Why the bug I wrote became a core gameplay mechanic?!
Chapter 94: A Whopping 8 BUGs! (Please subscribe, asking for monthly votes!)

Chapter 94: Chapter 94: A Whopping 8 BUGs! (Please subscribe, asking for monthly votes!)

"Look, after the Flame Thief enters the Divine Realm and obtains materials, they’re all placed together,"

"The default Lost Ones of the system will transport these materials to the construction site that’s currently under development."

"We’ll place a Lost One with the ’Imitate’ skill every certain distance, so they imitate the preceding Lost One in order, forming a loop that continuously transports materials from the storage to the construction site."

"In the meantime, we’ll set up some ’Jester’ Lost Ones to speed them up."

"Of course, to achieve optimal efficiency, how far apart should we place each one? That needs further experimentation. But as long as this plan is feasible, then an automated transportation line is established!"

Chen Tingquan thought for a moment, "But this can only transport to the construction sites designated by the system, right? If we want to build freely elsewhere, don’t we still have to move bricks ourselves?"

Liang Chun shook his head: "No! Haven’t you noticed? These system projects are actually centered around the Divine Realm, essentially radiating outward from the Divine Fire High Platform."

"Therefore, we can completely use these official projects as fixed ’transportation points’ or ’instruction blueprints’, and build around these areas!"

No sooner said than done, everyone quickly began to experiment.

However, there was a problem with implementing this plan: they needed a new Manual Laborer Lost One.

Originally, they had Tooth Decay, but he had already returned to the game, and now, controlling Heaven’s Guardian’s body, he was preparing to enter the Divine Realm to wreak havoc.

Thus, another person needed to log out of the game.

According to the emergence mechanism of the Lost Ones, even if someone logs out now, it will take at least several hours to turn into a Lost One, so it definitely won’t be in time for tonight, at best not until tomorrow.

The time had already passed 12 o’clock, and it was about time for Instructor Ding and the others to end their live broadcast.

"Alright, brothers, that’s it for today! Tomorrow at the same time, let’s rally and make a big push!"

However, when Instructor Ding wanted to slip away, the barrage of comments disagreed.

"No way! Going to bed so early because you want to stay healthy? Keep streaming for a bit longer!"

"Exactly, didn’t one of our guys become Heaven’s Guardian? Go in and kill a few monsters before you leave!"

Unable to resist the players, Instructor Ding had no choice but to continue streaming for another hour.

The clock struck, and five new Flame Thieves were chosen again.

Tooth Decay was not among them, but obviously, he could now directly enter the Divine Realm: he just had to jump down from the wall!

Heaven’s Guardian is immune to fall damage, so jumping down carelessly would be no issue.

The other five Flame Thieves followed him at a distance, waiting for him to eliminate threats before moving in to transport materials.

Strictly speaking, Heaven’s Guardian wasn’t invincible.

There were many monsters in the game with invincible states, such as Angels, Holy Spirit Cupid, Gazing Statue, Medusa Statue, and so on. If he was unlucky enough to encounter them, even Heaven’s Guardian could die.

But the chances of these monsters appearing were quite low to begin with, and furthermore, there were other Flame Thieves to act as wingmen!

When encountering a Gazing Statue, just have one Flame Thief stare at it to neutralize it.

For a Medusa Statue, simply don’t look at it.

Holy Spirit Cupid would randomly select a player, and the odds of picking Tooth Decay from among six people weren’t too high, plus it takes time and steps for it to kill someone.

As for Angels, these creatures don’t appear very often to begin with.

So, Tooth Decay and these five Flame Thieves unwittingly played out a sort of "Lead and Follow" tactic!

When encountering Hellhounds, Heaven’s Guardian, Heavenly Hunters, and other killable monsters, Tooth Decay would take them on.

When facing those trickier mechanistic monsters, other Flame Thieves would step in to hold them off, buying time for Tooth Decay to escape.

Of course, Heaven’s Guardian also had a health bar, so taking on a lot of Heaven’s Guardian and Heavenly Hunter monsters, or being unlucky enough to be targeted by an invincible mechanism monster, could still result in death.

But this specific Heaven’s Guardian controlled by Tooth Decay was replicable!

If other players followed his method, they too could become Heaven’s Guardian, albeit with more complicated steps and a lower success rate.

This meant that even if this Heaven’s Guardian fell, players could mass-produce more Heaven’s Guardians and even form a squad composed entirely of them!

In this manner, Tooth Decay and several groups of Lost Ones fought valiantly for an hour, stealing a vast amount of materials from the Divine Realm.

