Chapter 397: Chapter 251: Nine Out of Ten Divinations Are Accurate—Or Your Money Back! (Part 2)

The statement "one plus one equals two" absolutely cannot be directly spoken; it must be conveyed in a roundabout way, telling him that according to an analysis of your birth date and eight characters, one plus one maybe, perhaps, possibly equals two!

The same principle applies.

The divination system in "Mountain Village Memories" cannot state the outcomes too definitively, leaving no room for the game to maneuver.

Great misfortune and great fortune are merely omens, and beneath these omens, there is a long description of the trigram.

Great misfortune on this journey?

With assistance from noble people, there could be a chance of revival, and if actions are correct, peace can be maintained...

See, this is called professionalism!

Anyway, the trigram is mostly accurate since divination is approximately equal to "predicting the future". The future in reality is unknowable, but the future in games can still be glimpsed to a certain extent.

"Is it really that miraculous?"

Li Qizhen is very curious; can this divination system really "predict" all the big and small matters happening in the game?

"It can!"

After all, the core code comes from the Iron Fool System, and Chen Ba has personally tested it, so he is full of confidence in it.

This divination system, placed in the game "Mountain Village Memories", is akin to the protagonist Hu Xi’s "cheat code" plugin.

Predict big and small matters, as long as everything happening in the game can achieve nine accurate predictions out of ten!

Li Qizhen also tried it out.

Since "Mountain Village Memories" is not yet complete, he can only test it with a simple game demo.

This demo is very simple, with only one room available for interaction, where there is a locked box, and players need to find a key in the room to open the box.

During this process, there will be pixelated monsters (modeling not completed) attacking the player, but the timing is uncertain.

Players may not encounter any monsters during their exploration, or they may encounter one immediately upon entering the room...

Based on this premise, Li Qizhen used the divination system to cast a trigram for himself.

"Minor fortune, good things come with challenges!"

Just as Ba said, the trigram shows and interpretations are vague; one can only speculate the true meaning of the trigram based on these key hints.

Li Qizhen pondered a bit and roughly guessed the meaning of this trigram.

"It means when I enter the room later, I will encounter the monster, the process of finding the key won’t be smooth, but eventually, I will find and open the box?"

"Close enough, but the interpretation of ’good things come with challenges’ is inaccurate; what it should mean is that you won’t succeed on the first try and need to attempt multiple times..."

After Chen Ba finished speaking, he saw Li Qizhen controlling the character to open the room and search for the so-called key.

The key randomly appears in various corners of the room, and combined with dim lighting, the protagonist Hu Xi only has a flashlight, so searching is very troublesome.

The monster arrived!

To avoid the monster, Li Qizhen temporarily hid behind a shelf. 𝕗𝐫𝐞𝕖𝕨𝐞𝗯𝚗𝕠𝘃𝐞𝚕.𝐜𝗼𝚖

Continuing to search, the monster came again!

This time it’s even more dangerous; Li Qizhen was almost discovered and narrowly escaped disaster by lying under the bed.

Continuing to search for the key...

This time wasn’t so smooth; Li Qizhen was chased desperately by the monster and had to push the door to escape to avoid disaster.

After about fifteen minutes of trouble, Li Qizhen re-entered the room and finally saw the rusty key in a corner with clutter.

"Good things come with challenges?"

After this experiment, Li Qizhen roughly understood the accuracy of this divination system.

But he wants to try several more times.

So he reset the game progress and information; after resetting, he got a major fortune trigram, this time encountering no monsters, and found the key in the room quickly.

"Very strong!"

Li Qizhen praised: "This divination system, to some extent, is indeed the cheat code from novels, simply too strong."

Being able to predict the future is not strong?

In reality, those who can do this could probably be called "living saints"! Predicting future events and predicting so accurately is indeed unexpected.

However, Li Qizhen thought again, the so-called "predicting the future" is merely predicting the future within the game.

This is just a game!

Since it is a game, everything in this world is pre-arranged by people, and the game designer is equivalent to the "Heavenly Dao" or creator within the game.

With the creator’s assistance, this divination system can accomplish this, successfully peeking into the future, so it’s not surprising.

"Isn’t it mysterious?"

Chen Ba smiled and said: "But this thing, the logic it realizes is actually not foreseeing the future but rewriting the future."

Don’t get the sequence wrong!

True foresight of the future sees the things that will happen in the future, and this future is usually unchangeable and singular.

But the future within "Mountain Village Memories" is actually constantly changing.

If a player casts a great misfortune trigram, then the subsequent game content will unfold around this trigram; if a major fortune trigram is cast, it will unfold around the major fortune trigram.

First comes the trigram, then the subsequent occurrence! It’s not the case that the story is arranged first, then the corresponding trigram is displayed to the player; there is a fundamental difference between these two!

"The most obvious difference is in your first cast, the result was minor fortune, and after reset, the second cast was a major fortune..."

Chen Ba explained: "The reason you see two completely different trigrams upon resetting the game is that the trigrams are generated randomly, not fixed."

"Moreover, your experiences of solving puzzles and finding the key are different in the two trigrams, all due to chain reactions caused by changes in trigrams..."

There’s a premise, resetting the game!

Li Qizhen can have different trigrams like ’major fortune’ and ’minor fortune’ in the same test environment because he reset the game progress.

Normal players, casting divination at the same place and time, won’t see changes in trigram results; they will be what they are supposed to be.

"What about different players then?"

Li Qizhen curiously asked: "Ba, according to what you said, if player A and player B play this level simultaneously and cast divination simultaneously, are the results possibly different?"

"Remove the word possibly!"

"Not possibly, but definitely different!" Chen Ba lifted his thermos, saying, "Different players, even under the same conditions and testing environment, will yield different trigrams."

How could it be the same?

If everyone had the same divination results, why need the Iron Fool System to step in? Chen Ba could solve it himself!

Clearly, they are different, and the trigrams can incorporate actual player operations and gaming situations, altering each player’s future and game content, hence the need for the system to provide core code.

This thing is black technology!

This divination system’s greatest utility actually solves the "spoiler" crisis, making horror games less awkward.

In the past, horror games became less interesting when watched via videos and live streams, and after watching once, interest in playing it dropped.

This is why most horror games have sales limits; despite great popularity, it seems like everyone is playing the game, but sales are only tens of thousands.

"Mountain Village Memories" is different.

Thanks to this unique divination system, everyone’s fate is different.

Different roads lead to the same destination!

These four words aptly describe "Mountain Village Memories", meaning although the endings are the same, the gameplay process and experiences vary with different trigrams.

With this thing, who fears spoilers?

One can only spoil oneself but can’t spoil others! Because if the trigram changes, so must the gaming experience and process; so-called spoilers are merely humorous.

Strategy and tutorial posts can be made, but they won’t be as effective because different trigrams encounter completely different scenarios.

Reading strategies only provides reference for others’ experiences and puzzle-solving ideas, but cannot be copied verbatim. Otherwise, if someone breezes through a level with major fortune, you face great misfortune, and expect to breeze through?

You probably wouldn’t even know how you died...