A few months ago, Xu Youyuan was still the producer of "Reshaping the Universe", and she was an industry leader who attracted much attention with her every move. On the special day of the fifth anniversary of "Reinventing the Universe", she devoted all her energy to the anniversary version.
Everything went smoothly, and at the critical stage of the test, Xu Youyuan received a call from her father.
Two years ago, her mother was diagnosed with cancer. Xu Youyuan was the first to know about it and has been actively treating it. Xu Youyuan never blinked, she just hoped that her illness could be cured. Even if she can't really save her in the end, Xu Youyuan wants to reduce her pain as much as possible.
In the past, ordinary people had terminal illnesses, and most of them had no possibility of being cured, or the cost of treatment was astronomical, so they didn't think much about it and waited for death. It is possible to die simply, without suffering too much, and with less burden on the family. Some of them died in a sloppy way, and they felt uncomfortable, and their families had to lose their life savings.
Now that medical care is more developed, it should be a good thing. Many illnesses were terminally ill before, but there is hope when they are released now. As long as they pay enough money, they can be cured. Even if there is really no hope in the end, advanced technology can be used to minimize the suffering of the patient.
People die eventually, and the key is how to die. Whether to come to this world crying and leave with a smile, or to come and leave crying, depends on whether enough money is given.
With such a big temptation in front of you, will you give me money
Xu Youyuan had the only way to give money obediently.
200,000 yuan per day for ordinary drugs, not including special drugs and photochemical therapy. After each treatment, there is some improvement, and the cancer cells are temporarily blocked, but there is no guarantee how long it will last.
Day after day, it was so exhausting, even an elite rich man like Xu Youyuan could hardly support it.
She sold two houses, and her savings was rapidly depleted. Fortunately, her success over the years had allowed her to accumulate enough, and she finally saw a turnaround.
The last operation was very successful. The family knew that her daughter was busy with work and sometimes did not have time to go home during holidays. She wanted to let her go back to work when she was all right. Unexpectedly, not long after Xu Youyuan left, her mother's condition deteriorated rapidly.
This time, she still received a critical illness notice, and the situation was more serious than any other time. She understood without having to say more from her father.
Xu Youyuan had obvious exhaustion on her face when she came out of the vacuum train station.
It was the time when the anniversary version was going to be launched, but my mother was critically ill, and it was impossible for her not to come back. After receiving a call from her father, she bought a ticket for the latest bus, the first bus at 6 o'clock the next morning. After all night and night, all the important things were explained, and then I hurried to the station.
There is a hunch that this time going home will be the last time she and her mother see each other, and I don't know how long it will take.
After staying at home for five days, colleagues from the project team called every day, and she explained all of them in detail and kept records.
There seems to be some problem, the subordinates talk hesitantly, and the video conference has been interrupted.
baffling.
It's not that Xu Youyuan didn't pay more attention.
On the sixth day, my mother's mental state has improved, and she can even eat some porridge. She has to take off the oxygen mask and talk to her family.
Talking intermittently until the middle of the night, Xu Youyuan and her father did not dare to sleep, and kept holding on. When it was almost dawn, the mother said that she wanted to eat the pot edge at the door of the house, which was the favorite breakfast for Xu Youyuan and her family when she was a child.
Xu Youyuan placed a takeaway order, and the pot was quickly delivered.
The hospital has regulations that the food delivery staff can only wait outside. Xu Youyuan asked her father to stay in the ward and pick up the food herself.
Every second counts, she is afraid that she will not be able to fulfill her mother's last wish in time, and she is even more afraid that she will not see the last face.
When she returned to the ward with the hot pot in the thermos cup, her mother still opened her eyes weakly. This skinny old lady was very tenaciously supporting her life and did not want to leave any regrets for her family. .
As Xu Youyuan thought, her mother only ate a pot of pot and died after eating it.
Dad was overwhelmed with grief and was in a coma for a long time, and relatives at home came to help, but the more and more they helped.
The whole process was handled by Xu Youyuan alone. She was calm, because there was no time to grieve, and a clear and cruel voice in her head was telling her that when a person died, nothing was left, and no amount of grief would help. Fortunately, when my mother was alive, she gave the best she could, with a clear conscience.
The day of her mother's death was the fifth anniversary of "Reinventing the Universe". When the anniversary edition was launched, she was in contact with the funeral procession. She did not receive a single video call on the computer, and the communication records were even erased afterwards. , This strange thing was discovered a long time later.
Then came that terrible disaster.
Just as she was busy with her mom's funeral, the fifth-anniversary version of "Reinvented the Universe" had a major bug that had never been seen before, and it all happened too quickly and unexpectedly.
After the new version was updated, the vulnerability appeared.
Tens of thousands of players frantically created epic vehicles, and the huge number of players who "reshape the universe" made the situation develop into an uncontrollable state in a very short period of time, and the game balance was completely destroyed.
As a leader in the game industry, it is impossible for SQUALL to have no preventive measures. The easiest way is to cut off the entrance, let all players disconnect, and then slowly repair it.
There will be compensation, and players who take advantage of the loopholes and violate the rules will also be punished. "Reshaping the Universe" has gone through countless tests and challenges in the past five years. Although this outbreak was very sudden and violent, they are still very confident that it can be settled quickly. At most, the online forum will be lively for a while. will subside in a short time.
This is everyone's experience.
But what happened next caught these self-proclaimed experienced industry insiders by surprise.
Everything that happened below is unknown to outsiders, only the top insiders hear about it.
Someone took advantage of the loophole to hack into the game server, cracked the encryption program in a very short time, and stole the account information of tens of thousands of players. Player accounts are linked to bank cards or payment software, and their money is quickly stolen.
Five hundred, one thousand... ten thousand, fifty thousand...
