Encounter at the subway station

What to do when you have nothing to do at night, as an otaku, of course, the first choice is to use games to pass the time, occasionally with Fat House Happy Water, Fat House Happy Flower or Fat House Happy Cake, life couldn’t be happier.

At 08:30 in the evening, Yang Zhao walked into the study with a dark blue glass. Xiao Xingkan occupied the only stool in front of his computer, flipping through the games on his computer.

"Here comes your fat house happy water."

While talking, Yang Zhao put the cup on the table in front of Xiao Xingkan, and held the lid of a medicine bottle with the other hand, and there were two capsules and three small pills in the lid.

Xiao Xingkan went over to smell it, and frowned: "Wow, you are a liar who sells fake happy water."

"Take a sip to ensure your happiness," Yang Zhao said, stretching out his foot and hooking the stool next to the bookcase, "Take the medicine."

Xiao Xingkan felt that the cup was not very hot, so he threw the medicine into his mouth and swallowed it in one gulp. He drank the medicine in the quilt with a few gulps, and looked at the cup in his hand: "Your cup is pretty."

"A friend brought it back from Japan, and said it was hand-fired by Yue Ye Workshop... What kind of cup, the starry sky cup?" Yang Zhao said, looking at the fine spots on the outer layer of the glass, "Well, the starry sky cup."

"It's like a starry sky, so beautiful." Xiao Xingkan said in admiration, "When drinking water from it, will there be a feeling of drinking a Milky Way?"

"Although your analogy is quite interesting, I still want to say," Yang Zhaodao, "the Milky Way will not be a dark line that smells like cold medicine."

"Add some bubbles and it won't be so inconsistent."

"That's not the Milky Way, it should be the Amazon Boiling River."

"No... it should be Happy River in Fat House."

"The fat house doesn't want to get up after falling?"

"Well, don't wipe the fallen fat house, it will be caught in the fat house happy film, and the children next door will cry."

Yang Zhao: "..."

He collected the cup and took it out to rinse it off. When he returned to the study, Xiao Xingkan was still selecting games.

"Have you found anything you want to play?" Yang Zhao smiled.

Xiao Xingkan raised his head and glanced at him: "I can't play games alone and leave the master's house alone?"

"Why are you being so polite? Why is the master not the master?" Yang Zhao laughed again, "You can play if you want, don't worry about me."

Xiao Xingkan thought about it and said, "I want to play games with you."

Yang Zhao came to him and sat down: "Okay... play a two-player game on the computer? Gold miner or forest ice fire man?"

Xiao Xingkan frowned slightly: "Then it's better to turn off the computer, and open the pesticide or the fifth personality on our mobile phone. I can also do Baiwen brand."

"I don't play Baiwen cards with you. I don't have krypton gold. How can I beat you with few cards."

While the two were talking, Xiao Xingkan opened Steam to watch the game. After a while, he seemed to have chosen the game and was browsing the game introduction page and comment area. The introduction video about the game was playing automatically. It's a bit dark, I don't know if it's a strange puzzle or suspense game.

"You actually bought this game," Xiao Xingkan started the game, "I saw a live broadcast about this game on Xiaopo Station, and I want to play it."

Yang Zhao sat down beside him: "What Remains of Edith Finch... I forget when I bought it, maybe I haven't played it since I bought it."

"The secret of the Chinese name Edith Finch, let's play together?" Xiao Xingkan tapped on the keyboard twice, "The computer is good, and the game does not require high configuration, so it is more than enough."

"I'll watch you play." Yang Zhao moved the chair under him towards Xiao Xingkan, and crossed his arms across the back of his chair, so that there was no gap between the two of them, and they could almost feel each other's body directly. body temperature.

"Do you want a controller?" Yang Zhao saw Xiao Xingkan typing on the keyboard and asked.

"No, just play like this."

To Yang Zhao's surprise, this game is not as gloomy and depressing as the video on the introduction page. The background music and graphics give people a very peaceful feeling, like a picture scroll that is gradually unfolding in front of your eyes. One after another, the stories come to life amidst the shaking pictures and the calm narration of the protagonist.

"It's actually a puzzle game about family stories... The main character is this girl, not a girl. She is pregnant at this time. Look, you can see her belly from this perspective."

Xiao Xingkan pointed to the scene seen from the main perspective on the screen, and turned his head to ask Yang Zhao to take a look, but he tilted his head and almost brushed against Yang Zhao's approaching face, so he leaned back a little uncomfortably.

