After get off work, I become a magical girl

The game has been updated to version 2.0. In addition to retaining the original picture book art style and development gameplay, the game's graphics have evolved significantly. Not only that, the producer has also added a detailed game background and story to this game that originally had almost no background settings and plot.

In the new setting, the player plays a creature called "fairy" who will look for magical girls in a fictional city and form his own team of magical girls by collecting and training them.

The game has added certain management and strategy gameplay, and optimized and improved the original turn-based combat, making a game that was not fun finally become fun.

But this still cannot make "Magical Girls Power Rangers" a popular game.

There are many games with excellent quality, but no matter how good the art is or how interesting the gameplay is, it cannot guarantee that a game will become a big hit. Moreover, "Magical Girls Power Rangers" is just a "violent death mobile game" produced by a small company, which has been operating for a long time and has almost no topic. Even the version update has not brought it many new players.

What really made this game popular was a blog post with only a few words posted on social media:

——“Is this me?”

There is a picture below the blog, which is the development interface of "Magical Girls Sentai".

The owner of this blog is the current "strongest magical girl" who is famous in the material world - Blue Star.

As the captain of the magical girls of Tiandu City and nominally the strongest magical girl, Lan Xing's social media account has countless fans. Every day, countless people express their support under her account, which only has a few words.

Lan Xing updated her blog, which was an extremely rare event. Lan Xing posted screenshots of the game in her blog, which naturally led to a large number of her fans downloading the game. That day, the game server of "Magical Girls' Squadron" was directly paralyzed because of this.

Later, as some players got to know the game more deeply, they gradually discovered a shocking truth in the game - many of the settings in this game are too real.

Putting aside the urban legend of "fairies" that has long been associated with magical girls, the content about the magical girls' abilities and combat in this game is too detailed. There are even people who claim to be retired magical girls who have stated online that the person who designed version 2.0 of this game is likely to be a retired magical girl, because the settings are too real.

But if that was all, it wouldn't seem like a big deal. There weren't many retired magical girls in the material world, but there were definitely quite a few, and it wasn't unusual for some of them to enter the gaming industry.

The matter was further aggravated by the fact that people found many characters in this mobile game that were based on real-life magical girls. These characters all had some characteristics of the prototypes, and some details were set in a shocking degree of detail. There were many character settings that even the fans of magical girls had never heard of.

Take the game character that "Blue Star" had screenshotted on social media, for example. The character's appearance was not very similar to Blue Star himself, but whether it was the combat ability settings or some details in the personal file, they were all exactly the same as Blue Star's. There was even a lot of information that Blue Star had never disclosed to the outside world.

It was for this reason that Lan Xing used a question sentence at the time. After all, she was also quite confused about this.

If you say that this is a leak of privacy, the game doesn't actually mention anyone by name; if you say that this is a rumor and smear, the image of the magical girls in this game is very positive.

It can be said that "Magical Girls Sentai" completely circumvented the various previous restrictions on magical girl works, and simply relied on its "authenticity and reliability" to find a way that would not be banned from distribution but could satisfy people's gossip desires.

From then on, this game became truly popular among magical girl fans, and based on these fans, it gradually gained a large number of passers-by players.

Two years have passed like this, and the 2.0 version of "Magical Girls Power Rangers" has been operating in full swing. Only recently, it finally affected its original target users - adolescent girls.

It wasn't just Jiang Yuan. In Class 3, Grade 2 of Xizhao Middle School alone, there were several girls discussing this game during breaks.

Lin Xiaolu, a girl who is not very interested in games and prefers lying on the sofa watching magical girl animation, downloaded this game because of the theme of "magical girl" at the strong recommendation of Jiang Yuan.

After school, Lin Xiaolu briefly patrolled around Luoming District and then returned to the secret base. She lay on the sofa and turned on "Magical Girls Power Rangers".

After watching the opening animation with a blank expression, Lin Xiaolu ate snacks while waiting for the game's hot update. However, it seemed that there was too much data content, and the update was not completed until she finished a bag of snacks, which made her gradually impatient.

