"How's the result after this knockout?" A man in a tunic walked into the conference room, pulled out a chair and sat on it, with a straight waist and solemn eyebrows.

The young man who was typing on the computer on the side stopped his movements, looked at him with some confusion and said, "General Zhang..."

"Hey, just call me Uncle Zhang, I said that after this knockout round, how many players from all over the world are there?" The man with an iron-blooded demeanor in his gestures could easily tell that he was from the military or was currently in the barracks. And the word "general" may not be a compliment or a nickname, but a real military rank.

Zhang Zhaoyi put the thermos cup in his hand on the table and asked casually, but the young man opened his mouth and was stunned for a moment, not knowing how to answer for a while.

"What are you stunned, I'm asking you." Zhang Zhaoyi frowned.

On the other side of the young man, there was a woman who looked to be about forty years old, she was slightly fat, with a pair of glasses, staring at Zhang Zhaoyi with a little dissatisfaction and said: "My lieutenant general, even if you behave naturally, we clearly remember that you were not invited to this meeting." ”

"Ahem." Zhang Zhaoyi, who was uninvited, waved his hand and said, "It's all at this juncture, I'll come to listen to what's wrong?" ”

"I'll send you a detailed report tonight." The woman sighed helplessly and said, "You are sitting here, everyone is under a lot of pressure. ”

"I'm such an approachable person, I take the subway when I go out, what's the pressure?" Zhang Zhaoyi turned his head to look at the young man beside him and asked, "Are you under pressure?" ”

The young man's forehead was about to fall with cold sweat, and he grinned stiffly, "No... Not too. ”

"When did you stutter?" Zhang Zhaoyi turned his head and glanced at the other people in the conference room who were secretly looking at him, and said, "You hold your meeting, I don't express my opinion, I will listen." ”

Everyone echoed and said yes, yes, only the middle-aged woman rolled her eyes and muttered in a low voice, I believe you are a ghost.

After a while, a tall, middle-aged man walked in, and the young woman behind him closed the door casually.

The young woman was Shi Yi, she turned her head and found that her seat was occupied by Zhang Zhaoyi, but she smiled politely at Zhang Zhaoyi and sat down on the chair by the wall.

"Everyone's all together, right?" The tall man walked to the main seat, glanced up, and then looked at Zhang Zhaoyi, seeing that Zhang Zhaoyi was nodding and smiling at himself. The tall man smiled helplessly, didn't say anything, and continued: "Okay, then let's start." ”

He opened the slides that had been prepared, and the projection fell on a curtain behind him, on which were written the names of many countries, each followed by a number.

"Today, we have passed the fourth round of elimination, and there are currently a total of 300 participants left, including 76 from China. It's a little less than we expected, but it's about the same. The man raised his finger and pointed to the projection screen, and after the word "China", the number followed was 76.

Shi Yi glanced up, his expression did not change much, basically there would be such a meeting after every knockout round.

First, let's analyze the changes in the worldline of the current world, and second, discuss the next steps

He strengthened behind-the-scenes support and psychological counseling for the players, and then analyzed the strong players in various countries.

The main participants are generally project leaders, core technical personnel, planners and data analysts, and the person in charge of the contestants can rarely participate, and the reason why Shi Yi has been qualified to participate twice in a row is undoubtedly because of Jiang Ling's outstanding achievements.

The tall middle-aged man is the project leader of the China Division of the Heavenly Battle Arena, named Han Qinyu, whose apparent identity is the vice president of a well-known game company, but secretly his identity is a national-level dignitary, the leader of a confidential organization, otherwise he would not be appointed as the person in charge.

And what Han Qinyu said next made Shi Yi's expression become serious.

"I just had a video conference with the leaders of six other countries early this morning, and after deliberation, we made a decision together." Han Qinyu's voice was low and powerful, and his words were clear, only to see him look at everyone and say: "In this update, we decided to greatly increase the progress of code rewriting and began to try to reorganize the core source code. ”

Hearing this, everyone's faces changed suddenly, some people became as serious as Shi Yi, some people were shocked, some people seemed to have expected it and showed a little worry, and some people were a little puzzled.

Of course, this person who is puzzled is Zhang Zhaoyi, and he doesn't quite know what this sentence means.

