NOVPUBChapter 736 -416 Found It (First Update)_1
Chapter 736 -416 Found It (First Update)_1
Since the name of the protagonist in “The Legendary Adventure of Cheng Tianhua” is Cheng Tianhua, the event released by Qian Dadan was also named “Finding Cheng Tianhua.”
This was a treasure hunt initiated all over the world, yet this time, the treasure wasn’t an object but a series of clues related to Cheng Tianhua.
All the items in the game thus became vital clues for the treasure hunt. It wasn’t enough just to know the appearance of these items, but also necessary to understand how to obtain them, the related storylines, and to transform the highly magical plots back into real-world content, then to obtain actual clues from reality.
With a try-and-see attitude, players began their treasure hunts and actually acquired some useful clues.
[“I’ve roughly located the protagonist’s sailing address by correlating the game’s starting dock, the terrain, and the subsequent celestial arrangements. I’ve posted the address, so if someone is nearby, they might want to check it out, as it may yield some useful information.”]
[“Thanks a lot, brother from Geography Bar.”]
[“Huh? I’m a Level 15 user from Fishing Bar, not Geography Bar.”]
[“No wonder—I knew you guys were capable of anything, including the Air Force.”]
[“My house is nearby; I’ll go take a look.”]
[“I’m back. I compared the local scenery and found that although there have been many changes, numerous places are still exactly like the game. I even found an old newspaper article that recorded the news of a southbound shipwreck. From this, it appears that the incident really happened back then.”]
[“I went to have a look too, and I found a list of the shipwreck victims; Cheng Tianhua’s name was on that list.”]
[“Gosh, I thought this was all made up in the game. I never expected there really was such a person. So, the part where he survives the shipwreck and then ends up on Mermaid Island must be true too?”]
[“Personally, I believe there was a shipwreck, but the Mermaid Island could be fictitious. However, the place should exist, and we can make some guesses about its approximate location.”]
[“Isn’t it difficult to guess?”]
[“Actually, it’s quite easy. We can open an app called “Here Comes One Trillion,” then set the time to that recorded by the newspaper, and simulate the ocean currents of that period using a computer. We then send the boat out. Afterwards, we buy a hurricane here and destroy the ship, allowing us to estimate the protagonist’s final whereabouts.”]
[“Incredible! Such synergy really is enlightening.”]
Based on the gathered information, players began to reconstruct the scenario and continuously make revisions.
“There’s a fortune to be made in games,” became a playful saying among players. Gamers from various countries united and formed teams to embark on the treasure hunt.
They started simulating the events of the past, then fed the simulated scenarios back into the game, striving to recreate what the protagonist had done in reality and deduce his true experiences.
Consequently, the use of various items in the game couldn’t be taken for granted; they had to align with their real-world applications to best reconstruct the other’s life trajectory and uncover the protagonist’s true experiences and the places he had been.
This also meant that the game’s difficulty was skyrocketing, but this posed no problem for the many players who could beat the game with their eyes closed.
Moreover, the increased difficulty didn’t deter them—it filled them with excitement.
This was a grand puzzle-solving adventure, a game that had broken through the dimensional wall.
Although Xu, a student who wished to remain anonymous, once said, “Anyone seeking a sense of reality in a virtual world must be out of their mind,”
for the players, this innovative method of using the virtual world to deduce reality and then using reality to infer the game was extremely intriguing, sparking immense curiosity about the game’s backstory.
As more information accumulated, the story of Old Sir Cheng Tianhua gradually came to light.
In the game, his experiences were very magical.
But in reality, they were even more magical.
He had survived shipwrecks and plane crashes, fought wars against the remnants of empires, trekked across icy tundras with his comrades for eleven days, losing four toes to frostbite in the process.
He had sustained countless injuries and had been knocked unconscious by a hand grenade on the spot. When taken to the hospital, doctors thought he was beyond saving, but he miraculously recovered after lying there for more than ten days.
He had served as a soldier, fought in wars, and experienced ample pursuits across the vast sands.
In their quest to reconstruct the old gentleman’s story, players from around the world were actively engaged and continuously searching for traces of Old Sir Cheng Tianhua.
As his story was pieced together bit by bit, where Cheng Tianhua was no longer mattered—his story itself was the most captivating.
[“I thought the game’s storyline was already absurd, but who knew that in reality, his was even more so.”]
[“Yeah, if it weren’t for all the physical evidence, I would never believe any of this was real.”]
[“With a magnifying glass in hand, I’m worried about surviving on the ice plains, yet he dared to go alone—and actually survived.”]
[“Even the Grim Reaper would stand up and toast this old man, then candidly say, ‘This one, I’ll pass.'”]
[“Fang Cheng Studio is amazing, to have discovered this legendary old man, and to have adapted his story so entertainingly. This blending of fantasy with reality captivates me like nothing else.”]
