Almighty Game Designer

(There is a lot of dramatic content, you can consider jumping if you don't care)

Time turns to winter.

The first one on the screen was a rabbit, Ellie hunting with a bow and arrow.

From Ellie's mental state, the players can deduce that Joel is still alive, just incapacitated, or Ellie won't come out hunting alone.

While chasing a deer, Ellie met two passers-by, and while waiting for her passers-by companion to go back for medicine, Ellie and the passers-by were attacked by zombies.

During the battle with Ellie and the zombies, the players discovered that the little Lori who had known only to scream 666 behind Joel had grown into a qualified fighter, diving, assassinating, bowing, shooting, and unlocking all of her abilities, as seen in the many tough fights Ellie had fought to take care of Joel in the past few months.

After solving all the zombies, when the players thought they were safe, the plot turned again.

This lewd uncle who fought alongside Ellie was the head of the hunter, and all the hunters Joel and Ellie had killed in a nearby town were his companions.

Uncle Dirty, however, seemed quite enlightened, gave Ellie antibiotics and let her go.

But in fact, if the player had paid attention to the previous plot, and the new chief had been mentioned in the town's hunters' chatter, his cruelty had even provoked the hunters' discontent, and even some of the hunters had preferred to leave rather than work with him, it could be seen as a very hidden negative character.

(Eggs here: Uncle Dirty and Nathan use the same actor.

Ellie went back to her hideout, and Joel was still lying unconscious on the ground, and Ellie got the antibiotics just to save him.

Cold and cold, Joel was unconscious with a blanket, and Ellie lay beside him with a backpack and cared for.

But in the morning, the hunters actually searched here, and Ellie decided to pull these hunters away.

Ellie was captured by the hunter's leader, even though many hunters were solved.

Waking up from jail, Ellie found that the hunter outside was dissecting the living, apparently feeding on human flesh.

The chief wanted Ellie to stay, but Ellie was not moved, and the chief was angry and decided to chop Ellie into Ellie sauce.

And that's when Joel, who injected antibiotics, woke up.

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Zhao Lei manipulated Joel, he cried with joy, you finally woke up!

Apparently, Ellie has been caught, and now only Joel can save her if he arrives in time. Zhao Lei didn't scratch much of the material in the room, and almost immediately rushed out of the house to find Ellie's whereabouts.

Killing the town searching for its own hunter, Joel tied up two live animals and tortured and forced two people to find Ellie. Not only did this inhumane torture scene not make Zhao Lei feel cruel, it made him feel very relieved!

But the story that followed did not fall into the rudimentary "Joel Saves Ellie” bridge, Ellie escaped very wisely, at a time when the story was twin-lined, Ellie escaped in the snowstorm, searching for a way to live in the town; and Joel also came to the town, searching for Ellie's trail.

In a small town restaurant, Ellie and her perverted uncle fought a very tough boss battle, and Ellie could only dive in the scene, stab her with a knife, and had to stab her three times.

Zhao Lei died several times here, but when the final knife came out, the image switched back to Joel.

By the time Joel arrived in town, enemy reinforcements had arrived and were searching the entire town. Zhao Lei had no intention of interfering with these people, but was searching for Ellie's location in the town.

Ellie eventually killed the perverted hunter chief, waving his machete almost like a vent and chopping his head to pieces, when Joel finally arrived and Ellie cried silently in Joel's arms.

In the low guitar sound, everything was calm, and Zhao Lei realized at this time that his back had been wet with sweat.

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So far, the whole story has actually come to an orgasm, the players have been through a lot, and Joel and Ellie's emotions have changed.

From initial indifference to later gradual trust, to now, the two have become inseparable.

When Joel was badly injured, Ellie did not leave him, but worked so hard to take care of him that Joel had made her his own daughter. The conversation between the two men on the way also changed markedly, and Joel said that when it was all over, he would teach Ellie to play the guitar, and you can see that Joel had already treated Ellie as a trustee in the afterlife and as a family.

At this point, the goal of the players was to send Ellie to the fireflies and develop a vaccine against the virus.

Finally, when they arrived at the destination hospital, the scene was no longer a blizzard, and two people walked for a very long time, traveling across the United States for a whole year.

There are many animals in the ruins of the city. A giraffe is downstairs, reaching upstairs to graze. Joel and Ellie walked over and touched the soft fur on the giraffe's neck.

The giraffe eats the grass and the big, watery eyes look at the lens, behind it is a tall building with lush green grass.

The adorable giraffe seemed to have woken Ali's heart and started jumping forward, chasing the giraffe away.

