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

"Aaaaaah! Stop messing with me!"

Nova's heart-wrenching, pitiful cries echoed from the live stream.

"My invincible warhammer is so big! So thick! So hard!"

I've already handed over all the rare materials I painstakingly farmed to the NPC!

My favorability rating is gone! I still need to make armor!

Let the hell in here—!

Give me back my youth!

This tragic scene at Nova.

That's why, in the past few tens of minutes...

The fundamental reason for the sudden explosive growth in downloads.

At this moment, in a corner of MIT.

Inside the Spectra Works studio, the atmosphere plummeted from euphoria to freezing point.

Cyber ​​Fox suddenly jumped up from his chair.

"900 people in the queue... Wait! It's refreshed! 940! It's over 1000! It's already over 1000!"

Entropy checked the server's running status with a look of horror on his face.

"Something's wrong! How could this happen? The CPU temperature is 93 degrees Celsius, and the fan speed is over 4000 RPM!"

The server on the table, which holds the fate of the game, is now emitting a tremendous roar.

Like a slave being ruthlessly exploited, groaning in despair and pain.

Om-! ! !

The vibrations were so strong that even the empty soda cans on the table trembled.

"At this rate, the machine is really going to crash physically! God, please hold on!"

If the server crashes completely at this critical juncture, all those thousands of players we managed to attract through the streamer will just leave cursing and screaming!

It's easy to imagine the frenzied queues and the scrambling crowds outside.

At this moment, the cyber world within the game has probably turned into a hellish place where various models clip through each other and NPCs fly around due to the collapse of computing power.

Root clutched his head tightly with both hands, painfully pulling at his hair.

This is the torment of falling from heaven to hell.

Everyone in the studio is going through the same ordeal.

If you can't handle the traffic, you're doomed!

Many players are only here out of curiosity. They have extremely low patience!

If service cannot be restored within a very short time.

Maybe in a few hours, these players will forget about it completely, as if they've all suffered from collective amnesia.

They must!

We will try every possible means and spare no expense!

We must do everything we can to retain this once-in-a-lifetime, hard-won traffic!

Su Hao, who was sitting to the side, raised his eyebrows slightly.

He looked at the temperature alarm that was skyrocketing and felt a sense of surprise as well.

But he quickly suppressed his emotional turmoil.

My brain instantly went into processing mode, quickly calmed down, and began to think of a way to break the deadlock.

Crackle, crackle.

Su Hao placed his hands on the keyboard.

The background log window was brought up.

Su Hao's eyes began to scan left and right at an extremely rapid pace.

Countless lengthy and complex green codes.

There were no search tools available to assist with this.

It all depends on the naked eye!

The brain's computing power was pushed to its limit at this moment, precisely extracting useful information from the storm of tens of thousands of lines of logs pouring down.

This is absolutely illogical.

If the underlying architecture he personally designed were followed, even if another 10,000 people were added, it would be impossible for such a resource deadlock overload situation to occur.

However, in the actual collaborative development process, the code was modified and pieced together by the three members of the team, inevitably resulting in various strange redundancies.

Within Su Hao's rigorous computational logic.

All the massive computing power required for this game should have been borne by the player's local computer.

The server simply acts as a relay station for receiving and verifying lightweight data packets.

Why would this broken machine cause such a bizarre situation, almost spontaneously combusting...?

In the blink of an eye.

Su Hao, who was quickly filtering through a massive amount of logs, suddenly fixed his gaze on a string of garbled characters.

The mouse wheel braked instantly!

found it.

right here!

In the underlying architecture of MIT Simulator.

Countless complex and sophisticated algorithms are meshing together and operating in parallel, like gears.

The pathfinding algorithm responsible for traversing the map.

The behavior decision tree responsible for NPC interaction logic.

A load balancer responsible for coordinating the allocation of computing power.

A predictive caching mechanism responsible for optimizing response speed.

These are the four core underlying modules.

Amidst the complex interactions and collisions caused by the influx of a large number of players.

A strange chemical reaction occurred.

They have developed their own set of... entirely new rules that no human programmers have ever set!

A technical term from a cutting-edge theory flashed through Su Hao's mind in an instant.

Emergent behavior.

"What's wrong? Did you find something?! Is it an infinite loop bug?!"

Seeing Su Hao's unusual expression, Entropy quickly asked.

"This is not a bug."

"What is that...?"

"This is an evolutionary behavior model that is spontaneously generated by deep learning algorithms under the pressure of computing power."

In short, through continuous self-iteration, the system internally developed a completely new set of rules that I had never designed before.

This statement was like a flashbang detonated in a small room.

The three people's brains instantly went into a complete shutdown for two seconds.

Before they could recover from the shock of their shattered worldviews, Su Hao had already rolled up his sleeves:

"There's no time to explain, I'm starting to refactor now."

Crackle, crackle.

The keyboard was being pounded in a rhythm reminiscent of machine gun fire.

"Refactoring?! With a thousand people queuing up like this?! How do you plan to change it?"

Su Hao did not answer.

Instead, four densely packed data stream windows appeared on the screen simultaneously.

Then I focused intently on tracing those complex logical connections.

He astutely observed that this was a self-generating behavioral loop formed by four sets of underlying algorithms interlocking and deadlocking.

They are like four venomous snakes biting each other's tails, frantically devouring the server's computing power.

As green code flashed wildly across my retina.

The vast and complex logic diagram at the bottom of the game was rapidly reduced in size, deconstructed, and became incredibly clear in his mind.

The truth came out.

In short, module A, in order to improve efficiency, presumptuously predicted the behavior of module B.

The predicted results are classified as high priority by the system and are forcibly cached.

Subsequently, these cached data were mistakenly identified as core data by the load balancing module and redistributed to modules A and B!

Thus, a closed loop, and even an infinitely self-replicating vicious cycle, was born.

It inadvertently created an unexpected functional mechanism within the system that drained all computing power.

The logical chain has been straightened out.

So, what variable was the culprit that caused this series of catastrophic chain reactions, disrupting the initial equilibrium of the system...?

"Found it. It's right here!"

Like precisely catching a single raindrop falling in the dark of a stormy night.

Su Hao managed to extract the single line of mutated ghost code from a sea of ​​tens of millions of logs!

This is something that didn't originally exist in the source code.

A mutated module entirely composed of code that has evolved and been pieced together on its own!