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This article comes from the official account of Wechat: ID:chuappgame, author: Peng Chuwei

By helping each other, they make each other's playtime coincide with their friends.

This is not a fictional story. We found two middle school students and recorded a real experience about them. For understandable reasons, the characters in the article are all aliases, and some games are also treated anonymously.

You can only play for 14 hours on January 9th, 6: 00 p. M.

He sighed. Her mobile phone has been ringing since the end of class, and that's what her friends are talking about about game restrictions. Half a day ago, the "notice of Game restrictions for minors before and after the 2023 Winter Holiday and Spring Festival Holiday" spread all over the class. According to the calendar published in the notice, they could board the game for 14 of the 23 days from January 13 to February 5. Play for that hour every day.

Minors can only log in to the game "really overbearing!" during the 14 days of winter vacation. Some people are saying, "Why are you allowed to play for only 14 days during winter vacation?" Even across the screen, Tate could feel the grievances of his classmates, saying with a lot of tongues, repeating the words in the notice one after another, distorting or laughing at them from time to time.

In Tate's high school, most people have their own mobile phones. Since the school announced the start of the holiday in mid-December and all online classes have been switched to online classes, Tete has not seen his classmates face to face, only talking in class groups and privately built game groups. the topics are mostly some newly heard news from the Internet, the school's recent arrangements and how to play games on weekends. Today, all these topics have been replaced by the marvel that "you can only play for 14 hours during the winter vacation".

The wonder comes from a boy, who is the "overlord" in the special class. His name is Ma Chao. Ma Chao is called a "bully" because he has an temperament that Tate and her little sisters privately call "blind power". It means what Ma Chao wants, nothing can stop him from getting it, even he can't stop himself, especially when he wants to play with his cell phone.

Ma Chao doesn't have his own mobile phone, so he likes to "borrow" it from his classmates. Tate was borrowed his cell phone by Ma Chao. When the phone returned to Tate's hand, it smelled of sweat and chewing gum. Tate felt a little awkward, but she didn't say anything because everyone didn't say anything to Ma Chao after being asked for the phone.

The person she was a little afraid of, usually reticent, suddenly shouted in the game group: "you can only play for 14 hours!" Special seemed to feel the anger and unwillingness of that blind force being pushed back by another greater and more inexplicable force. While secretly excited, Tate began to wonder what kind of news made the bully so excited.

Tate opened his phone and clicked on the links sent by friends-all about game restrictions, while more and more people in the group were sending messages about "how long can we play?" Subsequently, the restricted calendar was reissued repeatedly, and Special stared at the picture, lost in thought.

Originally, according to Tate's idea, starting from January 13, she will extricate herself from lengthy online classes, sleep an extra three hours a day, play her favorite audio games, draw pictures for half a day, and then play "light encounter" with her good sisters for an hour at night. This is the winter vacation life that Tete has imagined countless times in her heart. She feels that for a high school student like her, most of the time "time" is not entirely her own thing, there are always a lot of people staring at her time, trying to compete for and dominate it. Only during the winter vacation can she regain a little bit of initiative, spend her time playing games or painting, and enjoy what belongs to her.

Of course, last year's winter vacation also had the same restricted calendar. But at that time, Tete's self-awareness was not so vigorous, she could only vaguely feel that something had been taken away, but she didn't know what it was, so she followed her parents' arrangement and spent the winter vacation in the third year of junior high school.

Staring at the white and green calendar, Tert took out his notebook. She began to replan the game arrangements for the winter vacation.

The notebook which had been kneaded repeatedly by Tate should have been robbed of some time. Ma Chao turned off Wechat after Ma Chao said that which made the whole class talk.

In Ma Chao's eyes, in the face of established facts, no matter how much ridicule or complaint is just a waste of time. He didn't bother to hang out with messy, undergrown children-for some reason, although he was still in the first year of high school, he was 17 years old and only one step away from adulthood.

One year older than his classmates, which gives Ma Chao a stronger self-awareness, but does not bring more game time. He can't play a little longer than them, not even a minute. Ma Chao's dissatisfaction comes from here. He feels that he is precocious enough to be included in the ranks of his peers.

