Jiang Ning, Tianba Studio.

Chen Ba, as usual, crossed Erlang's legs and hummed an unknown song, tasting the flower tea he had bought at the market for a huge amount of money.

As a result, before he could take a few sips of tea, Xiao Lu pushed the door and walked in.

"How many times have I told you, knock before you come in, knock on the door first!"

For this impolite and rampaged Xiao Lu, Chen Ba was already numb. He was taught to knock on the door countless times, but he didn't knock once.

"I'll knock on the door next time!"

Xiao Lu didn't see the slightest apology on his face, only to see him sit opposite Chen Ba with a smoke, and then said: "Brother Ba, there is a bug in our "Ancestral Tree"......"

"Oh?!"

Hearing this, Chen Ba hurriedly put down Erlang's legs, sat down and said, "What's the situation, tell me quickly." ”

"Here's the thing......"

Xiao Lu talked about his findings, as well as the feedback he received from players, combined with his own replication tests, and made a judgment on the cause of the bug and the problem.

"Multiple ancestral trees formed by the same xyz axis coordinates will have the bug of abnormal growth of the model?"

At the beginning, when he heard this, Chen Ba didn't have any expression, after all, in his opinion, isn't this a mechanism designed in advance!

What anomalous model grows?

This is clearly to prevent Ancestor Tree A from blocking Ancestor Tree B, so no other models are generated at all, and only one Ancestor Tree can appear on each xyz axis.

Worried that Xiao Lu would not understand, Chen Ba also patiently explained to him: "This is not a bug, this is a mechanism unique to the game. ”

Ancestral Tree is a 3D game.

In the game, there are three axes of xyz, in which only one ancestral tree can exist in the same axis position.

It's not just the same location.

Several adjacent tiles, because they are too close to each other, will actually count as the same location, and will not generate a second ancestral tree.

For example......

At (x,1,y,15,z,3), an ancestral tree is generated. A second Ancestral Tree will no longer spawn in a circle centered on the x-axis x1 with a radius of about two coordinate distances.

Therefore, the positions (x,2,y,15,z,3) and (x,-1,y,15,z,3) will also be considered the same position.

Because in this area, the second Ancestral Tree will not be generated, so what if the character dies multiple times in this area?

The answer is that the only ancestral tree will gain size on top of the original one, which will reflect the difference from the previous one.

"I understand the mechanic."

Xiao Lu waved his hand and said, "What I want to say is the special situation that was born on the basis of this mechanism. ”

"This ancestral tree, as long as it dies in the same area all the time, the size model will grow indefinitely?"

"Infinite growth? No, it won't! ”

Chen Ba frowned and said.

Ever since Global Evolution made a fuss, he's now cautious about any game mechanics with the word "infinite", for fear of making something terrible.

Under this mechanism, the ancestral tree will absorb nutrients and grow, and its body size will increase slightly.

But there is a limit to this increase.

When this limit is reached, the ancestral tree bears one more fruit, and this cycle continues until the tree is full of fruit.

"Then I understand what the problem is......

Xiao Lu suddenly realized: "The threshold that restricts the growth of the ancestral tree is to bear fruit, but if this ancestral tree can't bear fruit, then it will be like Mr. Saitama in "One Punch Man", and it will become infinitely growing." ”

Not fruitful?

Well? How could this be?

The mechanic of the game is that when a character dies, he leaves a special legacy for future generations to pass by.

The so-called inheritance is the fruit hanging on the ancestral tree, how can it be possible without fruit? Unless it's ......

Chen Ba thought of something.

Seeing that his expression was a little hesitant, Xiao Lu nodded and said, "Don't doubt it, it's just what you think, the first trap of the novice level!" ”

"......"

Chen Ba's forehead was full of black lines, and he felt that his IQ had been insulted.

Novice level, isn't that a free experience and benefits? Sprinkle a handful of rice on the keyboard, and the chicken can pass, right?

There are still people who have died, and they have died more than once, and the position of the death is impartial, which is exactly where the first trap appears, is this a person?

"I think it's outrageous, too, but it's because it's outrageous that I can find this bug, isn't it?"

Xiao Lu explained: "The current situation is that his ancestral tree does not bear fruit, but it is growing in size. ”

"And after dying more than a thousand times, he encountered a new bug and stuck his perspective."

