Arcane Lord

"Let the operation and maintenance team issue an announcement to explain the situation that some users felt yesterday, and then all users will be compensated for one day of advanced function experience."

"Will it be issued to all users?" Herista hesitated.

At present, there are three main specifications for the advanced functions of the computing power pool. The highest level is called Supreme Mode, which charges 500 gold coins per hour, but there is a limit. Under the unanimous request of many high-level mages, it was opened to 500 places.

The one-day compensation that Xia Duo mentioned is definitely not this. The remaining two slightly inferior specifications are [Enhanced Mode] and [Professional Mode]. The cheapest [Enhanced Mode] also costs 100 gold coins per hour.

Based on the current total number of users in the computing power pool of more than 150,000, even if each user only compensates for the cheapest [Enhanced Mode] for one day of use, this subsidy is equivalent to throwing out 600 million!

This is not a small amount. Although the computing power pool has a strong ability to make money, the various subsidies and hardware costs are also very high. In addition to the share given to various countries and alliances, there is actually not much money left for the Lingsi Network Research Center.

This is to throw out 600 million at a time. Of course, countries and alliances can share it together, but it must be included in the operating costs, which makes the Lingsi Network Research Center have less money in the end.

And a considerable part of the surplus money of the research center is used to support the various research of researchers such as Christa. In other words, once the money earned is less, the research center will become tight.

The alliance countries cannot allow Xia Duo to convert all the costs of the research center into operating costs, and he certainly cannot pay for the salaries of researchers such as Christa or provide research funds.

Therefore, as soon as Xia Duo’s compensation plan came out, Christa began to oppose it subconsciously, but he did not say it directly because of Xia Duo’s authority in the research center, but it was also quite obvious.

In this regard, Xia Duo could only appease them with kind words, "At present, the capital flow in the research center's account is very sufficient, and giving some compensation is nothing. It is better than rumors flying all over the place that affect the access of new users to the computing power pool!"

"What about in the future?"

"In the future, we will also subsidize users when encountering such things. You must know that every gold coin we use now comes from users, and it is also our responsibility and obligation to maintain users."

At this point, Xia Duo's tone slowed down again, "I know what you are worried about. Don't worry, I will definitely make maintaining the computing power pool my top priority. If the computing power pool is gone, everything will be meaningless.

"It is still the early stage of the development of the computing power pool, and we need to reserve a certain amount of funds to deal with unexpected situations like now. When the situation stabilizes, I will increase the funding for the research group. ”

Shado said so, what else could Christa say? Fortunately, he heard what he wanted to hear, so he quickly found an excuse to leave.

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After Christa left, Shado wandered around the gateway control hall for a while before returning to his office. As for the research team, he believed that Christa should pass on the message, so there was no need for him to go now.

In order to prevent the elves from thinking that he was deliberately suppressing them, he was most concerned about the operation status of the computing power pool. After confirming that there was no problem for the time being, he returned to the office and waited for the representatives of various countries to summon him.

But he was not just waiting. Although he had made copies of the consciousness of those Illuminati captives, this did not mean that he was afraid of them. It can be equivalent to interrogation, and it needs to go through an analysis process before the interrogation is completed.

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Taking advantage of the interval before the representatives of various countries were summoned, Xia Duo wanted to see why Hippocrates chose to join the Illuminati. He really couldn't figure it out.

Because in his impression, Hippocrates was not a prophet, and he himself was not a demon. What reason did he have to betray the more powerful alliance and choose the Illuminati hiding in the dark like a mouse?

With such doubts, Xia Duo turned back to the original body, took out the first consciousness copy of Hippocrates, and spent nearly a day to make the consciousness copy, mainly to make Hippocrates' consciousness

After all, he was the only high-level wizard among all the Illuminati captives, and other elves could be interrogated by means other than analyzing consciousness.

Of course, to be on the safe side, he still made at least one consciousness copy for all the captives.

Among them, Hippocrates, as a high-level wizard, it is almost difficult to get anything out of him by conventional means unless he is willing. And there is another point that if a high-level wizard wants to commit suicide, it is almost impossible for outsiders to stop him.

This is also the main reason why Xia Duo saw that the war wizard he summoned actually captured a high-level wizard alive and judged that the other party might intend to surrender.

Since he is not dead, it must be If you don't want to die, you will be captured as a member of the Illuminati. If you want to survive, you can only cooperate with the Alliance to sell the Illuminati for a good price.

But to be on the safe side, Shado still made a large number of consciousness copies for Hippocrates, in case this guy was accidentally captured alive, or just pretended to surrender but actually wanted to trick the person who captured him.

These are all things that need to be considered.

So Shado has always had a principle, that is, never give the high-level mage captives a chance to speak, unless it is a consciousness copy. If you want to ask something from the high-level mage captives, never expect them to speak on their own initiative, or it is more refreshing to directly brute-force the consciousness copy.

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Now, facing Hippocrates' first copy of consciousness, Xia Duo was not in a hurry to break it and analyze it immediately. After all, he had to meet the alliance representative later and there was not much time.

It would be better to meet the other party in the illusion of the consciousness cage. Even if it was a preliminary trial, if there was no result in the preliminary trial, it would not affect the subsequent violent cracking of this consciousness copy.

In fact, if he could directly ask what he wanted, Xia Duo would be too lazy to crack the consciousness. Not only was it time-consuming and labor-intensive, but there was also the risk of polluting his own consciousness.

Consciousness cage.

Xia Duo shaped this place into the appearance of the alliance camp outside the foggy area in Sluvende. It was here that he and Hippocrates met for the first time.

At that time, Hippocrates went there as an investigator from Yeerlan to participate in the joint investigation, but now it seems that Hippocrates at that time was more likely to be a spy of the Illuminati to get information.

But anyway, Shado and the other party still have some friendship, although not much, but not like most of the high-ranking wizards of Yeerlan and the great arcanists of Netheril, who have a cold face when they meet.

After the environment was ready, Shado woke up the protagonist. Hippocrates just regained consciousness, and his first reaction was to look around. When he saw that it was the Alliance camp he had been to before, a trace of surprise flashed in his eyes.

At this time, Shado, as a director, directly entered the picture without any care, and directly pointed out the other party's identity: "Hippocrates, long time no see!"