This is a very gentle scene, although brief, but very impressive in Zhao Lei's heart. In previous zombie themes, the scenes of the late death seemed to be all the same gray and black, and the almost rotten zombies brought about real nightmares and the late death. But in The End of America, two decades after the virus erupted, nature and animals regained human territory because the virus was set up as an insect herb and did not pose a threat to plants and animals.

This scene of tenderness is a very critical female perspective that brings a human face to America's End of the Day. It's not just hormones and killings anymore, it's not just the cruelty and ruthlessness of the past, it's a lot more sunshine and warmth.

With the melody of relaxation, Zhao Lei had the feeling that after so many painful battles before, the story would finally come to a good end.

Like this land in front of us, green grass, trees, giraffes.

At that time, Joel had taken a step backwards, and he suggested that the journey could be concluded. But Ellie decided to keep going, and after all that she's been through, the goal of saving humanity is about to be achieved.

Players at this time are also in such a very tangled mindset that they know it's coming to an end and they don't want it to end like this.

The two skilfully partnered with each other across the zombie-ridden city, experiencing many dangers, and finally they found the base of the fireflies.

When Joel woke up, Marlene was right next to him, and she was saddened that they could have walked this long.

Joel said, "Because she's here, she risked her life to get here, and maybe that's what it's meant to be. ”

Joel wanted to meet Ellie, but Marlene told Joel the truth.

Insectobacterium mutated in Ellie's body, so Ellie was immune to the virus. The doctors had to remove the vermin that had spread throughout Ellie's brain in order to inversely engineer the vaccine.

Reality finally ripped off the veil of tenderness, and Joel faced the dilemma of either letting Ellie die, developing a vaccine, or rescuing Ellie, putting the safety of all humankind behind him.

After all, in the case of the immunodeficiency virus alone, it is very likely that humans will never find the next person as immune to the virus as Ellie.

And Joel chose the latter without hesitation.

Zhao Lei never felt so happy when he grabbed the gun, forced him to ask, and killed a bloody road. He didn't care about the end of the world or about the virus vaccine. He just wanted to get Ellie out and get out of here.

For Joel, Zhao Lei feels the same way, because the two of them have gone through so much together on this long journey that they have gained an emotion that is even more inseparable than affection.

Joel experienced the pain of losing his daughter, so he knew exactly what Ellie's death would mean to him, probably even more painful than the end of the world. So he didn't have any hesitation, for Ellie he could kill everyone.

On his way to the top floor, Joel discovered two recordings, one from a doctor who had confirmed that Ellie was in an unprecedented state, even looking ahead to a wonderful tomorrow where vaccines would be developed, the world would be saved, and all the pain would end. The other was Marlene's recording, and as the leader of the fireflies, she was very disturbed, but eventually agreed to the doctor's advice. And when Joel arrived, the firefly soldiers offered to kill Joel, and Marlene saved Joel.

Finally, he arrived at the operating theatre, and Joel ran out of the fire base with Ellie.

The familiar melody sounded again, and Zhao Lei's eyes were wet, as if he had seen Joel and Ellie leaning on each other in the afterlife scene.

What is the definition of the end of life? The outbreak of the virus, the destruction of civilization may be doomed, but for Joel today, if Ali dies, it's the real doom.

Kill Marlene and leave the fireflies.

Ellie woke up in the car leaving. They're going back to Tommy's town to get on with their lives. Joel told a good lie, telling her that fireflies had a lot of immune viruses, but there was nothing they could do, and they'd given up on vaccine development.

The last point of view came back to Ellie.

Joel talked about his dead daughter, Sarah, and thought Ellie and Sarah would definitely be great friends.

In the last scene, Ellie talks about her friends, Tess, and Sam, all of whom died of infection, and Ellie survived. Obviously, if Ellie knew that her death could end this, she would most likely choose to sacrifice herself.

Ellie made Joel swear everything he said was true.

Joel looked into Ellie's eyes and said seriously, "I swear. ”

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That's it, game over.

Zhao Lei still felt some shortness of breath and his heart was pounding.

And for the first time, he had this weird feeling after the whole game.

Looking at the entire list of R&D players in the game, Zhao Lei knew that the story was over, but there was too much to reflect on.

Every character, every episode seems to have its own meaning, but it's obviously a controversial story. Everyone has their own judgment in their heart and their own ending.

The American End of the Day did not give players a chance to choose the end, did not make a very popular "multi-end story”, it just told a good story, like a movie, in which the characters were each adhering to their own creed.

Zhao Lei felt he had too much to say in his heart, but there was nothing to start with.

He understands that The End of America will be a true divine work.