Why the bug I wrote became a core gameplay mechanic?!
Chapter 402 - 409: New Dialog Box_2

Chapter 402: Chapter 409: New Dialog Box_2

And just like that, the two of them started chatting.

Zhang Qifeng hadn’t expected that one day he would turn "Heartbeat Dream" into a dialogue-based text romance game, and it was even a conversation with a fake-AI.

It was a bit like the feeling he had when he first played "City Forsaken by Gods".

Naturally, Zhang Qifeng thought of the crafty moves players had used in "City Forsaken by Gods": by conversing with Xia Mi, they could to some extent alter her AI and thereby affect the game content.

So, he immediately tried something similar.

However, the results of the attempt were disappointing: Yarvette here seemed to have become a complete love brain, and no matter what he said to her, it couldn’t influence any of the functions within the game!

Clearly, these two games were very different.

In "City Forsaken by Gods", players could also talk to Xia Mi, but at that time none of the game’s mechanics were restricted, and the AI had to handle a multitude of tasks within the city at the same time. That’s why the "talk therapy" approach worked.

But "Heartbeat Dream" was different, once in this mode, Yarvette had actually blocked all other functions of the game, including inviting other girls, daily gaming, and training, among others.

It could be said that the game could now only do one thing, and that was to chat and romance with Yarvette!

Since this kind of chat didn’t involve any of the game’s mechanics, it seemed unlikely that he could change the game by talking.

No matter whether the player whispered sweet nothings or hurled insults, it seemed to have no fundamental effect on the game content.

Yarvette was happy at times, sad at others, but no matter what, her attitude towards the player was consistently the same, like a yandere who had finally monopolized the affections of her beloved.

Zhang Qifeng suspected that at this point Yarvette, as the game’s guide, must still have high authority.

After all, she could directly delete all other characters in the game and could also engage in dialogue boxes for chatting.

But the problem was, Zhang Qifeng wanted to use sweet talk to entice Yarvette to do more, to unlock new features, or to invite new characters to the island, but all efforts had failed.

So the game was stuck again!

This save had turned into a world exclusively for the player and Yarvette, and the game content was gone, only able to chat upon entering.

Although according to the differences in the chat content, the AI seemed to be changing slightly every day, with the bottom-level mechanics set in stone, trying to change the game content through chatting seemed entirely impossible.

"Damn it, why is it stuck again!

"It seems like it just changed from one dead save to another..."

Zhang Qifeng was helpless, and glancing at the time, realized he had been battling into the wee hours again. Considering that he had to get up early for work the next day, oh no, to continue gaming, sorry, I mean to continue working seriously, he could only go to bed irritated, while continuing to ponder in his mind what other method he could possibly use to break through the awkward state of the game right now.

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The next day at work, Zhang Qifeng walked into his office with two heavy dark circles under his eyes.

While drinking coffee to wake up, he checked the strategies shared by online players about "Heartbeat Dream".

So far, more and more top players had completely cleared the terrifying content of a single character and activated the Three-Stage Full Affection.

But without exception, all these characters disappeared!

Once achieving Three-Stage Full Affection, after a period of time, these characters would come to say goodbye to the player reluctantly.

At the time of the farewell, these characters cried as if they were made of tears, each looking pitiable, saying on their lips "I must leave Eden for unavoidable reasons," but also "I will love you unchangingly for this lifetime."

In any case, the feeling of life-and-death separation was maxed out.

Then, after a farewell, these girls just really vanished!

This left many players dumbfounded on the spot: Where’s my wife? The wife that I went through all the horror levels for and finally managed to max out the affection with great difficulty?

Gone just like that??

Although the game has a bestiary and gallery to relive all the scenes that have been played before, but...

The feeling it gives is always strange, very off!

If the characters in the game were still there, then looking at the bestiary and gallery would be like looking at wedding photos after getting married, reliving the wonderful memories.

But now that the characters in the game are gone, looking at the bestiary and gallery always feels like mourning a deceased wife...

The taste is all wrong! The more you look, the more bitter it feels!

Many players were frantic. I went through so much trouble to finally win over a girl with full affection, only to have her disappear just like that?

Act like a human, won’t you? If this were a gacha game from the anime world, players would’ve already sent a suicide truck to your company!

As for why this was done?

Players had numerous theories.

Some believed that according to the plot, wasn’t Eden supposed to exist to save the apocalypse? So since these girls were all engaged in various training activities, could it be that they were humanoid weapons in a salvation mode?

The protagonist had cleared all horror modes, maybe that meant these humanoid weapons had finally completed their training and thus left Eden to go and fight against monsters in the mode?

Completing training and leaving the camp to participate in real combat, that makes sense, right?

Others thought that it was obviously Elios who had silenced them!

Clearly, these players came to a discovery similar to Zhang Qifeng’s, and began to have major doubts about the game’s guide character.

After all, all the text in the game was telling the players one thing: The character serving as the guide not only had high privileges and could feel the unreality of the game world, but also developed a strong possessiveness towards the player.

Unfortunately, the guide character, under game mechanics, couldn’t have any interaction with the player, couldn’t spark any romance, and could only watch the player sweetly interact with other girls, getting closer and closer.

Jealousy morphing into hatred, even to the point of wanting to silence them, that’s all quite normal...

Zhang Qifeng couldn’t help but fall into deep thought.

Clearly, so far, there weren’t many players like him who had deleted Elios and made Yarvette the main guide, at least he hadn’t seen any online yet.

And considering Yarvette’s behavior after becoming the guide, and then looking back at Elios, indeed, there could be some new speculations.

"From this point of view, Elios is indeed less sick than Yarvette.

"Yarvette deletes files indiscriminately without caring whether the game can run or not. She even ends up blocking all other content in the game and uses it to open a chat box with the player.

"And then the two of them just keep chatting...

"While Elios only temporarily deletes a file, ruining only the latest save, and the file can be copied back in and the game can continue running.

"It’s just that Elios activates horror content, wanting to use it to dissuade players who want to pursue other girls.

"Comparing the two, Elios is much milder...

"That also makes sense, after all, character-wise, Elios is a gentler character, and she was chosen as the guide from the beginning, which is essentially different from other guides who were promoted halfway. Even when doing bad things, she would have some lines she wouldn’t cross, not being completely reckless."

"But then again, what should I do about my situation now? Is my save file completely corrupted?

"Or conversely, have I created a perfect save where I could chat forever with Yarvette?

"What the heck do I want with that kind of save!"

Zhang Qifeng was somewhat speechless. Although from a different perspective, this save was quite precious, but it could only be used to chat!

This game was purchased with money, it had so many girls, so many interactions, and now I can only chat. How is this any different from those vegetarian dishes at the price of meat in a foot massage parlor!

But his previous attempts had all been unsuccessful, this save file seemed to be tightly controlled by Yarvette, and there wasn’t much the player could do.

Zhang Qifeng stroked his chin, lost in thought.

"Or... what if I throw Elios’s file in there, to fight poison with poison?

"No, that’s wrong; I tried it before, and throwing Elios’s file in there doesn’t do anything.

"Maybe this version of Elios isn’t strong enough? If I raise a stronger version of Elios like I did with Yarvette, and let them fight each other, what then?"

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