Horrible! Actually playing this kind of game!

Chapter 303 207 To the creek

After some dialogue, Furukawa Hirose learned:

It turns out that this Sigmund company mainly enters the memories of [customers] through some kind of machine and technical means, and realizes their unsatisfied [wish] by changing their memories.

Thereby drawing a certain commission.

The contract signed with Old John clearly states this, and his true wishes need to be satisfied before the contract can be considered fulfilled.

These two doctors wearing white research clothes are actually employees of Sigmund Company and experts in this field.

…

Seeing this, Furukawa Haoze couldn't help but become curious.

Eh?

The setting is better than imagined.

Is it actually possible to realize wishes by changing people's memories?

Memory is definitely a crucial part of human beings' makeup.

It can even be said that the reason why you are yourself is not only because you have such a physical body, but also because you have such experiences, and such experiences will eventually be transformed into memories.

A person without memory is blank.

Life is a journey and memories are your best gifts in this world.

Furukawa Haosawa naturally thought a lot when he saw this, and even vaguely felt that pokeni's setting this time had a strong philosophical meaning in it.

Could it be that in the end we were discussing such a difficult philosophical proposition as [What is memory]?

"Can it be done?" The doctor asked worriedly after introducing old John's condition.

"It depends on the situation." Female doctor Rosaleen said.

"What she means is: it can." Neil Watts, a male doctor who was playing with the equipment, interjected.

I learned from Lily, the maid who had worked here for two years, that Old John was a taciturn man. He spent his life as a craftsman and his wife died two years ago.

This can be a bit troublesome.

Because a person's memory and desire are closely related, if the origin of his wish is not known, it will be difficult to satisfy his real wish even if it is realized.

[There are a lot of old people’s things in the house. You can go downstairs to find my two children and ask them to take you around. You may be able to find some clues. 】The maid replied.

So Furukawa Hirose followed the maid's instructions and prepared to search for clues in the house.

before leaving

The doctor stopped the female doctor Rosaleen and handed her something. "This is a remote medical monitoring device. You can know the current physical condition of the elderly at any time."

Rosaleen took the small instrument over. There was a small screen on it, which showed the old man's electrocardiogram. It also made a weak "beep, beep" sound, which was synchronized with the sound of the medical equipment on the table.

What follows is a process of search and decryption.

Overall, the house is not very big, but it is quite warmly decorated.

Especially expressed in pokeni's unique dreamy fairy tale style, you can really feel how much the owner of this house loves this place, and at the same time you can also feel some of the small details in the life of old John and his wife.

This must be a warm family.

Hirokawa Furukawa sighed.

The game is actually quite special. There is no battle. The whole process takes place on this small island and revolves around Old John.

This was different from the galgames he had played before.

But it doesn't seem like a traditional combat RPG.

But I can’t tell which type it is.

At least from what Furukawa Hirose realizes so far, this game should all serve the plot.

If we really want to use it to describe it, it should still be that word [stage play]

A stage-like gaming experience.

It’s more like experiencing a period of life in a real way.

Furukawa Haoze went downstairs and saw two children playing the piano again.

After the conversation, Dr. Rosaleen took out a piece of candy and asked them to show her around the house.

"Let's take you to the basement to see it. It's weird there!" The boy named Tommy said to Rosaleen excitedly.

Going down to the basement, Furukawa Hirose took a gentle breath.

In the somewhat spooky room, the floor and table were filled with little rabbits - little rabbits made of paper. Next to the door, there is a strange-looking stuffed platypus toy.

To be honest, it's really scary to suddenly enter such an environment.

Even because of the fairy tale style of this game, it creates a creepy and weird feeling.

Especially when he saw the strange little rabbit folded out of paper, Furukawa Hirose seemed to feel that the temperature in the room had dropped several degrees.

This room is his real room.

Even the shadows caused by the swaying curtains when the wind blew by made Furukawa Hirose startled.

…

Rosaleen picked up the platypus, patted the dust on it, and put it away.

"What's going on with the paper rabbits all over the floor?" Rosaleen asked the two children.

"We don't know either, so we just find it strange. By the way, Auntie, there are not only origami rabbits here, but there are also a lot of them in another place. Do you want to go and see them?"

"Where?"

"On the edge of the cliff outside, there is an abandoned lighthouse."

Dr. Rosaleen followed the two children outside. Not far behind the house, you could see a dilapidated lighthouse. The paint on the walls was peeling and the windows were boarded up.

"The entrance to the lighthouse is down there, we have to take a detour." The boy Tommy said to Rosaleen.

