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Chapter 541 Hanging Brother
Evacuation Failed

Four large, blood-red characters appeared on the computer screen in the internet cafe. College student Jia Wei suddenly chuckled, picked up the iced tea covered in dew on the table, and took a big gulp.

The so-called "every generation will encounter its own destined scams" have been seen in everything from the text message "I am Qin Shi Huang" to the deposit scam of ofo shared bicycles.

From confidently pre-ordering "Warcraft III: Reforged" to believing that this year is LPL's most promising year yet;
I get fooled every year, but every time it's different.

For example, right now, the Five-Character God game is running on the computer—

Tamarind porridge campaign.

This is the first "search, fight, and retreat" game for young people, meaning they can't find anything, can't fight, and can't retreat. Players who play poorly are rewarded, while those who play well are punished.

The official planners are truly remarkable. They maintain a persona of being obedient to advice, strongly support escorting and playing with others, ignore cheaters, punish player teams, disregard price collapses, and pretend to be dead when criticized in hundreds of thousands of posts.

First came the Three Kingdoms Kill game, and now comes Tamarind Porridge; the two are like the Yangtze River, with each wave stronger than the last.

With 30 million daily active users, it can be called a cyber-themed demon-locking tower, firmly attracting all kinds of gray and black industries (escort services, studios, clubs, cheats), as well as unlucky green players who don't use cheats.

Jia Wei is one of the green enthusiasts.

"I was so stupid, really, to actually believe Aya's game."

He wearily screwed the cap off his iced tea and turned to look at the seat next to him.

One of my roommates, who had come to the internet cafe with me to play games, couldn't take the losing streak all night. He kept getting killed like a stray dog ​​by various support players, power levelers, and cheaters. He said he was tired, so he quietly turned off the game and sat on the sofa scrolling through short videos on his phone.

As for the other roommate who plays games together...
"Qiangzi, are you still playing?"

"let's play."

Wearing a hoodie, Zhang Qiang sounded exhausted. If he hadn't invested so much sunk cost in this amazing game, he would have switched to other games long ago. "Anyway, I don't have many Huff coins left. I'll sell the expansion box, equip everything at once, and if I die, so be it."

"Okay, get ready."

Jia Wei's tone was calm and collected. The in-game prices in this game are outrageous these days. Helmets, armor, armor repair, guns, and accessories are all ridiculously expensive, while the drop rate is incredibly low.

"Haha, I'm wearing level 5 armor equivalent to a golden gazelle, experimental data on my head, a gold bar on my back, two smoothbore guns in my hands, and gold bullets in my crotch that are comparable to four sets of Rolexes. Then I'm robbing others of the tamarind porridge in the safe and planning to 'I love you'."

Zhang Qiang was grumbling and complaining when suddenly his eyes widened.

The Tamarind Porridge event's Treasure Hunt mode requires three-person teams. Now that one of their roommates has quit, the two of them should theoretically be matched with random teammates.

Jia Wei and Zhang Qiang were chosen as the top and second-best attackers, respectively, and both had high-level skins in the game. However, the teammate who joined from a random match...
"WTF? What the hell?"

In the corner of the matchmaking screen stood a strangely dressed person with the ID "Ant," wearing glasses, with a book strapped to his waist, and a silver slime crouching beside him.
The most outrageous thing is that there is a giant toad that takes up most of the screen behind him.

"Is this a hermit from Mount Myōboku?"

The two college students looked at each other, their eyes filled with shock and astonishment. The fatigue and soreness from kneeling all night vanished, and they suddenly became energetic.

Zhang Qiang hurriedly grabbed his phone to take a picture of the screen, while Jia Wei pressed the microphone button, excitedly and confusedly asking, "Hey buddy number 3, what character is this? Is it a Naruto-themed skin for next season?"

Li Sheng didn't answer, but instead looked down at his palm. As the environment changed, he too seemed to be coated with a game filter.

"The Tamarind Porridge Campaign?"

Li Sheng nodded thoughtfully and said calmly to his two teammates, "You two would better stay away from the computer."

Jia Wei asked instinctively, "Huh? Why?"

"It might explode."

As he spoke, a top-secret space map was loaded, showing the launch point located in the lower left corner of the launch area.

Zhang Qiang gently nudged Jia Wei with his elbow and showed him his phone screen.

The image shows a streamer providing commentary from a top-down perspective of the game map. An absurd fact is that despite the Tamarind Porridge Project boasting 30 million daily active users and consistently high popularity, and despite the development team hiring industry elites and offering top-tier salaries, the team's productivity is extremely low.

