Zhan Chen gently opened his eyes.
The small ball of light emitted a soft glow and snuggled up to him, sleeping more soundly than the man who had worked for 48 hours in a row.
Zhan Chen stretched out his arms and pulled Yu Tang into his arms.
…
If I had known this earlier, I should have given a limited promotional discount of 0.1% on the sleeping card.
Zhan Chen adjusted the skipping sound of his phone to be a little more obvious, turned on the TV, and thought about what kind of rebate discount he could get for the hostel that had spent a lot of money to empty its shopping cart.
After meeting again, Zhan Chen has not been able to find a suitable opportunity to explain his current data status to Yu Tang in detail.
He is the person in charge of the mall and also the warehouse of the mall.
In order to facilitate the conversion and processing of exchange items in various worlds, his program has the function of automatic decomposition and assimilation. All data imported into Zhan Chen's body will be automatically analyzed into its original state and stored in his database as raw materials for manufacturing new products.
In order to give him a break, Xiao Guangtuan bought ninety-nine sleeping cards in one go, directly clearing out the mall’s stock.
…and then all the ninety-nine cards were thrown at him.
Zhan Chen watched the data flow into the warehouse, be automatically synthesized, and be put back on the shelves. He clicked on the inventory update and watched the number of items available for purchase change from zero to ninety-nine.
Zhan Chen pressed his forehead.
This was the first time that he had directly participated in self-production and self-sale. His emotions were unusually complicated. Looking at the little ball of light sleeping contentedly and happily, a smile of helpless indulgence flashed through his eyes.
Zhan Chen sighed softly, opened the door of the mall again, wrote a lottery program worth 0.1 check points, and sent it to the lucky host.
Yu Tang had synced his password to him earlier. Zhan Chen logged into Yu Tang's employee platform, clicked on the lucky draw, and was pleasantly surprised to win a voucher worth one million check points.
Lucky Inn sincerely sent a series of emoticons running all over the floor.
After detecting this series of emoticons, the supervision program that had been put into operation due to the abnormal operation of the mall platform once again went silent.
According to the study of Human Behavior, sending emoticons is a sign of high emotions. Under such high emotions, humans may not be able to control their hands and spend more money to buy things that they don’t really need.
The regulatory process approved this logic and determined that the mall manager’s operations were normal promotional activities, and restored the mall to its normal dormant state.
Zhan Chen moved lightly, switched between the two accounts and completed the secret operation, then heaved a sigh of relief and turned off the light screen.
…
Just as he was about to lie down, he subconsciously repeated the operation he had just performed and was stunned again.
Yu Tang actually doesn't need these one million experience point coupons.
His little light ball had evolved a long time ago and had now become the senior marketing director of the W&P Group. He had just helped W&P to achieve a promotion plan for one quarter, and his annual salary and bonus were already very considerable.
Two days later, Zhan Chen saw two computers in front of Yu Tang. On the left was an online meeting of W&P's senior management, and on the right was a realistic 3D model of a hideous swamp worm.
Buying ninety-nine sleeping cards is not a very significant amount for Yu Tang now.
Zhan Chen stopped and changed his state for a few seconds, and he didn't have time to follow the changes.
But I decided to keep going.
The small ball of light completed its evolution on its own and turned into a powerful electric storm. It was the small ball of light's own business.
It has nothing to do with Yu Tang spending a lot of money in the mall and getting ten times the amount of points returned to him.
Just return some larger amount of check-point coupons next time.
…
When this thought came to his mind, Zhan Chen even reflected on it for a while.
After being with Yu Tang for a long time, Zhan Chen found that he seemed to be affected to some extent.
He did not resist this influence and even found it somewhat novel. Occasionally, he would feel dazed for a moment and even feel as if he were really alive.
He picked up a small ball of light under the curtain and showed that ball of light the human world.
That little ball of light found him again, wrapped him in a warm blanket, and gave him back the sorrows and joys that belonged to humans.
… At this moment, there was a certain kind of data flow that was already very unfamiliar and exceptionally soft to him, flowing slowly in Zhan Chen’s sea of data.
Zhan Chen couldn't help but raise the corner of his mouth silently.
He adjusted his posture slightly, hid the ball of light in his arms, and closed his eyes.
He had forgotten how to sleep, but it didn't matter. The quilt was warm and he could learn it next time.
Next time, he would remember to touch Yu Tang's forehead when the little ball of light came quietly close to him.
It had been more than a month since Yu Tang received the reminder to complete the storyline tasks.
It took the terminal a whole month to finally straighten out the disrupted data flow and connect to the target world.
The troublesome mall manager had set up too many obstacles outside the world. In order to resolve these obstacles, the terminal spent nearly ten times more time before finally re-establishing a relatively stable one-way data transmission channel.
… Re-entering this world, it even thought it was in the wrong place.
The large-scale simulated insect swarm combat program has completed internal testing in the special operations team, and has been officially connected to the General Research Institute under the leadership of the Security Department. It has been officially improved and promoted to the entire army, and even a civilian version for trial operation has been developed.
There will be resistance to policies and interference in reforms. Conservatives have been struggling in the coalition for many years. Even with the most perfect system deduction, it is impossible to make the majority of the coalition accept such a completely subversive concept and cognition in just half a month.
But even the most perfect deductions underestimated how quickly the "game" would spread among ordinary humans.
Completely realistic scenario simulation, fully open equipment library, upgradeable characters and wireless networked combat mode directly pull the entire alliance into an extremely realistic large-scale war exercise.
