You said you were going to make games, how did you become the richest man without doing anything?

Chapter 331 Players are shocked: The wandering gameplay is addictive! The battle between the treasure chest style and the leftover style! (2 in 1)

Afterwards, Wang Hanzhe began to walk towards the outskirts of the city, looking for a place to build a shelter.

"There are many abandoned factories and houses in the suburbs, as well as unfinished buildings, which are perfect for building homes."

He walked for a while and came into a group of abandoned houses overgrown with weeds in the wilderness.

Soon after approaching here, Wang Hanzhe was startled by a huge human-shaped stone.

[Being frightened, SAN value loses 3 points]

Resting, meditating, and reading can slowly restore SAN value.

He quickly turned up the brightness of his flashlight.

"Damn, it's pitch dark and everything looks scary."

The comment section was amused: "Hahaha, Taoyuan Township must make the environment so realistic."

Wang Hanzhe:

"Also, we have a more serious matter now. We have food now, and you can get water from the sinks in the public restrooms.

But now there is no pot for cooking, so we have to find a pot."

Entering the abandoned residential area, Wang Hanzhe walked through the overgrown courtyards, feeling a chill down his spine.

The exterior walls of the house are mottled and peeling, covered with vines and cobwebs, the window glass is broken, and the window paper rustles in the breeze, telling the ancient history of this abandoned house.

The interior of the house was pitch black. Wang Hanzhe, holding a flashlight, peered out of the room, revealing deep shadows and a rotten smell emanating from the corners.
The graffiti on the wall and the tattered furniture reflected the dim light, and every corner exuded an eerie atmosphere that made people shiver involuntarily.

Wang Hanzhe: "Brothers, let me tell you, this place looks really scary."

He walked to a corner, and suddenly, a withered old tree appeared in front of him. It looked like a human with a hideous face.

"Oh my god, is this a tree demon?"

[Being frightened, SAN value loses 5 points]

The comments were so funny: "Hahaha, just waiting for the anchor's SAN value to return to 0."

Wang Hanzhe calmed himself down and continued exploring.

[Obtain a broken enamel basin]

"This place is so weird. There's a tree demon growing at the door and a dog bowl in the corner."

【Get a red old bucket】

"This old bucket can hold a lot of water. It can store a lot of water. Let's take it."

[Get a bundle of dry firewood]

"Good news everyone, the dry firewood is of the best quality, very dry, and can be used for cooking soon. But I can't put the porcelain bowl in my hand directly on the fire, it will explode. Let's see if we can find an iron pot."

After entering the house, Wang Hanzhe was surprised to find folded bedding and some daily necessities inside.
"Bad news, I found that although this house has collapsed, it seems to have an owner."

Wang Hanzhe held up a flashlight and searched back and forth.

In the corner of the room, there are piles of faded sports lottery tickets, which are used to bet on the outcome of football matches. They were first bought since the last World Cup, but judging from the results, the guy who lives here bought all the wrong tickets.

On the bedside, there is a diary of this old man:
July 7: Although I lost everything in gambling, I will try to pick myself up again. Don’t look down on the young and poor!
July 7: Attack a suburban county.

July 7: Attack a suburban county.

July 7: How could I have fallen so low? I want to find a job and get ashore!
July 7: I saw a beautiful girl on Bilibili, and I called her a suburban girl (﹃).

……

"There is no hope, just wait to die."

Wang Hanzhe threw the diary back with an expressionless face.

The barrage refreshes the screen:

"Hahahahahahaha, I'm dying of laughter. Bro, you're really self-disciplined."

"Reverse. Self-discipline!"

"I suggest you seize the opportunity to join the factory."

Wang Hanzhe:

"Since this place has an owner, we won't live here anymore. If they're members of the Beggars' Gang, we'll be in trouble.

Of course, we'll just treat the items we got earlier as dropped items."

Barrage comments: "Breaking into Private Houses", "Open World", "Gift from Nature"

Afterwards, Wang Hanzhe found a dilapidated house nearby.

“Brothers, this place is more suitable as a place to build a home.

