Chapter 537: – Dangerous game
At night, Xia Tian came back with a lifeless look.
He sat down on the sofa, sniffed the smell of smoke on his clothes and let out a sigh. He leaned back against the sofa and silently stared at the ceiling.
Lin Jin, who had been editing, stuck her head out and walked over to ask him: “What’s wrong? You look like you’re in a bad mood again.”
Xia Tian turned his head and looked at Lin Jin, his eyelids drooping as he complained: “I feel like I’m not suited to be a chef. I can even cut myself when cutting vegetables.”
“Isn’t that normal? I even got cut a while back too.” Lin Jin walked up and sat next to Xia Tian, telling him “The weather’s getting colder. Wear an extra layer when you go out, take it off if you’re hot and then put it back on again later.”
“It’s never cold in the kitchen.”
“I’m talking about when you’re going to and from work, are you dumb?” Lin Jin rolled her eyes at him and continued, “My video isn’t done editing yet. I’ll go stream first, help me edit it after the stream?”
“Sure.” Xia Tian nodded. Editing a dance video wasn’t hard for him.
“Then I’m starting the stream!”
The stream every day was pretty much the same.
Although the words she said every day were different and the feel of the stream was also different, Lin Jin had to admit that she was starting to get sick of streaming.
Especially since she was only playing Dota every day.
So, from the moment she started the stream, she instantly decided she wasn’t going to play Dota today!
Right when the stream started, thousands of viewers had already poured in, but Lin Jin ignored them. She opened the Steam store and browsed through the top sellers list, looking for a game that might be good on stream.
“I’m not going to be playing Dota today. I’ll be streaming a single player game. What do you guys want to see? I’ll buy and download it right now.”
Lin Jin crossed one leg over the other, propped her chin on one hand, and spoke into the camera in a cold tone: “Don’t bother saying PUBG, I’m sick of it. Is there anything else? Something that’ll be quite fun to watch on stream?”
“Human: Fall Flat! Do you want to try it? Coop is quite funny.”
“I think NBA2K!”
“Hobo: Tough Life!”
“Gang Beasts!!!”
Lin Jin glanced at the chat, scanning the names for a game that interested her.
The game Gang Beasts or something seemed boring just hearing it. And it looked like it was just about gay stuff. As for NBA, she was completely not interested. The Hobo game seemed okay, simulating a homeless person?
Lin Jin quickly searched the game’s English name online, copied and pasted it into Steam, and quickly found it.
“65 yuan, not too expensive.” Lin Jin hesitantly clicked on the reviews. Glancing at the reviews section, she found that the ratings weren’t very high and the reviews were mixed.
“Hmm, never mind, the reviews aren’t great. Let’s do something else.” Lin Jin said.
“Don’t Starve? Oxygen Not Included? RimWorld?” A barrage comment floated by.
Lin Jin took her time checking out the description and screenshots of those three games online, finding the premise and artstyle of RimWorld quite promising. However, when she took a look in the store, she found it was actually 90 yuan.
It was clearly just a pixel art styled game, but the game was incredibly highly reviewed by players, reaching Overwhelmingly Positive. And it was also in the survival genre that Lin Jin liked.
She clicked the purchase button and downloaded the game. The game wasn’t very big, so it took less than ten minutes to install. Once the computer finished downloading, she entered the game and started her first RimWorld journey.
At that moment, the chat was blowing up and all those viewers who had played this game before were all frantically typing in chat, telling Lin Jin how to play.
But Lin Jin had already stopped reading the chat for a long time. She had beginner gaming proficiency, so she felt that even if she skipped guides and ignored comments, she would still be able to quickly pick up the game.
So she launched the game, started a new world, picked easy mode, selected three random characters, and then randomly picked a map based on her mood…
She fumbled around, controlling her three characters to build and gather supplies. Five in game days later, all three of Lin Jin’s characters ended up dead.
The first character was chased and hurt by a wild animal while hunting. Then because there was no doctor, he bled to death. Another was crushed to death by a collapsing house. And the last one, after losing two companions back to back, became depressed and simply starved to death after not eating or drinking anything.
What the f*ck?
This game was kind of interesting!
If you got hurt, couldn’t you just stop your own bleeding? Did you have to wait for a doctor to patch you up? You wouldn’t have died that fast if you just tore off a piece of cloth and tied it up, right? And also that guy who got collapsed on! Wasn’t it just because the house was a bit big? And that last depressed guy, wasn’t it just losing two companions? Did they have to not eat or drink and starve themselves to death?
Only then did Lin Jin finally take a look at chat and found that the whole thing was laughing at her.
So at the start of her second run, she looked carefully at all the in game menus and build options. She then also randomly selected a character who could treat injuries. Then after carefully selecting two more characters with somewhat decent skills, she started again.
This time was better. She knew how to assign her characters to do different tasks and she knew that too big of a house could collapse. She also knew that some wild animals should not be messed with, like leopards and such.
The beginning went quite smoothly, hunting, collecting materials, and building houses. Nothing happened for more than ten whole days in a row and Lin Jin started thinking this game was actually pretty easy.
Then a suddenly enraged squirrel bit the doctor to death when Lin Jin wasn’t paying attention…
???
With a head full of question marks, Lin Jin hurriedly had the hunter run over to kill that squirrel. And then, she despairingly discovered that the doctor was not only the team’s sole character with medical skills, but also the only one who could cook…
After that, two enemies ran in from the edge of the map. Although she managed to kill them all, Lin Jin’s two remaining characters were also injured. With no doctor, those two struggled for a few days before dying one after another.
So the second run that initially had a good start had collapsed almost instantly.
With a dark expression, Lin Jin switched over to the stream window. Seeing the endless spam of “LOL” in chat, she felt somewhat annoyed.
Was this game rigged? What happened to her beginner gaming proficiency?
Maybe she just hadn’t played enough?
Lin Jin began to doubt life. Carefully reading through the chat, she learned her lesson and followed the chat’s advice as she started the third game.
This third game was okay. But when the harsh winter came, the three characters still ended ipi freezing to death one after another. It wasn’t that Lin Jin didn’t want to build heaters, it was just that all the materials had been used when building other structures.
“Lin Jin, it’s eleven o’clock.” At this time, Xia Tian walked in and reminded Lin Jin “It should be time for you to go to sleep, you still have class at ten tomorrow, right?”
“Eh?” Only then did Lin Jin realize that after just three RimWorld runs, time had passed so quickly.
Was this game dangerous?