Chapter 59: The Game Has a Bug

Deng Li Buduo stood behind Lin Bai, looking worriedly at the vast open space outside the restaurant, and asked with concern, "Master, you haven't slept all night; won't you go back to the inn to rest for a while?"

Today was the day the second batch of closed beta testers came online. Deng Li Buduo had seen the posts on the forum defending him and had also gone online to try and dissuade them a few times.

But his requests were quickly suppressed by more righteous-sounding voices; no one listened to him at all.

At the thought that a large group of players might come to Chef God Rice Shop to cause trouble, Deng Li Buduo's heart was filled with anxiety, and he had no heart to practice his Martial Art.

In his view, letting Lin Bai hide for a while was the best solution.

Given time, perhaps he could mediate and ease things; once the players' energy was diverted by other matters, perhaps they could muddle through.

"Little Deng, may your future life not make things difficult for yourself, and may you not let down the passage of time," Lin Bai looked back at Deng Li Buduo and said indifferently.

"..." Deng Li Buduo was stunned, "Master, what does that mean?"

"Do not be anxious. The best things always appear when you least expect them. What we must do is harbor hope, work hard, and then wait quietly," Lin Bai smiled and continued.

In another ten hours, his Palm Thunder would be in hand; he could not let all his previous efforts go to waste.

Today was destined to be a day where he would not act like a human.

"Master, are you telling me to practice my Inner Gong with peace of mind and not think about anything else?" Deng Li Buduo asked tentatively. Yesterday, he had spent most of his time immersed in the forums and had no idea what had happened in the shop.

Lin Bai nodded gently: "Little Deng, your performance has exceeded my expectations. I am proud of you."

"..." Deng Li Buduo looked at Lin Bai with a confused expression.

What the hell?

Is this... a breakdown in underlying logic?

Or is it a sting operation?

Deng Li Buduo looked at Lin Bai suspiciously, having no clue at all. After becoming his apprentice, he could clearly feel that Lin Bai didn't seem to care about him as much as before; sometimes, even when he saw him, it was as if he hadn't seen him at all.

What if Lin Bai found him an eyesore and was deliberately finding fault to cripple his Martial Art?

After thinking about it, Deng Li Buduo decided to try one more time: "Master, my Internal Energy has reached a sufficient level; can you teach me the Dragon Subduing Palm today?"

Lin Bai looked at Deng Li Buduo and said: "Perhaps your life is difficult now, but you must believe that once the bad days pass, everything that remains will be good luck."

As soon as these words were spoken.

Deng Li Buduo was dumbfounded and muttered: "It's over, a bug really occurred. How can such an important plot NPC have a bug? Won't the subsequent Martial Art be gone? Damn programmer..."

You're the one with a bug!

Your whole family has a bug!

Having received Deng Li Buduo's Negative Emotion, Lin Bai glanced at him: "Life cannot be too perfect; not getting what one seeks is not necessarily a regret."

"Master, you can't be having an issue, can you? You haven't taught me the Martial Art yet!" Deng Li Buduo was distraught. At this moment, he no longer cared about the players teaming up to assassinate Lin Bai.

He only felt that his life was simply miserable to the extreme.

In such an exquisite game, why did the bug have to get stuck on him?

"Love well, live well. The sun is new every day; do not let down the beautiful morning light." Lin Bai's line of sight caught five players walking toward him in the morning light, and he continued to play his bug.

The five players laughed and headed straight for Chef God Rice Shop. The names above their heads were very dazzling: 【Specialize in Killing Lin Dog】, 【Dedicated to Killing NPCs】, 【Kill White Dog Account】, 【Slaughtering Lin Like a Chicken】, 【Delete Account After Killing】...

Damn it!

Did I kill your father?

What kind of grudge is this?

You built an account just to kill me!

You are dead!

"... Partners in the livestream, ahead is the legendary Chef God Rice Shop of the great Master Deng. Today, our five-man assassin team will, under the witness of eighty thousand people, accomplish the feat of assassinating Lin Dog, overthrowing the NPC's exploitation of players, and winning the status that players deserve."

"Stop sending gifts. Killing an NPC will make us wanted criminals. This account is destined to be deleted."

"The great Master Deng is waiting for us at the entrance of the restaurant. It seems he already knows our plan. Friends, say hello to the master..."

"Master Deng, we are here." 【Dedicated to Killing NPCs】 waved from afar and used a private chat to greet Deng Li Buduo.

"En." Deng Li Buduo responded absent-mindedly.

"No need to persuade us anymore, Master. We know what you are worried about," 【Kill White Dog Account】 said, "We aren't brainless people. You hold thirty percent of the shares in Chef God Rice Shop, after all. Once Lin Dog is dead, we can operate a bit and get the restaurant into our own hands. With the few of us pouring in more money and the great Master Deng's marketing talent, we guarantee we can make Chef God Rice Shop big and strong, becoming one of the top industries in *Xianxia World*."

"Exactly, working for an NPC is a disgrace to players. Players should stand up," 【Slaughtering Lin Like a Chicken】 said, "Master Deng, you are just too inhibited."

"Master Deng, step back, don't get blood on yourself," 【Delete Account After Killing】 said.

