Is it not a galgame?

……

After getting off work in the evening, Masaharu Yamada went to the game store early.

The store manager had already prepared game discs for him early.

And put on an attentive smile.

The original intention was to make Yamada Masaharu feel at home, but when he saw the fat store manager's somewhat weird smile, Yamada Masaharu just felt a little creepy and couldn't experience any happiness at all.

To be honest, ever since Pokeni made the Dandelion gaming platform popular, the number of customers visiting the physical store has become very few. Although there are still many foreign tourists who come here, it is really difficult for the store manager to see one or two acquaintances.

To some extent, Shoji Yamada has become the store manager's soul bond.

"Um, are you here alone again today?" The manager looked behind him and found that there was no one else.

The sun was shining brightly outside, and the sunlight reflected on the glass was a little dazzling.

Looking through the glass, some young people were walking hurriedly on the street.

"Yeah." Yamada Masaharu nodded helplessly.

"What about the other partners, are they downloading the game online?"

“Not really.” Yamada Masaharu scratched his head sheepishly, “Maybe I’m not interested in the new game?”

Of course it is also possible that they each have their own lives.

For a popular guy like Kinoshita, playing with women is more fun than playing games.

As for Furukawa, he has to go home and take care of his children after get off work.

Seeing the expression on his face, the store manager probably guessed something.

He packed up Gravity, handed it to Shoji Yamada, and said something meaningful:
“Sometimes, the people you walk with may not be able to walk with you to the end, but you will always meet people who walk with you.

Please have a safe journey, my guest."

Eh?
Yamada was stunned for a moment.

Manager, didn’t you have this style before?
……

After getting home and getting ready, he put on comfortable pajamas and sat in front of the TV.

I took apart the game Gravity.
Masaharu Yamada inserted the disc and the game started.

The screen went black, and pokeni's logo appeared on the screen.

Here are the iconic slogans:
【Game is life】

[Here, start an unprecedented journey of life]

……

The screen went black again, and a majestic piece of music started playing.

At the same time, the black screen remained unchanged.

If the BGM hadn't been playing continuously, Masaharu Yamada would have thought that the system was broken or that there was a bug in the game, or it was stuck or something.

But even so, Yamada felt a sense of...

[I’m afraid there is something wrong].

Just sound but no picture?
The screen didn't load?
Just when he was full of doubts, the edge of the darkness suddenly lit up.

The first things that appeared in the field of vision were a few faint silver dots.

It's like accidentally hitting a blackboard with a piece of chalk.

Then these small dots were rotating counterclockwise and slowly moving to the top of the screen.

At the same time, an arc of light appeared below.

Yes, a ray of arc light made Yamada Masaharu's blood boil.

Under that arc of light is the edge of the blue earth.

When the camera zoomed in, the picture froze.

In the distance is the shining starry sky.

Near the bottom of the screen is the blue earth.

And between the two, a magnificent and technologically advanced space station stands there.

To be precise, it is suspended.

Floating alone without any support, it looks both strange and shocking.

"Amazing."

Yamada Shoji sighed.

At the same time, I couldn't help but wonder -

Humans are truly amazing creatures, able to develop technology to this level.

Think about it, the fantasies of people a thousand years ago, such as flying and hiding in the ground, were nothing but myths.

But now they have all been realized one by one.

Before the advent of spacecraft, who would have thought that humans would be able to go into space?

The construction of the space station is a great symbol——

The first step in mankind's conquest of space.

……

The vast universe is so mysterious and yet so fascinating.

Although the initial interface was just a 3D animated picture, it made Shoji Yamada feel an inexplicable fear in his heart.

Just like he had submerged syndrome, he suddenly became a little scared.

On the scale of the universe, human beings are so tiny that they are not worth mentioning.

However, to be able to rush into the universe in one's own dimension requires great wisdom and courage.

……

at the same time,

A row of buttons appeared below the main interface, full of technological metallic feel, just like the operating panel in a space station.

Masaharu Yamada pressed the button and selected [Start Game]

The screen went black and the opening CG began to play.
White subtitles gradually appeared:

【600 kilometers away from the earth】

[Temperature fluctuates between -148 and +258 degrees Fahrenheit]

There is no medium for sound to propagate.

No atmospheric pressure

No oxygen

Life cannot survive in space

BGM: It's all good. It's all good.

It became completely blank.

Masaharu Yamada thought his TV was broken, so he quickly picked up the remote control to turn up the volume, but found that there was still no sound.

At the same time, a huge image of the Earth appeared on the screen:
Looking down at the entire earth from space, it looks like a huge sphere covered with thin white misty air. The blue ocean below becomes a blue flat canvas outside the sphere on the scale of space.

Only when you see the very, very small, ant-like space station floating next to it do you realize how huge this big blue ball is.

The white clouds intertwined together, finally forming a spiral cyclone like a chrysanthemum.

Looks particularly beautiful,

He was shocked. He suddenly understood why there was no sound.

Because Pokeni wants to create an immersive and realistic sense of space walking in this way.

At the same time, intermittent electronic sounds began to play, which seemed deafening in such a completely quiet environment:
"Please confirm the replacement cover of the P1 ATA..."

