Why the bug I wrote became a core gameplay mechanic?!
Chapter 129: Seems Like You Can Also Not Die, Huh? (Second Update)

Chapter 129: Chapter 129: Seems Like You Can Also Not Die, Huh? (Second Update)

Lilith was momentarily taken aback but then her expression gradually relaxed.

Hmm? It seemed that what Gu Fan said made sense.

This was not really a severe malicious BUG!

Of course, from a programming standpoint, it definitely counted as a standard BUG, but for Lilith, this BUG did indeed deduct some negative emotion points, yet it was no big deal!

In Lilith’s design, what primarily generated negative emotion value in the game "City of the Abandoned Gods"?

On the surface, it was Xia Mi, but in reality, it was the "lack of freedom" in gameplay.

Xia Mi was merely a tool or means to implement this gameplay.

During players’ governance of the City of the Abandoned Gods, Xia Mi, playing the role of a vexing representative, constantly tormented player actions. She sabotaged their affairs and ultimately even became a traitor who betrayed them for justice... These behaviors could indeed generate a considerable amount of negative emotion value for the players, but the most important factor was the monotony of the game’s own mechanics.

Players came to play "City of the Abandoned Gods" expecting that through different methods of governance, they could lead the city to different endings, or develop the city into different forms.

For instance, developing it into a pure City of Demons and engaging in fierce battles with the Angelic Army, or turning it into the City of Angels, the Holy City of Mankind...

However, Xia Mi’s existence completely eliminated these possibilities. With her interference, players simply couldn’t develop the City of the Abandoned Gods in the way they wanted!

If players didn’t follow Xia Mi’s methods, she would cause trouble, and the players were powerless to stop her. At best, they could only resort to the Reversed Celestial Firmament’s tactic of talking tough to put some pressure on Xia Mi. This monotony in gameplay would naturally generate a lot of negative emotion value.

This time, the BUG reversed the Good-Evil Value of Xia Mi, enabling her to truly turn the City of the Abandoned Gods into the City of Demons and withstand the waves of attacks from the Crusaders and Angels.

For players who previously played the game with great frustration, the storyline of "Instructor Ding entering the fray, outwitting heaven, and successfully turning Angels into Fallen Angels" indeed had some entertainment value and could generate some positive emotions.

However, this positive sentiment wouldn’t last too long because the City Lord was already dead, and players couldn’t take any action, left to just dumbly watch the little figures on the screen fight endlessly.

This might have been fun at the beginning, but it would quickly become dull, as evidenced by Instructor Ding who couldn’t take it anymore and went to sleep.

So even with this BUG, the amount of negative emotion value collected by the game "City of the Abandoned Gods" should still be quite considerable!

With this realization, Lilith’s tense nerves relaxed, and she let out a slight sigh of relief.

"That’s right, Gu Fan, you’re absolutely correct!"

"Actually, this BUG is not a big problem for the City of the Abandoned Gods at all. I was being a bit... What’s the saying you have in the Human World? Seeing a bow in a snake’s shadow?"

"Alright, it’s late, you should go and rest too!"

Having figured this out, Lilith was noticeably more relaxed, and she left the cinema hall together with Gu Fan.

However, a weak comment floated through in Instructor Ding’s live streaming room, which was on autopilot after Lilith left.

"Why is everyone saying that Little Ding entered the fray, outwitted heaven? If he had been a little more careful, couldn’t the City Lord have survived?"

...

...

October 1st, Tuesday, the first day of the National Day holiday.

Gu Fan slept in until 11 a.m., ordered some takeout, and then immediately turned on Instructor Ding’s live broadcast.

Clearly, Instructor Ding had not woken up yet, but the game screen had not undergone any more changes.

According to the comments in chat, about three hours after he fell asleep, the game finally came to an end.

[The 5th round of the game is over!]

[After 35 years, 4 months, and 27 days of steadfast defense, the City of the Abandoned Gods was overrun.]

[Your persistency shocked the Hell Demons; with Heaven determined to take the city, how did you manage to achieve all this?]

[To express our admiration, the production team will present you with a small gift.]

[Please fill in your contact information below (optional)]

[Player Name: ____]

[Contact Information: ____]

[Mailing Address: ____]

[Thoughts on the game: ____]

[If you could do it all over again, would anything be different?]

[Click to enter the world of the 6th round.]

By this time, the audience had also woken up and were actively discussing.

"Little Ding, wake up and entertain your guests!"

"Man, a chair streaming all night? Little Ding is making money way too easily!"

"And he even received quite a few gifts??"

"He held out for 35 years? Man, Xia Mi is really badass, much stronger than Little Ding!"

"I’ve even imagined a novel: ’The City Lord Dies in Battle, a Foster Daughter Defends the Lonely City for Thirty Years’!"

"Not bad, bro on the previous comment, go ahead and publish your book, and while you’re at it, publish ’The City Lord Enters the Fray, Outwits Heaven’ alongside it!"

