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"Okay, Fang! Let's go out!"
"Why are you going out in such a cold weather? There's a snowstorm in the south right now. It's not good to stay at home! Or maybe you and Youxi can go alone, Yuanyuan?"
Xia Yuan kept shaking his head, then said seriously: "It's more lively when there are three of us! And someone has to carry the things we buy."
“So I am a tool again…”
Xia Yuan put his arm around Mei Fang's shoulders and clung to him without any scruples.
"Hehe...who says Ah Fang is our most reliable childhood sweetheart?"
Xia Yuan showed an extremely bright smile, while Lin Youxi on the side closed his eyes and immersed himself in the music with a faint smile on his face.
Time is like an arrow, the sun and the moon are like a shuttle.
Three years, or maybe less than three years, time just passed by quietly.
It is now early spring of 2008.
That year, Mei Fang, Xia Yuan and Lin Youxi were all around 12 years old.
This is their last year as primary school students.
It is also the first year of becoming a junior high school student.
Chapter 050 Sorry, Yuanyuan!
In February of 08, a serious snowstorm broke out in the southern region, especially in southern Hunan Province, which was hit hardest. Northern Chu Province was also affected to a certain extent. Although it was already February, the temperature outside was still terribly low.
"It only snowed a little yesterday, but I didn't expect the ground to freeze."
Xia Yuan was wearing cream-colored winter boots today. Since they were new shoes, they were a little slippery when she walked. She could only hold Lin Youxi's arm and move forward carefully on the ground.
Mei Fang followed slightly behind, looking at the two girls' backs, lost in recalling the past.
After the moving incident, the three maintained a long and stable friendship, but as they entered puberty, in addition to the obvious growth caused by the emergence of secondary sexual characteristics, Xia Yuan and Lin Youxi's temperament also changed.
Xia Yuan is no longer the little crybaby she used to be. She is always in a cheerful mood every day and seems to have endless happy things to talk about. Now she likes to tie a small braid on her short hair, which looks a bit like aho-go.
Lin Youxi is no longer as lively and active as she was in fourth grade. She started to grow medium-length hair and liked to walk with her hands in her pockets.
Although not as aloof as in the previous life, I still give off an aura that says "don't bother with me".
"Afang, save me, save me, save me!"
Xia Yuan slipped and was about to fall to the ground with her body hunched over. Lin Youxi was trying hard to pull her up.
Seeing this, Mei Fang didn't care about what was happening, and hurried forward, grabbed Xia Yuan's hand, and pulled her and Lin Youxi up together.
Xia Yuan clung to Mei Fang's shoulders and panted non-stop in front of him, "Huh... I'm so scared. If I fall, my butt will definitely hurt for several days."
"That's why I told you not to go out today. You almost got your comeuppance."
Xia Yuan stuck out her tongue mischievously, "Today, the game hall on Main Street has opened a new gun-shooting machine for fighting zombies. We have to go check it out while it's snowing and there are fewer people!"
Just as Lin Youxi lamented, the old-fashioned arcade game halls with only joysticks quickly declined in Baimei County in the past three years, and were replaced by complex arcade halls that combined slot machines, fishing machines, racing machines, and shooting machines.
At the same time, the value of coins in arcades has also soared, from 1 coins for 6 yuan to 1 coins for 2 yuan now. These advanced machines require 2 to 4 coins to play. Even so, such stores are still very popular in small counties that have never seen much of the world. After all, there are still many wealthy families like Xia Yuan.
Xia Yuan took the initiative to exchange 20 yuan worth of coins, and then he impatiently went to the newly installed light gun arcade machine in the game hall.
"This is it!"
It turns out that the light gun game I played back then was the famous "House of the Dead 3"...
The demo screen on the game screen kept showing various zombies with terrifying appearances. There were two brand new shotguns inserted in front of the arcade. Xia Yuan picked up the shotgun and played with it in his hands. Then he showed Mei Fang how to load and lower the gun. "How about it, do I look like a lone female gunman?"
"I find it strange. Don't you like cute things? Why are you suddenly interested in this zombie-killing thing..."
"What's so strange about this? My love for cute things doesn't affect my love for exciting things."
Xia Yuan showed a very curious and playful expression as he spoke, "Fang, tell me the truth, are you afraid to play?"
Lin Youxi, who was playing with a light gun at the side, suddenly added, "He has been timid since he was young. He doesn't even dare to play with frogs."
"Hahaha! Now that you mention it, I remember it now! Ah Fang, you are really scared, right?"
"What am I afraid of? I'm afraid of a ghost."
"It's okay, Ah Fang. If you're afraid, just watch the sisters play nearby. We won't laugh at you."
"Who cares?"
So Xia Yuan put the coins in one after another, and picked up the gun together with Lin Youxi, while Mei Fang watched from the side.
This game is a classic light gun game. Although it does not have a complicated gun system, the shooting feel and the overall plot performance are well done, and you really have to load the gun every time you change the magazine.
In addition, the zombies in the game that open the door and kill are particularly terrifying. Xia Yuan, who was experiencing it for the first time, was always scared and screaming by the sudden appearance of zombies during the game. Three of his lives died before he even finished the first chapter.
"Wow... I'm so green. I'm sorry, Youxi."
