At night, the lights of the city are a little blurred outside the window.
You sit in front of the keyboard, breathing slightly up and down, and a list of materials is quietly displayed on the screen. It is a growth indicator prepared for a character that has not yet appeared in the game-Xiakong.
This is not a cold accumulation of values.
It is like a seed with temperature, waiting to bloom on the other side of “unknown time”.
You read the lines of numbers gently.
29 low-frequency tidal sail cores, 40 medium-frequency, 52 high-frequency, and 61 full-frequency.
46 pieces of burning phosphorus bones, 26 copies of iris blooming day, and 60 bundles of golden wool.
The total of four types of crystallized phlogiston is 175, and the special resonance promoter is 122 doses.
Finally, it is the number that weighs on the shoulders of reality-more than three million shells.
This list of materials, like a pass, allows you to cross the boundary between virtual and reality.
You suddenly realize that it records not only the training plan, but also the commitment you made for “possibilities” – at some point in the future, you will still let yourself believe that even a fictional person is worthy of your gentle care in advance.
1. Sowing: Infuse care into every name given to her
Every time you collect a sail core and wait for it to fall, you will be reminded that everything starts from the beginning and requires patience.
“When I defeat an enemy and pick up a sail core, I remind myself that patience is better than anxiety.”
You repeat this sentence softly in your heart.
Just like you in reality, you were afraid to wait in a relationship, but finally understood that every acceptance comes from continuous accumulation.
“Burning Phosphorus Bone”, “Iris Blooming Day”… These names are not cold props, but like gentle fragments collected from the darkness, allowing you to see the growing skin being slowly smoothed.
2. Irrigation: What irrigates her special weapon is not numbers, but beliefs
You prepare simple shackles for her again and again, modify shackles, and then make special shackles.
You understand that this upgrade process is very much like a person who is locked up from being fragile, to being firmly liberated, and then to being flexible and solid.
You also prepared crystallized phlogiston and shell coins for her. Hundreds of repeated operations are the rituals you will insist on injecting into the character every day.
You need her not only to exist in the game, but also to keep the temperature in your heart.
At least, you have planted a seed of “belief” for yourself.
3. Growth: Weave her world in the “skill loop” and organize your daily life
Her resonance loop growth requires:
A large number of sail cores and phlogiston: every time you upgrade, you go to the dungeon, brush the task, and challenge the abyss.
“Iris Blooming Day”: You step into the weekly challenge and see that you are exhausted after being oppressed by reality, but you are still willing to open the unknown map.
Shell coins: It is a small account book of regular life. You calculate it and plan it, as if you are laying a good foundation for the future.
This is not a simple game experience, but a “growth ritual” woven by your heart.
You transform every dungeon experience in the “Condensate Field” and “Wheel of Fate” into a reminder for your own life:
In the anxiety of being torn by reality, you can still stick to your own pace and complete something that will eventually heal.
Fourth, connection: When people in reality no longer understand, you are still gentle and self-sustaining
“Why do you spend so much time on games?” A friend asked on WeChat.
You did not defend yourself, but just said gently: “I am practicing ‘gentle promises’ for myself.”
Bi Shumin’s care is an understanding without any judgment.
You understand that these materials, these numbers, and these repeated copies are you practicing to keep trust in “her who may appear”, and not give up on investing in her and the future because of uncertainty.
You are willing to use the accumulation that is not gorgeous to practice a promise – even if the object of this promise is Xia Kong, a fictional character. But through this plan, you have regained the enthusiasm and expectations that were once folded by reality.
5. Blooming: Seeing the softness of the future in the accumulation
Perhaps, when you really draw Xiakong, she is not what you imagined.
Perhaps, when she appears in the game, you have already accepted her existence. Regardless of the victory or defeat, the score, or the intensity, you only value the warm waiting.
You sow, irrigate, grow, and connect. Each step reserves a possibility for you:
The future can still be healed, and the world can still be treated gently.
This is not just about cultivating characters.
This is a heartwarming conversation between you and yourself:
“I still believe that even if it is virtual, I am still willing to give it seriousness and love.”
Late at night, you close the computer.
The lights in the room are as gentle as day.
You say in your heart: “Get ready, Xiakong.”
Then look up and see a little moonlight on the ceiling.
As if responding to you-even if it is just a name, it deserves all the gentle care.