[You mighty man, please accept my bow.]
189. A Deeper Level
For the sake of image, for the sake of persona, for the sake of that heavy idol baggage...
Zhou Liye was risking his life.
To be able to come up with such a method to suppress one's screaming reaction is, in a way, a wolf in sheep's clothing.
He also made backup plans.
To prevent himself from accidentally giving himself away, and also to bolster his courage, he specifically asked the rock musician next door for a heavy metal rock music playlist.
Bang bang bang, thud, clang clang...
Amidst the energetic music, Zhou Liye's laughter sounded incredibly unrestrained.
Hahahahahahahahahahaha!
Before I knew it, I had led my little daughter to a very familiar place.
The three-story villa has an L-shaped corridor leading from the entrance hall, with a mirror at one corner...
"Isn't this the healing center from the carnival?! As expected of a demo version, it's actually part of the game level!"
Everything that happened in the treatment center back then is still vivid in my mind.
And the comments section has already started:
[Oh, oh, oh, it's the first treatment center opened by the eldest brother!]
That would be a piece of cake and no challenge at all.
[From today onwards, I'm a die-hard fan of Big Brother! Big Brother will help me beat Inside!]
Zhou Liye's eyes were filled with tears, and his voice was hoarse from laughing (shouting), but he still had to grit his teeth and go inside.
The corridor was indeed divided into seven sections, each more terrifying than the last.
To hide the fact that he was trembling, Zhou Liye casually said, "You know what? Two L-shaped corridors can be combined to form one floor, but this villa only has three floors, so no matter how you calculate it, you can only fit six corridors... So where do you think the last corridor is? Hahahahahaha!"
Bullet comments:
[Holy crap, bro, are you doing this on purpose? I'm so scared!]
[A chilling thought]
Is the treatment center at the carnival like this too? What's going on?
With a larger audience, there will naturally be more intelligent people.
Soon, someone speculated: "I think this is simply utilizing vertical space. Actually, each corridor isn't pieced together horizontally; it's half a floor higher than the previous one, which can be achieved using the staircase at the entrance. And the windows seen from the outside are fake, creating the illusion of three floors; in reality, there are three and a half floors inside, which is more than enough to fit everything."
In Zhou Liye's live stream, the atmosphere was not so scary, even if it were scary, Zhou Liye would immediately burst into laughter, instantly diluting the atmosphere.
More and more viewers are starting to use their intelligence, and some are even guessing the game's plot.
[Just a wild guess: the daughter is the ultimate boss.]
The word "inside" is quite interesting. It seems to suggest that this world has two layers, and let's call the terrifying one the "inner world."
[I don't think it's that simple. That telephone is definitely an important plot point, as is the one in the bedroom!]
This villa is indeed the most important turning point in the plot of "Inside".
After walking through the villa again, Zhou Liye was covered in cold sweat. Only then did he have time to look back at the comments on the screen.
"...My daughter couldn't possibly be the boss." The doting young lady snapped, "Such a lovely little princess, don't speak ill of her!"
He turned off the live chat and said to his beloved daughter, "Baby, Daddy will take you out."
The girl nodded earnestly, her eyes filled with love and trust as she looked at Zhou Liye.
Zhou Liye was moved to tears, and she had already decided in her heart: she must have a daughter in the future...
Outside the villa, the slender, burned monster from the beginning of the game reappeared.
Zhou Liye was at his most courageous at this moment, so he picked up the holy sword of physics—the crowbar—and fought it back and forth for three hundred rounds.
In "Inside", players cannot fight monsters with weapons; they can only use items to slow them down for a while.
The same applies to this boss fight; players use crowbars to move various heavy objects in the surrounding environment to knock down the boss and buy time.
After her daughter crawled into the sewer, Zhou Liye followed suit.
After dodging attacks from a group of monsters through the small waterway, they soon arrived at the final exit.
Zhou Liye pushed his daughter into the light, and then his game suddenly went black.
The staff list has appeared!!
Zhou Liye was completely bewildered. He skipped the list first, and then saw the game's ending CG:
The protagonist, speaking in the first person, is holding his daughter's little hand as they walk down a perfectly normal street.
The pedestrians around them looked at them with confusion.
But when he looked into the distance, he found the horizon empty, as if the world consisted of only this one street.