"It's okay, it's okay. Yuanyuan, you're already very good."
"But you're much better than me!"
"I...I also play similar games on the computer more often, haha."
Although it was the first time for Lin Youxi to play a light gun game, her shooting feel was quite good. She was seen staring at the game screen intently, with an attitude of "kill one if one comes, kill two if two, and kill a pair if two."
"Come on... Ah Fang, it's your turn this time. Let me see if you're scared or not."
"Just come."
I have to say sorry here, Yuanyuan!
The person standing in front of you is the first player to reach Baimei County in "House of the Dead 3" in your previous life, and the record holder for the least amount of coins spent!
As an all-round game planner, Mei Fang's gaming experience and technical level in his previous life were among the best in the county. Sitting in the arcade, he was the boss admired by other children.
The biggest enemy that prevented Mei Fang from continuing to complete the game back then was English. But now that he has attended university, Mei Fang has no problem reading English, and there is not much trial and error required when playing the game. He has been guiding Lin Youxi in the operations.
"Youxi, when there is a rescue, you have to hit the enemy marked with danger, so that we can both get an extra drop of blood after the crisis is resolved; just aim at the head of the security boss. After the plot is over, you must aim at the head. If we don't hit the weakness in these few cut-scene animations, we will both lose blood!"
After all, it was a new game, and the two people's operation was quite exciting. The exciting battle between Mei Fang and Lin Youxi quickly attracted many children to stop and watch.
Now these two older kids seem to have become legends in this small county. Their tricks will be passed on by word of mouth among the audience children and become urban legends in the arcade.
"Ah, I'm out of coins."
"I made it to chapter 3 on my first playthrough, so that's about it."
Mei Fang and Lin Youxi decided to stop in front of the BOSS in the third chapter and no longer renew the coins.
If you want to complete a level in an arcade with one life, you still have to spend countless coins to practice memorizing the moves.
After all, unscrupulous merchants will often set the game difficulty to a higher level when setting it up, forcing all players to exit the game or refill their coins at the speed of light. However, it is generally not set to the highest level, because after all, they have to give players a false hope that they can complete the game in one life. Otherwise, if they are nicknamed a coin-eating machine, that would be the end of their life.
In addition, this type of shooting game requires you to hold the gun all the time and reload and change bullets from time to time, which is very tiring to operate.
Mei Fang and Lin Youxi finished the game. Xia Yuan, who was standing by, immediately took Mei Fang's arm excitedly and said, "Fang, your hand speed is really fast! You are worthy of being someone who plays games at home every day. You are different after practicing."
"What do you mean by fast hand speed? That's because you have good technique."
"Don't they all mean the same thing?"
Xia Yuan scratched his head in confusion, and then his eyes were attracted by the cabinet machine filled with a wide variety of goods next to the optical gun machine.
"Fang, there's a new claw machine over there! Let's go grab the dolls over there!"
Chapter 051 My heart is really tired
"Do we really have to play this? How many coins do we have left?"
"There are more than 20 of them here. Fang, you are so good at playing games, so you must be good at catching dolls too, right?"
"Well...that..."
Mei Fang seemed very guilty at this moment.
I’m good at playing games, but I only have theoretical knowledge about catching dolls and no practical experience!
Who played claw machine with me in my previous life?
There is no sister or childhood sweetheart either. Could it be Zhang Ming who went to Wuconan?
"I'll give it a try. Don't blame me if I can't catch it."
"Then come with me, I want you to help me catch this!" Xia Yuan pointed at the cat in the cupboard.
Fortunately, Mei Fang had read a lot of online articles and animations before, and learned a lot of strategies from them, some of which were not sure whether they were useful or not.
For example, the claw machine has to be tightened nine times and loosened once, and you need to shake the claw to make it stable, and you need to hook the tag of the doll, and determine the direction of hooking the doll according to the center of gravity.
Mei Fang used half of the coins he had left, but didn't catch any dolls.
"Hey, Ah Fang is really useless. I'd better do it myself. I can't count on you."
Xia Yuan wiped his nose and started to put coins in while muttering to himself.
I deliberately gave Ah Fang a chance to perform, but it turned out to be so useless...
Shooting may not be my strong point, but catching dolls...
I have been catching him since he was a child!
Xia Yuan often plays the game of catching dolls with her father, and her skills in catching dolls always make other children envious.
"Caught!" Xia Yuan watched the doll being hooked up with great joy.
"How did I slide down!" Xia Yuan looked like he was crying.
In fact, Xia Yuan had no idea that in order to make his daughter happy, Xia Yuan's father often gave money to the owner of the claw machine store, asking him to secretly help adjust the difficulty so that Xia Yuan could also experience the joy of catching dolls herself.
After repeating this three times, Xia Yuan only had two coins left for the last game.
"In the end, you're still just as useless." Mei Fang seized the opportunity to mock.
"It's too cold today. My hands are shaking and I'm not feeling well!"
Xia Yuan rolled his eyes at Mei Fang in annoyance, looked at the only two coins left in his hand, and then went to call Lin Youxi who was watching others racing nearby.
"Yes, come and try it too!"
Lin Youxi also nodded, "I don't know how to catch this either, can I just try it?"