It's quite spacious here, and there's a breeze during the day, which is nice and cool for us in the summer."

Barrage Tucao:

"A chilling breeze... Host, are you sure you didn't use the wrong word?"

"There's a little bit of a paternal element in it."

After determining the location to build a home, Wang Hanzhe began to search around the house and soon found a stainless steel rice bowl under a deep pit full of discarded items.

"This thing can be used as a pot. Let me go down and get it."

However, this pit seems extremely steep, and the game prompts:
[When you explore dangerous terrain, you will be checked periodically based on your health and SAN values. If the check fails, a landslide will occur.]

"Steady, steady..."

He took a deep breath, waved his VR sensing gloves, grabbed a protruding tree root at the edge of the pit, and carefully stepped onto the steep slope.

As his body gradually sank, the light around him became dimmer and dimmer, with only the faint light of the flashlight illuminating the road ahead.

The steepness of the deep pit made Wang Hanzhe feel unprecedented pressure. Every step was accompanied by cliff-like danger, and he might fall into the bottomless abyss if he was not careful.

[Verification successful, landslide did not occur]

Gradually, he approached the location of the food bowl, but the slope had reached its limit. He had to make a decision: should he continue forward or go back?
Wang Hanzhe hesitated for a moment, but gritted his teeth to maintain his balance, slowed down his pace, and moved forward.

Just when he was about to grab the food bowl,
suddenly!

The soil beneath his feet loosened, and he lost his balance and fell forward.

[Test failed, soil landslide occurred]

His heart almost stopped beating, fear and despair surged in his heart. He subconsciously grabbed a branch beside him and barely managed to stabilize his body.

At the edge of the cliff, Wang Hanzhe faced the abyss, sweat dripping down, then he leaned forward and reached the stainless steel rice bowl.

Moreover, a box of matches was found under the rice bowl!
【Get extra reward: a box of matches. 】

Wang Hanzhe was ecstatic: "That's great! I was penniless to begin with. I thought I would have to make fire by rubbing two sticks together."

The barrage refreshes the screen:

"The host is awesome! I was so shocked I almost thought you were going to restart the show."

"Wow, no matter what the theme of the game is, Taoyuan Township always adds enough interesting level challenges. Don't their designers have any limit to their imagination?"

"This is the awesomeness of this Taoyuan Township company!"

"No more talking. Seeing this, I also want to go wandering myself. Go buy the game now!"

After returning to the cabin, Wang Hanzhe started cooking, and the game popped up a prompt:

[The workbench is unlocked. You can build a stove, prepare food, and make water purifiers, self-defense equipment, and other equipment.]

Afterwards, the holographic workbench interface appeared before my eyes.

Wang Hanzhe waved his sensing gloves, first used six bricks to build a circle, and placed a rice bowl in the middle, and a simple earthen stove was completed.

After spreading out the dry firewood and lighting it, he took out the mineral water bottle he had picked up earlier.

"Brothers, do you know why I collected water from the sink in the public restroom?

With running water, it is very convenient to cook.

And I will teach you, when boiling water, the flame should be at the tip, which is the hottest."

Put the noodles into the pot.

"I read the instructions on the cooking interface. Oil and salt in food can increase satiety a lot, but we are still in the early stages of wandering and our strength is not enough. These things are too luxurious for us.
Let’s just make some noodles, and eat them twice a day, half a bowl each time.”

A progress bar similar to the game cooking interface popped up in front of me.

[Please stir according to the rhythm prompts on the stirring intensity bar, otherwise the food may be overcooked.] Wang Hanzhe:

"I think noodles don't need to be cooked for too long, two or three minutes is enough. If you cook them for too long, they will turn into a paste.

But after cooking the noodles, you can soak them for a while longer to allow them to absorb more water, which will make you feel fuller after eating them.

Throw in the two eggs the beautiful lady gave you earlier. Even though there’s no oil or salt, they’re still real poached eggs. So good!

One viewer posted a comment: "You can buy salt later. There is already a small amount of salt in the noodles, so there is no need to add salt."

Someone replied: "The guy above seems to be an experienced person, he understands it very well."

