SFS #249 - Don't panic, this is not a bug, it's a game feature (2-in-1 order required)
#249 - Don't panic, this is not a bug, it's a game feature (2-in-1 order required)
After the broadcast started, the popularity of the live stream instantly increased to 500,000 due to the homepage recommendation of Taoyuan Light Year.
Liu Mengyuan greeted the camera with a slightly nervous expression:
"Hi everyone, we are Xiaoyuanyuan and Xiaoyumei. This time... uh, we are very honored to be invited by Taoyuan Township to try out 'Chrono Space Moe Girl' at the Tianzun Cup."
Although the two had briefly shown their faces in videos such as the Industrial Annual Meeting and the brave fight against elephants in Xishuangbanna.
However, the videos were all long shots, while the live broadcast room used face-to-face shots with beauty filters, so basically no one recognized that the two were members of Taoyuan Township's management.
Bullet comments: "Oh oh oh, Xiaoyuanyuan got a commercial order? That's great!"
Liu Mengyuan clicked on the game icon, and the game's login interface appeared in the live broadcast room.
The main interface presented a magnificent cosmic scene, with galaxies churning and stars twinkling.
A star floated in the universe, colorful and dreamlike.
This white planet was covered with bizarre vegetation, with both rose patterns and lace patterns.
But sharp-eyed viewers quickly noticed something was wrong.
It turned out that the main interface used a visual deception design. If you were nearsighted and took off your glasses, you would find that the main interface was actually a beautiful girl.
The LSP(LSP: Lustful Simp Person) in the bullet comments were excited:
"Wow, this planet is so big and white, even bigger than the characters in Senran Kagura."
"And it's so soft, it must feel great to the touch."
Liu Mengyuan clicked on the planet with the mouse.
Puyo~ Puyo~
Soon, the beautiful girl on the main interface blushed.
The bullet comments laughed: "Oh, are you blushing?"
As the number of clicks increased, the pattern of the main interface changed again.
The beautiful girl's pattern transformed into the sky, the earth, the ocean... and finally disappeared into the end of the space-time tunnel.
The viewers in the live broadcast room were dumbfounded, and Lu Yu was also stunned.
Liu Mengyuan thought to herself that this was bad!
Oops, the original game's main interface should have had the planet as the background and the beautiful girl as the foreground.
I'm afraid it's a program BUG that caused the art assets to be mixed together.
Someone complained: "Is there a BUG?"
At this moment, a fan of Taoyuan Township in the bullet comments said: "Nonsense, this must have been deliberately designed by the game designers of Taoyuan Township in order to reflect the concept of 'Everything can be moe(萌: cute)'!"
Other bullet comments were skeptical: "Really?"
Liu Mengyuan's eyes lit up, and she quickly rounded things off: "Ah... yes, yes, yes, I see that some viewers have already guessed it. This must be a special design."
Even the viewers who originally felt it was very subtle were persuaded:
"That's right, after all, Taoyuan Township has made many successful games, so it's definitely impossible for them to make such a low-level mistake!"
"Looking closely, this design is indeed very innovative and has a great imagination. It is worthy of being Taoyuan Township."
"Even the title interface is so creative, making people look forward to the game itself even more!"
At this time, Lu Yu's heart was pounding.
He originally thought it was stable, but now he was also a little flustered.
Because as he looked at these interfaces, he indeed felt more and more inspired!
It perfectly matched the theme of Chrono Space and Moe Girl.
Damn it, I didn't expect that even though he tried his best to stop it, the company's production staff still showed progress even in such details.
Could it be that they secretly worked overtime these past two days without him knowing to produce this effect?
Lu Yu's heart was bleeding.
What a waste of points, what a sin!
On the other side, Liu Mengyuan was also uneasy.
Oops, there was a BUG in the art resources in the game title, who knows what other bizarre problems will be encountered next.
...
After that, Lu Yu mainly played, while Liu Mengyuan watched him play first and then complained from time to time.
The screen showed the male and female protagonist selection interface.
Lu Yu thought for a while, created a male protagonist, and named him:Xiaoyu.
