"Haolan Haolan asked me, 'Who is the best programmer in the world?'"
"It was Liang Bo."
"Haolan Haolan then asked, 'Who is the best computer in the world?'"
"It was the Terminator." "? "Has it appeared yet?"
"Yes, and it has already entered the stage of absorbing knowledge."
"You still say that the best programmer is me, but someone developed a program that was even better than mine in less than a month."
"Bro Lin Bo, actually, Dongfang Company has been planning the Terminator for three years. They just took this opportunity to collaborate with other companies, gathered the wisdom of thousands of programmers, shared all the technologies, and perfected the Terminator. Moreover, this time they invested over nine billion dollars in hardware, and I'm sure they are stronger than me."
At this moment, Liang Bo was in a virtual space. In this space, he dressed himself in a suit. This might be the only suit in the infinite world.
Opposite Liang Bo, there was a mirror as tall as him. The image in the mirror was not Liang Bo, but a girl with a small ponytail.
The girl's hair was blue, her eyes were blue, her clothes were blue, her nails were blue, and only her skin was as white as snow.
The girl's eyes were as lively as a lake, her nose was small, with a playful little hook, her mouth wore a sweet smile, and she looked like she came out of an animated film. Maybe she thought she was too perfect, so she even put a small mole on her cheek.
In this virtual space, only Liang Bo and the mirror were there. There was nothing else, not even the ground. They were suspended in the air. However, with just one movement of Liang Bo's hand, a cup of coffee appeared in his hand.
Liang Bo took a sip and let out a breath: "Hai Lan, the coffee you brewed is really fragrant, and it doesn't contain caffeine. I think opening some coffee shops in the game would definitely be very profitable."
The girl chuckled: "You say open, I'll open it. Let's set up five million chain stores, and name them 'Liang Bo Coffee', how do you like it?"
Liang Bo gave a wry smile: "Everything under your control is effortless, so I don't want to enter the game anymore."
For a moment, both the person and the mirror fell silent.
After a long time, the girl's voice rang out: "Liang Bo, Liang Bo, tell me, who is the most beautiful woman in the world?"
"It's Hai Lan."
"Liang Bo, Liang Bo, tell me, who is your favorite woman?"
"It's my mother."
"Liang Bo, Liang Bo, tell me, who is the woman you most want to spend your life with?"
"..."
After a while, the young girl smiled again and said, "Brother Liang Bo, your friend, Brother Li Jie and Sister Lu Xiaoyue, they have joined a company that seems to be developing a new game. Do you want me to help you become an administrator to check it out? Or, I can cause some trouble for them, hehe."
Liang Bo's body trembled slightly and he shook his head. "No, Hailan, you shouldn't just focus on playing. Think about how to deal with the Terminator. I'll go to the intelligence department to ask about the situation."
After saying that, Liang Bo exited the virtual space.
When Liang Bo exited the space, the young girl in the mirror suddenly changed. Her hair grew rapidly and gradually turned purple. Her eyes became purple-red, and her clothes changed into a purple battle suit. From her eyes, two cold beams of light shot out.
Liang Bo walked out of his dedicated room, and the images that had been sealed in his heart reappeared before his eyes. They were his best friend Li Jie and his beloved Lu Xiaoyue from this life.
The past days were sweet and painful, but Liang Bo felt that he would rather recall the past than think about Tianji Company or Hailan.
The colleagues who walked by greeted Liang Bo. Some were friends that Liang Bo got along well with before. For some reason, over the past few years in Tianji Company, everyone had become increasingly unfamiliar, and there was no sense of the past in their words. Liang Bo shook his head and took the elevator directly to the ground floor.
It had been a long time since Liang Bo left Tianji Building. He raised his head and the sky was still so dark. The sun that occasionally peeked out from behind the clouds emitted ultraviolet rays that burned his eyes painfully.
The global pollution problem has really become more serious day by day. Could it be that only by returning to the game world can one see a pure sky?
Old Zhang, the gatekeeper, was playing "Fairy Tales" again. Although Liang Bo had listened to it countless times, it still made him feel like a spring stream had flowed through his heart, eliminating a lot of depression.
He didn't know how happy and simple the people lived forty years ago could have written such beautiful and elegant melodies.
Look at the big iron gate and the most advanced security device on the wall, Liang Bo felt that he was really living in a huge prison.
Li Jie was a true hero, and Xiaoyue was too. They finally successfully left Tianji Company. But could he just remain weak like this?
He couldn't bear Hailan, but was Hailan still the same Hailan as before? Did he still know her?
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On the day that "Infinite World" announced that the number of registered users had exceeded four billion, the game company Juanita, ranked second-ninth globally, announced its bankruptcy. The server of its flagship game "Fantasy Ancient Kingdom" was shut down, and the game point cards and virtual equipment of tens of millions of players became invalid.
The players led by the son of a certain group filed a lawsuit, but the company had already gone bankrupt, and even the chairman was missing. What else could be done?
