The night is deep, the desk is silent under the lamp, and numbers and prop names are flashing on the screen.
You are preparing a huge “script” for a character who has not yet been launched – Xia Kong: a list of materials and growth process.
This play has you alone behind the scenes, and there are also unknown audiences – Xia Kong who may be online or may not be online.
1. Opening: Watch the fate node on the screen
You open your eyes and look at the lines of numbers:
29 low-frequency tidal eclipse sail cores
40 medium-frequency tidal eclipse sail cores
52 high-frequency tidal eclipse sail cores
61 full-frequency tidal eclipse sail cores
46 pieces of burning phosphorus bones
26 pages of the day when the iris blooms
60 bundles of golden wool
175 portions of four crystallized phlogists
122 doses of special resonance accelerators
3,053,300 shell coins
Those cold props are like actors waiting to go on stage.
You are the director and producer, preparing all the stage settings for her.
Your fingertips tremble as you hit “refresh”. You don’t know when this scene will begin, but you have covered all the curtains with numbers.
2. Laying the stage: creating a complete weapon path for her
Weapons are an indispensable part of the character’s growth. It symbolizes her strength and is also your definition of her strength.
You prepare:
Simple shackles × 6
Benchmark shackles × 6
Transformed shackles × 10
Special shackles × 12
40 pieces of crystallized phlogiston
330,000 shells
This is the “weapon path” you have laid out for her.
You want her to be protected by armor once she appears on the stage, rather than being fragile and helpless.
Behind the scenes, you arrange for her to upgrade and strengthen step by step – the materials and resources for each stage are precisely determined.
3. Conflict: Confrontation between the resonance circuit and the realistic plan
Her growth is not just about weapons.
And the deep “resonance circuit” is the soul clue you weave for her.
Resonance circuit materials:
More than 150 pieces of four types of sail cores
175 pieces of crystallized phlogiston
26 pieces of “Day of Iris Blooming”
2,030,000 pieces of shell coins
These materials not only have clear uses in the game, but also become part of your time arrangement, psychological training, and rhythm in reality.
You find that while dealing with millions of shell coins, you are also sorting out the balance between your rest, work, family and games.
This is a kind of tension:
Between the stage and reality, you are both a director and a diligent actor.
4. Climax: You write down an action plan and daydream for her
You start to plan accurately-
Brush the “Wheel of Fate Fragment” every week to ensure that you get 26 copies of “Day of Iris Blooming”.
Enter the “condensation element field” every day to count the drop rate of sail cores and phlogiston.
Arrange a schedule and divide the time into “real life area” and “game preparation area”.
I silently said to myself: “If she really comes online, all this will become the warmest foreshadowing.”
In this action plan, it seems that there is a solo dance that belongs to you:
You follow the steps, but always believe that the stage will eventually be built and she will eventually come on stage.
V. Turning point: the mirror image of fantasy and reality
Sometimes you will pause, stare at the huge amount of shells and materials, and ask yourself:
“Am I doing this for her, or for myself?”
You begin to see the mirror in it:
You are the ordinary person who wants to give but is afraid of failure.
You are planning, persisting, anxious and doubtful.
You realize that this preparation is not entirely to cater to a role that may appear,
but also a dialogue between you and yourself-
“How much time do you have left? Can you still focus on one goal?”
Sixth, the final scene: Whether she is online or not, the preparation itself is part of the completion of the script
When she is really online, the player draws her and puts all the materials into the character growth system. You will take “full level screenshots” and “special weapon screenshots” and write down your feelings.
But if she didn’t appear, or you didn’t get the chance, it doesn’t matter.
You still completed a “behind-the-scenes play” and completed your own performance of concentration, planning and practice.
Cao Yu’s play is to dig out contradictions and courage in daily details.
You found that,
in the game world, you completed a reconciliation between reason and passion;
you completed a test of the boundary between virtual and reality;
you completed an inner performance that belongs only to you.
VII. Epilogue: Back to real life with the fragments
When you turn off the computer and pick up a piece of sail core and put it in your palm, you can feel its cold temperature.
It becomes a symbol in your heart:
“I can still wait seriously, prepare seriously, bear seriously, and let go seriously.”
Life outside the screen continues— you may have to send and receive work emails, answer phone calls, and accompany your family,
but the ritual sense of novel life has become more firm because of this “preparation for her”.
That list of materials is not just a tool list, it is an action script.
She may not appear on the stage, but you have performed this scene with the most pious attitude.
You whispered, “Ready.”
You touched the plastic virtual frame.
Then you stood up and walked towards reality.