After selecting the protagonist, the game's opening subtitles appeared:
"Goddess Calendar Year 1200, Lanya Continent, Cecil Kingdom, Karapam Village."
"Inside an ordinary house"
"A 16-year-old boy is in his dream."
Immediately afterwards, the screen switched and the protagonist's dream appeared.
It turned out that the protagonist dreamed that he was in a huge kingdom arena.
The arena was magnificent and filled with excited and shouting spectators.
The host, dressed in medieval aristocratic attire, said loudly in the center of the arena:
"Dear audience friends, welcome to the annual 'Moe God Altar' finals of the Lanya Continent.
Each contestant will send out their three moe(萌: cute) girl partners to participate in the battle and compete for the title of 'Strongest Moe(萌: cute) King of the Year'."
Xiaoyu stood on the決决battlefield, turned the hat on his head backwards,
"I've decided on you, Sword Maiden!"
The contract magic circle in front of him flashed with light, and the moe(萌: cute) girl "Sword Maiden" appeared.
The Sword Maiden had a cute face and wore silver-white armor in the shape of a scabbard. Her figure was graceful, and her slender waist revealed sexiness.
She wore a streamer headdress, and her golden hair was woven into twin tails. Behind her were a pair of transparent wings, like dancing elves.
She said娇声道(嬌声道: sweetly): "I am the sword in my master's hand, and I will definitely move forward!"
After saying that, the Sword Maiden folded her hands in front of her, and began to draw her sword from her chest!
The LSP(LSP: Lustful Simp Person) in the live broadcast room were stunned. Was it that direct?
During the process of drawing the sword, the scabbard and the skin on both sides rubbed against each other.
The Sword Maiden娇哼(嬌哼: groaned sweetly) with a blush on her face.
At this time, Liu Mengyuan's face was pale.
Oops, neither the chest sword draw nor the娇哼(嬌哼: sweet groan) were part of the game's original design.
Originally, the sword should have been drawn from the waist, but I'm afraid the sword clipped through the model, resulting in the chest sword draw effect. And that sweet groan should have been a hit sound effect.
Some players watching the live broadcast vaguely realized this and complained again: "Clipped through the model?"
But soon there was a rebuttal:
"This is obviously a specially designed performance, it's simply mind-blowing!"
"The beautiful girl design of Taoyuan Township is indeed still online!"
"I'm really getting more and more excited!"
Liu Mengyuan was a little confused?
Is... is that so?
She nodded blankly: "Yes, this is definitely not a clipping BUG, it's a game setting, the employees of Taoyuan Township are so amazing..."
She thought to herself that so far, the points that players have praised are all "variables" caused by BUGs.
I hope it doesn't go too far.
Immediately afterwards,Xiaoyu summoned "Fox Enchantress" and "Snow Woman" in the moe(萌: cute) girl battle.
The Fox Enchantress wore a red robe with silver-white fox fur dotted on the cuffs and hem.
Her eyes were cunning like a bright moon, and a pair of fox ears mischievously revealed themselves from her dark hair, swaying gently.
She held an elegant folding fan with妖艳(妖艷: seductive) fox fire patterns painted on the fan surface. Her tail softly wrapped around her, fluffy and soft.
The Snow Woman wore a white dress, with snow falling all around her, and wore an ice crown woven from ice crystals on her head, holding an ice staff.
On her妩媚(嫵媚: charming) cheeks, her eyes were like the icy lake in winter, clear and deep.
Her white hair was洁白无瑕(潔白無瑕: flawless), like the white snow on the top of the snow mountain, and the spring scenery乍泄(乍洩: revealed) from the robe revealed a hint of涩气(澀氣: eroticism).
Players exclaimed:
"Wow! New wife?"
"This art rendering is amazing, it's simply top-notch!"
"This is even more涩(澀: erotic) and sexier than Senran Kagura and Honkai Impact 3!"
"And the涩涩(澀澀: eroticism) is mixed with a hint of cuteness, making people want to bully them, but also want to show them love!"
The LSP(LSP: Lustful Simp Person) on the scene were so excited that they fell into a carnival, and the popularity of the live broadcast room continued to soar!
...
After the dream ended,Xiaoyu opened his eyes and found himself lying on an old wooden bed.