But Yang Zhao didn't seem to notice his strangeness, and leaned over a little: "Where are the people at home?"

"There is no one left... Everyone in this family is dead, only the protagonist is left. She left here when she was a child, and everyone in her family lived in this villa before, and then everyone slowly died one by one. , and now the protagonist is back, trying to figure out the story about the family."

Xiao Xingkan manipulated the characters to walk and explore in this house that was forgotten in time, and at the same time introduced something he knew to Yang Zhao: "It is said that there is a curse in the Finch family, and the lifespan of people here will not be too long. Long, many people in this family died early."

Yang Zhao nodded: "Family story, I think of the Vanderboom family in the cubeescape series of puzzle games, but the background story of that game is more complicated."

"I've also played that series of puzzles. It's a bit difficult. I've been playing for a while." Xiao Xingkan said, "But they say this game is more like One Hundred Years of Solitude."

While talking, the game also unfolded the past about Molly, the first character in this family.

"People in this family are short-lived and miserable. All people either died of illness, or died in accidents, or watched the people around them die, and finally they themselves inevitably died."

"Actually, people are going to die, but they all think it's the curse of the family, causing children to die young and young adults to die in accidents, while those who survive watch the memories of the family, like a ship that is destroyed, every day A person is a part of the hull, no one can escape from the disaster when the waves are approaching, and destruction is only a matter of time."

The perspective of the game has been constantly switching screens since the memory of Molly’s story. When the girl fantasizes that she has become a man-eating basilisk, the perspective of the game is rolling and shaking on a ship, which makes people feel a little dizzy.

In the repeated "very hungry", she kept the perspective of the basilisk and returned to the girl's room. She suddenly turned back into a human, sitting on the bed and writing a diary. In the room alone, she imagined herself and the snake Strangely in the same room... On the three words "very delicious" in the diary, the story ends.

Yang Zhao didn't understand: "How did she die?"

"Maybe I got some kind of disease. I said that I was very hungry and wanted to eat all the time. I imagined that I went out to hunt and turned into different animals and ate many other animals... Finally, I became a basilisk that ate people. Go back to your own house from the toilet and hide under your own bed."

"I actually think that the snake is the embodiment of her illness. It wasn't the snake that ate her, because the snake was imagined. Her illness ate her and killed her."

Yang Zhao laughed and understood the expression technique of this game: "Magic realism."

Xiao Xingkan nodded: "Can you say that? Although the game is full of deaths, it's not scary. Everyone's death seems to be presented in beautiful fantasy and warm narratives."

Outside the window, it started to rain again at some point. The sound of the rain was pattering, beating on the window lightly. The storyteller never stopped, with tenderness and sadness in his heart, and he walked in the bright room.

They sat together intimately, playing Edith Finch's Secret together on a quiet rainy night in this bustling city, the rain outside the window kept falling, and occasionally said a few words, their faces were very close when they spoke, as if they were far away kisses.

"When watching the live broadcast, there was a comment below, which mentioned a sentence in One Hundred Years of Solitude, 'The things written have never happened in the past, and will never be repeated in the future. A family that is destined to be lonely for 100 years...will not appear in the world. 'Second Chance', feels like a true portrayal of this family."

A story about loneliness and a game about loneliness.

A rainy night that is not alone.

Xiao Xingkan was actually a little sleepy at this time, and fell asleep after taking cold medicine, but he kept talking to Yang Zhao to keep him awake.

The game progresses to the character "Gregory" - a little baby who was drowned in the bathtub because of the negligence of adults. The picture before death is to explore freely in the ocean.

The scene of those toys being thrown up and down in front of his eyes made Xiao Xingkan a little dizzy, so at the end of this narration, he also fell asleep leaning on Yang Zhao's shoulder.

Yang Zhao raised his hand and touched his forehead, guessing that he didn't have a fever, so he was relieved, and then adjusted his posture slightly to make him sleep more comfortably.

"Everyone is born lonely, communicating with others, indulging in virtual or real things, is just to relieve the uneasiness caused by loneliness."

"This world was originally lonely, but you came to make a lonely person no longer lonely."

He hugged the sleeping Xiao Xingkan, and continued to finish the family story game.

In the end, the heroine also died, and all the narratives ended in the perspective of her child.The diary was closed, and a huge and lonely family finally disappeared on the mist in the sea.

Yang Zhao kissed the man who was sleeping deeply in his arms, got up and walked towards the bedroom with him in his arms.