Why the bug I wrote became a core gameplay mechanic?!
Chapter 128: Joining the Game with One’s Own Body, Outdoing Heaven’s Favorite Halfway!

Chapter 128: Chapter 128: Joining the Game with One’s Own Body, Outdoing Heaven’s Favorite Halfway!

Instructor Ding watched helplessly as the incoming Crusaders all fell under Xia Mi’s Holy Light.

And yet, the game still hadn’t ended!

Because even though the City Lord had died, the City Forsaken by Gods had not fallen.

The NPCs in the city were still acting according to their own AI, and Xia Mi, just like the original mechanism, took over the heavy responsibilities of the City Lord, beginning to handle the affairs within the city.

But at this time, there seemed to be some problems with Xia Mi’s AI.

Instructor Ding had thought she would continue the previous logic in handling affairs, choosing the first option every time to accept as many refugees as possible and provide enough shelters and food for everyone.

But unexpectedly, Xia Mi’s decision-making logic had changed!

Since the City Lord had died, no more option boxes popped up on the interface UI, so Instructor Ding could not see the specific decisions Xia Mi was making.

However, upon careful observation of changes in the city, Instructor Ding realized something was wrong.

Why wasn’t Xia Mi accepting refugees anymore?

Not only had she not let the refugees in, but she had chosen a group of them to go to the mines outside the city to mine!

In almost all matters within the city, Xia Mi made choices that Instructor Ding would only have made after siding with the demons.

Not only that, Xia Mi also sent out people to explore the Hell Ruins!

Although Xia Mi couldn’t master the skills from Hell, as the number of explorations into the Hell Ruins increased, more and more demons emerged from the Hell Ruins.

These demons all closely surrounded Xia Mi!

Clearly, this was because Xia Mi’s Good-Evil Value was at 255, and her Charisma was at 99+. This meant that the fake-AI would make decisions based on the current Good-Evil Value, and the AI of other demons, upon seeing Xia Mi, acted as if they had seen their own mother, extremely affectionate!

Instructor Ding gaped and hit the fast-forward button, accelerating the flow of time.

Soon enough, the next Crusader invasion came.

This time, they were facing an even more powerful Demonic Legion!

Actually, when Instructor Ding had explored the Hell Ruins before, he had also managed to turn the City Forsaken by Gods into a real City of Demons, but he ultimately failed because Xia Mi turned into an Angel and sandwiched him with the Crusaders from the inside and outside.

But now, there were no incarnations of angels in the city, only one powerful devil incarnation!

Xia Mi, just as before, led the Demonic Legion to confront the Crusaders and claimed victory with overwhelming force!

The audience in the live broadcast was stunned; they also hadn’t expected that Instructor Ding would actually pull it off.

"Damn luck! What ultimate luck!"

"Could this be the correct way to play ’City of the Abandoned Gods’?"

"Is it not enough to just side with the demons? Do you also have to enter the game yourself and turn Xia Mi into a demon?"

"The last round of tonight’s game doesn’t need a minute cut, just put it out there and it’s a top-notch blockbuster!"

"I’ve already come up with a story that’s epic and tragic: Heaven, in order to destroy the City Forsaken by Gods, planted a great Archangel’s human incarnation Xia Mi as a Traitor. They only waited to take down the City Forsaken by Gods with a combined attack from inside and outside! But unexpectedly, the City Lord gave all his love to this adopted daughter, showing her a soul as pure and noble as an angel, but in the end, he died tragically under the sword of the Crusaders... What the angel never anticipated was that this stimulation greatly changed Xia Mi’s temperament, she turned dark in an instant, becoming an incredibly powerful Fallen Angel, turning the City Forsaken by Gods into a complete City of Demons!"

"Not bad for a story summary, add another fifty cents worth!"

"Pfft, ’a soul as pure and noble as an angel,’ refers to the City Lord always going up himself when there was food, and sending Xia Mi when there was none, as well as sending people to explore the Demon Ruins as scapegoats."

"Don’t worry about what the City Lord actually did, just talk about whether it looks pure on the surface, whether the satisfaction was high!"

"Okay, tonight Little Ding unexpectedly managed to produce ’Reversed Celestial Firmament’ and ’Fallen Angels,’ these two top-level show effects, it was worth staying up late to watch!"

"Little Ding can truly be called a master who plays into the game, winning by half a point in the end! In almost impossible circumstances, he managed to save the City Forsaken by Gods!"

Instructor Ding was also excited. Although he was already yawning, and his eyelids were so heavy he could barely lift them, he was still lively boasting about his extreme maneuvers.

"Brothers, am I awesome or what!

"I just felt that there must be a hidden mechanism in this place, and I really found it!

"What? Just luck?

