I have found out your real name

Chapter 14 Polybius
Behind the door opening of the arcade store is a staircase that stretches downwards. The walls on both sides of the staircase are covered with wet wallpaper, as if even the air has become damp.

The wallpaper is painted with weird patterns, like human faces and black pupils.

At the end of the stairs, there is a wooden door with a piece of yellowed paper stuck on the door, with a short text of "10 yuan a time" written on it.

"This store is opened underground."

"Basement arcade stores, maybe they were common back then."

Li Wu looked at the motionless Xingchuan, and asked a little strangely: "What's the matter, why didn't you open the door?"

The magical girl took a few steps back stiffly, stepped back above Li Wu, and made a gesture of "please first".

"...You're not afraid, are you?"

It stands to reason that those negative monsters are much more terrifying than this arcade store.

"Is there any way! The atmosphere in this place is too weird, and my arms are numb."

Xingchuan stroked his left arm: "It would be fine if there is a clear enemy, as long as you use Gyotan to kill it."

"Actually, you can also shoot at this store. Hey, I'm just joking."

Seeing the girl who said "I didn't think of such a good idea" and started to try to summon the weapon, Li Wu quickly interrupted her bold idea.

He grabbed the doorknob and twisted it lightly.

The door was easily pushed open, and a smell of decay and mildew characteristic of time honing came out.

There is nothing special about the interior furnishings. In the airtight room, the floor is covered with a dark green carpet, the ceiling is covered with mottled marks, and there is no peeling wall ash on the floor.A chandelier exudes a dim yellow light that is almost the size of a grain of rice, and this is the only light source in the room.

Several arcade machines randomly filled almost all the empty places in the room, and a wooden table was squeezed into a small corner in the upper left corner of the room. Behind the wooden table was a character model dressed as a western cowboy.

It looks like that is the service counter of this arcade store.

The two walked in, the room was not big, and it didn't take long to see every corner.

"There seems to be nothing unusual."

Xing Chuan shouted in distress: "Are there any ghosts, monsters, Mr. Monster?"

Ignoring her trickery, Li Wu checked the arcade machines and asked, "I'm not familiar with the history of arcade machines. Didn't Xingchuan say at the station that he liked playing this kind of games? Do you think the layout of these arcade machines is normal? Is it?"

This arcade store in the strange talk of the 80s seems to have not many types of games, only two types to be precise.

It is painted with red paint, and the shell is painted with the appearance of a man throwing his fist to the sky. There is a red joystick and two big buttons, one red and one blue. The game screen being played is a judo suit A red-haired man and a blond man in an orange kung fu suit engage in a side-scrolling fight.

The other is a pure black machine with a normal coin slot on the front, only a joystick and a small white button on the console, no game screen is displayed on the screen, and there is no decoration on the shell. On the top is a line of English letters written in white:
POLYBIUS (Polybius)

"Let me see, ah, isn't that Street Fighter 1? Unlike the six-button layout that came later, just two big buttons."

She seemed to have forgotten the hesitation before entering the door, and walked up to tap the game button with some interest: "It is said that the attack power will change according to the size of the hand."

"What about the other one? I always feel like I've seen that line of English somewhere."

Li Wu asked.

Xing Chuan walked to another machine, and said with some puzzlement: "I've never seen this type of machine before... Is it some kind of super remote game work? It doesn't have a company name either."

She seemed to want to activate it, and pressed the small white button.

The screen flickered, and a black and white interface appeared, with a new line of text appearing in the middle:
Sinnesl schen
Seeing that line of words, Li Wu had a flash of inspiration: "I thought where I saw the word polybius."

He pointed to the line of words that emerged: "That should be the German meaning of 'sense deletion'."

"Huh? Really? Li Wu, do you still understand German?"

"No, I won't, but I've heard the urban legend."

While Li Wu was being narrated by his father about folklore, he also spent some time indulging in reading all kinds of street stall literature and strange tales—by the way, this was also influenced by light—the "polybius" arcade strange tales were also in that period time to see.

In 1981, in several suburbs of Portland, Ohio, Amelia, a game called "Polybius" was a craze, developed by a German company called "Sense Deletion", The content is just to fight enemies with simple pixel planes.

However, quite a few players have become addicted to it, and many people claim to have seen strange sights in the game, such as the face of a crying woman, meaningless characters, etc., and even developed amnesia, Symptoms of insomnia, night terrors and even suicide.

This is obviously how a classic urban legend unfolds, and it also incorporates a lot of elements similar to conspiracy theories, such as the suspected FBI man in black was witnessed collecting machine data, the game itself is actually a mind control experiment of a secret agency, etc. wait.

But in any case, in Li Wu's cognition, this should be a fictional non-existent game, but at this moment it has turned into a real thing and presented it in front of its eyes.

After listening to his report, Xingchuan raised his right hand: "Teacher Li Wu! Why can it be concluded that it is a fiction? If the Bosha game really existed in reality, it was passed down to the boss at the time, and finally What caused him to commit suicide?"

"Because many people have already investigated this legend, and they basically believe that it was shaped by a combination of various social news. And there is a more important point." Li Wuxu glanced at the other party, "No Did you yourself say that someone is using monsters from the negative world to create youkai in the form of ghost stories?"

"Then it's more in line with your opinion that someone created this game based on non-existent strange stories than there are anomalous things that have been handed down from the 80s here?"

Have you forgotten what you said?
Xingchuan's face froze for a moment, and he laughed a few times.

Li Wu once again summoned a ball of flames: "Why don't you try burning these obviously weird arcade machines?"

"Obviously, I was prevented from firing the cannon before, and I just wanted to say that Li Wu's functions seem to have increased!"

"Maybe it's because the battle with Hunv stimulated the change of my ability or something."

He brought the flame close to one of the machines marked polybius and pressed it.

(End of this chapter)