While Ben was confused, the Ethan in the game had already arrived at the target location.
With a 'bang' of the car door closing, Ethan got out of the car.
In front of him was a country path, and behind him was the vast land.
Ben subconsciously took two steps back.
Then he heard Ethan in the game say softly to himself: "Mia... is she really here?"
Hearing Ethan's words, Ben felt a pain.
He didn't know if Mia was there, but he knew that there was definitely nothing good waiting for him behind.
He wanted to quit the game right away, but at the same time, Ben was also a little curious.
You know, the last time Lucas made a horror game was many years ago.
A game called "Outlast" made Mount Massive Asylum a nightmare for many people.
As for the later 'Silent Hill PT', it was just an incomplete DEMO demo after all.
But the game in front of him called "Resident Evil" made Ben both curious and a little scared.
However, after pacing back and forth a couple of times, Ben finally decided to explore first.
After all, there's a saying: "I'm already here."
Besides, unlike Mount Massive Asylum back then, at least this is in broad daylight, and the surroundings are very bright.
Looking at the surrounding environment, Ben breathed a sigh of relief. At least he felt quite relaxed here.
Ben controlled Ethan to move forward along the path into the depths of the forest, encountering many mosquitoes along the way.
However, there were no intense scenes. Finally, a large villa appeared in the sight, but it was blocked by a large iron gate.
After going up to investigate, the iron gate was locked with chains and could not be opened by using the front.
"Isn't this the same trick as in 'Outlast'?"
Ben looked at the front door that he could not pass through, and the very obvious path next to it, and thought to himself.
He's familiar with this!
Continuing to walk forward, when he came to a corner, Ben saw a figure flash past in front of him.
But he wasn't really scared here.
Because the figure was too fast, he only heard the sound of footsteps, and could no longer see it when he turned around.
Continuing along the path, Ben also found some rotten corpses and various animal corpses tied together with cutting blades and chains. If it were normal, Ben felt that he couldn't handle it.
But because of the clear-headed mode, Ben felt fine at this time, and these corpses were actually specially treated and not really that bloody, at most a little disgusting.
On the way to the house, while controlling Ethan, Ben also found Mia's handbag in a pile of garbage, and Zack's driver's license inside.
Of course, that wasn't the key. The real key was that Ben also found a Zack treasure map fragment in Mia's handbag.
[Treasure Map Fragment: If you can find the other eight Zack fragments, you might discover an amazing treasure]
Looking at the note, Ben was surprised.
Because Lucas had also mentioned on his official blog before that the treasure map fragments appear randomly in different scenes for each player.
Of course, they won't be hidden too much. They'll usually be in places where things can be collected, such as garbage dumps, tables, and bedside tables, rather than deliberately hidden in some corner.
He's very lucky!
Ben was very surprised, and it even washed away some of the fear lingering in his heart.
Of course, this good mood only lasted until he opened the door to the house.
The outside scene was bright, but after opening the door to the house, Ben was silent.
Standing at the door, the room was pitch black and not friendly at all!
And the most important thing was that the graphics in "Resident Evil" were really too good.
No less than the previous "Uncharted".
At the moment of pushing the door open, you could clearly see the dust floating in the air under the light.
Especially coupled with the VR immersive experience, the creaking sound of opening the door perfectly showed the emptiness of the house.
It can only be said that it makes you feel like you are there.
"Boss Lucas is also! Why did you make an activity game so good!? With this game's graphics, it's a big loss to sell it for $12, isn't it?" Ben felt a pain.
After all, the better the graphics of a horror game, the more realistic it is, and the more realistic it is, the stronger the fear it brings!
The graphics, which were no less than "Uncharted", made Ben feel uneasy.
Should he continue playing, or simply admit defeat and not play?
Ben was having a mental game, but soon he felt what 'Boss Lucas's love' was.
The player can't make a decision?
After hesitating at the door for a long time, Ethan in the game started to move on his own, to Ben's surprise.
