Chapter 25 The Essence of Games is Happiness (Part )

Ye Xiu's steps going down the stairs were even more staggering than when he went up.

The communication with Pei Yunteng certainly solved the doubts in his mind, but it also dealt a heavy blow to his heart.

So, glory... is such a shameful thing?
Ye Xiu didn’t understand.

"Ye Xiu? Are you still awake?" A voice came from the counter. It was Tang Rou, who was on night shift.

Because the show was going to start in the afternoon, Ye Xiu's night shift was also changed, and he usually had to go to bed at two or three in the middle of the night.

At first Ye Xiu was reluctant, thinking that he should make good use of the good time all night to practice his account.

As a result, Chen Guo rolled her eyes and slapped the live broadcast contract in his face.

"Now that you're so rich, is it hard to find a power player?"

Ye Xiu probably has to do technical work like breaking records and fighting bosses himself, but there is really no need to do the boring dungeon leveling himself.

However, the biological clock is not so easy to reverse. It is already two o'clock in the middle of the night, and Ye Xiu still has no sleepiness at all.

With his mind in a mess, he looked at Tang Rou who was intently leveling up Han Yanrou, and suddenly he felt like he had grasped a life-saving straw.

"Xiao Tang, you've been playing Glory for more than half a month, right?" He spoke, and for the first time he lost his usual carefree composure.

"Yeah, that's right." Tang Rou nodded and used a Sky Strike to knock a small monster away.

"So do you think Glory is fun?"

Ye Xiu felt that being able to play intensively for more than half a month, it couldn’t be said to be not fun, right?

Even though President Pei criticized Honor harshly, at least the fact that it's fun is indisputable, right?
Who knew that Tang Rou would shake her head like a rattle after hearing his words: "It's not fun. It's very tiring to play."

"Not fun? How could that be?" Ye Xiu took a step back subconsciously as if struck by lightning.

This was an answer he had not expected.

Tang Rou defeated the final boss of the dungeon, turned around and looked at Ye Xiu with a straightforward gaze: "It could have been fun."

"When I first entered Honor, I was actually quite interested. After all, it was a new game and I quite like playing games."

"But I just wanted to watch the opening CG, but Guoguo skipped it for me, saying there was nothing interesting to watch and urged me to level up quickly."

"It was the same afterwards. Every time I accepted a mission, I didn't have time to read the mission description in detail. I could only accept it with my eyes closed and leave without knowing the background of the mission at all."

Tang Rou recounted her experience of playing Honor of Kings recently, with a hint of grievance in her words.

"I'm already over level 30 now, and I don't even know what the main storyline of this game is about."

"Look at the scenery. There are people everywhere. We have to be on our toes and be ready to fight. We have no mood to appreciate it."

Suddenly, Tang Rou thought of something and asked Ye Xiu: "Don't talk about me. As a veteran who has played Glory for ten years, do you know what story Glory tells?"

"Of course I know, isn't it..." Ye Xiu was about to answer subconsciously, opened his mouth, but suddenly stopped.

Glory...what was it talking about?

Why doesn't he remember?

Not only the plot, but also the world view of Glory, important NPCs, and even some early mission processes were all forgotten by him!

When it comes to Glory, he has all the operating skills, advanced techniques, tactical reserves, and map understanding of all professions in his mind.

Only, there is no content of glory itself.

Tang Rou looked at his dazed expression and sighed, "Sure enough, even you don't know."

"I don't understand why you Glory players play so utilitarian."

"Everything I do is to level up, kill monsters, brush materials, and change equipment."

"It's not like playing games, it's more like working." "Ye Xiu," she stared at Ye Xiu's eyes that were subconsciously dodging, and asked word by word, "Can you answer me from the bottom of your heart, does playing games really make you happy?"

Are you happy?
Is Ye Xiu happy?

Maybe I was happy when I was fourteen or fifteen years old and just sneaked out of home.

But even at that time, a large part of the pleasure he got from the game came from "victory".

The joy of the game itself...

Ye Xiu held it in for a long time, and finally managed to say: "I am a professional player after all..."

"But I'm not." Tang Rou interrupted him, "So I'm not happy, I just feel tired."

After all, she is not the Tang Rou of the original timeline, but the Tang Rou who was deeply influenced by Pei Yunteng.

Pei Yunteng admired this straightforward and competitive girl and was willing to chat with her.

He also used the massive amount of masterpieces that he had "borrowed" from his previous life to cultivate the little girl's taste.

At least Tang Rou's current rank is definitely not inferior to Ye Xiu, who does not have much social experience.

Ye Xiu's eyes became depressed.

The heart that had just been hit hard by Pei Yunteng was stabbed again by Tang Rou.

For the first time, he felt a sense of vulnerability that he had not experienced even when he was kicked out of Excellent Era.

He slumped down at his workstation as a network administrator, his brows drooping and his face disoriented.

Tang Rou looked at him, thought for a moment, opened her bag, took out an electronic device about the size of a tablet and handed it to him.

"This is?"

"The Inspur gaming console produced by Tenghai." Tang Rou turned on the power, inserted a game card, and loaded a new save file.

"Let's play this. This is President Pei's masterpiece. It ranks much higher than Honor of Kings among the greatest games in history worldwide."

"It is because of him that President Pei was deified in one battle and is hailed as the god of the new generation of game producers."

Ye Xiu took the game console with a vague look of understanding. The game on it had an obscure name:
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.

He tried to play the game with a vague understanding.

At first, he takes the form of a sleeping blond boy who is awakened by a mysterious light.

The birthplace was a dark and cramped cave, with only the mysterious facility where he was sleeping emitting a faint blue light.

Ye Xiu controlled the boy named Link to run around in the cave, and under the guidance of the light, he picked up a prop called Shika Slate.

“It feels… similar to Glory? Just with fewer people.” Ye Xiu thought.

Can a game like this become a masterpiece?

This doubt continued until he opened the cave door as instructed.

The moment I walked out of the cave in the direction of the outside light, ethereal music sounded.

The perspective slowly moved, and the magnificent panorama of the Hyrule continent was instantly visible.

Dense forests, vast plains, towering volcanoes and mountains in the distance, and the ancient abandoned church nearby...

Honor of Kings has all these elements, and its modeling is far more detailed and realistic than that of this game.

But Honor has never presented such a beautiful scenery to players in such a shocking way.

Ye Xiu’s eyes widened slightly, and he seemed to feel some vague emotions in his heart.

(End of this chapter)