After some operations, Fang Lingyan and Team Leader Yang successfully entered the two-player cooperative mode game of "Portal".

The game opens with an animation of robots being assembled on an assembly line.

The 3D images cannot be said to be realistic, but they do look full of the texture of future technology.

Accompanied by a burst of very rhythmic background music, a spherical head with a short robot with big blue eyes in the middle, and a long drop-shaped head with a tall robot with small orange eyes in the middle were assembled on the assembly line.

, and then was sent into a fully transparent tube like an elevator.

The animation show ends.

Both robots ended up stuck in a certain section of the pipeline.

The game officially begins.

This is a first-person game.

Fang Lingyan rotated his perspective and saw the tall orange-eyed robot standing opposite. He instantly realized that he should be playing the short blue-eyed robot.

Then, a female voice similar to artificial intelligence in the game began to read out the game tutorial prompts without emotion.

Fang Lingyan followed the prompts and made a gesture of greeting to Team Leader Yang opposite.

At this moment, the game screen was switched to a third-person perspective.

When she saw the robot she was playing, she raised her hand and waved in a cute and adorable way.

"Okay... Well, the picture looks pretty smooth." Fang Lingyan said calmly.

——You can’t even show your true emotions when you play games with your boss.

It feels so painful...

"Yes." Team leader Yang also controlled his robot and waved his hand, completing this group of teachings.

The following teaching is basically related to the interaction between the two.

To sum up, the two of them need to set up mark prompts in the scene to remind the other player.

After completing the interactive teaching, the two landed from the pipe to the ground.

Fang Lingyan walked forward along the only passage in the enclosed space, and finally came to a clean and neat small room.

There is a transparent glass partition on the left side of the small room, and on the other side of the partition is the room belonging to Team Leader Yang;

There is another passage opposite the small room, but there is a wide and deep ditch blocking it in the center of the room. The ditch is full of turbid sewage, and the robot will inevitably be paralyzed if it falls.

Across the ditch, there is a mechanical arm holding a firearm full of technology.

And above the side of the firearm, a sloping white wall is exactly aligned with its location.

...Now is the time to start solving the puzzle?

[GLaDOS (artificial intelligence): Your communication mark can also be used to point out to your companions the location where you want them to store the portal.

[For this test, I will pretend to be your companion.

[Please use your communication tag to tell me where you want me to place your two portals.]

Store the portal...

Fang Lingyan looked around, clicked here and there, and finally made a mark on the white wall above the side of the gun.

The next second, the artificial intelligence opened a dark blue portal at the marked point.

Fang Lingyan thought for a while and made another mark on the white wall next to him.

So, the artificial intelligence opened a light blue portal at this marked point.

The two portals were opened successfully.

Then, Fang Lingyan was surprised to find that he could actually see the firearm on the other side of the ditch from the light blue portal next to him... The key is that this perspective looks quite strange.

Such a bird's eye view...

Looking back at the dark blue portal above the side of the gun, she suddenly understood.

This actually uses two portals to connect the two walls together!

——She passed through the light blue portal next to her, and seemed to be able to come out of the dark blue portal on the opposite side!

this……

What a magical way to play!

How could the "Firebringer" still come up with such outrageous ideas?

Team Leader Yang on the other side also fell into chaos after following the prompts and opening two portals.

Such a puzzle game is really beyond her imagination...well, actually it is far beyond her imagination.

"This gameplay idea is pretty good..."

Manager Yang reluctantly praised him, and then said, "But this plot... seems to be artificial intelligence testing the performance of the robot?"

In other words, this two-player cooperative mode actually has no plot at all?

"Perhaps you have to pass the single-player story mode first to get the answer?" Fang Lingyan said tentatively.

"Well, maybe." Team Leader Yang responded, stepped through the portal beside him, jumped out of the portal on the other side, and got the technology gun on the other side of the ditch.

At this moment, she suddenly stopped, "Speaking of which, this picture, plus this scene...did this game appear in "The Stanley Parable" before "Firebringer"?"

"Eh?"

Fang Lingyan was slightly startled, "The Stanley Fable..."

She recalled it for a moment and slowly came to her senses, "I just said that this picture and scene had a feeling of déjà vu... I remember that in the ending, in addition to the fragments of this game, there seemed to be fragments of another block game?

"

She opened her mouth slightly, "Are these two games actually independent games?"

If this is really the case, then the layout of "Firebringer" is a bit far-reaching...

"In other words, 'Firebringer' has wanted to make this kind of two-player cooperative game a long time ago?" Team Leader Yang considered.

"..." Fang Lingyan was silent.

Team leader, your prejudice is almost overflowing!

The game continues.

Fang Lingyan passed through the portal and got the technological gun on the opposite side.

She tried to follow the tutorial instructions and used this gun to create two dark blue and light blue portals on the white wall.

——It seems that this technological gun is a teleportation gun specially used to create teleportation gates?

And with the help of the two portals created by this gun, they seem to be able to play many tricks.

So, this is what the "Portal" in the game's name refers to?

"This shooting feels really good." Team Leader Yang couldn't help but admire it.

"Yeah." Fang Lingyan responded.

Shooting game...

Could this be another plot by the "Fire Bearer"?

While they were talking, the two of them had already passed through the passage through a piece of glass and arrived in another room.

In this room, there is a terrain with differences in levels.

The exit is at the top, and the two of them are at the bottom.

It's impossible to get up by jumping.

There are several white walls on the upper and lower walls respectively, and the rest are normal dark gray walls.

Just like the previous room, the puzzles faced by the two people are exactly the same.

"Build a portal on the white wall at the bottom, and then build another portal on the white wall at the top. After passing through the portal at the bottom, we can come out of the portal at the top and go directly to the top.

on the platform." Team leader Yang explained.

"Yeah." Fang Lingyan responded softly.

In fact, levels like this are used to strengthen players' understanding of the correct usage of the teleport gun.

When players know how to use the teleport gun correctly, passing such levels will be as easy as eating and drinking.

Although Team Leader Yang's explanation seemed a bit contemptuous of her intelligence, she obviously wouldn't refute anything.

Who made the other party her direct leader?

And the most important thing is...

The other party is seriously thinking about the levels in the game!

If the other party adopts such an attitude, it means that the other party is slowly accepting this game subconsciously.

This is definitely good news for her, a loyal fan of "Firebringer".
To be continued...