An Expert Is actually By My Side

Chapter 387 Ten million!

[Mission: World of Warcraft players reach 10 million. 】

[Congratulations to the host for completing the task! 】

[Obtain: 3 memory fragments, a golden task card. 】

When the number of World of Warcraft players exceeded 10 million, a light blue holographic window appeared in front of Hao Yun's eyes at the same time. If there is no accident, he is probably the first person to know that the number of people online in World of Warcraft has exceeded 10 million.

However, there is really no difference.

Because soon, cheers like an earthquake resounded throughout the office area.

So much so that before Hao Yun had time to confirm the reward for completing the system task, Li Zongzheng's excited shout pulled him back from the illusion to reality.

Mr. Hao! Mr. Hao!

I'm here, what are you shouting for?

With a joyful expression on his face, Li Zongzheng grabbed his shoulders with both hands and shook back and forth, it could be seen that he was already carried away with excitement.

World of Warcraft has more than 10 million simultaneous online users! Hahaha, we broke the record!

And this was achieved in less than 10 minutes after the game was launched!

Even if you look at the entire history of Renlian video game development, you can't find such an amazing precedent.

Witnessed this moment with his own eyes, and it was a game he participated in the development of. No wonder Li Zongzheng was so excited.

In fact, not only Li Zongzheng, but also other executives in the office.

I saw Lao Liu's face flushed with excitement, and Du Ziteng ran to the elevator, saying that he was going downstairs to buy a bottle of champagne.

And the art girls and sisters in the art department also embraced excitedly.

Victory belongs not only to Warcraft, but also to Yunmeng Game and all the players who love it.

They were not crushed by the all-round suppression of the Sea Lion Group, but stood up against the difficulties and withstood the pressure from the giants.

Okay, I get it, you first let go of the hand holding my shoulder...

Finally noticing that his movements were out of line, Li Zongzheng quickly withdrew his hand and scratched the back of his head embarrassingly.

Ah, I'm sorry, hehe.

Hey you big.

He complained in his heart, but Hao Yun didn't blame him, but patted him on the shoulder encouragingly.

Work hard, this is still the beginning. Now the beta version test has started, and every update of ours will be open to all players, and there are still many things that need you to be busy.

That's what you say, but World of Warcraft is run by AI, right? Li Zongzheng looked at Hao Yun helplessly and said, I feel like after the game is launched, we have nothing to do.

Hao Yun smiled and said.

Updating the material library, planning player activities... There are still a lot of things that need to be done by humans. But as our 'Zero' continues to grow, maybe even these tasks can be handed over to AI in the future .”

Li Zongzheng suddenly sighed.

To be honest, when I saw Zero, I was thinking, now that AI technology is so advanced, we may all be unemployed in a decade or so.

How is it possible? Hao Yun said with a smile, Although AI is very convenient, many creative tasks still need to be done by humans.

Li Zongzheng asked.

Isn't operating a game a creative job?

This is an interesting question.

Hao Yun thought for a while before giving an ambiguous answer.

Both, and not quite.

Li Zongzheng said helplessly.

Isn't that the same as saying nothing?

Because that's the truth, Hao Yun shrugged and continued, Didn't I say before that the future of the world of Azeroth is determined by the actions of all players, which is probably similar to a DND rule. The running group game. We are responsible for formulating the rules, and the AI ​​deduces based on the rules and the player's behavior, and determines the direction of the story development...so I think this is more like a logical job than a creative job.

Of course, it's not entirely logical.

In fact, Hao Yun has only a half-knowledge about this AI from the system, and the intelligence it exhibits is far more than just operating a game.

And according to Wu Fan's description, that update almost covered all the code in the original program, and even completely changed the structure of the entire program.

Not so much optimization.

It's better to say rewrite.

Hao Yun even had a feeling that its arrival seemed preordained, all of this seemed to be designed...

However, he didn't plan to think about these issues for the time being. After all, making any inferences without enough clues is no different from groundless speculation.

At this time, there was a sudden explosion at the entrance of the elevator, which startled everyone, thinking that something had exploded.

In the end, I leaned over and looked, and found that it was Du Ziteng, that bastard who really went downstairs to buy a bottle of champagne, and even tried to learn from the movie, shaking the cork several times before pulling out the cork.

In the end, due to lack of experience, the corkscrew was blown out along with the cork, and the spray of foam hit Jiang Lecheng, who just entered the door, in the face.

Fortunately, people are fine.

However, the clothes must be wet...

Du Ziteng! Are you crazy!?

