Chapter 173 Shingon Temple (Third update, please vote for me!)


    ??Teaming up with Wang Dawei is the anchor "Black Dragon" on the same platform, who is also the anchor who has played "Sisyphus" speedrun before.


    ? Throughout the game, Wang Dawei is mainly responsible for surviving, and then using various props to restore health to himself and the black dragon, and then the black dragon defeats powerful enemies along the way.


    Actually, Wang Dawei himself is not too keen on this game. He just insisted on playing because he was kidnapped by the audience and was too embarrassed to abandon the black dragon midway and run away.


    Lilith likes to watch people who are almost as handicapped as herself. It just so happens that there is no other anchor to watch at this time, so she temporarily locked Wang Dawei''s live broadcast room.


    “Brother David, where should we go next? There seem to be three options, Zhenyan Temple, Crane Valley, and Undead Village.” Black Dragon asked.


    ?Wang Dawei thought for a moment: "Brother Long, I think we should go to Zhenyan Temple first. It is mentioned in the plot dialogue that there is a relic sword in Zhenyan Temple, which seems to be a very important key prop."


    Obviously, in the same two-player mode, players can also achieve different effects.


    ?The combination of Lecturer Ding and Li Wenhao was relatively unsuccessful.


    The two of them have similar operations and have their own ideas, so under the mechanism of "Ascension", it is easy for conflicts to arise.


    I am the kind of player who doesn’t want to read a word of the plot.


    Heilong and Wang Dawei moved forward steadily.


    Of course, due to the random hatred transfer mechanism in the BOSS, Wang Dawei suffered a lot and was beaten. Fortunately, Black Dragon''s skills are indeed excellent, especially after realizing the secret of "cutting three against one", the game progress was still okay. Keep pushing.


    ??The largest hall of this temple is at the top of the mountain. There are also various corridors and plank roads connecting other Buddhist halls, distributed on the mountainside and in the valley.


    ?The audience in the live broadcast room also jokingly called their combination "a blind man carrying a lame man on his back." Wang Dawei is the lame man who is responsible for guiding the way, and Heilong is the blind man who is responsible for opening the way.


    ?Wang Dawei himself is not very good at playing games. He is very smart and has a good memory, but his operation is average; while Black Dragon is a standard brainless action player, his operation is good, but he never reads the plot.


    ??Black Dragon took the lead and rushed down to fight with the monks patrolling nearby.


    Black Dragon had made a joke before when broadcasting other action games, killing the final BOSS. However, in the final cutscene CG, an NPC mentioned the name of the final BOSS and asked: "Who is this?" "


    I saw an endless plank road between the cliffs in the mountains, and above the plank road, on the mountain peak shaded by blood-red maple leaves, there was an ancient temple.


    ??Although Wang Dawei will definitely make a choice that is beneficial to him, Black Dragon doesn''t even read the plot, so it doesn''t matter at all.


    ?In addition, in the division of labor between the two, Wang Dawei also shoulders the important task of watching the plot. He determines the choice of side tasks and the game''s route.


    ?Just playing around, Wang Dawei felt something was wrong.


    “Brother David, I’m on board!”


    The game "Ascension" does not have a large map, nor does it have clear mission guidelines, only a few simple text descriptions in NPC dialogues. If you are a player who skips the plot directly, it is equivalent to having no guidance.


    “Brother Long, there seems to be a bug here. There is a stone bench stuck in the wall. Have you seen it?”


    The mobs in "Ascension" are not particularly strong, and considering Li Huanzhen''s excellent mobility, players can simply ignore these mobs and run away to fight the BOSS. What''s more, players can also use various methods such as assassination or props.


    ??Heilong came over and took a look: "Oh, what I see here is an abandoned metal tire, but I think it''s normal.


    Soon, the two of them jumped down from a cliff, stepping on the thick branches on the cliff and looking ahead.


    ?The two of them left Jiangdu City and followed the instructions in the plot to head to Zhengon Temple.


    ??So the two of them cooperated perfectly when playing the two-player mode together. Black Dragon was in the front and slashed at anyone he saw, while Wang Daweigou used props from a distance in the back to cooperate.


    But the combination of Wang Dawei and Heilong is much more harmonious.


    “Hey, there is a pillar here with a strange texture. It is surrounded by metal pillars. It has turned into a red pillar, and some paint has peeled off.”


    Wang Dawei looked at it and said: "All the pillars here are red pillars with a bit of paint peeling off. I don''t know which one you are talking about.


    “Is there too many bugs in this game?


    “The beginning was fine, but there were only one or two occasionally. Why did there become more and more as we went on?


    “Has this game been tested before release?”


    Black Dragon didn’t know what to say: “I don’t really understand this. It stands to reason that this company’s previous games had very few bugs.


