Ten days passed quickly as the players waited.
During these ten days, due to excessive promises, StarCraft players who originally only needed to wait for the "Shan Hai Lu" event now have to wait for the internal and public beta tests of "Taohuayuan". Producer CH has been dragged out and criticized countless times.
There were even many people who were tempted by the internal test live broadcast and bought spaceship tickets to Ocean Star overnight, trying to experience the joy of going to the beach to catch the sea in person...but they found that it was not the same as what they had agreed!
The ocean stars they imagine: beaches, sea urchins, cat's-eye snails, and vast oceans.
The actual Ocean Star: There is indeed a large ocean, and the scenery is pretty good, but it is all sea, without a shore. The only island is an artificial island surrounded by cliffs. The special tourist program is a one-day tour of the deep sea around the world.
When tourists asked to experience catching marine creatures, the staff of Ocean Star took out a large net and kindly told the players that they could experience the joy of catching sea monsters with their own hands by paying a little more money.
Players who come to travel: ...
No, no, I just want to pinch cat's-eye snails and catch crabs, no need for sea monsters!
Finally, the StarCraft players who returned from a few days of traveling on the Ocean Star still had to squat on CH's homepage and wait for a spot in the internal test.
It was in such anticipation that time finally arrived at the eve of the launch of the [Xiao Yao You] event.
As usual, the producers of Work and Rest Underworld update the activities at midnight, and this time is no exception. Many players have been squatting in the game early, waiting to get the news of the new activities as soon as possible.
The same goes for Yu Mao, who has the ID [草木盛生].
As an 'old' player of "Shan Hai Lu" since its launch, Yu Mao is the most active one in every activity, although he is silent.
At this time, he was learning to recognize various things in the tribe. While listening to the tribesmen explain how to use a certain wooden arc tool, he also paid attention to the time from time to time.
It's 23:50.
There are ten minutes left until the event starts.
Yu Mao submitted all the materials that the tribe was required to submit every day. After listening to the explanation of the tribal residents, he picked up the wooden arc tool and tried it. He found it was particularly difficult to use. The tribal resident who explained it to him smiled and demonstrated to him how to hold it.
The time reached 23:55.
Except for players like Yu Mao, other players who have nothing to do in the game have started to open social chat channels to chat with others.
By 23:59, many people noticed that the game map began to change. The original border began to expand and extend, and an ocean map called [Beiming] appeared.
"It's started, it's started! Let's go and take a look!" Many players asked their friends to give him a ride and fly with them to the newly released map.
Just flying...
"Isn't this last minute a bit too long?" Someone noticed that the time had stopped at 23:59 and had not changed for a while.
The North Sea has been completely constructed, and they can vaguely see a huge shadow floating in the water of the North Sea.
From a distance, the shadow could be seen as the shape of a huge fish. As it swam, its back emerged from the sea, like a continent rising from the bottom of the sea, making everything on the land look extremely small.
This is only the part of it that is exposed above the sea.
It looks like a big scene at first glance!
The players stood on tiptoe and looked out in anticipation.
However, at this moment, the cloudless sky suddenly changed.
The light blue sky seemed to be melting, forming black holes one after another. These black holes, which were extremely inconsistent with the entire prehistoric world, turned into puddles of water, dripping from the sky. When the black water plummeted to the ground, it transformed into bizarre black liquid monsters.
Many black liquid monsters fell directly onto the back of the giant sea beast, which was unknown how wide and long it was, and quickly lay down to eat it.
In the blink of an eye, many bumpy black spots appeared on the giant beast's back.
……What's this?
Players were a bit confused, “Is this part of the event?”
But the image of this black monster doesn’t seem to match the style of "Shan Hai Lu"?
Ordinary players were still confused, but Yu Mao, who worked in the gaming industry, saw the problem at a glance.
These black liquid monsters are not part of any activity, but are clearly caused by foreign data invading the game world.
Generally, when game companies secretly attack and sabotage each other, they will use such means. If we use concepts on Earth to express it, it is almost equivalent to using hackers to attack the server, causing bugs in the opponent's server and making it unable to operate normally.
After these black liquid monsters invaded the "Shan Hai Lu" game world, they indiscriminately ate everything in the game world, whether it was plants, exotic beasts, or NPCs such as tribal residents.
All the things that were eaten did not simply disappear, but turned into a black fluid with thin data streams on the surface.
When Yu Mao discovered this situation, he thought to himself that something was wrong and quickly asked his companions to take him back to the tribal gathering place.
I don't know who "Shanhailu" has offended, being messed up like this right before the event is about to start. Players like Yu Mao are completely helpless against this level of attack. They can only hope that the "Shanhailu" producer and his team are reliable enough to defend the Shanhai world from this sudden external attack.
