Chapter 24

Chapter 24

A few days later, Jiang Ping had yet to recover from his Genocide run. The events in the game lingered in his mind, and he found himself losing focus whenever he was handling mundane tasks.

He still has only a partial understanding of the games plot.

But that is not important. What is important is that he is now somewhat depressed and listless. That ending made him really uncomfortable, he had never experienced anything like this before. And for a video game no less.

Yes, he regretted it.

Just reminded him of his experience with Mirror. In the beginning, he was very into it, but after a deep dive he got bored and began to regret how much time he spent on it.

But for Undertale, the nature of this regret was different.

He missed the happy moments he spent with those wonderful characters. Watching Undyne burn her house down, watching Papyrus telling bad jokes, eating butterscotch pie

Lets make a new save and get that perfect ending again.

With all the memories swirling in his head, Jiang Ping took a deep breath and reopened the game.

With his previous experience, Jiang Ping was very skilled this time.

He still remembers the details of many monsters, so he can just choose the right options to deal with them peacefully.

When he finally defeated Asriel and watched the sunset with the cast, Jiang Ping had a faint smile on his face.

With this, everythings over. I can move on now.

The next moment, however, the image in the game left him stunned.

In the dark night, the protagonist is sleeping in the bedroom.

At that moment, the door was slowly pushed open, and Toriel came in with a plate of pie. With a motherly smile, she placed it gently on the floor and quietly got out.

It was a heartwarming scene. But soon after the door closed, the protagonist, who was supposed to be asleep, suddenly sat up on the bed.

It was Charas face replacing the protagonists own. Sporting a strange and ominous smile.

A distorted, malicious laugh echoed in the game, and the screen transitioned to a black and white photograph. It was a photo of the protagonist and his friends in the Underground.

But in the photo, everyone except the protagonist had their faces crossed out with bloody marks.

[ The End ] was written in blood too.

Then the screen turned dark.

Sitting in front of the computer, Jiang Pings eyes widened. He couldnt believe what he was seeing.

He was an active forum user, and got into many discussions with guide writers on how the endings were unlocked.

[ Guys please, does anyone know how to get back to the True ending? ][ SAME DUDE!!! Ill pay a thousand shmeckles! I regret the Genocide run! I wanna go baaaaaaaack! Take me baaaaaaaaack!! ][ Feels like my just lying to myself, but I want to go back too ] [ Ive tried deleting the save, reinstalling the game, making a new account to buy the game again, nothing works!!! ]

So thats how it was!

For Jiang Ping, who was still tormented by the game, this was a no brainer.

He couldnt reinstall the computer system, he was still a student, and there were too many learning and assignment related materials stored inside.

So he decided to just buy the game again, on another computer with another account.

Meanwhile, at Nebula Games, Yang Xin had dark circles under her eyes. She had been too excited and kept scouring the internet for reactions and statistics regarding the game, even forgoing her sleep schedule.

Weve broken 500,000 copies sold, and it hasnt even been half a month!

In front of her were three monitors, each displaying statistics and dashboards from different gaming platforms.

After exploding in popularity, Undertale was now appearing on the homepage recommendation lists in all major third-party gaming platforms.

As for the official, national platforms, it would take a while longer due to its use of big data being relatively inefficient.

Over 70% of the 500,000 sales originate from the third-party platforms.

But look at this, a huge amount of accounts are buying this as their very first game, and their playtime is rather short despite reaching the end. Yang Xin narrowed in on this data and enlarged it.

Ah, yes. I see whats happening. Chen Xus smile was somewhere between wry and a smirk.

Yang Xin matched his smile, I guess a lot of players tried the Genocide route out of curiousity, then went to purchase a second copy to make themselves feel better.

I-Is this legal? Are we technically scamming people? Ruan Ningxue asked timidly.

Nonsense, how can we call this a scam? This is simply an expression of love, our players love the game so much that they are willing to buy a second copy! Chen Xu answered with conviction.

Now, Ningxue, lets make another announcement of our sales volume, make some new graphics for the official post, you have free reign, send it to me when youre done, Ill start writing up what to say.

Doing so would stir up the fanbase even more, give media outlets something to report, and give the game another boost in popularity.

Chen Xu logged into his official blog.

He has over 300,000 followers now, thanks to the hype and subsequent popularity of Undertale.

It was far beneath those multimillion-dollar game publishers, but it was still enough to make him a minor celebrity.

More importantly, he could now add a little introductory segment to the blog.

[ Game producer, representative works: Undertale ]

He decided to skip putting Mirror in there, for reasons