tkworld #295 - The whole game is full of Happy Valley effect (2 in 1 order required)
#295 - The whole game is full of Happy Valley effect (2 in 1 order required)
After calming down a bit, Chun Hei began to analyze the situation:
"That tall woman is watching me outside, and the security cameras on the 3rd and 6th floors are out of order.
The 6th floor is where they escaped from, and the 3rd floor is where that mature woman in black stockings was murdered.
That means I need to figure out how to safely reach the elevator and get to the 6th floor."
Chun Hei turned off the monitor and slowly controlled his VR perspective, turning around.
The chat was filled with anxious messages:
"Where's Gaoneng-jun? Gaoneng-jun, save him!"
Chun Hei finally mustered the courage to push open the door and cautiously approached the entrance of the monitoring room, finding that the disheveled woman had already left.
He continued to walk forward cautiously.
Then, he found a pool of blood on the ground.
The ancient door he had seen at the end of the corridor was gone, but there was a bloody footprint leading out from where it had been.
After being frightened so many times, Chun Hei had stopped thinking and began to mechanically continue his work.
Chat:
"Seriously, shouldn't he call the police after so many supernatural events?"
"Hahaha, the streamer is such a dedicated security guard."
After finally finishing all the work on the 5th floor, Chun Hei mustered the courage to continue going up.
After all, having a job that can support a family is very important.
After entering the elevator, Chun Hei realized:
"Wait! Could the next floor be the one where the incident in the surveillance video happened?"
Sure enough, when he arrived on the sixth floor, the elevator opened to a surprise:
A cleaning lady was constantly wiping the bloodstains on the floor.
The bloodstains on the floor were quite exaggerated, even forming a spray pattern.
It seemed that this was the scene of the short-haired girl's murder in the surveillance video.
Moreover, the jazz-style加班小曲 suddenly and abruptly started playing again.
The chat was also stunned: "Damn, Taoyuan Township is creating a full-blown horror atmosphere."
Chun Hei swallowed and made eye contact with the cleaning lady for a moment, then tiptoed around her, saying:
"Auntie, are you busy? Then... you go ahead."
Chun Hei arrived at the room where the mature woman in black stockings and the short-haired girl had been in the previous surveillance video.
At this time, the tables and furniture in the room were scattered in a mess.
After he checked the alarm in the room, the music stopped abruptly.
Chun Hei returned to the corridor, chatting with the cleaning lady:
"You're still busy, but the company has regulations that prohibit working after 0:00."
Clatter...
The cleaning lady suddenly threw down the mop in her hand, turned around, and stared at Chun Hei with a drooping face.
"You can if you want to," Chun Hei said, instantly changing his tune in fright.
Chat:
"Hahahahaha, the streamer immediately cowers."
"I'm dying of laughter."
Under the gaze of the cleaning lady, Chun Hei closed all the doors on this floor.
The cleaning lady's eyes were bottomless, like a deep pool, making one's hair stand on end.
"Ahem, well... I'm done with work, I'll go first," Chun Hei said to the cleaning lady, muttering, "Don't suddenly run over here," as he closed the elevator door.
The elevator continued to go up, and he wondered:
"The company's surveillance only has six floors in total, so what's this seventh floor?"
The moment the elevator door opened, Chun Hei suffocated on the spot.
The seventh floor continued the style of the old state-owned factory dormitory building from the 1980s, but it was even more mottled and dilapidated.
The music also became more eerie and terrifying.
Chun Hei was stunned in front of the elevator for a while before mustering the courage to take a step.
"Before the countdown ends, let's finish the work and go home quickly."
After entering the corridor, he turned around to check the buttons next to the elevator, and the button to the next floor was missing.
The game popped up a prompt:
[Find a way to find the missing elevator button and restart the elevator]
He began to enter one mottled and dilapidated room after another.
In one of the rooms, he found scaffolding that he could climb to enter the hollow in the ceiling.
Sure enough, he successfully found one of the missing buttons on the scaffolding.
"This floor looks pretty simple."
He continued to walk forward, and suddenly, a doll appeared at the door.
This was a life-size human statue, standing quietly by the door, its eyes were hollow, without pupils, only a kind of deep darkness.
The statue's face was neither a simple smile nor a sad face, but a strange face containing thousands of emotions.
The doll was wearing old clothes, the fabric was already yellowed, and there was no breath of life at all. In the statue's hand, it held a small, seemingly rusty dagger, which made people feel a chill.
The ceramic texture of the doll looked like it had been washed by the long years, mixed with some dust. Its mouth was slightly open, as if silently telling something.
Chun Hei stood in front of the statue, feeling a sense of oppression for no reason, and couldn't help but take a few steps back.
The live broadcast chat complained:
"It's over, he's experiencing the uncanny valley effect."
"Yeah, I'm experiencing the happy valley effect too."
"I'm experiencing the happy bean effect too."
After that, Chun Hei also saw an old doll on the scaffolding.
"It's okay, it's okay, these dolls are just dummies, they're not scary."
