Chapter 235: So this is how the game is played?

"???"

Seeing the system message in the lower left corner, Dr. Qin subconsciously opened his personal character panel and took a look.

Merit: 11!

He actually obtained 11 merit points. This prompt message was not false. The system indeed gave him 11 merit points as a reward.

Oh my god, is this a bug? Dr. Qin's reaction was the same as Guo Mo's at the beginning. He was incredulous, shocked, and a little confused. He didn't understand what was going on.

What happened? Didn't the second test master tell him that merit is hard to obtain, even a little merit is very difficult? Why did his merit automatically increase by 11 points without him doing anything? Wait... 11 points? The number 11 seemed to make Dr. Qin realize something.

Thinking about the time he just switched to play "Hunting Time" and played a game during his daily check-in, he got 14/3 and a net KD11. He suddenly became curious, could there be any connection between the two? "No... Impossible?"

Although he vaguely felt that there might be some connection between the two, Dr. Qin immediately denied this speculation.

Cultivation Fantasy is Cultivation Fantasy, and Hunting Time is Hunting Time. These are clearly two different games from two different game developers. How could they be related?

Even if there is a connection, wouldn’t it be too ridiculous?

He killed a few Japanese players in "Hunting Time", and the Heavenly Dao of "Cultivation Fantasy" issued corresponding merit rewards? Huh?

Don't be ridiculous, this kind of thing...

Dr. Qin was unwilling to believe from the bottom of his heart that there could be such an outrageous thing in the world. After all, it was too unbelievable.

But he had just done nothing except switching the screen to play "Hunting Time", and "Cultivation Fantasy" was running in the background.

If this is not the reason, could it be that the 11 points of merit were gained by hanging up? It is also nonsense to gain merit by hanging up!

Both outrageous guesses are unreliable, but after excluding all possibilities, the reason why he gained merit might really be one of these two unreliable guesses.

Either it's merit gained by AFK, or it's closely related to "Hunting Time"!

Since he was free anyway and there was no rush to form a team to fight the game, Dr. Qin decided to do another experiment and switch the screen to play a game of "Hunting Time".

"Hunting time, start!"

It was still the familiar competitive mode. There were only two Japanese players in this game. Dr. Qin once again turned into a tyrant, chasing the two Japanese players with the operation reactions unique to high-end players.

Half an hour later, the game was over.

In this round, because there were fewer targets, only two people, and the other players were more grouped together, Dr. Qin's record was not very good, only 7/5/3.

"Net KD2..."

Based on the experience of the previous game, after Dr. Qin clicked the settlement button, he quickly switched back to the "Cultivation Fantasy" game page hanging in the background.

[Your actions have been recognized by Heaven, Merit +2! ]

Confirmed! After seeing this system message, Dr. Qin's guess was finally confirmed. His merits were indeed brought by "Hunting Time".

Moreover, the amount of merit seems to be linked to his net KD. The greater the net KD, the more merit he will gain.

"Is it so cool?"

Dr. Qin immediately became interested. He didn't expect that the two games he loved to play could be linked in such a peculiar way.

Out of curiosity, he tried it again.

This time he won't target anyone. No matter whether they are Japanese or Chinese players, he will kill them when he sees them, mainly in pursuit of a higher net KD.

In this game, he had an outstanding record of 20/1 and net KD19.

When he switched back to "Cultivation Fantasy", expecting to see the system message of merit +19, he found that he did not gain any merit this time.

"ah?"

Dr. Qin was stunned.

What's going on? Why was everything fine before, but in this round, the net KD was so high, but no merit was given to him? "Has the card bug been discovered?"

Regarding this phenomenon, Dr. Qin subconsciously wondered whether his behavior of fixing the bug had been noticed by Tianba Studio?

But this is not right! If Tianba Studio noticed his unusual behavior of exploiting a bug to gain merit, then they should have banned him directly.

After trying it, he found that his account was not blocked, there was nothing abnormal, and he did not receive any warning messages. It was simply that he did not trigger the bug and gain merit.

"That means the posture is wrong..."

Dr. Qin thought back to his three games and suddenly realized that in the third game, in order to pursue a higher KDA, he did not specifically target anyone.

