Losing Money to Be a Tycoon

Friday, 11 March.

Qiao Liang, with two large black circles, is still running the drama line of Game Maker.

There's only one expression on his face, he's just unhappy!

It's been a whole week since BEQUIET was officially launched.

So far, this game still has zero sales.

It's not because the game is so crappy that nobody plays it. In fact, players don't even know what it looks like right now.

No one has solved the puzzle yet and got the so-called "invitation"!

A number of people have abandoned the scolding, and it is clear that this arbitrary behavior of the game development group can seriously stimulate the rebellion of players and discourage many players.

If you have a big temper, spray a few words directly on the forum, "There's something wrong with the brains of the production group”, and then stop paying attention to the game;

If you have a better temper, go to the forum to brush it every day after giving up, see where the online boss's puzzle solving progress has reached, and think about copying the answer yourself after the boss has successfully solved the puzzle;

And there are a handful of real hardcore players, like Joe Lao Wei, who are still searching for solutions to the next puzzle.

In the meantime, they were stunned and tried many ways.

The two input boxes were entered with various content, but the page remained unresponsive.

So you think the next message should be hidden in other games.

"Turning Back to Shore" as Tenda's classic game was naturally run countless times, but ran around and didn't find any useful clues.

Even some of the internet bosses heard that Tenda seemed to be really working on a haunted house project called "Palpitation Hostel” and ran straight over to visit.

As a result, a person with the surname Chen over there was thrown out very helplessly and told him that none of the projects on this side had yet been completed and could not have been part of the puzzle solving.

After running through all the rest of the games and gaining nothing, Jolian turned his attention again to Lonely Desert Road and Game Maker.

Joliang suddenly felt that it was not impossible to hide more clues in these two games based on his knowledge of General Pei!

Who says a game can only hide one clue?

If the players discover a clue in a game, so they don't go into the game anymore, they create a "dark under the light” effect?

Moreover, judging from the fact that some of Bae's two passwords are the same solution, because time is tight, because Bae doesn't want to be a difficult player, this puzzle solving event is not so difficult.

Well, it is likely that Bae will let programmers change only two games and only the simplest part, in order to save time!

So Jolian re-entered the Lonely Desert Road.

This time he didn't find any new clues, but noticed a detail: it would have taken three hours to get all the clues, and now time is drastically reduced!

Jobeam's first reaction was egg pain.

Is this the fucking treatment of the pioneers? I worked so hard to drive for three hours, that the guy could get the same clue in less than an hour?

Heartachedly embrace the round self.

But when he thought about it, he realized a very critical issue.

The time taken to find the clue was shortened, indicating that after he found the clue, Bae's master planner made changes to the game.

Why is that?

This clue has been solved, there is no need for anyone else to drive to the Lonely Desert Road to look again, why should P&G let programmers modify this game?

“Do you mean...”

“Does Pei always imply that he must find these clues himself in order to count? ”

Qiao Liang instantly realized what was happening and hurried to open "Game Maker".

He had a "blood without home” ending, but that was shortly after the game was released, last April.

Strictly speaking, Joe Leung did not find the clue himself, although he had done so!

For "Game Maker" options and endings, Qiao Liang is already well known for light cars. In the case of fast running, no need to consider, he has reached the previous option of “Bloodless" endings in less than 10 minutes.

Later, we found a string of clues consisting of 012, which has now been deciphered into the five words "palpitation hostel”.

“And then what? ”

Nothing unexpected seems to have happened.

Qiao Liang controlled the character of the game, Yin and Yang wrongly reached the last level of the "blood without return” ending, searching aimlessly.

Suddenly, he noticed a story on the wall.

In its original ending, the story criticized the failed producer and was titled "Never Know This Thing To Bow”.

This story is already there, and it criticizes the failing producers (or players) for their low eyed mastery, pointing to the mountains when they play other people's games, and jumping the streets instantly when they're really good at it.

The content of the headline hasn't changed, but Joe Leung noted sharply that the font of this headline is not the same as that of all other newspaper headings, obviously it has been changed!

It's just that most players close the game directly after seeing the previous clue, and even if they happen to be here, they can't see it without searching carefully.

Qiao Liang hastily exited the game and entered this sentence in the input box opened on the TPDb website.

Sure, still no response.

After a moment of silence, Joe Leung enters his own Tenda account and password in two input boxes, then presses the Enter key.

This time, the page changed!

Joe Leung instantly realized that he was right!