Du Ziteng was stunned on the spot, and hurriedly put down the bottle.

I, I didn't mean to fuck.

You wait for me!

Jiang Lecheng gritted his teeth with hatred, gave him a hard look, turned around and ran to the bathroom. Hao Yun asked the female staff from the art department to rush over to help, and then sprayed the bewildered Du Ziteng.

You can't wait! There will be plenty of champagne for you to enjoy at the celebration banquet... People will come back later, remember to apologize to them.

Du Ziteng said with his head down.

yes……

Although there was a small episode, it did not affect the festive atmosphere in the company.

But at this moment, Zhou Ruining suddenly ran to Hao Yun's side and whispered.

Mr. Hao, Yunmeng Technology is calling.

The phone number of Yunmeng Technology?

Could it be that the server resources are not enough?

Theoretically speaking, this is impossible. In order to ensure that the game can run normally on the day it goes online, Hao Yun specially arranged for someone to upgrade the server to meet the requirements of 20 million players online at the same time.

Now the number of simultaneous online players has just exceeded 10 million, even if it grows a bit longer, it will not double, right?

I see.

Realizing that the problem might not be as simple as imagined, Hao Yun nodded, and asked Zhou Ruining to greet the staff of the World of Warcraft project team for him, and contact him anytime if there was anything to do, and then returned to the office.

Hello?

Mr. Hao, it's me.

Wu Fan's voice came from the other end of the phone.

No nonsense, Hao Yun went straight to the point.

What's going on with you over there?

It's true that something happened... just now, our server was attacked by DOS.

Fuck?

Hearing this sentence, Hao Yun froze for a moment.

Although it was expected that the Sea Lion Group might use unscrupulous means, it was unexpected that this guy would even use such means.

His expression became serious, Hao Yun asked immediately.

Is the problem serious?

It's not so serious...it's better to say that the effect was so inconspicuous that we almost ignored it. With a strange expression on his face, Wu Fan explained to Hao Yun what happened at that time.

About a few minutes ago, the servers of World of Warcraft encountered abnormal data access.

The attacker uses the ICMP echo request message sent by ping to force the system to consume most of the time for useless responses, trying to reduce the network quality of the server in this way.

After discovering the problem, the technicians on duty immediately started to deal with it, but to everyone's surprise, when they just opened the background management program to prepare to attack, the source of the attack was cut off silently.

At first they thought that the hackers who attacked the server retreated.

But what is confusing is that the server encountered several attacks from different postures later, and classic methods such as fragmentation bombs and buffer overflows were all used.

However, the result was that these methods were all thunderous and rainy, and even failed to cause obvious network fluctuations, and disappeared without a trace.

It wasn't until the staff on duty in the computer room retrieved the operation records through the server management program that they discovered that these attacks were all blocked by zero.

Speaking of this, Wu Fan's tone was full of admiration and emotion, and he couldn't help asking a question at the end.

I didn't expect you to plan ahead and consider that our server would be attacked. I still can't figure it out, Mr. Hao... How did you do it?

Eh? Ah...me. Hao Yun's face was full of confusion and embarrassment.

How should this thing be explained?

This program is not written by him!

It's okay if it's not convenient to disclose it, Wu Fan sighed, and continued with a slightly straightened expression, According to the investigation by our technicians, the source of the attack is likely to come from the Sea Lion Group.

Does this thing still need to be traced?

Is there something unclear...

Hao Yun cleared his throat and asked in a deep voice.

Can evidence be collected?

Wu Fan said with a face of embarrassment.

It's a little difficult, we can only say that we try our best...the other party's methods are very cautious, using many IPs as a springboard, and the IP with the highest degree of correlation that we can track down is also located overseas. If we continue to track down, I'm afraid we can only hand it over to the police. Going to deal with it...do you need to call the police?

Caution is to be expected.

It would be better to say that there is nothing wrong with the server, which is beyond everyone's expectations.

After thinking for a moment, Hao Yun said.

There is no need to call the police. There is no actual economic loss. Even if the investigation continues, there may be no results.

But……

Of course I don't mean to just let it go. Hearing the hesitation in Wu Fan's tone, Hao Yun continued, Since they even resorted to this method, they must be mentally prepared.

what do you mean……

I didn't say that, Hao Yun smiled, And I did, not now.

We have collected a lot of evidence during this period of time, and these accounts have to be settled one by one. Now is not the time for extra trouble.

After pausing for a moment, he looked towards the floor-to-ceiling windows of the office and continued in a very soft voice.

Besides, I don't want them to blame the failure on the server being attacked.