Why the bug I wrote became a core gameplay mechanic?!
Chapter 133: Got the Peaches Picked Again! (First update)

Chapter 133: Chapter 133: Got the Peaches Picked Again! (First update)

Lilith stared wide-eyed, "So, this is actually a derivative BUG from that previous one? And the root cause is still that I didn’t ask you to hard code the minimum Good-Evil Value to be 1 or 0?"

Gu Fan nodded, "That’s right."

Lilith suddenly realized something was amiss and hastened to correct herself, "No! What I mean is, the root cause is that you didn’t hard code the minimum Good-Evil Value to be 1 or 0!"

Gu Fan’s face darkened, "President Li, is it really meaningful for us to be arguing about this at such a time?

"If you think this is my fault, then it’s my fault.

"Do you know why?

"Because you’re the client demon, and I’m just a poor human contractor. If you insist on pinning the blame on me, then I can only accept it—even if you want to throw me into a boiling pot in hell, at most I can only ask you to make sure to flip me over more when frying.

"But still, the same old saying goes, if you want to make a game without any bugs? Then you’d better find someone more capable!

"If all else fails, get the programmer from Hell Frontline to replace me. You don’t like my skills anyway."

Upon hearing this, Lilith’s expression changed once again.

"Oh, Gu Fan, look at you, I make a little joke and you get all worked up? That programmer is clearly no good, way worse in technical skill than you! He’s the one I don’t look up to.

"Besides, he hasn’t even signed a contract with a demon. A person like that, I’d feel even less secure using."

Gu Fan sharply caught the keyword, "Oh? Then why don’t you sign a contract with him? Wouldn’t that give you better control?"

Lilith waved her hand dismissively, "Oh, how could this world be so convenient, filled with transmigrators like you? He is a bona fide native of this world. If we tempt a native to sign a contract, we could be discovered by angels..."

Gu Fan’s mouth twitched slightly, "So you’re saying that hell just clings to me, the only sheep available to be sheared!

"Even if you’re afraid of alerting the angels and don’t dare sign directly with the natives, why don’t you look for the corresponding talent within hell?

"Haven’t you already established an art department and music department in hell? Setting up a programming department shouldn’t be a big issue either, should it?"

Lilith sat somewhat melancholically in a massage chair.

"Ah, you think I don’t want to? But the thing is, there are almost no programmers here in this vast hell!"

Gu Fan: "What?"

Lilith sighed quietly and explained, "The art department and music department you mentioned are actually composed of painters, sculptors, and musicians. With such a long history of humanity, these groups have not lacked morally corrupt individuals. Accumulated over thousands of years, there is no shortage of talent in hell for art and music, so it’s not difficult to organize these departments.

"But the profession of a programmer is a new one that appeared only in the last few decades!

"The vast majority of programmers are single-minded, only knowing to toil away diligently, and they hardly do anything that grossly violates morality, and even if they drop dead from overwork, they don’t end up in hell.

"How could we form a programming team!

"So, we have no choice but to come to the Human World to find someone."

Gu Fan nodded in realization, "I see."

Lilith then bolted upright as though stricken with a sudden illness, "So what do we do now! City of the Abandoned Gods has failed again!

"Damn it, this fake-AI, am I destined never to conquer it?"

Lilith hadn’t expected to fall over at the same place twice, and with a different postures at that!

The first time she fell was when she used the fake-AI in Destiny of the Sleeping Dragon, which due to an inexplicable BUG transformed the game into "Three Kingdoms Second Playthrough Alternate History Simulator".

And this time, she used the fake-AI in City of the Abandoned Gods, thinking she had completely plugged the holes from Destiny of the Sleeping Dragon, yet a new BUG popped up, turning the game into "Daughter Training Simulator"!

Once again, her efforts came to naught, and the biggest black pot still firmly rested on her own back, leaving her bitterly dismayed.

"And, Hell Infernal Inferior Demon has been released!

"From what it looks like now, this game is bound to gather a huge amount of negative emotions!

"Gu Fan! We’re about to lose everything!"

Lilith was quite stricken, her twin ponytails unconsciously drooped a bit.

Gu Fan knew that this was the time for him to step in.

"Don’t panic, President Li. Have you forgotten the investment agreement we signed with Azazel before? As long as their game makes a profit, then we can directly get three-quarters of their negative emotions. Moreover, all of their revenue from profits will also belong to us."

