Chapter 47 The Eternal Kingdom, Hallownest!

Games start.

 The dark background slowly rises with its shrouding fog. In the dark game interface, there are two options.

 Classic Mode/Soul of Steel

 “Soul of Steel? Unlocked by playing through the game for the first time?”

 “There is no resurrection, death is permanent.”

"This is not the same as the setting of Dead Cells. You can clear the level in one life. I am very familiar with this routine." Yinzi didn't care at all.

 Complete the level in one life? For Dead Cells players, this is too familiar!

From the moment you enter the game, the ancient and melodious background music begins to sound, and the quiet darkness is constantly accompanied by the howling of the wind.

　　【In the distant wilderness, when your name is mentioned, they are full of awe and regret.

 No one can tame our wild souls, and you accepted the challenge,

 Under the paleest gaze, you teach, we change, our instincts are redeemed.

 You have given bugs and beasts a world they never dreamed of. 】

 —From "Elegy of Hallownest" written by the teacher Monomon.

Fluorescent lights flashed under the street lights at the corner. The little knight walked out of the dust, carrying cracked bone nails on his back. He stood on the cliff where the cold wind was whistling, staring at the hazy city guided by the street lights in the fog.

 Without hesitation, jump down!

The picture turned pitch black. It took about two or three seconds before the color reappeared, as if it had passed through the boundless darkness.

 In the dark underground, there are scattered fluorescent lights that illuminate the underground world.

boom!

The little knight fell straight to the ground, making a heavy landing sound, bringing up falling rocks and flying countless underground flying insects.

“MD, this background music makes my skin crawl!” Brother Yin couldn’t help but turn up the volume. The ethereal background music seemed to contain eternal sadness.

“I saw someone ask me before how to evaluate whether a game is made with care.” Yinzi closed his eyes, feeling the music full of loneliness.

“Before, I would talk about the graphics, game plot, and playability... Now, I would talk about its background music.” The little knight in the picture is standing there without any movement.

"From the time the old thief made games to now, you will find that his game background music is very attentive." Yinzi said this, smiling a little, "I was tortured the most when digging for survival, but the long-winded narration in the background is also beautiful. I made a lot of mental recordings.”

“I’ve been looking forward to this game since the background music started playing.” He took a deep breath and moved his character forward.

 “No map?” Yinzi walked along the way and encountered several small reptiles on the way. It was easy to deal with them.

Those reptiles are very stupid. Every blow will knock them back, but after being knocked back, they will stubbornly crawl in the predetermined direction.

 In the dark underground, I wanted to see where I was going, but when I opened the map guide, I found darkness.

After he confirmed many times that there was indeed no map, the barrage was a little confused.

 ‘The old thief forgot to add the map? ’

How is it possible, how could a game producer make such a low-level mistake? ’

 ‘Just explore, you can always find the exit. ’

‘The map of Dead Cells is reorganized and it’s different every time. Isn’t that how everyone has played? ’

 …

 Perhaps because they were familiar with Ye Feng’s peeing, the players quickly accepted the setting without a map.

“I think everyone has been fooled by the old thief KFC. In the past, some designers dared not to put maps?”

“Then it hasn’t been destroyed by the players?” Yinzi used the faint fluorescent lights in the underground world to explore the other areas of the game bit by bit.

 During the game, he found that the game mechanism was very simple, probably because of the plane, and there were no complicated operations.

 At present, there are only simple attacks and jumping.

Even the attack is very simple. You only need to pick up the bone nail in your hand and make a gesture in front of you.

 This time, there is no blocking operation.

 “This is too simple, I’m telling the truth.” Brother Yin frowned, those reptiles were really too simple.

Occasionally I encounter two small flies flying in the sky, which are only worth two or three knives.

Except for the lack of a map, which made finding the way a little more complicated, he didn’t feel any difficulty.

 Hearing him complain, the barrage also became happy.

 ‘Old Thief: You said the game I made is very simple? (Dark and twisted scream!)’

 ‘Old thief: The fun is yet to come! ’

 ‘Stop it, the last time I was told something very simple by you, I was already tortured to the point of losing my mind. ’

  ‘(╥╯^╰╥)You can say it’s simple, but don’t say it’s simple right from the start. The handicapped party simply won’t be able to withstand it. ’

 …

 It didn’t take long to explore, and he finally found the way to Hallownest.

The door leading to Hallownest has beetle patterns. It is old and heavy, and the cracked gaps reveal white light coming from the outside.

Holding bone nails in his hand, he opened the door to Hallownest again and again.

Going through the gate, there is a cross-section road in front of you. There are ancient carvings on the railings on the roadside, and you can vaguely see the prosperity of the past.

 Below the cross section, there was a hazy gray-white mist, making it difficult to see the way forward.

It seems that when you walk through this place, you will enter the territory of the King and the Creator, where you will witness the last and only civilization, the eternal kingdom.

 Hallowest.

 The background music has disappeared, leaving only the whistling wind.

 Brother Yin jumped down from the cliff.

There are no more reptiles or monsters blocking the road ahead, only street lamps lighting up the way forward.

 After passing a dilapidated land, a declining town, Ditmouth, appeared ahead.

The quiet and melodious background music began to sound again, as if telling the history of this world silently.

 In the center of the town, there is a bench with a white soul.

Beside the bench, stood a hunched insect elder, and the doors of the insect caves behind him were closed.

"Hello, traveler. I'm afraid I'm the only one left to welcome you. You can also see that our town is very deserted now."

"Others, they have all disappeared. Go down this well and enter the caves below one by one." The insect elder told us sentence after sentence about the prosperity of this place and the wonder of the underground world.

 From his words we learn that there once was a great kingdom beneath the town.

It has been in ruins for a long time, but it still attracts insects to its depths.

There is wealth, glory, and enlightenment there, and the darkness in the depths seems to contain countless possibilities.

 Just there, there are crazy, disgusting creatures that have been deprived of their original memories.

“The well on the right, right?” Although there was no map, Yinzi also knew where to go next during the conversation with the NPC.

The deep well not far to the right is lit with a long bright lamp, leading to the bottom of the deep well.

 Compared with the world above, the world under the deep well is more exquisite and prosperous.

 This is called the crossroads of forgetfulness.

 Brother Yin is here and has been lost for an hour.

 (End of this chapter)