Rock and Roll: Glorious Years

After reading it, Bian Lang suddenly had a strange feeling. He felt that he must have a cheat code, and that cheat code was "Little God of Misfortune!"

It turns out that the music variety show that the four members participated in collaborated with "Rhythm Master". Today, they used the music of the four members' new song to create a new track for the game. The game is also linked to Goose Egg Music. You have to buy and download the corresponding song on Goose Egg Music in order to challenge these new tracks.

Therefore, Rhythm Master, a rhythm game player with an average daily active user count of over 30, boosted the download data for these four songs.

"Sister Chen, have you looked into this game before?"

In response to Bian Lang's question, Chen Shuting nodded and said, "Yesterday, the game company under Goose Egg sent me an email about copyright cooperation. I looked into it, and their average daily active users are around 300,000. However, they won't pay copyright fees, and they want us to pay 30,000 yuan in production costs. Moreover, the production and testing time will be at least 45 days, and they want exclusive authorization, meaning the copyright cannot be licensed to other similar games! So, I didn't agree."

Bian Lang had played rhythm games in his previous life, specifically "Audition Online," which was quite popular in China after he played in a band for a while. However, for a professional musician like him, playing that game was like using a cannon to kill a mosquito; after a few days, he lost interest and never touched it again.

Therefore, he didn't know much about it.

I never expected to come to Planet Blue and run into someone using rhythm games to promote their songs. And not only do they not pay royalties for collaborations, but they also demand production fees and exclusivity...

"As expected, backed by a giant like Goose Egg (a famous Chinese tech company), that's sure to be a big deal!" Thinking this to himself, he said aloud, "30 daily active users, that's a pretty big user base. I'll download it and give it a try!"

As he spoke, he took out his phone, downloaded the game, and immediately selected the highest difficulty free track, "Flight of the Bumblebee," and started playing.

After playing two rounds to familiarize himself with the controls and key bindings, Bian Lang started making amazing plays in the third round. On the highest difficulty with 6 keys at 1.5x speed, Bian Lang finished the game with full health, hitting 1842 notes on the phone in 1 minute and 20 seconds, missing only one.

Although Bian Lang's hands were so fast that they left only afterimages, Chen Shuting didn't know how to describe them. But Bian Lang wasn't satisfied and started another round.

Still at 1.5x speed, this time there were no more misses in the game, but not all of them were perfect; there were also 57 good ones mixed in.

However, Bian Lang still had no intention of stopping the challenge and started another game. This time, Bian Lang turned on double speed and achieved 1842 perfects in 59 seconds without missing a single one. When the words "all combo" appeared on the game interface, Bian Lang finally breathed a sigh of relief and then exited the game.

Chen Shuting, who was watching with bated breath, was holding her breath until the very end. Judging from her current heavy breathing, she was clearly even more nervous than Bian Lang had been.

"Bian Lang, your hand speed is unmatched..."

Bian Lang casually replied, "If I were to play it on a guitar, it would probably be faster. But as far as this piece is concerned, there are definitely people who can play it faster than me, but those people are just showing off their skills. You can't even tell what they're playing, so there's no musicality to speak of."

Bian Lang wasn't making this up. This piece is often used in virtuoso guitar battles between guitarists from Earth. Bian Lang's fastest record is 50 seconds, while the Guinness World Record belongs to a foreign guitarist who only took 7 seconds! That translates to a hand speed of 4000 BPM, which is theoretically 4000 notes per second!

But Bian Lang couldn't see or hear what exactly was being played.

However, what the two were unaware of was that at that moment, his achievement had already appeared on the screen of every online player in the game as a pop-up message.

"What?! 6-key 2x speed Flying Bumblebee? Perfect combo? This must be a cheat code!"

"Is this even human? It's more like an octopus!"

"I don't believe it! 1290 notes on four keys, 1842 notes on six keys, played in 59 seconds, that's 31 notes per second—what else could this be but a cheat code?"

Amidst the heated debate in the game's chat channel, Yang Meng, who was working from home, received a call from a colleague in the planning department.

"Xiao Meng, your six-key score of 'Flight of the Bumblebee' was perfectly broken by a new account using double speed. The technical department analyzed the account's performance and concluded that it shouldn't be a cheat."

They tracked the IP address to Kunming. Try to contact them and, if possible, go there and record a video of the scene…”

When Yang Meng heard that someone had perfectly broken the six-key cheat code for 2x speed in "Flight of the Bumblebee," only two words came to her mind: "Cheat!"

She knew very well how difficult the score she created was. It had 1290 notes on 4 keys, and while very few could pass it perfectly at double the speed, it was still within her comprehension, because she could do it herself. In other words, any professional pianist could do it after practicing for a while.

However, these 6 keys have a full 552 more notes than 4 keys. She tried it herself, and her best score was 1 miss and 432 good notes. She calculated that this would require a speed of at least 31 BPM, which she believes she can achieve, but accuracy is absolutely impossible to guarantee. And among all the game players, fewer than 50 have actually managed to finish the game without cheating, since the chart was uploaded over a year ago.

But when she heard that the technical department had determined it wasn't a cheat, her intense curiosity drove her to find the player and see for herself if he really had 12 fingers!

When she received the information from her colleague in the planning department, the ID made her excited again: "Rolling Stone! Could this really be Bian Lang?" She thought about how she had submitted her OA application two or three days ago, but had not received a reply yet.

Thinking of this, she immediately searched on her computer and found the address of Rolling Stone Studio and Chen Shuting's contact information.

With a slightly uneasy feeling, she dialed the number and explained her purpose. Chen Shuting then asked her to meet at Paradise Records.

So excited was she that she grabbed her car keys, not even bothering to change her contact lenses, and dashed out of the house like a shot, startling her father who was in the yard: "Girl, what's wrong with you! Running so fast, what's with the rush?"

When those four words, "Go see Bian Lang!" reached Yang's father's ears, all he could see was the rear of his daughter's sports car!

……

Upon arriving at Paradise Records, after Yang Meng finished introducing herself...

Bian Lang and Chen Shuting became interested in the profession of music composer, which they had never heard of before.

"Ms. Yang, does that mean you created the sheet music for 'Flight of the Bumblebee'? If I need to create a sheet music for my new song, how long will it take?" Bian Lang asked curiously.

This question hit her nail on the head. She quickly took out her tablet from her bag, connected to WiFi, opened a VPN, and then connected to Crazy Scale to show Bian Lang her self-made score of "Those Without Ideals Don't Get Hurt".

"Teacher Bian, this is a custom chart I made for your song on a rhythm game overseas. You can try it out yourself."

"Wow! That's impressive!" Bian Lang exclaimed in surprise, blurting out a phrase in his local dialect as he got up and moved closer.

At this moment, Yang Meng, wearing large black-rimmed glasses, finally saw Bian Lang's face clearly, and then all she could hear in her mind was the heavy and rapid sound of his heartbeat!