Hundreds of millions of yuan have been swept away in an instant before everyone could respond in time, and this number is still growing rapidly at a rate of 100,000 per second.
The strange thing is that in the past, large-scale abnormal transfers were monitored by the government, thereby freezing the transfer account header and path. But this time, the hackers seem to have gotten through it long ago, very cleverly evading monitoring, and transferring huge sums of money overseas.
The transfer process was extremely smooth, and the parties did not even receive the transfer information.
Everything is happening in secret.
The success of "Reshaping the Universe" in the past, and the huge number of proud users, seems so ironic at this moment.
More than 40% of the people in the country have accounts of "Reshape the Universe", and there are more than one billion players worldwide. And the game adopts an online hosting system, which allows players to keep their accounts active in the game world when they are working or sleeping.
There are many activities in the 5th Anniversary Edition, and the massive rewards and rewards naturally attract countless players to the server, and the number of online players has hit a record high.
The more people online, the higher the amount stolen.
This is a proud achievement, but it has become a big mountain of backlash.
Finally, someone found that their money was gone, and quickly reported the case and went online. The matter was spread at the speed of light.
Players check their accounts one after another, and it's too late, the account has been swiped.
There is no evidence to prove that all this is caused by "reshaping the universe", because the transfer path is encrypted and has not been cracked for the time being. In terms of encryption level, even if it is cracked, it may not be able to find the real path.
The public does not let SQUALL go because there is no tangible evidence. How to vent their anger never needs the support of evidence.
The voices of criticism on the Internet continued, and SQUALL never showed up.
How much money was taken away, the police did not make the results public, not even a public press conference.
According to legend, by the time the accounts involved were completely frozen, the total amount transferred was as high as 800 billion.
However, 800 billion is just the beginning.
"I didn't tell you, as soon as I came back from my hometown, the police were already waiting for me and took me directly from the station." Xu Youyuan was calm when she talked about this, but Shi Ye felt a chill in her back. .
"800 billion... My God..." Shi Ye said, "I thought it was a huge amount, but I didn't expect it to be so terrible..."
Xu Youyuan said: "The economic loss is actually easy to say, and the more terrible is yet to come."
As a pioneer of holographic immersion games, "Reinventing the Universe" was hailed as a revolutionary product when it came out, and the game access device directly connected to neurons was even called one of the greatest inventions of the 21st century. It allows players to truly immerse themselves in the perfect game world and get the most direct and exciting game experience in a game world that is infinitely close to the real world - which is also the main reason for the unprecedented success of "Reinventing the Universe".
However, from the early days of the game's launch until today, doubts about it have never stopped.
The operation of direct access to neurons can indeed build a very real game scene in the brain, but what kind of damage to the brain, the critics feel that the report given by SQUALL is not authoritative enough to prove that their game is harmless to the human body of.
SQUALL does not intend to ignore these doubts. After all, all the data show that players are not affected by these doubts, and the money they earn is real.
As a producer, Xu Youyuan has always put "guaranteeing the personal safety of gamers" in the first place. She is indeed like all contemporary young people. She wants to succeed and do something big to change the world, but the words "life is at stake" have always been hanging in her heart.
She has been the first group of volunteers since the earliest research and development. All experimental reports have proved that her game has no damage to the human body.
What she saw and experienced with her own eyes would not be fake.
But this vehicle incident not only emptied the player's account, but even directly caused fatal damage to more than 200 players.
According to the description of their family members, the injured person fell into a coma with a loud cry less than two minutes after connecting to the game, foaming at the mouth, and has remained unconscious until now, with very similar symptoms.
For a time, all the media and the public's attention was aimed at "reshaping the universe", and the words were constantly criticized.
Whether she admits it or not, or shows her face or not, Xu Youyuan, the project leader, has been pushed to the edge of the cliff.
Xu Youyuan spent two weeks at the police station before being released on bail.
What happened in the past two weeks, she had no idea.
By the time she returned to the company, everything seemed to be settled.
The company is said to have hired people to recover most of the money and to appease the victim's family, who also plans not to pursue it. What's even more magical is that the family members actually changed their tune and said that the injured people lying in the hospital were not the result of playing "reshape the universe", but they themselves had a history of other diseases, and "reshape the universe" directly connected to the neurons way without any problems.
The most important thing is that someone has already taken the blame.
Xu Youyuan was completely dumbfounded.
Immediately afterwards, the navy rushed into the social network and completely washed away the previous negative public opinion about the company.
The hacker gang that broke into the game and transferred 800 billion yuan was caught by SQUALL and submitted to the police, and the action was extremely fast. From the initial violent collective crusade to the recovery of the money and an objective compensation, the attitude of the people has naturally changed dramatically. In the later period, when there was no water control field, many people spontaneously spoke for SQUALL.
It can be said that SQUALL avoided the dead spot perfectly in this disaster. Instead of being sunk to the bottom of the sea by a huge wave, it rushed to a higher place through the turbulent waves.
It's incredible how it all worked out perfectly in two weeks.
When Shi Ye heard this, he took a deep breath: "It's like..."
"You feel the same way, right." Xu Youyuan's eyes were sharp, "It's like everything has been prepared."
"You mean, SQUALL's executives have long anticipated this incident?" Shi Ye said, "Could it be that you are over-hearted? After all, there is such a big commotion, no matter how powerful the public relations are, and if someone talks with money, SQUALL itself will not be able to do it. It's not good for anyone if you can't escape the negativity. Besides, isn't someone taking the blame?"
Xu Youyuan said: "Someone took the blame, the reason why it is called 'the blame' is because everyone understands that that person is in the situation for me, and the real source of the problem is still me.
"The two weeks in the police station were longer than two centuries. At the time, I really thought my life was over. However, when I came out and saw the situation, I had another subtle feeling."