Ma Chao prefers to play some games. He feels that many games allow him to engage in some "more mature social activities", and he also likes to spend time with adults. In the game, he feels that he is treated as one of the same kind by adults-not a child or someone with a personality problem.

Ma Chao was suspended from school for a year. One day at the age of 14, when he was studying early at school, he memorized "Learning first" in the Analects of Confucius over and over. He looked up and saw his uncle talking to his head teacher outside the door. After a while, he was called out of the classroom and got into his uncle's car. In the car, his uncle told him that his father had died of depression.

According to Ma Chao's recollection, his father disappeared so cleanly that he had warned him the night before that "taking more cold medicine has side effects" and left cleanly the next day. The word "clean" came out of Ma Chao's mouth, like saying "insipid": his father cleaned up his room, then went up the mountain and died neatly on the mountain clothes. After that, his father and his father's residence were quickly and cleanly disposed of by his uncle. The house was cremated, the house was rented, and everything was thrown away. The family members were afraid of leaving something that would evoke memories of the deceased. I'm afraid that those things will cause my grief.

When Ma Chao rushed home, everything he saw was clean, the luggage was packed, and the whole family planned to move to the new city together.

Ma Chao was not allowed to participate in his father's room from his father's funeral to the whole process of moving house. Even the details of his father's death on the mountain were accidentally asked by Ma Chao from his father's friend a year later.

Ma Chao asked why no one told him the details, and they told him, "you haven't grown up after all."

If you don't grow up, you won't have a say, and you won't be able to participate in anything-this is Ma Chao's growing up. With this understanding, Ma Chao tried to make himself mature quickly, and he wanted to occupy the vacancy left by his father's death. He does not spend his mother's money on mobile phones, does not waste time thinking about what he looks like in the eyes of his peers, and only spends the most necessary time to satisfy his non-learning desires.

This desire was summed up by Ma Chao as "wanting to be recognized".

In the game, Ma Chao's most convenient role and his name is "Ma Chao". In the background story of the game, the character is a soldier who is forced to flee his homeland and return in the form of revenge. Ma Chao likes to beat unbeatable adults with Ma Chao. Although he is usually reticent, he is willing to chat with those who still appreciate his game level and praise him after being defeated by him.

In this way, Ma Chao met some friends in the game. They were mature and stable, and most of them had complete families and stable occupations. These people are willing to treat Ma Chao on the other side of the screen as adults, be able to tolerate his grumpiness in the chat, give him some care and help, and allow him to return some childish care.

One day in August 2022, Ma Chao met Lao Ma in a game. From Lao Ma, Ma Chao learned that there is a disease called "bipolar disorder"-Lao Ma himself suffers from this disease. He works as a game planner in Guangzhou and treats himself with prescription drugs bought online every month. Old Ma is silent most of the time, but he is energetic and kind to others in the game. At first, it was this passion in Lao Ma that attracted Ma Chao. Ma Chao intuitively realized that Lao Ma might be "similar" to him. They added friends and talked for a long time in the game.

Ma Chao asked Lao Ma, "Why couldn't I cry when my father died?"

Old Ma comforted Ma Chao: "it's not your fault."

When I asked Ma Chao if he could talk to Lao Ma, Ma Chao gave me a wry smile and said, "Lao Ma will not reply to you."

For a while, Ma Chao and Lao Ma established a tacit understanding in the game: Ma Chao went online on his classmate's cell phone every Saturday, played games with Lao Ma for half an hour, and then used the in-game chat channel to chat with him about some of his recent thoughts. Ma Chao doesn't have his own mobile phone, so their communication is limited to games. At home, Ma Chao also used the computer to chat with Lao Ma several times, but usually Lao Ma was mostly silent. Most of the time, Ma Chao could only look at the messages he typed and stay alone in their chat box.

Lao Ma seldom responds to Ma Chao on Wechat. According to Ma Chao's plan, the time he and Lao Ma spend playing games can overlap to the maximum extent during the winter vacation. He has a lot to say to Lao Ma. He wants to know what Lao Ma thinks. I hope that after these things are described by Lao Ma, he can look at the world from a relatively relaxed perspective, because he always takes everything too seriously. Or maybe he just feels very happy playing games with Lao Ma. At the same time, he was a little worried about the old horse's state of mind and wanted to talk to him more. He doesn't know exactly why, but to be sure, playing games with Lao Ma during the winter vacation is a very important and serious thing.

