Why do you have a win rate of 70%, yet you still need to pay for tokens or collect welfare to afford the entrance fee?

There’s only one reason for this situation: the system arranges several games for you with small wins, giving you a thrill, then throws in a "huge loss" game, wiping out all your efforts from ten games in one go!

Few players could detect this kind of game environment, but since an old fellow used the divination feature of "Mountain Village Memories," all mechanisms are laid bare.

"Hahaha!"

Jiangning, Tianba Studio.

Chen Ba pushed the door open and immediately heard Lu’s piercing laughter, so he couldn’t help but ask, "What’s so funny?"

"Ba..."

Lu was laughing so hard his face was twisted, "Guess what kind of post I saw—guaranteed comedy, the kind that will make you laugh until your mouth won’t close."

Oh? What kind of post?

Upon hearing this, Chen Ba curiously leaned over to look at the computer screen.

The post wasn’t long, just a few sections and a couple of pictures, easy to finish at a glance. But after reading, Chen Ba found it hard to keep a straight face.

An elderly fellow who loved playing casual card games spent his time on a mahjong game by a certain developer.

Yesterday, he made a few self-draws one after another, winning quite a few tokens, then exposed the divination Bug in "Mountain Village Memories". Out of curiosity, he also tried divining a prediction for himself.

Oh boy, a great misfortune!

Seeing this trigram and the community’s analysis, he decisively chickened out, deciding to lie low and not play that mahjong game again until the trigram changes.

But after holding back for a few hours until nightfall, he couldn’t resist and divined again, wanting to see if it was still a great misfortune.

The outcome was clear; his great misfortune wasn’t over, making it unsuitable to play the mahjong game!

Then he slept.

The next morning, the fellow eagerly performed the third divination, only to get another great misfortune, leaving him speechless.

By the afternoon, the fellow finally couldn’t hold back, thinking that after 24 hours, the so-called great misfortune should be over, right?

So he performed the fourth divination.

This time, although the divination revealed a trigram of great misfortune, the fellow defiantly disbelieved it, thinking as a staunch materialist warrior, how could he be scared by this superstitious trigram?

He thought superstition was unreliable, that the alleged great misfortune was merely scaring himself!

But once he entered the game and played two rounds, he finally came to his senses.

Superstition must indeed be believed!

It’s fate making him lose; there’s no one to blame. The dealer wouldn’t let him off; he had to lose, leaving him with no solution.

After posting about his experience, the fellow immediately uninstalled the mahjong game.

Because he realized when the outcome of a game is entirely controlled by the so-called dealing mechanism, whether you win or lose, the game is genuinely inferior to playing cards offline with two friends.

Though playing cards with friends might also encounter those predetermined win-lose games, at least the mahjong tiles are set by oneself, the cards dealt by oneself, losing doesn’t bring as much frustration.

"Oh boy, he doesn’t even dare to use a mahjong machine, completely reverting to manual mahjong?"

After reading the post, Chen Ba couldn’t help but joke, "Isn’t it said online that the divination system of ’Mountain Village Memories’ is pure superstition and unreliable? Why does everyone seem to believe it?"

"Who wouldn’t believe it?"

Lu said speechlessly.

This thing is indeed superstitious, but no matter how superstitious, the accuracy rate of 90% speaks for itself.

Based on this accuracy, no matter how superstitious the product, it doesn’t affect the netizens’ admiration for it. Even the song "Good Luck" has so many believers, why should "Mountain Village Memories" be any different?

"You’re right..."

"But that’s not important; what’s important is, after spending all night, I finally figured out the root of the problem."

After sitting down, Chen Ba said: "There are currently two solutions, help me consider which one is better."

The first solution is rather simple and straightforward: add a "firewall" to the client of "Mountain Village Memories"!

This firewall doesn’t defend against viruses or third-party cheating modification software, it defends against the Heavenly Dao Program of "Cultivation Fantasy."

With this firewall, it’s impossible for the Heavenly Dao Program to monitor anything in "Cultivation Fantasy," naturally preventing data disorder issues.

"What’s the second solution?"

"The second solution is to fight poison with poison, since the Heavenly Dao Program caused an abnormality in the divination program of ’Mountain Village Memories’, why not simply open up networking functionality for ’Mountain Village Memories’?"

Chen Ba explained: "Since it’s like this, why not make this program a feature attraction to draw other players to buy and play ’Mountain Village Memories’?"

High emotional intelligence: fight poison with poison!

Low emotional intelligence: this Bug seems useful to make ’Mountain Village Memories’ even more popular!

Lu and Old Luo seriously considered it, and finally voted to agree that the second solution is the most perfect.

"Great minds think alike!"

Chen Ba snapped his fingers and said, "I also think the second solution is more reasonable. After all, we’ve handled such matters extensively before."

In layman’s terms, debt doesn’t burden the deep pockets, a dead pig isn’t afraid of boiling water...

Anyway, that’s how it used to be handled, whether the players get used to it isn’t known, but Tianba Studio is already accustomed to this solution.

Isn’t it just a game Bug!

What’s the big deal?

Seeing your flustered look, it’s obvious you’re new, all old Tianba employees know, this little bother is nothing! As long as it’s not about being unable to charge money in the game, the rest are minor issues!

"So what do you plan to do?"

Though the vote led to a solution, Lu still eagerly wanted to know Ba’s concrete approach and thought process in solving the issue.

"I think..."

"As a horror game, ’Mountain Village Memories’ is now somewhat off track!"

Chen Ba suffixed with a sigh: "A good horror game has been forced into Cyber Fortune-Telling 2027!"

This change nobody anticipated, mainly previously no one thought the divination feature not only predicts ’Mountain Village Memories’, it amazingly can foresee fortunes of other games?

If it’s calculable, so be it, the crucial point is it’s pretty accurate, that’s quite sneaky!

Since it’s like this...

Chen Ba decided to shed the horror veil of ’Mountain Village Memories’, transforming it into a "superstitious" game with rich folk culture.

Cyber Fortune-Telling 2027?

Fine! Fine! Fine!

Do you like this gameplay? If you do? Then want to take a look at Cyber Calendar, Cyber Birth Chart, Cyber Feng Shui?

"Ah?!"

Lu and Old Luo were left stunned at the words Ba suddenly spouted such terms.

Playing this fancy way?

What is Cyber Calendar? What is Cyber Feng Shui? Going this route, isn’t there an incense burning worship process missing?

"Anyway it’s superstitious, might as well make the superstition thorough, believe it or not, up to you!"

Chen Ba laughed heartily: "Alright alright, not kidding! Seriously, this idea comes from the Heavenly Dao Program of ’Cultivation Fantasy’..."

After learning the BUG emanated from divination system being affected by the Heavenly Dao Program due to data disorder, Chen Ba had a superstition.

Why exactly do these interact?

Ah!

One is fortune-telling and divination, one is Heavenly Dao merit; from the supernatural view, these two games indeed have a connection!

Since they share a connection, can this interaction or influence be deepened further?

The Heavenly Dao Program of ’Cultivation Fantasy’ is coded by the Iron Fool System, the divination feature of ’Mountain Village Memories’ as well.

With shared origin, that presumably is the main reason they can interact, causing this Bug.

Given their common origin and certain complementary functionality, is it possible to combine them while opening more permissions and ports for ’Mountain Village Memories’, strengthening their connection?

For example...

Can the merit rewards provided by the Heavenly Dao Program moderately affect player "luck", turning great misfortune into great fortune?

It’s normal for someone with immeasurable merit, enjoying Heavenly Dao protection, to have great luck, right?