The three people returned the same way and took a detour to the entrance of the lighthouse. On the way, they met the smoking car. The girl asked: "Is this car yours? Why did it hit a tree?"

Rosaleen sighed and said, "It wasn't me."

The journey was not too far, and they soon arrived at the old door of the lighthouse.

Not far from the door, there is a tombstone with the words: "In memory of Brook E. Wiles."

Furukawa Haoze remembered what the maid said. John's wife passed away two years ago. He guessed that this Xiaoxi should be the owner of the tombstone.

Climbing up the stairs to the top of the lighthouse, as the two children said, the floor was filled with paper rabbits.

In a conspicuous place, there is a large paper rabbit. Unlike other rabbits, it is the only one made of two colors of paper.

The middle part of the rabbit is bright yellow and looks like a big bulging belly.

Other parts are blue.

Putting the two colors together adds a bit of a weird feeling.

Furukawa Haoze thought——

Could this be some kind of horror mystery game?

Even though he is almost 30 years old, he is actually quite afraid of ghosts and gods in his heart.

After playing here, Furukawa Hirose seemed to feel a little cold again.

So he took out the quilt from the room, put it on his body, and continued playing the next game.

…

The boy Tommy said in surprise: "It's strange. When we came to play last week, there was no such big rabbit."

"It seems that John must have been here before he fell ill." Rosalie thought.

At this time the phone rang and Rosaleen answered the phone. It was Watts.

"You're ready to start. How are you doing there?"

"There aren't many clues. It's a bit strange. Let's talk about it when I get back."

Back on the second floor of the house, Dr. Watts had connected the instruments. There was a human figure on the screen, and the brain was glowing red.

"What took you so long? Forget it, let's get started. Your helmet is on the sofa."

Rosaleen and Watts both put on helmets, and another helmet was placed on John's head on the bed. Watts nodded to Rosaleen and pressed the start button.

There was a flash of white light. The two of them were still in the room, but John on the bed, the maid and the doctor beside him were all gone. This is not a real room, they have entered John's memory.

Wow.

Furukawa Hirose sighed.

It turns out that you still need to enter the memory to modify it.

According to his idea, he thought he would directly operate the machine and select certain fragments.

Even Furukawa Hirose had guessed that the next game would be played from the first perspective of Old John. He did not expect that the characters he controlled would still be two doctors, and they would enter Old John's memory to explore.

The making of pokeni is actually quite artistic.

In the UI part above, there are many images of John, from his childhood to his old age.

Explain that these images are key points in time, and you can choose to enter the memory of a certain time period at any time.

…

The two of them haven't traveled through time for too long. This should be the house from not long ago.

[This is the farthest memory that can be achieved by relying on the natural state. Let's go find Mr. John first. 】Female doctor Rosaleen Rosaleen said.

The two walked out of the house and came to the cliff where the lighthouse could be seen, where the old John and the maid Lily were standing.

After entering the memory, you can choose to be in stealth mode or reveal yourself. If you turn off the invisibility state, you can talk to the characters reappearing in the memory, and they can also see you.

The two men asked John why he wanted to go to the moon.

Because only by figuring out why he wants to go to the moon can he truly realize his wish.

This reason is important.

But during the conversation, Old John couldn't remember anything and didn't know why he wanted to go to the moon.

There was a trace of sadness in his eyes, which made people feel a little sad.

"I don't know." John lowered his head sadly.

"You have to tell us," Rosaleen explained. "The principle here is a little complicated. To put it simply, if you don't figure out why you want to go to the moon, and just give you a memory of going to the moon, it's very difficult. It may not be able to satisfy your real wish. And satisfying your last wish is our obligation in the contract."

"Want to be famous? Or do you want to be rich? You have to have a reason, right?" Watts asked.

John's head dropped lower. "I don't know. I just have to go."

…

Doctors have also encountered this situation. The client is too old and cannot remember some things clearly.

So below, they need to enter Old John's childhood, and maybe they can find the reason.

Go into the depths of memory.

But childhood is too far away to be completed in one memory trip.

So they will gradually perform reverse jumps and travel through John's memories.

In order to jump into a memory, we need an item that is important to you to serve as a link to the memory.

[Do you have some kind of memory fragment as a link to time travel? 】The female doctor asked.

The old man thought for a moment, took out a paper rabbit from his pocket, and handed it to her.

This is exactly the one Hirosawa Furukawa saw in the room at the top of the lighthouse, two colors.

As long as there is this series of items in the past memory scene, you can jump to this scene memory.

In the process of tracing forward, you will find other memory fragments as series objects. Each time you find one, you can jump forward for a period of time.

