Why the bug I wrote became a core gameplay mechanic?!
Chapter 490 - 473: The Ace up the Sleeve that Harms Tianhe

Chapter 490: Chapter 473: The Ace up the Sleeve that Harms Tianhe

10:00 p.m.

Infernal Hell’s Haunted House.

"Qin Fengliang! Come out here!"

Faced with Lilith’s draconic roar, Qin Fengliang hurried out to meet her.

"President Li, you’re still busy working so late. You should take care of your health!"

Lilith was very upset, "Cut the crap. Didn’t you guarantee with all your might that there would be absolutely no problems with this game? So how do you explain the current situation!"

It was obvious that Lilith was still furious.

But her attempt to vent her anger at Gu Fan and Feng Hui was utterly in vain. These two programmers were like sorcerers, slippery as eels, impossible to pin down.

Gu Fan was eloquent while Feng Hui was the epitome of sincerity, and Lilith was shocked to find that she was completely powerless against them both.

What to do then?

The only option was to vent on Qin Fengliang.

"You made a solemn promise that by employing the Dynamic Difficulty System and the Lying System, this game would harvest a substantial amount of negative emotions. I did indeed follow your advice— even going a step further than your original suggestion in the final product!

"But what now? Isn’t it a total disaster!"

Lilith fumed as she sat down on a chair, took a sip of the tea Qin Fengliang handed her, and then became even angrier, "I want a Coke!"

Qin Fengliang quickly replaced it with a Coke and explained, "President Li, this really isn’t my fault. Tell me, didn’t the Dynamic Difficulty System and Lying System rake in a lot of negative emotions at the beginning?"

Lilith hesitated for a moment, "Well, that is true..."

In fact, after "Blood of Lies" was released, it did bring in a massive amount of negative emotions. It was only after the bug appeared that the positive emotions began to reverse.

From the current situation, the positive emotions generated by the players were only slightly more than the negative ones, but compared to the accumulated total of negative emotions, this small loss was still within an acceptable range.

Qin Fengliang continued, "Besides, President Li, this isn’t really a problem with the Dynamic Difficulty System. It’s obviously because the Dynamic Difficulty System had a bug!

"How could this be the fault of the designer like me? If it weren’t for the bug, this Dynamic Difficulty System would have been a great success, right?"

Lilith’s fiery attitude was further suppressed, "Well... that seems true..."

Qin Fengliang continued, "Haven’t you tried capturing the traitor within Nitiandang? Any way you look at it, the programmers who caused these bugs are far more suspicious, right?

"I am utterly loyal to you!"

Lilith coughed awkwardly and discreetly changed the subject, "Alright, it’s come to this and now I want to know if there’s any way to remedy this?"

Lilith knew all too well that she had tried to catch the programmers.

Of course, she had!

There had been several suspicions against Gu Fan and Feng Hui, but it had been difficult to make progress.

Especially today when she wanted to focus an attack on Feng Hui’s vulnerability, using her meticulous logic and sharp language to break through this weakness and find the truth!

Unexpectedly, Feng Hui didn’t go on the defensive and played a preemptive move; coming up with a pained face, he suggested resigning, which threw Lilith off balance.

In the end, the matter was confusedly brushed aside. Lilith still wanted to investigate, but upon further reflection, it seemed unlikely to yield much progress. Moreover, even if it did, it was doubtful she could do much about these two programmers...

Like the famous saying goes, you can’t investigate everything, can you? What if you actually discover something?

After considering it, Lilith decided to set the matter aside for now. To ensure the ongoing development of future games, making major changes to the core program would need a well-thought-out strategy.

There would likely be better opportunities in the future; one must trust in future possibilities!

But these were not things Lilith felt comfortable discussing with Qin Fengliang.

Since Qin Fengliang didn’t understand programming, he couldn’t directly replace Feng Hui and therefore had difficulty offering constructive advice.

Moreover, it might make her, a powerful Hell Demon, seem incapable, significantly affecting her image in Qin Fengliang’s eyes.

This was unacceptable to Lilith.

So, she shifted the conversation, hoping to get some damage control strategies from Qin Fengliang.

"A remedy..."

Qin Fengliang also fell into deep thought; it was clear that at this point, coming up with a solution was extremely difficult for her.

Seeing this, Lilith suddenly felt an inexplicable sense of guilt towards Qin Fengliang. After all, it was always her responsibility to take on the "herculean rescue" roles, which indeed was asking too much of her.

Even if Qin Fengliang had no suggestions to offer, it was normal. How could Lilith justify further criticism?

What surprised Lilith, however, was that Qin Fengliang eventually said, "President Li, we still have one last ace up our sleeve.

"However...

"This last card might cause harm to the heavens, so we must be careful."

Lilith’s eyes lit up, "Tell me quickly!"

Harming the harmony of heaven?

