Why the bug I wrote became a core gameplay mechanic?!
Chapter 496 - 479: The Wind Has Changed Direction

Chapter 496: Chapter 479: The Wind Has Changed Direction

"Once these words were spoken, a bunch of question marks floated across the screen.

"????"

Clearly, the audience watching the video had not expected Wang from next door to approach the issue from this angle to explain the unseemly money-grabbing activities of the streamers.

The initial reaction from everyone was, of course, that it was far-fetched.

You can overinterpret things but isn’t there a limit? Could it be that he’s also been paid by Nitiandang to whitewash this?

But after the lead-up, many things indeed connected, which again confused the viewers.

Wang from next door’s video had a special core from beginning to end, linking the three major points of controversy: "game plot," "game mechanics," and "streamer actions."

That is, "having a clear self-awareness of the new reincarnation."

In other words, only when players realized that the content of the formal Chapters was not recalling the past, but a continuation of a fresh start after the prologue, could they better understand the plot and mechanics of the game and develop strategies for these special mechanics.

The depth of understanding of "time travel" and "reincarnation" would directly affect the players’ gaming experience.

And this time, the streamer’s activities coincided with the game’s plot and mechanics!

In the game, characters have actually gone through countless reincarnations and have mastered GP skills expertly, but players are unaware of this and still think the characters are visiting Charlton City for the first time; that’s one layer of deception;

In reality, the streamers have actually played Blood of Lies many times and have mastered the GP skills expertly, but their viewers are unaware of this and still believe that the streamers are truly new to the game; that’s a second layer of deception.

The situation is almost identical in and out of the game.

Players are unaware of the deception within the game and have not exposed the deceit outside of it, having been thoroughly fooled by Nitiandang.

This also matches the keyword "lies" from Blood of Lies.

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Lilith was dumbfounded and angrily engaged in a one-way conversation with Wang from next door in the video, "What kind of bullshit theory is this! Even if the reality matches the game plot, so what? You’re not going to claim this is some sort of special marketing tactic, are you? Or some kind of performance art?

"Do you think I believe that!"

However, Wang from next door seemed to have anticipated these questions from the viewers and directly provided an answer in the next segment of the video.

"I know that many audience friends might be asking at this point: so what if the game storyline corresponds with reality? Could this be one of Nitiandang’s marketing strategies? Isn’t that a bit forced?

"It is indeed one of Nitiandang’s marketing strategies, and a sort of performance art that breaks the fourth wall.

"Some people might find this explanation forced because it seems like a temporary worker at Nitiandang made a mistake, and the cover-up was only revealed when things couldn’t be contained.

"But let’s think about it—has Nitiandang ever made such a rookie error?

"Nitiandang’s whole team is known for efficiency. Insiders have revealed that Nitiandang maintains a flat and streamlined structure, and we can see this from the progress of their game development—it could possibly be the most efficient game development company in the world.

"Nitiandang’s games launch early; there’s never a delayed release. Furthermore, the games are not half-baked; they launch as a final complete version that doesn’t need changes. Subsequent updates are not even necessary; only minor tweaks by mod authors are needed to give the game lasting vitality.

"It’s an incredible miracle.

"To achieve this, strong project management is needed. And a team with such strong management skills—could they really make such a rookie mistake as having a temp worker post and delete a message in the middle of the night?

"That’s why I think this seems more like an intentional move by Nitiandang insiders. They deliberately exposed a flaw to blow this whole thing wide open.

"So why would Nitiandang do this?

"That’s what I’m getting at, the deeper reason besides marketing. This streamer event was not only a promotion but also a hint about the game mechanics!

"We know that these two hidden mechanics, or ’bugs,’ are deeply buried. It would be very difficult for players to discover them during normal gameplay.

"Although there are explicit hints in the game’s storyline, considering that many players don’t follow the plot, they are unlikely to realize it in the short term.

"Therefore, the official purpose of this streamers’ event in real life was to make the players doubt, then question the abnormalities in the game, decipher the plot, and thus find the direction to uncover the two hidden mechanics in the game, smoothly achieving the Divine Ending.

"I guess that according to Nitiandang’s original plan, the entire process should have been like this:

"First, Ning Meng and a series of streamers, due to the problem with the GP success rate, sparked player suspicions, choosing to reveal their skills to prove themselves.

"They proved that their GP techniques were genuine, but there were still obvious doubts surrounding the whole event. If everyone continued to dig deeper, they might have concluded that ’they had practiced in advance.’

