Qiao Liang is still running the plot line of "Game Producer" with two huge dark circles under his eyes.
There is only one expression on his face, that is, unwillingness!
A full week has passed since "bequiet" was officially released.
So far, the sales volume of this game is still 0.
It’s not because this game is so rubbish that no one plays it. In fact, players now don’t even know what this game looks like.
So far, no one has been able to solve the puzzle and get the so-called "invitation letter"!
Many people have already given up cursing. Obviously, this willful behavior of the game development team will seriously arouse the rebellious psychology of the players and cause many players to quit.
If you have a bad temper, you can just say something like "the production team has a brain problem" on the forum, and then stop paying attention to the game;
If you have a good temper, after you give up, you can check the forum every day to see where the big guys on the Internet are at in solving the puzzles, and then you can copy the answers yourself after a big guy solves the puzzles successfully;
And there is a small group of truly hardcore players, such as Qiao Laoshi, who are still looking for solutions to the next puzzle.
During this time, they tried many methods.
Various contents have been entered into the two input boxes, but the page still does not respond.
Therefore, everyone thought that the next information should be hidden in other games.
As a classic game of Tengda, "Return to the Shore" has naturally been played countless times, but after running around, I didn't find any useful clues.
Even some big names on the Internet found out that Tenda seemed to be really working on a haunted house project called "Hothouse of Terror", and they went directly to the site to check it out.
As a result, a person in charge named Chen was kicked out very helplessly and told him that the project here was not completed at all and could not be used as part of the puzzle-solving content.
After running through all the remaining games and finding nothing, Qiao Liang once again set his sights on "Lonely Desert Highway" and "Game Maker".
Qiao Liang suddenly felt that with his understanding of Mr. Pei, it was not impossible to hide more clues in these two games!
Who says a game can only hide one clue?
If players find a clue in a game and stop entering the game, wouldn't it create a "dark under the light" effect?
Moreover, judging from the fact that part of Mr. Pei's two passwords have the same solution, whether it is because of time constraints or because Mr. Pei does not want to deliberately embarrass the players, this puzzle-solving activity is not that difficult.
Then, Mr. Pei probably asked the programmers to only change two games, and only the simplest parts, out of consideration of saving time!
So, Qiao Liang entered "The Lonely Desert Highway" again.
This time he found no new clues, but he noticed one detail: it originally took three hours to get all the clues, but now the time has been greatly shortened!
Qiao Liang's first reaction was that her balls hurt.
Is this the treatment of a pioneer? I drove hard for three hours, but the latecomers can get the same clues in less than an hour's drive?
Hugging my round self in distress.
But then he thought about it and realized a very critical issue.
The time it took to find the clue was shortened, indicating that after he found the clue, Mr. Pei arranged for programmers to make changes to the game.
Why?
This clue has been solved. There is no need for others to drive and search in "Lonely Desert Highway". Why does Mr. Pei still ask programmers to make modifications to this game?
"Could it be that..."
"Mr. Pei's move is implying that you must find these clues yourself for it to count?"
Qiao Liang instantly realized something and quickly opened "Game Producer".
He once had the ending of "losing all his money", but that was not long after the game was released, that is, in April last year.
Strictly speaking, although Qiao Liang had achieved this ending, he did not find this clue himself!
Qiao Liang was already familiar with the various choices and endings in "Game Maker". He was running fast without having to think about it, and in less than ten minutes he had reached the previous choice of "losing all his money" ending.
Then, I found the string of clues consisting of 012, which has now been deciphered into the five words "Search for the Horror Hotel".
"Then what?"
Nothing unexpected seems to have happened.
Qiao Liang controlled the game character and accidentally reached the last level of the "lost everything" ending, rummaging aimlessly.
Suddenly, he noticed a report on the wall.
In the original ending, this report was criticizing the failed producer, and the title of the report was "Knowing that you must do it anyway."
This report originally existed, and it was criticizing these failed producers (or players) for having too much ambition and too little skill. They give pointers when playing other people's games, but when they actually get started, they immediately fall into the game.
The content of the title has not changed, but Qiao Liang keenly noticed that the font of this title is different from that of all other newspaper titles. It has obviously been changed!
It's just that most players will close the game directly after seeing the previous clue. Even if they come here by chance, they won't be able to find this sentence without searching carefully.
Qiao Liang quickly quit the game and entered this sentence in the input box opened on the tpdb website.
Sure enough, there was still no response.
After a moment of silence, Qiao Liang entered his Tenda account number and password into the two input boxes, and then pressed the Enter key.
This time, the page has changed!
Qiao Liang instantly realized that he had guessed correctly!
It turns out that the content to be entered in these two boxes is very simple, it is your Tenda account number and password, and it is nothing else at all!
