Ying Lili remembered watching a Hollywood blockbuster before. In the movie, the hacker protagonist was typing furiously on the keyboard, and all kinds of information was jumping on the screen. Coupled with the background music, although she couldn't understand it, it always gave off a very high-tech feeling.
But now, she was witnessing a real-life version of it.
Fangzheng was standing in front of the black stone pillar, typing away at the keyboard. Alarming alarms were echoing all over the place, and labels with "ERROR" and "ARNING" would appear from time to time. Yui stared at Fangzheng's keyboard in bewilderment. She couldn't help but mutter to herself.
"Daddy … That's amazing …"
"Yui? What's Mr. Fangzheng doing? "
Asked Asuna when she heard Yui's exclamation. Being a programmer was not one of the goals her mother had planned for her. If Asuna was asked to talk about classical music or piano, she might be able to recite a few things, but when faced with the jumping characters in front of her, she felt like she was reading a book from the Bible.
"Daddy is hacking into Cardinal's main system, and he's almost done!"
Yui clenched her fists in excitement, her eyes wide open as she stared at the scene in front of her. As a subroutine, Yui knew better than anyone else how powerful Cardinal was. He was the emperor of all programs, the supreme ruler, the existence that could decide life and death with a single word. However, what Fangzheng was doing now, in Yui's eyes, was no different from a mortal slaying a god!
She still didn't quite understand, but Ying Lili understood a little. Her eyes suddenly lit up.
"Wait, does that mean … Mr. Fangzheng can control this system? Then can you directly send us out? "
"Yes."
Upon hearing Ying Lili's question, Fangzheng, who was typing on the keyboard, replied without turning his head.
"The GM has the authority to force all players to log out. I've just confirmed that."
"What are we waiting for?"
Ying Lili couldn't wait any longer.
"Let's log out now!"
"Are you sure?"
However, Fangzheng turned around and glanced at Ying Lili. His indifferent reaction stunned Ying Lili for a moment.
"What … Is there a problem?"
"Of course. Are you sure we won't die if we log out? Return to the real world? "
"This …"
In the face of Fangzheng's question, Ying Lili was also dumbfounded and didn't know what to say for a while.
"Why don't we just find someone to test it out …"
"Find someone we don't even know. It's fine if he dies, but if he survives, are you sure he'll come back? Asking someone we know to do this experiment … Are you serious? "
"…"
Facing Fangzheng's rhetorical question, Ying Lili was speechless. Indeed, just as Fangzheng said, the chances of dying and escaping safely were 50/50, but who was going to test it? If they found someone they didn't know, just as Fangzheng said, if the other party escaped safely, how could they guarantee that the other party would be willing to come back and tell them that the experiment was successful? But if they found someone they knew, and if the other party died … wouldn't it be the same as them killing their friends and companions with their own hands?
"Hmm … Is there really no other way?"
"Nope."
Fangzheng's answer was straightforward.
"If this was the real world, or if I get the development authority of Kayaba Akihiko, then I can still try, but not here."
Fangzheng sighed. If this was the real world, he would directly take out his personal terminal and make Kayaba Akihiko doubt his life. But in the game world, even the cleverest housewife can't cook a meal without rice. The GM's management device may seem impressive to ordinary players, but Fangzheng knew that it was completely inadequate.
Don't be fooled by the fact that the GM seemed to be very powerful in front of ordinary players. They could ban whoever they wanted, but their job was only to provide high-level customer service and system maintenance and debugging.
This was the same reason why you couldn't expect a mechanic to design the latest model of a nuclear submarine for you.
Not even someone who repaired nuclear submarines.
The GM only had the authority to debug and maintain the system, but they did not have the development authority. If Fangzheng wanted to figure out how to log out and return safely without dying on the spot, he had to find the underlying code. However, the GM's authority certainly could not see the underlying code — even if they could, they could not modify it. It was useless.
