Why the bug I wrote became a core gameplay mechanic?!
Chapter 163 Seeking Immortal Record

Chapter 163: Chapter 163 Seeking Immortal Record

Such a bizarre scene made Instructor Ding feel a little tingling on his scalp, and he subconsciously kept some distance from the mass of flesh creatures.

But Li Wenhao seemed to have a bigger heart, even walking up to the wriggling halved animal, as if pondering something.

Then, he took out the chunks of flesh he had collected earlier and fitted them onto the animal!

As Li Wenhao worked, the animal’s intestines, which had been scattered around, were tied up, and its internal organs and chunks of flesh were stuffed back into its body, becoming a gooey mass.

Li Wenhao even pushed the animal’s bisected body together, squeezing the two halves back into one.

"Brother Ding, what are you waiting for? Didn’t you pick some up too?"

While turning back to collect more chunks of flesh, Li Wenhao urged.

"Ah?"

Instructor Ding felt his scalp tingle a bit, but he forced himself to go over and sure enough, there was an interactive key on the corpse.

After pressing it, Li Huanzhen took out the chunks of flesh he had earlier obtained and stuffed them onto the corpse.

"Mouse, it feels like you really get the game’s logic, huh? How did you think of interacting with the corpse?"

Instructor Ding was curious, after all, a normal person’s instinct upon seeing these flesh monsters would be to stay away, right? If you didn’t deliberately go over to look, you actually wouldn’t see an interaction button.

Li Wenhao replied matter-of-factly: "Ah? Seeing interactive elements in the scene and trying them out, isn’t that the most basic habit of a gamer?"

Instructor Ding was momentarily at a loss for words: "That’s true."

Soon, after the last piece of flesh was stuffed into the animal by Li Wenhao, it came back to life!

Judging from its still intact head, this appeared to be a deer, but now it looked quite bloated, with much of its tissue overgrown at the waist, where it was severed, making it look rather eerie.

Li Wenhao commented: "It looks a bit odd, not as good as the original. But it’s not a big deal; as long as it can move, it’s fine."

Instructor Ding didn’t quite know what to say for a moment. This is not a big deal?

However, he didn’t object either, after all, it was friends playing the game together, and it wasn’t too good to directly point out that a friend was being a bit strange, as it could easily end their friendship.

Instructor Ding still had quite a bit of emotional intelligence.

The deformed flesh deer hobbled away.

Li Wenhao moved forward, wanting to heal more animals, but this time it seemed that he had triggered the bandits’ alert range, and three bandits charged at them together!

"Hey! Brother Ding, be careful!"

Li Wenhao shouted a warning and quickly retreated, the two of them very tacitly each drew the monsters away just like before.

Li Wenhao pulled two bandit minions, while Instructor Ding confronted the bandit leader himself.

These two bandit minions were not carrying sabers, but axes, so their moves were noticeably slower, and Li Wenhao looked quite uncomfortable.

And the bandit leader, with his Horse-Cutter Saber, had bizarre parry timing and mysterious speed; Instructor Ding missed his blocks several times and was brutally assaulted.

Finally, after a simple last stand, Instructor Ding fell first under the bandit leader’s chopper.

Once again, the familiar large word appeared on the screen: CRASH!

The two of them were revived at the entrance of the valley.

Li Wenhao was somewhat helpless: "Brother Ding..."

Instructor Ding felt a bit embarrassed; both times, it was because of his death that Li Wenhao was affected.

It could only be said that the game’s two-player mode was not particularly friendly to friends, sharing one life between two, and if one was particularly bad and constantly dragging behind, the difficulty would frankly be higher than playing solo!

But this did indeed ignite Instructor Ding’s challenge spirit: "That was an accident! I’ll be more careful this time, and there should be no problem!"

Li Wenhao didn’t believe a word he said: "Okay, Brother Ding, I believe you, but this time let’s still have you handle the two minions, alright..."

The two once again advanced into fierce battle.

After dying two more times, they eventually began to adapt to the rhythm of the game. Although they had not yet mastered the Perfect Parry mechanism, after all, the game did allow for step dodging, and Li Huanzhen was also quite mobile.

So, after taking down two minions, the two of them tag-teamed the bandit leader, one in front and one behind, and finally managed to grind him down.

"Phew! Done!

"The game’s boss is pretty tough!"

Instructor Ding and Li Wenhao both realized that the game boss and the minions seemed to use two different mechanisms.

The minions did not have an unstoppable effect; under their health bar was a posture bar, which started at 0, increased after blocking, and once full, could directly trigger execution.

But bosses aren’t like that, under the health bar there’s a purple energy bar.

