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Chapter 581 - 183: What Does It Mean to Be Written into the Textbooks? I’ll Damn Well Write a Textbook Myself!_4

Chapter 581: Chapter 183: What Does It Mean to Be Written into the Textbooks? I’ll Damn Well Write a Textbook Myself!_4

"Sorry to interrupt, my question."

Compared to the bustling scene in the live stream,

at this moment, in the conference room of Hope Flute Design’s third department, Kate was staring at Conna, wide-eyed.

The entire conference room was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.

It was because the expressiveness of the game was... too terrifying.

It was so terrifying that Conna, a manager with little understanding of game design, could see that "it looks like it could be really fun."

Meanwhile, in the live stream room, Josiah, after obtaining Sulfur Fire, a powerful weapon, had officially begun his journey of unstoppable progress.

After descending a few more floors,

finally, he encountered the final BOSS of Isaac—Mom’s Leg.

As the name suggests, this final BOSS was in the shape of Isaac’s mother’s leg.

A thick, muscular thigh wearing a red high heel would randomly stomp down from mid-air and was not hindered by any obstacles.

Moreover, the room had four doors, one on each wall, which would randomly open to reveal Mom’s eyes, shooting bullets randomly, further restricting the player’s movement.

The layout of the entire room was quite cramped, and it was also obstructed by rocks.

For a player, the likelihood of dying on the first encounter was quite high.

But Josiah had walked this far like a chosen one, with a combination of items that gave him tremendous damage.

In no time at all, he had depleted Mom’s Leg’s health bar.

"Son~~~" Accompanied by a sharp and mournful scream, the game ended.

And quickly, the closing animation popped up.

It was still the familiar, simple sketch style.

In the animation, the dungeon exploration seemed to have been just a dream by Isaac.

Now awake from the dream, Isaac was still in his own room.

His knife-wielding mother had broken through the door and backed Isaac into a corner.

Just as Isaac’s life was about to end,

a bible on the adjacent bookshelf fell, striking his mother on the head with unerring accuracy.

The mother died.

Isaac had finally found redemption, wearing the smile of a victor on his face.

And in the next moment,

the narration abruptly stopped.

The sketch style was replaced with a brightly colored, exquisitely moving animation style.

Isaac was still laughing.

Only the large door behind him was slowly being pushed open.

And there, the mother’s dark silhouette stood outside the door, the dagger in her hand glistening with a cold sheen.

With that, the game completely ended and returned to the opening UI screen.

But it left Josiah with a chilling feeling.

"What does this mean? Did Isaac manage to escape or not?"

He hadn’t expected a game with a peculiar art style, filled with blood, violence, and elements of feces and urine to leave such a profound impression on him.

The introduction and the ending together didn’t even last for 3 minutes,

yet they left him with such a deep impression!

Amidst the barrage of comments in the stream urging him to start the next round,

Josiah recalled the discovery he had made just moments before.

He entered the seed again.

This time, his main test was about his conjecture regarding the ’total item pool’ randomness.

In the third game, starting off as usual with Onion Head + Technology 1 + Dinner,

after reaching the second floor, Josiah didn’t pick up Pyromaniac but headed straight for the BOSS Room.

After defeating the boss, sure enough, it was Breakfast.

Then he tested it once more.

The fourth game.

This time, under the same conditions, he picked up Pyromaniac

and the drop in the BOSS Room turned out to be Magic Mushroom.

"So, does it mean that all the item pools in Isaac are shared? No... there must still be distinctions between items. For example, the items from the Demon Room probably wouldn’t appear in the BOSS Room or the Treasure Room. Otherwise, there would be no point in having these rooms,"

"But they will also randomly alternate within their respective item pools."

Seeing that quite a few comments in the live stream indicated that they couldn’t understand,

Josiah thought for a moment and took out a deck of playing cards from nearby, giving a simple example.

He took out the hearts from Ace to King and laid them out on the table.

"Let’s say these 13 cards represent the item pool in Isaac."

"Now we arrange them in order, representing the items that players will encounter, with the Ace being the first and the King being the thirteenth."

"We were supposed to go in the order of ’first Ace, then 2, then 3’."

"But if we take 5 in advance, then there will be no 5 item left in the entire item pool afterwards."

"Then, the place where the 5 was supposed to appear has to be replaced by something else, because the Treasure Room can’t be empty. Let’s say a 7 appears instead."

As he spoke, Josiah drew a 7 out and continued,

"So now, the 7 moves to the place of the item 5, then there will be a gap where the 7 was supposed to be, requiring another item to fill in."

"After one cycle like this, the entire item pool would have a complete rotation."

"Whether it’s by following the sequence to sink, or is completely randomized again, this means..." As he spoke, even Josiah’s own eyes began to widen bit by bit.

"It means that this game, even within the same seed, will have countless different ways to pass through..."

When this speculation was confirmed, the whole live streaming room completely erupted!

A dense fervor of question marks surged wildly!

"????"

"If Josiah is right, then the replayability of this game is so immense that it’s beyond my imagination..."

"I’m sold! How does the top player manage to design such a game that’s always unique and constantly random? Truly achieving randomness at every moment!"