It’s so troublesome to play games, why not just watch TV?

She couldn't help but think so.

However, her interest in the "magical girl" theme eventually overwhelmed her impatience, making her wait until the game was updated.

After entering the game, reading a confusing opening plot, and going through a series of yawn-inducing tutorials, Lin Xiaolu was finally able to get started on her own and began to experience how to play the game.

She held the phone in her hands, expressionless at first, then frowning, and finally sitting up suddenly, baring her fangs and yelling, "Ah! So boring! I don't want to play anymore!"

She was originally thinking, what kind of unique game would this be, with the title of "magical girl" and such a hot commercial performance. However, after actually entering the game, the slow turn-based combat and complicated skill data instantly emptied all her interest.

Throwing her phone aside, she picked up the remote control and turned on the TV, casually tuning to her favorite animation channel, but found that the program being broadcast today was a program she didn't like very much, and she felt even more bored.

In desperation, she had to take the phone back and continued her gaming experience reluctantly.

After controlling the most basic team to pass the novice level and going through a completely uninspiring plot, finally, the system prompted Lin Xiaolu: It’s time to discover a new magical girl.

Although it was said to be a call for team members, in fact, the form of expression in the game was drawing cards. This kind of thing seemed to have been established in the mobile game industry, so Lin Xiaolu didn't have any ideas and just followed the prompts and clicked into the game's card pool.

Then, her eyes were drawn to the cover of the latest issue of the card pool.

The cover of the card pool features a magical girl wearing a purple bubble skirt, with a slightly timid and inexplicably resolute expression on her face.

The magical girl holds a weapon that looks like a notebook in her hand. According to the explanation in the game, this is called "spiritual outfit", which seems to correspond to the magic outfit of the magical girl in reality.

This seems to be a new character that has just been implemented. The name of the card pool is "Reappearance of Longing". The code name of the magical girl on the cover is "Morning Glory". There are also small words written next to the picture on the cover: "Blooming magic to protect the unfulfilled longing".

For some reason, Lin Xiaolu always felt that this magical girl was inexplicably familiar. She was obviously not someone she knew and looked like just an ordinary picture book cartoon character, but she always felt that she had seen her somewhere.

However, this sense of familiarity was fleeting and soon disappeared without a trace. Looking at the magical girl on the cover again, she no longer had this strange feeling in her heart.

Because she was just playing a game, Lin Xiaolu thought it was just her own illusion and quickly put it aside. She followed the instructions of the novice tutorial and went to the game card pool for novices.

Then, with an inexplicable excitement, he clicked the "Call Team Members" button.

Chapter 169 Dawn Grass

2023-06-07

When Xia Liang completed his patrol and returned to the secret base, it was almost dark.

She put away her heart gem at the door with a little tiredness, changed into indoor shoes, walked into the living room, and then saw Lin Xiaolu lying on the sofa playing with her mobile phone.

"You're not watching the TV?"

He walked straight to the sofa and sat down next to Lin Xiaolu. Xia Liang glanced at the scene in the living room and pointed to the TV not far away that was still playing animation: "Then I will change to something I like to watch?"

"Yeah." Lin Xiaolu stared at the screen and responded without raising her head.

Xia Liang was surprised by her cold response, because if she had expressed her intention to snatch the TV to Lin Xiaolu in the past, Lin Xiaolu would definitely strongly oppose it.

When the two of them watch TV together, they always argue about what programs to watch. Xia Liang likes to watch idol dramas, variety shows and news, while Lin Xiaolu only likes to watch animation and popular science programs. In order to compete for the ownership of the TV, the two of them have been fighting for a long time.

However, no matter how rare it is, the opportunity to get something for nothing is rare. Since Lin Xiaolu didn't mind, Xia Liang naturally didn't hesitate. He picked up the remote control and changed the channel to the local TV station, and watched the evening news.

A few minutes passed like this. Although Xia Liang was watching the news, she was still subconsciously curious about what Lin Xiaolu was doing. She hadn't planned to ask, but her curiosity grew stronger and stronger. In the end, she couldn't help it and propped herself up and put her head next to Lin Xiaolu's phone:

"What are you doing?"