Because there were no chopsticks, Wang Hanzhe picked up two branches as chopsticks.

The VR device quickly simulates the smell of the noodles.

Wang Hanzhe sniffed. "The aroma of noodles combined with the aroma of eggs is really nice, but I can still smell a bitter taste. The quality of these noodles is not very good."

The commentator laughed: "Is there a possibility that this is the bitter taste of the branches?"

After a dry meal, Wang Hanzhe restored his satiety to 61 points.

"We're almost done eating. We should figure out how to get some sleep and make something delicious for tomorrow."

At night, lying on the haystack, the protagonist of the game looked at the dry grass on the beams swaying in the wind.

Thinking back to the days when I had a car, a house, and good food, and then thinking back to the days when I failed in stock trading with leverage, and now I am penniless, and my wife and children have all left me,
He suddenly felt emotional:
“Life is like duckweed on this wooden frame. No matter how much you yearn for freedom, you are always bound, constantly rising and falling.”

Barrage: "Wow, the protagonist is starting to understand life."

After the character falls asleep, the game pops up the first day settlement interface:

Congratulations! You have successfully completed your first day of wandering.

[Assessing your satiety, health value, and SAN value remaining]

【Evaluating your today’s gains】

Your shelter is being evaluated

[Assessment completed, your first-day survival score is 69 points, overall rating C]

Your global ranking this season is 1586nd.

Wang Hanzhe was stunned:

"Fuck, what's going on?
The game I bought right away has dropped to over a thousand places?
Isn't it said that not many players play this game?
You are all so hardworking."

After turning off the game, Wang Hanzhe continued to summarize:

"This game is a bit unconventional. I thought it was just an ordinary travel simulator. Taoyuan Township's promotional method deceived us all. But I think it's quite fun.

I haven't met other players yet. It seems that this game is a stand-alone mode in the early stage, and everyone wanders in their own randomly generated small world.

I guess there will be online activities or something like that later?"

……

After the live broadcast ended that day,

Many players wrote purchase reviews in the Taoyuan Fantasy Platform's purchase store, expressing shock at the homeless gameplay and giving it positive reviews:

"Honestly, I've never played such a weird game before. I was penniless at the start. I was wondering what Taoyuan Township was thinking. Isn't playing this kind of game just asking for trouble?

Later, while playing, I discovered that it smelled really good! "

“Indeed, once you get into it, you can’t stop!”

"I sat in my room playing after get off work yesterday, and played until the early morning. Whether it was opening treasure chests or exploring abandoned old houses, every wandering gameplay was quite interesting. Damn it, I have to take today off."

"Every time you collect food and cook, it's a challenge! Follow the prompts, stir the food, control the heat, and don't waste a single noodle. You're always on the verge of starvation. It's thrilling!"

……

Of course, some players also have doubts, because they found that the original city design of this game is very similar to a travel simulator!
Aren’t the shops all over the streets for players to buy things?
Starting with nothing, isn't this definitely a bug in the economic system?

However, when everyone went to Taoyuan Township's Weibo to ask questions, the official response was very clear:
"Dear players, this is not a bug, it's a game feature.

The "Runaway" gameplay is the core of our game, and designing so many city facilities and street shops is to give everyone more opportunities to showcase their talents."

The following players are happy:
"What talent? The talent of begging? Hahaha."

"You hesitated when you were just giving us a perfunctory answer, didn't you?"

Because of Taoyuan Township’s reply, more and more curious players flocked into the game.

After all, if you are talking about driving simulation, travel simulation, street scene simulation, there are already many similar games on the market.
But if you're talking about wandering simulation, this is truly unique, there's no other place like it!

In the strategy section of the NGA forum, players soon began to share their wandering experiences:

A player shared a post:
"It's best to find treasure chests in upscale residential areas. I was lucky yesterday and found an unopened bottle of milk tea, half-eaten takeaway chips, nearly brand new clothes, and even a chance of finding some digital gadgets.

But be careful of the guard NPCs, some security guards will drive you away with sticks.

Also, don't touch the territories of some of the Big Beggars' Sects lightly, as those bastards won't hold back when they strike."

