Chapter 255 Turtle Soup
After finishing the red bean paste buns, I picked up the sugar triangle and put it in my mouth.
You need to be especially careful with the hot brown syrup inside the sugar triangle that has just come out of the pot. You can tell how powerful it is as soon as you put it in your mouth.
Fortunately, this one has been cooled down, and the warm brown sugar has that unique flavor. When you dip it into the hard pasta, it becomes sweeter and sweeter the more you chew it.
After eating two soybean bags and a sugar triangle, I dug out another corn and ate it.
Sweet and waxy corn, she is really... there is such a perfect corn in the world! The taste is sweet and the texture is soft and glutinous, and the boiled flowers stick to your fingers.
After finishing her breakfast with satisfaction, she rubbed her hands and welcomed the new day excitedly.
Read a book! excerpt! Play games with the system!
Yes, she recently developed a new way to play the system - playing turtle soup with the system.
What is Turtle Soup? It's the name of a game, so it's very abstract... There are also some names that feel very professional, like situational guessing games, situational reasoning games, lateral thinking games, etc.
But there is another name that seems more intuitive and easy to understand, called "Is it a game?"
The rules are very simple. The participants consist of a question maker and several guessers. The question maker will give an incomplete and incomprehensible story event, and the guessers will restore the entire story through questions.
The answers that the questioner can give are limited to "yes", "no", "yes and no" and "irrelevant".
Of course, you can also give some tips when necessary to prevent the game from getting into a deadlock. If you are playing among friends, you can be more casual.
Because generally speaking, the answer given by the question maker is basically "yes" and "no", so it is also called the yes or no game.
As for why it’s called “turtle soup”? Because this kind of game originated from a question, and after that question, this series of gameplay came into being.
The question was this: A man walked into a restaurant and ordered a bowl of turtle soup, but when he finished his meal, he committed suicide.
Just, very simple and crude, this game is commonly known as Turtle Soup.
Turtle Soup is the most well-known name of this game - although the game itself is not a popular game, at least it is not as popular as Werewolf and Script Killing.
However, the common name "turtle soup" also gave birth to some "professional terms". For example, the incomplete events given by the question maker are called "soup noodles", and the complete story is called "soup base".
Just, it corresponds to the riddle and the answer.
But because it combines the element of "soup", it is quite vivid. The soup surface is the visible part on the surface, and the soup base is the truth hidden underneath.
In fact, Turtle Soup is similar to Werewolf and Script Killer. They are both board games suitable for everyone to play together, but Turtle Soup is more difficult and takes less time.
The most important thing is that only two people can play it.
She couldn't play large-scale group board games like Werewolf and Scripted Killing, and she didn't want to play them. It was already painful for her to communicate with others. Wouldn't it be too difficult for her to argue with reason?
But turtle soup is just right. All the conversations revolve around the soup noodles, and even the other party can only say a few fixed words.
How comfortable it is.
Moreover, just like the Turtle Soup story from which it originated, this game basically has the same style. It is a bit dark, a bit weird, and requires people to use their imagination, which is very suitable for her taste.
——So it’s not actually a logic-based game, it’s mainly about seeing whether the guesser can reach the key point in his or her mind.
Of course, there are some soups that are not dark, such as funny soup and clear soup, but most of them are quite weird.
So when playing Turtle Soup, there is an unspoken agreement. The first few questions are basically asking "Has someone died?" or "Are there supernatural elements?"
For someone like her who loves watching suspense, horror, and ghost stories, this game is really interesting.
She didn't suddenly remember that there was such a game to play, but it was because she watched the videos of self-media video bloggers every day.
I found an account that specializes in turtle soup videos. It seems to be a small team, and the format is quite novel.
This account will make the story of "Noodle Soup" into a plot video, with the protagonist of the story as the question maker. During the process of answering the questions, the character in the story will also be maintained and the dialogue will be in the first person.
It's very immersive, vivid and interesting.
As she looked at it, she felt itchy and wanted to play.
In fact, she had played it before, and she was obsessed with it for a while. She played it a lot during that time.
For a social worker, she naturally chooses to go to a special game APP to type and play online without having to meet and talk to people, which is very comfortable.
The APP adopts the form of opening a room, and the initiator of each room, that is, the homeowner, is the question maker. You can choose the soup in the game library to make the question - by the way, these soups are also made up by the players themselves.
Then other players can just enter the room that has been opened. The first six people can participate in the game, and those who come in later can only watch and cannot ask questions.
She had been playing with it for a while, but the more she played with it, the more frustrated she became. The quality was really... mixed.
It’s not just the quality of the soup noodles and soup base, but also the person who asked the question... Well, everyone is a player. If the house owner goes out, he may also be the question guesser in other rooms.
But anyway, she has encountered it many times. The homeowner is either inconsistent, always changing his answers, or simply giving wrong answers——
Sometimes she waits until the end of the game to see the soup base, and then compares it with the performance of the homeowner, and her head is filled with questions.
No, what did you answer? Is there something written clearly in the soup base that you swear you are "not"? What do you care about the key points drawn by the author in the soup base?
There are also some soups, and it feels like the creator has developed another genre - Turtle Soup. This game does not require so many details. Writing soup base is not writing a novel!
In short, the enthusiasm for playing games has been worn away little by little over time. Looking back now, she feels that it was a few years ago.
But... now, she has a system!
The system will not make mistakes. As long as the information about the soup base and noodle soup is input into the system, the accuracy of the answer can be 100% guaranteed.
Moreover, the other party is not a human being. No matter how detailed her questions are, no matter how off-topic she is, or how many times she throws a hammer or a stick here and there, it doesn't matter. The system will always answer her with a consistent attitude.
She ran to the book section of the space and rummaged around. There were indeed a lot of Turtle Soup books and sets including script-killing books. She could just feed the data directly to the system.
In fact, she has also considered whether to play scripted killing games with the system. After all, it is not difficult for the system to play multiple characters in one unified role. She can even put different voice acting packages on each character.
But...it's just weird. I feel like I have more than a dozen. Although the system definitely won't cheat, it's still a bit frustrating, so this idea is temporarily abandoned.