Chapter 1 Meanwhile, in Jingzhou

Qiao Liang had just exited GOG and glanced at the time. It was already past two in the morning.

He yawned, took out his phone, and casually browsed his fan group.

"The *Mission and Choice* movie was amazing!"

"Just came out of the cinema, still savoring the aftertaste!"

"The ending was incredible! Do you guys want to know what happens?"

Qiao Liang's face darkened. He checked the time; it was right when the midnight showing of *Mission and Choice* was letting out!

With the speed honed by over two decades of being single, Qiao Liang immediately caught the potential spoiler and silenced him for five hours.

"I don't need to say what happens to those who spoil the plot, right?"

Qiao Liang's appearance instantly energized the group.

Even though it was past two in the morning, most of the members were game addicts, and it was the weekend, so many were still awake.

Seeing that Old Qiao, who had been lurking and slacking off lately, had shown his face, they definitely couldn't let him go!

"Old Qiao finally surfaced?"

"Haha, these guys are easy to bait! They caught a big fish. Old Qiao hasn't shown up in ages, but they blew him out of the water!"

"Safe travels, warrior! See you in five hours!"

"Old Qiao, where's the new video? How long has it been? You've only released one 'Trash Game Review,' and it's even about games that other content creators have already covered to death. Doesn't your conscience hurt?"

"Don't talk nonsense, Old Qiao has no heart."

"Start a livestream now, play all night to make up for it, and we'll forgive you!"

Seeing the fans in the group denouncing him, Qiao Liang immediately replied, "Don't rush me, don't rush me, the new video is already in the works! Everyone go to bed early, good night!"

Then, Qiao Liang immediately slipped away.

He couldn't go to the fan group, so Qiao Liang habitually swiped through his friend circle, never expecting to find more information about *Mission and Choice*!

"Checked in! This movie is amazing, I never thought that domestic science fiction could reach this level!"

"Lu Zhiyao's acting is god-tier!"

"Highly recommended, you'll definitely regret not seeing this movie!"

"I never thought that this movie completely used the plot of the trash game *Mission and Choice* and made it so amazing, especially the final decisive battle..."

Qiao Liang almost got spoiled. He stopped himself from reading further at the last second and quickly exited.

"Spoiling the plot in the friend circle is just wrong!"

"I'm so angry, it's like everyone managed to get tickets for the midnight showing except me!"

Qiao Liang was speechless.

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

Although Jingzhou was only a second-tier city, and tickets weren't usually hard to get, it couldn't withstand the sheer number of Tengda fans!

Too many people were trying to get tickets for the midnight showing, so the tickets for nearby cinemas sold out at lightning speed. Qiao Liang only managed to snag tickets for the afternoon showing.

Of course, with Qiao Liang's relationship with Tengda, it wouldn't be too difficult to ask Fei Huang Workshop for a movie ticket. But he felt a little embarrassed, so he couldn't bring himself to do it.

Even though it was only a dozen hours later, he still had to face the rampant spoilers.

Qiao Liang sighed. It seemed he could only force himself not to look at any social media.

Whether it was novels, movies, or games, the worst thing was spoilers.

The director had racked his brains to come up with a plot twist, and normal viewers would exclaim "Holy crap!" when they saw it, but some idiots who had seen the movie in advance wanted to show off their existence by spoiling it everywhere, both ruining the effect of the director's hard-earned plot twist and seriously affecting the viewing experience of the spoiled viewers.

In short, such spoiler dogs deserved to be punished by everyone!

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

But he tossed and turned in bed for a long time without feeling sleepy.

He had napped for a bit too long today, sleeping until five in the afternoon, and then drank some coffee, so he was still very energetic.

In addition, the spoilers were singing praises for the *Mission and Choice* movie, and those words lingered in his mind, like a playful itch that kept tickling his most vulnerable spot, making him restless.

After rolling around in bed a few times, Qiao Liang subconsciously wanted to play with his phone, but then he realized he couldn't do that.

Because now, whether it was on social media or in various forums, he might encounter spoilers for *Mission and Choice*!

Not being able to surf the internet was despairing.

After staring at the ceiling for a while, Qiao Liang still sat up from the bed and decided to play a game before going to sleep.

"Ah, it's a pity that *Fantasy Battle Remake* hasn't been officially released yet, it has to wait until tomorrow morning."

"If *Fantasy Battle Remake* was available, that would be great, I could even prepare some material for the next 'God-Tier Masterpiece'."

"Then what should I play?"