    "Why does this game have one bug in three steps? They are all relatively low-level bugs such as model misalignment and texture errors. It should be easy to detect them by taking more tests, right? "Oh, by the way, this game seems to use Vientiane editor!


    “This broken editor is famous for having a lot of bugs. It seems that even with the technical skills of Nitian, we can’t fix it, so we can only make do with it…”


    ?Wang Dawei was helpless: “It’s a bit of torture to play like this!”


    ?At this time, he seemed to have returned to the feeling of playing pirated games in Internet cafes more than ten years ago, which was quite difficult.


    ?This game was not very fun to play originally. Now I finally have some interest in the plot of the game, but I am beginning to be tortured by bugs again.


    What’s even more outrageous is that while playing this game, you will often experience hallucinations and auditory hallucinations. The picture in front of you will turn into another science fiction world, and science fiction sound effects will often ring in your ears. Even the image and sound appeared separately, highlighting one torture.


    ?Wang Dawei himself can’t tell whether this is a BUG or a deliberate mechanism of the game.


    【Wang Dawei''s negative emotions +1! 】


    【Wang Dawei''s negative emotions +1! 】


    【Wang Dawei''s negative emotions +1! 】


    ? Negative emotions are rare but frequent.


    Finally, after killing two small bosses in a torturous manner, the two finally arrived at the main hall of the Shingon Temple.


    In Wang Dawei''s vision, this is a splendid Buddhist temple. There are many old monks meditating and chanting sutras here, but they have all been completely parasitized by flesh and blood monsters. Although they have almost immortal life, they can only be suppressed by continuously chanting sutras and chanting the Buddha''s name. A flesh-and-blood monster will mutate immediately once it stops.


    ?In the Xianxia plot, the Shingon Temple has existed since ancient times, and the Buddhist teachings, relic swords, and various secrets that guard the beams have been passed down from generation to generation.


    In Black Dragon''s view, this is a very special temple composed of mechanical monks. All the monks are robots. They have incense scars on their heads with welding points, and rosary beads made of metal **** hang on the front of their necks. When meditating cross-legged, the index finger and thumb of the robot hand are pinched and placed naturally on the knees, which looks quite Zen-like.


    In the science fiction plot, after intelligent machines awakened through a special AI virus, a small number of intelligent robots also developed concepts such as philosophy, meditation, and spiritual practice. By searching human databases, they believed that they should think like devout monks. The meaning of the existence of humans and AI, purifying one''s soul, and finding a way to live in harmony with humans.


    ?So they occupied the Shingon Temple originally built on the mountain, put on the monks'' robes left by the escaped monks, and occupied the magpie''s nest to become real monks.


    But no matter which world view you are in, the old monk of Zhengon Temple will be the key figure in promoting the plot.


    “Brother David, be careful. The final BOSS battle of this scene should be ahead. You stand behind me and be careful to save your life.” Black Dragon entered the hall first and looked at the mechanical monk under the huge electronic display screen that was scrolling and playing electronic Buddhist scriptures.


    ?Wang Dawei followed him cautiously, also staring at the withered-looking old monk under the Buddha statue.


    However, the imagined attack did not happen.


    ?Seeing that the old monk was still motionless, he slowly said: "Two donors, the poor monk already knows your purpose. But if you want to get the relic sword, you need to ask yourselves first:


    “Do you want to see the reality of this world, or is it an illusion?


    “Or...reality is also an illusion?”


    Before he finished speaking, the old monk gently turned the prayer beads in his hand, and their vision went dark together!


    The next second, they have arrived at another scene!


    What surprised Wang Dawei and Heilong was that not only could they not see each other, but the scenes had also been swapped!


    ??Heilong originally saw a science fiction world, but at this time he was in a fairy world.


    ?This is not the main hall of a Buddhist temple, but an independent space. Below is an abyss. The temple is built on a big tree that reaches the sky and the earth. There seem to be many NPC souls wearing traditional clothes coming and going. Cyborg Li Huanzhen looks out of place in this scene.


    ?Wang Dawei originally saw the world of immortals, but at this time he was in the world of science fiction.


    ??This seems to be the roof of a skyscraper complex. There are cold steel pipes and reinforced concrete everywhere. Some robots can also be seen walking around. Li Huanzhen, who is dressed in a fairy-like style, seems to have traveled through time.


    “Brother Long, where are you?”


    “I don’t know, I can’t see you either, Brother David!”


    Both of them were a little confused. Apparently this BOSS battle was also conducted separately in two-player mode.


    ?But fortunately, they soon realized that this was not a head-to-head battle, but more like a special mechanical BOSS, which could be cleared as long as specific goals were achieved.


    ?Wang Dawei was a little embarrassed: "Hey! I''m a little panicked by this!"


    (End of this chapter)