When an AI chip was implanted in his brain, he rose to power

Untitled Part 10 Develop programs

When Jason got home, he logged into his account on "Cheat999" and downloaded a paid cheat program. He quickly dug into its code, and before long, he had it all figured out. Honestly, cheat programs weren't that complicated—mostly a bunch of batch files controlling the mouse, keyboard, and tweaking data packets. Of course, a good cheat had a huge edge over a mediocre one.

In no time, Jason confidently wrote his own standalone version of the cheat. As he booted up the game, he started thinking about what features would be useful for lazy gamers—or more accurately, those who didn't have much time to play.

He pinged Fat Head Fish on QQ, chatted for a bit, and then sent over an installation package to try out.

Half an hour later, a message from Fat Head Fish popped up, just a giant exclamation mark. Jason replied, asking why he was so hyped.

Fat Head Fish sent a crying emoji. "Dude, this is so cool! Boss, man, this cheat is amazing! I freaking love you!"

Jason laughed. "Hey, I'm a guy, not interested in your love! Now, instead of all the praise, tell me what else you need."

"Can we hop on a video call? Typing is way too slow—I'm terrible at pinyin."

Jason's laptop had a built-in webcam, so they quickly connected. Once the call started, Jason couldn't help but lecture him. "Are you using the Smart ABC input? That's great for high school students, because it forces you to remember how to differentiate retroflex and nasal sounds. Get one wrong, and the characters don't show up. But for people who aren't good at Wubi and struggle with pinyin, Tsinghua Unisplendour Pinyin is the way to go. You can tweak it for fuzzy sounds, mix up Ls and Ns, ignore retroflexes, even type in traditional characters. The more you use it, the more customized it becomes. It even saves your own dictionary for when you reinstall."

"Boss, can you not go into ad mode? We're supposed to be talking cheats, not input methods!"

Jason chuckled, "I just added a few small features. Anything else you need?"

"Small features? Man, I'm beyond impressed! Your auto-buy health and mana potions and the teleport function on the map are insane!"

"Come on, give me some real suggestions. I know I'm a genius, no need to rub it in!" Jason joked, enjoying the admiration from someone much older.

"Suggestions? Hey, you guys! Come here and tell the boss what else you want!" Fat Head Fish's side grew noisy.

"What's going on? You let others use the software?" Jason asked, sounding a bit annoyed.

"Boss, these are just my buddies. No worries, they wouldn't dare report me! They saw how awesome it is and begged me to try it, so I caved and let them test it."

"Fine. Ask them for feedback then..." Jason sighed.

After a while, they came back with a list of requests:

In addition to auto-buying potions, they wanted an auto-sell function for junk items and an auto-store function for valuable gear.

Since the game had to run in full-screen mode, they couldn't easily switch to other applications. Many cheats had a switching feature, but it didn't work well with QQ and browsers.

A dodge function would be useful, as it would reduce the risk of getting reported. Auto-avoidance would help evade other players.

The speed adjustment feature needed improvement. Accelerating too much often led to forced logouts. The loot and mob snatching functions could use some enhancements too.

That was pretty much it. Although these functions seemed simple, they were actually tricky to implement. Just the auto-sell and auto-store feature took Jason a whole week to complete. Analyzing the game's code and finding the item IDs alone took two or three days.