Wasteland Love Game

Chapter 430 World Line Twelve "True Ending": ([-]) Postscript

In 2085, a city in the south of the Yangtze River in the Yanhuang Kingdom
A plainly dressed man in his early 30s appeared on a busy commercial street.

He doesn't seem to have any special goals, just hanging out here, or waiting for something.

Just as he was walking past a clothing store, he suddenly saw a relatively wide alley extending out from the side of the street.

For some reason, he suddenly wanted to walk into that alley and take a look.

The man walked into the alley, but found that there was a small Internet cafe in the alley.

Looking at the signboard of the Internet cafe, the man only felt a little familiar.

So driven by curiosity, the man pushed open the door of the Internet cafe and walked in.

The interior of the Internet cafe is relatively old, and there are several guests surfing the Internet, but overall it is still relatively deserted.

"Big brother, do you want to surf the Internet?" The owner of the Internet cafe, a middle-aged uncle, came to greet him warmly.

"I'm just passing by, come in and have a look." The man scratched his head and apologized to the boss.

At this moment, the man suddenly pointed at the owner of the Internet cafe in surprise, and shouted: "Eh? Aren't you the uncle who opened the Internet cafe in my hometown before? Why did you come here?"

"You are." The Internet cafe owner pinched his chin and thought for a while before asking.

"I'm Chen Entropy!" the man said, "I used to go to your internet cafe to play games when I was young, have you forgotten?"

"Oh oh oh! It's Chen Shuo!" The owner of the Internet cafe suddenly realized, and then showed a happy expression:
"I didn't expect to meet you here. I asked my wife to make you a cup of tea. Let's go into the room and chat slowly!"

Chen Shuo and the Internet cafe owner found a sofa and sat down, and the two chatted like that.

According to the owner of the Internet cafe, the reason why he moved the Internet cafe to this city is simply because the population loss in that small town was too serious in the past, resulting in fewer young people who love the Internet.

Seeing that the Internet cafe was getting deserted, until finally there were no more customers, the owner of the Internet cafe simply decided to reopen the store in a lively place.Although the rent and consumption in big cities are very high, the owner of the Internet cafe does not seem to be short of money. He just wants to open an Internet cafe and find something to do.

"What about you, Xiao Chen?" the Internet cafe owner asked, "Did you play games later?"

"I opened a new game studio a few years ago." Chen Shuo raised his legs and said proudly:

"Although I didn't make a lot of money, there are several good games with good reviews, and they will become bigger and bigger in the future."

"And what about Li Shiqi? How is that little girl doing now?" The Internet cafe owner asked curiously again.

"It's good~ She's a doctoral student, and her education alone can hang us for a few blocks~" Chen Shuo smiled lightly:

"Now she has set up a laboratory by herself, and has hired a few researchers to work for her. I don't know what she is researching every day, but it should be something very powerful~"

"It's good, it's all good news~" The owner of the Internet cafe nodded with satisfaction: "Have you settled in this city now?"

"That's not true. I'm just here to travel and conduct market research." Chen Entropy took out his mobile phone from his pocket and opened a promotional poster to show him.

The owner of the Internet cafe leaned in and looked at the poster in Chen Entropy's phone.

This is a promotional poster for a circus performance.The poster features silhouettes of four people, two men and two women, who should be the four main members of the circus.The background behind the four of them is a thrilling nuclear explosion mushroom cloud.

"Tonight, the 'Wasteland Circus' will be performing at a nearby theater, and I'm going to take my friends to see it. "Chen Entropy explained:

"This circus was my favorite when I was a child. I didn't expect to see their performances after so many years."

"Is that so?" The Internet cafe owner nodded thoughtfully, but suddenly changed the subject:

"Speaking of which, Xiao Chen, you are also quite old, are you married?"

"I'm not married, but I have a lot of good old friends~" Chen Shuo thought about it, and answered easily:

"My current situation is more complicated, and I should not consider marriage for the time being."

"It's okay~ You are still young and have a lot of time to arrange your life." The Internet cafe owner comforted:
"Love is a cunning thing. Sometimes the more you reach for it, the more it likes to tease you within an inch of your finger, like a sly fox. But when you calm down and think, look back When you look at it, you will find that love may have been silently following behind you, like a shy little girl who doesn't like to talk, and has been ignored by you."

"The boss is from here." Chen Shuo leaned on the back of the chair and sighed up to the sky:

"But my situation should be different from what you think."

