March 11th, Friday …
Qiao Liang had two huge dark circles under his eyes, but he was still running through the plot of Game Designer.
There was only one expression on his face: indignation!
From BE!
Until now, the sales volume of this game was still zero.
Until now, the sales of the game were still zero.
It wasn't because the game was too trashy that no one wanted to play it. In fact, the players didn't even know what the game looked like.
Many people had already given up, cursing and swearing. Obviously, the game development team's willful behavior would seriously trigger the gamers' rebellious mentality and dissuade many players.
Many people had already given up, cursing and swearing. Obviously, the game development team's willful behavior would seriously stimulate the gamers' rebellious mentality and dissuade many players from playing.
The hot-tempered ones directly scolded 'the game development team is sick in the head' on the forum and then stopped paying attention to the game.
The more good-tempered ones would browse the forum every day after giving up to see the progress of the big bosses online in solving the puzzle. They would wait for the big bosses to solve the puzzle and then copy the answers themselves.
However, there was a small group of hardcore gamers like Teacher Qiao who were still searching for the next step of the puzzle without sleeping or resting.
During this period, they had tried many methods.
All sorts of content had been entered into the two input boxes, but the page still did not respond.
Thus, everyone thought that the next piece of information should be hidden in other games.
As Tengda's classic game, Repent and be Saved had naturally been played countless times. However, no useful clues had been found.
Some of the big bosses online had even heard that Tengda seemed to be really working on a haunted house project called 'Thriller Hostel'. They had even gone there to investigate.
In the end, a person-in-charge with the surname Chen had chased them out helplessly. Qiao Liang had also been told that the project had not been completed yet and could not be part of the puzzle.
After running through all the remaining games and finding nothing, Qiao Liang once again turned his attention to The Lonely Desert Road and Game Designer.
Qiao Liang suddenly felt that, based on his understanding of Boss Pei, it was not impossible for him to hide more clues in these two games!
Who said that a game could only hide one clue?
If players discovered a clue in a game and decided not to enter the game, wouldn't that create a "dark under the light" effect?
Moreover, from the fact that Boss Pei's two passwords had the same solution, the puzzle-solving activity this time was not that difficult, be it because time was tight or because Boss Pei did not want to deliberately make things difficult for the players.
In that case, Boss Pei would probably ask the programmers to modify only two games out of consideration of saving time. What's more, they would only modify the simplest parts!
Thus, Qiao Liang entered The Lonely Desert Road once again.
This time, he did not find any new clues, but he noticed a detail. Originally, it would have taken him three hours to collect all the clues, but now, the time was greatly reduced!
Qiao Liang's first reaction was a pain in the ass.
Was this the treatment of a Scout? I drove so hard for three hours, but the person behind me only needed to drive for less than an hour to get the same clue?
Her heart ached as she hugged her round self.
But when he thought about it, he realized a very important problem.
The time taken to find the clue was shortened. That meant that after he found the clue, Boss Pei had arranged for the programmer to make changes to the game.
Why?
The clue had already been solved. There was no need for others to drive in The Lonely Desert Road again. Why did Boss Pei still ask the programmer to make changes to the game?
"Could it be …
"Is Boss Pei hinting that I have to find the clue myself for it to count?"
Qiao Liang suddenly realized something. He quickly opened Game Designer.
He had once obtained a 'losing everything' ending, but that was not long after the game had been released. That was in April last year.
Strictly speaking, although Qiao Liang had obtained this ending, he had not personally found the clue!
Qiao Liang was already very familiar with the various choices and endings in Game Designer. He ran quickly and did not need to think. In less than ten minutes, he had already reached the first choice of the 'losing everything' ending.
Then, he found the string of clues formed by 012. This string had now been deciphered into the words' Search Thriller Hostel '.
"And then?"
It seemed that nothing unexpected had happened.
Qiao Liang controlled the game character and accidentally arrived at the last stage of the 'losing everything' ending. He searched aimlessly.
Suddenly, he noticed a report on the wall.
In the original ending, this report was criticizing the failed producer. The title of the report was' If you know something, do it yourself '.
This report had originally been there. It was criticizing these failed producers (or players) for having high standards but low skills. They gave pointers while playing other people's games, but they failed instantly when they actually started.
The content of the title had not changed. However, Qiao Liang acutely noticed that the font of this title was different from all the other newspaper titles. Obviously, it had been changed!
However, most players would close the game after seeing the previous clue. Even if they accidentally came here, they would not be able to see this sentence if they did not search carefully.
Qiao Liang quickly exited the game and entered this sentence into the input box on TPDb's website.
As expected, there was still no response.
After a moment of silence, Qiao Liang entered his Tengda account and password into the two input boxes. Then, he pressed the enter key.
This time, the page actually changed!
