I'm a villain, not a devil

Chapter 654: Contaminated Game

"The coming of the Mother of Corruption is directly related to me, because even if you choose to start the game as a Stoneheart, it will not have any effect on the revival of the Mother of Corruption. This is an inevitable plot..."

Looking at the choices on the screen in front of him, Sean pondered in his heart.

He had long promised the Mother of Corruption that he would help her collect sacrifices and complete the ceremony. Before that, he would temporarily take over the power of faith of the Stoneheart Man.

Even now, Sean only needed to concentrate and try his best to feel, he could feel the devout and fervent faith of the Stone Heart people. The power of faith was still helping him cultivate the original energy.

"Faith is the key to the size of the energy source... From this, we can infer that all the evil gods in the starry sky have... or have had a large number of believers."

"Then why did the Mother of Corruption ask me to temporarily receive the power of faith? After waking up, He had obvious ill will towards me, so there was no need to temporarily leave the power of faith with me. Even if it was wasted, it would be better than giving it to the enemy... And the power of faith has no side effects on me now, and there is no such thing as weakening me with it..."

"Tsk tsk tsk, this question still hasn't been answered... Trouble..."

Sean shook his head and moved the mouse to the fourth option.

"Father, our great mother is dying and betraying her allies. I think the Tyrant of Eternal Ashes is a better choice. Let's join him!"

Sean had not chosen this option before.

Soon, Shi Gandang responded, and the NPC on the screen showed an angry expression.

"What are you talking about?! To be disloyal to our great mother is to betray our Stoneheart clan! You are my daughter, how dare you say such outrageous words! Go back and shut up, I never want to hear such words from you again!"

"Father!"

But Shi Gandang just waved his hand, and the guards immediately stepped forward to control Shi Yuan and quickly took her to the prison.

Looking at the dark cell on the screen, Sean blinked in confusion.

This is... just locked up?

In reality, this is indeed a reasonable plot, but in a game, it is wrong.

Sean controlled the character to move around in the cell, but after looking for a long time, he couldn't find any interactive options. At the same time, teleportation to the large map was prohibited, no new tasks were refreshed on the task panel, and even an imprisoned buff was added to the character panel.

"Fuck, if that's the case, there shouldn't be such an option in the game..."

Sean frowned, a little annoyed.

He is a game developer, so he knows very well how could a game be designed to completely imprison players without giving them the option of countermeasures?

"Damn it, did Lao Niu and the others mess around when I wasn't here? It doesn't make sense..."

The young girl controlled by Sean paced back and forth in the prison, still unable to find a way out.

Sean simply left the screen on like this to see if there would be any changes in the game.

Who would have thought that after two hours, the screen was still filled with a dark prison cell, and not even a single visitor came to visit.

"That doesn't make sense. This is a serious game bug... Hiss, is it really a bug? Or is it that our studio was too lazy and didn't do a follow-up to this line?"

Sean had a toothache. It was a bit fucked up to encounter a bug, and it was even more fucked up if there was no follow-up plot.

"This plot line should be about the protagonist Shi Yuan coming to me. Why can't we do this plot line? Damn it..."

While cursing in his heart, Sean suddenly noticed that in the corner of the screen, on the actual floor of the prison, there was a slightly different gap in the tile.

Control the character to walk over, and there is still no interaction option as before.

"Mapping problem? No, I asked Noah to unpack it. The modeling of this place was done by Qingming. The students I trained would not make such a low-level mistake... Is there supposed to be some option here? Or, am I missing some prerequisite task? But if there is no prerequisite task, then when I chose it before, the fourth option should not be selectable..."

Sean frowned and thought, and finally turned his attention to the game itself.

After pondering for a moment, he called out in his mind: "Noah."

"I am here, Saint Three. How can I be of service to you?"

"Unpack the game again and check the various programs in this area to see if there are any problems with them."

"Yes, Saint Three, please wait a moment."

Noah's massive computing power quickly gave the answer: "Detection completed, there are cases of program loss and program contamination."

Sean frowned: "Has it been there before?"

Noah replied: "Yes, it has always existed, but I have never seen a similar program before, and you asked me not to help answer it, but just mark it temporarily."

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Sean slapped his head and realized that this was the problem.

"If there is a similar situation in the future, you can remind me," Sean knew that he had not thought it through, so he reminded me and continued, "Can the lost program be repaired? And what is the contamination?"

Noah replied: "The program is lost and cannot be recovered. I reorganized the program and deduced that it was a missing mission in a small branch of the game. As for the pollution... the program pollution is a bit strange. I will show it to you directly in the form of projection."

A holographic projection soon appeared in Sean's mind. Among the massive amount of programs that were materialized, something strange clearly appeared above one of the programs.

Is that a tree root?

The area had almost turned into a pitch-black swamp, with tangled roots rising and falling in the swamp like rotten blood vessels, each movement bringing up sulfur-smelling methane bubbles.

Sean's pupils suddenly contracted. Is this... the mother of corruption?

The game program that I brought out from the projection of the small world was actually corrupted silently?

Noah said at the right time: "After calculation, it is speculated that the program changed when you took the small world out. According to the feedback from the etheric layer, this seems to be a spontaneous etheric pollution affecting reality."

"Aether pollution?" Sean frowned.

"Yes, the pollution of the etheric layer. The Mind Hall did not send out an early warning signal. This shows that this pollution is not offensive to you or the Mind Hall itself. Moreover, this pollution itself exists at the initial level of the etheric layer. You can understand it as follows: the moment you returned to your present body with the program, the etheric layer instantly gave an instinctive early warning reaction."

“At the same time, I speculate that this reaction may not even be aware of the source of the pollution itself.”

The mother of corruption doesn't even know it herself, and has polluted my program purely out of instinct?

Sean's gaze gradually became solemn, which means that the status of the Mother of Corruption might be higher than he imagined.

At the same time, he instinctively judged that this part of the game program would cause harm to him, so this situation occurred.

"Doesn't that mean that I have found the key point?" Sean's eyes lit up slightly.