"Cut~ young people, don't think too much about things, just rush forward with your head down~" The owner of the Internet cafe laughed, not ready to ask any more questions.

"There are still three hours before the circus performance starts, do we want to play a few games?" Chen Shuo suddenly stood up from the sofa and proposed.

"Okay, what do you want to play?" The Internet cafe owner scratched his head and sighed:

"The games are getting more and more fancy now. Two years ago, there were guys who came to my Internet cafe to ask if there was a "virtual diving game machine" in my Internet cafe. I had never heard of it. "

"Just play "StarCraft"!" Chen Entropy suggested:

"The last time we played against each other was during the summer vacation when I graduated from high school. Let me see if the boss's skills have regressed?"

"Haha, this game has been out of date for decades, and you still want to play it." The Internet cafe owner smiled helplessly, but a gleam of light flashed in his eyes:
"Okay, let's play a few games with you. Don't cry if you've been abused by me~"

"Who is the one who abuses it?" Chen Shuo found a computer with high fighting spirit, and became familiar with keyboard operations.

Since junior high school, Chen Entropy often went to Internet cafes to play games after school.The Internet cafe owner is a game master, so he taught him a lot of high-end game operations and knowledge.

It's a pity that Honkai Core once sealed all his memories related to Li Shihe, including some memories of his childhood in Internet cafes, and even memories of the Internet cafe owner teaching him to play games.

This is why when he spent his last reincarnation in Yeshu City, he mistakenly thought that he was just a rookie in the game.When he played "StarCraft" with Black Callis, he also repeatedly stressed that he couldn't play at all.

After the collapse of the core, Chen Entropy recalled the game skills and experience taught by the owner of the Internet cafe, and he changed back to the former game master.

So his hands were itchy, and he ran to find Black Callis for a few more rounds.

The result was unexpected, Chen Entropy almost overwhelmingly defeated Heikalis, and almost made her cry.After all, this lady hacker became a human after she came to this world, and the information processing speed of her brain is simply not as fast as her previous AI form.

Today, Chen Shuo met the owner of the Internet cafe who taught him to play games before, and naturally aroused the enthusiasm of his childhood and wanted to compete with him.

The two sat in front of the computer and played five games in a row.

Although Chen Entropy only won one game in the end, he didn't lose the other four games too badly, and the two could be said to be inseparable.

"Yes, your technology hasn't deteriorated much~" The owner of the Internet cafe looked at the words "Defeat" on Chen Entropy's computer screen, and patted Chen Entropy's shoulder with a smile:

"But it's still a lot worse than me."

"No way, you are my master after all~" Chen Entropy was also very open-minded and didn't care about winning or losing.

Just as the two were chatting happily, a beautiful woman with long red hair ran to the owner of the Internet cafe and took out a writing board to write a few lines for him to read.

"My wife said that someone is looking for you outside the door." The Internet cafe owner looked at the writing board in the hand of the beautiful red-haired woman and said to Chen Shuo:
"That person seems very angry, you'd better get out quickly."

Chen Shuo looked at his watch, and suddenly jumped up from the sofa in surprise: "There's less than half an hour left for the circus performance, I'm about to leave!"

Immediately afterwards, Chen Shuo looked at the beautiful red-haired woman next to the owner of the Internet cafe, and asked, "Your wife still likes to communicate with you on a writing board~"

"You also know that she is too introverted and doesn't like to talk much." The owner of the Internet cafe put his arms around the shoulders of the beautiful red-haired woman and showed a happy smile:
"But if a rotten person like me can find such a beautiful and obedient wife, I don't expect anything else."

The beautiful red-haired woman looked at Chen Entropy, then smiled, and wrote a line on the board to Chen Entropy:
"Goodbye, come and see more when you have time."

"Okay, I have a chance to see you again~" Chen Shuo said goodbye to the boss and his wife and hurriedly left the Internet cafe.

After walking out of the Internet cafe, Chen Shuo found a slender beauty with Ji hair style waiting for him at the door.

The beauty wore a neutral, trendy casual outfit with a delicate hairpin in her hair.Her body exudes an elegant temperament like a flower of high mountains, very much like a young lady who ran away from a certain big family.

Seeing Chen Shuo come out, the beauty of Ji Fa style immediately put her hands on her hips and said reproachfully:

"Entropy-Jun, everyone is looking for you! How did you come here?"

"Sorry, little Chiyo~" Chen Shuo hugged the beauty affectionately, and his tone softened a bit:
"I met an acquaintance just now, and I accidentally forgot the time."