"Stop joking, where is there any luck in this? It’s all purely skill! My thought process synced up with that of the designer’s, so naturally, after working in this direction, I reaped the rewards!

"Really though, why do I feel a strangely satisfying sense of an idle game now?"

Instructor Ding looked at the game screen, where ’City of the Abandoned Gods’ had now entered an endless cycle of internal affairs and war.

Although the strength of the Crusader invasions was growing stronger, the Demonic Power of the City Forsaken by Gods was also increasing constantly!

Demons continuously emerged from the Hell Ruins, and under the empowerment of Xia Mi’s formidable strength, they became even stronger.

Even though the external enemies were growing stronger and even genuine Angels began to appear, the City Forsaken by Gods remained impregnable, showing no signs of being conquered!

Instructor Ding watched as countless Crusaders besieged the city densely, a vast number of Infernal Inferior Demons surged forward like a tide, Necromancers summoned spirits on the city walls, Hellfire fell like meteorites...

In the midst of the chaotic battlefield, Xia Mi, this special unit whose appearance and skill effects all resembled an Angel, blended into the demon horde and slaughtered left and right.

It must be said, the magnificence of this battle scene truly stirred one’s blood!

Instructor Ding even unconsciously thought of some idle games he had played before, where there wasn’t much to do throughout the game, just press one or two buttons, or even none at all, and the fancy grand scenes alone could elicit a sort of emotional pleasure.

But soon, Instructor Ding realized a problem.

"Wait a second, this game... when does it end?"

The fast-forward button had already been pressed, but after three entire rounds of Crusader sieges, two different types of Angels had even appeared among the enemy forces, yet the City Forsaken by Gods still showed no signs of falling!

What about the clearing screen? It hadn’t appeared either!

Instructor Ding really couldn’t take it anymore, he yawned, "Guys, I can’t hang in there anymore, I’m going to sleep!

"I’m not going to turn off the stream, I’ll come back and check the results after I wake up later!"

Having said that, Instructor Ding turned off the camera and left the screen.

By this time, many viewers were already struggling to stay awake, but there were still many top Cultivators in the stream, continuously sending comments.

"Don’t go to sleep, keep streaming! How can you even sleep at your age?"

"Aren’t you going to wait for the ending screen before you sleep? How can you endure this, were you a monk in your past life or something?"

"Just woke up, why is the chair streaming now?"

"Xia Mi’s the one to take over, right? Xia Mi only needed to make a slight effort, and she broke Little Ding’s best gaming record!"

"Some streamer livestreams them sleeping, and makes millions a month!"

Although Instructor Ding had left, the stream was still full of viewers who hadn’t gone to bed, and they instantly shared his absurd experience of passing the game!

...

In the movie theater, Lilith suddenly stood up with a "whoosh"!

She was clenching her bag of chips so tightly it was about to crumble to bits.

It was only the presence of the two other people in the movie theater, Zhou Yang and Su Tong, that kept her from losing her temper.

Seeing this, Zhou Yang finally felt relieved.

He looked at Gu Fan with great admiration, as if he had a thousand words to say but all remained unspoken, simplifying it to a simple statement, "President Gu, President Li, I can’t hang in there anymore either, I’m going back to sleep too."

Lilith scowled, "Hmm."

Gu Fan looked at Su Tong, somewhat surprised that she had managed to stay until now.

"Do you need me to take you home?"

Su Tong shook her head, "No need, Ming Yu said she just woke up from a nap and is already on her way to pick me up."

Only when Zhou Yang and Su Tong had left the cinema did Lilith finally lose her patience, angrily clenching her chip bag even tighter.

She glared at Gu Fan in anger, yet ultimately said nothing.

Clearly, Lilith was furious.

If it had been before, she would have already started questioning Gu Fan angrily, but not today, because she had just been confidently popping champagne at halftime, convinced that she had calculated all the early starts perfectly, with the players’ Good-Evil Value at most dropping to 0...

Gu Fan coughed lightly, "President Li, I’d like to state that this incident shouldn’t have anything to do with me, right?

"You insisted on setting the Good-Evil Value so that the lower the number, the more virtuous it is, and you were very confident and didn’t ask me to set a minimum value for the Good-Evil Value in the design document..."

Lilith deflated instantly, "Okay, I got it!"

Today’s "Terrifying Eight Hours" stream with Instructor Ding actually had many unexpected situations, but overall, Lilith felt she still had control of the situation. It was just that, despite all her calculations, she had still overlooked something!

This made her quite dejected!

Gu Fan coughed lightly, "Actually... President Li, things are not so bad. If you think about it, in the current state, at worst it could just be considered an easter egg, not some particularly severe bug, right?

"On the whole, the income from negative emotions should still be okay, right?"