In the virtual game world, there is a girl named Xiakong. Her growth requires the collection of many seemingly cold materials – low-frequency tide erosion sail core, medium-frequency crystallized phlogiston, burning phosphorus bone, golden wool… These names seem to come from foreign poems, but they piece together the growth trajectory of her life. Whenever I see such a list, I can’t help but think of the growth process of each of us in real life: complicated, difficult, but full of expectations and desire for freedom.
Xiakong’s growth requires a huge amount of “shell money”, and she needs to travel through different maps to find those shining materials. Isn’t life like this? We are all in our own world, collecting all kinds of “materials”: knowledge, experience, pain, laughter, and those seemingly useless but indispensable details. Perhaps it is these fragments that make up the complete us.
In the virtual world of Mingchao, the names of the materials are so strange and mysterious. “Burning Phosphorus Bone” sounds like a burning bone, a combination of flames and pain; “Golden Fleece” is so rare and shiny, with the glory of ancient legends. They each carry their own stories and meanings, just like the people and things we meet on the road of life, painful or beautiful, distant or close. Sanmao once said that life is a journey, and everything you meet on the journey is a gift from the soul. The same is true for Xiakong’s growth materials. Although the cold names hide warm stories and the courage to grow.
Growth is always accompanied by challenges. Defeating the Sighing Ancient Dragon and obtaining the Burning Phosphorus Bone is a big challenge in the game. We will also encounter our own “ancient dragons” in reality, those difficulties and setbacks that make us sigh and scare us. But it is these difficulties that make us learn to be strong and know how to cherish. The desert described by Sanmao is endless loneliness and desolation, but at the end of the desert, there is always an oasis and the miracle of life. Xiakong’s growth also needs to go through those difficult wildernesses to reach the oasis in his heart.
The purchase and collection of “Golden Fleece” is very similar to the scarcity and preciousness of resources in reality. Our pursuit of freedom and happiness is also limited and cannot be easily obtained. Perhaps because of this, we know how to cherish those hard-won time and feelings. Sanmao once used her brush to depict the distant Sahara. She felt the beauty and tenderness in the vast desolate land with her heart. The Golden Fleece in the game is so far away, but within reach. It is a metaphor for dreams and a gentle irony of reality.
The emergence of recharge discount codes reveals another layer of reality-the ubiquitous consumption pressure in modern life. We use money to buy time and use money to exchange for freedom, as if it is never enough. Although there are many hardships and wanderings in Sanmao’s writing, she always maintains her love for life and her persistence in freedom. Behind Xia Kong’s growth materials are the invisible anxiety and struggle of modern people. Perhaps, we all need to find our own freedom and tranquility in this turbulent world.
Carefully savoring this list of materials is like flipping through a complex life manual. Each material is a mark on the road of growth, a story that has been experienced, and a mark of life. Sanmao said, “The meaning of travel is not arrival, but the growth of the soul.” Although the cultivation system of Xiakong is composed of cold numbers, it reflects the soft and tenacious growth power in everyone’s life.
The materials of Mingchao Xiakong are complicated, but they teach us a simple truth: growth is not achieved overnight, but accumulated step by step and discovered little by little in a long journey. Life is like a game, with rules, challenges, and rewards, but more importantly, we must face it with a free heart and feel it with gentle eyes. No matter how complicated the materials are or how tedious life is, only inner freedom and growth are our ultimate destination.
In her words, Sanmao taught us to greet every sunrise with love and gratitude. The summer sky in Mingchao is also the embodiment of light and hope. May we all find our own summer sky in our own life game.