What a joke, why would a Hell Demon like me worry about harming the harmony of heaven? The bigger the retribution, the better!

What’s so-called harming the harmony of heaven is not only not bad, but actually good!

Qin Fengliang nodded, "Alright, President Li, then I’ll just lay it out.

"Do you still remember... those streamers who signed agreements with us?"

At these words, it was as if a large bell went off in Lilith’s head, ringing with a "clang"!

Right, there was this matter!

The idea to use streamers was Lilith’s, but Qin Fengliang, who had been keeping a close eye on "Blood of Lies," was naturally well aware of the ins and outs of this matter.

Lilith had found a group of streamers and, under the guise of external activities, let them get exceptionally well-versed in "Blood of Lies" before its release, resulting in a great deal of confusion among the players.

From what we can see so far, indeed, quite a few players had been deceived.

Although the unpacking videos triggered players to denounce the game for inconsistent frame judgment between the prologue and the regular Chapters, and the polarized game difficulty, eventually uncovering the truth, this matter was too puzzling. As users argued with one another, a large number of onlookers fell into the trap out of curiosity and contributed an enormous amount of negative emotion.

The extra negative emotion harvested during this process made Lilith feel it was well worth it.

Then, those streamers and video uploaders performed their respective duties, collaborating with Nitiandang, which also resulted in additional negative emotion.

Though some streamers with less skill, like Ning Meng, were suspected by players of having substitutes play for them, they all quickly cleared themselves of suspicion through self-evidence.

This kind of self-evidence is 100% indisputable because it’s their actual skill level; players could rack their brains out and still not figure out what was wrong.

The development had reached a stage that could be considered a triple win.

Nitiandang reaped sales, the streamers successfully made their money, and President Li gained extra negative emotion.

The collaboration between the two parties should have ended happily and could have continued to the next collaboration, but now, an evil idea began to emerge in Lilith’s mind.

"Are you saying we should leak the truth about setting up this whole scenario with the streamers? Hmm... it indeed harms the harmony of heaven, but I like it!"

A wicked smile appeared on Lilith’s face.

Qin Fengliang reminded her, "However, President Li, there’s something I need to remind you about.

"When Nitiandang signed the contracts with the streamers, was there any mention of confidentiality clauses? If there were, these angry streamers might sue Nitiandang, and if there is a huge compensation, it could be troublesome.

"Although you, President Li, are not short of money, this money could have been used for more projects, to collect more negative emotion. It’s a bit of a pity to just give it away to these streamers."

Lilith chuckled, "You can rest assured about that, there indeed is a confidentiality clause in the agreement, but it only applies to the streamers and video uploaders, there’s no restraint on Nitiandang at all."

Qin Fengliang realized, indeed, do contracts like these ever bind the principal party?

Take the usual game reviews for instance, if a leak really happens, only the principal party suffers, so the contract doesn’t need to specifically restrain the principal party.

And it’s the same with this event; from the streamers’ perspective, if this disgraceful act was to be exposed, Nitiandang would definitely be the most scolded. Though they would get scolded too, compared to the loss of a big company like Nitiandang, it was trivial.

How could Nitiandang possibly expose itself? That’s simply not possible!

It was for these reasons that though the streamers and video uploaders studied the contract seriously, they did not delve deeply into the specifics of the confidentiality clause.

All they had in mind was to do the confidentiality work well on their side; they could never have imagined that Nitiandang might not act honorably.

This laid the groundwork.

Lilith stood excitedly, pacing briskly.

"Good, then let’s officially confirm this event from our side, and try to make it look like an accident!

"Such a bad and stupid act should be able to provoke the maximum outrage from the players, right?

"Not only can we harvest a wave of existing negative emotion, but we can also effectively discourage players who are thinking of jumping in later. It’s killing two birds with one stone."

Currently, "Blood of Lies" was almost considered an easy game by many players.

By controlling the Dynamic Difficulty and GP judgment frames, the difficulty of the official Chapters was greatly reduced. As long as players were willing to exploit bugs, they could easily complete the first playthrough without much hassle.

And this would undoubtedly attract many new players who were initially daunted by the difficulty.

This was something Lilith absolutely didn’t want to see.

With this move to pull the rug out from under them, not only does she generate more negative emotion, but she also reduces the influx of "casual players." Indeed, it’s killing two birds with one stone.

The only problem is, this will definitely result in getting scolded.

Not only will Nitiandang be scolded, but the streamers will be scolded as well; not only by the players toward Nitiandang, but the streamers will also scold Nitiandang.

But... so what?

Did they think they could set such a high price for feeding without a price to pay?

Lilith couldn’t help but chuckle, "Back then, they were too young to know that all gifts had been priced secretly.

"Let’s do it this way; sorry, streamers, today you’ll have to experience what’s called ’the treacherousness of the human world!’"

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