Chapter 219 Extra Level!

Jiangning, Tianba Studio.

As usual, Chen Ba crossed his legs, hummed an unknown tune, and sipped the scented tea that he had bought at the market at great expense.

Before I had even taken a few sips of the tea, Xiao Lu pushed the door open and walked in in a hurry.

"How many times have I told you to knock before coming in, knock first!"

Chen Ba was already numb to this impolite and reckless Xiao Lu. He had taught him countless times to knock on the door before entering, but he never knocked once.

"I'll knock on the door next time!"

There was no trace of remorse on Xiao Lu's face. He quickly sat down opposite Chen Ba and said, "Brother Ba, there is a bug in our "Ancestral Tree"..."

"oh?!"

Hearing this, Chen Ba quickly put down his crossed legs, sat up straight and said, "What's going on? Tell me quickly."

"Here's what happened..."

Xiao Lu shared his findings and the feedback he received from players, combined with his own reproduction tests, to determine the cause of the bug and the problem.

"Multiple ancestor trees formed by the same xyz axis coordinates will cause the model to grow abnormally?"

At first, when Chen Ba heard this, he had no expression. After all, in his opinion, this was a mechanism designed in advance!

What is the abnormal model growth? It is clearly to avoid ancestor tree A blocking ancestor tree B, so no other models are generated, and there is only one ancestor tree on each xyz coordinate axis.

Worried that Xiao Lu didn't understand, Chen Ba patiently explained to him: "This is not a bug, this is a unique mechanism of the game."

"Ancestral Tree" is a 3D game.

There are three spatial coordinate axes in the game: xyz, and there can only be one ancestor tree at the same coordinate axis position.

Not just the same location.

Several adjacent grids, because they are too close, will actually be counted as the same position, and a second ancestor tree will not be generated.

For example...

At the position (x, 1, y, 15, z, 3), an ancestor tree is generated. Then, within the circular range with the x-axis x1 as the center and the radius of about two coordinates, no second ancestor tree will be generated.

Therefore, the positions (x, 2, y, 15, z, 3) and (x, -1, y, 15, z, 3) will also be considered as the same position.

Since a second ancestor tree will not be generated in this interval, what happens if the character dies multiple times in this area?

The answer is that the only ancestral tree will grow in size on the original basis to reflect the difference from the previous one.

“I understand the mechanism.”

Xiao Lu waved his hand and said, "What I want to talk about is the special situation that arises based on this mechanism."

"For this ancestor tree, will its size model grow infinitely as long as it keeps dying in the same area?"

"Infinite growth? No way!"

Chen Ba frowned and said.

Ever since the trouble with Global Evolution, he is now very cautious about any game mechanism involving the word "infinite", for fear that something outrageous will happen again.

Under this mechanism, the ancestral tree will grow by absorbing nutrients and its size will increase slightly.

But this increase has limits.

When this limit is reached, the ancestral tree will bear one more fruit, and the cycle will continue until the tree is full of fruits.

"Then I understand where the problem lies..."

Xiao Lu suddenly realized: "The threshold that limits the growth of the ancestral tree is fruit bearing, but if this ancestral tree cannot bear fruit, then it will be like Mr. Saitama in "One Punch Man" and will grow infinitely."

Not bearing fruit?

Huh? How could this be?

The mechanism of this game is that after the character dies, he will leave behind a special legacy for future generations to inherit.

The so-called inheritance is the fruit hanging on the ancestral tree. How can there be no fruit? Unless...

Chen Ba thought of something.

Seeing his hesitant expression, Xiao Lu nodded and said, "Don't doubt it, it's just as you think, the first trap in the novice level!"

"Fuck..."

Chen Ba's forehead was full of black lines, and he felt that his IQ was insulted.

The novice level, isn't that free experience and benefits? Just sprinkle some rice on the keyboard and the chicken will pass, right?

Someone died, and died more than once, and the location of death was exactly where the first trap appeared. Is this a human? "I also think it's outrageous, but it's precisely because of this outrageousness that we can discover this bug, right?"

Xiao Lu explained: "The current situation is that his ancestral tree does not bear fruit, but it keeps growing in size."

