Lu Zhixing hurriedly explained: "No, Team Leader Zhou, you misunderstood.
"The current state is Expert Difficulty. Expert Difficulty is prepared for players who have cleared the game for a week and want to continue the challenge.
"The game played by ordinary players is dynamically difficult. If you die too much, it will become slightly easier."
Zhou Yiping was a little confused. It would become a little easier if the gods died too many times!
Isn’t that still very discouraging?
I play few games, don’t lie to me.
Lu Zhixing smiled slightly: "Oh, Leader Zhou, these are some very high-end game design skills. It's normal that you don't understand them. Let's study how to deal with these two hackers?"
Zhou Yiping looked at the two hackers who were still working hard and didn't know what to say for a while.
How to deal with it?
If we follow the normal handling method, of course, official personnel will immediately dispatch to eliminate them, then plug the loopholes they dug in the virtual space, find possible coordinate information, and clean it thoroughly...
But now this situation obviously cannot be handled in a normal way.
Because Zhou Yiping himself doesn’t know how to enforce the law now.
He is also restricted by the underlying rules of this virtual world!
In other hacked virtual spaces, either the basic rules of the virtual space itself are loose, or the keys have been tampered with.
Official security personnel and hackers can use various powerful means to fight against each other. The security personnel are obviously superior, so hackers usually give up.
But the situation here in Lu Zhixing is so impregnable that even if law enforcement officers want to call the police, the police car can't move.
Zhou Yiping thought for a moment: "How long do you think it will take for these two hackers to get your key?"
Lu Zhixing thought for a while: "In the most optimistic case, half an hour?"
Zhou Yiping: "...Okay, if this is the case, maybe we can think of other ways. I can work with other security personnel to try to track the intrusion path of these two hackers!"
"Of course, the premise is that they are still in your virtual space and have not escaped or cleaned up their traces."
Lu Zhixing was a little surprised: "Is this still possible? But most of these hackers are abroad, so what if the intrusion path is traced?"
Zhou Yiping shook his head slightly: "It is useful, because although all the deep virtual worlds around the world use similar technologies and are theoretically globally interconnected, they also have corresponding coordinate information and cannot be crossed without limit.
"Foreign hackers who invade our country's virtual space often need our domestic equipment and virtual space as a springboard. They can also be understood as 'broilers' and 'puppet machines' in the traditional Internet.
“Some of them were maliciously attacked by hackers, and some were voluntarily cooperated by the owners, but they have one thing in common: a large part of them are within our country.
“Of course, in the deep virtual world, because the virtual space is relatively precious and the entry threshold is relatively high, it is impossible for a hacker group to control hundreds of thousands of broilers like in the traditional Internet.
"Generally, a small hacker group may only have a dozen or at most dozens of chickens.
“But it also makes our return on broiler hunting skyrocket.
“Although we cannot directly kill these foreign hackers, we can follow their intrusion path to lock down these broilers, regain part of the virtual space, and even locate equipment in reality and arrest a group of people.
"This is also a very heavy blow to hackers."
Lu Zhixing suddenly said: "Can it still be like this? That's great!"
Zhou Yiping let out a sigh of relief. Fortunately, he finally seemed to be of some use as a team leader.
Originally, I wanted to act as a savior to turn the tide, save Lu Zhixing's virtual space, and gain a lot of favorability in front of him. Unexpectedly, the virtual space created by Lu Zhixing made it difficult for these hackers. No crisis!
Lu Zhixing even thought of hackers as free game testers.
This made Zhou Yiping, the team leader who came in a hurry, very embarrassed and didn't know the meaning of his existence.
Fortunately, we can now track and crack down on the organizations behind these hackers. If it succeeds, it can be regarded as helping Lu Zhixing once again make great contributions to the official side.
"Okay, I'll call the security team to track it!"
…
After once again struggling to kill the chasing zombies, Pavel panted and looked at the progress of route cracking.
The second section is finally almost complete.
The side length of Lu Zhixing’s virtual space is 3 kilometers, so in theory the shortest distance from the periphery to the inner core is 1.5 kilometers. The entire virtual space is divided into many different sections.
At this time, Pavel and Bob finally cracked the two plates and advanced hundreds of meters with difficulty through rock climbing, parkour and other difficult movements.
"It's quick, the subsequent blocks should be cracked very quickly, maybe it can be completed in a few seconds.
"As long as we can crack the next plate at the speed of light, we can..."
Before Pavel could finish speaking, his expression became dull again.
Because the estimated cracking time for the third section is 4 minutes and 38 seconds!
The time was shortened a bit, but it was limited.
It was difficult for the two of them to describe their feelings at this time. If they had to sum it up in two words, they were fooled!
It always feels like if they persist for a few more minutes, they can quickly complete the crack. With the support of this belief, they can persist in this terrible environment.
Although they are hackers, they are always accompanied by zombies and mechanical hunters, walking in the dark and dark, and they are also under tremendous mental pressure!
But now, the hope that was once so close has become so far away...
"Withdraw! Don't waste any more time. This virtual space is simply a trap! It's most likely a peripheral virtual space specially used by the officials here for security protection, and it's also an abandoned one!"
The so-called abandoned virtual space is a virtual space that even the owner cannot break after the owner has formulated strict underlying rules.
Such a virtual space itself has only a very small possibility of cracking, restricting everyone equally, and is even a bit similar to a black hole in the universe.
After the owner puts the key in it, he cannot get it himself, just to cause trouble to hackers and to protect some more important virtual spaces.
For example, there are several peripheral protective spaces around an important virtual space. Only one or two of them are accessible, and the others are dead ends.
It's just that those peripheral protection spaces basically have some obvious features that can be clearly seen. This virtual space obviously does not meet those characteristics, which is why they have tried so hard for so long.
We can't try any more, this must be an Eastern conspiracy!
However, when they were preparing to evacuate, they realized that something was wrong.
"Our path has been traced!" Pavel said in shock, "Who is the owner of this virtual space..."
However, before he could finish his words, his entire body was quickly dimming, and the two hackers disappeared together.
…
"Is this the end? I feel like the hackers who came this time are not very good at business.
"It always feels like they are not the same group of hackers who invaded the official motion capture competition before."
Lu Zhixing came out of the VR game cabin, still a little unfinished.
Hacking may be a bad thing that other people would avoid, but for him, it is quite interesting.
The two hackers also took on the job of game testers.
Previously, Lu Zhixing was a little worried about this random level generation system, fearing that it would not change enough and bring insufficient freshness to players.
But now, that worry has dissipated.
Even hackers with professional tools cannot develop a universal algorithm in a short time, let alone ordinary players.
Only a "living map" like his with built-in plug-ins can quickly conquer such a random and huge maze.
So, now that the testing has been completed, it’s time to release the game and increase the intensity for players.
This time, Lu Zhixing attaches great importance to the speedrunning player group, so it has opened two speedrunning tracks: one is a professional difficulty fixed-route speedrunning track, and the other is a professional difficulty multi-week random route speedrunning track.
What kind of exciting performance will the players have?
It’s really exciting!
While I was thinking about it, the phone rang.
Zhou Yiping's excited voice came from the receiver: "Zhixing! Huge harvest! This time we not only killed four foreign hackers who used the virtual space as broilers, but also found out the origins of those two hackers, who turned out to be from ATE!
"Moreover, we have probably identified the organization that invaded the motion capture competition before. It's probably VRNO!"
Lu Zhixing was silent for a moment: "...Who are they?"
(End of chapter)
