Who would still start a business seriously after being reborn?

Chapter 586 Ten Years of Hard Work

Inside the president's office of Momo Group in Jingzhou City.

As Cheng Yi watched the live feed of Samsung's on-the-ground promotion on the big screen and the online viewership of "Audition Online" reaching a peak of 300 million again, his face showed no worry, but rather a happy smile.

The feeling of being pulled and stretched repeatedly is so exhilarating.

Since the open beta launch of Audition Online, Samsung has already burned through nearly $10 billion.

While it's possible to easily earn back the $300 billion if those 10 million online users can maintain their position, the prerequisite is that they can do so.

Audition Online is like a huge dam; once built, its value is limitless.

But Cheng Yi was always swinging a hoe in the corner of the dam, so how could the dam possibly be stable?

Audition Online is a quagmire, a quagmire that has trapped Samsung and left them powerless to do anything else.

However, Samsung has not yet realized this, and instead regards Audition Online as the best way to restrain Momo Group.

He looked at the data label on the computer screen showing that human users accounted for 31.7%, and smiled, "This is our breakthrough."

He turned around, looked at Yu Sen, and said, "Teacher Yu, it's time to bring out your masterpiece that you've been optimizing for three years."

"A big treasure? What big treasure?" Yu Sen was taken aback.

Cheng Yi laughed and said, "It's the simulator you've been optimizing."

"You mean the Pangu simulator?" Yu Sen suddenly realized and said, "This thing is still usable now?"

The prototype of the Pangu simulator was one of the dozen or so ecosystem software programs that Liu Guiwu brought with him when he first came to Jingzhou.

Research and development began in 1994, and the name was also ordered by Liu Guiwu, signifying the creation of a new world.

Unfortunately, the Pangu simulator was ultimately not used.

To enable Momo Internet Cafes to be compatible with Windows games, Yu Sen restarted the development of the Pangu emulator. He successfully installed many single-player games in Momo Internet Cafes using the Pangu emulator. Later, as Momo Internet Cafes grew and expanded, the Pangu emulator was phased out again.

However, this simulator has extraordinary significance for Yu Sen and his team.

So as long as they're not busy, they'll continue to optimize the simulator.

Later, through continuous iteration and optimization by the geniuses and madmen at the Gods Network Research Institute, this emulator, which could exist in the system compatibility layer, gradually became perfect.

Its strength lies in the fact that it does not simply virtualize a Windows environment, but rather builds a highly efficient translation layer at the bottom layer of the Moc-OS system. This layer can translate Windows application instructions to the Moc-OS kernel for execution with almost no loss, resulting in efficiency and compatibility far exceeding that of ordinary virtual machines.

"This simulator should still work, right?" Cheng Yi asked knowingly.

For the past six months, he had the Gods Network Research Institute help Yu Sen optimize the system, all for the day the ceasefire agreement was lifted.

"Of course, Pangu's research and development has never stopped. We have already overcome several deep-seated compatibility problems." Yu Sen proudly introduced: "For the current mainstream Windows applications and games, Pangu's emulation efficiency can reach more than 92% of the native Windows environment, and ordinary users can hardly perceive the difference."

Cheng Yi asked with a smile, "Talk is cheap. Install an emulator on my computer and let me see if I can run Audition Online."

“Absolutely no problem. It can run anything, not just games, even industrial software.” Yu Sen said, “Wait for me to go back and get the installation disc.”

“I have one here.” Cheng Yi took the Pangu Simulator installation disk from his desk and handed it to Yu Sen with a smile.

"?" Yu Sen glanced at Cheng Yi with a fearful look, and hummed with lingering fear.

He had heard the phrase "great wisdom appears as a demon" before, but now that he saw Cheng Yi, he fully understood its meaning.

This guy is a monster. He might sell me out one day and I'd probably be secretly laughing about it.

Yu Sen quickly inserted the installation disc into the CD-ROM drive to boot. After the installation was complete, he began to create an environment in the emulator and install Audition Online.

“Your steps are too complicated, this won’t work,” Cheng Yi said, watching from the side. “You have to make it as simple as possible, so that even a complete computer novice can figure out how to install it.”

"You plan to use it commercially?" Yu Sen was taken aback.

Cheng Yi said, "Nonsense, after so many years of research and optimization, of course we should put it to use. Our Momo Group never produces waste. Even a roll of toilet paper has its uses."

