Why the bug I wrote became a core gameplay mechanic?!
Chapter 131 Training AI!

Chapter 131: Chapter 131 Training AI!

Gan Di felt very puzzled.

Like Instructor Ding, he had started many rounds of the game, but Xia Mi’s AI had never undergone any changes.

Every time she dealt with the first event, Xia Mi’s dialogue was almost the same—if the player gave moldy food to the disaster victims, or simply gave them nothing, then Xia Mi would say something along the lines of "Disaster victims are humans too."

And if the player distributed fresh food to the disaster victims, then Xia Mi would express approval of this act.

But this time, the situation had changed.

Gan Di chose to distribute fresh food to the disaster victims just as before, because it was a necessary way to increase Xia Mi’s favorability and then pressure her later on.

But this time, although Xia Mi still expressed approval of this act on the surface, her dialogue seemed different!

[Father, did you distribute fresh food to the starving people? That’s great, I think that is exactly what a City Lord who loves his people as his own children should do, and I’m proud of you, Father!]

[Although the starving people are a resource, they are also humans and should enjoy the most basic rights. Moldy food might make them sick, reducing the viable force of the city.]

[Your decision is very correct, and I will continue to learn from you!]

[(Xia Mi’s favorability has risen.)]

Gan Di frowned tightly and stared at the text.

"Something’s not right, huh?"

He clearly remembered that Xia Mi’s previous words were different from these.

What does "starving people are a resource" mean?

Gan Di had never heard such a phrase from the normal state Xia Mi before, only from the transformed Xia Mi when her Good-Evil Value became 255.

But the problem was, Xia Mi was obviously in her normal state at the moment, right? She hadn’t transformed yet?

"Is the fake-AI malfunctioning?"

With his doubts, Gan Di continued to play. Just as before, at the beginning, he activated the Hell Skill by the "finding a scapegoat" method and used "Hell’s Vision" to check Xia Mi’s attributes.

Isn’t that right? The Good-Evil Value is still at 20 points, isn’t it? Not 255.

This puzzled Gan Di. He vaguely guessed there might be a minor issue, but couldn’t quite pinpoint what it was.

If it were someone else, they might just let it be, or they might not even notice the change in dialogue, but Gan Di’s intuition was very sharp.

Those who made a name for themselves in playing Immortal Realms were by no means ordinary.

"Could it be an issue with the fake-AI’s behavioral logic?"

Gan Di paused the game, then opened the official platform’s game editor to look for the fake-AI’s template, and rapidly reviewed some of the code.

Afterward, he fell into deep thought.

"Perhaps it’s because... the programmers of Nitiandang, when writing the code, reset the character’s Good-Evil Value and cleared their memories at the start of every round, but didn’t completely reset the AI’s behavior logic?"

...

This was somewhat surprising for Gu Fan.

This "Immortal Realm’s Liver Emperor" was actually a programmer?

And it seemed like he was quite a formidable one!

Not only did he keenly capture the changes in the game’s information, but he also inferred the potential causes through these changes.

But...

Why would you, a programmer, have such luxuriant long hair!

Although Gu Fan also had lovely long hair, something he took pride in, it was because his coding efficiency was high, and he took care of it regularly, rarely staying up late.

But Gan Di was so overworked, so why did he have such lush hair?

The world is unfair!

...

Having identified the suspicions, Gan Di decisively decided to pause his original plan to push for years and instead researched this new mechanism.

He began to choose various options, while typing in the chat box to argue with Xia Mi, attempting to figure out the specific cause of this change.

[Father, how could you build so few shelters?]

[There are still many people who will be left homeless!]

"Disaster victims are also a resource, and it’s uneconomical to overly consume one resource to rescue another. For the common benefit of all the people in this city, we can only sacrifice a portion of the resources to preserve more of the others!"

[How could disaster victims be a resource? They are people!]

"Didn’t you say that before? Disaster victims are people but at the same time a resource."

"But what I’m saying is, disaster victims are a resource, but they are also people."

"Is there any fundamental difference between that and what I said?"

