[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-this-is-not-a-bug-but-a-game-feature":3,"chapter-this-is-not-a-bug-but-a-game-feature-this-is-not-a-bug-but-a-game-feature-chapter-343":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","This Is Not a Bug but a Game Feature",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1472405,1919,"Chapter 343 - 218: The Family Tree Relies Entirely on Counting Growth Rings (Part 2)","this-is-not-a-bug-but-a-game-feature-chapter-343",343,"\u003Cp>\"Is this some kind of joke?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yao Mao was genuinely exhausted at this point. After all, with no hope in sight, it was hard to stay motivated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What he didn’t know was that in the underlying code of \"Ancestor Tree,\" the tree would only bear fruit if the ancestor possessed a skill or an item in their lifetime.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You need to have something first, only then can the Ancestor Tree produce it; it can’t create something from nothing!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Yao Mao wasn’t aware of this. He was just curious why this Ancestor Tree had grown so tall; it should logically have started flowering and bearing fruit by now. So why was there still nothing?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Help! Why has the Ancestor Tree grown so big but still isn’t flowering or bearing fruit?]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After posting his confusion on the Tianba Community, Yao Mao quickly received a barrage of replies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Whoa! Such a huge Ancestor Tree?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Dude, what did you do? Why is your Ancestor Tree so massive?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"In a past life, it must have been a Jade Emperor for the Ancestor Tree to grow that tall, right?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Not just that, it must be at the Three Pristine Ones level!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Almost everyone was shocked at the \"giant\" Ancestor Tree Yao Mao posted; no one seemed to care about its lack of flowering or fruiting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Yao Mao replied in the post, explaining that the Ancestor Tree had grown so big because he had been selflessly providing it nourishment, everyone was speechless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Wow, I thought it required the death of a Three Pristine Ones level giant to grow such a tall Ancestor Tree, but it turns out you’ve braved the courage of a hundred generations!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"A hundred generations of nourishment, is this tree’s annual ring your family tree?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The family tree annual ring, that’s hilarious, but it’s not wrong—a single tree carrying the lives of a hundred generations!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Can this tree still be cultivated further?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What are you planning to do?!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As expected, the thread soon diverged from its original purpose. Originally seeking help, Yao Mao had provided everyone with a \"family tree annual ring\" gaming meme.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instead of getting the answers he wanted, he was bombarded with questions from other users asking if the tree could be cultivated any further.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I don’t know!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yao Mao was speechless. He just wanted a shortcut, to make each revival easier, starting with a guaranteed legacy from the Ancestor Tree.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How was he supposed to know that the tree doesn’t bear fruit at all?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for whether this tree can continue to be cultivated... it probably can, right?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Then keep cultivating it. Maybe quantitative changes will lead to qualitative ones. Another hundred generations, and the tree might finally bloom and bear fruit!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The user’s suggestion seemed like a terrible idea, no matter how you looked at it, but Yao Mao actually took it to heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He thought it made sense!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Quantitative changes leading to qualitative ones, even though the tree hasn’t bloomed or borne fruit and was completely useless at the moment. But he had provided so much nourishment; who knows, maybe it would bear fruit if he continued to nurture it?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The main thing is...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He’d already invested so much in it; not getting a single fruit out of it felt unacceptable. It seemed like all his previous efforts would go to waste.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With that, he closed the community and continued nurturing the tree!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Primitive era, tribal era, feudal era, interstellar era...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nurturing away, Tree Treasure donned an exoskeleton armor, transforming into a spacefaring being. The Ancestor Tree became so tall it was out of sight, covering two-thirds of the computer screen with just its trunk.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet, still no results!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’m really starting to believe this! What the hell is this tree? A thousand generations, and single-cell organisms have evolved into cosmic superhumans, yet you still don’t lay an egg?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yao Mao was duped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This Ancestor Tree simply couldn’t lay an egg; it was totally unreliable. With that time spent fiddling around, he might as well have played the game properly and probably cleared it by now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Utterly disappointed, Yao Mao stopped dreaming and decided to focus on clearing levels to acquire items and skill rewards, no longer hoping to achieve success overnight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, he did quite smoothly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Using the strategies he had seen in the community and with the existing Ancestor Tree, he reached level twelve.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unfortunately, there was a particularly fierce monster at level twelve, capable of hacking him to critical health with a single blow, and he had already used up his supply of items and potions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A regrettable defeat!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With the growth of a new Ancestor Tree, Yao Mao’s resurrection countdown ended as well, and without much thought, he clicked on immediate revival.