"Having watched the entire thing, I can only say, truly amazing. This seems to be the only one to last after 30 years on the whole internet, right?"

"Yes, it seems like the best situation online was barely lasting a decade, and this just tripled it!"

"And there’s official award information from the officials? Could Little Ding really get the golden trophy from Nitiandang this time? No! I won’t accept it!"

"I wasn’t interested in this kind of game, but I had to buy it after seeing this bug!"

"The one above, be more cautious. This game actually isn’t very interesting to play right now. In fact, there’s only the standard gameplay of ’raising Xia Mi to be a boss,’ which isn’t all that fun. It’s not comparable to Nitiandang’s previous games! Just watch videos to get a sense of it, I haven’t seen any particularly compelling reasons to buy it yet."

Seeing this comment, Gu Fan couldn’t help but feel it was a pity. You should have posted this last night.

If Lilith had seen it, she would have probably given you a big red envelope.

But posting it during the day today, Lilith probably won’t see it.

Gu Fan picked up his phone and had a quick look at the discussions on the forum.

As expected, a large number of players had already begun to replicate Instructor Ding’s bug!

Since Instructor Ding’s entire operation was recorded on video, it was not difficult to reconstruct.

In fact, the mechanism to trigger this bug was quite complex, and the conditions to achieve it were extremely strict. Players needed to repeatedly pressure Xia Mi to affect the AI logic, increase her favorability to make her recover health, and also slyly gain Hell Knowledge through finding scapegoats and executing them.

If any of these steps were not achieved, it would be impossible to get Xia Mi’s Good-Evil Value to 255.

In Gu Fan’s original expectations, it would take hundreds of thousands of players trying together, with each person discovering a little bit, before someone could possibly summarize it all.

But unexpectedly, Instructor Ding did it all by himself!

Was it because he was really just that lucky, or did he inexplicably sync up with Nitiandang’s thought process?

It was really hard to tell.

However, the current situation was indeed starting out like a perfect hand for Gu Fan.

Because the bug with Xia Mi’s Good-Evil Value turning 255, just like the wall-climbing bug in Prometheus, was just the beginning. The real highlight was yet to come!

Gu Fan opened his laptop and accessed the backend to look at the statistical data.

Here he could directly see the players’ game progress and their corresponding account IDs.

Gu Fan clicked to sort the list in reverse order and sure enough, "Instructor Xiao Ding" currently topped the list with a 35-year record.

The other records were mostly around 10 years. After all, without finding this bug, ten-plus years was about the limit under the game mechanics set by Lilith.

However, the ID of the player in second place caught Gu Fan’s attention.

"Immortal Realm’s Liver Emperor."

"Hmm? This ID looks familiar. Isn’t this the first player to achieve 100% completion in Prometheus?"

Gu Fan searched for this ID on the live streaming platform and indeed found his live broadcast room.

But compared to Instructor Ding, Liver Emperor’s stream was much less popular. Currently, he had only a few thousand fans, not much in the way of gifts or heat, and most likely hadn’t signed a contract with the platform.

True to his name, Liver Emperor looked pale, with two heavy dark circles under his eyes, making one worry that he might just collapse at any second.

On the screen, a few sparse comments drifted by.

"Didn’t you stop streaming at 5 a.m.? You’re already back on? You only slept for about five or six hours, right?"

"Dude, take it easy, don’t die on my phone!"

Unperturbed, Liver Emperor ignored what the comments were saying and was both reviewing Instructor Ding’s video from last night and starting a new round of the game.

Clearly, at this point, he was not yet a full-time streamer and didn’t have much to say like Instructor Ding and Chen Tingquan did, nor was he very interactive with the audience, just focused on playing the game.

It was evident that Liver Emperor had also been tormented by City of the Abandoned Gods the night before.

His best record was 11 years, which meant he had researched the default gameplay of City of the Abandoned Gods to its limits, dancing on a tightrope to achieve that.

Of course, it could also be said he was tortured to the utmost.

In terms of endurance against a beating, Liver Emperor definitely ranked in the first tier among all Nitiandang players.

Soon, Liver Emperor began to replicate Instructor Ding’s video step by step.

As he played, he suddenly became puzzled.

"It looks like City of the Abandoned Gods is like an endless mode, so the way to get the golden trophy should be to see who can last the longest, right?"

"But if everyone plays this way, just idling, the results won’t be any different in the end, right?"

"Hmm? Wait a second.

"It seems... the City Lord can also survive indefinitely??"

Liver Emperor realized that actually, many of Instructor Ding’s operations had room for optimization, and the room was quite large!

For instance, exploring the Demon Ruins could be done much earlier after using NPCs as scapegoats, instead of waiting until the end.

Moreover, not all demon skills were utterly unusable.

It was only the skills Hell’s Power, Hell Knowledge, and Hell’s Summoning that couldn’t be used directly.

Because using these three skills would directly change the state of the City Lord.

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