While waiting, Zhou Liye nervously read the game description of the wormhole fluctuations and discovered that it was just an ordinary interstellar adventure survival game.
Zhou Liye felt a little relieved, and then decisively went to read the comments under Mingyan's blog, explaining to herself, "I'm not cheating! I just want to know myself and my enemy..."
Then the top-rated comment said: "[This is truly a depressing game, thumbs up!]"
Zhou Liye felt more at ease and casually remarked, "It seems to really be therapeutic. By the way, how come this person's typos got them a top comment..."
He scrolled through the remaining comments, which were all saying:
[The cult leader has created another amazing game! You absolutely must play it! It's incredibly therapeutic!]
I've already played over ten rounds, and I just can't stop!
I've already recommended it to my roommate.
Before I knew it, the game was downloaded with a "ding-dong" sound.
Zhou Liye's mood also improved, and she decisively opened the game, only to see a familiar pixelated screen.
"It really is the style of Master Ming's Minecraft, I really miss it!" Zhou Liye said with a smile, recalling that he first became a fan of Minecraft.
Then he entered the "New Game" and saw the difficulty selection options: easy, normal, and hard.
Zhou Liye said, "As a seasoned player, of course I'd choose a more difficult game mode. Gentlemen, don't follow my example and challenge yourself with a high difficulty level on your first time playing the game."
Then he reached out and tapped "Easy" mode!
Bullet comments:
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You two-faced man!
Oh, Juliet, you big...
Zhou Liye quickly entered the game and saw a very simple intro—just a line of text explaining the spaceship crash.
Everyone is familiar with the accident that happened two months ago; this is clearly based on a real-life event.
Zhou Liye exclaimed, "Chief Designer Ming is truly amazing. He was able to create a related game immediately after his own spaceship crashed."
Next, he learned how to operate the crashed spaceship in the tutorial mode before entering the normal game process.
At the beginning, the spaceship was fully stocked with resources—after all, it was an "easy" difficulty level, and right from the start, there was a spaceship full of oxygen, iron, aluminum, food, hydrogen, helium, and so on.
The radar also clearly showed the general direction of the final destination; all we had to do was keep moving towards that direction.
Zhou Liye then embarked on his journey as if he were on a vacation, in high spirits.
Just after passing the second star system, Zhou Liye encountered a stellar flare, and the spaceship suffered damage.
"Hmm, no problem! We can use one unit of aluminum and iron to repair the hull."
In the third star system, the spaceship had just been repaired when a crew member made a careless mistake and was thrown out of the spaceship, freezing to death in space.
"...One less crew member? Okay. It's alright, we still have four crew members left, that should be enough...right?"
The fifth star system finally led to a Gaia-class planet.
Exploration robots can be deployed from there to replenish the spacecraft's metal content; or oxygen, hydrogen, and helium can be extracted directly from the atmosphere.
Zhou Liye happily dispatched the robot.
Then it encountered an "unexplained accident" and was directly damaged!
"We were a little unlucky. Well, we'll just have to use up all the aluminum and rebuild two robots."
Zhou Liye sensed something was amiss, but could still accept this level of unexpectedness.
Then Zhou Liye used these two robots to collect a lot of iron and aluminum, but the spaceship simply couldn't hold it all!
Zhou Liye stroked his chin and decided, "Aluminum can be used to make robots; it's obviously much better than iron. Let's just use one unit of iron and the rest of aluminum."
Then, the spaceship set off for the next star system.
In the new star system, Zhou Liye encountered a bunch of aliens who spoke a bunch of gibberish that he couldn't understand at all.
Zhou Liye tried it out and said, "The game says they're asking me what I want. Well, I have a lot of aluminum, so I'll give them some."
After saying that, he delivered a unit of aluminum to them.
—As a result, when the aliens saw this aluminum, they felt as if they had been greatly humiliated!
They attacked Zhou Liye's spaceship, forcing him to flee in panic, and the spaceship was severely damaged!
Zhou Liye: "Damn, how can this game be like this?! These aliens are absolutely heartless! I gave them something, and they attacked me!"
Her lips trembled with grievance.
The comments section was much more realistic:
[Hahahaha, I have a feeling this is going to be foreshadowing!]
Zhou Liye had to use up all the iron to repair the damaged spaceship, but the oxygen was also almost completely lost.
Zhou Liye prayed, "Master Ming, please give me a Gaia-class planet next so I can replenish my resources! If the spaceship breaks down again, I won't be able to afford to repair it."
The next planet turned out to be Gaia.