"I've already come this far, there's no turning back...Mia, I'm here to find you..." Ethan said as he stepped into the house.
'Bang...'
After stepping into the house, he also closed the door.
The screen instantly went dark, and Ethan in the game let out a panting sound and took out a flashlight from somewhere.
"Boss Lucas, I really thank you!"
Ben looked at the pitch-black room and greeted him kindly.
Ben tried to turn the door, and sure enough, the door to the outside could not be opened.
He was now a turtle in a jar.
Since he was already at this point, Ben didn't want to quit, and in the clear-headed mode, he actually felt pretty good so far.
He walked around the house, taking every step carefully, fearing that something would suddenly come out and scare him.
He wasn't scared, but he was disgusted in a place in the living room or kitchen.
Because there were rotten animal corpses in the microwave, a pile of brownish-yellow unknown objects in the dirty, sticky refrigerator door, and filthy things full of cockroaches when he opened the lid of something on the table. Coupled with the VR immersive experience, Ben couldn't stand it.
He was a little hungry this late at night, and was thinking about whether to cook some dumplings later, but now he had no appetite at all.
After searching the room a little, Ben quickly found the corresponding clue.
There was a videotape on the second floor, and he put the videotape into the TV to start playing it.
This was a video tape from three years ago of an unknown TV crew of three people going to a haunted house to record a program.
The leader was called Peter, and the remaining two were called Andrei and Clancy.
In the original game, this part allowed the player's perspective to become the photographer Clancy in the video.
However, in the VR version, Lucas did not use this mode.
The main reason was that this kind of perspective shift would actually make the player feel like they were detached from the experience.
At the same time, the content of this section was not too important. It was mainly to introduce some background information to the players, and to reveal some of the puzzle-solving gameplay and where the next path was.
So Lucas also let the player sit in front of the TV and watch the video tape, just like Ethan.
And in fact, in terms of horror, watching the video tape is actually stronger than being the person in the video tape.
The sound from the video tape echoed in the empty room.
Ben looked at the screen in the game, and then turned his head to look behind him.
He was afraid that while he was watching the video tape, some monster would suddenly appear behind him and scare him.
But fortunately, that didn't happen.
As Ben expected, none of the three guys who were asking for death in the video tape escaped.
One was missing, one was stabbed to death with a steel pipe, and the fate of the other was unknown.
Ben was still relatively calm, and other than the environment being a little scary, it was still within his tolerance.
Even though the unlucky guy who was stabbed to death with a steel pipe died in a slightly scary way, Ben was relatively calm because he had prepared himself mentally in advance.
According to the hints in the video tape, Ben found a handle under the fireplace and opened the secret room in the wall.
"I should go down from here." Ben came to the secret room behind the wall, and looked at the bottom, which was pitch black and seemed to have a pool of water.
Ben stood on it for a while, then stepped on the ladder and went down.
Other than the ladder breaking with a click in the middle and causing him to fall, there were no scary parts.
"Huh...did Boss Lucas change his personality? There's nothing too scary here! It's similar to the previous 'Silent Hill PT', is this supposed to be me scaring myself?" Ben looked surprised as he explored.
That's how people are sometimes.
Before playing, he was afraid of being scared, but now that there hadn't been any intense scenes for a long time, Ben felt a little uncomfortable instead.
As Ben walked through the water while feeling these thoughts, the water level gradually rose, and the murky water made it impossible to see what was underneath, and the stone walls above his head were also putting pressure on Ben.
'Splish...splash...' The sound of water was very harsh in the quiet environment.
"It's a pity that Zack can't see my performance now, or he would definitely be surprised." Ben said wistfully.
But as soon as he finished speaking, a scream burst out of Ben's mouth.
"Damn, what the hell!"
A burst of bubbles rose to the surface of the murky water.
A highly decayed head filled with maggots took up Ben's entire field of vision and gave him a close encounter.
Even in the clear-headed mode, Ben was startled.
(End of chapter)
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