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A flash of white light...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Uh? Where am I?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After clicking revive, the black-and-white screen returned to color, but Yao Mao realized he was still on the same map, not back at the starting point.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not only that, his character was nowhere to be found!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That’s right...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The entire screen had no trace of the Tree Treasure character anywhere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Did I glitch?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suspecting a game glitch, Yao Mao frantically clicked his mouse everywhere, slamming his keyboard, trying to find a way to get himself out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By sheer luck, he clicked on the Ancestor Tree that had grown after his death, and then he discovered his main view had switched to the Ancestor Tree.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What’s going on?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yao Mao was puzzled beyond belief. What kind of state was this? Was he stuck in the internal view of the Ancestor Tree? Or had he revived inside the tree?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, while randomly smashing keys on the keyboard, trying to free himself from this state, he accidentally hit a key that switched his view again, this time to the Ancestor Tree on a different map.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Y?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yao Mao looked down at the key he had just pressed and tried hitting it again, and sure enough, his view switched once more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Switching again and again, his view quickly moved to the volcano map, and as he was about to switch further, a glimpse of a figure caught his attention.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wasn’t that Tree Treasure?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hey, hey, hey!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He hadn’t done anything; where did this Tree Treasure come from? And from the looks of it, was he jumping over a river of lava?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With curiosity, Yao Mao watched for a moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was indeed Tree Treasure!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This Tree Treasure, for whatever logic he was following, appeared clumsy. Jumping and rolling were slow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, from his actions, it seemed he was trying to clear the level himself? Without a player controlling him, he was going through the level by himself!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Is this for real?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yao Mao was startled by his own speculation. How could Tree Treasure run levels on his own?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the fact was right in front of him. Whether he believed it or not, he had to accept that this Tree Treasure, most likely bot-controlled, was attempting to clear levels in a clumsy manner.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So here’s the problem...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the real Tree Treasure is clearing levels, then what does he count as, stuck with that perspective bug and trapped inside the Ancestor Tree? An observer or a battlefield journalist?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Who am I, where am I, what am I doing?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After asking himself these three existential questions, Yao Mao shook his head and decided to use the in-game channels to report this strange phenomenon to Tianba Studio, to Ba.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was definitely a bug!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If his perspective was glitched, what else could it be if not a bug?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But since it was a bug, it was likely that Ba would be slow to fix it, if it even got fixed at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If that was the case, then there’s no rush to\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>report it right away. Instead, he decided to document Tree Treasure’s progress through the level, to see how he was playing and if he at least reached fifty percent of a player’s level.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hey, come on, jump!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Don’t... Oh, I just said it, and you walked right into the trap. Walking without watching, huh? Well, great, now you’re at critical health...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Watching, Yao Mao also felt anxious about Tree Treasure’s actions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Too clumsy, just too clumsy!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Forget reaching fifty percent of a player’s level, this slowpoke couldn’t even match his grandma’s skills!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With such a poor Tree Treasure, death was inevitable, so it wasn’t long before this Tree Treasure fell into lava and perished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Right on the spot, a new Ancestor Tree sprouted!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yao Mao tried clicking with his mouse and was indeed able to switch to this Ancestor Tree’s view.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Click, click, click, and this time, Yao Mao switched to the starting map, the \"giant\" Ancestor Tree he had painstakingly cultivated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once there, he discovered the recently revived Tree Treasure. A click of the mouse, and a magical scene unfolded...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He escaped that mysterious Ancestor Tree perspective and regained control over Tree Treasure. The previously unresponsive control keys were working again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Oh! So does that mean...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yao Mao was stunned to find out that by clicking on Tree Treasure, he could indeed switch back to the original perspective and regain control of his character.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So does this mean the entity controlling Tree Treasure during the level runs was the Ancestor Tree behind him?\u003C\u002Fp>",1553,"2026-06-06T03:03:37.618Z",1,"novelbin.me","00cc5f4caa9c44ea2daff93b5bbf38b4d65d2638b605daefef64197c872c4617","this-is-not-a-bug-but-a-game-feature-chapter-35","this-is-not-a-bug-but-a-game-feature-chapter-34",479,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthis-is-not-a-bug-but-a-game-feature-cover.jpg"]