Yamada Masaharu was so shocked that he realized he had turned up the TV volume too loud.

So I quickly picked up the remote control and turned down the volume.

I should trust the production quality of Pokeni...

How could such a world-class game manufacturer make such a low-level sound mistake? !
It stands to reason that the game must have been tested internally countless times before being released.

Yamada Shoji felt so regretful that he wanted to slap himself.

"Parts 1 and 2 of the removal process are complete..."

“DMA M1, M2, M3, M4 have been completed.”

This section of content was completely confusing, and Masaharu Yamada had no idea what these programs were.

But it doesn't seem to matter.

The main purpose of using some professional terms is to increase the game's quality and make players feel more involved.

Now Yamada Masaharu's sense of involvement is already quite strong.

"Received, received, Explorer." A woman's voice rang out.

"Dr. Stone, this is Xinghe. The medical team is concerned about your EKG data."

Galaxy is a space station imagined in the game, built by China and the United States.

Since there are only three countries in the world that have the ability to build a space station, and considering that it is not realistic to build a space station alone, and also to avoid mapping the real world, Qing Zhiyuan asked the production team and Yuehe to make some changes to the background:

The space station was also manufactured through cooperation between China and the United States.

To some extent, this is actually an affirmation of the space technology of these two countries.

"I'm fine, Xinghe." the girl replied.

"The medical team doesn't think so, doctor. Do you feel sick?"

“I don’t feel like vomiting, Xinghe, the diagnosis is normal.

Communication card connection completed, ready to receive data."

……

During the conversation, Dr. Stone was unable to speak.

The background of the entire picture is only the lonely blue earth and the starry space station that is getting farther and farther away in the distance.

As the camera moves back, the earth that occupies most of the left half of the screen seems to be rotating.

What started as a chrysanthemum-shaped cyclone gradually turned into land with vast mountain ranges.

It looks like raised pieces of moss, brown-green mixed with other different colors. Just a small outline is enough to tell that this is the east coast of the United States.

Even though I didn't see anyone, the sense of the lens was really great.
This game has shocked Shoji Yamada from the beginning to the present.

When he was young, he was actually an astronomy enthusiast, and he even watched the stars with his friends in the astronomy department on the top floor of the school.

Shoji Yamada remembered that there was a petite but very cute girl among them.

The reason I joined the Astronomy Club was because I wanted to see Princess Kaguya on the moon.

But in fact, everyone knows that Princess Kaguya does not exist on the moon, it is just a legend.

"How do you know there isn't one?"

Every time at this time, the girl with a high ponytail, who always has endless experiences and endless things to say, would retort, "Only one side of the moon faces the earth, and we never know what is behind it.

What if Princess Kaguya is hiding behind that?"

When Yamada heard such remarks when he was little, he would always be at a loss for words, but the senior would seize the loophole and say to the girl:
"But... like you said, even if Kaguya-sama exists on the dark side of the moon, we can't observe it from Earth, right?"

The girl frowned and fell into silence.

After two seconds, he smiled happily again:

“It’s satisfying just to have this possibility.”

"We are observing the moon now, maybe we can go there in the future. People should always believe in something to be motivated, right?"

Yes.

Yamada and the senior were both silent.

For a moment, I was actually shaken for a moment.

Go to the back of the moon and take a look. Maybe Princess Kaguya is there.

When he thought of the two big dimples on the girl's mouth, Yamada Masaharu couldn't help but smile.

……

"Ah, it makes me miss you so much. I wonder where Mai is now. Did she realize her dream?"

But...

There is a high probability that it has not been realized, right?
It has been more than 1972 years since Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt carried out the last manned lunar mission in December 12.

Princess Kaguya.

Yamada smiled and said that Mai was the Kaguya-hime in his mind at that time.

Ok……

How should I put it? The experiences of youth are indeed the most beautiful things in the world.

……

In the dark gap between the edge of the earth and the boundless universe, a small white dot flew quickly towards the camera.

As the image gradually zoomed in, Yamada Shoji could finally see clearly that it was a space shuttle.

"If this succeeds, I'll treat everyone to a drink after landing tomorrow," Dr. Stone said with a smile.

"It's settled, Doctor. Don't forget, Xinghe loves Margaritas."

"Connection successful, now start the communication card."

"Sorry, I didn't receive any data."

"Ah? Then I'll go restart it."

"On standby..."

After the conversation, the camera gradually zoomed in, the space shuttle continued to zoom in, and various details in it were revealed.

The huge suspended collection device is like a huge metal pillar hanging under the space shuttle.

Meanwhile, a woman in a space suit was hanging above, doing some kind of work.

Up to this point, as the camera continued to spin, Yamada Shoji had a strange sense of weightlessness.

You won't find any suitable reference here.

Can't tell which is up and which is down.

When the camera completely returns to the heroine Dr. Stone, the entire background becomes a small part of the huge earth and the boundless and cold darkness.

The seat belt connects the heroine to the space shuttle, and in the state of weightlessness, it presents a soft visual effect like waves.

"Wow!"

Yamada Masaharu was deeply shocked.

……

...(End of chapter)