“I'm not cheating!!”
Nan Shan reflexively blurted out a sentence upon seeing Xu Meng.
“Oh.” Xu Meng remained noncommittal. “It's fine, you play your game, I'll just watch.”
After saying that, Xu Meng stopped wasting words, quietly sitting there, waiting for Nan Shan to go on stage for the competition.
— In a very short period of time, the backstage collected a large amount of reports about cheating.
Xiao Meng didn't make a judgment, but instead told him the news.
Because from the backstage data, the game data of the match Nan Shan just played didn't report any abnormalities.
— From the backstage view, everything was very normal, so normal that neither Xiao Meng nor Xu Meng paid attention to this match.
Xiao Meng naturally couldn't ban the account under such circumstances.
But the game data not reporting any abnormalities doesn't mean Nan Shan wasn't cheating.
It only means that the methods he used weren't recognized by the Evergrowth Metropolis's anti-cheat system.
This is quite interesting.
As far as Xu Meng knew, the cheat Nan Shan used in 【Dragon Palace Treasure Hunt】 was bought, and he himself didn't have the ability to create cheats.
It couldn't be that he suddenly became a programming genius after not seeing him for a few months, right?
Or is there another talent?
Xu Meng's Pokémon spirit was eager to move.
In order to ensure that he could catch the problem, he had Xiao Meng come along to watch at close range.
At this time, Xiao Meng was sitting on his left hand side, staring straight at Nan Shan, with pink code constantly jumping in her pupils.
If anyone approached her at this time, the game would drop frames!
A bunch of people ran over wanting to talk to Xu Meng, but Xu Meng stopped them all, telling everyone to watch the competition carefully.
Nan Shan's pressure increased sharply.
But he could only bite the bullet and continue matching opponents.
The matching only took three seconds.
With a bang, the old brother's health bar immediately dropped a notch.
Then the fist retracted one meter and smashed over again!
The old brother nimbly side-stepped to dodge.
“What the hell?!”
As soon as the words left his mouth, the next punch hit him in the kidney, causing him to gasp in cold air.
After that, it was a replay of the previous duel—
Nan Shan stood five or six meters away, only using his right arm to frantically punch, his right fist smashing towards the opponent's head and face.
The opponent was exhausted from running around, dodging with difficulty.
When he accepted reality and wanted to close the distance, Nan Shan started running and hitting again, which made him very angry.
Below the stage, the new audience was in an uproar, while the old audience all looked at Xu Meng.
Xiao Meng also looked at Xu Meng in confusion: “Master, there's no external data interference.”
She could tell that Nan Shan's character was very wrong.
But on the data level, there were no abnormalities.
After Xu Meng carefully observed Nan Shan's movements, a guess had already sprouted in his heart—
Under normal circumstances, the action of punching would definitely be accompanied by the body leaning forward and the shoulders rising.
If you have practiced, you will also add the coordination of the waist and hips.
But Nan Shan is different.
When he was rapidly “punching”, his body didn't lean forward obviously, and his shoulders didn't rise synchronously.
Instead, his body was upright, his center of gravity was in the middle, and his shoulders only swayed within a small range.
It didn't look like he was standing in place and punching frantically, but rather like—
Holding an invisible long spear in both hands, constantly stabbing forward!
He rubbed Xiao Meng's pink head and comforted her: “It's not Xiao Meng's problem, this guy might be using hardware to cheat.”
“Hardware cheating?” Xiao Meng was confused.
The audience surrounding Xu Meng was also very confused.
But Xu Meng didn't explain immediately, because the match had already ended at an extremely fast speed.
After being suffocated to death, the opponent complained to Xu Meng on the spot:
“Boss Xu! He's cheating! This is unfair!”
“I demand a rematch!”
“No, no rematch is needed, ban this cheater!”
Nan Shan once again offered his famous line: “This is a game mechanic! Use it if you're not convinced!”
Xu Meng signaled the old brother to calm down, and then looked at Nan Shan and asked:
“Are you using a clothes prop? Or did you find a bamboo pole?”
“Ah?” Nan Shan's smug expression froze on his face, “Uh, neither.”
“Neither?” Xu Meng was a little surprised, “Aren't you using hardware to cheat?”
The so-called hardware cheating is to use external objects to assist the game outside the game's operating system.
This cheating method doesn't interfere with the game's own data, and theoretically won't be recognized by the anti-cheat system.
But this cheating method is also divided into severity.
Some lighter ones are mostly harmless.
For example, pressing a pen on the 【W】 key on the keyboard to keep the game character moving forward to prevent being kicked offline by the server; or sticking a crosshair on the monitor to assist aiming; or playing certain card games that require calculating damage, and putting a calculator on the side of the keyboard for easy calculation…
But for severe ones, the problems are mostly big.
For example, a keyboard with its own “emergency stop” function, a circuit board device that can assist aiming without moving the mouse, an external clicker that can shoot 50 shots per second…
Xu Meng felt that Nan Shan was using a lighter hardware cheat—
Wearing a full set of somatosensory synchronization clothing, fixing the tactile glove on his right hand to a long pole.
After the game starts, just stab the pole out suddenly!
The system recognizes the movement and displacement of the tactile glove, and immediately gives feedback in the virtual world, allowing the character's right hand to move over as well.