The walls of the room were made of stone bricks, with tapestries printed with shield and sword patterns hanging on the walls. There was a small desk in the corner with old books and an oil lamp on it.
Bullet comments: "Waking up from your room, a strong sword and magic RPG opening, just the right taste!"
"Xiaoyu, today is the day of the 'Eligibility' test. If you don't get up, you'll be late."
Xiaoyu's mother, a woman dressed as a medieval peasant woman, walked into the room.
Afterwards, the game began to explain:
"In the Cecil Kingdom, every sixteen-year-old boy will participate in the 'Eligibility Test' held by the [Kingdom Moe(萌: cute) Girl Association]. Successful testers will become [Moe(萌: cute) Fighters], receive their own initial moe(萌: cute) girls, and begin their adventure on the continent.
In the end, the moe(萌: cute) girl trainer with the strongest moe(萌: cute) power will participate in the [Moe(萌: cute) God Altar] championship, aiming for the strongest moe(萌: cute) god!"
Xiaoyu looked up and was immediately stunned with a look of错愕(錯愕: bewilderment).
The wooden bird on the old grandfather clock did not ring, but kept鬼畜抖动(鬼畜抖動: looping and shaking erratically) inside the window.
"But mom, I'm already late."
The village woman looked at the looping clock, also with a puzzled look.
On the scene, Lu Yu and Liu Mengyuan's expressions were the same as the two characters in the game, in a state of confused.
The audience in the bullet comments were also puzzled, and question marks began to spam the screen.
Because, the state of this alarm clock did not look normal at all.
...
At this time, Taoyuan Township headquarters.
The Chrono Space Moe(萌: cute) Girl project team, who were watching the live broadcast in front of the screen, were sweating profusely.
Only Wan Xiaotong was watching happily.
Although the two bosses looked blank in the live broadcast room, the members of the project team knew why the grandfather clock didn't ring!
Because there was a BUG!
According to the original plot,Xiaoyu should have been woken up by the alarm clock in the room, and then went to participate in the "Eligibility Test".
But the alarm clock mechanism was not triggered normally!
System planner Ma Yanyu worried: "Sure enough, the time is still too tight!"
For the Chrono Space Moe(萌: cute) Girl project, Wan Xiaotong had too many脑洞(腦洞: creative ideas) in the early stage of project establishment.
Later, when everyone went to Yunnan for tourism, they continued to大开脑洞(大開腦洞: brainstorm) along Wan Xiaotong's ideas, which resulted in the project's estimated workload far exceeding expectations.
Moreover, CEO Lu fully supported Xiaotong's脑洞(腦洞: creative ideas) and continued to increase outsourcing investment, which meant that the project team needed to process more and more resources, and there was no way to conduct acceptance tests in time.
Originally, if everyone worked a little harder at night and on weekends, they could have made it in time.
But CEO Lu didn't know why, he was very strict in monitoring everyone's overtime and secretly bringing computers home to work, and resolutely stopped it!
The newly added cat-petting system also occupied everyone's precious working time, so they could only complete the basic game framework and then launch it hastily.
Moreover, what they were most afraid of was that this alarm clock was a very critical plot trigger.
After the alarm clock in the protagonist's room breaks down, the protagonist will not be able to get up at the scheduled time and go to the village chief to choose one of the three novice initial moe(萌: cute) girls.
In that way, there may be many unforeseen problems, causing the entire main storyline to get stuck!
This is a very serious operational accident on such a major international competition and with so many people watching the live broadcast!
Xu Qin comforted everyone: "It's okay, it's okay, the early main storyline is a single-player plot, there will be no interference from other players, it should be fine... right?"
The company's technical director Chu Xiong also comforted everyone at this time:
"It's okay. When the project was established, Wan Xiaotong told me that this is a highly free and random open-world game.
Therefore, in order to add to the authenticity of the world, all the NPCs in this game have been adapted with the same artificial intelligence large model as Taoyuan Light Year's 'Melissa'.
Although the alarm clock trigger has failed, these NPCs will generate conversations that can make the plot logic self-consistent and make up for it after detecting that the main process is stuck!"
