Why the bug I wrote became a core gameplay mechanic?!
Chapter 247 - 246: This Lousy Badge Really Does Have a Social Attribute, Huh!

Chapter 247: Chapter 246: This Lousy Badge Really Does Have a Social Attribute, Huh!

At night, at the experience store.

"Bro Peng, that turn was awesome!"

"So this is the highest realm of defensive driving?"

"Brilliant, the advance observation just now was spot on. It feels like if one could do that in real life, running for years without an accident would be completely doable, right?"

Ge Peng was surrounded and watched by Hou Ji, Zhuge Jun, and others, feeling greatly satisfied inside.

He said somewhat sheepishly, "Actually, it’s just a matter of practice makes perfect. If you all practice more, you can definitely do it too."

After putting up the plaque and scanning the code to watch the videos in the afternoon, Hou Ji, Zhuge Jun, and others had asked Ge Peng to stay and teach them defensive driving.

Feeling obliged by their enthusiasm, Ge Peng used the simulation steering wheel inside the experience store to give a demonstration.

Once he started showing them, things got out of control. Surrounded by these college students who showered him with 360-degree, no-blind-spot flattery, Ge Peng began to feel a bit elated.

For Hou Ji, Zhuge Jun, and others, they also gradually began to realize the actual difficulty of this achievement challenge.

So when Ge Peng said "you all can do it," was it just a Versailles boast?

Not at all.

Because after Ge Peng’s breakdown, Hou Ji and Zhuge Jun discovered that defensive driving really does have some tricks, and it’s not just about the player’s skill!

After all, the way Ge Peng achieved the accomplishment was completely different from Heilong’s.

Heilong accomplished it by threading through traffic on a motorcycle, leaving behind the idiot cars, whereas Ge Peng was driving a car and couldn’t thread through, so many maneuvers didn’t allow for much space.

In other words, since the room for maneuvers was limited, Ge Peng couldn’t display too much high-end and exquisite driving skill. His completion of the achievement relied mainly on awareness and proper handling.

It can also be said that he took the concept of defensive driving to the extreme!

Heilong’s method was definitely not something ordinary people could learn, since it was purely about overcoming skill with power; but Ge Peng’s method was learnable for ordinary people because it relied more on thinking and philosophy!

Of course, a lot of practice was still indispensable, but either way, it gave ordinary people hope of completing the achievement.

"Okay, let’s buck up and go for another run!"

Hou Ji was the most impatient among them, and he had already found a machine to start practicing.

As for the smarter Zhuge Jun, with Ge Peng’s permission, he took a photo of the QR code on the plaque. That way, anytime he wanted to study, he could directly watch the original video of Ge Peng driving.

This was practically the textbook of defensive driving.

Ge Peng checked the time; it was already 9 P.M. Although the experience store hadn’t closed yet, he needed to head home.

So, after saying goodbye to everyone, Ge Peng got in his car and started heading back.

"Strange, I clearly came here today intending to seek an explanation, so why am I going back happy and content..."

In the car, Ge Peng was a bit puzzled. He was quite angry before going but now felt great satisfaction inside?

While trying to dig deeper into the reason, he suddenly noticed something odd behind his car.

The lighting conditions on Capital City’s roads were excellent, so even though it was night, the majority of vehicles weren’t using their high beams, which didn’t impair visibility.

Through the rearview mirror of his car, Ge Peng saw a car that had been following steadily behind him. He could vaguely see the passenger raising both hands, seemingly taking photos with a phone, but the mirror was too small to make out clearly.

As Ge Peng was pondering, the car behind seemed to have finished some operation and began to speed up to drive alongside him.

Indeed, there were two young men in the car.

The young man in the driver’s seat rolled down his window and greeted Ge Peng, while the young man in the passenger seat was holding a phone, seemingly playing a video.

"Bro, that’s awesome! Is that the plate from ’Road Rage Simulator’?" the driver praised, giving a thumbs-up.

Ge Peng also rolled down his window: "Yeah! That damn plaque."

"Awesome, bro! With that plate, what idiot car on the road would dare to mess with you? You’re definitely the brightest star on this road!