Juanita Company is an Indian company. "Fantasy Ancient Kingdom" is based on Indian mythology, but its ultimate boss, Cit, is not an Indian, but a blonde and blue-eyed Aryan figure riding a phoenix and carrying a wheel of fortune on his back, with a position higher than the local Hindu and Brahma in India. At the same time, there are many places in the game praising the history of the Aryans occupying India, which once made some Indian local players strongly protest. However, this strategy made the game popular in Europe.
After Juanita Company went bankrupt, with the deep investigation by the media, the truth was finally revealed. It turned out that behind this game company was a new Nazi organization called "Rejuvenation of Aryans", which supported the purpose of promoting the German people as the most outstanding nation in the world.
And it was through the news media's digging that the secret that Juanita Company was cooperating with dozens of other game companies to fight against Tianji Company was also revealed. Although the specific methods were unknown, it had inadvertently enhanced the reputation of Tianji Company, severely damaging the reputations of other companies.
Thirty-five game companies held another emergency meeting again. Although their headquarters were distributed all over the world, due to the powerful intelligence of Hailan, it was likely that the monitoring range had reached all networks, making them afraid to hold phone or online meetings and having to gather together by plane.
Fortunately, they all had their own private planes and universal passports, making it as convenient to fly abroad as driving to the supermarket to buy things.
The boss of Dongfang Game Company, Daru, stood up first this time. His expression was stern: "Everyone, this is the most urgent time now. Juanita Company has caused the game console to simulate itself as a player to enter the infinite world, and now the console has been burned and gone bankrupt directly. It seems that Hailan is about to launch a counterattack! I hope everyone can tell the truth. How many of the intelligent brains you sent into the game are your game server hosts!"
The bosses of each company looked at each other but no one spoke.
Daru snorted coldly: "I'll just admit it first. Although my company has two high-intelligence computers, due to the long-term burden of game operation on the game console, it receives a large amount of player information, so the intelligence of this computer is much higher than the backup computer. Therefore, I chose to enter the 'Infinite World' using the console, and the backup computer is also connected to the console, responsible for the operation of our company's games and ready to support the console at any time."
Daru scanned the bosses and finally, all of them began to admit it. Because they saw that Hailan had not attacked their intelligent computers, they now all used their game consoles to simulate players in the 'Infinite World'.
Daru snorted coldly: "Now, everyone must remove the consoles and have other intelligent computers take over!"
Teige Company's boss frowned: "I'll just tell the truth. My company has only one computer that can reach the level of simulating a real person. From the very beginning, I used the game server host of my company!"
Most companies also indicated that they only had one high-intelligence computer.
Daru's lips flashed a faint, undetectable smile. He finally understood the true strength of each company!
It is indeed very difficult to simulate all the attributes of a real person with a computer. Now, except for these large game companies, only a few major countries' military forces, research institutions, and global computer management centers have such capabilities.
This is because the world has entered the digital entertainment era, and the programmers in the entertainment industry have very attractive incomes, so more than 80% of programmers are concentrated in the digital entertainment industry.
Daru gritted his teeth: "It seems there's no other way! Everyone should know that our newly developed 'Tiandun' firewall is currently the most advanced firewall in the world. I'll provide it for everyone for free, to ensure the security of everyone's consoles."
Some company bosses exchanged puzzled glances, and some bosses were very happy because the 'Tiandun' system, with a unit price of 10 million world coins, is not to be had for free.
Daru said: "With this firewall, even if Hailan wants to attack your consoles, it will take at least 10 minutes to crack them. This time is enough for you to take measures. Moreover, this firewall can prevent any hacker Expert from attacking your games."
This time, the bosses didn't hesitate any longer. As usual, they have always been troubled by hacker attacks, so they immediately accepted it.
The next step was to discuss the Terminator entering the game.
Daru said: "Now the Terminator has input the data from all major information databases in the world. However, due to lack of experience in games, it still needs to connect with each of your consoles for a period of time to copy the memory data of each console." Daru himself is one of the world's top game programmers, so he was in charge of developing the Terminator. However, the other executives were not very clear about the development situation and asked in astonishment, "Copying? How could intelligent computers copy? These intelligent computers have scattered their data and hidden them in the network. They simply cannot be copied!"
Daru smiled and said, "This is the power of the Terminator. He can force all the intelligent computers in the world to hand over their memories! If he can overcome the interception of each layer of intelligence in 'Infinite World' and directly face 'Hai Lan', he can also take over all of Hai Lan's memories and intelligence for himself!"
The executives all exclaimed, "Is the Terminator so powerful? It's invincible!"
Daru smiled and lit a digital cigarette. Through the smoke, he looked at these executives. Although these people were all fools, they still had many talents under their command. Maybe they could eventually discover their plans, but even if they did, it would be too late. The Terminator was already under their control.
Daru slowly closed his eyes. "Terminator, are you the end of 'Hai Lan' or the end of the world's demons? But even if you are a demon, you are a demon under my control!"