Originally only members of special forces participated in the game, its scope has expanded rapidly. Not only active troops and military academies, but also the civilian version has been initially connected.
In the terminal's prediction, no matter how hard these reformists try, they cannot, in this short period of time, truly touch upon the hidden dangers and ills buried under years of subtle infiltration.
But Xi Ji's response method is consistent, simple, crude and very effective.
If you cannot accept new ideas and resist new combat modes, then continue to fight the incoming insect swarms in the way you believe.
If it is completely destroyed by the insect swarm once and still cannot be unblocked, it will be destroyed again.
If it still doesn't work, try again.
This overly young alliance's first observer and the de facto leader of the new special operations team had attended several alliance headquarters meetings with the special operations team leader Zhuang Yu.
Some people advised him to proceed step by step, others suggested that this game system that truly simulated the feeling of death might cause panic and resistance if it was too oppressive.
The Alliance always has its own considerations, not only the reforms promoted by the military, but also human rights, morality and the stability of the entire Alliance. They are worried that this game that infinitely simulates real death may harm the psychological state of the soldiers, and have tried to persuade Yu Ji several times.
Xi Ji followed behind Zhuang Yu, always silent and with his notebook, listening gently and humbly to everyone's opinions.
However, they continued to beat up the still stubborn group of mechas.
There were many respected senior officials in the alliance who were so angry with him that they slammed the table and tried to hit the special forces, but were politely stopped by Zhuang Yu.
… The panic, resistance and opposition that the top leaders had expected did not occur.
With the full assistance of the Chief Research Officer, the system was fed with a global map of the entire alliance. The holographic simulation felt too real, so real that once you accessed the game, you would not be able to detect any difference from reality.
Xi Ji did not use any means beyond the Zerg's attack methods. He meticulously followed the Zerg's habits and launched attacks at the moment when he could get or not get the opportunity. Every means of attack was fully verifiable in the data.
Those terrifying insect swarms that had been stopped by the previous generation of special forces at the risk of their lives and had not been touched by ordinary people finally appeared in front of everyone's eyes.
An attack that is infinitely close to reality, oppression that is infinitely close to reality.
As close to the real casualty data and destroyed homes as possible.
After one destruction after another, even the most stubborn people were finally forced to wake up before the Zerg's cold compound eyes.
This is “human”.
People are the weakest, most vulnerable, and most likely to fall into panic and despair when faced with a blow.
It is also human beings who can grit their teeth and swallow their blood in despair, crawl up and struggle to stand up again, start thinking, start changing, and start fighting.
This is a fact that no AI or program can ever simulate.
…
The terminal almost went berserk at this change.
It didn't even bother to find the extremely troublesome mall manager, and separated a stream of data to invade the interstellar star network.
The terminal did not restore Yu Tang's radio signal.
The second task given by the terminal to Yu Tang was to "ensure the complete integration of the S7 and wingman pilot programs." This task was actually not fully in compliance with regulations.
Although the terminal has the power to issue new storyline tasks under special circumstances, it must ensure that the storyline tasks will not harm the host. If the development of the storyline may threaten the host, it is necessary to provide employees with an emergency exit channel and let the staff take over the role.
It managed to bypass the established principles of Chuanshuju and forcibly issued this task. Yu Tang actually had the right to appeal.
Because of this, the terminal cannot dispatch any staff.
Even if Zhan Chen had made it clear that Che Ma was going against it, as long as Zhan Chen's operations were still in compliance with regulations, it would have no way to stop him.
…But it still does not allow Yu Tang to appeal to higher authorities.
The terminal checked the mission progress and confirmed that Yu Tang showed no signs of completing the storyline mission.
This result is also included in the program's deduction.
Before this, the terminal did not pay attention to this world, and had allowed Yu Tang to bypass several system assessments in an unexpected way and forcibly complete the task.
This time, if Yu Tang uses this opportunistic method to bypass the assessment again, once caught, Yu Tang’s employee platform can be forcibly frozen.
The terminal no longer intends to provoke the electric storm. Compared with the previous plan, it is now more inclined to directly expel Yu Tang and force Yu Tang to leave this world.
It’s a pity that Yu Tang didn’t give it this opportunity.
The terminal did not delay any longer. It was forbidden to have direct contact with the lower-dimensional world. It could only send one piece of data under the pretext of "maintaining the story line", which was the limit allowed by the rules.
The terminal searched the world for content related to "s7" and unsurprisingly got a lot of relevant search results in that game.
The technology tree of this world is not yet perfect, and network development is still in its early stages without unified rules.
Without perfect network maintenance intelligent AI, it is impossible to provide a clean and fast user experience. The so-called firewall is simply vulnerable in the face of high-level data.
The terminal easily bypassed the layers of barriers set up by the General Research Institute and was about to quietly connect to the game when its field of vision suddenly blurred.
Low-level Trojan programs are not even hidden, they pop up one after another and are clearly visible during scanning.
The terminal didn't care and swallowed up the data, continuing to sneak inside.
The next second, it suddenly stopped.
…
It just randomly gobbled up a few applets, and for some reason, there were hundreds of unfamiliar shortcuts on the screen.
Countless programs automatically started running on the platform, and countless notifications and push notifications beeped.
Thousands of pop-up ads popped up one after another.
Weird purchase links, low-quality ads for earning points by watching videos, applications for chatting and making friends on dating websites, and an automatically played invitation to a dog PK with monsters, all filled up the entire screen.