If they could get those three-quarters of negative emotions, plus the negative emotions earned from City of the Abandoned Gods, the negative emotions in Lilith’s hands would surely crush Azazel.

When the time came to return to Hell, in front of Lucifer, Lilith could stand tall and play the demon with a straight back.

"Hell’s No.1 Game Creator" is a title I’ll still be able to keep.

But Lilith was not in high spirits, "Of course I remember, but you know the design of this game, how could it possibly make a profit?"

Gu Fan smiled enigmatically, "President Li, rest assured, I’ve already made arrangements, just you watch!"

...

At 8 p.m., Instructor Ding started his live stream on time.

Actually, after he woke up in the afternoon, he had already streamed for an hour, triumphantly tidied up the endgame, and then bragged to his viewers for a while.

He felt extremely proud of discovering the "Xia Mi’s Good-Evil Value changes to 255" bug and believed the gold trophy was as good as his.

The key was that his series of operations were indeed a lucky coincidence, and managing to succeed on the first try really involved a lot of luck.

What is this called?

Dog’s luck?

No, this is called destiny!

Instructor Ding was certain he was Destiny’s Chosen for this occasion, and the gold trophy was a sure bet!

However, when he started his live stream again at 8 p.m., he was surprised to find that something seemed amiss.

Online, indeed, many people were discussing the "core mechanic" he had found, the "Xia Mi’s Good-Evil Value changes to 255" trick, but even more people were discussing something else.

That is, "Xia Mi’s perfect operation AI save file"!

Instructor Ding was confused, what was going on?

Guided by the barrage of comments, he found the post made by the Liver Emperor.

By this time, the post was already spammed with "wishes for the poster to have a good and safe life," which gave Instructor Ding quite a shock, nearly making him think he had stumbled into an inappropriate website, risking his live stream channel being banned.

After carefully reading the post and the discussions below, Instructor Ding finally understood what had happened.

It turned out that this afternoon, the player called "Immortal Realm’s Liver Emperor" replicated his bug and discovered a new one that could break Xia Mi’s thought imprint, allowing the manipulation of her AI!

And the save file shared by the Liver Emperor was one where he had trained Xia Mi into "perfect operation mode."

Of course, according to the Liver Emperor, a Xia Mi with a broken thought imprint is practically the same as a fake-AI, supporting various kinds of training, and players could train her into any personality according to personal preference.

She could be the original Holy Mother, a darkened demon, a perfectly operating robot, or a manager with special preferences for certain resources or behaviors.

Other players, after training Xia Mi’s AI, could also upload their own save files for others to download.

So what’s the benefit of these save files?

Of course, it’s to spare the players the torment of those tedious steps from before!

To train a specific Xia Mi AI, there were very complex preparatory steps needed at the beginning, first to replicate Instructor Ding’s "Xia Mi’s Good-Evil Value changes to 255" bug and then to train it in a certain way.

Even if you follow the guide, a single mistake in the process might lead to a vastly different outcome.

For ordinary players, this is clearly a torturous task.

But now, with the sharing of save files, players can just pick a suitable save and start playing, skipping all the steps from before.

For the gaming experience of the players, this is obviously a massive improvement!

Therefore, at this moment, the players of City of the Abandoned Gods are all stirred up; some are studying the "Xia Mi becomes a Fallen Angel" bug, others are researching ways to train the AI, or they’re just downloading save files to enjoy the game.

But for Instructor Ding, this situation is quite frustrating.

"Damn it! Doesn’t this mean that I’ve been beaten to the punch by that damned Liver Emperor again?!"

Instructor Ding saw stars, nearly passing out.

It was the same with Prometheus before; it was Instructor Ding’s team who discovered the core mechanic for wall-climbing, but it was the Liver Emperor who got there first and achieved 100% completion.

Now, too, it was Instructor Ding who fought hard for 8 hours and, thanks to incredible luck, discovered the "Xia Mi becomes a Fallen Angel" core mechanic. But he did not expect there would be new bugs to exploit, failing to continue his research, while the Liver Emperor discovered the AI training mechanism!

The Liver Emperor also realized first that the gold trophy this time would most likely go to the player who held the city the longest.

Therefore, the Liver Emperor had already begun to study the details and had trained a perfect operation Xia Mi AI and was even online for more than a dozen hours a day, all in the quest to find the limits of City of the Abandoned Gods.

How could he ever catch up now?

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