"And after dying more than a thousand times, he encountered a new bug that caused his perspective to become stuck."

The situation Yao Mao encountered was not just a single bug, but the result of multiple bugs stacked together.

The first bug is that the ancestral tree model grows abnormally and has no upper limit. The second bug is that after he dies, the resurrection perspective is locked on the ancestral tree.

"The perspective is locked on the ancestral tree?"

Chen Ba couldn't help but complain when he heard this strange description: "Wouldn't the game just freeze?"

"That's the weird thing. The game didn't freeze directly, but continued to run normally. Because the player's perspective was locked on the ancestral tree, the protagonist Shubao was still controlled by someone and was still making progress..."

After reproducing the operation, Xiao Lu confirmed that Yao Mao was not lying and that this situation really existed.

That is, the player is trapped in the ancestral tree, but the character can still move freely and even go on adventures as usual.

"This is indeed very strange..."

When Chen Ba heard about this phenomenon, his first reaction was not panic, but shock.

Because there is no so-called computer hosting mechanism in "Ancestor Tree", that is to say, only players can control the game characters.

Now the player is stuck in a bug and is locked in the small dark room of the ancestral tree, unable to move. How can the character still move? This is not in line with common sense!

Is it haunted?

With great curiosity, Chen Ba brought Xiao Lu to the computer and recreated the scene where the player was trapped in the ancestral tree, but the character still acted as before.

“This is not human control…”

Xiao Lu couldn't understand the underlying code of the game, but Chen Ba did.

The problem lies in this ancestral tree that has grown abnormally but has not produced any fruit! The code for the ancestral tree was written by the Tiehanhan system, which has some magical properties. Under normal circumstances, there will be no trouble.

But when the player died in the same location for more than a thousand times and grew the ancestral tree to a size that could not fit on the screen, the tree obviously mutated.

This mutation causes the ancestral tree to seize control of the player's character.

Once the character controlled by the player dies and is resurrected, there is a very high probability that the ancestor tree will seize control and then forcibly log in to play on behalf of the player.

Same principle.

When the character controlled by the ancestral tree dies and is about to be resurrected, the perspective is locked inside the ancestral tree, as if the player who is imprisoned can also regain control of the character.

"One round, one person plays once!"

Chen Ba explained: "You can understand it as this ancestral tree thinks you are weak, so it wants to take action personally, and then you are locked up in a small dark room."

"Boil!"

Xiao Lu has never been so speechless in his life. What does it mean that the ancestor tree despises him and decides to play for him? A mere bot looks down on the players?

…

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

Because the incident happened suddenly, many players had not yet realized the seriousness of the problem, until Tianba Studio suddenly issued an announcement.

In the announcement, the player Yao Mao was thanked for his feedback, and the cause and explanation of the problem were given.

"In summary, when the ancestral tree is cultivated to a certain level, the human-machine hosting mode can be unlocked. This is a hidden mechanism we specially designed to free the players' hands and reduce their burden..."

No one paid much attention to the last paragraph of the announcement. Everyone only cared about the first two paragraphs of the announcement.

What the hell? If you die near the same ancestral tree more than a thousand times, you can unlock the advanced human-machine hosting and automatic level-breaking mode?

Good, good, good! The ancestors appeared, right?

When you encounter a level that you can’t pass and your mentality is exhausted, just ask your ancestors to come on board, free your hands and pass the level by lying down. It feels so good!

Players have expressed that this hosting mechanism is good and that Brother Ba really cares about the players.

The only player who knew the inside story, Yao Mao, who was the first to report the problem to Tianba Studio, couldn't laugh at all at this moment.

Zhuo! What kind of human-machine trusteeship is this? His hands were indeed freed, but the problem was that he didn't initiate the trusteeship! It was this ancestor tree who insisted on taking control, and he was a weakling and had a strong addiction to it, so he snatched it from him.

In other words, he didn't want to find any human-computer hosting, nor did he want to free his hands.

But this ancestral tree was too overbearing and insisted on seizing control, so it became a situation where he and the ancestral tree played a game each, and whoever lost would go to the small dark room.

