When I dream of her, the dream is empty
When I prepare materials for her, the world is real
——Title
She is the stillness before the storm, the silent moment of the loading interface
She has not yet arrived.
You can’t even be sure whether her image is consistent with your imagination.
Her name is Xia Kong, a character destined to cross the storm of fate.
She belongs to the game, but she detonates a heart in your body that has been paused by reality.
She is data, voice pack, pixel, and action in the script
But you, stay up late to brush the dungeon for her, your fingers tremble slightly as they cool down
This is a ritual,
Just like the quiet preparations on the eve of the revolution.
You opened the character breakthrough data table of “Mingchao”, which is calm, precise, emotionless, but full of meaning.
Materials required to break through to the maximum level:
Low-frequency tidal sail core × 29
Medium-frequency tidal sail core × 40
High-frequency tidal sail core × 52
Full-frequency tidal sail core × 61
Phosphorus burning bones × 46
Iris blooming day × 26
Golden fleece × 60
Crystallized phlogiston × 25
Roughly extracted phlogiston × 28
Distilled phlogiston × 55
High-purity phlogiston × 67
Special resonance accelerator × 122
Shell coins × 3,053,300
This page is like a letter of challenge
You are not cultivating a character
You are digging into yourself – the part that refuses to compromise and refuses to extinguish.
Her weapon is faith
In the game setting, each character has a “special weapon”
But I prefer to call it a “sharp blade in the soul”
Her weapon requires:
Simple shackles × 6
Base shackles × 6
Transformed shackles × 10
Special shackles × 12
Crystallized phlogiston × 40
Shell coins × 330,000
You can’t find these items in life
But every time you defeat a monster, you feel a familiar victory
Not defeating the enemy
But defeating an existence called “numbness”.
The resonance circuit is her struggle with the world
Xia Kong is a resonator
She doesn’t rely on blood or fate
She relies on the circuit – her own reconstruction after playing with this system
The following are required to upgrade her resonance circuit:
Low-frequency eclipse sail core × 25
Medium-frequency eclipse sail core × 28
High-frequency eclipse sail core × 40
Full-frequency eclipse sail core × 57
Iris Blooming Day × 26
Crystallized phlogiston × 175
Shell coins × 2,030,000
Does this look like the process of changing ourselves?
At first we just wanted to survive
Then we learned to adapt
Finally we had to open up all the channels
Not to be stronger
But to avoid sinking.
Skills are her language
She doesn’t speak, but she has skills.
Her “Wind Spirit Blade”, “Wind Walk”, and the CD times
are very similar to the rhythm of human emotions
Quickly burst, slowly cool down
Reincarnation
Reincarnation again.
Each of her skill upgrades
is like a rewrite of a poem
You try to keep her freedom and edge in this system
You even sorted out the best material plan for this, arranged the weekly resource acquisition rhythm, and used the order of reality to write an electronic survival plan for her.
You know she won’t thank you, but you still continue. You will eventually understand that you are not preparing for her. You are looking for a landing point for your lost faith.
In a world with strict logic and fixed drop rates, you found a moment of certainty.
When everything in reality is unpredictable, you at least know that –
The Burning Phosphorus Bone can be dropped from the Sighing Ancient Dragon. You can buy up to 15 copies of the Golden Fleece per week. There are four ways to obtain Crystallized Phlogiston. All of this can be controlled by you.
It’s not that she is waiting for you. It’s you who, through her, is fighting against an entire disordered world.
The final silence and confession
She has not yet been implemented
She has not even appeared in the card pool
She may not be drawn
She may not be as strong as you imagined
But you still prepared everything for her
You quietly brushed the book
You quietly collected
You are very much like the person who quietly repaired the roof before the storm came
You picked up idealism from the fragments of the game
You planted hope in the character of Xia Kong
You wrote a poem that only you can understand:
“She has not come yet
But I have already built a city for her
Even if she just came to take a look and then left.”