"So, Mr. Fangzheng, what are you doing now?"
After thinking it through, Ying Lili gave up. Since it was impossible for Fangzheng to send them out safely with the GM's authority, what was he busy with now?
"There's the problem of Yui, and I want to find out as much information about this system as possible …."
Fangzheng answered casually, then his fingers started typing on the keyboard again.
He did not explain it to Ying Lili in detail. In fact, what Fangzheng wanted to do now was to try to seize Cardinal's management authority.
Of course, it was just an attempt.
This was the same logic as when Yang Weili fought Reinhardt. Yang Weili was just a fleet commander, but in the end, he forced Emperor Reinhardt into a corner and almost changed the history of the entire universe. This, of course, was not because Yang Weili had a large army, but because he chose the right tactics.
So now, Fangzheng was learning from Yang Weili. He did nothing else but block the authority on his side and build a wall to resist Cardinal. Then, Fangzheng led his army all the way north, straight into the enemy's territory.
As long as he could bring Reinhardt's flagship into his attack range, no matter how many soldiers the enemy had, they would have no choice but to surrender.
Cardinal naturally would not give up just like that. She was like a good girl who was forced into a corner by a gangster at night. Her purse was snatched away, then she was asked to take off her clothes. Cardinal, of course, refused to comply. She resisted with all her might and was slapped in the face. Then, she was pressed to the ground.
Cardinal screamed. She stretched out her hands in an attempt to struggle and resist, but Fangzheng had already pressed her to the ground unreasonably. He reached out and tore off her coat, revealing her undergarments. Cardinal was so ashamed that she wanted to die. Fangzheng raised her slender legs, and then ….
Armor-Piercing Attack!
Critical Hit!
Berserk Stance!
Suppression!
Charge!
Lightning Strike!
We've broken through the enemy's armor!
We've hit the enemy's fuel tank!
The target has been hit! We've dealt a heavy blow to the enemy!
We've dealt a heavy blow to the target!
In the end, Cardinal collapsed to the ground with a whimper, sobbing uncontrollably.
Not only for what happened to her, but also for the sake of her honest body.
What made her feel even more humiliated was that after Fangzheng roughly played with her body, he held her chin with his hand and forced her to raise her head. He looked at her with an indescribable smile on his face.
"Since you've been played with by me, you're mine from now on. You'll do whatever I tell you to do. Understand?"
What could Cardinal do in the face of such a hooligan?
She could only nod obediently and agree ….
"Beep!!"
With a soft beep, the red warning signs hanging all over the room disappeared in an instant. The screen in front of Fangzheng also returned to its original peaceful state.
"How is it? Mr. Fangzheng? "
Upon seeing this scene, Ying Lili couldn't help but ask. Facing Ying Lili's question, Fangzheng frowned and shrugged.
"Half and half …. It's not too good, but it's not too bad either."
In the end, Cardinal and Fangzheng came to a compromise, and Fangzheng did not come out empty-handed. At the very least, through the infiltration of Cardinal, he discovered the internal rules of the entire system. To put it simply, Kayaba Akihiko had placed a command in the entire game system, and this command was the culprit behind the deaths of the players.
In other words, under Kayaba Akihiko's design, all the log-out methods of the player would eventually be fed back to this command A. Then, command A would be activated and the stealth device would destroy the player's brain, causing their death.
If a player wanted to log out safely, they would have to bypass command A and log out from command B. However, there was only one condition for command B to log out — to defeat the boss on the 100th floor.
Fangzheng now understood why no one in the real world dared to act rashly. If they wanted to change this rule, they had to start from the bottom, and the game could not be shut down for maintenance. This was even more troublesome than defusing a bomb threat. Considering the political capital and risk of public opinion in the event of failure, no one in the real world would act rashly.
But what puzzled Fangzheng was that Kayaba Akihiko's login showed that the connection to the server was unexpectedly cut off some time ago …. What the hell was that?
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