Everyone exchanged glances.

As for the game rules, they had already studied them thoroughly using the game data long before entering.

The difficulty of the game lay not in the rules themselves, but in the fact that not a single player who had entered so far had managed to “kill Mali” or “kill Mali’s cat.”

Shen Mo studied the supervisor and asked: “I want to ask about the internal beta testing you just mentioned. What exactly is that about?”

The rabbit-headed figure smiled. “That is a question unrelated to this session’s game.”

“Not necessarily unrelated, is it?” Bai Youwei spoke up. “Every word the supervisor says inside the game may serve as a hint or clue. Since you mentioned the internal beta testing, you ought to explain it clearly to us — and whether the content is relevant to the game or not should be for us to determine ourselves. That would be fair.”

Shen Fei stared at her in astonishment.

He had been through games before, but someone bold enough to directly pick apart a supervisor like this — it was his first time seeing it. Quite an eye-opener…

The rabbit-headed figure’s voice remained gentle and calm: “Your words sound like something of an argument, but I am willing to answer this question for you. So long as it does not violate the rules, I am very glad to see players engaging so actively with the game.”

It reached one hand into its top hat, grasped something, and with a flourish scattered it into the air —

Like a fistful of golden dust, the space instantly blazed with light — and within a second or two, those brilliant gleaming points coalesced into scene after scene!

Like countless three-dimensional projections playing out before their eyes!

The scenes showed players in various situations inside the amusement park — mauled to death by the cat! Thrown to their deaths on a roller coaster! Hiding in a building only to be crushed when it collapsed!

“Every game, once designed, must undergo internal beta testing until the data stabilizes before it can truly be put into use.”

The supervisor pointed to those scenes and selected several to explain.

“In the early phase, the cat was too large in size, making it impossible for players to get near the cat or near Mali. So later we adjusted the cat’s dimensions. The cat you see now has already been scaled down to half the size of the early model.”

“Here — a player hid inside the mine shaft cottage shaped like a dwarf’s home. It should have been a concealed hiding spot. But due to an inadvertent action by the cat, the mine collapsed along with the structure inside, and the player was crushed to death. Afterward, we reinforced all building models and adjusted the cat’s parameters so that situation will never occur again.”

“And here — a player exploited the cat’s large size, which prevented it from entering the pipes, and hid in the sewer for two full weeks before starving to death. This severely impacted the game experience. The bug was patched afterward — all sewers are sealed and cannot be entered.”

It gave a general overview, then addressed everyone:

“In short, internal beta testing is a process of continuously patching vulnerabilities and refining details. Every game you encounter has been revised and adjusted countless times — one might say it is the supervisors’ labor of love.”

“What about the player counts?” Shen Mo frowned. “Some of those scenes seem to have more than ten people.”

“Yes.” The rabbit-headed figure gave a slight nod and explained calmly: “During the beta testing phase, we would randomly select players and place them into the game. After repeated testing, we determined the optimal player count.”

When those words landed, every person’s expression shifted.

Shen Mo’s face turned cold as ice, while Yu Yaqing shook with outrage.

Randomly selected…

That meant — even if you were nowhere near a game zone, you could still be seized and thrown into a game. All for a single round of beta testing. Or rather… a ruthless experiment.

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