Meanwhile, in Jingzhou.

Qiao Liang had just exited GOG and checked the time—it was already past 2 AM.

He yawned and took out his phone to casually browse his fan group.

“The ‘Mission and Choice’ movie was amazing!”

“Just left the theater, it was incredible, absolutely incredible!”

“That ending was just… do you guys want to know the plot?”

Qiao Liang’s face immediately darkened. He checked the time—it was exactly when the midnight screening of “Mission and Choice” would be ending!

With the swift reflexes developed over twenty-something years of being single, Qiao Liang immediately caught this potential spoiler and muted them for five hours.

“I don’t need to tell you what happens to people who post spoilers, do I?”

As soon as Qiao Liang revealed himself, the group instantly became active.

Although it was already past 2 AM, most people in this group were gaming nerds, and since it was the weekend, many were still awake.

Seeing Qiao Laoshi, who had been lurking and slacking off recently, finally appear, they certainly couldn’t let this opportunity pass!

“Old Qiao finally surfaced?”

“Hahaha, nice bait, bro! Caught a big fish—Old Qiao, who hasn’t shown up for ages, has been smoked out!”

“Farewell, brave warrior! See you in five hours!”

“Old Qiao, where’s the new video? Do you know how long you’ve been ghosting us? You’ve only released one ‘Garbage Games Countdown’ in all this time, and you just covered games that other content creators have already beaten to death. Doesn’t your conscience hurt?”

“Don’t mock him unfairly, Old Qiao doesn’t have a conscience.”

“If you start streaming now and go all night to make up for it, we’ll forgive you!”

Seeing his fans in the group collectively calling him out, Qiao Liang immediately replied: “Stop pushing, stop pushing, I’m already working on a new video! Everyone go to bed early, good night!”

Then, Qiao Liang made a quick escape.

Since the fan group was no longer an option, Qiao Liang habitually scrolled through his Moments feed, only to unexpectedly come across more information about “Mission and Choice”!

“Checked in! This movie is fantastic, I never thought domestic sci-fi could reach this level!”

“Lu Zhiyao’s acting was divine!”

“Strongly recommend, you’ll definitely regret not seeing this movie!”

“I never imagined that this movie, which completely used the plot from that garbage game ‘Mission and Choice,’ could turn out so brilliantly, especially that final battle scene…”

Qiao Liang was almost spoiled but stopped himself from reading further at the last second, quickly exiting the app.

“What’s wrong with people who post spoilers in Moments?!”

“So frustrating, seems like everyone managed to get tickets for the midnight screening except me!”

Qiao Liang was utterly speechless.

He had actually wanted to buy tickets for the midnight screening too, but never expected them to sell out so quickly.

Although Jingzhou was only a second-tier city where tickets weren’t usually hard to come by, there were simply too many Tenda fans in Jingzhou!

There were too many people rushing for the midnight screening tickets, so tickets at nearby theaters sold out at lightning speed. Qiao Liang only managed to get tickets for the afternoon showing.

Of course, given Qiao Liang’s relationship with Tenda, it probably wouldn’t have been difficult to ask Fei Huang Studio for a movie ticket. But he felt uncomfortable doing that, so in the end, he couldn’t bring himself to ask.

Although it was only a delay of about ten-plus hours, he still had to face the wild dance of spoiler demons.

Qiao Liang sighed, realizing he would have to force himself not to look at any social media.

Whether it’s novels, movies, or games, the most feared thing is spoilers.

Directors rack their brains to come up with plot twists that would make normal viewers exclaim “Whoa!” But then some idiots who saw the movie early feel the need to show off by spoiling everything, rendering the director’s carefully crafted twists ineffective and seriously affecting the viewing experience of those who’ve been spoiled.

In short, these spoiler-posting dogs deserve universal condemnation!

Qiao Liang quickly washed up and prepared to go to bed.

But after tossing and turning in bed for a long time, he still didn’t feel sleepy at all.

He had napped for quite a while today, sleeping until 5 PM, and after waking up, he’d had some coffee, so he was still quite energetic.

Additionally, the spoiler-posters’ excessive praise for “Mission and Choice” lingered in his mind and wouldn’t go away, like a playful feather tickling his most vulnerable spot, making him restless with curiosity.

After rolling around in bed a few times, Qiao Liang instinctively wanted to play with his phone for a while, but immediately realized he couldn’t do that.

Because now, whether on social media or various forums, he might encounter spoilers for “Mission and Choice”!

Not being able to surf the internet was truly depressing.

After staring at the ceiling for a while, Qiao Liang sat up in bed and decided to play some games before sleeping.

“Ah, too bad ‘Fantasy Battle Remake’ hasn’t officially released yet, it’ll be available tomorrow morning.”

“If only I could play ‘Fantasy Battle Remake’ now, I could also prepare material for the next ‘Legendary Works’ video.”