Qiao Liang immediately realized that he had guessed correctly!
It turned out that the contents of these two boxes were very simple. It was just his Tengda account and password. It was nothing else!
However, the prerequisite was that your Tengda Games account had to complete the first clue in The Lonely Desert Road and reach the 'losing everything' ending in Game Designer to see the second clue!
And it has to be in the BE!
This was achieved after the release of QUIET.
Boss Pei even specially gave a small hint at the end of the 'losing everything' ending. He changed the font of the title 'you have to do it even if you know it'. That was to hint to players that the key to solving the puzzle was to find these two clues themselves.
The reason why no one had guessed correctly after so many days was because everyone mistakenly thought that they didn't have to look for clues once others found them. Therefore, no one fulfilled both conditions at the same time.
After everyone entered their account passwords, there was no response at all.
This created a vicious cycle. Everyone thought that these two input boxes were definitely not for the account password. Over time, no one would try again!
Qiao Liang could not help but feel lucky.
Fortunately, he ran through The Lonely Desert Road again and discovered the changes to the game. From there, he deduced Boss Pei's intentions!
Otherwise, he would not have run the 'losing everything' ending in Game Designer. Neither would he have tried to enter his account password on the website again.
Boss Pei really only changed these two simpler games and the TPDb website, and he had so many players in the palm of his hand!
However … it was still cracked by his confidant, Teacher Qiao!
Qiao Liang could not help but feel smug.
At that moment, the input boxes on the black webpage had disappeared. A ghastly white invitation letter appeared. Lines of blood-red words appeared on it, and they seemed to be dripping down bit by bit.
"Congratulations, you're the first lucky person to receive an invitation."
"You have proven that your smart brain and determination to not give up can become food for the hostel.
"If you, the smart and delicious you, are ready to dedicate yourself to Thriller Hostel, then do as I say:
"First, find a random camera.
"Then, use your account and password to log into the game. Enter this string of code at the position of the bloody handprint.
"We have prepared an interesting little game for you …"
At the bottom of the letter was a string of random English words and numbers.
Qiao Liang already had a camera, but he did not use it often. He quickly wiped the camera, clipped it to the computer screen, and aimed it at his face.
Then, he opened the Be Quiet game.
He clicked on the bloody handprint.
The bloody handprint did not respond at first, but now, an input box appeared. Qiao Liang immediately entered the string of code.
He didn't think about sharing this with other players right now, because he wanted to make Be Me!
He wanted to be the first player in Be Quiet.
The computer screen turned black. It seemed to have entered a small program.
There was a mirror on the full-screen display, and Qiao Liang's face appeared in the mirror.
The program in the game seemed to be displaying the image captured by the camera in the mirror. It felt a little like looking into the mirror through the monitor's' window '.
However, the mirror was a little gray and scary.
On one hand, it was because the clarity of Qiao Liang's camera was not very high. On the other hand, the program seemed to have added filters when it displayed the image.
There was a line of words in blood beside the mirror: "Stare at the bloodstain in the mirror."
There was also a virtual frame in the mirror, outlining the outline of a face. It seemed to be guiding Qiao Liang to position the camera and put his face in.
Qiao Liang's camera was installed above the computer screen. Thus, he adjusted the angle slightly and moved a little further away from the screen. The virtual frame on the screen disappeared.
At that moment, the bloodstain in the mirror began to spread continuously. Qiao Liang's eyes stared at the bloodstain and kept moving. He walked through most of the mirror and finally stopped.
After that, the bloodstain in the mirror disappeared. The line of words also changed. "Look at yourself in the mirror. Do not look away no matter what."
"Does it mean that I have to keep staring?"
Qiao Liang looked at his own face in the mirror and found that there seemed to be a faint highlight effect in the position he was looking at. The position kept changing as his eyes moved.
"Eye-tracking?"
Qiao Liang was a little surprised and pleasantly surprised.
Eye-tracking was not a very high-end technology. It had appeared two years ago. It could roughly determine the position of the screen one was looking at by using the camera to distinguish the eye muscles and the state of the pupils.
There were many software on the internet that could achieve the effect of eye-tracking.
Of course, this technology was not as perfect as imagined. First, he had to ensure that his face was facing the camera. He also had to collect data points. Qiao Liang was obviously doing this when he stared at the movement of the bloodstain.
The entire process was more complicated. Boss Pei's simple packaging made this matter seem strange and more immersive.
Secondly, the accuracy of eye-tracking was very low. It could only roughly determine a large area where the eye was looking at. It could not be very accurate.
However, it seemed to be enough for this test.
Qiao Liang began to focus on his face in the mirror.
However, after a few seconds, he suddenly felt that something was wrong.
There seemed to be a corner of a black shirt in the lower right corner of the mirror. There were dark red bloodstains on it!
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