"*Ink and Wash Clouds* I've already finished, although this game is also very well made, it's still a bit far from the standard of 'God-Tier Masterpiece', and I don't have any good ideas for making a video..."

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

He had beaten most of the games here, and those he hadn't were simply not to his liking or unplayable.

He had already completed *Ink and Wash Clouds* a while ago, and *Fantasy Battle Remake* wouldn't be officially released until 10 AM, so he couldn't play it now.

Not having a suitable game to play was really awkward.

Suddenly, Qiao Liang thought of a sentence from the spoiler.

"Someone online said that the plot of the *Mission and Choice* movie completely followed the original work."

"How could it be adapted?"

This sentence had been lingering in Qiao Liang's mind, causing him genuine confusion.

Because he had played the original trash game *Mission and Choice*, and there was simply no plot in it.

The only thing that resembled a plot was a few lines of text on the promotional poster, such as "Your homeland, Blue Star, is under a terrible threat from the Zerg," but that didn't count as a plot, right?

What was even worse was that the game didn't even show this little bit of plot, and even the dialogue text was only a few lines, perfunctory to the extreme.

But now someone was saying that the plot of the *Mission and Choice* movie was adapted from the original?

"Could it be that there's some hidden plot in the original work that I didn't see?"

"That's impossible, at most they just used a little bit of the world background from the original..."

With this suspicion, Qiao Liang turned on his computer, scanned the desktop, and then remembered that he had already deleted the game.

Qiao Liang's habit was to turn on automatic updates for all games, but he would delete any trash games that he no longer played in a timely manner.

Although Qiao Liang's computer and internet speed were top-notch as a hardcore gamer and game content creator, even a rich man didn't have endless resources. Although there was a lot of hard drive space, having a bunch of trash games was still annoying.

*Mission and Choice* was originally an extremely terrible game. Qiao Liang downloaded it only to make a video, and after the video was completed, he immediately made the game "get out of my computer."

He just didn't expect that he would want to go back into the game again.

But it didn't matter, he could just reinstall it.

Games from that era were only a few dozen megabytes, so it would only take a few seconds with Qiao Liang's internet speed.

After opening the "Collection of Classic Domestic Games", he found that there seemed to be more games in it, including *Ink and Wash Clouds*, which had been officially released a while ago.

And the priority of *Mission and Choice* was directly adjusted to the end of the entire collection, requiring a lot of scrolling to find.

"Is it because the official also feels that this game is embarrassing, so they put it at the end?"

"That's not right, if they thought it was embarrassing, they could just delete it from the collection, right?"

"Huh?"

"Something's not right, there's an update?"

"Holy crap, dozens of gigabytes??"

Qiao Liang was stunned, almost not believing his eyes.

The original *Mission and Choice* was a trash game from over a decade ago, with a size of only a few dozen megabytes.

But now, Qiao Liang was surprised to find that *Mission and Choice* had been updated, and the size of the update package was about the same as the original size, except that the original unit was megabytes, and the current unit had become gigabytes!

This was a direct increase by a thousand times, exceeding the size of many AAA games!

Qiao Liang looked at the download speed. The time to download and install the game should be close to an hour.

"What's going on?"

"Hiss... could it be..."

Connecting it to the previous online discussions, a terrifying conjecture appeared in Qiao Liang's mind.

Some people had speculated before that since Tengda had released the *Mission and Choice* movie, why didn't they release the *Mission and Choice* game? As Tengda, which started with games, would definitely release it!

But this conjecture didn't have any solid evidence. Although everyone was looking forward to it, no one really dared to be sure that Tengda would release a *Mission and Choice* game.

Moreover, everyone thought that even if Tengda wanted to release a remake of *Mission and Choice*, they would definitely relist it on the official store, re-promote it, and start completely from scratch.

After all, when they made *Fantasy Battle Remake*, they wouldn't directly update it on the old game, they would definitely release a new game.

*Mission and Choice* was even less likely to be mixed up with the original trash game!

Therefore, although Qiao Liang had heard this conjecture and thought it made sense, he never expected that Tengda would directly release an update package on this old game!

Qiao Liang rubbed his eyes, thinking that it was too late, he was too tired and his eyes were blurry.

But the update package of dozens of gigabytes was indeed real!

The production company of *Mission and Choice* had long gone bankrupt, and the game was now owned by the official platform.

This update, it couldn't be that the official platform updated it themselves, right?

A prank? That was impossible, April Fool's Day was already half a month ago.

Qiao Liang suddenly perked up. He felt that these dozens of gigabytes seemed to contain infinite possibilities!

He didn't expect there to be a surprise!