Ying Lili remembered that she had watched a Hollywood blockbuster. The hacker protagonist in the movie was typing away on the keyboard, and all kinds of information were jumping on the screen, accompanied by the BGM. Although she couldn't understand it, it always gave her a very high-tech feeling.
But now, she saw the real version here.
Fang Zheng stood in front of the black stone pillar, tapping on the keyboard. All he could hear were alarm sounds that made people panic. Signs with "ERROR" and "WARNING" appeared out of thin air from time to time. At this moment, Yui stared at Fang Zheng's operation in amazement, muttering to herself with emotion.
"Dad... you're awesome..."
"Yui? What is Mr. Fangzheng doing?"
Hearing Yui's sigh, Asuna couldn't help but ask. Being a programmer was not one of the life goals her mother had planned for her. If Asuna was asked to talk about piano classical music, she might be able to say a few words, but facing the jumping characters in front of her, Asuna felt like she was reading a book written in a foreign language.
"Dad is hacking into Cardinal's main system, and he's almost succeeded!!"
Yui clenched her hands in excitement, staring at the scene in front of her with wide eyes. As a subprogram, Yui knew Cardinal's power better than anyone else. He was the emperor of all programs, the supreme ruler, and the one who could decide life and death with a single word. However, what Fang Zheng was doing now was no different from a mortal killing a god in Yui's eyes!
Asuna still didn't quite understand, but Eriri understood a little and her eyes suddenly brightened.
"Wait, that means... Mr. Fang Zheng can control this system? Then can he send us out directly?"
"Can."
Hearing Ying Lili's question, Fang Zheng, who was typing on the keyboard, replied without turning his head.
"GM has the authority to force all players to log out. I just confirmed this."
"So what are we waiting for?"
At this moment, Ying Lili couldn't wait any longer.
"Let's log out now!"
"Are you sure?"
However, Fang Zheng turned around and glanced at Ying Lili. His indifferent reaction made Ying Lili stunned for a moment.
"What...is there a problem?"
"Of course, are you sure that after we log out forcefully, we won't die? Instead, we will return to the real world?"
"this……"
Faced with Fang Zheng's question, Ying Lili was stunned and didn't know what to say for a moment.
"Then why not find someone to try it out..."
"If they found someone we don't know, it's fine if they died, but are you sure they will come back if they're alive? You're looking for someone we know to do this experiment...are you serious?"
“…”
Facing Fang Zheng's question, Ying Lili was speechless. Indeed, as Fang Zheng said, the chances of death and safe escape were 50-50, but who would you want to do the experiment? If they found someone they didn't know, as Fang Zheng said, if they escaped safely, how could they guarantee that they would be willing to come back and tell them that the experiment was successful? But if they found someone they knew, if they died... wouldn't it be like they killed their friends and companions with their own hands?
"Wow... Is there really no way?"
"No."
Fang Zheng answered very straightforwardly.
"If this were in the real world, or if I could get the development rights from Kayaba Akihiko, then I could still give it a try, but it's not possible here."
At this point, Fang Zheng also sighed. If this happened in the real world, he would have just used his personal terminal to trick Kayaba Akihiko into doubting his life. But in the game world, he was like a housewife without rice, but he couldn't make a meal without rice. The GM's management device might look very impressive to ordinary players, but Fang Zheng knew it was not enough.
Don’t be fooled by the fact that GMs seem very powerful in front of ordinary players and can ban anyone they want. In fact, their job is just high-level customer service and system maintenance and debugging.
This is the same as the fact that you cannot expect a mechanic to design the latest nuclear submarine for you.
Even those who repair nuclear submarines are not allowed.
GMs only have the privileges to debug and maintain the system, but they do not have development privileges either. If Fang Zheng wants to figure out how to log out so that he can return safely instead of being killed on the spot, he must find the underlying code. However, GMs certainly cannot see the underlying code - even if they could see it, they could not modify it, so it is useless.
"So what are you doing now, Mr. Fang Zheng?"
After thinking it through, Ying Lili gave up. Since it was impossible for Fang Zheng to send them out safely through this GM authority, then what was he busy with now?
"One is Yui's question, and the other is that I want to look up as much information as possible about this system..."
Fang Zheng answered a few words lightly, and then his fingers began to tap on the keyboard again like crazy.
He did not give Eriri a detailed explanation. In fact, what Fang Zheng had to do now was to try to seize the management authority of Cardinal.
Of course, just trying.
This is the same as Yang Weili's fight with Reinhard. Yang Weili was just a fleet commander, but in the end he forced the Imperial Emperor Reinhard into a dead end and almost changed the entire history of the universe. This was naturally not due to Yang Weili's large number of soldiers and generals, but the correct tactical choice.
So Fang Zheng is now learning from Yang Weili's method. He does nothing else. After blocking the authority on his side and building a wall to resist Cardinal, Fang Zheng marches northward, **, and directly attacks Huanglong.
As long as he can bring Reinhardt's flagship within his attack range, the enemy will have no choice but to surrender no matter how many soldiers and generals they have.
Cardinal would not give up, just like a good girl who was cornered by a gangster while walking at night. First, her wallet was robbed, and then she was asked to take off her clothes. However, Cardinal naturally refused to obey. She fought back desperately, and then she was slapped in the face and stunned, and then she was directly pushed to the ground.
Then Cardinal screamed, and she stretched out her hands to struggle and resist, but Fang Zheng had already pushed her to the ground unreasonably, and stretched out his hands to tear off her coat, revealing her underwear. At this moment, Cardinal was ashamed and angry, not only for what happened to her, but also for her honest body.
What made her feel even more humiliated was that after Fang Zheng roughly played with her body, he reached out and pressed his hand against her chin, forcing her to look up, and then looked at her with an indescribable smile on his face.
"Since I've played with you, you're mine from now on. You have to do whatever I tell you to do. Do you understand?"
What can Cardinal do in the face of such ruffians and scoundrels?
I could only nod and agree...
“Didi——!!”
With a slight sound, Asuna and Eriri saw that the red warning signs that were originally hanging all over the room disappeared instantly, and the screen in front of Fang Zheng also returned to its original state of seeming to be somewhat quiet.
"How is it, Mr. Fang Zheng?"
Seeing this scene, Ying Lili couldn't wait to ask, and in response to Ying Lili's question, Fang Zheng frowned and then shrugged his shoulders.
"It's half and half... The situation is not too good, but it's not too bad either."
Eventually, Cardinal and Fang Zheng reached a compromise, and Fang Zheng did not gain nothing. At least through the invasion of Cardinal, he discovered the rules within the entire system - to put it simply, Kayaba Akihiko placed a command A in the entire game system, and this command A was the culprit that caused the players' deaths.
That is to say, under the design of Akihiko Kayaba, all the player's logout methods will eventually be fed back to this A command, and then the A command will be activated, and then the full stealth device will destroy the player's brain, causing his death.
If you want to log out safely, you need to bypass command A and log out from command B. However, there is only one condition for logging out of command B - that is to defeat the Boss on the 100th floor.
Now Fang Zheng also understood why no one dared to act rashly in reality. If they wanted to change this rule, they had to start from the bottom up, and the game could not be shut down for maintenance during this period. This was even more troublesome than removing a bomb threat. Considering the political capital and public opinion risks that would be incurred if they failed, people in reality would definitely not act rashly.
However, what puzzled Fang Zheng was that the login of Kayaba Akihiko's account showed that the connection with the server was accidentally disconnected some time ago... What the hell was going on?