The members of the project team were all moved to tears: "As expected of Brother Xiong, you really saved our lives at a critical moment!"
...
At this time, the Tianzun Cup site.
Lu Yu also guessed that there might be a problem with the process.
He looked at Liu Mengyuan's slightly pale face and couldn't bear it.
I hope that through this, everyone can realize that involution(內卷: internal competition) beyond one's ability will only backfire.
What can I do now? Wait until after the broadcast to buy some good food and coax my girlfriend.
He was thinking about what to say to save the situation,
Just then,
The game protagonist's mother suddenly covered her mouth and smiled: "You must have smashed the alarm clock with something when you were dreaming."
Xiaoyu thought for three seconds with a wise look and said棒读道(棒讀道: read mechanically): "That's right, Mom, then I'm going to the village chief's house."
The bullet comments breathed a sigh of relief: "So that's how it is, that makes sense."
Lu Yu: "?????????"
Hey, no, he swore with his more than ten years of game producer experience that the mechanism trigger must have had a BUG just now, what's going on?
He suppressed the doubts in his heart and manipulated the protagonist to open the door.
The village was located next to a field, and the streets were lined with old medieval buildings, red brick and wooden beams, and the outer walls were covered with vines.
Xiaoyu jogged all the way, passed the inn, the prop shop, the weapon shop, and finally came to the village chief's house at the end.
The village chief was an old grandfather with white hair and a kind face.
Although he looked very weak, he had a gleam in his eyes and was vigorous.
The village chief谆谆教诲(諄諄教誨: earnestly taught):
"Xiaoyu, you are late. If you want to become a qualified 'Moe(萌: cute) Fighter', you must adhere to the concept of time.
Okay, let's start the 'Eligibility Test' right away.
There is a small room behind me. There is an ancient painted scroll left by ancient gods. You need to look up to the painted scroll. If you are an eligible person, your body will show miracles."
After Lu Yu operated the protagonist to enter the room, he was directly stunned.
Because on the north wall of the room hung a suggestive anime-style picture of a beautiful girl!
A bikini swimsuit, black silk stockings, huge breasts, a shameful pose...
And a face expressing climax...
This kind of anime-style illustration would typically only appear in doujinshi at comic conventions or on otaku body pillows.
Its presence in the village chief's room in an ancient village with a medieval flavor was extremely out of place!
...
The project team members watching the live stream looked at producer Wan Xiaotong in bewilderment.
What strange idea did Miss Xiaotong have this time?
Just then, Lu Yiguan, the scene artist of the project team, raised his hand with a flushed face:
"Ahem, it's not Sister Xiaotong's fault, it's my mistake.
Originally, the village chief's room should have had an ancient mythological scroll hanging there. The painting was outsourced to a company.
When the outsourcing company hadn't finished it, I temporarily used a wallpaper from my computer as a temporary resource to test the process.
As a result, after the outsourcing was done, I was too busy and forgot to replace it with the official resource."
Everyone looked at Lu Yiguan with complicated expressions.
Young man, what strange things do you have on your computer?!
What are you researching during work hours?!
...
In the live stream, Lu Yu and Liu Mengyuan were so shocked that they were petrified on the spot.
The audience in the live stream was so shocked that they even forgot to send comments.
A sense of despair rose in the hearts of all Peach Garden Village employees.
Now that such an embarrassing lewd picture has appeared in the game, they, as humans, can't think of any possible way to save the situation, let alone those artificial intelligence NPCs.
This Celestial Dignity Cup is doomed!
I'm afraid that Peach Garden Village will become a laughing stock in the gaming industry for the next ten years!
Just then, suddenly!
The protagonist, Xiao Yu, blushed and covered his nose.
Pfft—
A large amount of nosebleed spurted out, scattering all over the floor.
Then, the village chief opened the door and walked in, patted Xiao Yu on the shoulder, and said earnestly:
"That's quite a lot of blood, young man. This shows that you are a person who cannot resist cute girls.
And this is a necessary condition to become a 'Moe Fighter'. According to the amount of your bleeding, I declare that you have passed the suitability test, with a qualification of S-rank!"
Clap! Clap! Clap!
