Chapter 49: Die and Start Over?

Facing the overwhelming mockery and refund requests, PD sat in his gaming chair, his face turning pale and then flushed with frustration.

He had originally intended to hype up Chaldea's new work in the livestream and slap those haters in the face.

But as it turned out, this crude art style left him not knowing where to even begin praising it.

"Forget it, brothers..."

PD sighed, trying to save face. "After all, it only costs about 60 yuan, which isn't even enough for a ten-pull in FGO. Father Gu also said this is just a casual, stress-relieving little game for the content drought. It's probably just for killing time."

"Since we're already here, let's just play a couple of rounds and see how this crying kid is supposed to relieve stress."

Manipulating the controller with a "God's eye view" of the sandbox, PD controlled the tearful Isaac in the Basement and pushed open the first wooden door.

The room was empty, with only a few huge black flies buzzing around.

"What's the attack method?" PD pressed the fire button on the controller.

"Pew! Pew!" Isaac's eyes widened, and two huge tears, like solid bullets, shot out of his eye sockets and hit the flies.

The fly died, dropping half a red heart.

"Using tears as bullets? That's a pretty bizarre setting."

PD curled his lip. Although he found it somewhat speechless, the dual-stick control feel—controlling movement and shooting separately—was unexpectedly smooth and fluid.

With the enhancement of the VR sandbox perspective, the trajectory and impact of the tear bullets felt extremely solid.

He controlled Isaac to delve deeper.

Along the way, he encountered headless corpses that spat blood, strange mollusk monsters that left pools of acid on the ground, and even hidden stones that needed to be blown up with bombs.

It had to be said that although the art style was crude and even had some crude toilet humor, as a "monster-slaying, level-clearing" little game, it did have a strangely addictive quality.

Soon, PD controlled Isaac to the end of the first floor of the Basement and pushed open the Boss room door with the skull symbol.

"Yo, here comes the starter village Boss."

PD perked up.

In the center of the room, an extremely huge mass of flesh with a gaping bloody mouth and jagged teeth—[Monstro]—crashed to the ground.

"Roar!" The big guy let out a roar and suddenly leaped into the air.

"Holy crap, it's that big and it can leap?!"

PD was startled and quickly maneuvered Isaac to dodge to the side.

But the moment the big guy landed, it not only caused an area-of-effect tremor but also frantically spat out a large number of red blood bullets in all directions!

"I dodge! I dodge!"

In this pure action-shooting game with no "one-key full-screen clear" and no "high-ground heavy-armor blocking," the poor micro-management skills of Blue Star players were instantly exposed.

PD scrambled to position himself in the narrow room, but facing the dense bullet hell and the big guy's continuous leaping slams, Isaac's already pitiful health of three red hearts quickly bottomed out.

"Bang!" The big guy performed an extremely accurate body slam, sitting heavily on Isaac.

Isaac let out a shrill scream, "Ugh," his small, thin body twitched on the ground, and then he collapsed completely in a pool of blood.

In the center of the screen, a blood-stained "last will" slowly emerged.

"Ah, I was careless, I was careless."

PD was not discouraged. In the gaming perception of this parallel world, dying once was simply all too normal.

"It's just a starter village Boss. Once I respawn, I'll go to the mall and buy a revive coin, or get some high-tier equipment, and just steamroll it."

PD habitually looked for buttons like "Use Diamonds to Revive," "Return to Town to Upgrade," or "Load Save" on the screen.

However, there were none.

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