Yu Sen's lips twitched slightly as he said, "If it's for commercial use, then a lot of things will need to be modified."

“Well, I have two requirements,” Cheng Yi said. “First, you have to put Audition Online into the installation disk and install it together with the emulator.”

"Secondly, this emulator must be one-way, so that the Windows system cannot emulate the Moc-OS system."

"Why is that?" Yu Sen asked.

"Because I'm stingy." Cheng Yi smiled, not telling the truth.

Yu Sen didn't ask any further questions, and nodded, saying, "Okay, give me a week."

"I'll give you three days at most," Cheng Yi said. "I need more time to copy the discs."

"Okay, I'll try my best." Yu Sen nodded emphatically. He had already sensed that Cheng Yi was planning to make a big deal out of the Pangu simulator.

Jingzhou City, Momo Group Industrial Software R&D Center.

Yu Sen took the CD containing the Pangu simulator and walked back to the R&D center. Several key members of the core team had already been notified and were waiting there, their eyes filled with a mixture of curiosity and excitement.

"Is President Cheng really going to activate Pangu?" Huang Ganping, the director of the Computer Operating System Research Institute of Handong Province, also came over to join in the fun.

Almost all of the software they created in the 90s has disappeared from the scene.

Seeing that Pangu is about to be activated, Huang Ganping, one of the developers, is still quite excited.

It's like your own child getting recognition from others.

“That’s right,” Yu Sen said. “And the timeframe is very tight, only three days. President Cheng’s requirements are also quite demanding. First, he requires a user-friendly, integrated installation that directly integrates the Audition Online client. Second, he wants to ensure the one-way nature of the simulation, and absolutely not allow the Windows system to reverse-simulate our Moc-os.”

“If you don’t have enough manpower, I’ll bring some people over to help you,” Huang Ganping said.

"No need, I have enough manpower," Yu Sen laughed. "I'm much better at software than you are."

Yu Sen is now in charge of industrial software for Momo Group, while the main business of operating systems has been handed over to Huang Ganping.

Huang Ganping did not insist. He sat aside, drinking tea and watching Yu Sen's team brainstorm solutions.

"Integrated installation is no problem, just create an automated deployment script!"

"The key is one-way communication, which involves the translation and mapping rules of the underlying instruction set. We need to strengthen the encryption protocol to prevent reverse engineering." "And there's compatibility testing too; three days is too tight!"

……

"Quiet!" After discussing for a long time, Yu Sen clapped his hands, and the laboratory immediately fell silent.

Yu Sen said, "Time is tight and the task is heavy. In order to improve the effectiveness, we will act in groups."

One team is responsible for streamlining the installation process. The goal is for users to simply click "Next" to automatically complete the emulator deployment, the installation of the Audition Online client, registry configuration, and environment variable settings. The interface should be a simple wizard-style interface with easy-to-understand language and eye-catching icons.

Group Two is responsible for reinforcing Pangu's defenses. Their focus is on inspecting all external interfaces and command translation layers to ensure no vulnerabilities can be exploited for reverse engineering or probing. They will also utilize the encryption module provided by the Institute of Gods to obfuscate and harden the core code.

Three teams were responsible for extreme compatibility testing. They collected every available pirated version of XPGHOST system on the market—Tomato Garden, YLMF, Deepin, special editions from computer companies… none could be missed. They repeatedly installed and ran our integrated package on these platforms, recording any possible errors, conflicts, and performance degradation issues. Our goal wasn't just for it to work, but for it to run perfectly smoothly.

"Yes!"

Once the order was given, the R&D center instantly went into high-speed operation.

The keyboard clicks were like a sudden downpour, and the code stream on the screen scrolled rapidly.

In the past few days, the coffee machine has been consuming coffee beans at a visible rate, and takeout boxes have quickly filled the corner trash can.

Yu Sen sat in the center, constantly solving the technical problems thrown at him by various groups.

"Boss, this version of the Tomato Garden system has removed too many system components, causing a dynamic link library that our emulator depends on to fail to load properly."

"Replace it with our own compatibility library and package it into the installation package."

"The simple installation script may encounter permission issues on a certain streamlined system and may not be able to create directories automatically."

"Check the script, elevate privileges, and run the installation process with the highest privileges."

"The one-wayness test passed 99.8%, revealing a potentially theoretical leakage risk in an extremely obscure instruction set mapping..."

