After passing through the basement door, representing a new cycle of reincarnation, I looked at the scene in front of me and fell into silence.
The corridor is still the same corridor, but a little changed.
Although the original corridor was dimly lit, at least something could be seen. Now, except for the light at the door, all the lights in the distance have been extinguished.
"Is this the price I paid for the flashlight?" I thought, looking down at the flashlight in my hand, then at the dark corridor ahead. I swallowed silently.
The radio, which had been silent before, suddenly sounded again. It broadcast the news of the initial massacre. The sound was intermittent, accompanied by a burst of electric current, making it even more bizarre when combined with the dark scene.
"It's nothing, just that the scene has turned a little darker," I whispered to myself, trying to comfort my nerves as I carefully moved forward.
I walked a little more, but there seemed to be nothing except the noisy static from the radio. Only my footsteps sounded slightly different. At this moment, I didn't think too much of it, but kept whispering core values in my mind to calm the fear in my heart.
Finally, I reached the corner of the corridor and breathed a sigh of relief. My tense heartstrings loosened a little.
There, next to the radio in front, were lights—albeit a little dim.
I glanced at the toilet door; it was closed. I tried to twist the knob, but it wouldn't open. There were no sounds of a baby crying or a female ghost wailing.
I moved closer to the radio and noticed something strange on the table. A wedding photo of the homeowner was there, with a large X drawn over the woman's body.
There was also a line of text: "Dig it out!"
I reached out and touched the wedding photo on the table. But when my finger touched the woman's right eye, I accidentally dug that part out of the photo.
Looking at the photo, now with one eye missing and a black hole in the woman's face while still smiling, I swallowed again. The image was so eerie.
Just as I was about to move on, the radio, which had been static before, became clear.
"Don't touch that phone dial. We're about to start!"
"Also, you can't trust that tap water."
After these two sentences, the radio once again filled with static.
"Don't touch the phone dial buttons, and can't trust the tap water!?"
As for the phone, there was one on the cabinet in the corner. Why couldn't I touch it?
Hearing this, I subconsciously turned my head to look at the phone behind me. This time, I understood why I couldn't touch it.
The moment I turned back, a pale shadow instantly approached me.
At the same time, the camera of the game shook violently, and then a bloodless face appeared before me. This time, I finally saw the true face of the female ghost.
Her face showed disastrous defeat. Her right eye was hollow, clearly gouged out, and almost three-quarters of her left eye was occupied by the white of the eye. A fluid resembling pus exuded from it.
We were almost face-to-face. This sudden shock, combined with the tension and suppressed fear that had been building up before, suddenly erupted.
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh"
At this moment, my vocal cords endured too much.
The picture in front of my eyes instantly fell into darkness.
I knew that it was the game cabin that cut me off from the game screen.
As for whether the staff helped cut it off or triggered the self-protection mechanism of the game warehouse, it no longer mattered.
What was important was that I was finally free!
As the game room opened, I stumbled out of the game cabin. I was a bit unsteady when I stepped out.
The staff next to me quickly helped me.
"It's okay, it's just that my legs are a little soft," I said, taking a breath.
"Adjust yourself, it's just a game. Take a breath," the staff member comforted me.
As for Tao Fa and Ye Xun, who had no idea what had just happened to me in the test, the two of them exchanged confused glances.
They knew my abilities.
What was it that frightened me like this!?
"I need to take it easy for a while. I really can't take it anymore," I said, looking at the crowd around me and the spacious room. I even had the urge to cry.
God knows how much psychological pressure the cramped environment in the game had put on me.
Then, I glanced at the time on the wall and was shocked.
20 minutes!?
The experience of living like a year in the game had only passed twenty minutes!?
"Li Yue, what links and factors do you think made you feel uncomfortable in this DEMO test?"
At this time, the staff member came over and asked as usual.
Hearing the staff's question, I, still sitting there trying to adjust myself, couldn't help but recall my experience in the game. After hesitating for a while, I said, "I... I feel that everything made me feel uncomfortable."
The staff member looked at me, confused.
Seeing the puzzled expression on the staff's face, I couldn't help but feel a bit helpless.
Because this was my real experience.
The realistic feedback of the picture, the combination of sound effects, and the delicate feedback of the light source in the scene, combined with the depressing rhythm in the game, created a full range of discomfort.
Listening to Li Yue's words, the staff recorded a pending word in the notebook and then said to Tao Fa and Ye Xun next to him, "Next, who of you will come to test first?"
Hearing the staff's words, Tao Fa and Ye Xun looked at each other. As colleagues, they raised their hands at the same time.
Rock-paper-scissors!
In the most traditional way, they decided who would go for the second experience of the Silent Hill PT test.
In the bright hall, a group of game designers from the industry sat together, and the big screen was turned off at that time. Many designers didn't look very good, some even a little pale.
They all looked at Chen Xu, who sat calmly beside them, with strange eyes.
God knows what happened to them in those twenty minutes!
Originally, they thought they were well-informed. What horror game hadn't they seen before?
But Silent Hill PT, this simple DEMO, had to be said to amaze them. There were so many people, and they were just watching, not playing. The more important thing wasn't 3D or VR, but the simple big screen.
Even so, the atmosphere in the game surprised some of them.
"Mr. Chen, how long is the demo process, and how much has been shown just now? What is the proportion of fear content?" Meng Zuo asked a question that all the designers present were concerned about.
"About one-third of the content. Although it is a DEMO, I've actually done a relatively complete job with the gameplay and content. The decryption content is a bit more willful. If you don't play it a few times and study it carefully, it is still very difficult to get through."
"As for the horror content, the killing back is just a starter. I didn't insert many scaring elements in this demo, and the killing back is not the core point. It really revolves around the plot and the atmosphere of the game scene. There are several key points to come. After all, this is provided to the game department to test the functions of the VR equipment, to facilitate subsequent improvement." Chen Xu explained with a smile.
Hearing Chen Xu's words and thinking of the picture just now, everyone couldn't help but be speechless.
That was just an appetizer?
After holding it in for a long time, Meng Zuo finally took a deep breath and said to Chen Xu earnestly, "Mr. Chen, we gamers play games not because we can't be grounded, but at least the ground gas shouldn't lead to the underworld!"