Why the bug I wrote became a core gameplay mechanic?!
Chapter 144: President Li is Motivated Now!

Chapter 144: Chapter 144: President Li is Motivated Now!

Gu Fan tentatively asked, "President Li, is there a design plan for the new game yet?"

Lilith shook her head, "Nope!"

Gu Fan was momentarily at a loss for words, nearly unsure how to continue the conversation.

It must be said that Lilith seemed to be living too happily lately, to the point where she seemed to have lost some of her ambition.

Previously, Nitiandang’s games had mostly failed, not gathering much negative emotion, so Lilith was anxious and quickly came up with a design plan for a new game.

But this time, even though "City of the Abandoned Gods" didn’t gather much negative emotion either, "Hell Inferior Demon" made a fortune on the side, hence Lilith became complacent.

Over ten days since the game launched, and not a shadow of a design plan for a new game in sight.

How could this be acceptable?

Gu Fan coughed lightly, "President Li, we can’t become complacent! There’s still so much negative emotion in the world waiting for you to collect. If you lie down on the job, the whole of Nitiandang might grind to a halt!"

Lilith was somewhat speechless, thinking, why is this worker of mine starting to preach to me?

She waved her hand impatiently, "Oh, I know, I’m thinking about it.

"The main issue is that I’ve had a bit of a creative burnout recently, and I can’t think of any really good ideas at the moment.

"You guys should take a break too, don’t overwork yourselves and get too tired.

"Come on, let’s watch a livestream for a while, let me see how the race to speedrun ’Hell Inferior Demon’ is going."

Gu Fan turned on the TV and found Heilong’s livestream channel.

Heilong was a super-hardcore player of platform jumping games, especially obsessed with various "jumping joy" gameplay, and his skills were quite impressive.

He had gained a lot of fans by making a name for himself in the speedrunning community of "Sisyphus".

And now in the "Hell Inferior Demon" dung pool butterfly stroke competition, he was a prime victim.

Lilith greatly enjoyed watching his livestreams, always laughing joyfully whenever she saw him breaking down in frustration.

However, by now, the "Hell Inferior Demon" dung pool butterfly stroke competition was gradually nearing its end, and this kind of enjoyment probably wouldn’t last much longer.

If it was a classic speedrunning event, players could keep at it for a thousand hours, and even after several years, new speedrun records might be set.

But "Hell Inferior Demon" was indeed too trashy and torturous; even the Succubus MOD couldn’t fundamentally improve it, so the fact that its popularity lasted for a few days was already pretty good.

Lilith also wanted to seize this last chance to really enjoy herself.

However, after opening Heilong’s livestream, she found that Heilong wasn’t playing "Hell Inferior Demon".

Instead, he was on a website she had never seen before, downloading files.

"Huh? What’s this?" Lilith was puzzled, "Isn’t he continuing to speedrun ’Hell Inferior Demon’?"

Clearly, many viewers also shared Lilith’s confusion.

Heilong explained right away, "Speedrun ’Hell Inferior Demon’ my ass, I’m done eating that shit, no more!

"Damn, now that I think about it, I have only two words, regrets!

"I should have never been lured by that Succubus MOD, nor should I have let the viewers spur me on. Speedrunning ’Hell Inferior Demon’ from start to finish was a mistake!

"Lucky for me, some big shot updated a bunch of MODs for Nitiandang’s games, so today we’re going back to the classics!

"Let me see, which one should I play first?

"Having too much content to choose from is a problem too!

"Got it, this one then!

"’Destiny of the Sleeping Dragon’ custom warlord life story MOD, this is bound to be interesting! I’m already itching to see what ridiculous stories these fake-AIs will come up with based on the fabricated life stories of warlords!"

...

In the streaming screen, Heilong installed the downloaded MOD files into the "Destiny of the Sleeping Dragon" program and then started the game.

On the surface, the game didn’t seem much different from the original version.

The biggest difference was in the "Warlord Life Stories" section, where you could click with the left mouse button to edit!

The content of the editing was completely free, players could add real historical details or just make things up.

Afterwards, when triggering the "Strategic Dragon Synergy" operation, the NPCs controlled by the fake-AIs would see these warlord life stories and change their decisions accordingly.