The game has been online for quite some time, but there are still many features that should be included that haven't been implemented yet, such as match replay.

However, the game replay function that the development team failed to implement was created by the profit-driven black market for cheats.

If there is even one cheater in the game, and the radar sharing function is enabled...

The top-down view webpage allows you to observe the location of all open-air supplies on the entire map, and clearly see each team's ID, equipment, character configuration, and even the aiming direction of each person's weapon.
The cheat website is a hundred times better than the official replays; it's outrageous beyond belief.

Zhang Qiang just privately messaged a streamer who was using a webpage with a God's-eye view for commentary.

"Hello everyone, let's start a new round. Wow, six teams from the top-secret aerospace division, each with more than one 'Magic Ball' cheater. And it's our familiar aerospace city again, full of the atmosphere of futuristic technology."

A streamer named Hua Ge talked at length in his live stream, saying that the total amount of money involved in the tamarind porridge shady business was far greater than that of any previous video game, and that even official events were giving away escort coupons, leading the way in supporting clubs to escort boosting services.

The scale of the gray market in established games like DNF, Justice Online, and Fantasy Westward Journey is simply incomparable to this.

This has led to an extremely rapid pace of updates and replacements for cheat programs, resulting in a vast variety of cheat programs.

We won't go into the usual cheats like aimbots, bullet tracking, and Bloodhound.

Other techniques, like the Star-Absorbing Technique, involve instantly pulling the box closer to your body after killing an enemy;
Flying Thunder God - Instant teleportation across the entire map;

A Dou Zong powerhouse—can use skills without limit, flying directly through the air;
Immobilization spell – instantly freezes the target in place, rendering them unable to move;

Each one is more imaginative than the last.

In comparison, the Treasure Rat (who only sees through supplies without killing people), can open password rooms without a password, and its equipment disappears after it dies, preventing the other party from looting its bag, etc., can actually be considered a green play.

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The streamer, known as Brother Hua, was already used to the scene of countless extraordinary players in the Aerospace City map. He calmly commented, "As you can see, every team in the first half of the game is full of talent. Strong lock-ins and wallhacks are just standard practice."

The second half was equally exciting. This player, named "Ant," accelerated time and dashed from the bottom left corner of the map to the bridge. Wait a minute!

Hua Ge's eyes snapped open, and on the miniature map from God's perspective, ten "Star of Africa" ​​symbols were clearly visible around the ant.

This item is one of the highest-grade resources in the entire Tamarind Porridge game; some unlucky players have played for thousands of hours and still haven't gotten a single one.

"Could it be some new resource duplication cheat? That can't be right, directly duplicating the African Star is too overpowered and ridiculous."

After a brief delay, the comments in Hua Ge's live stream chat flooded the screen like a horizontal waterfall. He belatedly realized what was happening and quickly picked up his phone to read the private messages again.

He finally saw the bizarre scene on the character selection screen that Zhang Qiang had sent him, as well as a real-time sharing link of Zhang Qiang's own game footage.

I quickly clicked in, and there I saw that the player named [Ant] was indeed standing on a giant toad, hovering above the bridge, with ten glittering African Star diamonds floating around him.

"Dear viewers, we've truly witnessed a god-like figure today. I wonder what he's up to by showing off those ten African stars? Is he testing a cheat in real time?"

Hua Ge gasped, instinctively filled with doubt.

The cheats like the Star Absorbing Technique, Flying Thunder God Technique, and Dou Zong powerhouse are basically all about calling the game's own code, which can be explained in a somewhat plausible way.
But what's with this giant toad? There's nothing like it in the game.

Before he could react, in Zhang Qiang's game screen (he and Jia Wei were still running from the spawn point towards the bridge), a player figure wearing green pants suddenly appeared next to Li Sheng and reached out to grab a diamond.

The drop rate for the African Star is extremely low; it's very difficult to obtain even on the highest difficulty map.

This player in green pants was clearly the owner of the Flying Thunder God and X-ray vision cheat. Upon seeing ten African Stars, he couldn't resist activating them and tried to snatch them from the tiger's mouth.

Did it succeed?
The player in green pants had already touched the Star of Africa, and the inspection animation had even appeared. However, in the next instant, the giant toad slightly moved its eyelids, and terrifying gravity directly crushed him into a pancake on the spot, not even giving him a chance to fall to the ground with serious injuries.

Li Sheng casually brushed away the stains on the corner of his clothes. The ability of the Phase Transformation Demon is assimilation and corrosion, and the larger the environment, the greater its potential.

Right now, it must be hiding somewhere on this map, disguised as a player, NPC, or even supplies and buildings. We need to force it out.

(End of this chapter)