Let the scourge go to the right path, and you make games to reward them?.

Chapter 978 Game Hacks (22)

To eliminate the other party, a part of the nebula must be removed, which is unacceptable for the time being.

After confirming that Lin Yuan understood the current situation, the squid said with satisfaction, "Very good, I have become part of the nebula. Watch, I will guide you step by step onto the right path, to become my glorious kin, and to share the glory of this world with me."

Lan stared intently at the tentacles before her, then immediately sensed the changes in the nebula.

Golden light flowed across His body, and His immense power pierced through the nebula, bringing Lin Yuan the current state of the nebula.

"The other side has hijacked a part of Nebula's functionality, which now appears to be the reward module. Now, players can only obtain rewards from the other side, and they can also use rewards to induce players to act."

"That thing altered the natural order?"

"No, the other party is the Heavenly Dao itself. It has covered the nebula with the Heavenly Dao, thereby using the Heavenly Dao to express its will. No wonder it was able to invade; the Heavenly Dao's authority is indeed high."

"That's it..."

Noticing Lin Yuan's somewhat serious expression, Lan immediately reassured him, "It's alright, it's a minor issue. Let's have a meeting to discuss it, and then..."

"What's the point of a meeting? They're practically giving us a freebie! Kidnapping us for rewards... How could they do something like that? Don't they know that players are the best at taking advantage of freebies?"

"Let's learn about the reward system, quick, I can't wait!"

Seeing Lin Yuan rubbing his hands together in anticipation, Lan was certain that she must never provoke Lin Yuan in the future, otherwise he would definitely have a whole host of ways to torture her and make her wish she were dead.

Before long, the contents of the Heavenly Dao that had been covered were sent over, and Lin Yuan also learned about the tricks the squid had played.

The Nebula was originally a realm influenced by the four celestial realms: the Upper and Lower Realms, the Blissful Realm, the Qian Yuan Realm, and the Immortal Realm.

However, after the squid invaded this place, the Heavenly Dao underwent another fusion.

Part of the Heavenly Dao is still in effect, but the Heavenly Dao brought by the squid has also exerted some influence, giving this place new characteristics.

This method of modifying the underlying behavior through the laws of nature is undoubtedly an extremely powerful supernatural ability, but it also has some loopholes that can be exploited.

The most obvious flaw is that while the Heavenly Dao is effective on Nebula, it will also be effective on itself.

If the squid refuses to give up Nebula, then he must accept all the flaws and consequences of his own destiny.

Bai Ye and Lan were instructed to observe the new Heavenly Dao together. The two quickly compiled the information and sent it to Lin Yuan.

Holding the documents, Lin Yuan carefully read through all the contents and couldn't help but laugh, saying, "This squid is too arrogant."

Bai Ye flipped through the documents and asked, puzzled, "Not arrogant, right? You've seen the documents too. They clearly want to use missions to assimilate our cultivators, influencing their subconscious by having them run dungeons repeatedly, and then injecting traits like docility and obedience into their bodies. But the biggest stroke of luck is that they haven't realized that the players are actually beings of all forms, which has given us a chance to break away."

"Why run? We're so poor right now, shouldn't we take advantage of capitalism to our advantage? By the way, do you have the player dungeon data? Let me see it."

"Here you go." Lan immediately sent over the data.

To date, players have completed a total of 3.1 billion dungeons, and each completion rewards them with three to five spirit stones.

From the dungeon alone, they plundered 12 billion spirit stones from the Big Squid, which is roughly half a year's output of a single small world in Kyushu.

But for the giant squid, this is just a drop in the ocean.

The other party has conquered countless worlds, acquiring an astonishing amount of spirit stones and various materials.

Moreover, the other party has a very clever plan.

These rewards seem to have been given to Kyushu, but once the players here are enslaved, they will eventually return to their own pockets.

This capital merely passes through your hands; its final destination is still in the squid's pocket.