Although he eventually died at the hands of Holy Spirit Cupid because of bad luck, the gains from this one hour were huge!

It even far exceeded the total yield of everyone from the past few hours.

By now, materials were piled high outside the Divine Realm, just waiting for the Lost Ones to establish a conveyor belt-like transportation line, ready to continuously transport to the construction sites.

Players looked at the mountain of materials in front of them, feeling very good.

Instructor Ding struck a "come on" pose, "Alright bros, we’ve wrapped up perfectly today! What we need to do tomorrow is to continue verifying these hidden mechanics and turn this game’s gameplay on its head once again!"

"Dismissed!"

...

The broadcast from Instructor Ding had stopped, and Lilith’s heartbeat had almost stopped.

She had been maintaining the same position for a long while now, with eyes wide open staring at the black screen of the finished broadcast, her hand trembling slightly as it held a chip.

From the moment Instructor Ding and Liang Chun started using the Lost Ones to climb walls, she had felt on edge.

But what she didn’t expect was that one outrageous bug followed another!

Liang Chun successfully broke out of jail, Tooth Decay got hold of a Heaven’s Guardian account with Six-God Armor, players fixed a Stairway to Heaven leading into the Divine Realm from outside, Tooth Decay took out the Supervisor and that wasn’t even the end of it, he even re-entered the Divine Realm and helped the Flame Thieves procure a huge amount of materials!

Each step was something Lilith had completely not anticipated!

And to top it off, this group even put forward the brand-new theory of the "Lost Ones Assembly Line"!

Instructor Ding and his crew might not have time to verify it, but with so many players in this game, there were definitely players who would stay up all night to verify it!

"Gu Fan! Check the code quickly, and tell me that this ’Lost Ones Assembly Line’ can’t possibly succeed!!"

Lilith’s mentality was a bit broken as she subconsciously sought help from Gu Fan.

However, Gu Fan’s face was also filled with sorrow as he checked the code carefully on his laptop and then sighed, "Sorry, according to the current situation, this ’Lost Ones Assembly Line’ seems like it really might work..."

Laid out on the massage chair, Lilith seemed to lose all her strength.

"You...you calculate for me, just how many bugs are there in this game right now..."

Prometheus, this game, obviously was not quite like others.

Other games tended to have one major bug; Sisyphus was a bit special with two.

But Prometheus? Up until now, Lilith lost count of just how many bugs there were...

Gu Fan silently tallied.

"1. The Lost Ones can still climb walls after being grappled, even managing to carry players up with them.

"2. Lost Ones within Divine Realm inherit the player’s profession and can use the skills Grappling, Imitate, and Laughing.

"3. During the fusion process between a Heaven’s Guardian and a Lost One, if a player maintains the Grappling skill, they can grasp the Heaven’s Guardian.

"4. Players can build freely without restrictions after leaving the Divine Realm.

"5. When a player who has left the game logs in twice in a short period, and a Lost One escapes to the outside of the Divine Realm, they will be reborn on this Lost One.

"6. Players can extend a piece of material from the wall into the Divine Realm.

"7. After players take control of a Heaven’s Guardian, they can kill the Supervisor, allowing the Manual Laborer players to be free to build anywhere.

"8. Lost Ones with skills can imitate the actions of the Manual Laborer Lost Ones, and players can use this feature to create a ’Lost Ones Assembly Line’ for transporting materials.

"That’s it... that’s all..."

Lilith’s mouth was slightly agape, staring at Gu Fan with a shocked expression.

"Eight! A total of eight bugs! Each one extremely fatal!!

"Gu Fan, didn’t you say there were adequate tests this time? Why are there more bugs this time than in the previous four games combined!!"

Lilith was close to furious, it was obvious that, according to the current situation, Prometheus had become completely unrecognizable, utterly deviating from her original design intention!

Lilith had just two goals in designing this game.

The first was to have the Flame Thief players suffer as much as possible in the Divine Realm, run ragged and repeatedly killed by monsters.

The second was to have the Manual Laborer players outside only be able to dull and monotonously move bricks and build according to a set blueprint, unable to construct freely.

But now, both of these goals had been overthrown by bugs!

Players could control the Heaven’s Guardians to clear the way, drastically lowering the adventure difficulty of the game; materials and Divine Fire could now be taken out in large amounts!

And the Lost Ones doing the brick moving, could completely replace the players in doing those tedious, repetitive tasks.

With no Supervisor, players could construct as freely as they wished!