Could this be the reason why the bug was not triggered in the third game and the merit reward was obtained?

In order to verify his guess, Dr. Qin switched back to "Hunting Time" and played a game. This time he no longer pursued high KD, but continued to target foreign players, especially Japanese players.

[Your behavior has been recognized by the Heavenly Dao, Merit +5! ]

Good, it worked this time.

Looking at the amount of merit he had accumulated which had reached 18 points, Dr. Qin couldn't help but feel a little dazed.

Is this the merit that the second test master repeatedly emphasized, saying that it is difficult to obtain and very useful? It doesn't seem difficult, isn't it? All you need is a hand? Then, he tried a few more times.

Unfortunately, Heaven did not give him any merits. According to the system prompt, he learned that he could only obtain Heaven's merit rewards three times a day for the same gaming behavior.

"Only three times a day?"

"Same game behavior, what is the same game behavior? Does it mean that if you change the game, can you continue to play?"

Dr. Qin, who didn't understand what this sentence meant, thought of another game he was playing - Master Duel.

He also plays this game on an overseas server, so he can match up with players from other regions.

With the idea of ​​giving it a try, he opened "Master Duel" and excitedly entered the ranking to play a game with a player with an English nickname.

"Super heavy warrior, start!"

The game started with the Prodigy using a single card, Yan Rong went in and out of the graveyard seven times, and Dr. Qin's first attack left the opponent speechless, so he simply surrendered and gave him the victory.

After easily defeating his opponent and switching back to the game screen of "Cultivation Fantasy", Dr. Qin was delighted to find that his merit had increased by another five points!

OK, OK! This game can still be played this way, right?

Using a deck that had just been strengthened and not yet nerfed, Dr. Qin won three consecutive ranked games and directly accumulated the merit for the day.

Change games, change games! Dr. Qin became more and more excited as he played more and more games. He opened the Steam game library and looked for games that could "provide merit" for him.

However, just when he was looking for a new game to reach 100 merit points in the middle stage of Qi training, the "Cultivation Fantasy" hanging in the background suddenly received a private message.

[GameBugs privately chats with you: Young man, do you choose to surrender yourself, or do you want me to come find you? ]

Dr. Qin: “…”

broken!

How did Brother Ba come to my house so quickly? Is this Brother Ba himself? Is he pretending to be him?

…

As it turned out, the person who had a private chat with Dr. Qin in the game was actually Chen Ba himself.

On the first day of the game's public beta, Chen Ba must be in charge and monitor the situation of the game's public beta at all times to facilitate timely processing.

There was a player in the game whose merits soared by dozens of points without any operation, which naturally attracted Chen Ba's attention.

This scene was so familiar to him! When Guo Mo was in the second test, he did the same thing. When he was idle, his merit points inexplicably increased by ten points, and he still hasn't figured out the reason.

Unexpectedly, this scene appeared again during the public beta!

And this time, the player seemed to have figured out the pattern. Merit increased not just once, but every once in a while.

Chen Ba observed for a long time and was sure that this guy had probably figured out the pattern and knew how to trigger the bug stably, so he contacted him.

Don't get me wrong! When Chen Ba noticed something was wrong, he called Xiao Lu and others to investigate Dr. Qin's account and try to find out the cause of the problem.

But the result was exactly the same as Guo Mo's. He knew that there was something wrong with the source of the merit, but he just couldn't figure out where the problem lay. What code was problematic?

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

As the number of merits of "Qingbao is not a cat" continued to grow, Xiao Lu once suggested that his account should be banned?

Chen Ba stopped it.

He chose not to block the account and continued to observe. After his observation, he determined that the problem was most likely not related to "Xiu Zhen Fantasy" but caused by other reasons, so he finally sent a private message.

After contacting Dr. Qin himself, through his description and explanation, Chen Ba finally figured out what the source of this abnormal merit was.

"In short..."

After calling everyone to the conference room, Chen Ba said with a serious expression: "This is a serious game bug, and its nature is very bad!"

"The Tiandao program running in the background will constantly monitor the player's gaming behavior and then make corresponding judgments..."

On the whiteboard, Chen Ba circled the four words "gaming behavior" with a pen.

“This is the key point!”

