Why Did It Suddenly Turn Spooky?

As the two PhD doctors talked, Dong Zhen finally entered the playable section.

The dialogue was simple yet slightly sarcastic. When they came to the Squirrel, he could even see the male and female doctors bickering.

"This game feels pretty detailed. Even the dialogue is packed with details, just like Undertale. Everything's really, really detailed." Dong Zhen commented as he controlled the character.

For instance, when they saw a sign pointing the way, the two doctors even joked about whether it would get stolen out here in the mountains.

The dialogue was somewhat funny, but it also made him, a streamer, feel a little unemployed.

Because that was usually his job.

Good lord, if the game already did all the roasting, what was left for him to roast?

"A story-driven game? It feels a little bland so far." Dong Zhen was somewhat curious.

Other than moving aside something that looked like a rock halfway through, the entire game so far had been nothing but walking and simple dialogue, with nothing particularly special.

After all, Undertale at least had some simple bullet-hell combat.

The one good thing was the music.

From Magic Mirror to Undertale and now To the Moon, the music had been exceptionally well done.

As for the visuals, To the Moon, made by Chen Xu, had improved somewhat over the pixel style of RPG Maker from his previous life.

But it could only be called passable. It was clearly still far from outstanding.

As Dong Zhen sighed inwardly, the two doctors in the game, Neil and Eva, arrived at the destination of their trip: a large manor.

After the two knocked on the door, a middle-aged woman answered. According to the introduction, her name was Lily.

She usually took care of the old man named Johnny, while the two children who had been playing the piano inside earlier were her daughter and son.

After saying that, Lily led the two doctors upstairs.

Meanwhile, the two children in the first-floor room briefly fought over who got to play the piano, then sat side by side and began playing.

It was the piano piece from before the two doctors got into their car accident.

Was it the game's main theme?

Dong Zhen guessed as much.

As Eva and Neil bickered, Lily and the doctor explained the situation of Johnny, the game's protagonist.

Johnny was now bedridden and had remained unconscious for a long time. Only his vital signs indicated that he was still alive.

According to the doctor, he only had two or three days left.

As for Johnny's final wish before death, it was this: to go to the moon.

But as for why he wanted to go to the moon, Lily, his caretaker, said she had no idea. Although Johnny was her employer, he hardly ever spoke to anyone and seemed like a very strange person.

"Good lord, the old man's playing wild! He wants to go to the moon, so the main point of this game is for us to figure out why he wants to go there, then help him fulfill his wish?"

"A puzzle game? Hell yeah, now we're talking! Brain games are my specialty!"

Based on the information he had gathered so far, Dong Zhen slapped his thigh.

After talking to Lily, the caretaker, he got a clue: they needed to use key clues related to Johnny before they could enter his memories, alter them, and help fulfill his wish.

Since a person's lifetime of memories was far too vast, the machine could not examine every memory at once. They needed a medium.

Dong Zhen chose to have the female doctor work on the machine while he controlled the male doctor and wandered aimlessly around the house.

"Good lord, this old man's loaded! This place is huge!"

"But seriously, he got lucky running into me. Isn't it just the moon? Even if you wanted to go to Mars, I'd get you there!"

As he spoke, Dong Zhen controlled the male doctor around the house. He talked to the two children on the first floor and asked the little griefers to show him around, hoping to find some useful clues, but the two griefers told him to fetch them a Lollipop Cane first.

"See how annoying these little griefers are? Whatever, adults don't stoop to a kid's level."

When he came to the kitchen, the doctor saw the candy cane on a shelf. But because he was too short to reach it, he had to move over a stool and stand on it.

"Stop talking nonsense. How could I possibly not reach it? The doctor in the game can't reach it, not me!"

"I'm fucking six-foot-three! How could I not reach a cabinet? Are you kidding me?"

Seeing the chat comments, Dong Zhen's mouth twitched, but he could not back down.

If he said he was six-foot-three, then he was six-foot-three—the kind of height where he could dunk if he jumped!

After giving the candy cane to the two griefers, he got a few clues from them.

When Johnny could still move around, he seemed to visit the basement often. The piano piece the children played was also one Johnny had always played when he was healthy.

Following the children's directions, Dong Zhen arrived at a small room in the basement.

It was pitch-black, with a desk lamp beside him.

But the instant Dong Zhen turned on the light, the game's background music abruptly changed.

It was eerie, gloomy, and unsettling. Combined with the dim yellow lighting, the room was filled entirely with rabbits folded from colored paper.

"Fuck, why did it suddenly get spooky?!"

Without any warning whatsoever, the abrupt change in atmosphere sent goosebumps all over Dong Zhen's body.

The room was not particularly large and looked like a storage room.

The floor was piled with handmade paper rabbits, while a Platypus Doll sat on the table near the door.

It was not exactly terrifying.

But it put some serious psychological pressure on him!

The livestream chat was also flooding with comments.

'This atmosphere suddenly feels creepy as hell!'

'Don't tell me it's a horror game?'

'Brothers, spam the chat more, I'm scared!'

'Why are you all acting like scared little girls? It's broad daylight—what the hell are you afraid of?'

Dong Zhen glanced at the overly dramatic chat, steadied himself, and searched the room.

The Platypus Doll could be taken with him. It looked like an important item.

As for the game, although the atmosphere was rather creepy,

he had checked earlier, and it did not have a horror-game tag.

It was only labeled adventure and story.

No panic, no panic. So what if it was a horror game?

With his six-foot-three build, the kind that could dunk if he jumped, could a game possibly scare him?

"Alright, look at you scaredy-cats!"

"Enough talking. Let's keep going and see what this game's hiding. Why does the old man want to go to the moon? What secret do these Paper Rabbits hold? We'll uncover all of it soon, alright?"

Dong Zhen chatted with the livestream audience for a moment, then continued advancing the game's story.

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