Virtual Empire Begins with a Game
Chapter 45

Why Are You Wearing Tong Que's Clothes?

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The group where Bitter Moon shared the video was a gaming chat with over three hundred members.

The group wasn't large, but it was quite active.

As soon as his video went out, dozens of players saw it quickly.

Unsurprisingly, they were also stirred with immense interest; some shared the video to other groups, while others immediately began testing it themselves.

Incidents where temporary network disconnections caused game bugs were not uncommon in the ACG Game circle.

Ever since Four-Dimensional Games first began pushing multi-platform integration, subsequent ACG Game companies followed suit wherever they could manage it.

To a certain extent, this led to the proliferation of the issue known as "network disconnection reconnection triggering bugs."

--After all, mobile phones were more prone to accidentally triggering bugs, and as long as one person discovered it, netizens found it very easy to replicate.

The only thing being tested was simply the timing of cutting off the network connection.

Now, that was exactly the case.

This accident spread rapidly...--Spreading at the same time was an even more severe bug--character modeling issues.

The origin of the matter was a player whose ID was Qi Er Ee Ee.

Qi Er Ee Ee usually loved roaming around various chat groups, collecting and forwarding all kinds of lewd images, and gradually acquired a special ability--naked-eye appraisal of character cup sizes.

The accuracy was extremely high.

Yet it was limited exclusively to virtual characters.

Earlier, when Frost Snow Project released character real-machine footage, he had sensitively noticed something was amiss.

Today, after the maintenance ended, he opened Bai Wei's wardrobe page, switching back and forth between the old-version Combat Outfit and the new-version JK outfit Lush Spring Scenery.

Although switching clothes also changed the character's body posture accordingly, Qi Er Ee Ee still determined instantly:

Bai Wei's chest had grown bigger!

After changing into the new outfit, the character was at least three cup sizes larger than before!

"What... buying clothes even comes with a complimentary breast augmentation surgery?" Qi Er Ee Ee kept switching Bai Wei's old and new outfits back and forth, growing more and more astonished the more he compared them.

After switching many times, he discovered that the difference between the two wasn't just size--

When wearing the old clothes, Bai Wei's entire body was integrated as one; no matter what action she performed, her chest and buttocks remained hard as stone.

Yet after changing into the new clothes, the way they jiggled could only be described as colorful, lively, and alluring.

In terms of character facial details, motion richness, and fluidity, the new version also pulled away a massive gap from the old version.

They simply weren't characters of the same tier!

"So... actually, it wasn't just a change of clothes, but an entire swap of the person?"

Qi Er Ee Ee realized belatedly.

He clicked back and forth, watching the spin motion Bai Wei performed when changing into the new outfit, completely mesmerized.

--This action, paired with Bai Wei's rule-breaking figure and a sliver of blue-and-white panties revealed as her short skirt fluttered, was both erotic and brimming with youth.

It possessed truly boundless charm, never growing tiring no matter how many times he looked.

Until Qi Er Ee Ee switched clothes yet again, when the upper-body model of the character suddenly glitched--

Bai Wei changed back to the old outfit, but the front chest of the new outfit remained.

This caused the larger chest from the remake to appear outside the old version's combat suit, which was adapted for a smaller cup size.

It wasn't particularly exposed; it was just that her entire body was wrapped tightly in the combat suit, with only a patch of the JK outfit exposed on her chest, which genuinely looked rather abrupt.

Qi Er Ee Ee stopped his hand in surprise.

"Is this... a texture error?"

He looked at the protruding section of the JK outfit outside the combat suit, turned his eyes, and thought of a good idea.

He first searched online to see what type of monsters could cause Bai Wei's clothes to shatter.

After confirming it was the Corrupted Slime, he operated Bai Wei to find the monsters and take hits, successfully triggering the clothing-break effect from the slime's sprayed mucus.

Then he quickly switched to the wardrobe page.

--The new clothing display here had also turned into a battle-damaged state.

According to the game's mechanics, characters needed to return to a teleportation point or use an item to restore battle-damaged clothes.