After climbing onto the scaffolding, he found another elevator button part.
Just as he was about to turn around and climb down,
Suddenly!
The head of the doll below the scaffolding looked up at Chun Hei, scaring Chun Hei a lot.
"Ahhhhh!"
Many chatters were also startled:
"Damn, the doll moved??????"
"Oh my god, you scared me to death."
After he climbed down, he turned his head and saw that the doll's head was down again.
When he went to the next room, there was a sound from the ceiling again.
It seemed that someone was walking on it.
On the ceiling, Chun Hei saw the third doll and collected the third elevator part.
"Who brought these dolls here? What kind of business is this company doing?
...No, I can't look at it any longer."
Chun Hei came to the location of the last scaffolding and took off the last elevator part button.
Just then, someone in the chat reminded:
"Hiss, streamer, I seem to see a pair of small white feet between the shadows on the roof."
"You're lying, right? Don't tease me, I won't look at it even if you beat me to death."
Chun Hei took a deep breath and continued to explore forward.
On the ground of this floor, he seemed to see scattered police tape, as if this was the scene of a murder.
This doesn't seem to be the original company anymore, it's like coming to another world.
After hitting the four buttons he found on the elevator wall, the elevator came back to life.
He just breathed a sigh of relief,
Suddenly, there was a tooth-aching sound of wood creaking and rubbing against the floor behind him.
Turning around—
The dolls in the room were all standing behind Chun Hei!
The sudden appearance of these dolls made everyone's hearts skip a beat.
In order to avoid a jump scare, Chun Hei stared at them intently while retreating into the elevator.
In the elevator car, he continued to press the button for the 8th floor.
At the moment when the elevator door closed, suddenly, the doll doors began to rush towards the elevator!
The head of one doll had already stretched into the elevator, staring at Chun Hei, as if looking at prey.
Chun Hei waved his VR sensing gloves, picked up the flashlight, and slammed it on the doll's head with a clang.
The doll then exited the elevator.
The chat screen was filled with:
"You scared me to death ah ah ah ah ah ah."
"Oh my god, you scared me to death."
"I shuddered in fright."
After arriving on the 8th floor, Chun Hei stayed in place for a while before having the courage to step out of the elevator.
It seems that 8F is a little more normal, but the floor here is still very old, with rust and water stains everywhere.
Continuing to walk forward, suddenly, a can rolled out on the floor ahead.
At the corner, there was also a tooth-aching creaking sound, and the door of the emergency passage at the corner was closed.
Chun Hei complained:
"Damn, Taoyuan Township, when making this game, it may not always scare you, but in this environment, you will scare yourself, which is the most terrifying thing."
Chat:
"Indeed, the closed environment can bring the most terror."
"But this is also the charm of horror games, isn't it."
"Moreover, the company building at 12 o'clock at night is too imaginative for office workers."
Chun Hei began to patrol this floor according to the task prompt.
To embolden himself, he muttered:
"The only thing that can make people feel at ease in this building is that nothing has ever happened in the toilet, except for the person who appeared on two floors at the same time."
As Chun Hei said this, he just entered the toilet, and suddenly, a woman's crying came from the cubicle.
Chat: "Hahahaha, streamer, let you set a FLAG randomly."
The woman cried:
"It's not my fault that I can't do anything, it's all the fault of 'that guy' who died, 'that guy' killed everyone.
I didn't do anything bad, it's all 'that guy's' fault."
As soon as the woman's crying stopped, suddenly, all the lights in the cubicle went out.
Then, the door of the cubicle made a loud bang.
Chun Hei first turned off the lights, and then closed the door of the cubicle again.
Chat: "Even like this, he still has to continue working, the streamer is so dedicated."
...
Chun Hei continued to the ninth floor.
On the elevator, he kept comforting himself: "The ninth floor may be the road to light."
Then, he entered an increasingly dark and dirty floor.
Chat:
"Hahahahaha, does this game have telepathy?"
"《Guangming》"
Chun Hei coughed:
"Friends, at least there are lights here, I don't have high requirements for light now, just having lights is enough, having lights means safety."
As he said this, he opened the door of the conference room on this floor. The moment he opened the door, the office chairs in the room were constantly rotating, which startled him again.
He tried to approach the rotating chair, and suddenly, a woman's strange laughter came from the air.
Chun Hei turned his head and left: "You can play as you like, go home early after playing, I'll go first."
The chat screen was filled with:
"Hahahahahaha, I'm dying of laughter."
"Has the streamer started to numb himself?"
"This is called self-adaptation."
As soon as he closed the door, the sound of metal dragging came again nearby.
Chun Hei: "This B sound hasn't stopped since the first floor, I'm going to check to see what's going on!"
In the computer equipment-filled work room on this floor, Chun Hei found a man lying on the ground head down.
At first, he thought the other party had hung up. After patting the other party, he found that the other party was still alive and got up.
That was a man of about fifty years old:
"Huh?"
Chun Hei: "You should get off work."
