In terms of recreating games and consoles, the rebels were doing quite well.

Let's talk about the "technology" side... given that their era's technological level was far ahead, having them create game consoles and games from before the twenty-first century was like having twentieth-century scientists build steam engines—no big deal.

As for the "knowledge" required to recreate the games... that wasn't a problem either; the "knowledge" acquired by Zhiyue-ers (Knowledge Leapers) was different from ordinary "memories," as it was a very deep, clear, and precise type of information... much like computer data. Moreover, this "knowledge" was almost entirely about video games—because the "video game" was the main target that Bita eliminated after changing the timeline, so the anti-correction effect brought about by the space-time paradox was also aimed at this.

In summary, the rebels' engineers were fully capable of recreating games that had appeared on another timeline with one hundred percent accuracy.

However, in actual operation, they didn't do that.

For example, of the five games that Feng Bujue was currently playing, four had some differences from the original versions—

First of all, Brother Jue (Jue-ge) quickly speed-ran through *Ninja Gaiden 3* amidst the NPCs' shocked gazes; and this game... was also the only one he played today that was exactly the same as the original version, even if there were any differences, they were the kind of subtle differences that players wouldn't notice.

Then, Feng Bujue drew a rather bizarre FC game... *The Simpsons: Bart vs. the Space Mutants*; believe it or not, the difficulty of getting started with this game and the game's difficulty were both amazing. If you encountered it for the first time and hadn't seen any manuals or guides, you probably wouldn't find a way to get through the first level even if you studied it for an hour or two.

But in the version made by the rebels, this game actually had built-in hints and instructions...

When he saw this change, Feng Bujue was slightly surprised, but he quickly accepted this reasonable setting and beat this game as well.

Next, the third game that Brother Jue played was *Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III* (the Japanese version was called Ninja Turtles 2, and the American version was 3); this game can be called the pinnacle of horizontal scrolling games in the late FC era, and its music, graphics, details, and design almost reached the limit of the hardware.

However, for most players born in the 1980s who could only play pirated cartridges, this game brought a lot of blood and tears...

Why was that? Because this game's program actually had built-in anti-piracy detection!

When you entered the game and arrived at the title screen, the program would start and self-check; if the program didn't detect the Konami logo on the title screen, then the game would automatically change to a hidden "Inferno Difficulty."

Obviously... there couldn't be that logo above the title of a pirated cartridge, so countless kids were abused into bears without even knowing it.

While legitimate players were enjoying the fun of the game as they passed level after level, the kids playing pirated versions were struggling in purgatory, painstakingly fighting their way to Shredder, only to find that this boss was simply set to be unkillable.

You thought this boss was immortal because of a bug? Wrong! It was simply because the cartridge was a pirated version!

It can be said that Konami, in an unexpected era, allowed young players to experience the difference between paying players and free players in advance; and the most坑爹 (kengdie, "pit-fathering," meaning something that is extremely disappointing or deceiving) thing was that, in fact, those who played pirated cartridges had also paid money... but they didn't know they were playing pirated versions.

Okay, that's a bit of a digression, let's get back to Brother Jue.

The rebel version that Feng Bujue played undoubtedly also didn't have the Konami logo, after all, in this era, that was a company that simply didn't exist and had never existed. But Brother Jue unexpectedly discovered that the game he was playing was of the normal difficulty... it seemed that the rebels' engineers hadn't even made the detection program.

So, as a Chinese player who could handle even Inferno difficulty, entering this difficulty was simply too pleasant.

Because he was having too much fun, he actually beat this super long game again...

At this point, Colonel Conrad and the surrounding guards had basically determined that Brother Jue was a Zhiyue-er (Knowledge Leaper), and a "geeky" one at that (equivalent to an e-sports master among Zhiyue-ers).

However, the colonel and the others didn't immediately tell Feng Bujue to stop playing; even though he had far exceeded the previous requirement of "clearing three games up to the third level," everyone still silently watched... because they really rarely had the opportunity to see the ending screens of those games (they couldn't beat them themselves).

And Feng Bujue... didn't mind it either, he took out the fourth game: *rAf World*; thanks to the efforts of pirated manufacturers, this game had at least three more famous aliases—*Star Contra*, *Final Colony*, and *Future Warrior*; the most well-known of which should still be the name *Star Contra*.

This was an epic work, with a high level of difficulty, optional weapon systems, and excellent level design; and the most noteworthy thing was that the music of this niche game was unparalleled in the FC genre, perhaps there was no godly BGM like *Blood Tears* (from Castlevania II) in the game, but the overall level of its music even made many works on higher-level platforms pale in comparison.

Logically speaking, this game was already very perfect and didn't need any changes; however, the rebels' engineers still made some changes—they added an ending.

Some people may ask, since it was a "perfect" game, why didn't it have an ending?

That's a long story... Initially, *rAf World* was made as a derivative game of the movie *Terminator* (if this could really happen, we would be able to play a "good" Terminator game on the FC), but later, because it failed to obtain the copyright, Sunsoft could only rename the game and modify the opening script; however, the ending content related to the Terminator plot had actually been made, and data could be found in the ROM.

Of course, not knowing these settings wouldn't affect the gaming experience, because the integrity of the game itself was still perfect, and there was also an ending animation, but the script related to Terminator was deleted.

...

About two hours later, finally...

Feng Bujue played the fifth game—*Super Mario Bros.*, which is what we often call "Super Mario."

In 1985, this Italian plumber slowly walked out of the gaming industry desert after the Atari shock, creating a messianic legend of the end of the century...