Everything is ready.

Another burst of white light flashed, and using this time fragment prop, Watts and Rosaleen flashed back to the house a few years ago, where the two-color paper rabbit was placed on the floor of the room.

In addition to it, there are many white origami rabbits on the ground.

John is sitting on the piano, playing a piece of music.

On the piano was a stuffed platypus, exactly the same as the one Rosaleen saw in the basement.

Rosaleen said to Watts: "Turn off the visual state and the interactive state. We can't have to explain to him who we are every time we travel."

Dr. Watts operated and the two figures became transparent.

He looked at the paper rabbits on the floor and said, "I have a creepy feeling, maybe we should check his mental history."

Not only the male doctor thinks so, but Furukawa Hirose also feels the same way.

He nodded in agreement.

There is a really creepy feeling when playing this game. Could Old John really be a psychopath?

Was his wife killed by him?

No way, right?

Then as the memory continues to be traced, when the truth is revealed, it is discovered that old John is the murderer, and then the two doctors are also trapped in the memory?

Furukawa Haoze was startled by his own association and couldn't help but clutch the quilt.

…

Near the old man, an old umbrella was found, glowing faintly.

"This may be the key memory fragment." Watts said, activating the memory fragment, and the two set off again.

A white light flashed and the two disappeared from the room.

Through that umbrella, they traveled forward several years in John's memory. It was raining heavily, and the old John was holding the umbrella and standing in front of the tombstone next to the lighthouse.

Even the sky showed sadness.

"It's all over, Xiaoxi."

The old man looked sad and whispered to the tombstone, "I can be like you and take care of her every day, and she will never be alone again.

Although I may never understand it, I will be true to your wishes. Anya must also be grateful to you. But who will take care of us after I leave this world? "

"Who is Anya?" Watts said.

Furukawa Hirose also wanted to know.

"I don't know. Turn on the visual interaction. I have some questions to ask him." Rosaleen said to Watts.

The next moment, Rosaleen and Watts appeared.

The old man slowly raised his head and asked slightly surprised: "Who are you?"

"My name is Rosaleen Rosaleen. I just happened to be passing by. Is this your wife? What a good name for the creek."

"Thank you." John looked at the tombstone again, "She shouldn't have slept here, she shouldn't have done this, but you won't understand her, and even I can't understand her."

"Who are you talking about Anya?" Rosaleen asked.

The old man shook his head and looked at the sky in the distance.

Rosaleen said nothing more, they disappeared and entered the lighthouse.

In the room at the top of the tower, John sat alone on the ground, saying nothing.

"I guess that's when he started making those paper bunnies," Rosaleen said.

"In memory of his wife? Why rabbit?" Watts said.

"I don't know if you look at it, what is that?"

"Huh? It's that ugly platypus again." Watts saw the soft toy that glowed slightly.

"That's it. There are no clues we want here. Let's keep going." Rosaleen said.

…

This time through it, the two traveled forward several years.

John's wife, Xiaoxi, was still alive at this time, lying on the bed with the stuffed platypus next to her. John stood next to her and the two were talking.

"It's enough. Even after paying for the surgery, there's still more than enough money left...so, don't worry." Johnny said to the lying Xiaoxi.

In fact, Furukawa Haoze knew that John had no money at this time, and he had to sell the house to treat Xiaoxi.

".A white lie." Xiao Xi whispered.

"Really enough"

"Stop it, I don't like it when you lie. Why do you want me to go against my beliefs?"

John shouted anxiously: "We need that money to pay for your medical bills, Xiaoxi! I understand Anya is very important to you, but you... what you did is too outrageous. She is not even-"

"You know what would make me happy, Johnny?" Creek interrupted him calmly.

"I know." John suppressed his blush.

"Yes, you know. After the treatment plan is sent, I will not sign it. As for what our money will be used for, it is up to you. But if you agree with my ideals, I hope you can use this money Use the money to build that house. Then, I hope that as long as you live there, you can take good care of her. Spend more time with her, and I hope she will no longer be lonely."

"how about you?"

"This is where my happiness lies, Johnny." She said, handing something to John, "Tell me, what is it?"

".It's a paper rabbit."

"How is it different from other rabbits?"

"Its body is yellow, and the rest of the body is blue."

"That's all?" Xiaoxi's face was full of disappointment.

"Forget about rabbits, Xiaoxi, I composed a song for you. Do you want to hear it?"

"Okay. What's your name?"

""To the Stream"."

Xiaoxi laughed: "Why are you so vulgar?"

John didn't say anything, came to the piano and started playing.

Slow and beautiful music started.