Why did Johnny want to go to the moon?
Because even though the beta-blockers had blurred his childhood memories.
Even though he had forgotten that he and Liva had actually met long ago.
He still remembered that promise.
What if they got separated, or forgot?
Then let them meet on the moon!
During the days after Liva left Johnny, that thought gradually surfaced from the depths of his memory.
He had forgotten everything. He had forgotten how he first met Liva, and he had forgotten their conversations.
But the one thing he still remembered was that he had to go to the moon. Because Liva had gotten lost in his life, he had to go to the moon to find her.
And why did Liva keep folding Paper Rabbits throughout her life?
Because through Johnny's words, Liva realized that Johnny could no longer remember the first time they had met.
So throughout her life, Liva kept folding Paper Rabbits, using her own way to remind Johnny that they had actually met long ago.
Likewise, Liva was willing to sacrifice her health to build the house, all so Johnny would remember everything.
Because when they first met, Liva had opened her heart to Johnny and compared the stars to lighthouses watching each other from afar.
And Johnny felt that Liva had something special, something he needed.
It was also because they had met long ago.
At last, every mystery had been revealed.
What Johnny wanted to reach was not the moon, but Liva's side.
I could not speak the thoughts in my heart, but I would spend my entire life trying to make you remember. Like a shining lighthouse, I would illuminate you. It was an obsession, one that others could not understand.
Even if I had lost every memory of you, I had never forgotten our promise to meet on the moon.
As Liva held the Platypus in her hands and gazed at the distant moon.
In an instant, every player's vision blurred.
'Damn it, what kind of game is this? I can't see the screen anymore!'
'Can't see the screen either, +1.'
'Fuck, my eyes are sore! I must've been watching the stream for too long!'
'The game felt a little boring before, but now all I want to ask is why!'
'I'm crying my eyes out! I just can't hold it in anymore!'
'It's not a crime for men to cry. Look, even the boss's eyes are red.'
'What do you mean by a tough guy crying? This is a tough guy crying!'
'This hurts so bad! I seriously can't take it anymore!'
The game used a reverse-chronological narrative, drawing players in with the mystery of going to the moon and stirring their doubts and curiosity.
Bit by bit, it peeled back the final secret and laid it before the players.
Combined with the game's background music, it instantly moved countless players.
Especially the more emotional players, who could no longer hold back their tears as everything was revealed.
Whether they were men or women.
They were all moved by Liva and Johnny's story.
"Damn, I never thought this game would break me!" Dong Zhen grabbed a napkin from beside him and blew his nose, his eyes reddened from trying so hard to hold back.
Yet to everyone's surprise, the game was not over yet.
As the two doctors, Neil and Eva, spoke, everyone remembered.
This was inside Johnny's memories.
They still had a contract with Johnny: To the Moon.
Neil: 'What if they really got lost?... Wait, does that mean?'
Eva: 'Don't tell me you hadn't figured it out.'
Neil: 'I thought this was going to be an inspirational fairy tale...'
Eva: 'I should've known some little girl would step in and turn it into a farce... I think we now know exactly how to send him to the moon.'
Neil: 'Wait, you aren't seriously thinking of doing that, are you? You can't be!'
Eva: 'It's our job, Neil... It's the obligation the contract imposes on us.'
Neil: 'Damn it... Eva, wait!'
As they spoke, Eva vanished from Johnny's childhood memories.
Neil then chased after her.
Sitting before his computer, Dong Zhen suddenly had a bad feeling.
"Wait, what is this woman doctor trying to do?"
Through the memories, Neil found Eva in Johnny's high school years.
At the same time, the background music turned tense and urgent, while the visuals shifted into an old, dark-yellow photo filter.
Neil: 'I know what you're planning to do!'
Eva: 'Listen, the contract requires us to send him to the moon, and the only way to accomplish that is to give Johnny a reason to want to go there.'
Neil: 'So that means Liva has to be removed. But if we do that, what would going to the moon even mean? The real reason he wants to go there is because Liva left him.'
Eva: 'I understand, but legally, we're bound by the contract, especially...'
Neil: 'To hell with whatever %￥# contract! My job isn't to make him even more miserable! Eva! I don't know about you, but I do this job so those old men can leave this world happy! What about you?'
Their conversation finally confirmed Dong Zhen's dreadful suspicion.
This woman doctor actually wanted to remove Liva!
Even though her reasoning was perfectly valid.
Because neither the law nor the contract explicitly forbade it.
But after several hours of gameplay and learning Johnny and Liva's story, the players clearly could not accept such a thing.
"How can that old bitch be so heartless?!"
"Why is that old bitch so damn rigid?!"
"Fuck... Fuck, I can't take this anymore!"
As moved as they had been by Liva and Johnny's story before.
They were now just as furious.
Dong Zhen, who was livestreaming, could not resist slamming his fist onto the desk.
The chat in the livestream room began flooding the screen as well.
Clearly, no one could accept this situation.
What the hell was this?
What kind of fucking contract and law was this?!
Johnny did not want to go to the moon. What he needed was Liva!
And now this old bitch wanted to remove Liva? How the hell was anyone supposed to accept that?
Yet neither the viewers watching the livestream, nor players like Dong Zhen, nor even Neil in the game, seemed able to stop it.
With her higher level of control over the machine, Eva kept removing and altering Liva from every corner of Johnny's memories.
And throughout the process, she set countless traps to stop Neil.