On January 9, Ma Chao immediately saw the notice of restrictions on playing games for minors. At the moment of the notice, a sense of loss that his things had been taken from him hit him like night. Instead of dodging, staring at the calendar, he was determined to find a way to buy himself more time.

Unable to fly together on January 11, Tete spent the whole day painting and correcting her notebook. After some revision, she replanned her winter vacation. In those days when she was not allowed to go online, she originally planned to play "Light encounter" every night, but now she has been forced to watch relevant game videos, and her original time to play "Meow run" has been changed to only listening to music.

For this reason, Special often watches the game video of "Light encounter". For this reason, Special asks everywhere if there is a suitable anchor to watch. She usually watches few anchors, so she goes to the game group and asks her classmates, "are there any good and funny game anchors? I want to see it when I can't play the game!" This sentence is like a hurricane, setting off a new group of discussions among the students. Soon, some people came up with several names, all of which were popular anchors on Douyin; someone asked him to beg her parents to log in to the game while she watched or played with it; and someone invited him to play stand-alone games on his computer. Special wrote down these suggestions one by one, but in the bottom of her heart, she still felt vaguely lost.

In Tate's view, these suggestions are nothing more than substitutes. She wants to use her account, log in to her favorite game and play at the time she chooses. Speaking of this paragraph, Tete used a series of "self" to emphasize to me what she wanted: not only to be able to play games, but also to show enough self-will. The alternatives given by the students more or less include some parts that rely on others. Tete neither wants to go to other people's homes to play games, nor does he want to beg his parents. In the end, she could only write "watching game videos" in her notebook.

The desire to play games may be temporarily appeased by watching videos, but many things are irreplaceable, such as friendship. Special likes to play audio games alone, but he prefers to play multiplayer games with his good friend Wen Wen. When they are trapped at home by the epidemic and online classes, the game is a bridge for them to maintain their friendship with each other. through the game, they work together to overcome a certain goal, and in the excitement of achieving the goal, some words that are usually not allowed by adults or cannot be said will be said: special will not forget the moment when Wen Wen called the bully novice player a "son of a bitch" in the game. I will never forget the moment when the introverted Wen Wen cheered her after a victory in the game and told her that they were "the best friends in the world".

In these moments, Tete felt that a part of her heart was deeply satisfied and that she became a better self.

During the winter vacation, in addition to the schedule changes in those games, she was also trying to find ways to make the original arrangements go smoothly. In "Light encounter," for example, Tate originally planned to spend half of his time following the online playbook and half of his time with some bizarre Bug in various scenic spots, chatting or card games. Now, she can only choose to run the map or stay with Wen Wen.

Tate and Wen Wen chose to give priority to running pictures together, while Wen Wen wanted to clock in with Tate, so their overlapping game time was divided into two periods, one in Wen Wen and the other in T.

In the game, the running map is to collect candles. Tate showed me her notebook and calculated an account at the same time. According to the best route she drew in the notebook, she could run to 20 candles in an hour, plus 22 candles in half an hour, and hang up for half an hour. You can take 24 candles-candles are the currency in the game, and players have to exchange them for what they want.

"Light encounter" will start the "memory season" during the winter vacation, and there are many new things to exchange. Tate wants to exchange candles for the stone of memory of the graduation ceremony and a small shawl to match the cloak-she and Wen have made an appointment to take advantage of the winter vacation to "graduate" in this memorial season. On graduation day, they will soar in the sky in small shawls and cloaks.

It is calculated that she needs to get 388 candles before the end of the event, but she can only go online for 14 days during the winter vacation-instead of 23 days-so she has to devote all her time to getting candles. Even so, Tate still doesn't get enough candles to redeem all the items from the memory season, and he won't be able to get a graduation present without redeeming all the items. At the same time, if she spends all her time on the running chart, the time she spends with Wen Wen will be very scarce.

Tate was in trouble.

Let the time coincide with January 13. According to the notice of Game restrictions for minors before and after the Winter Holiday and Spring Festival Holiday, between 8: 00 p.m. and 9: 00 p.m., minors are allowed to play games for the first time in 14 days when they are allowed to log in to the game during the winter vacation.

