The source code of Legend was not leaked?

It was already getting dark by the time Bian Guanyue returned to the county town.

For her, today's experience felt a little bizarre.

It was the first time she realized there were such dilapidated buses, where the conductor could argue with passengers the entire ride.

It was the first time she realized her hometown had such poor villages, where teachers couldn't even afford to get paid.

And her usually cheerful deskmate also hid an unbearable past.

Those were all parts of another world she had never come into contact with!

Walking into the dark alley, Bian Guanyue hugged her laptop and walked cautiously. The streetlights here were broken and no one fixed them. The short distance of a few dozen meters made her scared every time she came home at night.

Finally, she hurried to the front of the building, sped up the stairs, and hesitated at her doorstep.

She also wanted to get along peacefully with her mother.

But they always ended up arguing, and she was afraid of arguing again when she got home.

Chen Guiliang definitely doesn't have similar troubles, Bian Guanyue thought. He's not afraid of anything, not afraid of difficulties. He's truly brave.

After standing at the door for a while, Bian Guanyue carefully took out her key.

As soon as she pushed the door open a crack, her grandmother came over, overjoyed, and said, "Guanguan, you're finally back!"

Bian Guanyue had called to report she was safe while on the bus returning from the city.

"Where is she?" Bian Guanyue looked around the room.

Her grandfather stood in the living room and said, "Your mom went to stay at a hotel. She's going back to Pengcheng tomorrow. The food is still warm, just waiting for you to come back."

Bian Guanyue let out a long sigh of relief.

The three of them sat around the table eating, and her grandfather and grandmother kept putting food on her plate.

Her grandfather asked, "Is the computer fixed?"

Bian Guanyue said, "They have to ship the replacement screen from Pengcheng, and the boss isn't sure about the time. He'll contact me when the new screen arrives."

"Did you go alone?" her grandmother asked.

"A classmate went with me," Bian Guanyue said, then added, "It was a female classmate."

Her grandfather and grandmother exchanged glances.

They knew her micro-expressions when she was lying very well.

It must have been a male classmate who skipped class all afternoon to accompany their granddaughter to get her computer fixed.

Her grandfather pretended not to know anything: "I used to go to the city often when I was young. Where did you get the computer fixed?"

"Red Star Department Store," Bian Guanyue said.

Her grandfather reminisced: "That was the old city center, the liveliest place in all of Longdu. After your grandmother and I started dating, we specifically took a bus to visit the Red Star Department Store. At the department store, your grandmother bought me a pair of pants, and I wore them for over ten years, patching them up."

Bian Guanyue smiled and said, "You were quite romantic when you were young."

"Romantic my foot," her grandmother started to contradict him, "When your grandfather was young, he was just a bit taller and handsomer. Can being handsome feed you? His salary was even a level lower than mine. I was foolish back then, possessed by a ghost to fall for him."

Her grandfather boasted: "If you didn't like me, plenty of others did. Many female comrades at the factory liked me, and there were seven or eight matchmakers every year. Your grandmother was very flustered back then, she secretly wrote me a love letter and even copied a Soviet poem, insisting she wrote it herself."

"Who wrote you a love letter? I certainly didn't. Are you getting senile and your memory is messed up?" Her grandmother flatly denied it.

Her grandfather argued: "You did write it, and you're still not admitting it. The love letter is in the cabinet, do you want me to find it so we can confront each other?"

The old couple bickered around the dinner table, making Bian Guanyue smile brightly.

The atmosphere gradually became warm.

After dinner, she watched TV with her grandfather and grandmother for a few minutes, then Bian Guanyue went back to her bedroom to do her homework.

In the living room, her grandfather turned down the TV volume so as not to disturb his granddaughter's studying.

"Is Guanguan in love?"

"How could that be? She just transferred here a week ago."

"Something's not right."

"Let's observe slowly. Even if she is dating someone, don't say anything that will scare her."

"I'm not stupid."

"..."

Bian Guanyue took out her practice papers from her backpack and diligently studied her books to do the problems.

"Where did the kite in the sky go? In a blink of an eye, it's gone. Who cut its string? Do you know..."

Her phone rang.

Bian Guanyue answered the call and said, "Hello."

"I am Qin Shi Huang." The voice was serious and low.

What nonsense is this?

Bian Guanyue recognized it was Chen Guiliang and immediately didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

Although she didn't know about the "send money" meme, she still played along: "Didn't Qin Shi Huang die?"

"I ate an immortal elixir and have just awakened after sleeping for over two thousand years. I need startup funds to open the Qin Emperor's tomb. Once I retrieve the treasures inside, I can recruit soldiers and horses to rebuild the Great Qin Empire. At that time, I will make you the Empress of Qin."

"Your Majesty Qin Shi Huang, what is your UnionPay card number?"

