Chapter 445: Chapter 276: Oh No, I Became the Scapegoat!

Getting hit and losing health is only natural!

This is just like repaying debts; it’s indisputable. As the core mechanism of the game, Chen Ba believes this point is flawless.

Yu Wenjie indeed lost health.

But the problem is, the lost health seems to have disappeared without trace, and he doesn’t know how it got deducted. Anyway, there is a record, yet he still remains in full health...

As a result, it creates a "locked health" illusion, which, after the community video spread, was deemed as evidence of "cheating" by everyone.

Chen Ba can clarify that Yu Wenjie didn’t cheat, but his words alone aren’t enough. He must provide evidence to prove Yu Wenjie didn’t cheat.

"There’s a solution now!"

Observing Ba’s changing expressions, Lu proposed a relatively reasonable solution.

That is to define this incident as a game bug, which would clear Yu Wenjie’s suspicion of cheating, and no one would attack or insult him anymore.

"But..."

Chen Ba said helplessly, "Using your method, Yu Wenjie indeed won’t be attacked, but what about me? What should I do?"

What a masterful move to divert disaster!

After all, someone has to be cursed. So why not shift the conflict, moving the players’ anger from Yu Wenjie to Ba?

"Shut up already!"

"Remember this, in our Tianba Studio, we can admit anything, take any blame, and shoulder any wrongdoing, but we cannot admit that our game has problems."

Chen Ba reiterated the core philosophy of the studio, stating that Lu’s thinking is flawed. How can one conclude it’s a game bug without any evidence?

"If it’s not a bug, what else could it be? Don’t tell me this is your special design?" Lu said exasperatedly.

"Maybe it is..."

Feeling strange, Chen Ba reluctantly said, "Don’t worry about it now. Let me ask you, where did the health that Yu Wenjie was supposed to lose go?"

"How should I know?"

Lu replied, half-laughing, half crying, "I’ve reviewed this game over twenty times. I dare to bet my career that everything in this game is normal!"

Lu extensively studied the game between Yu Wenjie and the victim player, almost losing his hair, and ultimately concluded: there is no issue.

There really isn’t any issue!

The parameters and codes within the game are all normal, without any anomalies or special situations, and the client server has been checked; this match was a normal game.

So... what can be done?

Lu is perplexed, wondering why, as the game developer and operator, even after thorough investigations, they can’t find any issues in a game where both players reported problems.

Could it be supernatural phenomena?

After the eerie happenings with the "Mountain Village Memories" Divination System, Lu is starting to believe in this mysterious science.

This scene not only scares him, but it also makes him think that if no anomalies can be detected, yet the game appears abnormal, what could it be if not a supernatural phenomenon?

Did Ba use a "super administrator" account to help Yu Wenjie cheat?

Come on!

Ba and Yu Wenjie have no connections; they don’t know each other. Why would Ba use a super administrator account to help him cheat and cover it up?

If anything, the probability of Ba using a super administrator account to privately chat with female players for online dating is probably a hundred times higher than this!

In short.

Excluding the only possibility, other than super administrator account intervention, this issue can only be described as "haunted."

"Don’t talk about feudal superstitions; this is clearly a game issue, we just haven’t found the root cause yet."

Chen Ba said dismissively, "Though it’s indeed quite strange — the health is locked, yet the game check reveals no anomalies?" 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝙚𝙬𝓮𝙗𝒏𝙤𝒗𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝒐𝓶

It’s as if there’s an invisible hand forcibly intervening in this game, leaving no traces, or perhaps... it leaves traces, but its actions align with game mechanics, hence no problems are visible.

But another problem arises!

Apart from the super administrator account, Chen Ba genuinely can’t think of any other possibilities to achieve this.

The fact that no traces are left is utterly puzzling.

This is also why Chen Ba refutes Lu and thinks this isn’t a "game bug."

Exactly!

He doesn’t admit this is a game bug, not even privately, mainly because all these manifestations don’t meet the criteria for defining a game bug.

A game bug needs to have anomalies and situations arise; in other words, if it were a game bug, they would definitely detect clues.

No game bug can escape the keen eyes of a game maker once exposed.

Players eagerly await, while Chen Ba and Lu fiddle at their computers for ages, unable to provide a response, nor can they issue an announcement proving Yu Wenjie’s innocence, because of this very root.

Cheating? No!

Game bug? No!

Then what exactly is going on? Why is there a situation where a player gets hit but doesn’t lose health?

"Ba, should we call it quits?"

Lu is a bit hungry, and doesn’t want to continue toying with Ba anymore, mainly because it’s totally futile labor.

If the fiddling could lead to some discovery, even if the issue can’t be immediately resolved after being found, the frustration wouldn’t be so intense.

But after all their efforts, they still don’t know where the issue lies. Isn’t this just futile?

Instead of wasting time, it’d be better to fill their bellies and think carefully whether some key detail was overlooked or find new ways to resolve the issue.