Chapter Fifteen: The First Bucket of Gold Earned

  "Kai Ge is here!"

  "Good morning, Kai!"

  Tan Kai's appearance at the entrance of the internet cafe was met with nods and greetings from many young people around his age, who took the initiative to say hello.

  Chu Tianfeng knew that Tan Kai was quite famous in this area, often going in and out of game halls and billiard rooms, playing everything exceptionally well, so he naturally attracted a group of free younger brothers.

  After dropping out of junior high school, Tan Kai gradually became a small social person. He most admired the characters in the Hong Kong movie "Young and Dangerous" and dreamed that one day he could become a big boss on the road, leading a group of younger brothers to conquer the world.

  Chu Tianfeng's heart suddenly skipped a beat, relying on the memories of his past life, he knew that Tan Kai would recognize someone as a big brother in the future, and spend all day fighting and killing. In the end, because of participating in fights and brawls, he was caught by the police and taken to a detention center, where he mysteriously died. The incident was investigated for half a day, but ultimately ended with no conclusion.

  If history doesn't change its course, judging from Tan Kai's current development, he will still end up walking the old path and die in prison.

  "It can't be, this life must not let Tan Kai take the old path again!" Chu Tianfeng secretly pondered in his heart, but the problem also came - Tan Kai's ambition was to become a big shot on the road, how could he change his ambition and do what? Going back to school is definitely impossible, for such an unemployed youth in society, the path he will take has long been predetermined.

  Chu Tianfeng doesn't have a way to bring Tan Ke up yet, but he will look for an opportunity. After this rebirth, many historical events have changed due to his efforts, and he believes that he can also influence the friends around him.

  "Kai zi, you're here pretty early!"

  "Damn it, call me Brother Kai! You're the stupid one!" Tan Kai only found out after watching "Young and Dangerous" that "Kai-zi" actually means "stupid person", so he didn't like others calling him "Kai-zi" anymore. Of course, his best friend Chu Tianfeng was an exception.

  Chu Tianfeng has been calling him "Kaizi" since they met, and it's become a habit that's hard to change.

  Because it's free to play games on the computer, each person only has two hours of test time, yet over a hundred people came, so they had to be divided into three groups.

  Tan Kai was familiar with internet cafe owner Qi Wei, so he brought Chu Tianfeng and Gao Dali to cut in line and ended up in the first group.

  This time, the test activity, Daya Company sent a few business representatives to its office in Tianhai. The head of the team was named Lü Yào, a man in his thirties, who even on a hot day wore a suit that was pressed to perfection, with sharp facial features and an expression that exuded shrewdness and capability.

  In fact, the prize-testing activity launched by Da Yu company this time is just a promotional method. Since they dare to take out the game for testing, it means that all aspects of the design are already very mature. Even if there are some small bugs, they do not affect the overall situation.

  The first group of players who came for testing sat down and then Liao Yao represented the company to make a speech.

  "Dear players, I'm sure you've all seen the poster our company released, so I won't waste any more words! The Legend of Sword and Fairy is an RPG classic game that has been widely regarded as a "masterpiece" by many players. Since its release in July 1995, it has consistently ranked high on various gaming magazines' charts, and by October 1996, it had held the top spot for 14 consecutive months. This time, we are preparing to release the '98 Soft Edition in mainland China, which is the simplified Chinese version corresponding to WIN95. In line with our company's philosophy of improving game quality and being responsible to players, we have decided to hold a public testing activity with rewards..."

  Chu Tianfeng listened for half a day and secretly laughed in his heart: "Isn't this nonsense? What we players care about most is the prize money!"

  Turning his head to look at others, he was listening with great interest.

  "From now on, as long as everyone finds a BUG in the game, they will be rewarded with 100 yuan, and there is no upper limit!" Lü Yào finally got to the point.

  Chu Tian's eyes lit up when he heard the words, one hundred yuan for a bug, this reward is not low at all. Now it's during the national deflation, prices are cheap, and now this one hundred yuan is equivalent to two or three hundred in ten years.

  "A question, what is a game BUG?" A player raised his hand and asked.

  Chu Tianfeng thought he asked a very "stupid" question, but in fact, there are really many people who don't know what BUG is.

