Chapter 399 Renaming Files

The current situation is 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 the game, Sakura's favorability can no longer be advanced. Once you continue to advance, the file will be deleted and an error will be reported.

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

Obviously, this is different from the initial deletion of the file. The only question is what is the reason for this difference.

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

If it were other players, they would probably be helpless at this time and could only choose to post on the Internet to criticize Ni Tian Tang, or continue playing from the previous file and change a new girl to attack.

But Zhang Qifeng guessed that this would probably only treat the symptoms and not the root cause.

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

"Could it be... still the problem of the guide?"

"Both times the file was deleted, but the details of the deletion were different.

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

Some of the text information collected before made Zhang Qifeng more certain of this guess.

Obviously, Alvette's previous diary was very wrong. 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.

On the contrary, the person on the other side was actually looking inward at her.

And this guess began to become more and more certain as the game time went on. In the subsequent text materials of Alvette, more and more doubts about this state began to appear.

These texts at this time gave Zhang Qifeng a feeling that was a bit like the confession of a character living in Truman's world.

They could feel that they seemed to be controlled by some kind of power, and there seemed to be many unreasonable behaviors in life. They would feel strange, but the reactions of the people around them seemed normal, and even made them feel that it was just their mental problems.

This is what happened to Yalvette at this time. From the text content that follows, it is clear that she began to have more and more doubts about this world.

She doubted why she was chosen as a guide, why she kept having strange behaviors, and who was watching her through the eyes of the male protagonist.

Although it is unclear from the text whether these doubts will drive her to do some dangerous behaviors, the combination of this information has allowed Zhang Qifeng to make some very powerful guesses.

"Could it be that..."

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

Obviously, he had roughly guessed that all this was probably done by Yalvette.

It should have been the same before, but the guide at that time was Ellios.

Obviously, although the profession of guide looks inconspicuous in the game, like a simple tool man, it actually has quite outrageous permissions in the deep settings of the game.

After becoming a guide, according to the settings of the game, these AIs seem to be given many permissions and even have 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 itself does not have the opportunity to fall in love with the protagonist.

It may be because more time is used for calculation, or it may be because the underlying logic of AI is different. In short, once these characters become guides, after having the corresponding permissions, they seem to gradually realize the existence of the player and make some extreme behaviors of "authority dogs".

For example, deleting other characters' files.

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

She can only watch the relationship between the player and another female character become closer and closer, confess to each other, and accumulate various sweet moments.

And when this female character is caught, the player will use the invitation letter to invite another female character again, and so on and so forth.

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 restrict all this.

Zhang Qifeng has guessed that if he deletes Alvette's file, he may be able to temporarily solve this problem.

Just like deleting Elliot at that time, after deleting Alvette, 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 freely and unrestrictedly advance the plot of the game for a period of time.

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

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

"Wouldn't this become a dead loop?"

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

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

Seeing that he was in a deadlock, Zhang Qifeng didn't know what to do.

Copying Sakura's file again didn't work, deleting Yalvette's file didn't work, and copying Elios's file didn't work either...

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

He found Yalvette's file in the folder.

Then, Zhang Qifeng copied and pasted the file, and then clicked Rename to copy Sakura's file name into it.

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

After tossing, Zhang Qifeng tried to open the game again.

He wasn't sure if this operation would work, after all, if it was put into other games, it would probably have no effect.

But "Heartbeat Dreamland" is not a traditional game after all. He had 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 successfully loaded and run!