The other party has probably done this many times before, so he doesn't care about the initial investment, as long as he can turn the player into a servant in the end.

After reviewing the data, Lin Yuan sighed. Lan, who was standing nearby, brought him tea and asked with concern, "Lin Yuan, what's wrong? Is the situation very difficult?"

"A tiny bit, but it's okay. I'm afraid the other party will realize it and then I won't be able to get anything out of them."

"...What exactly are you planning?"

"There are many, but in short, let's start with a new feature."

Picking up the report again, Lin Yuan pondered for a while and decided to add a forced exit function.

The specific method involves saving the demons and monsters in the void and placing one in the player's inventory. When it's time to exit, the demon or monster is activated, and the player simply waits for it to devour them.

The self-destruction technique is implanted into the body of the demon, and it automatically eliminates itself after devouring everything, making it both environmentally friendly and efficient.

However, this plan requires a large number of demons and monsters, so they need someone specifically tasked with capturing these monsters in the void. This task can be accomplished by having the demon cultivators of the Blissful Realm help with it.

After reading Lin Yuan's proposal, Lan's first impression was that Lin Yuan always managed to come up with something new and interesting.

Is it even possible for a human to come up with the idea of ​​using the "Wangliang" (a type of monster) as a function to force an exit?
Moreover, every time a player forces quits the game, one monster dies. With over a billion players logging into the game once a day, over a billion monsters die a violent death.

Although the spirits in the void are worthless, we can't just squander them like this.

Sooner or later, you will wipe out the rampant demons.

After carefully reviewing it, Lan said that the feature was not difficult to implement, but still raised her question: "Why did you make this feature?"

"Let players run dungeons repeatedly. If the developers don't want to negatively impact players, then let them repeatedly run easy dungeons that can be completed quickly to farm resources."

Seeing that Lan was still a bit confused, Lin Yuan continued, "Some dungeon quests are easier to complete, but others take a long time. Before we had a forced quit feature, players could only endure it bit by bit, and because capybaras are quite patient, they usually stay until the very end, so the efficiency was relatively low."

"However, by adding forced exit, we can optimize the AFK experience. When a player's task is long or difficult, they can automatically exit the dungeon and re-queue, improving the player's AFK efficiency. In this way, even if the other party reduces the rewards, we can still get more benefits."

Lan thought for a moment and nodded, "I understand. But didn't the Myriad Laws Sect create a self-management system? Then this function can be further optimized to create an auto-play feature. Hmm, some collection tasks can be done, auto-killing can be added, auto-palace intrigue is also possible, and we can also add a function to quickly skip opponents, an auto-team function, and... Lin Yuan, why are you looking at me like that?"

"It's nothing, we just discovered you're using cheats. No, you're an official employee, so this is an internal cheat."

What is a built-in cheat?

"External cheats can be understood as techniques used by players to forcibly modify game data through external means in order to reduce the difficulty of the game or save game time, in order to achieve their own goals. Internal cheats, on the other hand, are functions created by the game's internal staff in order to make money or reduce the repetitiveness of the game."

"Like the game AFK mode you used to play?" Lan asked.

"um, yes."

He didn't like using cheats in the first place, but if the other party acted dishonestly first, then it would be acceptable to use cheats to retaliate.

After all, the tool itself is not wrong; the problem lies in how it is used.

After figuring it out, Lin Yuan's gaze towards Lan changed.

As expected of Cyber ​​Star Lord, the god in charge of games in Kyushu, he does have some talent in games.

Since they're taking advantage of us, and the other party made the first move, then if we retaliate, they shouldn't have anything to say.

Moreover, doing so might help Zero One collect the Qian Yuan Realm, so it is indeed quite suitable.

Therefore, he patted Lan on the shoulder, gave her a thumbs up, and said, "Go ahead and do it. I'll take the blame."

"Alright, just you wait and see."

(End of this chapter)