Why the bug I wrote became a core gameplay mechanic?!
Chapter 226 - 225: Cyber Cricket Fighting, Motorcycle Battle Royale?

Chapter 226: Chapter 225: Cyber Cricket Fighting, Motorcycle Battle Royale?

Chen Tingquan’s move had his live stream audience finding it a bit hard to keep a straight face.

"What’s this, cyber crickets fighting!"

"Real-life Pokémon, huh?"

"No, it should be called motorcycle battle royale!"

"How come there are players trying to open a book and act as the house? Is anybody going to do something about this? Quick, charge the host with setting up a gambling place and drag him away!"

"Hey, kid, you’re actually a genius. No skills but still thinking of ways to rake in viewers with this method!"

"A perfect reboot of reality’s classic scenes if you ask me."

The live stream viewers were all astounded by Chen Tingquan’s top streamer brains, indeed, there’s a reason people become big-time streamers.

He might not be able to earn his keep through skills like Heilong, but he definitely knew how to find and stir up trouble!

In fact, Chen Tingquan’s behavior did have a real-life inspiration source.

And that was motorcycle influencers on short video websites!

These motorcycle influencers often appeared as "biker babes," liking to wear short skirts and show off their thighs while riding motorcycles. After posting to the short video websites, they’d usually gain quite impressive popularity.

However, since these motorcycle influencers generally lacked skills and had a serious lack of respect for safety, they often ended up in various serious accidents.

Given that the nature of motorcycles is, ’flesh wraps metal’, the danger level is extremely high—once something goes wrong, death or disability is likely.

There were even times when multiple motorcycle influencers would have accidents one after another, making the follow list of those who subscribed to many motorcycle influencers look like a list, and eerily like a ledger of life and death, checking off some names regularly, quite terrifying indeed.

Thus came the term "electronic cricket fighting".

"Saying so much crap, looking down on us bikers, you dare to play a game with me? Follow 6 motorcycle bloggers each online, and after a year, the one with more alive wins! You got the guts to play?"

Many related memes also emerged from this, like "Once the ghostfire sparks, my parents’ efforts are in vain," which also had considerable popularity online.

And at that moment, Chen Tingquan’s live stream was pretty much a concrete representation of this existing meme in reality.

He personally took on the role of the "electronic cricket fighting" host and provided a real-time live broadcast of the game content for all viewers!

All you could see was Chen Tingquan seriously tallying up the current popular motorcycle influencers on the net, who were basically all copying Heilong’s approach, emphasizing that life and death are fated, wealth is in heaven.

Chen Tingquan categorized them into several different groups based on their popularity and various other composite data, counting each influencer’s deaths and accident-free events.

If any influencer had too many deaths, they were removed from the list.

And the viewers could lock in their bets, investing in these groups with the platform’s virtual beans to see which group would end up with the fewest deaths and the most surviving influencers in the end.

Real talk, it was quite entertaining. During Chen Tingquan’s live broadcasting, the tension was constant, and the show was at full throttle!

And Chen Tingquan’s approach further boosted the heat for these live-streaming motorcycle influencers, garnering them more attention and attracting more players to join the ranks of motorcycle influencers to grab a piece of the viewership pie.

As for dying?

After all, it was just a game. Even if a character died, they could just come back to life with a five-yuan recharge, or simply ditch the account and start with a new one.

Compared to toiling in the game for a month for just a few thousand yuan, making 210,000 in a day was definitely sweeter!

Such high earnings were enough to make players completely disregard their game characters’ lives.

This was reasonable; after all, there were people who risked their lives for popularity in real life. Many of the motorcycle influencers on short video platforms had only a few thousand followers, yet they dared to joke with their own lives, let alone in a game.

This novel gameplay brought new heat to the game, attracting more players’ attention and participation...

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On June 21st, at 6 p.m.

Gu Fan had just finished taking a shower on the second floor of the villa and was getting ready to enjoy some TV before going to bed.

But as soon as he came downstairs, he heard a ’crackling’ sound.

Gu Fan was startled and quickly looked towards the familiar position of the massage chair.

There he saw Lilith with a stunned expression on her face, looking at the live stream on the TV, her right hand had already crumpled an empty Coke can into a twisted shape.

Clearly, Lilith had just arrived from Hell, and she was extremely shocked by everything she was seeing!

Who am I?

Where am I?

What on earth is going on!!

The big TV displayed Chen Tingquan’s live broadcast, and by now, his streaming heat had reached the top three in the platform’s gaming section, meaning this round of viewership was a total jackpot!

