Chapter 395 - Easter Egg (1/2)
“Oh, you people are playing this game…”
The checked baggage from first-cla.s.s were the first to come rolling out on the conveyor belt, which was why Ponytail returned to them reasonably quickly. He saw Zhang Heng holding the game console in his hand and smiled. “This is a traditional game of 01. What is our highest score again?” he asked.
“697216 points,” Little Boy spelled out the numbers sternly, “Philip won it. This is not fair. He’s a piano player, and his fingers can surely move faster than ordinary people. My best score is very close to him, though.” “I can’t do it anymore. I keep comin in last. The speed of my fingers and eyesight are not my forte,” Ponytail said, “My best record is only 200,000 points, but fortunately, I have Semiprime with me. Luke has played piano before as well. He might be able to challenge Philip’s score.”
Little Boy did not say anything to bring Zhang Heng down this time, afraid that the mysterious knife would find itself under her neck again. Judging by her less-than-satisfied expression, she obviously disagreed with that statement.
To kill time, Zhang Heng had also played Tetris before when he was a kid. During the first round, Zhang Heng lost really fast. Lasting less than ten seconds, he only got himself 100 points.
However, with the help of this losing round, he started to familiarize himself with the b.u.t.tons and rules. He performed much better in the second round-although lasting only 20 seconds, he got a total of 3,000 points. The score had Little Boy raising her eyebrows. Even though she didn’t like Zhang Heng, she had to admit that his results were impressive for a newcomer.
The members of 01 were good enough to compete with each other, and most of them could achieve a high score in the game. When they first started playing it, they were also confused by the game’s mechanics.
However, Zhang Heng was not satisfied with this result. His hand-eye coordination was not recognized as a skill by the system—the reason why it was not displayed on the skill panel — but it was thoroughly put through its paces and had improved greatly during the LEGO quest.
During that perioid, his speed of a.s.sembling bricks had reached an astonis.h.i.+ng level. He now knew all the LEGO parts by feel, and could a.s.semble simple objects with his eyes closed. The Tetris blocks, on the other hand, began to drop faster as the level increasedsimilar to LEGO, once familiar with the game, mastering it wouldn’t be too difficult. So just ten minutes later, Zhang Heng, who had only played only six games of Tetris, had a score tied to Ponytail. Zhang Heng used the most common method employed by Tetris masters
-he first stacked the blocks high enough, before clearing them all in one go. With that, he would be able to garner the highest score possible. This method greatly tested one’s speed, eyesight, and mental state.
To make matters worse, Zhang Heng’s ears were continually bombarded by system prompts as he was playing.
[Achieved 5000 points on Tetris’s highest difficulty: +3 game points. Visit your character panel to learn more…]
[Achieved 10,000 points on Tetris’s highest difficulty: +3 game points. Visit your character panel to learn more…]
[Achieved 30,000 points on Tetris’s highest difficulty: +3 game points. Visit your character panel to learn more…]
[Achieved 50,000 points on Tetris’s highest difficulty: +5 game points. Visit your character panel to learn more…]
(Achieved 600,000 points on Tetris’s highest difficulty: +20 game points. Visit your character panel to learn more…]
Zhang Heng did not expect to earn a whopping 143 game points in 20 minutes. It would have taken him at least a year in a quest to earn that many.
The reason why he borrowed the game console from the Little Boy was that his dexterity had reached an impa.s.se when he practiced a.s.sembling LEGO. After observing the methods employed by other builders, he wanted to try it to see if it worked. Unexpectedly, he found a hidden Easter egg.