"Immediately correct the mapping table and increase the encryption strength by one level. I need a 100% success rate."

Time passed by minute by minute.

On the first day, the integrated installation package was initially completed.

The next day, the systems on the compatibility test list were successfully tested one by one and marked with green checkmarks.

On the morning of the third day, Yu Sen stared at the final stress test report on the screen. More than 98% of the test platforms successfully installed and ran Audition Online smoothly, and the remaining 2% of extremely unpopular systems were also resolved through backup solutions.

"Success!" Yu Sen slammed his hand on the table, his eyes flashing with excited glint.

"An army is raised for a thousand days to be used for one day." This Pangu simulator has been in development for ten years since 1995, and now it is finally ready to be unsheathed.

Everyone says it takes ten years to forge a sword.

Now he's also eager to see just how powerful this sword, honed over ten years, really is.

Meanwhile, the atmosphere in Momo Group's cybersecurity lab was equally tense and focused.

Lin Qingyin's team faced another challenge: to recreate Audition Online in the new Pangu simulator environment and make it run more covertly.

“The emulator environment is a translated world.” Lin Qingyin drew a structural diagram on the whiteboard and said, “Our plug-in can no longer directly hook into the Windows system’s API functions as before; it needs to adapt to the translation layer interface provided by the Pangu emulator.”

One team member immediately raised a question, saying, "Director Lin, won't this reduce the effectiveness of our cheat? After all, there's an extra layer of conversion."

“No.” Lin Qingyin answered with certainty: “Pangu’s translation efficiency is extremely high, and the delay is almost negligible. This is even an advantage for us. T3’s detection system is facing a translated and disguised environment. Their detection rules are based on native Windows, which may fail or greatly reduce accuracy here. Most importantly, Microsoft’s Pandora project has almost no impact on us.”

"We now have three major challenges to overcome."

"First, we need to analyze the virtual interface documentation exposed by the Pangu emulator to upper-layer applications, rewrite the underlying hook module of the cheat, and ensure that it can accurately capture game data and input events in the emulator environment."

"Secondly, we need to simulate more natural operational fluctuations by adding random delays and minor changes in accuracy to avoid being detected by behavior-based detection mechanisms."

"Thirdly, new cheats should be able to be deeply embedded in the emulator process, and if necessary, they should be broken down into multiple harmless small modules that run separately for testing against anti-cheat measures."

Unlike the bustling activity at Yu Sen's lab, Lin Qingyin's lab was much quieter, with only the hum of the machines and the occasional low murmur of discussion.

"Virtual interface capture successful".

"The new algorithm has improved the simulation accuracy to 98%, making it almost indistinguishable from a real person."

"The hidden module test passed; it cannot be detected by regular memory scans."

……

One piece of good news after another was delivered to Lin Qingyin.

She sat at the control panel, running both the Pangu emulator and the modified Audition Online simultaneously. On the screen, the Audition Online character was perfectly executing PERFECTs, while the background monitoring software showed that neither the game client nor the emulator itself had any abnormal processes detected.

Three days later, in the evening, Yu Sen and Lin Qingyin arrived at Cheng Yi's office at almost the same time.

Yu Sen placed a brand-new CD on Cheng Yi's desk, his face showing deep fatigue. He yawned and said, "President Cheng, I have accomplished my mission. Please test it."

Lin Qingyin also handed over a USB drive, saying, "This is Audition Elf optimized for the Pangu simulator environment. Its stealth, stability, and anti-detection capabilities have all been thoroughly tested."

Cheng Yi picked up the CD, looked at it under the light, and a happy smile spread across his face.

"You've worked hard." He looked at his two capable assistants and smiled, "Now, let's wait for June 28th to arrive."

June 28th marks the end of the truce agreement between Momo Group and Microsoft.

He looked at Li Weiwei standing beside him and instructed, "Weiwei, inform Li Xiang that the specialty store at the Shilla Hotel should prepare for its opening."

"Yes!" Li Weiwei responded immediately.

Cheng Yi stretched, stood up, and laughed, "I'm getting a little excited about trying to poach Microsoft's employees."

They still have a ceasefire agreement with Samsung Group, so Samsung Group would never dare to openly interfere in the war between Momo Group and Microsoft in the Asian battlefield.

Given Microsoft's predicament, they still have a sliver of hope of winning this battle.

(End of this chapter)