Second floor player reply:

"Brother, let me add one more thing. Don't open a treasure chest with your bare hands. There are glass shards, small blades and other things in the treasure chest. It's very dangerous.

I accidentally got enchanted with tetanus yesterday and died just after playing for a while.

I opened a new file, used branches and steel pipes, and picked up old work gloves to open the treasure chest. It was much safer. "

The third-floor player shared a screenshot of his first day's score of 80 points, and proudly said:
"Are you still opening a treasure chest here?
You are all OUT!
I will teach you a way to increase your score. I will go to KFC and sit there, focusing on those girls with slim figures.

I will pay special attention to those who keep talking about "losing weight".

They order a table of set meals, pout and take pictures, and most likely they can't finish the food, and there may be leftover chicken wings, French fries, hamburger buns, etc.
After everyone left, I went over and took it away and started eating while the clerk was still cleaning up!
Of course, if you can't find any girls, you can pick up the leftovers from other customers who ordered a lot of food and eat them.

It's nutritious and filling, and it's easy to get high scores. Isn't this much better than cooking some crappy noodles?"

The comments section was full of admiration: "Wow, brother, you are so professional, did you really wander around when you were young?"

Of course, there are also people who argue below:
“You can’t play this way for long. This is an endurance game to see who can last the longest.

The correct way to play is to open a treasure chest, buy a flashlight, an axe, collect cooking utensils, and build a house.
First of all, you may not be lucky enough every day to get the right leftovers. If you don’t, you will be hungry all day.

Secondly, if you stay in a store in a certain block for a long time, the staff will know you and will definitely drive you away.

By the time you've wasted several days looking for leftovers, others will have already figured out the distribution and drop patterns of the treasure chests, built their own homes, and started living a comfortable life. Their scores will definitely surpass yours."

On the fifth floor, another player who supports squatting on the leftovers refuted:
"Can't you be more flexible? Who told you to only go to KFC? Yesterday, I started by picking up a broken bowl and looking for small restaurants on the street. I went in and said some auspicious words to the owner, wishing him good luck or something like that.

If you improve the boss's favorability, you may be given unsold vegetables. These leftovers are of extremely high quality, and you will be filled with grease when eating all kinds of meat and vegetables.
I even ran into a generous boss yesterday who gave me half a pig's trotter, and I was able to get 82 points straight away. How many days would it take you guys who open treasure chests to get that much points?"

Later, the players holding the two views became more and more intense, and finally formed two mainstream gameplay styles:
"Treasure Chest Flow" and "Leftover Flow"

……

The next day, Wang Hanzhe started live streaming in the room as usual.

Compared to the first day, the number of people in the live broadcast room has increased significantly, and the popularity has reached 80.

Someone asked: "Host, host, have you seen the genre wars that are going viral online right now?"

Wang Hanzhe said:

"Don't waste time changing genres. Let's stick to this one this season and see how long we can survive.

If we want to build a house, the biggest problem is the lack of wood.

But wood needs an axe to chop, so you have to save money to buy an axe first."

After re-entering the downtown area, Wang Hanzhe carried a sack and a wooden stick and rummaged through several trash cans on the street, but found nothing of value.

"No, it's easier to get stuff from the treasure chests in high-end residential areas."

Wang Hanzhe went to the high-end residential complex he visited yesterday and found that five members of the Beggar Gang "Xinshenghe" were already rummaging through the treasure chest at the entrance of the complex.

These homeless people are ferocious and have monopolized the high-quality cardboard and mineral water bottles. Even the sanitation workers have to give them some ground.

Barrage: "This Xinshenghe seems to be the largest beggar gang in this area. If you can't beat them, why not join them?"

Wang Hanzhe curled his lips and said, "No, for a gang this big, the membership fee must be quite high, and the bulk of the profits have to be paid as tribute."

He found the internal layout diagram next to the community.

"Brothers, fortune and wealth are sought through risk. Based on my own neighborhood experience, there's usually a set of trash cans for every three residential buildings. Let's block Xinshenghe's line of sight and go around to steal their home!"

(End of this chapter)