  "A game bug refers to certain vulnerabilities, defects or design flaws in the game program. Some of these are beneficial to players, while others are detrimental, and some can even cause the game to crash, making it impossible to play." Lu Yao explained patiently.

  Chu Tian's mind turned for a moment, and he suddenly inserted a sentence to ask: "Excuse me, if there are typos in the game, does it count as a BUG?"

  "This can only be considered a small bug, but this time our company is releasing the simplified version on the mainland for the first time. To improve game quality, finding such small bugs can also earn rewards, so welcome everyone to actively point out mistakes!" Lü Yào replied to Chǔ Tiānfēng's question and encouraged other players' enthusiasm.

  Chu Tian smiled secretly in his heart: "With my current brainpower, plus the fact that I've played the Xian Jian series before, it's no problem to find a few bugs. However, this game has already had the BOS version and Taiwanese version as precursors, so the likelihood of there being many game bugs in the mainland simplified Chinese version is very low. If you say that there might be some bugs after all, they can only exist in the text. You know, Taiwanese people are used to traditional characters, and at this time, the software for converting between traditional and simplified characters hasn't come out yet, so it can only rely on manual conversion. In this case, there must be many mistakes inside!"

  After the test activity started, Chu Tianfeng entered the game and began searching for BUGs.

  As expected, there were indeed very few loopholes in the game design aspect. He had to try his best to find only five or six small bugs that had little impact on the overall balance of the game. However, he found a large number of typos.

  Chu Tianfeng had lived for nearly thirty years in the past, after rebirth his mind became more agile and his language sense was strong, his grasp of words was even stronger.

  Within a short span of two hours, Chu Tianfeng continuously raised his hand to point out various types of textual errors one by one.

  Gao Dalu and Tan Kai, who were sitting on either side of Chu Tianfeng, looked foolish. For half a day, they hadn't found a single bug, but Chu Tianfeng kept raising his hand repeatedly.

  Lü Yào's eyes widened in shock, wondering how so many text bugs had appeared. These errors were all related to the conversion between traditional and simplified Chinese characters. In some places, traditional characters had not been converted to simplified ones, while others contained grammatical errors, missing words or incomplete sentences that didn't make sense.

  With such a large game background, there is a lot of text content to be expressed. The game itself is still in beta testing and has errors, which is not surprising. After all, the manufacturer is used to traditional Chinese characters, let alone now that there are no simplified-traditional conversion tools, even if there were, using tools to convert would inevitably lead to mistakes!

  Lü Yào was shocked, not small, doing this kind of prize-testing activity, promoting the game is the real purpose, didn't expect to find any BUGs from these immature players on the mainland, he's very confident in the game.

  However, today, in just two hours, Chu Tianfeng caught over a hundred BUGs, with the exception of a few game design flaws, all the others were text BUGs.

  Lü Yao himself said "text errors are also BUGs", Chu Tianfeng took this opportunity to pick out over a hundred of them.

  "What's your name? Which school are you from?" Lü Yào asked with a surprised expression, staring at Chu Tianfeng.

  "Chu Tianfeng, Municipal No. 1 Middle School!" Chu Tianfeng smiled lightly and said.

  "Haha, so you're a top student from a provincial key middle school! No wonder you can find so many text errors!" Lü Yào said with approval.

  "Can I get the bonus?" Chu Tianfeng smiled, thinking to himself: "If he knew my grades were last in class, I'm sure he'd be shocked."

  "Of course, follow me!" Lü Yào patted Chu Tiānfēng's shoulder, and the two of them went to the manager's office in the internet cafe.

  "This is ten thousand two hundred yuan, take it!"

  Lü Yào took out a dozen banknotes from a small package he was carrying with him, counted them himself, and then handed them over to Chǔ Tiānfēng.

  "Thank you, I'm leaving, goodbye!" Chu Tianfeng took the money with a slight smile and turned to leave.

  "Hey little brother, slow down, aren't you going to count the money?" Lü Yào's small eyes sparkled with a hint of mockery as he dryly chuckled.

  "It doesn't matter, it's all just extra anyway. One more or one less makes no difference!" Chu Tianfeng smiled faintly, but actually he had already mentally counted the money when Lü Yao was checking it earlier - 10,200 yuan, his "first pot of gold" since being reborn.