The situation encountered by Yao Mao is not just a bug, but the superposition of multiple bugs.

The first bug is that the ancestral tree model grows abnormally and there is no upper limit. The second bug is that after his death, the resurrection perspective is locked on the ancestral tree.

"Perspective locked on the Ancestral Tree?"

When Chen Ba heard this strange description, he couldn't help but complain: "Isn't the game directly stuck?" ”

"The blame is here, the game didn't freeze directly, but ran normally. Because the player's perspective is locked behind the ancestral tree, the protagonist Tree Treasure is still controlled by someone and is still breaking through the level......"

After the reproduction operation, Xiao Lu determined that Yao Mao did not deceive people, and this situation really existed.

That is, the player is trapped in the ancestral tree, but the character can still move freely, and even go on adventures as usual.

"It's really weird......"

When Chen Ba heard this phenomenon, his first reaction was not panic, but shock.

Because "Ancestral Tree" does not have a so-called computer hosting mechanism, that is, the game characters can only be controlled by the player.

Now that the player is stuck in a bug and locked in the small black house of the ancestral tree, how can the character still move? This doesn't make sense!

Is it haunted?

With a strong curiosity, Chen Ba took Xiao Lu to the computer, and once again reproduced the scene where the player was trapped in the ancestral tree, but the character still acted as before.

"It's not a ...... controlled by man"

Xiao Lu couldn't understand the underlying code of the game, but Chen Ba did.

The problem lies in this ancestral tree that has grown abnormally in size but does not bear fruit!

The code of the ancestral tree was written by Tie Hanhan system, and it itself has a bit of magical properties. Under normal circumstances, there is no such thing as a moth.

However, when the player dies more than a thousand times in the same location, and the ancestral tree is raised to a size that cannot fit on a single screen, the tree is clearly mutated.

As a result of this mutation, the Ancestral Tree will rob the player of control of the character.

Once the player controls the character dies and is resurrected again, the Ancestral Tree has a very high probability of snatching control and then forcibly logging in to fight on its behalf.

The same thing.

When the character controlled by the ancestral tree dies and is about to be resurrected, the perspective is locked in the ancestral tree, as if the imprisoned player can also take back control of the character.

"One time and one time, one person plays once!"

Chen Ba explained: "You can understand that this ancestral tree thinks that it is very vegetable, and it wants to go out in person, and then you are locked up in a small black house. ”

"Blanch!"

Xiao Lu has never been so speechless in his life, what is it that the ancestor tree dislikes his dishes, so he decided to fight on his behalf?

Just man and machine still look down on players?

……

Because of the suddenness of the incident, many players did not realize the seriousness of the problem, only to see that Tianba Studio suddenly issued an announcement.

In the announcement, he thanked Yao Mao for his feedback, and gave the reason and explanation for the problem.

"To sum up, when the ancestral tree is cultivated to a certain level, the man-machine hosting mode can be unlocked, which is a hidden mechanism that we specially designed to free the player's hands and reduce the burden on the player......"

The last paragraph of the announcement, everyone didn't pay much attention, everyone only cared about the first two paragraphs of the announcement.

What's that?

Dying more than 1,000 times near the same ancestral tree unlocks the advanced HMC and auto-break mode?

Ok, good, good!

Ancestral apparitions, huh?

If you can't pass the level, when your mentality explodes, you can directly ask your ancestors to go to the number, and you can pass the level by lying down with your hands free, which is so cool!

Players have said that this hosting mechanism is good, and Brother Ba is simply too considerate of the players.

And the only player who knew the inside story, that is, Yao Mao, who was the first to report the problem to Tianba Studio, couldn't laugh at all at this time.

Scald!

What kind of human-machine hosting is this?

His hands are indeed free, but the problem is, this is not a trusteeship initiated by him! It's that this ancestral tree insists on grabbing control, and people are still addicted to vegetables, so they snatched it from him.

In other words, he didn't want to find any human-machine hosting at all, and he didn't want to free his hands.

But this ancestral tree is too domineering, and he has to grab control, so it has become a situation where he and the ancestral tree play alone, and whoever loses will enter the small black house.