“So what should I play?”

“I’ve already completed ‘Ink and Mist,’ and although that game is also excellent, it falls quite short of the ‘Legendary Works’ standard, so I don’t have any good ideas for making a video about it…”

Qiao Liang looked at the screen full of games and suddenly didn’t know which one to play.

He had completed most of these games, and those he hadn’t completed were ones he really disliked and couldn’t get through.

He had already finished “Ink and Mist” a while ago, and “Fantasy Battle Remake” wouldn’t be officially released until 10 AM, so he couldn’t play that either.

Not having a suitable game to play was quite awkward.

Suddenly, Qiao Liang remembered something one of the spoiler-posters had said.

“People online are saying that the plot of the ‘Mission and Choice’ movie completely follows the original work.”

“How could they adapt that?”

This question had been lingering in Qiao Liang’s mind, genuinely confusing him.

Because he had played the original garbage game “Mission and Choice,” and there was basically no plot in it at all.

The only thing resembling a plot was just a few lines on the promotional poster, like “Your home planet Blue Star is facing a terrible threat from the Insect Race” and such, but that hardly counted as a plot!

And what’s worse, the game didn’t even express this minimal plot—it only had a few lines of dialogue text, treating it as an afterthought.

Yet someone claimed the “Mission and Choice” movie’s plot followed the original work?

“Could there be some hidden plot in the original that I missed?”

“That’s impossible, at most they just used a tiny bit of the world background from the original…”

With this doubt in mind, Qiao Liang turned on his computer, but after scanning his desktop, he realized he had already deleted the game.

Qiao Liang’s habit was to enable automatic updates for all games but promptly delete those garbage games he no longer played.

Although as a hardcore gamer and gaming content creator, Qiao Liang had top-tier computer and internet speed, even the richest household has its limits. His hard drive space, while large, would still feel unpleasant if filled with a bunch of garbage games.

“Mission and Choice” was originally an extremely terrible game, and Qiao Liang had only downloaded it to make a video. Once the video was completed, he immediately made the game “get off my computer.”

He just hadn’t anticipated that he would want to revisit the game afterward.

But that wasn’t a problem—he could just reinstall it.

Games from that era were only a few dozen megabytes, which would take just seconds to download with Qiao Liang’s internet speed.

Opening the “Domestic Classic Games Collection,” he noticed that there seemed to be more games in it, including the recently officially released “Ink and Mist.”

And “Mission and Choice” had been prioritized to the very end of the entire collection, requiring a lot of scrolling to find it.

“Does even the official platform think this game is embarrassing, so they put it at the end?”

“But that’s not right either—if they found it embarrassing, wouldn’t they just remove it from the collection?”

“Hmm?”

“Something’s not right. There’s an update?”

“What the hell, tens of gigabytes??”

Qiao Liang was stunned, almost unable to believe his eyes.

The original “Mission and Choice” was a garbage game from over a decade ago, with a capacity of only a few dozen megabytes.

But now, Qiao Liang was shocked to discover that “Mission and Choice” had been updated, and the size of the update package was similar to the original figure, except the original unit was MB, while the current unit had become GB!

This was a thousand-fold increase, exceeding the size of many AAA titles!

Qiao Liang checked the download speed—downloading the game plus installation time would take nearly an hour.

“What’s going on?”

“Hmm… could it be…”

Connecting with the online discussions earlier, a terrifying speculation formed in Qiao Liang’s mind.

Previously, people had speculated that since Tenda had released a “Mission and Choice” movie, why wouldn’t they release a “Mission and Choice” game? Tenda, having started in the gaming industry, would definitely do it!

But there was no concrete evidence for this speculation. While everyone hoped for it, no one dared to be certain that Tenda would release a “Mission and Choice” game.

Moreover, everyone thought that even if Tenda were to release a remake of “Mission and Choice,” they would definitely re-list it on the official store, redo the marketing, and start completely from scratch.

After all, when making the “Fantasy Battle Remake,” they wouldn’t just update the old game—they would surely release a new game altogether.

It was even less likely that “Mission and Choice” would be mixed with the original garbage game!

So, although Qiao Liang had heard such speculation and thought it made sense, he absolutely never imagined that Tenda would directly add an update package to this old game!

Qiao Liang rubbed his eyes, thinking perhaps it was too late at night, he was too tired, and his vision was blurry.

But this tens-of-gigabytes update package was definitely real!

The company that made “Mission and Choice” had long gone bankrupt, and the game now belonged to the official platform.

This update couldn’t possibly be from the official platform itself, could it?

A prank? That’s not possible either—April Fool’s Day had passed half a month ago.

Qiao Liang suddenly became energized, feeling that these tens of gigabytes might contain infinite possibilities!

Who would have thought there would be such an unexpected surprise?