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Chapter 117 Emergency Button

Becker stood up from his chair, thought for a moment, and decided to go check out the network engineering department.

He walked through the corridor, pushed open the door, and saw rows of servers flashing wildly, with several engineers sweating profusely as they typed on their keyboards.

"What's going on?" Becker asked.

The head of the network engineering department looked up and wiped the sweat from his brow: "We checked the logs, and based on the data we've recovered, we deduce that the cause of the crash was, 'Someone broke the heart.'"

"Defeated the heart?" Several researchers nearby exclaimed in unison.

"Yes." The person in charge pointed to the data on the screen, speaking very quickly.

"During development, we never considered the possibility of the heart being defeated, so we didn't write any code for the outcome of a victory."

"In addition, data inflation broke down the calculation mechanisms of counters and integrators, triggering a series of chain reactions that led to system crashes."

"As for how they were defeated—" The person in charge shook his head.

"We don't know yet. The log only recorded the numerical overflow, not the specific process. We need to continue our investigation."

It turns out that, in their understanding, the original heart was an "impossible" additional challenge.

In their eyes, the Heart Boss was someone specifically designed to deliberately make things difficult for people.

After defeating the three-layer boss, your health is already extremely low. You still have to fight the Contradiction and Heart, which are very difficult, making victory almost impossible.

In addition, the heart's unique "rhythm" damage reflection mechanism, massive health, and a buff every five rounds further enhance its power.

"Impossible beyond impossible."

Every design is filled with the malice of "killing the player," as if it was designed to prevent people from winning and to torment the player.

To date, only three top professional players worldwide have a record of getting a kill in the normal way.

They managed to win only after pooling the resources of their entire professional research team, using specific seeds, and undergoing months of repeated optimization.

Therefore, in people's previous understanding, the Heart Boss was an "extreme challenge", with entertainment value far outweighing its game value.

Its greatest use is to provide room for imagination for their various modified versions.

In the past, in all the competitions and challenges of the early generation, it was assumed that as long as you defeated the boss on the third floor, you would win the game.

The fourth floor and the heart atrium can only be considered as additional challenges "above the challenge," belonging to deliberate "extreme challenges," and cannot be considered as necessary content.

That's why the development team came up with the idea of ​​modifying the heart to have "unlimited blood".

In their eyes, hitting the heart is no different from having unlimited health. And "99999" health is no different from "unlimited health".

To make programming easier, they chose to directly adjust the value, which resulted in the "99999" health bar.

In order to better reflect the players' survivability and output capabilities, they also adopted the simplest advanced 0 heart data.

Becker remained silent for a few seconds, his suspicion of "bug exploitation" becoming even more certain.

After all, how could a normal player possibly defeat a Heart with "infinite health"?

"Could it be a bug?" Becker asked.

"What I mean is, is it possible that a player is exploiting a bug to inflate their stats?"

The network engineer thought for a moment and said, "Hmm, that possibility cannot be ruled out."

"During the process of porting the original game, we did discover many potential bugs."

"Never mind the reasons for now." The head of the network engineering department had already turned back to the screen, his fingers flying across the keyboard.

"The most urgent task is to urgently repair the system and check if the server can function properly!"

On the other side of the world, Ye Fei sat in front of his computer, looking at the still image on the screen, and clicked the mouse.

There was no response.

He sighed, put down the mouse, and said with obvious disappointment, "It's boring. I played all night, got no reward, and the game crashed."

Ouluo stood to the side, holding a freshly brewed coffee. He glanced at the screen, then at Ye Fei: "Mr. Ye, you've been playing for six hours straight. Why don't you go back and rest?"

Ye Fei yawned: "No need, I'm too lazy to go back. I put a bed here when we were renovating, so I can just tidy it up."

Ouluo sighed, "Alright, Mr. Ye, I'll head out now. I'll remind the night shift security guards."

Ye Fei turned off his phone, threw it on the table, unfolded the folding bed, and went to sleep.

That's the situation.

In the office, Lucas, the head of the network engineering department, finished speaking, and Kos was sitting next to him.

Koss pondered for a moment, then slowly asked, "Approximately how long will it take to fix?"

Lucas flipped through the notebook in his hand, quickly scanning it: "After careful inspection, we found that the problem is actually not that big; it's mainly a matter of missing code and data storage capacity."

"Previously, to save runtime space, we set the damage counter's data capacity to a very low level. Now, we just need to adjust the capacity back and add the settlement code branch."

"We expect it to be fixed tonight."

Koss nodded: "Okay, fix it as soon as possible and make sure the Dragon Slayer Ranking runs smoothly until the end."

"Also, tell the data department that they can start compiling statistics ahead of schedule. Once the system is restored, compile complete player data as soon as possible."

"Yes, sir." Lucas saluted.

Inside the research room, Becker and several researchers were huddled together, discussing something in hushed tones.

In response to the server crash, they held an emergency short meeting, working overtime.

The main focus of the discussion was the arrangements after the server was repaired and the handling of "Sakura's Second Slash".

Koss walked toward the research room and pushed open the glass door.

Becker and several other researchers were gathered around a computer screen displaying the account information and battle records of "Sakura's Second Blade".

They were having a lively conversation at the moment.

"The data for this 'Sakura's Second Slash' is likely obtained by exploiting a bug and is not authentic," Lucas said.

"Therefore, I have doubts about the reliability of his data. Is it necessary to continue observing him?"

One researcher countered, "That's not necessarily true. Even if he used some kind of bugged method to attack the heart, his advanced PvP gameplay is documented in the community."

"The videos of the fights against Elan and Huatian are all online, and we've seen them. They can't all be fake, right?"

After he finished speaking, several people nodded in agreement.

Later, they unanimously agreed that although this second strike was suspected of being a bug, its strength was probably not as exaggerated as the rankings suggested.

However, it is not entirely without reference value and still needs to be a key object of observation.

At the same time, in order to prevent him from exploiting the bug to manipulate the data again, they unanimously agreed on a solution.

"Then let's ban the account," Lucas made the final decision.

On the other side of the world, Ye Fei woke up in his folding bed, sunlight streaming in through the gaps in the curtains.

He glanced at the time; it was already noon. He hadn't expected to sleep for so long.

"Is it fixed?" Ye Fei wondered.

The first thing he thought of after getting up was to check if the "Dragon Slayer List" had been repaired.

He sat up, stretched, and then instinctively pressed the power button on the computer.

The screen lit up, and he opened the login page for the Dragon Slayer Ranking, entering his account and password.

"It's fixed!" he said excitedly.

However, before he could even log in, a system notification popped up:

"Due to suspected manipulation and exploitation of loopholes, the fair gaming experience has been severely undermined."

Your account has been banned. Please contact customer service if you have any questions.

When Ye Fei saw this news, he felt as if the sky had fallen.

"My account got banned???"

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