Tag: Shooter

Xia Kong wanted to break through.

She stood in front of the entrance of “Confession Abyss”, looking at the ruins that seemed to be swallowed by the tide, and suddenly felt like crying. But she didn’t cry, she just put on her headphones again, adjusted her sitting posture, and started another battle.

This game called “Mingchao” is her second life after get off work. Reality is too tiring. The new colleague in the unit flatters her every day, and then tells the boss behind her back that she is late, the electric car was stolen, and the rent has increased by three hundred. She hasn’t eaten fruit for a long time.

So she wants to have Xia Kong, that character. The one who can fly, wears a flowing skirt, and always seems to have light in his eyes.

But reality is unreasonable, and games are even more unreasonable.

“Want to break through? Let’s get a few dozen Tidal Sail Cores first.”

Low frequency is easy to get, mid frequency can be obtained by brushing a few times, high frequency starts to be annoying, full frequency… She remembered the first time she lost a full frequency sail core, her phone had 6% battery left, the fan was broken, and she was sweating and laughing like a madman on the bed.

She is not a madman, she just wants to be stronger.

She wants Xia Kong to be stronger, because it is like she has become stronger.

She checked the strategy guide and it said that 46 Burning Phosphorus Bones are needed. She can’t remember how many times she fought the “Sighing Snake”, but she only remembers that her index finger joint is a little red and swollen, and even the cat at home is too lazy to pay attention to her.

Two at a time, sometimes one. Once she lost three, she was so excited that she almost wanted to jump up, but the reality was that her mother was calling her to wash the dishes in the living room.

She gritted her teeth and went to wash the dishes, thinking while washing, “Just brush it a dozen more times and it will be fine.”

She never spends money in the game. It’s not that she doesn’t want to, but she has no way. There were still 732 yuan left in her bank card, and she had to hold on until she got paid. She calculated that she could barely hold on by eating instant noodles, two meals a day, and a piece of bread in the morning.

She tried to find the cheapest place to buy “Golden Fleece”, and then saw someone in the group recommend Treabar, saying that it had many discounts and was stable. But she didn’t dare to try it. She heard that there were scammers.

She was cheated once in real life and never dared to gamble again.

Every time she saw Xia Kong was just a little bit away from breaking through, she felt like someone hit her heart with a hammer, not heavy, but very dull.

Later, she saved up enough shells, a full three million, which was as difficult as saving three million in cash. She cleared it out and didn’t plan to touch any other characters, even the protagonist.

She also cooked. Not in reality, but in the cooking system in the game. She made “stuffed meat tofu” to increase the drop efficiency. She thought it was funny that a girl who couldn’t even afford to eat her own dinner became a cooking god in the game.

That false sense of satisfaction helped her survive many nights in reality.

She once teamed up with a stranger named “Withered Star”. The other party was a krypton man, with full life and full expertise, and skill points added without leaking a single drop. The other party said something that she always remembered:

“For a character like Xia Kong, don’t even think about perfect development if you don’t krypton a few thousand.”

She didn’t say anything and continued to kill monsters.

Sometimes she would imagine what Xia Kong would become if he really broke through? Would it be like the cartoons she watched when she was a child, where suddenly everything went smoothly and even reality would become better?

But in fact, she also knew that it wouldn’t.

The game will not change reality. No matter how strong the character is, it is not her. Her life remains unchanged, her colleagues still say bad things about her behind her back, the landlord still wants to raise the rent, and the mineral water in the convenience store is still rising in price.

She just hid these emotions in the drop of materials.

She would cry when she couldn’t get it, and she would also cry when it dropped twice as much.

She cried, not because Xia Kong didn’t break through, but because she realized that she was just using a virtual character to replace her struggling self in this world.

At the moment when Xia Kong broke through, she took a screenshot and posted it in a QQ group with only seven people. No one replied. She deleted the picture again.

She watched Xia Kong in the game dancing gently in the night sky, with calm and firm eyes, her hair blown by the wind, and her clothes rolling like waves.

She suddenly felt a little sleepy, and the sound of the sea tide came from her headphones.

She fell asleep, and the sky in reality began to brighten.