As for what would actually happen? Only heaven knew.

Meanwhile, in the living room, Lilith’s chewing action stopped.

She had just happily grabbed a handful of chips and stuffed them into her mouth, only to see this outrageous scene halfway through chewing, causing her brain to freeze, and her puffy cheeks maintained their rotund shape.

Shortly after, she swallowed a chip in anger. "Gu Fan! What on earth is going on?!"

Gu Fan too was a picture of confusion, frowning as he watched the live broadcast for a while before saying, "This... it seems that someone has also created a MOD of our game on the N website..."

He opened the N website on his phone and handed it over, while Lilith snatched it impatiently.

Lilith actually had a decent understanding of the N website.

After all, "Hell Inferior Demon" had previously made a comeback, and an important part of that was Gu Fan working overtime to create a MOD and then submitting it to the N website!

At that time, Lilith was amazed by this move and took the opportunity to mock Azazel for a good while.

But now, the roles had switched!

Lilith rapidly scrolled through the phone screen.

The page Gu Fan opened was "Gan Di’s" homepage, where it clearly displayed all the MODs he had submitted.

The truth was Gan Di had dabbled in creating some MODs quite a while ago, but had then stopped due to various reasons, only to pick it up again recently.

Just yesterday, he uploaded a whopping nine MODs!

These MODs covered most of the popular games in Nitiandang, and the downloads were extremely high. In just a single day, the downloads for these MODs had generally surpassed thirty thousand, and the MOD for "Destiny of the Sleeping Dragon" even broke fifty thousand downloads!

Such figures were considered explosive even on the N website.

This was partly because Gan Di had an accurate grasp on what players wanted, and partly because, frankly, Nitiandang wasn’t updating their games!

If it were any other developer, they would regularly maintain their games and add new features, then even if a MOD creator made some decent MODs, not as many players would download them.

After all, the game’s regular content was enough to play with.

But since Nitiandang’s games were perpetually not updated, all the players were frustrated. Now that there were MODs available that could significantly improve their experience, they of course rushed to download them!

So, these few MODs quickly became top-rated on the N website’s domestic popularity charts, which in turn led to even further spread, catching the attention and downloads from more players...

Thus, the cycle continued, and although only a day had passed, the impact was significant!

Lilith gritted her teeth. "I was wondering why ’Infernal Trajectory’ had finally started to recover from negative sentiment, yet recently, it plummeted even faster...

"Turns out there’s someone stirring trouble!!

"Who could this person be?"

She was nearly fuming on the spot.

Clearly, Lilith’s method for collecting negative emotions had some fatal flaws.

As a developer, she couldn’t alter the game’s content, or it would be considered a breach of contract, but the players were free to change the game content as they pleased!

It’s like running a diner: the diner serves up a bowl of fried rice, and the customer can eat it with chopsticks, a spoon, add vinegar, or chili, or even take it home and fry it again. But the diner can’t change fried rice into fried noodles or a pancake.

Initially, Lilith was the beneficiary of this flaw.

Gu Fan used a MOD to profit from "Hell Inferior Demon," enabling Lilith to reap three-quarters of the game’s negative emotion value.

But now, Lilith had become the victim of this flaw!

The boomerang had firmly embedded itself in her.

"Who is this gandi! Find out for me!!" Lilith was beside herself with rage.

By now, the look Lilith gave Gu Fan was tinged with some suspicion.

After all, Gu Fan had created MODs previously, so it was normal for him to become the prime suspect.

But soon, Gu Fan easily proved his innocence.

"President Li, it seems to be just one of our players, that ’Immortal Realm’s Liver Emperor.’

"Look, his avatar on the N website is the same as the one in his live broadcast room."

Gu Fan opened Liver Emperor’s live stream, and indeed, the Liver Emperor was explaining to his viewers how to use these MODs and responding to some key questions about the MODs on the N website.

This cleared Gu Fan of any suspicions since he had no interactions with Liver Emperor whatsoever.

Lilith was vexed and her gums itched with irritation: "Liver Emperor?

"Isn’t that the player who took two of my golden trophies?

"Damn it! How can he bite the hand that fed him?!"

Seeing Lilith’s breakdown, Gu Fan understood all too well.

Good, President Li now had the motivation.