But at the same time, the body wearing the somatosensory synchronization clothing didn't move.
This conflict resulted in the character's arm being stretched to simultaneously satisfy these two conflicting situations.
But Nanshan said it wasn't…
If he wasn't lying, then the problem might be a bit serious—this isn't a game-level issue like his character being invincible and not losing health when hit, or damage being doubled.
Rather, it's a controllable, directional change in the character model while wearing the haptic feedback suit.
—If this is done through software, it might mean that the algorithm of the haptic feedback suit has been exploited!
Xu Meng's expression turned serious for the first time.
“I suggest you be honest.”
“If you don’t want to say it in public, we can find another place.”
“But if things develop in a bad direction, you might be spending this year sewing in prison.”
“？！”
Xu Meng's expression and tone were too serious.
Nanshan wasn't just nervous anymore, but terrified.
Even the surrounding players felt the atmosphere become heavy, and they all quieted down.
Nanshan quickly confessed: “I… I just bought a telescopic pole online!”
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“I'll turn on the camera and show you right now!”
Nanshan quickly turned on the camera in his live stream, demonstrating his operation to Xu Meng—
He was indeed using a telescopic stainless steel pole connected to the haptic glove.
When holding the glove at the end of the pole, the character model was normal.
When the pole was thrust out, the character model's arm instantly stretched!
The force of the character's punch was determined by the movement speed of the haptic glove, resulting in every punch being a heavy blow with maximum damage!
This operation stunned countless people in the live stream who had been questioning him:
“You can do that?! I misunderstood you!”
“Genius idea! I'm going to try it with a clothes drying pole now!”
“An inch longer, an inch stronger! 180 inches longer, 180 times stronger! Invincible!”
“What is this called? A physical cheat!”
“I'm going to tell Longcheng Flying General! I'm going to rush to the 100th floor today!”
“Tell him what? With this thing, I'll rush to the 100th floor myself!”
“Boss Xu, don't be in a hurry to fix it! Let me enjoy it for a few days first!”
…
Xu Meng had already breathed a sigh of relief when he heard Nanshan mention the metal telescopic pole.
Now that he saw the demonstration, he was completely relieved.
—In this situation, things were much simpler.
He stood up and said to everyone: “This loophole is a mistake by the Zh Meng development team, so the discoverer of the problem will not be punished.”
“Nanshan will not be punished for this.”
“Of course, he didn't submit the problem, but used it himself, so don't expect a reward.”
“I also don't recommend that everyone learn this approach, after all, it's too unsportsmanlike.”
“Next, Zh Meng will fix this loophole as soon as possible.”
“Appropriate compensation will also be given to players whose gaming experience has been negatively affected by this loophole.”
“Finally, I wish you all a pleasant game!”
After saying that, he waved to everyone and instantly disappeared.
The players on the 45th floor looked at each other after Xu Meng disappeared, and then—
Their eyes lit up!
What did Xu Meng say?
“Will not be punished,” “Recommend everyone to learn,” “Fix as soon as possible.”
And—
“A pleasant game”!
“So…” someone said, “Before Zh Meng fixes it, we can play like this with peace of mind?”
“So this is the secret of unlimited fighting? Is it this kind of unlimited?”
“Seize the time, let's go, let's go!”
…
It's the middle of the night now.
Even if Zh Meng fixes the loophole, it will have to wait until work tomorrow, right?
Everyone still has one night to play!
Players have a natural curiosity and enthusiasm for game loopholes.
They usually don't dare to mess around because they are worried about being punished by the official after the fact.
But now, Xu Meng publicly said that he would not punish!
—Regardless of whether it was a sudden event, he didn't consider it carefully enough, or the wording was not strict enough.
Saying it is saying it!
Then what is there to be afraid of?!
Just go for it!
Moreover, players' creativity is endless.
The "Clothes Drying Pole Flying Punch" was just the first stage of gameplay discovered by Nanshan.
Soon, players developed a new way to play—
"Separated Body Technique"!
The specific operation method is that one person enters the game wearing the haptic feedback suit, but after stepping onto the arena, they give the haptic glove to another person to wear.
Directly turning it into a two-on-one!
Moreover, the arms directly become super grotesque shapes!
Just seeing it makes people lose sanity, let alone fight!
Some people use ropes to tie the haptic gloves and swing them like meteor hammers!
Various mind-blowing loophole gameplay methods emerged like bamboo shoots after rain!
…
Of course, these messy moves do not always gain an advantage—
Once the "Clothes Drying Pole Flying Punch" is approached, it is equivalent to losing an arm.
The "Separated Body Technique" is very chaotic to fight, and players will accidentally be tripped by their own "arms."
Not to mention the "Iron Fist Meteor Hammer," how many people can really use meteor hammers?
Swinging a "hammer" out, it is not uncommon to knock themselves unconscious.
Although the win rate has not increased much, the players' enthusiasm for making a fuss is extremely high!
Even if they are killed by the opponent due to a mistake, they will die with a smile.
To put it bluntly, most players play games just to have fun.
They can not live, but they can't not have fun!
If the grades are delayed, they can work hard later, but if the happiness is missed, it will really be gone!
…
For a time, below the 50th floor of the Sky Arena, demons danced wildly!
