In the Internet age, who still makes traditional games?

The players came up with all sorts of ingenious methods, and the popularity of the [Ocean Survival Competition] continued to rise.

However, Xu Meng didn't have the leisure to continue paying attention.

Summoning the Kraken to play with Count Zero was just a short break squeezed out from his busy work.

After finishing this matter, he quickly became busy with his real work again.

The so-called 'real work' was, of course, the research and development of the photonic topological server array.

After Wu Shuang led the team to fly across the country tirelessly, working around the clock for several days, the framework of the research and development team was basically established.

This framework is still relatively rough at present, and it will need to be filled with more talents and several times the number of scientific research workhorses to push the work forward.

By then, the number of participants in the entire project will expand tenfold or twentyfold.

The manpower and material resources invested will be very astonishing.

What's even more impressive is that such a large project, with so many scientific research talents, they not only coordinated well in such a short period of time, but also took into account the confidentiality work—

The outside world didn't get any news at all.

On the contrary, the National Security Department reported frequent victories.

—These days, all the overseas spies of Xia Country have been staring at the Dream Maker, not hesitating to risk exposure to collect more information about the Dream Maker.

The traps and snares set up by the National Security Department around the Dream Maker have been almost completely stepped on.

Several spies can be caught every day, with fruitful results.

As the hub of this large-scale project and an irreplaceable key figure, Xu Meng's work also became busy.

If it weren't for this, how could Lu Ming be in charge of such a large-scale event?

What made Xu Meng even more upset than being busy was:

The project also encountered some problems.

Before, when he read the technical introduction, he felt that the technical path for making silicon photonic chips was different, and that the most advanced EUV lithography machine was not needed, and the existing DUV lithography machine in China was enough.

However, after understanding all the technical data clearly, he found that things were not so simple:

It is true that the most advanced lithography machine is not needed to make silicon photonic chips, but another key part—the design and simulation of topological insulator materials—requires ultra-high computing power chips.

Not only that, but the design, simulation, and verification of the photonic topological architecture also require extremely large computing power.

The supercomputing platform is barely enough, and the efficiency is only average.

If you want to get the best results and make things as quickly as possible, you still have to get a large number of the most advanced chips and build a brand-new supercomputing system with them as the core.

And this requires a large number of the most advanced chips currently available.

But the problem is that under the strict semiconductor ban, it can almost be said that a "semiconductor war" is being waged on both sides of the Pacific Ocean, and these chips are too scarce in China.

—Even the newly built large-scale server center of Dream Building does not use the most advanced chips.

Against this background, it is difficult to obtain a large number of advanced supercomputing chips in a short period of time by normal means.

It really made Xu Meng want to rob someone.

But the ship carrying the latest lithography machine from Photonautix has already set sail and is now sailing in the Atlantic Ocean.

Even if he really wanted to rob it, it would be too late.

"Could it be that we can only continue to advance towards the photonic topological server array after China's chip research and development has made a breakthrough and made up for this shortcoming?"

—Without a powerful enough computing platform, a slightly worse one is not unusable.

But that would take too much time and would seriously slow down the project's progress.

……

This problem made Xu Meng quite upset.

However, after Xiao Meng dealt with the small episode of Count Zero, he was in a great mood and stopped dwelling on it.

After noting Count Zero's important contribution to the research and development of the photonic topological server array, Xu Meng picked up his phone, called Wu Shuang, and explained the situation.

He hoped that she would focus on coordinating and mobilize as many of the existing advanced computing power platforms in China as possible.

He even roughly converted the direct impact of the computing power scale on the research and development cycle for her.

Afterwards, according to the existing computing power scale, he calmed down and assigned tasks and designed experiments to each research and development team.

……

In focused work, an entire day passed in the blink of an eye.

In the live broadcast room, even though someone had changed shifts in the middle and rested twice, Lu Ming was still a little listless.

Beside him, the host who had just taken over the shift was full of energy and enthusiastically interacted with the audience.

Lu Ming perked up and read the data on the cue card:

"Total number of players registered for the [Ocean Survival Competition]—48,217,736! The actual number of people present at the start of the competition was: 42,663,821."

At the same time as he read out these numbers, bright red numbers jumped out synchronously above his and the host's heads.

