Chapter 25
The next day, 10 AM…
Chen Mo was awake and had already had breakfast. He was waiting inside the experience store.
Yesterday, for the entire afternoon through 8 PM when the doors closed, there wasn’t a single gamer. All the visitors were here for the internet cafe. After realizing it was an experience store that cost five bucks an hour, not a one of them stayed.
Of course, one of the reasons nobody wanted to join was because the store was empty.
Chen Mo wondered if his life was supposed to be so difficult.
She double clicked the icon, starting the game.
The logo of Thunderbolt Games flashed across the screen.
Soon, a loading screen was up on her monitor. There was a path in the middle of the screen. To the left were many zombies breaking through the fence, and on the right were plants waiting for the evil forces.
The entire image was quite cartoony. Although the zombies were very ugly, they weren’t disgusting. In contrast, the plants were quite pleasant and had human-like features, a mysterious focal point.
“Hey, feels alright!” Wen Lingwei was surprised. She thought that a newly opened experience store with a nobody designer couldn’t make anything worthwhile, but she had been captured as soon as she entered the game.
The art and UI were filled with elements related to zombies, and the style of the UI had a strong resemblance to tombstones. However, the tombstones didn’t seem out of place, but matched the trees and houses in the background quite well.
1A popup appeared, asking Wen Lingwei to register a Thunderbolt Gaming game pass.
Wen Lingwei scowled at the extra effort, but continued with the registration, skipping her mobile phone and ID number.
1After registration, Wen Lingwei clicked on the uppermost Begin Adventure button, entering adventure mode.
A hand poked out of the ground in front of the tombstone all of a sudden, and coupled with a low creepy laugh, gave Wen Lingwei a shock.
1“… that was evil,” she muttered before entering the game.
2The whole screen was occupied by a large piece of land that resembled the backyard of a house. A strip of grass was rolled out right in the middle of it, taking up around a fifth of the space.
The tutorial was very simple. An arrow appeared on the screen, hinting for her to click on the tile on the top bar. The tile had a green plant on it, nicknamed Peashooter.
Wen Lingwei clicked on the Peashooter and planted it on the lawn according to the hints.
At this point, a small sun drifted down from the top of the screen. Following the hints, she clicked on it, receiving twenty-five suns.
As Wen Lingwei planted the second Peashooter, the zombies appeared. With a growl, the zombie limped slowly towards the Peashooters.
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Also, ‘bucks’ is the slang term for bills of paper money in the Orient. So, five bucks in China is 5 RMB/yuan, but would mean 5 ringgit in Malaysia.