There was no fighting, no conflict, no crowbars, nothing at all.
The screen went black; the game had entered its first act.
Then, the game suddenly switched to easy mode, and all the monsters stopped attacking Zhou Liye!
He ran straight to the location and retrieved his beautiful and adorable little daughter from the bedroom.
Junjun took his hand and said, "Daddy, we should go outside now."
Upon hearing "outside," Zhou Liye was startled.
Junjun led Zhou Liye forward and left the villa.
Wherever the two went, the bloodstains on the ground gradually disappeared, and the stains on the walls faded away on their own.
The amusement park lights came on again, and lively voices filled the school.
The monsters on the street were no longer wandering aimlessly. They slowly returned to their normal size and skin characteristics, turning into unfamiliar human figures.
No one paid any attention to the father and daughter who walked past; they looked so ordinary.
Junjun led Zhou Liye to the entrance of the psychotherapy center and said, "Dad, I want to introduce you to Linda. She's a very good psychotherapist. If you cooperate with the treatment, you'll recover quickly."
Zhou Liye wants to ask: Is she your PTSD therapist? How are you doing now?
But when she turned around, she found that her daughter Junjun's shadow was long and slender, and she had grown into a young lady.
It was just a vast expanse of white, with no visible shape.
ah.
Zhou Liye suddenly realized: Twenty years have passed, and the father no longer even knows what his daughter looks like.
Junjun disappeared at the entrance of the psychological treatment center, while Zhou Liye walked alone towards the prison.
As I walked, the world around me gradually returned to normal.
Zhou Liye will comment after seeing the live chat:
[Wow, that's incredibly detailed! This probably symbolizes that the protagonist has accepted reality, knows he's being treated, and his inner world has returned to normal.]
Junjun is gone again, so sad.
Deleting the save file actually works!!! If I could do it all over again, I would choose... Sorry for the crosstalk.
I have a feeling this is the real ending.
Zhou Liye opened his cell door and lay down inside.
He thought about it calmly for a moment, then closed the door behind him.
He closed his eyes in an instant, and then he was woken up.
Are you awake?
It was a soft female voice.
Zhou Liye opened her eyes again and saw a pure white room.
A psychologist with a name tag was sitting on the edge of my bed, busy taking notes, his tone slightly surprised: "You were unconscious for three days, and we had almost given up hope. We didn't expect you to pull yourself out of it. Wait a moment, I'll prepare a test for you."
After saying that, she quickly got up and walked towards the door.
Zhou Liye got up in a daze and, alone in the treatment room, began to look through the documents and records.
He saw his medical record.
It's the complete version, analyzing everything clearly from beginning to end.
But there's more content to come.
It is now 2019. The protagonist could have been released from prison five years ago, but he has not been able to leave due to illness.
To prevent the protagonist from remaining in a coma for too long and eventually becoming a vegetable, the doctors used new high-tech methods to stimulate his brain cells and keep him active. This is why the protagonist kept dreaming during his coma.
Zhou Liye's regain of consciousness this time means that the treatment has finally been successful.
The protagonist let go of the past, ended his self-punishment, and woke up in the real world.
Zhou Liye sat down on the edge of the bed and looked out the window.
Birds sing and flowers bloom, a scene of harmony unfolds, and the horizon is visible—this is a real, somewhat beautiful world.
A moment later, the psychologist walked in from outside and said, "You know what? After we issued the critical condition notice yesterday, someone submitted a visitation request. Now, someone is waiting outside to see you."
Zhou Liye suddenly stood up: "Is that Junjun?!"
The psychologist gave a mysterious smile and said, "Come with me now."
The game screen went black the moment Zhou Liye opened the door to the treatment room.
Zhou Liye couldn't help but exclaim, "Damn it!"
At least let me see my daughter, who's in her early twenties!
The credits scrolled by quickly, and the ending CG was shown at the end.
This isn't a dynamic CG animation; rather, the camera slowly pans across an old showroom, revealing family photos on the walls one by one.