Naturally, Qi Er Ee Ee had no intention of restoring them at this moment, and he resumed rapidly toggling between the old and new outfits.

However, the trigger principle for this display error was unclear, and he clicked for nearly half an hour before finally triggering it once more.

Still, looking at Bai Wei, who was wrapped tightly from head to toe yet exposed a pink bra and a large portion of her chest, Qi Er Ee Ee smiled with satisfaction.

Then came--

Taking screenshots, recording videos, and mass-mailing them!

How could such a pleasing bug not be widely publicized to his fellow group members?

The group members shared similar thoughts to his.

Consequently, this bug spread rapidly.

For a time, an untold number of troublemakers began imitating it, wanting to replicate this effect on other characters as well.

And when there were too many people, accidents were bound to happen, and more chain bugs began to emerge successively--

As one of the two most popular characters--He Yin, because the main erotic points after her remake were not her size, she lucked out and escaped disaster.

Yet Tong Que, who was similarly immensely popular and boasted a peerless figure, appearance, and modeling precision, suffered rather severely.

Even due to the display issues caused by the modeling overlap bug, players discovered a heaven-shaking piece of inside information--

Dream Builder actually modeled the character's body completely beneath Tong Que's clothes! On Tong Que's chest, exposed by the erroneous display, two focal points could be faintly seen; although they weren't fully exposed, their shape and color were vaguely visible.

This completely differed from the industry's standard practice!

The industry's standard practice was that character bodies only had base meshes, and in reality, the clothes and the body were grown together.

Yet Tong Que seemingly genuinely possessed a separate body model!

The streamer who first discovered this during a livestream earned themselves a one-month ban on the spot.

Related images circulated wildly.

Meanwhile--Tong Que's banner revenue grew even more turbulent, and an unknown number of players began pulling wildly for the gacha.

More players were stimulated as well and began attempting to replicate this bug.

Not just Tong Que, but all characters whose figures noticeably ballooned after the remake were among those tested.

Then, through ongoing testing, an even deeper bug surfaced--

[Wardrobe Error] Unlike the [Network Disconnection and Reconnection] and [Texture Error] bugs that players had all witnessed to some extent, this bug was quite rare:

When a character changed clothes frequently enough to cause a display error of overlapping outfits, triggering the "clothing-break animation" again carried a tiny probability of causing the character to don another character's battle-damaged outfit once the animation ended.

Yes, someone else's.

A player whose ID was Electronic Edison triggered Huo Huo's clothing-break animation while using Huo Huo's card to display the bug.

Huo Huo's upper body featured a bikini paired with a transparent sun-protective shirt, while her lower body wore denim short shorts, fitting the profile of an energetic young girl.

When the clothing-break animation triggered, everything still looked quite normal--

The entire sun-protective shirt shattered instantly, and the denim short shorts cracked open on both sides to reveal plump and sturdy thighs.

Yet after the animation concluded, what Huo Huo wore on her body was a dazzling gold-chained dress.

Electronic Edison stared in dumbfounded amazement: "Huo Huo... why are you wearing Tong Que's clothes??"

Huo Huo was shorter than Tong Que, and wearing this outfit did not fit her well, with clipping issues inevitably occurring in certain places; upon close inspection, it looked somewhat bizarre.

Yet when Electronic Edison posted the screenshot to Dreamjin, a massive crowd of players still rushed to reply, asking him how he pulled it off.

They wanted to change clothes for their characters, too! As posts discussing game bugs gradually increased in Dreamjin, the employees in Dream Builder's Operations Department immediately noticed these issues.

Yet since they weren't technicians, they could only panic as they collected the bugs and reported them upward.

In the end, all these problems converged in Xu Meng's hands.

Thus, Xu Meng knew that the price for the entire company working high-intensity overtime for a month to produce new content, coupled with a drastically shortened internal testing cycle, was beginning to manifest.

However--

Xu Meng had ideas for handling the previous bugs, but the bug where Huo Huo wore Tong Que's clothes left him staring in sheer disbelief.

He racked his brains and simply couldn't comprehend why such a bug would occur.

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