But the premise is that your Tenda Game account must actually finish the first clue in "Lonely Desert Highway", and run to the "lost everything" ending in "Game Producer" to see the second clue!
And this must be done after "bequiet" is released.
Mr. Pei also deliberately gave a small reminder at the end of the ending of "Loss of Money" and changed the font of the title "You must do it if you know it", which is to hint to the players that they want to solve the key to the puzzle.
It is up to you to truly find these two clues.
The reason why no one guessed correctly for so many days was because everyone mistakenly thought that if others found the clues, they would not have to look at it anymore, so no one fulfilled these two conditions at the same time.
After everyone entered their account and password, there was no response at all.
And this creates a vicious circle, that is, everyone thinks that the account and password must not be filled in these two input boxes. Over time, no one will try again!
Qiao Liang couldn't help but feel happy.
Fortunately, he ran "Lonely Desert Highway" again, discovered the changes in the game, and deduced Mr. Pei's intentions from it!
Otherwise, he would not go to the "lost all his money" ending of "Game Maker" again, nor would he try to enter his account password on the website again.
Mr. Pei really only changed these two relatively simple games and the tpdb website, and manipulated so many players into the palm of his hand!
But... he was still cracked by his confidant Qiao Laoshi!
Qiao Liang couldn't help but burst into laughter.
At this time, the input box on the black web page had disappeared, and a pale white invitation appeared, with lines of bloody writing starting to appear on it, which seemed to be dripping down bit by bit.
"Congratulations, you are the first lucky person to get an invitation letter."
"You have proven that your smart brain and your will to never give up can become the food of the hotel."
"If now, the smart and delicious you are, you are ready to dedicate yourself to the Panic Hostel, then do as I say:"
"First, go find a random camera."
"Then, log in to the game with your own account and password, and enter this code in the location of the bloody fingerprint."
"We have prepared a fun little game for you..."
At the bottom of the letter is a code composed of random English and numbers.
Qiao Liang already had a camera, but he didn't use it often. He quickly wiped the camera, clamped it on the computer screen, and pointed it at his face.
Then, he opened the "Bequiet" game and clicked on the bloody handprint.
Originally there was no response to the bloody handprint, but now an input box appeared, and Qiao Liang immediately entered the string of codes.
He did not consider sharing this matter with other players now because he wanted to be the first player in "Bequiet".
The computer screen went black, as if I had entered a small program.
There is a mirror in the full-screen display, and Qiao Liang's own face appears in the mirror.
This program in the game seems to display the image captured by the camera in this mirror. It feels a bit like looking into the mirror through the "window" of the monitor.
It's just that the mirror is a bit gray and scary.
On the one hand, this is because Qiao Liang’s camera is not very clear, and on the other hand, it is because this program seems to have a filter added when displaying the picture.
There is a line of blood words next to the mirror: "Look at the blood stains in the mirror."
There is also a virtual frame in the mirror, outlining the outline of a face, which seems to be guiding Qiao Liang to position the camera and put his face in it.
Qiao Liang's camera was installed above the computer screen, so after adjusting the angle slightly and moving himself further away from the screen, the virtual frame on the screen disappeared.
At this time, the blood stains in the mirror began to spread continuously on the mirror surface. Qiao Liang's eyes stared at the blood stains as they continued to move, passing through most areas of the mirror, and finally stopped.
Then, the blood stains in the mirror disappeared, and the line of blood words also changed: "Look directly at yourself in the mirror, and do not look away no matter what."
"Do you mean you have to keep watching?"
Qiao Liang turned his gaze to his own face in the mirror and found that the position he was looking at seemed to have a faint highlight effect, constantly changing its position as his gaze moved.
"Eye tracking?"
Qiao Liang was a little surprised and a little surprised.
Eye tracking is not a very high-end technology. It has appeared in the past two years. By using the camera to detect the status of eye muscles and pupils, you can roughly determine the position of the screen you are looking at.
There are many software on the Internet now that can achieve the effect of eye tracking.
Of course, this technology is not as beautiful as imagined. The first thing is to ensure that the person's face is facing the camera and to collect data points. Just now Qiao Liang was staring at the movement of the blood stain, which was obviously what he was doing.
The whole process is rather cumbersome, and Mr. Pei's simple packaging makes it seem a bit weird and more immersive.
Secondly, the accuracy of eye tracking is very low. It can only roughly determine a large range of where the eyeballs are looking, but cannot be particularly precise.
However, it seems to be sufficient for this test.
Qiao Liang began to stare at his face in the mirror attentively.
However, after a few seconds, he suddenly felt something was wrong.
There seemed to be a black piece of clothes in the lower right corner of the mirror, with dark red blood stains on it!