Lin Xiaolu glanced at her sideways, then turned her attention back to the phone screen: "Game."

"Game? What game?"

Her words immediately aroused Xia Liang's interest: "Did you suddenly get it? Why did you start playing games?"

"A game about magical girls." Lin Xiaolu said without even raising her head.

"Is it fun?"

"do not know."

"I wonder why you are still so engrossed in playing?"

"…You're so annoying."

Lin Xiaolu finally looked at Xia Liang and tilted the screen in her hand: "Here, this is the game."

"Let me take a look at this interface. Turn-based battles? And these characters... a card-drawing game?"

Xia Liang looked at Lin Xiaolu as if she were a stranger: "Why did you start playing with this kind of thing?"

“Just playing.”

Lin Xiaolu turned the phone screen back and continued to tap on it with her thumb: "I'm free anyway, so I'm just playing around."

"Did you draw anything good?"

"…Just playing around." Lin Xiaolu's face showed a calmness that seemed to show she had seen through everything.

"Is that so?"

Although it sounded like Lin Xiaolu was answering a question that was not related to the question, Xia Liang had already understood what the other party meant from this sentence: that is, she didn't get anything good.

It is indeed not a happy thing if you can't get good things in the card drawing game, so Xia Liang didn't say anything more, but she didn't leave either. Instead, she continued to squat beside Lin Xiaolu and watch.

The two of them played while the other watched. After a while, Xia Liang finally realized something and pointed at the screen: "Why are you looking for others to borrow this character called Shucao? I don't think she is that strong."

In the game "Magical Girls Power Rangers", when a new player encounters a level that he cannot pass, he can apply to borrow "assistant characters" from other players to help him pass the level.

During the game, Lin Xiaolu had to borrow a character codenamed "Shucao" no matter how difficult the current level was, which made Xia Liang quite puzzled.

"What's wrong with it? Haven't you been passing the levels smoothly?" Lin Xiaolu tilted her head with some dissatisfaction.

"But she's not a damage dealing character at all, she's obviously a support... Do you like this character very much?"

"Not really."

"Then why don't you borrow different supporting characters from other players?"

"How I want to play is my own business, right?"

"Eh--"

Xia Liang continued to watch from the sidelines after a long pause to express his doubt. After a while, he came to his senses and pointed at the magical girl named "Akebono" on the screen and said, "This pink color scheme and the codename 'Akebono', could this character..."

"you think too much."

Maybe Xia Liang hit the nail on the head, Lin Xiaolu's expression started to become a little complicated: "It's just a mobile game."

"But, Dawn grass is another name for cherry blossom, right?" Xia Liang continued to ask.

"...I don't know about this kind of thing." Lin Xiaolu said in a muffled voice.

She rejected it very straightforwardly, so Xia Liang didn't say anything more. The silence between the two continued for a while, until Lin Xiaolu finished the game level at hand.

Without saying a word, she clicked on the next level, searched the "Request Help" interface, found the character named Akebono, and clicked on it.

[Number of assists remaining today: 0]

A prompt like this popped up in the game.

This made Lin Xiaolu's hands freeze instantly.

She stared at the screen in silence. After a while, she suddenly returned to the main menu interface of the game. Without pausing for long, she clicked on the card drawing option.

Under Xia Liang's gaze, she used all the rewards for clearing the game level to draw cards. She repeated this over and over again, and various characters were constantly drawn from the card pool.

However, until all the rewards were used up, among the characters drawn, there did not seem to be the "Dawn Grass" that Lin Xiaolu had been paying attention to.

Lin Xiaolu was silent again. She held the phone with a little force, as if she was enduring something. Finally, she sat up suddenly and threw the phone aside:

"It's boring. I don't want to play anymore. Let's watch TV!"

She snatched the remote control from Xia Liang's hand, and before Xia Liang could react, she pressed the remote control and switched back to the channel playing animations.