictures and no large scenes, and you can directly enter the game screen.

The upper left of the screen is the game title "Stanley's Fable", and the lower left is [Start the game], [Options], [Producer] and [Exit]. The whole screen is extremely concise.

However, Zhao Lei soon noticed the strangeness of this scene.

The picture shows an office desk, with a telephone and a computer on the table, a file cabinet on the left, and a decorative painting hanging on the wall, just like the ones that most companies will hang, a painting that looks innovative and better than nothing.

What's strange is that the screen displayed on this computer in the game is the same as the game screen, and it also has a game title, options, and even a very small mouse cursor.

This feeling is like a picture in a picture. All operations players do on the desktop will happen synchronously in the computer screen inside.

Zhao Lei moved his mouse to click [Start the game], and the same operation was also done on the computer screen in the game.

This made Zhao Lei feel a little weird, but he didn't think much about it. He just thought it was probably Chen Mo's evil taste, just an interesting little easter egg.

During the reading of the game, the screen was completely black, but there was a line of gray in English: "THE END IS NEVER THE END IS NEVER THE END..."

This is an infinite loop in English, which extends from the leftmost side of the screen to the rightmost side of the screen. If you break it into a complete sentence, it should be "THE END IS NEVER THE END", which means "the ending is not the ending", or "the game will never end".

It’s just that this sentence stacks the “THE END” at the beginning and end, creating such an infinite loop.

These clues made Zhao Lei a little puzzled. What kind of game is this?

With many doubts, the game began.

The screen has not yet appeared, and a narration has sounded in Zhao Lei's headphones.

The narrator is a low male voice with clear pronunciation, moderate speaking speed, and a good sense of rhythm. I can't hear too much emotion from the voice, as if I'm telling a very ordinary story.

【This is the story of a man named Stanley.】

[Stanley works in a company in a building, and he is an employee No. 427.]

Accompanied by the very light and light BGM, the game screen began to appear. The camera crossed the company's corridor and came to Room 427. In the room, a man was sitting with his back to the camera. His desk was the one I saw at the beginning of the game, including the computer, phone, and file cabinet, all of which were exactly the same.

【The job of employee No. 427 is very simple: sit at the desk and press the button on the keyboard.】

[The screen will display the corresponding command: what buttons to press, how long to press, and in what order to press.]

The camera switched to the top monitor screen, and specially gave the character in the game a close-up of his hand movements.
Chapter completed!