"I don't have an ID card, so the bank won't issue me a card."

Hearing this, Bian Guanyue almost burst out laughing. She quickly stifled her laughter and said, "Then how should I give you the money?"

"On Sunday, when you're in evening self-study, put the money in your desk drawer. Remember, be sure not to attract attention."

"If I give you the money, can you issue a receipt?"

"Forging documents is illegal. Woman, please mind your manners!"

"Then what if you take the money and don't acknowledge it?"

"I will give you a token. Holding this token is like I, the Emperor, being present."

"Okay, I'll go withdraw the money tomorrow."

"See you on the weekend!"

After saying this, Chen Guiliang hung up the phone.

Bian Guanyue couldn't help but curl the corners of her mouth, muttering to herself with a smile, "What a simpleton!"

This deskmate was truly outrageous, even talking on the phone was so strange.

Suddenly, she didn't want to do her homework anymore. She lay on her desk in a daze, recalling the crazy bus from today.

Chen Guiliang hung up the phone and sat on the sofa, thinking for a while. "Cousin, lend me some paper and a pen."

"Go get it yourself from the study." Feng Tao was looking after his child.

This apartment was 118 square meters, and the developer was quite honest, with almost no shared area.

There was a large bookshelf in the study, filled with various books related to computers and the internet. There was also a computer that his cousin had built himself.

Pulling out a few sheets of A4 paper, Chen Guiliang planned to write something.

He had no capital and no technology, so he could only provide operational ideas and partner with someone. The first priority was to prevent the other party from crossing the river and demolishing the bridge, taking everything for themselves!

The "Dark Forest Law" could be applied. If they dared to take everything, then no one would get to play.

He also had to bring his cousin into it. If Tao Chenggang took everything for himself, or tampered with the profit distribution, it would be equivalent to offending his cousin, an old friend.

Feng Tao played with his child for a while, then took a shower to get rid of the smell of alcohol, and came to the study to see what Chen Guiliang was doing.

On that A4 paper, it was all about pay-to-win schemes!

"You want to put these into the private server?" Feng Tao asked.

Chen Guiliang said, "Yeah, we can make a fortune with these."

"Impossible," Feng Tao shook his head repeatedly. "If you drastically modify the game without caution, there will definitely be so many bugs that it won't even run."

Chen Guiliang suspected his cousin's technical skills were lacking. "It's just adding some features."

Feng Tao gave an example: "There's a brilliant guy named Le Jian who developed a function to wash red names. When it first went online, it even caused bugs. You're putting in so many features, which is much more difficult than washing red names. It's a huge technical challenge."

Chen Guiliang felt something was off. At this time, for a Legend private server, even adding a red name washing function required a brilliant person to do it?

"With the source code, can't you just modify the game however you want?" Chen Guiliang asked.

Feng Tao was surprised. "You have the Legend source code?"

Chen Guiliang was even more confused. "Didn't the source code for Legend leak last year?"

Feng Tao was speechless. "Who told you the Legend source code leaked? What leaked last year was just the foreign server program. Now, making Legend private servers relies on modifying the login client IP."

Chen Guiliang: "..."

This was purely the media's fault. Chen Guiliang had been deceived for twenty years.

Of course, it was also possible that Shanda deliberately released false information to portray themselves as victims and gain public sympathy, and then use this to compete with the Korean side for control of Legend.

Chen Guiliang asked again, "How do those domestic Legend private servers modify game features?"

Feng Tao explained, "Initially, it was done by locating through reverse engineering and modifying the binary main program file. More than two months ago, a game group called CNE Game Group released a private server modification tool, which made the creation and modification of private servers simpler."

Speaking of this, Feng Tao complained, "It's because of that modification tool that Legend private servers are everywhere now. The competition is fierce, and it's hard to make money, which is why I quit."

"Damn!"

Chen Guiliang couldn't help but curse.

The leak of the Legend source code was something that happened later.

The brilliant folk experts who tinkered with private servers, through repeated reverse engineering, finally had Ling Feng Studio reproduce the source code. Immediately, they were heavily targeted by Shanda's official crackdown. When Ling Feng Studio was forced to disband, they retaliatorily made the Legend source code public.

That was still a long way off.

Currently, changing or adding private server features was technically very difficult. Of course, you could also say it wasn't difficult, but it required time and effort.

This unexpected situation disrupted Chen Guiliang's plan.

Reborn individuals are not omniscient or omnipotent, because much of the publicly available information was wrong from the start.

He wanted to implant the pay-to-win mechanics of browser games into Legend private servers to make a fortune.

But the problem was, he couldn't implant them!

Systems like daily check-ins, rankings, and gacha were difficult to directly insert into private servers.

What to do?

Chen Guiliang had confidently promised to discuss business with Boss Tao. The meeting was set, but what was there to discuss?

He had to change his approach.