Thinking of this, Yu Mao couldn't help but sigh for "Record of Mountains and Seas", "It's really full of disasters and hardships."
…
Xu Piao was updating the game in creative mode at this time, and of course she discovered this situation - or rather, this attack was originally aimed at the source game world she controlled, because any problems in the source world would be reflected synchronously in the players' game world.
What the hell is this?
This situation occurred just when the activity was halfway synchronized and the new card pool hadn't even been implemented yet. Xu Piao saw Kun turning over in discomfort because of the black liquid-like monsters on his body, causing huge waves to rush onto the cliff shore and destroy a large area of forest.
"Someone is attacking the game world from outside." 079's voice came from Xu Piao's ear, "We need to expel these invading virus data as soon as possible. The game data damaged by this data cannot be regenerated and can only be rebuilt."
Ah this.
According to this statement, it is vicious competition?
Xu Piao changed the concepts in his mind and understood it all at once.
This kind of thing was quite common in the past. Every time someone hacked the server, the programmer would have to work overtime. However, this was the first time Xu Piao encountered such a thing after arriving in the StarCraft world.
"The solution," she said succinctly.
"The conventional method is to add a protective program outside the game world, and then embed an antivirus program to eliminate the invading viruses." 079 said, "But those are conventional methods. Your construction method itself is different from the conventional ones. You can use your own methods to expel them."
After a pause, 079 added, "The methods for constructing protection programs are all controlled by the game company. I can try to use my methods to create some external protection."
Xu Piao responded casually, looking at the rolling Beiming Sea below.
My own method...
She pondered for a moment, and her thoughts materialized. From the ground a little further away, countless giant mud palms emerged, slapping the black liquid monsters to death. However, the black monsters killed by the giant palms turned into liquid and flowed out from under the giant palms, reuniting to form a single black monster.
After the things on Kun's back were knocked off by the waves, new black liquid monsters pounced on Kun's back, and those that fell into the sea were even corroded by the sea water.
Xu Piao discovered that physical elimination alone seemed unable to expel these viruses.
So what method should we use?
…She suddenly had a bold idea.
…
At the same time, the people who used viruses to hack into "Shan Hai Lu" were also wondering.
Normally, any game will have additional protection. Even if it does not belong to any company, they will hire people to build a protection layer outside the game world to prevent it from being easily invaded.
But in "Records of Mountains and Seas", there is nothing outside at all, and the invasion is simply unbelievable.
Because it is too simple, it doesn't feel real.
When "Shan Hai Lu" came out, many people in the industry speculated about which company was behind it. They did not think that a single individual group was capable of building a game world of the scale of "Shan Hai Lu".
There are only two unsociable geniuses, Lake and Mei He, so everyone thinks that the company behind "Shan Hai Lu" is either Star or Yuzhouhai Company.
result? ? ? ?
"Actually, is it really a person?" The person who hacked into "Record of Mountains and Seas" couldn't help but mutter, but his expression gradually became excited.
What does a personal team mean? It means the technology they possess is absolutely no match for that of a large company. Shanhailu will simply be powerless to resist the virus. This wave of success is unexpected! As long as they can solve the problem of Shanhailu, they can seize the opportunity to launch similar games to seize the market.
It's just a card draw, anyone can do it.
This person thought so and transmitted more virus programs. Even though he found that "Shan Hai Lu" seemed to have urgently found people to build protection, there were already enough virus programs that entered.
In the world of "Shan Hai Lu", many players watched those black liquid monsters being killed by giant hands that emerged from the ground and then reformed, and finally realized that something was wrong.
There were also other people who recognized this situation and said in the chat channel that it was invaded by a virus program.
"Is everything going to be alright?"
"The producers must have been focusing on updating the event, and someone took advantage of it. Hey, we should have started drawing cards by now."
"With such a big situation, will the event be postponed?"
The players discussed the situation with concern.
At this moment, a long chant resounded throughout the vast world of mountains and seas.
The Kun in the North Sea, which was supposed to transform into a Peng during the activity, jumped out of the sea ahead of time. Its huge body covered the sky and the sun, and stirred up huge waves and air currents.
So-called
"When the Peng bird migrates to the Southern Ocean, it strikes the water for three thousand miles and soars up ninety thousand miles."*
The author has something to say:
*From Xiaoyaoyou
①The ending has already been decided, so both reality and the game will be written according to the outline.
First of all, I have to make it a complete novel, not a game plan.
② The full-text game proportion is originally planned to be around 70%-80%. I will mark the actual content in the content summary, and you can skip it if you don’t want to read it.
③ This is not a StarCraft-style plot. Xu Piao is just a game developer. Asking her to engage in plots and fights would be too difficult for her. Others can do things like reforming the system. Everyone has their own expertise. What she does is to make game output. This is the only and most central main line.
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