The reason for such a result was mainly because Chen Tingquan was smart. He had blazed a new trail, not rolling with the others on Heilong’s favored tracks, not live broadcasting motorcycle riding in person, but instead, he became a commentator.

Being the first host to do this, naturally, he’d get the lion’s share of the traffic.

With Chen Tingquan’s eloquence and established fanbase, it’s no wonder that the game has achieved such popularity now.

But clearly, for Lilith, this wasn’t just inconceivable, it was utterly unacceptable!

All she could do was frantically scratch her head, "Ah!! Gu Fan! What on earth is going on! Why is the negative emotion collected by ’Road Rage Simulator’ still decreasing! Why!!"

The game’s revenue had already completely shattered Lilith’s psychological defenses!

Originally, when the game was in the experiential store, the negative emotions it collected were already on thin ice.

Players had discovered the gameplay of "Defensive Driving Simulator" and "Instant Karma Simulator," and once they adjusted their thinking, crashing didn’t feel so bad anymore; in fact, seeing those idiot drivers get their instant karma could even generate quite a bit of positive emotion.

It was this very reason that Lilith had been in a foul mood and hadn’t shown up for the past couple of days.

But who would have thought there would be room for even more decrease in the negative emotions the game collected!

If this continued, Lilith’s efforts would have been for nothing!

Gu Fan fell silent for a moment, then analyzed seriously, "President Li, the problem clearly lies with the motorcycles..."

Are the rules of ’Road Rage Simulator’ strict?

Of course they’re strict!

In fact, the traffic regulations in this game are stricter than any other driving simulation game on the market and even stricter than real life; after all, in reality, there’s no requirement to stop and render aid after witnessing a nearby car accident.

So from the start, this rule brought significant negative emotion to the players.

But the issue is, it was precisely because of these strict traffic rules that players could experience the thrilling sensation of dancing through a minefield!

Are there motorcycle racing games about speeding?

Of course, there are, and quite a few at that.

The market already had many motorcycle racing games with speeding as the main gameplay, which featured great graphics that could almost pass for real, a wide variety of motorcycles to choose from, and speeds that could break 300 when racing.

But the issue is, these games practically had no penalty for failure!

Even if you crashed, you could pick yourself up and continue riding as if nothing happened. Even if your lap times were unsatisfactory, you could quickly start the next lap.

It was quite thrilling at first, but over time, fatigue naturally set in, and no matter how exciting it was, you couldn’t get thrilled anymore.

But the motorcycles in ’Road Rage Simulator’ were a completely different gameplay.

It’s true this game didn’t have those intricately designed tracks, nor other motorcycles to race against, but it did have strict traffic regulations and a high punishment mechanism!

Therefore, even when players drove primarily on straight suburban highways, the stimulation and thrill they got far exceeded those of regular motorcycle driving games!

Once players broke through their own internal expectations, the negative emotion generated from crashing would plummet, while the positive emotion from speeding would shoot up.

What’s more, it wasn’t just speeding that could create positive emotion!

Watching live broadcasts in the game could also produce positive emotions.

This completely caught Lilith off guard!

You see, although Nitiandang had some games that produced great live streaming effects before, watching live streams never collected positive emotions. The reason was simple: the viewers were watching live streams, which had nothing to do with the game programming, hence there was no contract established.

’Road Rage Simulator’ was different though.

Players could watch live broadcasts in the game, in addition to those on streaming websites!

This act resulted in them contributing to the game’s positive emotions when they experienced them, affecting Lilith’s grand plan of collecting negative emotions.

This made live broadcasts within the game a completely loss-making business for Lilith!

Moreover, the game’s live broadcasts were interacting with those in real life, which after a series of viral catchphrases and breakout moments, created a group of "cloud players who bought the game."

In other games, cloud players don’t buy the game but stream the content on streaming platforms.

But the cloud players for this game, a large portion of them had bought the game, then occasionally drove themselves, and when they had nothing better to do, would stream game content through the in-game live broadcast feature.

After a series of complex chain reactions, the negative emotions collected by ’Road Rage Simulator’ plummeted, completely breaking through Lilith’s psychological bottom line!

No wonder she was so devastated now.

Last time she left with little hope for the game, yet unexpectedly, there was still room to fall!

Who could bear this!

"Gu Fan, what do we do now!

"The hard work of Nitiandang’s games over the past two months is all going to waste!"

Clearly, Lilith wasn’t ready to accept failure just yet; she wanted to stage a comeback against the odds.

But Gu Fan silently shook his head, ruthlessly shattering her illusions.

"President Li, in my opinion... it’s beyond saving."