The village chief began to applaud.
Xiao Yu glanced at the village chief and found that the village chief's nose was also bleeding while looking at the lewd picture.
Xiao Yu complained, "Village chief, no wonder you've been getting thinner recently."
As soon as this complaint came out, the live stream comments completely exploded!
Everyone went crazy with laughter and began to complain:
"Hahahahaha!"
"I can't take it anymore, I'm laughing like an idiot, my roommate is about to call an ambulance."
"I'm dying of laughter, my face mask is about to crack."
"Hahaha, so that's what the 'Suitability Test' is all about?"
"Everyone in Peach Garden Village is talented! No wonder I chose this game company!"
"Please be sure to perform this kind of test on me every day!"
As the density of comments soared, the popularity of the live stream instantly doubled, reaching 3 million!
Lu Yu was still in a daze. He looked at Liu Mengyuan with admiration, as if to say:
I admit defeat.
Liu Mengyuan also returned a dazed look, as if to say:
I don't know anything either!
...
Peach Garden Village Villa.
The members of the project team looked at Chu Xiong with tears in their eyes, almost wanting to hug his thigh directly.
"Brother Xiong, your technology is too awesome, it's simply a god-level save! No, it should be said that it's already beyond god-level!"
Chu Xiong scratched his nose triumphantly, pretending to be calm:
"Eh, it's nothing, just a small matter."
In fact, he was also very surprised. Since joining Peach Garden Village, his technical level had improved rapidly, as if he had a cheat.
Xu Qin: "With Brother Xiong's artificial intelligence large model, we should be able to rest assured."
Chu Xiong nodded: "That's for sure. Think about it, the 'Melissa' large model has to face tens of millions of live viewers on Peach Garden Lightyear every day, so the training intensity can be guaranteed."
Everyone was overjoyed. In this way, even if there are occasional small bugs in the game, AI can fix them in time?
Everyone's hanging hearts finally let go, and they continued to watch the live stream.
In the live stream, the village chief took Xiao Yu back to the main hall.
Xiao Yu looked at the three curtains on the north side of the room. He knew that behind each curtain was a moe girl, and he had to choose one as his initial partner.
"Village chief, I've decided, I'll choose the Sword Maiden."
The village chief opened the leftmost curtain speechlessly, and it was empty.
Xiao Yu sighed: "What a pity, then I'll choose the Fox Enchantress."
The village chief opened the second curtain, and the Fox Enchantress was also gone.
Xiao Yu smiled in relief: "Okay then, I'll choose the Snow Girl, she's also quite cute."
The village chief opened the third curtain silently, and it was still empty.
Xiao Yu: "???"
Lu Yu \u0026 Liu Mengyuan: "???"
Live Stream Audience: "???"
Xu Qin was also confused: "That's not right, this is a single-player process, every player must be able to choose one of the three initial moe girls."
Seeing that the crucial main quest was stuck again, everyone looked at Chu Xiong with pleading eyes.
Chu Xiong tilted his fat head and thought for a long time, his eyebrows were twisted into a mess, and he couldn't figure out what was going on.
So, he had to take out his laptop and check the game server's log records, one by one.
Five minutes later, he finally found the reason and said with a pale face:
"Ahem, after all, it's an NPC in an open-world game loaded with AI, so some villagers may have their own ideas.
Because the protagonist was late, three villagers each took a moe girl and went out on an adventure..."
"..."
The project team members stood there dumbfounded, their bodies seemed to have lost their color, and they could be completely turned into powder with a gust of wind.
What the hell is going on!
I've never heard of the villagers in the novice village going on adventures instead of the protagonist!
Brother Xiong, your artificial intelligence is not just beyond god-level, it's a Cthulhu!
What to do now?
There are no other moe girls in the village chief's house.
And all the main stories of Chronospace Moe Girl originate from the journey of obtaining a moe girl partner, which is written in the underlying rules of the main story code.
Are we going to let the protagonist take the village chief on an adventure?
No, impossible! Absolutely not!
That's already a completely different strange game!
Just then, Xiao Yu's words in the game suddenly made the blood of all the employees run cold.
"Village chief, is your body still strong?"