—The Dream Building's演播厅, of course, is equipped with holographic display equipment.

"To date, the number of eliminated players: 13,465,896!"

"The elimination rate is as high as 31.56%!"

The large red numbers above the two people's heads jumped and decreased rapidly.

After stopping, it became 29,197,425.

The host took over and said: "Among them, the factor that caused the most deaths is: [Drowning]!"

"Nearly half of the fallen players died from drowning."

The director appropriately inserted two scenes of players drowning:

One was at the beginning when the rafts were crowded on the sea, and the players who couldn't climb up drowned and slowly sank into the deep sea.

The other was: a silly player tightly grasped the fishing rod and was dragged headfirst into the deep sea by the hooked shark!

Bubbles gurgled out of his mouth, but he didn't let go of the fishing rod.

Finally, when he saw that there was not enough oxygen, he thought of letting go of the fishing rod and floating up, but it was too late…

"The second most common factor is: [Player PVP]."

"More than one-third of the players died in battles with others."

The director skillfully released a "wonderful" battle collection:

Melee on the raft floating island.

Fierce battle for supply boxes.

The most ⊥ new ⊥ small ⊥ said ⊥ is ⊥ at ⊥ six ⊥ 9 ⊥ ⊥ book ⊥ ⊥ bar ⊥ ⊥ first ⊥ send!

Insidious sneak attacks that formed alliances on the surface but stabbed knives in the back in reality.

Internal strife when food was not enough and they turned against each other to fight for the last potato.

Bizarre battles that used Millennium Kill on teammates, causing them to fall into the water and die accidentally.

The audience was dazzled.

Lu Ming couldn't bear to look directly and lowered his head.

The host was quite excited and announced in a highly煽动性tone: "The [Kill King] of the first competition day has been born!"

"He is—[Honest Fisherman]!"

"He killed 233 opponents and successfully won the [Kill King] title!"

"He will receive a mysterious reward from the [Black Flag] project team."

"At the same time, he will also receive a special state: [Resentment]!"

"[The ID will turn red, the body will be entangled by visible evil spirits, and ordinary marine life will consciously detour when they see it.]"

"Players, please pay attention—be sure to pay attention to safety when you see a red ID on the sea in the future."

"Of course, if you are very confident in your strength, you can also try to take the initiative!"

"If you can successfully kill him, you can not only get a lot of supplies, but the liberated resentful souls will also send you blessings!"

The host was full of passion, but the netizens frantically complained:

"God, his mom is an honest fisherman, did he honestly kill more than 200 people??"

"What reward…isn't this just a red name??"

"Okay, okay, team up to kill the red name!"

"Okay, there were sea monsters before, now there are resentful souls, it's getting magical, right?"

……

Lu Ming had been paying attention to the barrage all the time. Seeing the netizens' messages, he couldn't help but secretly laugh in his heart.

Magical?

When you enter the game, there will be many magical elements!

These now are just a sprinkle of water.

He reminded the players with some smiles:

"The third most common cause of death is [Sharks]."

"More than 10% of the survivors were bitten to death by sharks."

"As time goes by, the sharks that come to attack will become more and more numerous, stronger and stronger, so everyone must be more careful."

"As for the rest, the ways of dying are not easy to count…"

On the live broadcast screen, the director began to exert his strength—

A player encountered random thunderstorm weather, so he used a spear and ironware to make a lightning rod for his raft.

As a result, the lightning came too fast, and before he could let go, a bolt of lightning struck the metal spearhead he had erected high!

A strong current ran through his body, and even the cartoon skeleton special effect was shocked out.

Without suspense, he died on the spot.

Several big characters appeared in the center of the screen:

[Explore Nature]

—

"Get out of the way! Get out of the way!!" The heroic sniper yelled at several players.

But the fishing players were a little slow to react, holding fishing rods in their hands and looking at him with puzzled faces.

It wasn't until they were covered by shadows that they realized something was wrong.

Looking up, they saw that the top floor of this "Tower of Babel on the Sea" suddenly broke and crashed down!

"Bang!"

The foundation made of rafts vibrated violently.

3 fishing guys and 6 carpenters in the building instantly went to the Western Paradise.

Four big characters appeared on the screen—

[Construction Accident]