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Chapter 399 Renaming Files

The current situation can be said to be quite bad, and the key is that Zhang Qifeng can't think of a solution at all.

Although you can roll back to the previous save file and continue playing the game, Sakura's favorability can no longer be advanced. If you continue to advance, the file will be deleted and an error will be reported.

If you copy it again, it will be mysteriously deleted immediately.

Obviously, this is different from deleting the file in the first place, the only question is what the difference is.

So far, Zhang Qifeng has collected a lot of information in the game.

If it were other players, they would most likely be helpless at this point and would only be able to post online to criticize NiTianTian, ​​or continue playing from the previous file and choose a new girl to conquer.

But Zhang Qifeng guessed that this would probably only be a temporary solution and not a fundamental solution.

Once the next girl's favorability reaches the third level again, this problem will inevitably arise again.

"Could it be... that it's still the guide's problem?
“Both times the files were deleted, but the details of the deletions were different.

"Is it because the first guide was Elliot, and the second guide was Alvette?"

Some text information collected previously made Zhang Qifeng more certain of this speculation.

Obviously, there was something wrong with Alvette's previous diary. She actually felt that she could see something through the protagonist's pupils. She even vaguely felt the presence of the player and realized that she was not looking inward, but outward.

Instead, it was the person on the other side who was actually peering inside at her.

This speculation became more and more certain as the game progressed, and in subsequent texts written by Alvette, more and more doubts about this situation began to emerge.

At this moment, these words gave Zhang Qifeng a feeling that was somewhat similar to the confession of a character living in The Truman Show.

They can feel that they seem to be controlled by some kind of force, and there seem to be many irrational behaviors in life. They will feel strange, but the reactions of people around them seem normal, and even make them feel that there is something wrong with their mental health.

This is what happened to Alvette at this time. Judging from the subsequent text content, she obviously began to have more and more doubts about this world.

She doubted why she was chosen as a guide, why she kept behaving strangely, and who was spying on her through the protagonist's eyes.

Although it is unclear from the text whether these suspicions will drive her to commit some dangerous behaviors, the combination of this information has enabled Zhang Qifeng to make some very strong guesses.

"Could it be that……"

Zhang Qifeng thought about it, and finally opened the root directory of the game and clicked on the file of Alvette with the mouse.

Obviously, he had roughly guessed that all this was most likely caused by Alvette.

It should have been the same before, except that the guide at that time was Elios.

Obviously, although the profession of guide looks insignificant in the game, like a simple tool, in fact, it has quite outrageous powers in the deep settings of the game.

After becoming a guide, according to the game settings, these AIs seem to be given many permissions and even the ability to think for themselves.

They will examine all behaviors and phenomena around them, and even vaguely realize the existence of the player. This may be because other characters are following the established script process, but the guide herself does not have the opportunity to fall in love with the protagonist.

It may be because more time is spent on calculations, or it may be because the underlying logic of the AI ​​is different. In short, once these characters become guides and have the corresponding permissions, they seem to gradually become aware of the existence of players and perform some extreme behaviors of "authority dogs".

For example, delete other roles' files.

Obviously, as a guide, although Alvette also likes the protagonist, or rather, likes the player behind the protagonist, she has no way to have any substantial interaction and connection with the player due to system limitations, and can only silently play the role of a tool.

She could only watch as the player and another female character became closer and closer, confessed their feelings to each other, and accumulated all kinds of sweet moments.

After catching the female character, the player will use the invitation letter to invite another female character, and the cycle will continue over and over again.

Although the guide has the highest authority in the game, he will never be noticed by the players. After all, the underlying rules of the game limit all this.

Zhang Qifeng had already guessed that deleting Alvette's files might be able to temporarily solve this problem.

Just like when Elios was deleted, after Alvette was deleted, the system will arrange a new female character as a guide.

At this time, because the new guide has not yet awakened, Zhang Qifeng can advance the game's plot freely and without restrictions for a period of time.

He can activate the third stage of the full favorability CG with Sakura, or he can invite a new woman to the island to continue developing an intimate relationship.

But this is obviously only a temporary solution, because as time goes by, this new guide will inevitably awaken gradually and become like Elios and Alvette, using his authority to delete the character files in the game.

"Wouldn't this become a vicious cycle?"

Zhang Qifeng was scratching his head. Now he didn't quite understand what the game wanted him to do.

Obviously, so far, the content of this game has exceeded the scope of ordinary love games or horror games. It has some meta game elements, which allow the characters in the game to have a certain connection with real players, but it is obvious that its goal is not to let players delete all character files and play alone.

Seeing that the situation was at a stalemate, Zhang Qifeng didn't know what to do.

Re-copying Sakura's files didn't work, deleting Alvette's files didn't work, and copying Elliot's files didn't work either...

Suddenly, Zhang Qifeng had an idea: "Wait, maybe this will work?"

He found Alvette's file in the folder.

Then, Zhang Qifeng copied and pasted the file, clicked rename, and copied Sakura's file name into it.

In other words, a file that was renamed "Sakura" but was actually Alvette was created.

After all the trouble, Zhang Qifeng tried to open the game again.

He wasn't quite sure whether this operation would work. After all, if it were used in other games, it would probably have no effect.

But "Heartbeat Dream" is not a traditional game after all. We have copied and deleted files so many times before, so renaming files should also be within the scope of the game, right?
Sure enough, to Zhang Qifeng's surprise, the latest save file of the game was loaded and run smoothly!

(End of this chapter)