My Players Are So Fierce – Handsome dog Frank
Chapter 974 - 331. Happy Stick Adventure: The Time to Enter Dreams Has Come - Additional Release【7/15】

"What the fuck! How did I die? How did it come without any warning?"

In the bedroom of Happy Stick’s house, Stick Brother, wearing a tank top and beach shorts and leaning against the headboard, took off his game helmet with a look of confusion. Just a moment ago, his game connection had been cut off without any warning, leaving his face full of questions.

The helmet displayed that his character had died because he completed the "First Embrace," and his Descendant’s injuries were so severe that all his Life Force was transferred to the Descendant, leading to zero Life Force and naturally, his death.

Logically, this shouldn’t be possible. After all, Happy Stick was the one initiating the First Embrace. How could he be "drained" by his Descendant?

But the issue is with the precious child, ah, the gaming helmet doesn’t lie.

He was currently unable to log into the game, and the 72-hour countdown for Resurrection had already started. Therefore, what happened was all too clear. This idiot had only watched a cutscene CG when Murphy gave him the First Embrace and didn’t fully understand the principles of the "First Embrace."

Actually, not just Happy Stick, but most of the players at present didn’t quite understand the inner logic of this very sacred ritual for Vampires.

Simply put, there is a "strong and weak" aspect to it. Murphy’s strength far exceeds the players, so there’s no chance of being backfired upon. But the strength comparison between Stick Brother and Melia Corando was the exact opposite. Even though he initiated the First Embrace, he was undoubtedly on the weaker side.

"Damn it, I knew this feature definitely wasn’t finished! This is absolutely a half-finished product! And they just released it, ah, the damn development team is really harming us! I wasn’t supposed to die."

Happy Stick threw his helmet onto the bed, frustrated, and stepped out to the balcony to light up a cigarette.

In the game it was midnight, but in reality, it was early morning. Looking down from the 27th floor balcony of Stick Brother’s home, the entire city was in its busiest time of the day, the hustle and bustle of traffic was almost moving.

"First, go have a meal, then go onto the forum to report this severe BUG!"

Stick Brother snuffed out the cigarette butt in the ashtray, returned inside to shower and put on some loose clothes, casually went out to have breakfast, and even called Wumeioge to vent for a while.

Upon hearing that Stick Brother had also died for a bizarre reason, Wumeioge’s anger dissipated by ninety-nine percent. The feeling of one person being unlucky compared to two is naturally different. In this respect, Wumeioge did not hide his Schadenfreude in front of Happy Stick, irritating Stick Brother to no end.

But he quickly came to terms with it.

This wasn’t their first death. Any experience, good or bad, becomes dull once repeated enough times.

The two misfortunate brothers comforted each other and agreed to go fishing together in two days. Their cities weren’t far from one another, with a lake district conveniently in between—might as well treat the three days until Resurrection as a catch-up session for the old friends.

"Sigh, do you think it’s possible that we stumbled into some high-level area or specific scene that’s not fully developed?"

Over the phone, Wumeioge came up with a new possibility.

He said to Stick Brother, dragging out his words:

"Whether it’s the subspace abomination that instantly kills on contact that I encountered, or the ’First Embrace’ request you faced, both should theoretically be game content that has not been opened at our stage. We shouldn’t have encountered these just yet.

It could be that the development team was running programs to test in that specific area, and we accidentally entered, which triggered our accidental deaths."

"Huh? Your theory is quite interesting."

Happy Stick, who was slurping his Eight Treasure Porridge, paused for a moment, then followed that line of thought, saying:

"So what you’re saying is, that maze spell we bumped into on the way was kind of like an ’air wall’ in another form? I was wondering how such a high-level maze spell could suddenly spawn out of a large empty area.

Maybe that’s the ’testing area boundary’ made by the development team?"

"Yeah, that makes sense!"

Wumeioge also felt his guess was close to the truth.

He said:

"And you found clues about the Sacred Blade of the Old Education, giving you a whole set of seven pieces of info. How could the cunning development team be so generous? For a quest chain that rewards a finely crafted Commander-level Sacred Blade, even giving just one piece of info would be generous, right?

Even if they have such design resources, they can’t be that wasteful.

So, I think the two of us definitely ventured ’beyond the map borders,’ accidentally entered their testing area, and brought something back...

Oh fuck, doesn’t that mean we caught a BUG?

Do you think the information we’ve already received will be retracted, causing the Sacred Blade treasure hunt quest chain that’s already begun to be discarded?"

"Uh, I don’t think so."

Stick Brother hesitated a bit, pondered for a few seconds, and then said:

"It’s not our fault, after all. If they were really segmenting off the area for testing, they should’ve made the air wall much more secure. Instead, we broke through that lousy thing with just a charge. It’s clearly a fault on the side of the development team.

Here’s what I’ll do, I’ll ask Brother Fa about it on the forum later.

But based on the developer’s past behavior, the information we got won’t be taken back. They also won’t cover up their own mistakes. Do you remember the time when Mud Brother and Shovel triggered the hidden rescue mission? After they completed it, because the developers hadn’t designed corresponding rewards, they even asked Lumina for on-the-spot custom rewards, right?"