Chapter 437 - A Series of Codes (1/2)

Chapter 437 A Series of Codes

Two hours later, Qiao Liang exited Ocean Stronghold, feeling confused.

He had wasted his time!

He had first looked through the famous locations in Repent and be Saved. After that, he had created an alternate account to look around the newbie village. Finally, he had entered Ocean Stronghold and finished several stages in story mode.

Still, he had achieved nothing.

Qiao Liang was not one to give up easily. He had only exited because he thought that he was deviating from the right path.

What if the clue was not in either of those games?

Qiao Liang looked at his fan group once again. Many people had already thought about what he had thought about. They had all gone into games they were familiar with, but two hours had already passed. Nobody had found any useful clues. Qiao Liang looked through the chat records and then started to analyze the games that his fans had looked through. Ghost General, Game Designer, Ocean Stronghold…

All of a sudden, Qiao Liang’s eyes lit up.

The Lonely Desert Road!

The letter was ‘left on the previous journey’. That game matched the description perfectly! What’s more, most people had neglected to look through this game

The messed-up game had been popular in the beginning but that quickly faded away. Compared to Tengda’s other games, The Lonely Desert Road was much less known!

What’s more, the game was especially boring. Most people who bought it probably did not finish it. Even if they did, they had probably chucked the game in the back of their games library to collect dust. They could not still be playing it.

Wouldn’t that be the perfect game if Boss Pei had intended to play hide-and-seek?

Qiao Liang became excited at once. He opened The Lonely Desert Road and prepared to drive.

He had once played this game for eight whole hours. He knew that it would be a long and slow journey. Thus, before he started, he ate his snacks, placed his water in a position that was easy to reach, and made a trip to the toilet.

An hour later, Qiao Liang began to feel sleepy. However, at that moment, he saw a letter float across the screen.

The car was driving too quickly. The letter only appeared in front of Qiao Liang for half of a second before it disappeared again. “Sh*t!”

Qiao Liang did not see it clearly. He faintly saw a round alphabet, but he did not know if it was a C or a G.

However, he was very sure that no such letter had appeared in the game before. Thus, he re-started the game and opened the screen-recording software.

Three hours later, Qiao Liang exited the game and made another trip to the toilet.

When he got back to his seat, Qiao Liang opened the screen-recording software and moved to an hour after the recording started, to check the alphabet that appeared first.

Indeed, it was a G!

After that, an alphabet floated across the screen every five minutes. Sometimes, it appeared on the left. Sometimes, it appeared on the right. There were twenty alphabets in total, and it was a whole hour before they disappeared completely.

After that, no more alphabets appeared. However, just in case, Qiao Liang continued driving for half an hour more and then exited the game.

He checked the video and carefully wrote down all the alphabets.

GAICCCCCCACBIADBHCEA.

It was a series of codes.

In other words, other players did not even need to play The Lonely Desert Road to find out the code.

However, knowing the code was only the start of the solution.

At Shang Yang Games…

Lin Family, Ye Zhizhou, and Wang Xiaobin read various forums and Weibo in order to track the gamers’ reactions. There were many more gamers who were unhappy than they had imagined

There were many comments like ‘are they sick in the head to not allow people to purchase the game with money’ or ‘you’re acting like a big-shot, and I won’t have it’.

Still, there were even more gamers who had become intrigued.

A few hours had passed since they released the game. Until now, gamers had already found the code that Boss Pei had placed in The Lonely Desert Road. However, work obviously still had to be done on the string of letters before they would be able to find the real message.

Ye Zhizhou was working on the clue as well. He had written many symbols in his notebook, and his monitor displayed a search engine. Still, he could not find any useful information.

“I don’t know how Boss Pei came up with an advertising method like that. He’s really a genius! However… it might have been a better idea to release the question a month before we released the game.

“The game’s already on the shelf now, but nobody can buy it. Of course, gamers would get angry. “I wonder if there’s a deeper meaning behind this move.”

After some thought, Wang Xiaobin said, “Hasn’t Boss Pei always been this willful? He already tried to turn gamers away repeatedly when we were working on Repent and be Saved. This may be a unique method of doing business.

“He’s intentionally using reverse psychology on gamers, so that they would try to solve the riddle more enthusiastically.”

Lin Wan nodded. “Yes, I think that’s highly likely!

“Many gamers have already started playing Tengda’s older games to solve this riddle. I think Repent and be Saved and Game Designer have seen an increase in sales volume during this period.

“It’s a pity that it would only be a short-term boost. People like Teacher Qiao, who understand Boss Pei extremely well, could locate the clue in just a few hours.