Chapter 499: Chapter 303: Oh No, It’s All Mixed Up!

The game purchased for 198 yuan hasn’t been played for more than two hours before Liang Xuan ends up in jail for home invasion and theft. His plight can’t be called anything but tragic.

When he, filled with overwhelming frustration, posted screenshots of the game online to vehemently criticize "Abab’s True Story" in hopes of garnering sympathy from netizens, he was instead met with laughter from across the internet.

"Laughing my head off! Is this the first player in the whole internet to unlock the silver bracelet achievement?"

"RPG players are furious, how can there be a mechanism for players to get arrested? How can you happily loot NPCs now?"

"NPC: Listen to me, thank you, because of you, all four seasons are warm..."

"Any evil will eventually be brought to justice! I wasn’t interested in this game before, but now I must play it!"

The ridicule from all the netizens made Liang Xuan’s blood pressure soar.

He’s already so miserable, is there no one to comfort him a little? As a player who rampage freely in the game world, when had he ever suffered such grievances?

Pissed and shaking!

They’re merely NPCs; players grandly rummage through your house is giving you face, how could you resist and report it?

Can’t count on this generation of netizens.

"Abab’s True Story" is so realistic, and precisely because it’s realistic, Liang Xuan has no solution at all and can only honestly sit in the prison.

Escaping is impossible, three years is too long, so Liang Xuan simply deleted the save and started a new one, planning to "turn over a new leaf and start fresh".

Whether it’s extremely good luck or bad luck, upon deleting the old save and creating a new one, Liang Xuan randomly got "hearing impairment" again.

The beginning is almost identical!

The only difference is, drawing on the failed experience of the last save, Liang Xuan decided to abide by the law this time and choose the righteous path to be a good person.

But he faced the same difficulty as the last save, which is the task is hard to complete and the plot is almost impossible to progress. Due to the hearing impairment, he can’t obtain full task information and introduction from the game’s dialogue.

Circling back to the same dilemma.

Liang Xuan now either starts another new save or forces himself to continue exploring the whole map, surely he can find the task NPC with a quest marker on their head.

"Damn, I’m not buying this bad luck!"

Liang Xuan is defiant, he doesn’t believe this damn game’s task flow is so messed up; it can’t be that two consecutive saves can’t pass the newbie guide task, right?

If that’s the case, then this game doesn’t deserve a spot in his game collection, negative review + refund, don’t thank him!

Today, he’s determined to clash with this game!

He wants to see if this game can truly be played, surely this task can’t block him forever, right?

Hard-headed Liang Xuan continues exploring along the route of the last save, searching for the task NPC possibly hiding in some corner of the map.

The routes are the same.

The only difference is last time he searched more carefully, like a bandit raiding a village, not even sparing trash cans on the roadside, even picking up dog poop on the roadside to taste if it’s salty.

But this time, he definitely won’t search that thoroughly, just a glance while passing will suffice.

As for the "bandit" behavior of breaking into NPCs’ homes to rummage, that’s even more impossible; he’s not the type who doesn’t learn from his mistakes, how can he fall in the same place twice?

"Hey! Wait a minute..."

Just as Liang Xuan was controlling the protagonist Abab, passing by a fruit shop, he suddenly stopped, looking at the fruit shop next to him.

As seen in the game screen, an NPC man wearing a blue striped shirt is picking out fruit.

This scene is nothing unusual.

After all, he saw it once in the last save, these freely moving NPCs are all over the map, it’s not strange at all.

Moreover, the NPCs in "Abab’s True Story" are not highly intelligent, they mainly follow a preset path, completely unlike the smart NPCs in "Divine Grace Continent".

Of course!

The reason Liang Xuan stopped wasn’t purely because of this NPC, but more because of the bunch of purple grapes this NPC held in his hands.

This scene seems familiar?

This NPC appearing in the fruit shop is not unexpected, as their paths are preset; if there’s no player intervention or disturbance, NPCs have the same daily routine.

But the bunch of purple grapes in his hand, that’s quite a coincidence!

NPCs will follow a preset path; if they are supposed to go to the fruit shop, they certainly will. However, what they buy at the fruit shop involves some randomness.

Taking a step back...

Even if this NPC coming to the fruit shop to buy grapes is part of the plan and happens every time, the timing is too coincidental.

In the last save, when Liang Xuan passed by this fruit shop, he happened to see this NPC picking up a bunch of grapes ready to check out. This time in the new save, as he passed by the fruit shop, the scene was exactly the same, even the bunch of grapes in his hand was identical.

Here’s a cold fact: NPCs move!

Because NPCs move, they don’t stay at one place too long, nor can they appear at the fruit shop all the time.

Then the question arises!

Why is it that when passing by this place twice, Liang Xuan always sees this NPC buying grapes?

Glancing at the upper right corner for the game time, Liang Xuan pondered silently.

He didn’t know how long it took him in the last save to reach the front of this fruit shop, but he estimated it was much slower than now.