Early in the morning, Ma Chao boarded the computer Wechat and saw the students' discussion in the game group last night. Ma Chao rummaged through what he saw as a mess of jokes, complaints and suggestions to find Tate's initial speech. Special is asking if there is a good and funny anchor of "Light encounter". Ma Chao stared at this jargon and suddenly had an idea.

On the other side, Tate, who was still sleeping, was awakened by the vibration of a series of news. she felt the phone vaguely. After unlocking it, she glanced at the screen, and the last bit of drowsiness disappeared in a small shock: it was a message from Ma Chao.

On Wechat, Ma Chaoyi, contrary to his previous stiff tone, said good morning to Tate, then carefully asked him if he would like to meet him somewhere after school. He wanted to say something to her face.

Tate quickly contacted Wen Wen and asked for Wen Wen's opinion. After sending memes full of "exclamations", Wen Wen calmed down and said to him, "be careful of Ma Chao. Ma Chao is a 'bully'."

On the other hand, Ma Chao is still patiently waiting for Tate's reply. His home is not far away from Tate's home. As long as he wants to, he can run for more than ten minutes. The key is Tate's attitude. While waiting for a reply, Ma Chao uneasily recalled what he had said to Tate in the past. For the first time, he cared so much about his image in the eyes of his classmates. Unfortunately, this image, no matter how much beautification of memory, can not be regarded as good.

"only when you ask for help do you realize that you are not good." Ma Chao's tone is a little bitter.

In the afternoon, Ma Chao finally received a reply. Tate agreed to meet Ma Chao, and she chose the place in an ice cream shop near her home. Ma Chao immediately left a message for Lao Ma, asking him to meet him in the game at 8 p.m., and then sent a thank-you expression to Tate, which was a small man bowing 180 degrees to the screen. In his heart, this is the most solemn way to express gratitude online. After hesitating for a while, before Terry replied, he added "I'm sorry". For Ma Chao, this sentence has no specific reason, just a vague apology.

After receiving the message from Ma Chao, Tate thought about it for a while, turned off the chat box and left a message for the text: "take your pocket money out and give it to me. I went to see Ma Chao."

At 7 o'clock in the evening, after dinner, the two met at the appointed place. Ma Chao bought a cup of ice cream for Tate. After Tate sat down, Ma Chao finally laid out his plan: according to the anti-addiction mechanism in the game, minors can only team up with adults between 8 p.m. and 08:30. After 08:30, minors cannot form teams with adults, only between minors. Therefore, Ma Chao found Tate in order to borrow her account and give it to Lao Ma to log in as a minor. In this way, Ma Chao's 1-hour game time can completely coincide with Lao Ma.

Tate invited me to eat ice cream in the same restaurant and listened to Ma Chao's plan solemnly. She nodded and told Ma Chao that she agreed to help. At the same time, she also has one condition: in order to free her time from running pictures and graduate from the memorial season of "encounter of Light", she and Wen Wen plan to use their pocket money to buy some candles. however, there is a limit on the amount of recharge in the mechanism of underage civil air defense addiction, and she can't recharge too much money at once. At the same time, she doesn't want her parents to find out that she is recharging the game, so she wants Ma Chao to log in to "Light encounter" and buy gifts for her and Wen Wen. They will transfer the money to Ma Chao later.

Ma Chao listened carefully to what Tate said and agreed.

At 07:58 in the evening, Tate intercepted the QR code map of Ma Chao's account and transferred money. Ma Chao logged in the game with his mobile phone, chose the special gift and gave it to them. Then, each of them logged on to their favorite game. It was the busiest moment in the ice cream shop, and ice cream pickers walked noisily past their tables, but their thoughts were focused on their respective games. Ma Chao told Lao Ma, who had not seen him for a week, about his plans for winter vacation. He wanted to use his savings to buy a mobile phone. Lao Ma helped him analyze which model was the most suitable. Tate and Wen sat on the benches in the game, talking excitedly about the upcoming memory season. Time is like running water, walking very fast.

At the time of parting, Ma Chao and Tate have made an appointment to continue to come to the store to get together at the weekend.

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