Teyvat, this fictional continent, is like a broken mirror in a dark corner, reflecting people’s desires and confusion. The game has been updated again and again, bringing new characters and new stories. On the surface, it seems to be just a rich entertainment, but in fact it is a metaphor and irony of modern society. The appearance of version 4.1 is just like a bustling market, bustling, but full of hypocrisy and conflict.
Neuvilet, the young man who controls water, his power is gentle, but it cannot be ignored. Water is flowing, but it is also indifferent. It washes everything silently, but it will not stay. He seems to represent the kind of power that seems to be obedient but is actually indifferent-perhaps just like those marginalized people who are ignored in society. They don’t speak, don’t show off, but they control the undercurrent of fate invisibly. Unfortunately, this kind of power is as easy to be squeezed by secular obstacles as water, and loses its original edge.
Look at Walnut again, the flame-like girl, so hot that she almost burns herself. Fire is life, but also destruction. Her existence is very much like those young souls, struggling to survive under the pressure of society, but having to burn their passion to survive. Behind her smile is loneliness, just like countless people in reality who struggle for their dreams and livelihoods, and can only be blown away by the cold wind of reality. The firelight is dazzling, but it is fleeting, disappearing in the darkness, leaving a pile of ashes.
Roy Asley, the ice element, is calm and severe. His freezing is not only a punishment for the enemy, but also a cold judgment of the human heart. His cold eyes seem to see through the hypocrisy and lies in the world. The rules of society are often as hard as ice, restricting people’s freedom, but also maintaining the superficial order. Under the cold bondage, there are countless suppressed souls, their cries are frozen and can only be silent. The so-called order is nothing more than an illusion maintained by the strong with cold means.
And the wind, the messenger of freedom, Wendy, is erratic and unrestrained. His existence is like a broken flag in the wind, swaying and uncertain. Freedom? It’s just an illusion in the air. The tighter you hold it, the more you have nowhere to put it. Society is like a cage, and the wind is just the sky that prisoners occasionally see through the bars. Wendy’s singing is melodious, but with a hint of sadness – the happier the song of freedom is sung, the heavier the shackles of reality are.
All this, like the world around us, is full of contradictions and struggles. The characters and stories in the game are just a microcosm of reality, the anxiety and expectations projected from our hearts. The virtual continent of Teyvat actually reveals the warmth and coldness of society and the complexity of human nature more vividly than reality.
In the game, Treabar’s trading platform is very similar to the real market, operating coldly. It allows people to exchange virtual resources with virtual currency, but it reflects the inevitable exchange of interests and power games in the real world. The surface is bright and beautiful, but there are undercurrents in secret. People use each other for profit and suspect each other, just like a microcosm of real society.
This 4.1 version is just like a microcosm of today’s society. Behind every character is a story, and every battle is a contest of life. There is no absolute good or evil, no simple right or wrong, only complex human nature and inescapable reality. The choices in the game reflect the helplessness and struggle in our lives.
The virtual world is like a mirror, reflecting our real life and heart. Perhaps, what we are looking for on this continent of Teyvat is not just victory and glory, but the hope and struggle that are suppressed by reality but always exist. Only by facing these can we find a way out in the darkness.
The game ends, the screen goes out, and the reality is still cold and real. Those who play warriors in the game will eventually have to face their own lives and their own society. In this complex world, each of us is a traveler in Teyvat, carrying dreams and pain, walking alone between light and darkness.
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