Deng Li Buduo looked at the few of them, then at Lin Bai, and silently stepped back a few paces. Lin Bai was clearly in a bug-stuck state; who knows if his data could even be preserved after it was fixed?

Let them kill him!

It would save his dark history from being exposed!

If the group of people in front of him really invested, it might not be a bad way out.

Besides.

He wouldn't lose out; at the very least, he had learned a top-tier Inner Gong.

Lin Bai glanced sideways at the retreating Deng Li Buduo and silently praised him as a good apprentice. Your identity as a power bank for this lifetime is inescapable; if you dare to learn any other skills, Master will break your legs!

"Shopkeeper, is there any ready-made food in the shop?" 【Slaughtering Lin Like a Chicken】 exited private chat mode, stood politely opposite Lin Bai, and asked softly.

At the same time.

【Dedicated to Killing NPCs】 and 【Kill White Dog Account】 approached Lin Bai from the sides. While walking, they pretended to look at the couplets and said: "These couplets are interesting. Old Sha, what do you think the missing character is?"

"You have a good eye; knowing how to appreciate others is the greatest virtue." Lin Bai smiled and looked at 【Slaughtering Lin Like a Chicken】 opposite him. In front of eighty thousand netizens, he enthusiastically shook his hand, and in an instant, he unleashed the four moves: Finger Breaking, Nail Pulling, Bone Dislocation, and Palm Folding.

【Slaughtering Lin Like a Chicken】 hadn't even reacted to what Lin Bai's words meant before his hand was already torn apart, twisted into a chicken claw.

It was fortunate that players didn't feel pain.

Otherwise, after this combo, he would have been hugging his hand and crying for his parents long ago.

After crippling one of his hands, Lin Bai did not forget to nod lightly at Deng Li Buduo to the side: "Loyalty is the most excellent quality; it is what I admire most about you."

Who says you can't frame someone while delivering warmth?

If teaching is not strict, the teacher is lazy.

It is time to let him know what it means for the human heart to be treacherous!

"WTF, I lost HP, the NPC ambushed me, Wait and See leaked our plan to the NPC, he betrayed humanity." Slaughtering the Forest glanced at his twisted hand, subconsciously gasped, and hurriedly switched to the private chat channel.

"I didn't, it wasn't me, he has a bug, a normal NPC wouldn't attack a player for no reason." As soon as Lin Bai's words left his mouth, Deng Li Buduo knew things had gone wrong and hurriedly spoke to explain.

"A normal one wouldn't, but it's different if someone sells us out." Bitter Melon Vine sneered and said.

"Little Deng, you have a clear mind, do things without hesitation, and know how to adapt to circumstances; you are simply the perfect employee." Lin Bai smiled and continued to praise Deng Li Buduo.

"It really was you, I misjudged you." Slaughtering the Forest summoned the wind.

"He really has a bug, you guys just entered the game and don't know, normal NPCs don't talk like him." In order to distance himself from the status of a traitor, Deng Li Buduo said to Lin Bai, "Lin Bai, you big idiot!"

【Insulting the teacher, Virtue Feedback reduced by 10%】

A sentence was spoken.

A notification was transmitted to Lin Bai's mind simultaneously.

Rebellious disciple!

Lin Bai turned to Deng Li Buduo and smiled slightly: "Little Deng, no matter what, please keep your sincerity forever."

And then.

He flipped his right palm, and a move of "Proud Dragon Repents" was already struck out.

A dragon head flew out from his palm and hit Deng Li Buduo straight in the chest, emitting a crisp 'Bang!', and Deng Li Buduo flew backward three meters, fell to the ground, and remained motionless.

"Looks like it really is a bug!" Shawanjiushanhao said.

"Such cool special effects." Bitter Melon Vine couldn't help but widen his eyes, "He's even a hidden NPC, no wonder Wait and See couldn't bear to kill him?"

"I once thought this was a real world, I didn't expect it to really just be a game." Turning the Mountain Dog said, "Suddenly I feel like the fun has diminished a lot!"

"Are we still killing him or not?" ShaNPCzhuanyong asked.

"Let's do it! The livestream is on, it's just right to let everyone appreciate the power of the game's Martial Art, anyway, I wasn't planning on keeping this account." Turning the Mountain Dog chuckled, suddenly pulled a dagger from his waist, let out a loud roar, and charged at Lin Bai.

Shocking One Hundred Armor!

Lin Bai pushed with both hands, and eighteen remnant dragons roared as they flew out, clearing all five level-one small accounts.

Standing among the five corpses, Lin Bai frowned; he suddenly realized he had overlooked a serious problem: when doing the 'A Kind Word Warms Three Winters' quest, NPCs would treat his words as crazy ramblings.

But in the eyes of the players, his way of speaking, which was completely different from usual, was a bug!

Generally speaking, the way game development teams handle bugs is to fix them...

Lin Bai looked up at the sky; he had introduced modern marketing methods into the game world and turned Jiamu City into a Remnant City, yet the game officials had no reaction.

Now that he had triggered a bug in front of an 80,000-person livestream...

Would it be fixed?

If it were fixed, in what way would it be done?

He had triggered what players saw as a bug while doing a system quest; would the truth between the game and the system be revealed because of this?

This really is an unexpected joy!

(End of this chapter)