My game even includes ancient times

Many things are actually foreshadowed from the very beginning.

In order to complete the task of "helping He Shi get through the cold, snowy night", He Yu knocked out two servants from the Li family and stripped them of their sheepskin coats. Shortly after doing this, she burned her hand on a baking pan.

Then, in order to save Wang Cheng, he knocked away Wei Buyu's dagger, kicked the corner of the table three times in a row, and swollen his toes...

She's clearly not the clumsy type at all.

Finally, it's today.

He Yu suffered the most serious injuries today, probably because of what she did yesterday. In order to save He Shi, she broke the wrist of the man in black and grabbed his ankle when he jumped off the building.

So... it's reasonable to assume that if she hurts someone in the game, she herself will be injured in real life due to various accidents.

As for the time when he manipulated Li Yuxing's corpse and caused a ruckus at the Li residence, he clearly injured many people, but he was not injured afterward. Could it be because he had Li Yuxing as a "middleman" and did not directly take action?

He Yu scrutinized these matters several times and concluded that his guess was very likely correct.

This is truly a science fiction event, a magical phenomenon that is difficult to explain with current scientific understanding.

He Yu looked at the game with an incredibly complex expression; no amount of adjectives could describe her feelings at that moment.

If we consider this phenomenon of crossover between 2D and 3D worlds as a game mechanic, then what is the purpose of this game?

From another perspective, He Shi is the protagonist of the game, and the main storyline should be his growth experience. The existence of the player character is like a super cheat for the protagonist. Is the game trying to limit this cheat ability to prevent it from becoming too overpowered and disrupting the balance of the plot?

He Yu fell into deep thought.

The best way to verify this idea is to conduct an experiment with controlled variables, but...

He Yu looked at her right leg, which was bandaged and difficult to bend, and her left leg, which was covered in a lot of iodine and turned black and purple, and temporarily gave up the idea.

Forget it, let's wait until the injury heals in a few days before talking about it.

Her thoughts drifted back to the game.

At ten times the speed, He Shi and Chu He's travel speed was almost comparable to that of a high-speed train. In the short time that Han Qilai and Xiang Dongxi were thinking, their carriage had already entered a very prosperous city.

He Yu adjusted the time flow to match the frequency of reality. Watching He Shi's little head sticking out of the car window and looking around, she smiled slightly and also began to appreciate the ancient city full of details.

The street they were traveling on must have been a main street, and it was very wide; at least eight small carriages like the one He Shi was riding in could pass each other side by side.

As Lunar New Year's Eve approaches, the streets are bustling with people. Two- and three-story buildings are everywhere, with lacquered doors, stone steps, carved beams and painted rafters, all exuding exquisite grandeur.

Unfortunately, the game has no sound. You can't hear the vendors' calls and the voices of passersby, which makes it feel a bit lacking in real life.

He Yu was astonished when he saw Chu He stop the carriage in front of an expensive-looking inn.

This kid is really rich. Along the way, his purse seemed to be a storage bag with endless silver inside.

He Shi made the right choice by following him!

He Yu smiled with relief and propped her legs up against the pillow.

Moreover, something unexpected happened to Wei Buyu, and she didn't cause any trouble for three or four days. Without her harassment, He Shi's mental state improved a lot.

In the scene, Chuhe places a piece of silver in the shopkeeper's hand, who then pulls the carriage to the back of the inn.

Chu He, accompanied by He Shi, walked through the gate with great flair.

【Manager, two superior rooms】

Okay, please wait a moment, sir/madam.

Two speech bubbles appeared above Chuhe and the shopkeeper's heads, then popped and disappeared like real bubbles.

He Shi stood beside Chu He, curiously observing the decor and guests in the inn's lobby.

Chu He picked up the wooden plaque with the room name written on it handed to him by the innkeeper, grabbed He Shi's collar, and turned to walk towards the stairs.

He Shi withdrew his gaze and followed closely behind him.

Chu He gripped his ever-present longsword in his left hand, having changed out of his tattered clothes. He was now wearing a dark gray velvet narrow-sleeved long robe with a matching belt around his waist, which accentuated his upright posture and extraordinary demeanor, attracting frequent attention from many people in the inn.

He Shi, who was following behind him, was still wearing that light brown cotton coat. It had been torn in some places during the fight and was sewn up with crooked stitches. It was loosely worn and looked rather shabby compared to Chu He.

But if you look up again and see his exceptionally handsome face, the poverty of his clothes will instantly disappear. He looks like a celestial being from a secluded mountain, and his simple, tattered clothes become his adornment.

The two went into two adjacent guest rooms.

He Yu didn't go inside, but instead casually swiped the screen with her index finger, aimlessly watching the lively scene inside the inn.

The characters all have the same ordinary NPC model faces, but each face has a different expression, vivid and complex, like watching a strange silent film.

strangeness……

He Yu frowned. In the game, these NPC passersby were clearly expressionless, with only one or two occasionally showing distinct emotions, such as the vendor on the North Commercial Street in Yuanshan County and the eldest son of the Li family.

He Yu left the inn and looked at the bustling crowd on the street, men, women, young and old, each with a different expression on their face.

Happy, frustrated, nervous, angry...

Each emotion is expressed differently, with subtle variations. Coupled with the fact that they all use the same face to make these different expressions, the whole scene has an indescribable eeriness.

It's like the game version was suddenly updated, adding a module for character expressions.

He Yu thought quietly.

I didn't receive any update notification. Is it an automatic update?

Unlike its clean and simple interface and straightforward gameplay, this game's operating mechanism is actually quite complex, and He Yu couldn't understand it.

But subconsciously, she didn't want to ask experts in this field. She had a premonition that if someone else got involved, the game would change uncontrollably or even disappear completely, just like how it inexplicably appeared in her game list back then.

He Yu sighed. Oh well, why think so much? Let's just play around with it for now and see how far it can go in the end.

Surely the game characters won't come to life and invade Earth at the end?