Okay, maybe that's not so exaggerated...

There's too much to say about Mario, but at the same time, it's the least necessary to talk about in detail, because... the legend about him already exists in all of our hearts.

Even Sonic-shao (Young Master Sonic) had to spread his hands and pat the plumber on the shoulder: "The name of the most popular game character of all time, you are more suitable for it."

So, for such a classic game, what did the rebels' engineers change? Actually, not much, they just fixed the "card through the wall" bug.

Overall, as a group of New Century plagiarists, the Zhiyue-ers' various changes were still quite conscientious...

"Whew... Princess Peach has also been rescued." When the ending screen of the game appeared, Feng Bujue finally put down the controller, took a breath, and looked back and said, "How is it? Are there any other requirements?"

"You... please wait a little longer." At this time, Colonel Conrad's attitude towards Brother Jue became exceptionally respectful, she turned her head to look at the guards, "I have to leave for an hour or two, you... uh... protect Mr. Feng, whatever he needs, you should try your best to satisfy..."

"Yes!" Lightning Head stood up straight and replied forcefully.

A few seconds later, the colonel, who was about to walk out of the office, seemed to have remembered something again, and turned her head back before going out to add; "By the way! Remember... you can't hurt Mr. Feng, understand?"

"Understood!" The four guards in the office replied in unison.

Then, the colonel went out, and the guards all stared at Feng Bujue... the look in their eyes, if you want to describe it, was like a group of people seeing a living Buddha on the street, ready to kneel at any time.

"Hehe... everyone, don't look at me with that kind of eyes." Feng Bujue, this narcissist... no... this very modest man, was obviously quite enjoying this kind of attention, he smiled smugly, "It makes people feel embarrassed."

Although he said that, given the thickness of his skin, the word "embarrassed" could rarely be appropriately used on him.

"Eh?" Two seconds later, Brother Jue raised his eyebrows and said, "Speaking of... since we're just waiting anyway, let's play some more games."

"Okay, okay!" The youngest of the four guards, upon hearing this, nodded happily with a happy face.

As a result, he was immediately glared at by Lightning Head and the other two buddies.

"Hehe..." Feng Bujue said, "Everyone, relax, why be so nervous?" He looked up at Lightning Head, "Hey... this big sister, would you like to play a co-op with me?"

...

And so, another hour passed.

Colonel Conrad returned, and with her was a little boy who looked less than ten years old.

The colonel led the boy into the office, holding his little hand like that.

At the same time, Feng Bujue in the room was playing *Contra 2* with Lightning Head... the latter was having a great time right now, the serious overbearing woman image from before was gone, and she had completely exposed her funny nature.

And the other three guards were all focused on watching Brother Jue from behind, their weapons were hanging on their backs, completely undefended, and they didn't even notice anyone coming in.

"Ahem..." Seeing this scene, Conrad cleared her throat with a slightly awkward expression, trying to get their attention.

Who knew... no one noticed the first sound (of course, Feng Bujue noticed it, but he deliberately didn't react).

"Ahem!" Conrad had to raise her voice and hum again.

This time, Lightning Head and the others finally came back to their senses, and awkwardly dispersed from in front of the screen and stood still.

"Co... Colonel." Lightning Head saluted the colonel, and as a relatively straightforward person, her face turned red all of a sudden in this situation.

The other three soldiers had similar reactions.

Only Feng Bujue was still sitting there looking at the screen, after a few seconds, he pressed the pause button and turned his head back leisurely: "What? Who are you introducing me to this time?"

Conrad didn't directly answer the question, but looked at Lightning Head and the others: "You guys go out first."

"Yes." After Lightning Head responded, she and the other three trotted out of the office together.

After the automatic door at the entrance closed, Conrad turned to look at the little boy next to her and asked, "Peter... is it him?"

The little boy named Peter looked very fair and lovely, if it weren't for his hairstyle and clothing, he could easily be mistaken for a girl.

"Um..." Peter looked at Brother Jue with his big, watery eyes, and pondered, "It's hard to say..."

"What are you doing?" Feng Bujue made a dead fish eye at the child, "Recognizing a dad?"

After asking this question that was both opportunistic and irrelevant, Feng Bujue looked up at Conrad again and asked an even more excessive question: "Is this your son?"

"What nonsense are you talking about, I'm only twenty-five years old this year." Conrad replied with a straight face.

"So what?" Unexpectedly, Feng Bujue threw back a rhetorical question, and the amount of information contained in this rhetorical question was very large.

"Mr. Feng, please restrain yourself." Conrad replied with a stern face, "If my boyfriend were here, you would have been beaten to the ground by now." She paused, and said seriously, "Peter is our 'seer', he is a 'congenital Zhiyue-er (Knowledge Leaper)' who already possessed knowledge from the moment he was born."

"Crap..." Feng Bujue immediately吐槽 (tu cao, meaning "to roast," or "to ridicule") upon hearing this, "A seer? Then according to this setting..." He looked at Peter, "You can predict the future?"

"No." Peter replied, "I can only see some 'fragments of future events' at certain moments, but this kind of 'prediction' is not initiated according to my own wishes."

This little boy spoke like he wasn't a child at all, both his tone and wording were like an adult.

"Oh." Feng Bujue replied casually, "Then..." He said to Conrad again, "What exactly does that sentence 'Is it him?' that you pointed at me and asked mean?"

"Savior." Before Conrad could speak, Peter directly responded, "About two years ago, I saw a fragment of the future—one day, a man 'without a past' will appear in front of us, and his appearance will mean the end of the war and the victory of us humans."