"But if you ask me, you could stick one more ’Learner’ sign on it. Invisible showoff—deadliest kind!" the driver joked.

Ge Peng laughed loudly: "That’s not necessary, I’m an old driver now; putting a ’Learner’ sign would be deceiving people, right?"

The young driver at the steering wheel nodded, "Yeah, that makes sense. Alright then, I’m off first. I’ll follow your lead and get one of these badges too!"

The two cars soon parted ways, but it was clear that this brief two-minute encounter had given Ge Peng a great sense of satisfaction.

However, this was obviously not the end because Ge Peng noticed that almost all of the cars following him seemed to have noticed the badge, and a significant portion of them had taken out their phones to scan the code.

Even when he was waiting for the traffic light, pedestrians passing by spotted the signboard and were also scanning and taking pictures.

As for the car owners who tried to strike up a conversation with him, he ran into quite a few of them.

At first, Ge Peng was somewhat puzzled. Was it really necessary?

Although this badge is still quite rare, but was it worthy of so much attention?

It’s not like it’s as noticeable as a luxury car. It’s just a badge in the shape of a shield with a QR code on it. How could it attract so much attention?

But Ge Peng quickly figured it out.

There were mainly two reasons for this eye-catching effect!

The first was that recently "Road Rage Simulator" had become extremely popular and widely known!

Of course, to a large extent, this popularity can be attributed to the tireless efforts of paid promoters, who continuously sought new angles to criticize the game, but soon, public opinion began to inexplicably turn around. Especially the "Ghost Rider Youngster Challenge" that Chen Tingquan and Heilong organized a while ago, which led to a surge in the game’s popularity.

This badge was also a major focus of the promoter’s output, so its recognition was pretty high among the gaming and youth communities!

But this reason alone was obviously not enough.

Even if the badge was from a popular game, and even if it was rare, so what? Why the need to scan it?

That brings us to the second point: It was clear that these people were scanning not just out of simple curiosity or admiration, but rather to... verify its authenticity!

Because this badge wasn’t expensive or difficult to forge.

Due to its rarity, the first thought of gamers on the road upon seeing it was not "the guy ahead is so cool" but "is this badge fake?"

How could one verify its authenticity?

Simply by scanning!

If the badge was forged but not the QR code, then either nothing would come up upon scanning, or it would lead to some random things, but not to a "Road Rage Simulator" accident-free driving video montage.

Of course, there could be dishonest sellers who use existing video QR codes for counterfeiting.

But the issue is, if they did that, the scan would bring up someone else’s video. And other people’s videos also have anti-counterfeiting marks, namely, the displayed account names on the videos and the manually written car plate numbers!

If someone displayed a fake badge and scanned it to reveal someone else’s plate number, then it wouldn’t have any effect of showing off.

It could only be said that the nature of netizens is to be contrarians.

If you tell them "this person is awesome," they might dismiss it; but if you say "this person seems awesome but appears to be faking it," they’ll immediately perk up to thoroughly dig into it.

And if after all that digging, they find out the person genuinely is awesome? Although they might say, "You still need to improve," most of them deep down recognize the person’s awesomeness and even feel a bit of admiration.

That was precisely the situation Ge Peng was encountering!

When people on the road saw the badge, their first reaction was disbelief. But after scanning and realizing it was genuine, and watching a few highlights of defensive driving, they willingly followed and gave him a thumbs up.

On his way home, Ge Peng spent over half an hour driving but also experienced the most socially anxious half-hour of his life.

He never realized that one day he could attract so much attention while driving!

After all, Ge Peng’s car wasn’t any kind of luxury vehicle, just a standard electric SUV commonly seen in Capital City, though it was quite high-tech. But if driven normally, it wouldn’t turn any heads.

Moreover, Ge Peng found that this badge seemed to work even better than a luxury car.

Because when ordinary people see a luxury car on the road, at most they look a few more times but won’t go up to chat or talk, as there is naturally a great distance felt between them and the owner of a luxury car.

But this badge was different.

Once they saw this badge, everyone knew that this was also a "Road Rage Simulator" player, with no distance at all between them.

So, although it was just a simple badge, it inexplicably gained a stronger social attribute than a luxury car...

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