"Next, by following this lead and comparing it to the prologue’s plot, thinking about the change in the GP success rate from the prologue to the official Chapters, one could possibly conclude that ’the high GP success rate in the prologue is also a hint,’ thus realizing that ’the protagonist of the prologue has also experienced countless cycles.’

"So how could the prologue protagonist’s abilities be carried into the official Chapters?

"It’s nothing more than toying with the weapons scattered all over the place after defeating the Lie Hunter. Combined with the legendary bugs of Legend of Infinity Fantasy and repeated attempts, players might discover the hidden mechanism left by the officials, thus lowering the difficulty of the game and logically achieving the God-making ending.

"But the officials never anticipated that the players’ deductive abilities would be a little lacking, and the process came to a halt at Ning Meng and the others proving themselves!

"The players just accepted this obviously irrational conclusion, even giving Ning Meng the title of ’Innate GP Holy Body,’ causing the whole set-up to be stuck at the first step and unable to progress!

"What should be done then? If it ended there, wouldn’t all the effort the officials put into this grand scheme be in vain?

"The officials couldn’t just expose themselves and reveal the whole truth of the event, as that would be akin to a detective fiction author spoiling the ending their own story, which is an extremely disappointing act.

"So, the officials had to present an obvious flaw, hoping to arouse everyone’s suspicions and go back to ’Ning Meng and other streamers proving themselves,’ to continue the cycle.

"But unexpectedly, the players skipped the previous steps, whether by accident or by unpacking the game files, and found these two hidden mechanics first, rather than through narrative speculation.

"This caused a great misunderstanding among the players, who took the hidden mechanics to be a bug in the game.

"And the official streamer event turned into the biggest scam in the history of this world’s gaming.

"I personally think Nitiandang and the streamers have been somewhat wronged.

"Let’s think about it, if Nitiandang really intended to scam, they would have lots of other ways to do so. How many people could they deceive by using streamers to fool players? What kind of boost could this give to the game’s sales? Other than being disgusting, it’s completely meaningless, and with that money, it would be better to hire some online commenters to hype up the game, or to market it through official channels, which would bring in much more revenue than staging a show with streamers.

"Nitiandang couldn’t possibly spend so much money just to disgust everyone, right? It’s totally unreasonable.

"But if you take my explanation, that this is a real-world event linked to the plot of Blood of Lies, a special hint for the hidden mechanics in Blood of Lies, doesn’t that make much more sense? Many details would then line up."

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At this point in the video, the tone of the comments had changed.

Although there were still many who did not believe, the mainstream comments had become those of shock, conviction, and sudden realization.

To be fair, was this explanation far-fetched?

It was quite far-fetched.

Many of the connections were contrived, with no very strict logical relation to each other.

However, whether an explanation is convincing is not a matter of how it compares to itself but how it compares to other explanations.

"The Nitiandang and streamer scam event" was inherently full of unreasonable elements. Without knowing that Lilith’s intent was to deliberately collect negative emotions and ruin the reputation of Blood of Lies and Nitiandang, the original scam explanation actually had many questionable points.

It was only because there wasn’t a more reasonable explanation available that players subconsciously accepted this version of events.

Now, the video from Wang had proposed an equally dubious, flawed explanation. If this explanation stood on its own, of course, most people would still be doubtful, but it seemed more plausible than the original "scam event" narrative.

When compared, Wang’s new explanation appeared a bit more reasonable.

More importantly, compared to the "amateur troupe," most people had a higher acceptance of the notion of "playing a deeper game."

For instance, in some political or international events, when some inconceivable errors occur, most people’s first reaction isn’t to think it was caused by an amateur troupe but to suspect inner conspiracies or power struggles.

Or in literary works, while basic mistakes are generally unacceptable, complex conspiracies with many twists can be widely accepted.

Readers can accept a complex conspiracy that requires the involvement of hundreds of people and several narrative reversals, but not a basic mistake made by the protagonist or the antagonist.

However, in reality, even the most intelligent people might lose perspective and make incomprehensible decisions, while those intricate conspiracies with multiple reversals are nearly impossible because the probability of failure at each step adds up to an astronomical number, reducing the overall chance of success to an unacceptable level.

Reality and the logic within literary works are completely opposite, which reflects the general mindset of ordinary people when looking at these events.

"Nitiandang made a basic error," in comparison to "Nitiandang is playing a deeper game," although the former is more in line with the logic of reality, it doesn’t match public expectations.

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