In the Internet age, who still makes traditional games?

Mengjin app, "Frost and Snow Project" section.

A new post popped up in the [Dragon Palace Treasure Hunt] sub-forum:

[The boss of Zhumeng privately messaged me in the game, is this a scam?]

The poster vaguely described in the post: he encountered a person with the ID [Xumeng], and also posted the last two sentences Xu Meng sent.

Between the lines, he revealed the desire to be scammed.

This is exactly what the owner of the [Dragon Trainer] account, Jiang Chengji, posted.

In his panicked waiting, enthusiastic netizens quickly replied:

"It's mostly fake. How can the boss of Zhumeng have time to play games? And add you as a friend?"

"If you don't believe it, you can check his digital ID. If it's really the boss of Zhumeng, the digital ID must be very special."

Only then did Jiang Chengji react, cautiously logging into the game again, finding Xumeng in the friend list and checking the digital ID—

[666666666]

Jiang Chengji opened his mouth, but couldn't say a word.

His hanging heart finally died.

—The current player digital IDs in "Frost and Snow Project" don't start with 6 at all!

This must be Xu Meng himself!

When did I add such a big shot?

No, that's not right!

Could it be that I didn't add him as a friend at all, and he directly forced me into the friend list after seeing me selling cheats on the live stream just now?!

What should I do now?

Will I go to jail?

Should I go find a lawyer?

Jiang Chengji was in a state of panic, feeling like disaster was imminent.

Just as he was panicking, his phone suddenly vibrated—the Mengjin app prompted him that he had received an in-app message.

"So fast?"

He prepared himself mentally for a long time before tremblingly opening the in-app message—

—

To the creator of the "Frost and Snow Project" cheat:

Your behavior of creating and selling "Frost and Snow Project" cheats, and using cheats to play the game, has seriously damaged the principle of fair play, harmed the gaming experience of normal game players, and caused immeasurable losses to Zhumeng Company's game operations.

Your behavior has violated our country's laws and should be subject to legal sanctions.

However, Zhumeng Company respects talent and can now offer you another option—

Stop creating cheats, donate the ill-gotten gains, and assist Zhumeng in improving the anti-cheat mechanism.

—Zhumeng extended two hands to him, one a lawsuit, the other an employment contract.

Did he even need to hesitate about which to choose?!

He had already dialed the number when he suddenly stopped.

Because he thought of something—

This call, to some extent, is also a phone interview.

His performance will affect whether he can really join Zhumeng, as well as the company's attitude after joining, the salary and benefits he can get, and so on.

He must treat it with caution!

… …

… …

Jiang Chengji was not the only person noticed by Xu Meng.

But he was the first cheat maker to be locked onto.

Of the ten cheaters in Nanshan's live stream, Jiang Chengji was the only one who made and sold his own cheats. The remaining 9 all bought cheats from others.

And Xu Meng wanted to recruit all of these cheat makers.

There was no other way, he was short of people!

Moreover, to be able to create cheats that can be used normally in [Dragon Palace Treasure Hunt] in such a short period of time, and the visual effects are so good, making more than 100,000 viewers eager to play…

These are all talents!

Relying on the smooth combo of "Want to buy cheats, please recommend" and "I, Xu Meng, ban accounts," he had already successfully dug up the clues of another person and was enthusiastically "buying cheats" from him.

—Of course, if the other party was stubborn and insisted on going his own way, Xu Meng wouldn't mind giving him a set of judicial iron fists.

As for the instigator of everything: Nanshan, he was still explaining over and over again, "I didn't use cheats!"

While explaining, he continued to play matchmaking.

The popularity of the live stream didn't decline at all.

It's just that the title of the live stream changed from [Dragon Palace Treasure Hunt High-End Crushing Game, come in and watch my operations!] to

[A mortal accidentally enters the Immortal Server Survival Diary].

The current situation of this live stream is:

Nanshan knows he's using cheats.

Zhumeng knows he's using cheats.

The audience also knows he's using cheats.

But Nanshan just refuses to admit it.

The audience wanted to see more battles between immortals, and they didn't want to hammer him to death for the time being.

So this became an open secret.

And the key to all of this is—the program effect of this game's Immortal Server is too strong!

The ultimate moves in the normal server are all burst skills, requiring energy accumulation to enjoy for a few seconds or a dozen seconds.

The battle mode is still mainly shooting, supplemented by skills.

But in the cheat server, shooting can hardly be said to be the main means of attack.

Various ultimate moves fly around, the screen is full of fancy special effects, and some are even light pollution.

The imagination of various cheat makers is also very different—

For example, the first time Nanshan saw Temoer, the cheat effect was no CD for ultimate moves, and he could frantically summon mechs. More than a dozen mechs poured out onto the battlefield at the same time!

If the game hadn't started to lag, who knows how many mechs this guy could have summoned.

In the second game, he saw a mech with a replaced model—

That was a mech with three heads, six arms, and twelve machine guns!

Of course, the most exaggerated was the third game.

The cheat effect of Temoer, whom Nanshan saw in this game, directly turned into a giant mech!

A mech as tall as a three-story building, rumbling into the battlefield. You could still see the whole body from a distance, but the screen couldn't cover it up close.

When the mech cannons fired, it was really like artillery washing the ground, overwhelming!

Two old brothers quit the game on the spot.

In the end, the game barely continued because that Temoer himself crashed the game.

—This is not a coincidence either.

The [Dragon Palace Treasure Hunt] gameplay was a new gameplay developed outside the original framework of "Frost and Snow Project", and the construction period was also severely compressed, so the code base was relatively weak.

If they didn't move too much, just opening perspective and locking heads wouldn't be a big problem.

But many cheat makers couldn't control their desire to mess around, and they changed everything regardless.

It was cool to change, but the price was that the game would become very unstable.

—A normal server would lag and drop frames even if a bunch of characters released ultimate moves at the same time, let alone them constantly releasing ultimate moves like this.

They even messed with the code and changed the effects of the ultimate moves.

Game crashes were very common.

Of course, in order to play the game normally, they would also make some trade-offs and try to balance "effect" and "stability."

The final result was like this—

A hundred flowers bloom!

Gorgeous and unusual, full of spectacle, and explosive program effects!

Nanshan vaguely felt in his heart: his crisis seemed to be able to be overcome!

Because using cheats to bully ordinary players is a bad behavior of cheating and breaking the balance.

But if everyone uses cheats, it doesn't matter.

Everyone is a bad person, the situation is rebalanced, and the game becomes fair again, but it no longer compares operations and skills, but financial resources and technology!

So his behavior didn't seem so heinous.

Even, the players were so hyped up that they wanted to play themselves!

Mengjin's player feedback channels once again received a flood of player opinions:

"Immortal Server, we want to play too!"

"But we don't want to spend money to buy cheats, so… hurry up and update the official cheats!"