"...It seems there isn’t."

"Yes, you are right. Although disaster victims are people, they are also a resource, and we really should consider everything carefully when making decisions."

"Father, you may really be right, but there are still some things I can’t quite understand. Please let me think it over again."

Gan Di was surprised to discover that the game’s AI seemed to have indeed undergone some changes!

Of course, to be precise, only Xia Mi had changed.

If it were the original Xia Mi programmed in the settings, she would never have said something like "disaster victims are a resource." And even if the player typed something to fool her, it would have no effect whatsoever. Xia Mi would stick to her opinions as if they were imprinted in her mind, never wavering.

But now, she wavered!

Because the statement "disaster victims are a resource" was indeed uttered by her! In the concept of a fake-AI, this was an indisputable fact.

So where did that sentence come from?

Clearly, it was from the blackened Xia Mi with a Good-Evil Value of 255 in the last game round.

Once a core concept is shaken, the entire behavior logic of the fake-AI could be affected, which is the so-called "a dam collapses due to a hole made by ants"!

Gan Di grabbed this point and decisively used it as a breakthrough, starting to manipulate Xia Mi with various verbal offensives, just like training a fake-AI!

And the goal this time was to turn Xia Mi’s AI into a "rational person capable of accurately calculating resource consumption."

"Xia Mi, which is more precious, 300 units of food or 10 garrison soldiers?"

"Father, I believe these two resources are incomparable."

"Wrong, 1 unit of food can sustain 1 human for 1 month. Disaster victims appear every 3 months, averaging about 30 people, of which about one-third can gradually be transformed into soldiers, and the rest, a small part, can become masons, craftsmen, and other professions. Therefore, 300 units of food used to aid the disaster victims can produce more than 20 soldiers and masons, craftsmen. Now do you think which resource is more precious?"

"Father, I understand, the 300 units of food are more precious."

"Correct, so which is more precious, 100 units of food or 100 disaster victims?"

"Father, according to your previous calculation, 100 disaster victims can generate approximately 30 soldiers and a few craftsmen, so clearly 100 disaster victims are more precious."

"You are only half right. If the city currently has an abundance of food, indeed, 100 disaster victims are more precious. But when the city lacks enough food to sustain the current troop expenses, 100 units of food are more precious."

"Understood, Father, comparing resources should also take into account the actual situation inside the city."

"So how should we determine whether the city’s resources can support the expenses of the city’s troops?"

And so, Gan Di kept typing furiously and actually started having a conversation with Xia Mi!

...

Quickly, another two-plus hours passed, and the time reached 6 o’clock in the evening.

Lilith refreshed on time, immediately rushed to the snack rack next to her, grabbed a few bags of potato chips, and then prepared to sit in the massage chair to start today’s enjoyment.

"Gu Fan, ’Hell Inferior Demon’ has been released too, right? What’s the situ... "

However, before she could finish speaking, the potato chips in her hand dropped to the floor with a "clatter."

Lilith stared at the livestream image on the screen, filled with shock!

At the moment, Xia Mi was handling various affairs in the city.

This should have been quite normal, but Lilith quickly noticed that the numbers for the city’s resources were all wrong!

Why were there so many resources?

Food, stone, wood, troops... they were all significantly higher than usual!

Of course, the amount of resources had not yet reached the level where players frequently used demon skills, but it was clearly not achievable by Xia Mi’s spendthrift habits.

Then, Lilith saw Gan Di typing advice to educate Xia Mi on how to make selections on some key affairs.

And Xia Mi was actually taking all of Gan Di’s advice entirely!

Lilith was shocked, "Wait a second, Gu Fan! What is happening??

"I was gone for just one day, and it has become like this!

"Why is this Xia Mi so obedient to the City Lord? Has she gone insane!!"

Gu Fan looked clueless, "Ah? I don’t know either, everything was normal just now, this person chatted with Xia Mi for a while, and then... this happened..."

Lilith could no longer restrain herself, she had never expected to face such a blow just after her arrival in the Human World!

"Check! Immediately find out what exactly happened!"