The screen began to distort and darken once again, then a line of blood-red text appeared—"Yu Miao always tells you why your save file is deleted. It seems you didn't read carefully and are blaming Yu Miao for deleting your file. So this cat has decided to delete your save file again to teach you a lesson."
Zhu Yao: ...
Zhu Yao skillfully approached the scarecrow and chose 3.
Scarecrow: Young man, you've vanished. Welcome to the world of the vanished.
At this point, two options appeared.
1. Why does this game have so many options?
2. What should I do?
Zhu Yao had a premonition that choosing option 1 would result in her save file being deleted, but she still wanted to see what Yu Nan's reason was for deleting her save file.
Zhu Yao chose option 1.
The screen began to distort and darken once again, then several lines of blood-red text appeared—Never played a text-based Souls game before? It's just that the death penalty is a bit harsh, isn't it?
Wait, you didn't intentionally let me delete your save file, did you?! But this time you didn't break the rules, didn't disobey me, and didn't disrespect me, so I'm letting you pass anyway. This time, I'm going to delete save file #2!
She was let go.
Zhu Yao: ...?
Zhu Yao: I really want to see why post #2 was deleted.
Zhu Yao deleted her save file and started over again, then selected option 2.
Scarecrow: Of course, I'll just wander around the open world!
The screen started distorting and dimming again, then several lines of blood-red text appeared—Let me see if there are any idiots coming from 1. and any morons who are about to go to 1.!
She was let go.
Zhu Yao: ...?
What happened to your promise that you would never lie?
This little game is really addictive... but it's also hard to keep playing.
Zhu Yao felt like she was being played by the game, or rather, played by Yu Nan.
The demo was slightly hypnotic; after deleting save files several times and replaying parts of the game repeatedly, Zhu Yao became unusually sleepy.
She simply searched for "Yu Miao's Lost Garden" on a video app.
A lot of videos popped up instantly, and the one at the top had a very attractive title for her—"Internal staff of Liji Studio try out Yu Miao's new game demo," and the content creator "Wolf Knife" was live streaming it.
Zhu Yao clicked on the video from three years ago.
"To complete Yu Miao's game in one life, you need to remember three things."
Wolf Blade starts by emphasizing key points: "Don't complain about things outside the game's plot, don't disobey instructions, and don't be curious about things that aren't hinted at."
"Of course, this demo is just a joke; the final version won't be like this."
Following that, Wolf Knife gave a detailed introduction to the world view of Lost Garden.
It tells the story of a boy who mysteriously enters the other world from his home and continues to explore and enter different worlds.
The game has seven endings. Characters will enter different worlds based on their choices and eventually reach the corresponding ending.
There are currently two known happy endings.
Ending E: Homecoming: The boy walks into the rift between the inner and outer worlds and eventually returns to the human world.
Ending G Miracle: The boy finds a fox companion and eventually becomes a god in the hidden world.
"The numerous options in the demo are actually what Da Yu wants to tell everyone that every choice in this game is important," Wolf Blade said.
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The live chat was flooded with comments like "I'll definitely do it next time."
Yu Nan's three principles for games...
Zhu Yao thought about it and decided to try one last time according to the principle; if the game was deleted, she would go to sleep.
I opened the game and saw that the boy had slept all day.
"Yawn," the boy jumped up and down twice, "Mom, I'm hungry, I need food, wait, where's my house?"
Before me lay a world of strange rocks.
A line of text appeared on the screen: "Keep moving forward, there's nothing behind you."
Zhu Yao continued walking forward.
The boy encountered a scarecrow
Scarecrow: Is there anything you want to ask?
1. Why is the image so rough?
2. Why did you delete my save file just now?
3. What's going on? Where's my house?
Zhu Yao chose 3.
Scarecrow: Young man, you've vanished. Welcome to the world of the vanished.
At this point, two options appeared.
1. Why does this game have so many options?
2. What should I do?
Zhu Yao chose 2.
Scarecrow: Of course, I'll just wander around the open world!
The screen started distorting and dimming again, then several lines of blood-red text appeared—Let me see if there are any idiots coming from 1. and any morons who are about to go to 1.!
Zhu Yao started wandering around the world and encountered a pigeon.
Pigeon: Young man, can I help you?
1. Does the pigeon represent Yu Miao (the cat) going to go back to its old ways?
2. Is anything strange happening around here?
Damn it, I really wanted to choose 1...
Zhu Yao chose option 2.
Pigeon: 100 meters north, a world glitch appeared, seemingly leading to a world of ice and snow; 100 meters west, a world glitch appeared, seemingly leading to a world of desert.
What is your choice: 1. North 2. West
Zhu Yao chose 2. West
Then she was teleported to a desert world.
Zhu Yao: ! Don't we need to walk?
She wandered through the desert world without encountering any incidents.
Zhu Yao began to question the meaning of life, so she simply took out her phone and searched for "Lost Garden Desert".
She saw a post
[Help! I can't get out of the desert in the Lost Gardens demo!]
1st floor: I walked for two whole days and then I got out, and it ended with me going home.
The original poster replied to the first floor: I left after two days in the game.
Reply to the original poster in post #1: No, it's two days in real life. Just use something to prop up the keyboard.
Zhu Yao: ...
Zhu Yao silently closed her laptop.
Chapter 23 I Want to Take You to See Fireworks
When the two met again that evening, Yu Nan saw that Zhu Yao looked resentful.
"Did you not sleep well?" Yu Nan asked, puzzled.
"She slept quite well." Zhu Yao hesitated before continuing.
I was just tormented by the Lost Garden demo.
Yu Nan didn't ask any further questions, opened the game library, and started selecting games.
"What kind of movies do you want to watch?" Yu Nan asked casually. "Or can you name another movie you like?"
"I'd like to play the game you made first," Zhu Yao said.
If you play Lost Garden together, you'll see which option is correct.
Yu Nan hesitated for a moment, "It's possible, but it's not finished yet, and there's very little content."
"Then, can I see it?" Zhu Yao smiled sweetly.
Yu Nan gave up, took the elevator to the study to get a hard drive, and plugged it into the computer in the game room.
“Let me make this clear first,” Yu Nan said, looking at Zhu Yao, “there will be a lot of bugs in this.”
Zhu Yao nodded and opened the game.
Surprisingly, the screen didn't display the pixel art from the demo, but rather a 3D, open-world scene.
First, there's the opening animation—a little boy lying in bed, and at first his mother calls out to him, but then there's no sound.
Just like in the demo, the little boy slept for a whole day, and when he woke up it was already midnight.
Zhu Yao controlled the little boy and headed straight for the bedroom door, intending to leave the room.
"Aren't you going to look for clues in the room?" Yu Nan asked, puzzled.
Yesterday, Zhu Yao was wandering around the space station, but today she hasn't even looked for any clues about the initial scene.