Turns out the two boxes are simple to enter, is your own Tenda account and password, nothing else at all!

But the premise is that your Tenda Game account must really finish the first clue in the Lonely Desert Road and see the second clue in the Game Maker ending in Blood Without Home!

And this must be done after the launch of BEQUIET.

President Pei also deliberately gave a small hint at the end of the "Bloodless" ending, changing the font of the title "Never Know This Matter to Bow”, is to imply that the key to solving the puzzle is to find these two clues for yourself.

And the reason why people haven't guessed correctly for so many days is because people mistakenly think that someone else has found a clue that they don't have to look at anymore, so nobody meets both conditions at the same time.

After you entered your account password, there was no response.

And this creates a vicious circle where people think that the two input boxes are definitely not password filled. Over time, no one will ever try again!

Qiao Liang couldn't help but be happy for a while.

Fortunately, he ran the Lonely Desert Road again, discovered the game changes and deduced General Pei's intentions from it!

Otherwise, he won't run the “Bloody Homeless” ending of Game Maker again, nor will he try to enter his account password on the website.

President Bae really just changed these two simpler games and the TPDb website and put so many players in the palm of his hand!

But... it was still broken by his acquaintance Joe!

Joe Leung couldn't help but get up.

By then, the input box on the black web page had disappeared, a tragic white invitation had appeared, and a line of blood had begun to appear on it, seemingly dropping a little bit.

“Congratulations, the first lucky one to get the invitation. ”

“You have proven that your intelligent brain and insistence on not giving up can feed the hostel. ”

“Now, if you're smart and delicious and ready to dedicate yourself to the Palpitation Hostel, do as I say:”

“First, go find a camera anywhere. ”

“Then, log in to the game with your account and password and enter the code where it is printed. ”

“We have an interesting little game for you…”

Below this letter is a series of random English and digital assemblies of code.

Qiao Liang already had a camera, but didn't use it very often. Hurry to wipe the camera, clamp it on the computer screen and aim at his face.

Then he opens the BEQUIET game and clicks on the bloody handprint.

Originally, the blood print didn't respond at all, but now an input box appears, and Jobeam immediately enters the code.

He didn't think about sharing it with other players right now because he was going to be BEQUIET's first player.

The computer screen is dark and seems to have entered a small program.

There is a mirror in the full-screen view with Jobeam's own face in the mirror.

This program in the game seems to show the camera footage in this mirror, and it feels a little like looking in the mirror through the “window” of the monitor.

It's just that the mirror is a little dusty and a little scary.

This is due, on the one hand, to the fact that the camera on the Jobeam is not very clear, and, on the other hand, to the fact that the program appears to have filtered the image when it is displayed.

There is a line of blood next to the mirror: “Look at the blood in the mirror. ”

There is also an imaginary frame in the mirror that outlines the outline of a face and seems to be pointing Jobeam to correct the camera and put his face in it.

Qiao Liang's camera was mounted on top of the computer screen, so he adjusted the angle slightly and pulled himself a little further away from the screen, and the imaginary frame on the screen disappeared.

At this point, the blood in the mirror began to spread continuously over the mirror, and Jobeam's eyes stared at the blood, walking past most of the mirror and finally stopped.

And then the blood in the mirror disappeared, and that line of blood changed: “Look at yourself in the mirror, no matter what. ”

“Do you mean to keep an eye on it? ”

Jobeam pointed his gaze at his face in the mirror and found that the position he was looking at seemed to have added a faint highlighting effect, constantly shifting position as his gaze moved.

“Eye tracking? ”

Joe Leung was a little surprised and a little surprised.

Eye tracking is not a very sophisticated technique, it has been around for the past two years, and by screening your eye muscles and pupils with a camera, you can roughly determine where you are looking at the screen.

Now there's a lot of software on the web that can track the eye.

Of course, this technology is not as good as imagined. The first thing is to make sure that the human face is facing the camera, and also to collect data points. This is obviously what Jobeam was doing just now, staring at the movement of blood.

The whole process was cumbersome, and Pei always went through simple packaging, making the matter seem a little weird and more subjective.

Secondly, the accuracy of eye tracking is very low and can only approximate a large range of eye views, which cannot be particularly precise.

However, it seems sufficient to carry out this test.

Qiao Liang began to concentrate on staring at his face in the mirror.

After a few seconds, however, he suddenly felt something was wrong.

The lower right corner of the mirror appears to have a black corner with dark red blood on it!