A player’s normal attacks not only reduce health but also slightly deplete this energy bar, and Perfect Parry along with some special attack methods can significantly reduce it.

Once the energy bar is empty, the boss will lose its super armor state and can be aggressively pressed.

At the same time, once the energy bar is emptied, you can accumulate a posture bar, and filling this bar also allows you to execute the boss.

But if you can’t fill the posture bar within a certain time, the energy bar will automatically recover at a certain ratio.

In the middle and late stages of the game, some powerful bosses will automatically transform and refill their energy bars when transitioning phases, although Instructor Ding and Li Wenhao haven’t encountered this yet.

This bandit leader is just the most ordinary elite mob in the game, but it still caused great difficulty for the two of them.

Finally, the two managed to defeat the bandit together.

However, before they could celebrate, they saw that gigantic flesh monster moving towards them.

Instructor Ding couldn’t help but be startled, "Hey, a back-to-back fight? Don’t gross me out!"

At this point, they had used up all their tricks to defeat the bandit; this flesh monster looked very powerful and was definitely beyond them.

Yet, Li Wenhao moved closer, "This looks like it should be a friendly unit, right?"

Instructor Ding was shocked, you’re telling me this thing is a friendly unit?

Has your brain gone bad?

Indeed, at the same moment Li Wenhao approached, the flesh monster suddenly extended a tentacle and wrapped him up!

Li Wenhao found himself unable to move, only to be controlled by the flesh monster and delivered towards its gaping maw.

"Brother Ding, save me!"

Instructor Ding was speechless, but at this moment, he had no choice but to step forward. What he didn’t expect was that a cutscene was triggered at this very moment.

Li Huanzhen was seized by a tentacle, the flesh monster opened its gaping maw ready to devour him.

This must be the Li Huanzhen that Li Wenhao was controlling.

He struggled hard, stabbing the flesh monster with the sword in his right hand repeatedly, but he was still about to be swallowed.

At the last moment, Li Huanzhen could only vainly extend his left arm in defense, but it was bitten by the gaping maw in one gulp!

As the flesh monster’s mouth, full of sharp teeth, closed, his left hand was also swallowed.

Then, the gaping mouth opened again, the flesh monster’s tentacle lifted high once more, aiming to throw Li Huanzhen directly into it!

However, just as Li Huanzhen was about to fall into the gaping mouth, a huge Horse-Cutter Saber descended from the sky, chopping the flesh monster in half!

A massive amount of flesh gushed from its belly, including Li Huanzhen, who was smeared with its blood and tissue.

He, missing a left arm, fell amidst a pile of flesh, while the mysterious armored figure from Huaxia who wielded the Horse-Cutter Saber appeared beside him.

After a brief black screen, the camera switched to a dilapidated Taoist temple.

The bloodstains on Li Huanzhen’s clothes had vanished, and he slowly regained consciousness, lifting his left hand to look, but found that his original left hand had disappeared, replaced by a skeleton of white bones.

Moreover, this skeletal arm could be used normally, and a ring of special black bamboo slips surrounded it.

Each slip was a narrow pentagon, resembling divination sticks or memorial tablets, layered around the skeletal arm, faintly exuding a black aura.

Li Huanzhen climbed up from the straw in the corner of the Taoist temple and saw that the central deity statue had completely collapsed, its original form unrecognizable, but the incense burner on the offering table was still lit, and below the table was a pitch-black cabinet, its purpose unknown.

A young female Taoist priest knelt on the grass mat in front of the offering table, her eyes closed, hands holding incense, and praying devoutly.

Outside the temple, the mysterious armored figure who had saved Li Huanzhen was quietly cleaning the oversized Horse-Cutter Saber.

At this point, the game transitioned naturally from the cutscene to normal gameplay, Instructor Ding found that he could control Li Huanzhen to move.

And the Li Huanzhen that Li Wenhao controlled also appeared on the screen at some point.

The two didn’t say much, common openings like this were common in games, so they immediately started looking for NPCs to dialogue with, going through their individual storylines.

Through dialogue, Instructor Ding quickly learned several key pieces of information.

Li Huanzhen’s left hand, along with a lot of flesh, had been corroded by the monster and was irreparable. But the general produced the black bamboo slips, allowing Li Huanzhen to keep using his left arm.

This black bamboo slip, called "Seeking Immortality Record," not only allowed normal functioning of the arm but could also grant special abilities through the sacrifice of body parts after acquiring secret techniques.

However, the secret techniques and materials to upgrade the "Seeking Immortality Record" would need to be obtained in later explorations.

At this time, the kingdom where Li Huanzhen found himself was called "Great Liang," and the armored general who saved him was named Zhao Siyuan, a loyal retainer of Great Liang.