A genius student? Ha, they're nothing but ants at your feet!

Inhumane all-nighters and overworking.

There is no alternation of day and night, no dawn or dusk.

This battle, which drained their very life force, lasted for several weeks.

The Synapse engine exhibits an unfathomable capacity for inclusion, much like a black hole.

It actually carries all their wildly imaginative, even anti-human, outrageous ideas at the underlying system architecture level.

The complexity of the entire virtual campus is increased layer by layer.

What started as a flat map has expanded into a complex yet incredibly realistic miniature world that incorporates physical laws, chemical reactions, and neural logic!

The sound of typing on the keyboard never stopped.

The three of them were at their respective workstations, their fingers even leaving afterimages as they typed.

Until one afternoon.

Click.

"Holy crap... has this place been ransacked?"

Su Hao had just returned from a high-level academic seminar where attendees were dressed in suits and spoke with great elegance.

Looking at the completely transformed studio, which resembled a refugee camp in a war zone, I even began to wonder if I had wandered onto the wrong film set.

Clang—

He had barely stepped halfway in when he kicked away several empty energy drink cans that were rolling down his side.

Then look around.

The floor was littered with greasy, shriveled pizza boxes, as well as those pasta takeout boxes that had been left half-eaten and left to harden and grow mold.

The entire room was filled with a strong, strange chemical fumes, a mixture of sweat and coffee.

He looked up at the wall.

The checklist on the whiteboard, which was covered with a dense array of items, was now almost entirely marked with bright red crosses, signifying that it was "completed".

The area was a sea of ​​red, resembling the scene of some kind of cult ritual.

The scene was shocking, yet the results were brilliant.

The three people who caused all this were in such a terrible state that they could easily be cast as special zombies in "Resident Evil".

Entropy lay limply in an ergonomic chair, almost like someone with a broken neck.

With his eyes half-open and half-closed, his pupils dilated, his fingers, relying on muscle memory, continued to modify a few lines of code on the keyboard.

Root and Cyber ​​Fox are even more amazing.

The two of them had clearly not showered for at least several days.

His hair was so oily it was reflective, and he had a strange, acidic biochemical smell about him.

But their fingers seemed to be welded to the mechanical keyboard, still relentlessly and frantically outputting data.

"Hey! Our busy man is back?"

Root raised his heavy arm and greeted them.

Su Hao glanced at his desk.

The pile of draft papers filled with debug logs was already taller than the monitor and looked ready to collapse.

"Su Hao, I have to say, the engine architecture you built at the bottom layer is truly a work of art, absolutely amazing!"

Previously, we were simply too narrow-minded and failed to fully exploit its terrifying performance.

However, just recently, a few of us risked our lives and, after countless trials and errors, finally managed to grasp some advanced techniques.

crunch.

Entropy suddenly sat up straight as if he had risen from the dead.

Excitedly, he spun the heavy monitor stand, aligning the image on his screen directly with Su Hao.

On the screen was the newly completed "Major Disaster Mod".

At this moment, an unprecedented catastrophic flood is breaking out in the virtual campus!

The scene in the video is incredibly shocking:

Several student NPCs with outstanding physical fitness and swimming expertise actually jumped into the raging floodwaters and pulled the exhausted teachers and students who were about to drown to safety.

The survivors then climbed up to the high-rise buildings that had not been submerged.

Even more outrageous, engineering students actually started directing everyone to collect discarded desks and door panels, and they managed to handcraft a makeshift life raft on the rooftop!

Moreover, the other processes displayed on several smaller screens on the side are equally impressive.

Those simulations superimposed various disaster scenarios such as aliens, tornadoes, and earthquakes.

Within the game's massive core, it unfolds in an extremely realistic, fluid, and magnificent way, like a series of independent disaster blockbusters.

"Wow, that's amazing..."

Su Hao's eyes twitched as he looked at the enormous workload of almost completely rewriting the game's core.

"Everyone, you've really worked hard these past few days."

He knew all too well how incredible the things these guys had done were.

What was originally just a half-finished product that could only be called a "sandbox walking simulator" has now been forcibly injected with an extremely high concentration of "gameplay" after these three madmen poured their hearts and souls into refining it.

It has already fully possessed the framework of a masterpiece, and has been completely transformed!

What's most amazing is that these gameplay elements aren't just contrived plot arrangements.

Based on different professional backgrounds, IQ data, and knowledge reserves.

When faced with dire situations, the NPCs exhibited drastically different, even diverse, survival strategies.

Countless independent logic trees collide, intertwine, and become entangled under the calculations of the Synapse engine.

Ultimately, this virtual world gave rise to an extremely spectacular cluster evolutionary behavior, worthy of being included in sociology textbooks.

"Haha! Basic stuff, don't be surprised! It's all standard procedure!"

"Hey, don't be so polite. Without your Synapse engine as the foundation,..."

Even if we broke our hands and boiled our brains dry, we absolutely couldn't produce such a god-like deduction with a perfect closed loop!

Although Cyber ​​Fox and Root have sunken eye sockets and dark circles that look like they've been punched twice.

But their chapped lips turned up wildly, and their thin faces were filled with barely suppressed pride and an indescribable sense of accomplishment.

However, Su Hao quickly realized a practical problem:

"The product is really amazing, and the effect is indeed stunning."

But how do you plan to market this thing?

This is no simple pixel game.

Such astonishing data throughput and real-time calculation logic can be easily estimated by any knowledgeable server architect.

For this thing to run smoothly, it absolutely requires an extremely large, even exaggerated, cloud computing power group to support it.

Let alone doing large-scale public beta tests with hundreds of thousands of participants like big companies do.

Even if it's just a few hundred beta testers being let in initially, so they can interact normally and create variables.

The server bandwidth and computing power rental fees burned every month are an astronomical figure!

That would be enough to bankrupt these poor students who relied on scholarships, leaving them with nothing but their underwear, and then they would have to go begging under the bridge hand in hand.

"Hehe! I have a brilliant plan. If we don't have enough funds, we'll make up for it with technology."

We've discussed it and the plan will be done in several steps.

In the first phase, we plan to start on major gaming forums.

We're releasing a demo version (trial version) that can be played locally on a player's personal computer, focusing on free access and experiencing the game!

Root, who was in charge of the server backend architecture, pushed up his glasses with a swagger and slowly revealed his insidious plan, which could be described as that of a business genius.

"Of course! The local graphics card definitely can't handle the full effects."

More than half of the AI ​​depth will have to be cut, and the script's upper limit will be locked within two scenes.

But the benefits are also obvious.

The computing power for all complex scenarios relies entirely on the free-to-play player's own graphics card.

Even if we burn their graphics cards to the point of smoking, as the developers, we can not only gain a good reputation, but also avoid paying a single penny for server maintenance!

How wonderful!