Chapter 710: Chapter 673: Interview
The efforts of the Cannon Cult were not in vain.
At least, they proved one thing: that after Stanley caused the collapse of the entire “Terraria” which affected tens of millions of players worldwide, Lincoln not only patched up the game’s vulnerabilities, but also added an even stronger safeguard—
He set up “Isolation Zones” between individual worlds.
Presumably out of absolute faith in the technology, all the players’ worlds of the same game were tightly connected.
Even if the player didn’t connect online and continued to play the game in single-player mode, their world was still connected to the entire game world.
But after Stanley popped the “Terraria” “Balloon” with a needle, it was clear that Lincoln had changed his stance.
From then on, no matter how crazily the players behaved, they could only cause their own world to collapse, instead of spreading to a broader scope.
Such conservatism, such determination— it was starkly different from Lincoln’s usual bold and reckless behavior.
Obviously, Lincoln’s emphasis on the stability of the virtual world far exceeded what he outwardly showed.
The audience were discussing whilst patiently waiting for the Cannon Cult to reconnect.
Everyone initially thought it would be quick, but it wasn’t until a full 8 minutes passed that the live broadcast room lit up again.
The Cannon Cult’s three core players sat at the spawn point, crestfallen. The grand cannon array that had once stirred their passion, they no longer even wanted to glance at.
“Everyone saw it, we failed.”
“Yeah, and it has little to do with the scale, even if we mined the entire world and replaced it all with cannons, the situation would not change much at all, except for causing our own world to collapse.”
“There’s a good chance that not just the cannon route, but all other routes are blocked by this move.”
…
The players of the Cannon Cult grew more and more despondent as they spoke.
The audience also felt that they were correct, Lincoln’s approach was indeed ruthless.
But everyone didn’t continue to discourage them, instead they all sent comforting comments:
“You were so close to succeeding, if it weren’t for Stanley’s incident, you probably would’ve been successful.”
“It’s practically a success!”
“That’s right, you did great!”
“It’s not that you didn’t try hard enough, it’s just Lincoln being inhumane…”
…
Many people even went to Spiritual Rhinoceros to leave a message in Stanley’s comment section: “Go treat the Cannon Cult to fried rice!”
Stanley saw it.
But he decided to ignore it.
—They just faced a failure, and then he, a successful person, goes over to show off his achievements…
What a psycho!
Stanley wanted to help but he was helpless.
Up till now, the only opportunity he could think of was [Virtual Xiajing].
But he still thought the chances were slim.
Since Lincoln pulled the roots to cut off the connection between players’ individual game worlds, making another big news would mean leaving the personal game world and shifting the main battleground to the Public World, where there are massive amounts of players online everyday.
Even though the Public World also split into many mirror dimensions, with Yunmeng’s quantity, any single mirror dimension would have at least tens of thousands of people online simultaneously.
And the dynamics of the Public World are constantly adjusting, the connections between each mirror dimension are way tighter than a player’s personal game world.
If we can cause the Public World to collapse, even if it’s just one mirror, it will probably create even more chain reactions.
However, neither the Metropolis nor Night City have any breakthrough point to breach the server’s computing limit.
If he had to say something, previously when the airship flew over Xiajing, Stanley participated in the journey in the virtual world and incidentally saw a specific structure in the outskirts of Xiajing—
Xiajing High Energy Physics Research Institute.
If Yunmeng fully replicated the interior of these structures in reality, then there should be the first high energy accelerator of Daxia inside—
[Xiajing Collider]!
This thing can accelerate the electron beam to 150 giga-electronvolts. In terms of energy level, Stanley thought it was definitely enough!
If in the virtual world, forcibly simulating an experiment of this energy level, wouldn’t that definitely cause the server to collapse?
Moreover, according to the “insider” Cheryl’s news, [Virtual Xiajing] was in the end stage and would be open to all players soon, so there wasn’t a long wait.
The only problem was:
Considering the lessons learned from the collapse of “Terraria”, would this High Energy Physics Institute still exist in [Virtual Xiajing]?
Stanley thought that was a question worth asking.
If he put himself in Lincoln’s shoes, after experiencing the crash of “Terraria”, he absolutely would not keep this thing around.
High-energy accelerator, research institute, no need to think about it, just delete it all!
But he is not Lincoln.
No one knows what Lincoln would do.
If he only focused on existing games and overlooked [Virtual Xiajing], leaving the accelerator in place, then… maybe there’s a chance?
Finally, Stanley messaged this idea to a few players of the [Cannon Cult].
After all…
What if?
…
Lincoln also got the news of the collapse of the player’s game world.
Since it didn’t cause any harm, Lincoln took a look at the commotion with Mavis before going to bed, praised it with a comment “Good endurance, young man”, and then put it out of his mind.
The nap he had at noon was far from enough, and he hurriedly washed up before going to bed.
*
Early the next morning, Lincoln came to the company on time.
The five interviewees had been waiting under Quentina’s arrangements.
Yunmeng now has a complete administrative and human resources team, and Quentina rarely deals with ordinary recruitment interviews personally.
The exception this time was because the people coming for the interview were special–
They were personally invited by the boss for the interview, naturally the treatment was different.
These five people were the champion team of the [National Construction Competition], the creative team behind [Lagrange: Hope’s Light Space Station] – [Digital Reserve Team].
Since Lincoln had to hold a press conference on Tuesday, he arranged the interview for now.
“Hi there, sorry to keep you waiting,” Lincoln walked up proactively to shake hands, welcoming their arrival.
“Hello, hello!”
“No, we didn’t wait long.”
“We just got here.”
…
The group hurriedly stood up, both excited and nervous as they shook Lincoln’s hand.
The five of them, four men and one woman, all looked quite young and seemed similar in age to Lincoln, with a bit of student vibes.
At a glance, Lincoln thought: Either these people haven’t graduated from university yet, or they’ve just graduated not long ago, and they haven’t spent much time in the dull career dye vat.
So, he decided to change the interview process and skipped the usual routine of reviewing resumes, listening to self-introductions, and asking about experiences.
He simply asked them, “Are you interested in going with me to check out a place?”
“Yes!”
Without even asking where and what for, these five people responded in unison the moment Lincoln finished speaking.
“Alright then, here, put this on.”
Since they were so quick to respond, Lincoln didn’t waste any time and handed out headbands to each of them.
Without any hesitation, they took the headbands and put them on.
Lincoln also put on a headband and sat down on the small sofa opposite them.
“Ready?” Lincoln asked lastly.
“Ready.”
Several of them nodded at the same time.
“Well then, let’s go!”
The next moment, Mavis pulled them all into the virtual world simultaneously.