Friday, March 11th.
Qiao Liang was 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.
No one has been able to solve the puzzle and get the so-called "invitation letter" yet!
Many people have given up cursing. Obviously, this willful behavior of the game development team will seriously arouse the rebellious psychology of the players and persuade many players to quit.
Those with a bad temper will just post a few words on the forum that "the production team has a brain problem" and then stop paying attention to the game;
Those with a better temper will do it every day after giving up. Go to the forum and check the progress of the big guys on the Internet to solve the puzzles. I think I will copy the answers myself after a big guy solves the puzzles successfully;
And there are still a small number of real ones. Hardcore players, such as Qiao Laoshi, are still looking for solutions to the next puzzle.
During this period, they tried many methods.
Various contents have been entered into the two input boxes, but the page still does not respond.
So, 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 the "Hothouse of Terror", and even ran over 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 Road" and "Game Maker".
Qiao Liang suddenly felt that based on his understanding of Mr. Pei, it did not seem impossible to hide more clues in these two games!
Who said 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 because of time constraints or because Mr. Pei doesn’t want to deliberately embarrass the players, this puzzle-solving activity is not It's 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.
He did not find any new clues this time, 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 pioneers? I drove hard for three hours, but then someone who came after me could get the same clue in less than an hour?
Hug your 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 look for it in "Lonely Desert Highway". Why does Mr. Pei still want programmers to make modifications to this game?
"Could it be that..."
"Mr. Pei's move is implying that he must find these clues himself for it to count?"
Qiao Liang was stunned instantly. Realizing something, I 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 is already familiar with the various choices and endings of "Game Maker". Without thinking about it, he has already reached the ending of "losing all his money" in less than ten minutes without having to think about it. Previous choice.
Then, the string of clues consisting of 012 was found, which has now been deciphered into the words "Search for the Terror Hotel".
"Then what?"
Nothing unexpected seemed to happen.
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 "I knew it was necessary to do it."
This report originally existed. It was criticizing these failed producers (or players) for having too much ambition and too little ability. They gave pointers when playing other people's games, but when they really got started, they immediately fell 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 see this sentence without searching carefully.
Qiao Liang quickly quit the game and entered in the input box opened on the TPDb websiteThis sentence.
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, just your Tenda account number and password, and it is nothing else at all!
But the premise is that your Tenda game account must actually complete the first clue in "Lonely Desert Highway" and reach the "lost everything" ending in "Game Producer" Saw the second clue!
And this must be done after the release of "BEQUIET".
Mr. Pei also specially gave a small reminder at the end of the ending of "Loss of Money" and changed the font of the title "You know you have to do it", which is a hint to the players that they want to do it. The key to solving the puzzle is to actually find these two clues yourself.
The reason why no one guessed correctly for so many days is because everyone mistakenly believed that they would not need to look at the clues if others found them, so no one met 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 this game, and deduced Mr. Pei's intentions from it!
Otherwise, he will not go to the "lost all his money" ending of "Game Maker" again, nor will 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 managed to play with so many players!
But... he was still cracked by his confidant Qiao Laoshi!
Qiao Liang couldn't help but scream.
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."
"You have proven that your smart brain and your will to not give up can become the food of the hotel. "
"If now, smart and delicious, you are ready to dedicate yourself to the Panic Hostel, then do as I say:"
"First, go Find a camera at random."
"Then log in to the game with your account and password, and enter this code in the location of the bloody handprint."
"We have prepared one for you. Interesting little game..."
Below the letter is a string of random English and numbersPatchwork code.
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 of "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 the resolution of Qiao Liang’s camera is not very high, and on the other hand, it is because this program seems to add a filter 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 He guided 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. Qiao Liang's eyes stared at the blood stains as they continued to move, passing through most 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 to keep staring?"
Qiao Liang turned his gaze to his face in the mirror, and found that the position he was looking at seemed to have a faint highlight effect, which continued to change as his eyes moved. Change location.
"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 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 relatively cumbersome, and Mr. Pei’s simple packaging makes this thing seem a bit weird and more immersive.
Secondly, the accuracy of eye tracking is very low and can only roughly determineThere is no way to determine the direction of the eyeballs in a large area with great accuracy.
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.
A black piece of clothing seemed to appear in the lower right corner of the mirror, with dark red blood stains on it!