"I really can't stand you, I always like to do some inexplicable things." Chiyo sighed helplessly, and twisted Chen Entropy's ear symbolically:

"Next time you play disappearing for no apparent reason, be careful I'll cut your ears off!"

"Then you have to have this strength too~" Chen Shuo couldn't help laughing.

The two left the alley, and then ran all the way to the circus performance venue, which barely caught up with the time.

At the entrance of the venue, the audience who came to enjoy the performance were basically all seated.And a small group of spectators stood at the wicket, as if waiting for someone to come.

"Yeah, I'm sorry, everyone!" Chen Shuo walked towards the group of people and waved hello, "I didn't make you wait for a long time, did you?"

"Before my brother disappears next time, can you give me the specific address and make sure the phone is open?" Nayuta, the big girl wearing a floral dress, puffed out her cheeks and scolded like an old mother: "A brother like you let me I'm so worried!"

"I didn't expect you to go to such a strange place, Xiao Chen~" Black Kalis, who was wearing a non-mainstream attire, lifted her long brown hair and sighed:
"Fortunately, my mother has located your mobile phone, otherwise I really don't know where to find you."

"Hey, you obviously invited everyone to watch the circus performance, but you were almost late, and asked Miss Chiyo to pick you up." Formaline, who was dressed in British style, sighed, with a slightly sarcastic tone: "It's really unreliable, Chen Entropy"

"You've made the little detective angry again, Mr. Chen!" Professor Tussaud, dressed in a sassy dress, put his hands in his pockets, smiled and nodded to Chen Shuo: "As compensation, come to my room tonight and spend the night alone, I can teach you A little exciting gameplay~”

"Your intentions are too obvious, Miss Tussaud~" Alice, who was wearing a black and blue evening dress, casually complained to Professor Tussaud, and then said to Chen Shuo with a smile: "Although Alice can tolerate Daddy's All mistakes, but please follow Daddy's concept of time~ After all, Alice left the company and business alone, and came to watch the circus with Daddy~"

"I also put down my work in the research institute and come out to play with Brother Chen~" Li Shihe, who was wearing a white coat and a solid-colored sweater, smiled kindly at Chen Entropy, but his tone was somewhat didactic:

"If you are one minute late, all of us will wait for you one more minute. You must always keep this in mind~"

"Well~ Anyway, the planning arrived in time." The white fox, wearing a black leather jacket and black skinny jeans, intervened in the topic, trying to strike a balance:

"Don't complain about the planning, let's go in quickly!"

"Agree~ If you have anything to do, just wait until after the performance~" The girl wearing a star-colored long skirt raised her hands in approval: "Chen Shuo always said that this circus is great, so I can't wait!"

With that said, everyone prepared to enter the theater with Chen Entropy.

But at this moment, a blond and beautiful woman in a lady's suit took the lead in holding Chen Entropy's arm, as if to seize the opportunity.

"Chen Entropy, let's go~" Xu Qing clasped Chen Entropy's fingers with one hand, while the other hand gently picked up the golden hair by his ear, and his body leaned on Chen Entropy's body at an extremely elegant angle:

"Let me sit next to you when I watch the show later~"

"Hey hey hey! Don't secretly occupy Chen Entropy!" Professor Tussaud shouted to Xu Qing in dissatisfaction: "The little detective is about to cry when he sees you taking the lead like this!"

"Hey! I'm not crying, don't talk nonsense." Formaline couldn't help but want to refute.

"I want to compete with so many of you for the love of Chen Entropy, how can I not seize the opportunity~?" Xu Qing said naturally, with no guilt in her tone:
"Otherwise, we will divide Chen Entropy into five horses, so that everyone can share Chen Entropy fairly~"

"It's also good, kill him and turn his consciousness into an intelligent AI, so Chen Entropy is mine~" Hekalise echoed.

"I still hope to give him a sigh of relief~" Can Xin said with a smile.

"Hey, don't discuss this kind of topic so easily in front of me." Chen Shuo shook off Xu Qing's hand and tried to change the subject in fright:
"Don't chat here! The ticket check is almost over, hurry in!"

Chen Entropy shook off the crowd with a tingling scalp, and walked towards the ticket gate first.

——Will this performance be exciting enough?
——But with everyone’s company, even boring performances are worth talking about~
Chen Shuo thought about it, and couldn't help showing an expectant smile.

(End of this chapter)