Bugs Fly Together!

While the Frost Snow Project's popularity and revenue were taking off, some not-so-good things were also happening.

Players logged into the game, and of course, they weren't going to just finish their card draws, do some licking, and then log off.

Getting a new character always means running around the open world and trying out their weapons.

But with a player base far exceeding what it used to be, all this playing around caused many problems that weren't discovered during internal testing to suddenly pop up all over the place—

Heroic Sniper was creating an "armor break guide," running around the map with each of the remade characters, looking for different kinds of monsters to get beaten up by.

He was testing and taking notes in a small notebook he kept at hand.

At first, everything went smoothly.

Until he switched to He Yin and started testing mechanical beast-type monsters.

He Yin was knocked away by a monster, cried out in pain, and fell to the ground, but quickly flipped over and stood up, her clothes completely undamaged.

"Looks like mechanical types are a no-go." Heroic Sniper shook his head, controlling He Yin to use her ultimate, planning to quickly kill these two small monsters and move on to testing the next type.

He Yin's ultimate was as beautiful as ever, both sexy and cool.

But just as the ultimate animation ended and Heroic Sniper jumped up after receiving the [Wind Riding] buff, another monster charged over! Heroic Sniper, caught off guard, could only watch as the monster slammed into He Yin's waist.

And then—

He Yin flew away.

Not the kind of "flying a dozen meters away and being able to flip over and stand up" kind of flying.

But—

As if she had broken free from the planet's gravity, no longer bound by gravity, she flew straight towards the sky! Heroic Sniper was dumbfounded.

The viewers were also stunned, but soon some quick-witted ones reacted:

"Crow flies the plane!"

"He Yin rocket launch successful! Jiuquan, do you hear? Xia Jing, do you hear? Investigators, do you hear?"

"So He Yin's ultimate can really defy gravity?"

"We have the most realistic physics engine!"

"Wait! This is a bug, right? Good opportunity! Quick, see if He Yin is wearing anything underneath!"

"?" Heroic Sniper was taken aback. "The person's already in the sky, and you're still thinking about panties? Bro, you're a bit of a pervert!"

But soon, he also realized—under normal circumstances, Zhu Meng would definitely not let the characters reveal anything they shouldn't.

But this wasn't a normal situation! This was a bug! Maybe there was hope?

So he changed his tone and said, "But then again... since you guys are asking so sincerely, I'll be merciful and satisfy you."

"But wait a minute, I'll set up a one-minute delay for the stream, or things might get out of hand."

Heroic Sniper quickly set up the stream settings and started frantically dragging the mouse up, down, left, and right, the scroll wheel clicking loudly, and the space bar snapping.

But unfortunately, no matter how he operated, that damned hemline always blocked his view.

The viewers were greatly disappointed.

Heroic Sniper was also greatly disappointed, and could only look at the increasingly distant land to find some amusement.

He knew there were many new players in the stream, so he took the opportunity to introduce them:

"This is Silver City, it looks really small from this perspective."

"This is Void Abyss, a high-level area, the monsters are ridiculously strong, it's best to avoid it when exploring."

"This is Tree Sea, the place with the most plants in Frost Snow Project, the scenery is nice, but playing on a phone is prone to lag and overheating."

"This is..."

"?"

"Wait! What the hell is that? When did an island appear over there??"

Heroic Sniper was dumbfounded, "Did any of you guys notice that?"

Immediately, an old player replied, "Notice my ass! It's so far away, you can't see it from the beach at all. You can see it purely because your perspective is too high."

Heroic Sniper's perspective was indeed high. Looking down, the large map was starting to show a noticeable curve.

--Zhu Meng didn't actually create a planet; this visual effect is purely a camera trick.

Heroic Sniper read the reply from his viewers and pondered.

Patiently waiting for He Yin to fly out of the atmosphere, until the game world had turned into a blue and white glass ball, he stopped admiring the spectacle and force-quit the game, then logged back in.

But this time, he didn't continue with the clothing-destruction guide. Instead, he temporarily adjusted his plan.

"Brothers, the clothing-destruction guide will have to wait. I have a feeling that island might be new content in the future!"

"I'll go scout it out for you guys first!"

He charged up He Yin's ultimate move again, went to the beach to find a monster that could knock his character into the air, and tried to use this flying bug to fly directly over the island for a high-altitude close-up reconnaissance.

But this kind of operation heavily tested skill and luck, and couldn't be done in a short amount of time.

He began to repeatedly get knocked into the air and log back in. --Coincidentally, an ordinary player with the ID Bitter Moon also encountered a bug.

Bitter Moon was playing the game on his phone on a train. He had a five-hour train ride today, and he brought a power bank to pass the time, so he had no pressure playing the game.

Limited by the fact that the train was a public space and there were too many people, he was a little embarrassed to lick the phone screen, and even more dared not be openly and justified to act crazy towards the character.

So, like a thief, he secretly admired it for a while, then controlled his new characters to do the limited-time event.

Most of the workload for the Frost Snow Project remake was on the characters, so the game events were actually designed earlier.

The event story wasn't complicated:

A scientist in Silver City is conducting a dangerous experiment—taming corrupted creatures.

Such a dangerous task, of course, requires our legendary Investigator to take action.

So the player receives a quest item from him—a lasso—to try to tame corrupted creatures in the wild.

Each lasso can only be used once, and the tamed corrupted creature can exist for 15 minutes.

During this time, it will follow the player and help the player fight monsters.

When the time is up, the corrupted creature will wake up, break free from its restraints, and return to the wild.

It was just such a simple, lightweight event.

Xu Meng didn't make any changes except to increase the event rewards.

It was just a coincidence—at the moment Bitter Moon threw the lasso, the speeding train suddenly rushed into a deep mountain tunnel.

The phone signal disconnected.

Bitter Moon was unaware, still focused on the corrupted machine soldier—that is, the corrupted robot—that he had captured in his phone.

But when he successfully captured it and planned to clear out the extra monsters, he found that the monsters were being beaten back, but no damage numbers were popping up at all.

Only then did he look up and realize that the network was disconnected.

A dozen seconds later, the train exited the tunnel.

Sunlight shone into the carriage again, and the network quickly returned to normal.

Bitter Moon looked at his phone again, only to find that a translucent lasso icon symbolizing [capturable] was reappearing on the health bar of the monster he hadn't killed.

"Didn't I already use the lasso?"

Bitter Moon opened his backpack and was dumbfounded to see the lasso still sitting nicely in the first row.

A question mark slowly appeared.

He habitually opened P Station and searched, and found that this lasso was indeed a consumable—

Others would disappear after using it. Correspondingly, an hourglass would appear behind the health bar of the captured monster.

When the hourglass disappears, the monster will run away, and then the player can go to the NPC to ask for a second lasso.

But...

Bitter Moon looked at his game screen.

The lasso was still lying there, intact and not disappeared.

The Corrupted Machine Soldier, who was helping him fight monsters, didn't have an hourglass behind its health bar either.

"Did I encounter a bug?"

Bitter Moon wasn't playing gacha games for the first time. Recalling the signal interruption when he was drilling into the cave just now, he quickly thought of a possibility: the disconnection caused a bug in the game! And soon, he had a bold idea:

"Does this mean that by using this bug, I can infinitely capture monsters, and the captured monsters won't leave?"

Bitter Moon, who was already bored on the train, immediately became interested.

Considering that he only had one mobile phone, which might be less efficient, he turned on the screen recording software again, recorded a short video of successfully triggering the bug, and shared it to the game group nimbly—

"@everyone, look what fun thing I've discovered?!"

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