in the second month, Yun You's game "Damocles Sword" entered the internal testing phase.

　　Someone in the office got the opportunity to participate in the internal testing.

　　We were shocked to find that the game released by Yunyou has many similarities with the game we are developing.

　　Apart from the cyberpunk setting and open-world role-playing gameplay, what really caught our attention is the dynamic dialogue feature with NPCs without pre-set scripts.

　　Compared to our game, theirs seems like a poorly made simplified version.

　　Facing such a low-quality product, everyone feels a sense of frustration as if they have been beaten to it, making them sick to their stomachs.

　　We didn't think of it as plagiarism because they have already entered the beta testing phase while we haven't even released a trailer yet.

　　Plus, their game is so bad that no one wants to associate it with ours.

　　I strongly suspect that Jin Ci's so-called entrepreneurship is just a way to exploit Li Yuan for money.

　　Qiao Yining feels that something is not right and has been exploring this game day and night, to the extent that she suddenly sends me a recorded video in the middle of the night saying, "Look at this bug." In a half-dreaming state, I opened the video and in the game, there was a glitch with the holographic humanoid ad above the city, faintly showing the name of the Republic City.

　　I woke up suddenly.

　　Their map doesn't have a Republic City, but it is the central landmark of our unreleased game.

　　My heart suddenly tightens with a feeling of unease, making it impossible to fall back asleep.

　　I entered the game and started searching for NPCs to talk to.

　　Without any hesitation, I asked the same fixed question to all NPCs: "Are you real?" In our design, although all NPCs can engage in natural language interaction with players, once the players ask this question, all NPCs would give the same answer -- "I think, therefore I am." After a short pause, I heard the familiar response.

　　Yes, Jin Ci's team has stolen our source code.

　　Their game is just a rehashed trash.

　　Jin Ci thought they had stolen the code without leaving any trace, but little did he know that the flaw was hidden in every detail.