Interactive Fiction: The Right Choice After Unemployment

Chapter 11 Have you tried starting the game at the end?

Option 5.88 is 17.6%, option 52.9 is 23.5%, option [-] is [-]%, and option [-] is [-]%.

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【Option [-]】

[Go to the hotel where you stayed on the first day]

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"Ahh...it hurts so much...what is this...what's going on...?"

Zheng Zhuo dragged his injured hand and walked forward.Everything happened so suddenly, not to mention preparing, he didn't even fully react.

Now, there is no one left.Instead, a sense of unreality emerged in his heart.

Since entering that cave, I have been experiencing various things.Being attacked, attacking others, fainting, strange powers, other people attacking each other, various rules...

"Could this be another dream? Haha...a dream within a dream..."

The page is still open.The name of the software [Collective Subconscious] hangs brightly at the top.

"Subconsciousness? In the final analysis, what does this have to do with subconsciousness? Could it be that all of this is my hallucination? In the hallucination, only relying on subconsciousness to act..."

He walked back to the hotel he had found on arrival.The hotel door was closed.

Zheng Zhuo raised his hand and pushed the door open.There was a stabbing pain from the wound.

"If it's subconscious, don't be so painful... Isn't it... better...!"

Zheng Zhuo gritted his teeth hard.

The door opened.

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The lights were on in the hotel.Like the street, it is quiet here.

Zheng Zhuo subconsciously looked to the right.

The girl who always sat there was gone.

"(Sure enough...everyone is gone.)"

Zheng Zhuo stood at the entrance for a while.To his surprise, he felt his head clearer when he got back here.

He wasn't sure if it was because of what he had done to the wound, or if it was getting out of the tense situation.Or, it has to do with the situation where everyone disappears.

But he felt that when he was with the explorer or the thief—especially when he was in conflict or talking with them, there was an echo buzzing in his head, and his spirit was very weak.

"(No one in the kitchen...)"

He walked up and down, and used the key to open room 204 where he lived before.

When he entered Room 204, he noticed something he hadn't noticed before.

"(All the windows open on one side...and all can be sealed and locked.)"

here……

Excellent as a hideout.

"(Is it a coincidence? Or...)"

Zheng Zhuo pondered for a while, but decided to move first.

He bolted all the windows and locked the doors.

After finishing these things, he checked the voting page.

"The option this time... only said [go to the hotel where you stayed on the first day]."

Next, should we search for supplies?Change to another place?Or... rest?
"Vote...no."

Zheng Zhuo moved his injured arm.He thought, maybe he can only choose to rest first.

Zheng Zhuo sat down on the spot.

As he moved, a piece of paper floated out of his pocket.

"Ah... at this time."

This is a memo he wrote before leaving the day before yesterday.

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【Current question】

1. What does the increase of the progress bar mean?What does the decreasing progress bar mean?
2. What kind of information makes the progress bar increase the most?Is it possible to assume that there is currently a hidden truth, the closer to the truth, the greater the increase?
3. How does the clock at 12 o'clock in the morning determine the outcome?Do the rules for determining victory or defeat include elements of a personal injury nature, such as mutual attacks?
4. [Joker] Is it an illusion like the store manager's father and daughter?Or, like me, a conscious "living person"?
5. Besides me and [Joker] who hold [Explorer], are there any other identities?

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"Haha. After walking around, why do I feel that I don't understand more things."

Zheng Zhuo tried to pull out the pen.Fortunately, the pen still works.

He looked at it, wrote "increase = leave" on the first item, and ticked the second half of the second item.

The winner of the third article is "the person who knows the most truth".

Number four ticked "Illusions."

The fifth……

The fifth.

"...the thief said there were at least a dozen of them. He said heroes... what else is there, damn it..."

Zheng Zhuo pressed his forehead hard, trying to recall.

"Ah... no. In the end, those are all the thief's one-sided words. He ran away... or disappeared. Can I trust him? No, I should. He doesn't have to lie to me... he I don’t know how much I know. At least now, the more the truth is investigated, the more the progress bar will increase…”

correct.

progress bar.

Zheng Zhuo raised his head abruptly.He scrolls through the pages.

The progress bar is 31.2%.If I remember correctly, this value was displayed when he left the cave with the thief and returned to the town.

"I asked the thief so many questions. Didn't it go up at all?"

Zheng Zhuo rubbed his temples with the end of the pen.

"Only information related to 'truth' will make the progress bar go up?"

He began to randomly add everything he still had impressions on the paper with a pen.

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【About progress bar】

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6. Enter the mine. (progress bar grows about 29%).

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【Current situation】

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3. Zheng Zhuo: [Explorer]

4. Winner of the first night: 【Joker】

5. The winner of the second night: [Wise Man]

Out of the second night: [Love Seed] [Carer] [Creator]

6. Thief: [Orphan]

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“(…What does this mean? What does it mean…)”

Zheng Zhuo rested his head, thinking hard.

at this time.

Bang! ! !
The ground suddenly shook.Zheng Zhuo fell to the ground.

Flames, smoke, burnt smell.

"(What...what what!?)"

Zheng Zhuo lay on the ground.The strong impact made him unable to stand up.

"Earth...earthquake? Explosion? Attack?"

What happened! ?

The shaking lasted for a few minutes.Finally, it weakened a little.

Zheng Zhuo crawled towards the window with hands and feet, and opened the window that he had just fastened with his own hands, wanting to see clearly what happened.

Just as he pushed the window open a crack...

"—HELP, HELP, HELP—!!!!"

A shrill cry for help reached his ears.

That voice was somewhat familiar to him.

"!!!"

Zheng Zhuo leaned on the window and looked out through the gap.In the distance, thick black smoke covered the sky.On the empty street, a man stumbled and ran along the street.

It was the thief who disappeared after running out just now!At this moment, he was covered in blood, and he ran away desperately to this side——

—or rather, toward his own hiding place.While running, he shouted towards the hiding place.

"Help!!! Help!!!"

He thought he was still there?
Zheng Zhuo's heart moved.

However, the next thing he noticed was a man following the thief.

It was a man with a fat body.His body was also spattered with blood, and he was slowly approaching the thief with a gun in his hand.

"..."

Zheng Zhuo watched this scene.

The thief is still calling for help.

On Zheng Zhuo's left side, a faint light lit up.

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【problem】

[The person who invited to cooperate is being hunted down.Not sure if it's trustworthy.He is asking for your help, you want? 】

【Option [-]】

[Throwing items, attacking the pursuer. 】

【Option [-]】

[Make a noise to distract the pursuers. 】

【Option [-]】

[My own life is the most important thing.do nothing. 】

　After [Option 1], [Option 1] and [Option [-]], you can leave a message in the form of [this chapter says]. A message under [-] id counts as [-] vote.

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