Tianba Studios had discovered the problem long ago, and someone had triggered the bug during the second test. Why did they only figure it out now? Because the bug worked outside the game, not inside it. They had investigated the game for a long time, but definitely found nothing.

"I understand!"

“This bug occurred outside the game and has nothing to do with the game itself, so we couldn’t find the problem no matter how hard we searched in the game.”

Xiao Lu thought thoughtfully: "Then the question is, what is the specific manifestation of this bug?"

“It’s very simple!”

Chen Ba continued to explain: "The game was not exited, and the Tiandao program did not end the process. Instead, it was kept running in the background and triggered."

This thing is comparable to an input method.

Users can wake up the specified input method program in any program. Similarly, the Tiandao monitoring program in "Xiuzhen Fantasy" can be woken up at any time as long as the process is not terminated and is still hanging in the background.

This leads to a Bug!

Even if the player's behavior clearly occurs in another game or another program, it will be judged by the "Heavenly Dao" program and rewarded with merit.

"Is this... so evil?"

Xiao Lu was a little surprised. He never expected that this Tiandao program was so powerful that it could even enforce the law across games?

"You can't say that..."

Chen Ba coughed, then said awkwardly, "What do you mean by cross-game enforcement? Don't put it in such a harsh way. This is clearly a game process overwriting."

To be honest, Chen Ba was also confused.

He created the Tiandao program, but the core code was written by the Tiehanhan system, so he didn't know that this thing could actually be used in the background to implement "cross-game" law enforcement decisions.

It is worthy of the name "Heavenly Way"! This program is completely worthy of its name. It is so outrageous that Chen Ba doesn't know how to explain it to the players.

How do you say it? For the merit mechanism of "Xiu Zhen Fantasy", we have specially designed a heavenly program covering the entire fairy world.

As a result, this program Tiandao not only covers the entire fairy world, but also the entire PC world? Wegame directly called it an expert!

The function of this thing is comparable to XX computer manager and XX anti-virus software that is always running in the background.

The coolest thing is that this thing can also intelligently judge the player’s behavior in other software and games, and then give corresponding merit rewards.

Isn’t this much more advanced than detecting virus software and blocking ad pop-up windows? “It is indeed advanced!”

Xiao Lu thought about it and realized that this program, Tiandao, could make behavioral judgments across games, and its performance was definitely much better than detecting viruses, preventing cheating, and blocking pop-up ads.

But what will the players think? There is such a Tiandao program that monitors the players' every move at all times, even when playing other games. How can the privacy issue be guaranteed? "So I said, the program Tiandao must be running in the background and the process cannot be terminated, otherwise this bug will be triggered..."

Chen Ba explained: "When the player logs off normally, exits the game normally, and ends the process, this situation will not occur."

This is also the reason why only Guo Mo triggered the bug during the second test, but no one else did.

Because everyone is so absorbed in playing the game, they won't do anything else. At most, they will switch the screen to reply to chat messages, or search for strategy tutorials.

You will not gain merit by doing these things.

Only when playing "Xiuzhen Fantasy", if you switch the screen to do something "full of positive energy", it will be captured by the program and the corresponding merit rewards will be issued.

"For example?"

Xiao Lu was curious, what would trigger the merit reward by switching screens? What are the specific application scenarios? "Enter other games and kill foreigners, report and fight back against those brainless trolls or those with rare mental problems in forums and other software..."

Chen Ba gave two practical examples.

This was a situation he had just tested and confirmed to be feasible, and it was also the two types of merit rewards that had been triggered by players so far.

As for whether there is any other way?

Chen Ba thinks so.

However, other methods cannot be thought of now, and players need to slowly explore them later. And most importantly, he does not know what situation will be judged by the program.

You think you are doing good deeds and accumulating virtue, but if the procedures and laws of nature do not approve, it is useless!

As created by Chen Ba himself, the Tiehanhan system has endowed its core program with the law of nature, which is fair, selfless and emotionless. It has the power of discretion and Chen Ba cannot interfere.

As for modifying the judgment rules and filling this loophole, Chen Ba is unable to do it...

Unless this program is stripped out and rebuilt, this bug is almost unsolvable and will always exist with the game.

(End of this chapter)