"Are you kidding me?"

"I bought this game. I paid for it. Why should I play it one by one?"

Yao Mao regretted it very much. If he had known that this thing was more addictive than his ancestor’s internet addiction, he should not have raised this thing.

Now that's better.

He bought the game with his own money, paid for the internet and electricity, and his computer is also his own. However, the game can only be played by one person, and no one else can cheat.

After so many years in the gaming industry, this was the first time that Yao Mao had encountered such a thing.

I have to say, this is quite similar to the feeling when I was a kid playing Contra with my classmates and we fought over the controllers, then made three rules and each of us had one life.

"Sorry, we are collecting information and verifying the issue you reported. Please wait patiently..."

After calling Tianba Game’s customer service and learning that this problem seemed unlikely to be solved in a short period of time, Yao Mao resigned himself to his fate.

Let’s play!

It's just a game shared with the computer, with one life per person! Anyway, the computer is not good at playing, and one life will die quickly, so just bear with it and it will pass.

But what Yao Mao didn't expect was that the speed of progress in man-machine interaction was so fast!

Yesterday he was so bad that his operations were laughable. But the next day he was normal and played quite well, and died even later than him.

"ah?"

After realizing that the bot would continue to improve and might even surpass him and complete the game before him, Yao Mao could no longer hold back.

He couldn't lose to a human-machine robot! Otherwise, if it got out, how would everyone look at him? How would his friends and family look at him? How would Brother Ba look at him?

No, he had to complete the game before the human-computer game, and he couldn't let the Ancestor Tree get ahead of him. Otherwise, how could he continue playing the game "Ancestor Tree"? "That's not right..."

Just when Yao Mao was risking his life and staying up all night to pass the level before the human and machine players, he suddenly realized that something was wrong.

Why do we have to work so hard? If the human-machine consciousness of the ancestor tree is to be cleared, then let it be cleared! Maybe if this game is cleared, this farce will stop?

It's not impossible! After all, the human-machine is just a human-machine. If the game is cleared and there are no subsequent levels, is it necessary for it to pass the levels?

Thinking of this, Yao Mao suddenly felt relieved.

Not only was he relieved, he was even a little happy to see it happen. After losing control of the character, he didn't want to take it back, but just wait and see what would happen.

Whatever you want! If the ancestor tree is a proxy, then let it be a proxy. Yao Mao wants to see what this bot is doing. The people in Tianba Studio also have the same idea as him.

Chen Ba is also testing the strength of the ancestral tree account. Can it clear the game? If it can, what will happen after it clears the game? If not, what will happen? Will the operation proficiency of this bot be improved?

The answer is surprising.

If the player does not interfere and just stays in the small dark room and lets the ancestor tree do its thing, it can actually complete the game.

However, after completing the game, no "achievement" pop-up will appear, nor will the exclusive animation for completing the game appear. Everything is calm and peaceful, as if nothing had happened.

But this is just an illusion!

Chen Ba, who monitored the game changes in real time through the background, discovered that after the human-computer host completed the game, all the ancestral trees on the map would disappear, leaving only the one that was huge due to a bug.

Then……

A scene that made Chen Ba and Xiao Lu drop their jaws and everyone present speechless, and was enough to shock the entire gaming industry, appeared.

The game "Ancestor Tree" originally only had preset levels, but a new level appeared after completing it! "Fuck!"

Chen Ba swore to heaven that this extra level was not his creation. He also asked Xiao Lu, and he was told that this was not a hidden level designed by Xiao Lu.

What is the underwater level in Contra?

fart!

If there really was such a hidden level in "Ancestor Tree", could it be hidden from the main producer Chen Ba? It was precisely because he knew that there was no such hidden level in the game that he was shocked, because this level was completely "extra".

What does the extra mean? It means that the game has changed, and even he, the main producer, did not expect it to change. It has started to derive new levels! Good, good, good! Xiaoshu, you have a mature game now. You can try to derive levels, update maps, and support yourself? Thinking of this, Chen Ba and Xiao Lu looked at each other in surprise.

If this is true, then why do we need these people? Do we still need a game operation and maintenance team?

(End of this chapter)