"Is there a mistake?"

"The game I bought, the game I paid for, why should I play it alone?"

Yao Mao regretted it very much, he knew that this was so big than the Internet addiction of the ancestral tree, he should not have raised this thing.

Now it's all right.

The game he bought with money, the Internet and electricity bills he paid out, and the computer was also his own, but the game could only be played by one person, and no one wanted to sneak away.

After so many years in the game circle, Yao Mao has encountered this kind of thing for the first time.

I have to say that this is quite a feeling of playing Contra with my classmates when I was a child and grabbing each other's handles, and then making three chapters of the law, one person and one life.

"Sorry, for your feedback, we are collecting information and verifying it, please be patient......"

After calling the customer service number of Tianba Games, and after learning that this problem seemed impossible to solve in a short period of time, Yao Mao also accepted his fate.

Let's play, let's play!

Isn't it just sharing the game with the man-machine, one person, one life! Anyway, the man and the machine play well, and a life dies quickly, so endure it and it will pass.

But what Yao Mao didn't expect was that the progress of man and machine was so fast!

Yesterday I had to pick my feet with food, and all kinds of operations were just laughable, but the next day it was normal, and I played quite decently, and I died later than him.

"Huh?"

After realizing that the broken human machine would make progress, and it was even possible to surpass himself, and clear the game before himself, Yao Mao couldn't hold back.

You can't lose to anyone!

Otherwise, if it gets out, what will everyone think of him? What do friends and relatives think of him? What does Brother Ba think of him?

No, you must clear this game before the man-machine, and you must not let the ancestral tree run away. Otherwise, what face does he have to continue to play the game "Ancestral Tree"?

"Oh no......"

Just when Yao Mao was desperate and stayed up late in order to clear the customs in front of the man-machine, he suddenly realized that something was wrong.

Why so desperate?

If the ancestral tree's human-machine consciousness wants to be cleared, then let it be cleared! Maybe this game is cleared and this farce will stop?

It's not impossible!

In the final analysis, man-machine is just man-machine, if the game is cleared, there is no follow-up level, then is it still necessary to break through?

Thinking of this, Yao Mao suddenly breathed a sigh of relief.

Not only was he relieved, but even he was a little happy to see it happen, and after being taken away from the control of the role, he didn't want to take it back, but waited and watched.

Love, what's the matter!

If the ancestral tree is called on behalf of the number, then let it be called on the number of the fight, Yao Mao wants to see, what is this machine going to do?

With the same idea as him, there are also a group of people from Tianba Studio.

Chen Ba is also testing, the strength of the number on the ancestral tree, can he clear the game? If so, what happens after you clear the game?

If not, then what? Will this man-machine proficiency evolve?

The answer was surprising.

Players don't interfere, they honestly stay in the small black house and let the ancestral tree play, it can really clear the game.

It's just that after the game is cleared, there will be no "achievements" popping up, and there will be no animations exclusive to clearing the game, as if nothing happened.

But that's just an illusion!

Chen Ba, who monitored the changes of the game in real time through the background, found that when the game was cleared by human-machine hosting, all the ancestral trees on the map would disappear, leaving only the one that was huge due to the bug.

And then......

made Chen Ba and Xiao Lu drop their jaws, and everyone present was dumbfounded, and a scene that was enough to shock the entire game industry appeared.

The game "Ancestral Tree", which originally only had preset levels, unexpectedly appeared in a new level after clearing the customs!

"it!"

Chen Ba swore to the sky that this extra level was really not his ghost, and he also asked Xiao Lu, this is not a hidden level designed by Xiao Lu.

What Contra underwater level?

Fart!

If "Ancestral Tree" really has this kind of hidden level, can it be hidden from Chen Ba, the main producer?

It was because he knew that there was no such hidden level in the game that he was shocked, because this level was completely "extra".

What does extra mean?

It means that the game has happened, and even he, the main producer, has begun to derive new levels by himself!

Ok, good, good!

Little tree, you are already a mature game, you can try to deduce the levels by yourself, update the map by yourself, and feed yourself?

Thinking of this, Chen Ba and Xiao Lu looked at each other.

If that's the case, then why do you need them? Do you still need a game operation and maintenance team?

(End of chapter)