Man: "Wow, I actually fell asleep, it's already this time..."
Chat complained: "Good guy, did he just pass out while working? Does it have to be so hard."
The man continued to complain to Chun Hei:
"You, what have you been doing since just now, coming here again and again.
You're here every time I wake up.
Have you been staying here all the time?
Oh well. By the way, have you seen my boss?
Has he gone back yet?
That bastard who likes to abuse his power, he also said that he wouldn't leave until everyone else had gone back.
Anyway, I'm going back too."
Chun Hei was stunned: "Isn't this the first time I've come to this floor? Why would he say 'You're here every time I wake up'?"
Chat continued to analyze:
"Moreover, he just said the word 'abuse of power', I feel like I heard this word in the previous video, but I don't know who the object of harassment is..."
Chun Hei had to temporarily put this mystery down and continue to lock the doors one by one.
After patrolling all the rooms, when he went out, he found that the elevator on this floor was broken again, so he could only take the emergency exit.
As soon as he entered the door of the emergency exit, Chun Hei found that the door of the emergency exit was locked.
The game popped up a prompt: [Please find a way to find the key to the emergency exit nearby]
Based on his game experience, he found a corner fork next to him, which was winding like a corridor and getting darker and darker.
The chat began to scare the streamer: "As we all know, there are stories in dark places..."
As Chun Hei continued to walk forward, suddenly, a ticking sound similar to a timer sounded around him.
Tick... tick... tick...
Following the sound, he pressed all the alarm buttons in turn, and found the emergency exit key in front of the last alarm.
Then, just as the streamer turned his head, the background music began to become eerie and terrifying.
Chun Hei couldn't help but complain:
"It's too dark, it's too dark, this darkness can't even be illuminated by a flashlight, I can only barely see the road ahead."
On the way back, Chun Hei encountered the disheveled, white-skinned woman in red again.
At this moment, the woman's eyes were bloodshot, staring straight at Chun Hei, dragging an object resembling a metal spear in her hand. Upon closer inspection, it turned out to be the pendulum taken from an old grandfather clock.
The sharp end of the pendulum still had traces of blood, a testament to someone who had fallen victim to her hands.
“Aaaaaaaah!”
This time, even the viewers in the live stream were frightened and frantically spammed the screen.
Immediately afterward, the game entered a tense and exciting chase.
Chun Hei, holding a flashlight, rushed left and right in the forked paths, running wildly, while the woman in red dragged the metal spear, chasing relentlessly behind him.
Her screams echoed throughout the winding maze corridors. The background music became even more eerie and tense.
Hearing the metallic sound of the woman dragging the pendulum, Chun Hei suddenly realized:
“That's the sound!
Case closed, brothers!”
“Hehehehehe…”
A chilling laugh echoed from behind.
Relying on his memory of the game, Chun Hei constantly navigated through various forks in the road, but the woman in red seemed to sense his location, following closely in the darkness.
In the barrage of comments, the audience's appetite was also whetted:
“Holy crap, how is this woman so fast? Streamer, be careful!”
“Please don't die, streamer. This terrifying atmosphere is too real.”
“Feels like she's about to catch up, so exciting!”
Chun Hei kept turning and traversing, while constantly staying vigilant.
Suddenly, the walls of the maze began to emit a low hum, and the structure seemed to change. Chun Hei's heart tightened, and he could only rely on his intuition to continue forward.
“This game is too tricky, changing the maze structure?”
“Streamer, hang in there, get away!”
The lights inside the maze flickered on and off, casting eerie shadows. Chun Hei watched as the woman in red gradually approached, his heart pounding like a drum, but he couldn't stop.
The forked paths intersected, and the maze became increasingly complex. The figure of the woman in red appeared and disappeared, sending chills down his spine.
Finally, Chun Hei reached the end of the forked paths, with the lobby where the elevator was located not far ahead.
However, the woman in red had already arrived there ahead of him, blocking his path.
With no more forks in the road, Chun Hei knew he had to make a decision here.
The viewers in the barrage enthusiastically spammed:
“We believe in you, streamer!”
“Duel time!”
Chun Hei took a deep breath, raised his hand and looked at his watch, which showed he suddenly accelerated and charged towards the woman in red.
The woman in red didn't show any weakness, waving the pendulum in her hand, emitting a sharp bell sound. The two rapidly closed the distance in the lobby.
Suddenly, Chun Hei made a nimble sidestep past the woman in red, quickly circling behind her. The woman in red's pendulum swung through the air, but failed to hit Chun Hei.
Taking advantage of this momentary opportunity, Chun Hei rushed towards the lobby exit at full speed.
The woman in red also reacted, roaring and quickly chasing after him.
At the last moment, Chun Hei arrived at the emergency exit door, took out the key and started to open it.
The barrage was extremely nervous: “Hurry hurry hurry, she's catching up, ahhhh!”
Chun Hei made his hand, wearing the VR glove, stop shaking, calmly inserted the key and started turning it.
The instant the emergency door opened, the woman in red pounced from behind!