The young man sitting next to him couldn't help but speak: "Isn't this too risky, the stability of the server still needs to be improved, if it causes overload, the consequences are unimaginable." ”

Han Qinyu nodded and continued: "I understand, but this is not a decision we made on the spur of the moment, because the world line process is much faster than we expected, and we must strengthen the strength of the players, otherwise it will be difficult for this game to go smoothly." ”

The middle-aged woman who had spoken to Zhang Zhaoyi before frowned and said, "As early as when the apostles of Dongwu Island were released during the selection competition, I said that you were too anxious. At present, the technical level is not perfect, and it is too risky to reorganize the core code to strengthen the scope of data governance. I think it's prudent to pause the game, slow down the progress, and wait for a breakthrough in the decipherment work before considering reorganizing the core code. ”

"Nope." A man sitting opposite the middle-aged woman spoke, he held his forehead with one hand, and said with a wry smile: "The main story has been launched, and even without the participation of players, the world line will move forward." You have to know that the speed of time over there is three times the relative speed here, and even if we only pause for half a month, forty-five days have passed over there. At the current rate of plot progression, it is impossible to calculate what will happen in forty-five days without the intervention of the player. The risk is probably not weaker than reorganizing the core code. ”

Shi Yi looked up, she didn't know much about the computing level and the progress of the world line, but she could also understand a rough idea. The middle-aged woman is the chief planner of the China region, and the man who just spoke is the chief analyst.

"Do you really know how risky it is to restructure the core code?" The chief planner turned his head to look at the young man beside him and said, "Now that the core code is reorganized, what is the success rate?" ”

The young man was a core member of the technical department, he hesitated for a moment, and said seriously: "To reorganize the core code, you need to face massive data calculations and a large number of vulnerabilities

Fix..."

The main planner interrupted him and repeated, "What is the success rate?" ”

The young man took a deep breath and said, "I think it's eighty percent sure." ”

Shi Yi took a breath of cool air when she heard this, and many people in the conference room were also worried. In many cases, 70% certainty is considered a relatively high probability, but in the face of some far-reaching or valuable things, this number is worth worrying about, or difficult to accept.

For example, if a technician tells you that there is an 80 percent chance of a successful launch of a manned spacecraft, will you agree to let him launch it?

The main planner said firmly: "I don't agree. ”

"It's been decided." Han Qinyu looked at the main planner and said, "We will start to do it tomorrow, and the technical team has ten days to overcome this problem." ”

"This..."The main planner said with a little anger on his face, "How can you make such an important decision so arbitrarily, you should listen to the opinions of more people." ”

"This is a decision made after deliberation among the heads of each country." Han Qinyu looked at the main planner and said with a somewhat complicated gaze: "It's also... The order given above. ”

The master planner was silent for a moment, and then glanced at Zhang Zhaoyi.

Zhang Zhaoyi picked up the teacup and said without raising his head: "Don't look at me, I'm not 'above' yet, I am also acting on orders." ”

The main planner shook his head helplessly: "It's like a greedy capitalist, in order to fight for this control, even at the risk of destroying it." ”

Han Qinyu had already made his words clear, even if he had some objections, he couldn't change this decision, he continued: "This maintenance is scheduled to last for ten days, and after ten days, a new version will be opened. ”

He turned around, flipped through the slide, pointed to the content on it and said, "In terms of game content, what we have to do is to find a way to speed up the improvement of the players' character strength. The first is the cultivation speed, which should reach more than one and a half times the previous one. Then there is the increase of high-level equipment and props, as well as the setting of battlefield missions to be further optimized, and targeted adjustments will be made around the progress of the world line. ”

He flipped the slide again, and the world map of the game world appeared, Han Qinyu first zoomed in on the Source Law Continent located in the upper left corner of the map, and said: "On the Source Law Continent, it is mainly a conflict between countries, and the Divine Court is also involved. As of this morning, the coalition army of Rey and Jeno was blocked by the three Divine Court Commanders, and retreated thirty miles, judging from King Jeno's attitude, he still refused the Divine Court's request for forced peace talks, and predicted that the coalition army would attack again within five days. To the north, the combined forces of Vero and Nian have already reached Mount Azoor, and it is here that it can be said that the coalition forces have conquered half of the territory of the old kingdom of Vero. Han Qinyu pointed to the map and explained the movements on the Source Law Continent.

Han Qinyu didn't say it in great detail, most of them were mentioned in one sentence, but the key information was pointed out very clearly. After talking about the Source Law Continent, he went on to talk about the movements of the other three continents.

"These are all important plots related to the world line." Han Qinyu looked at everyone and said with a serious expression: "According to my judgment, before the end of the next round of elimination, the contestants must enter the realm of Xuanji before they are qualified to continue. ”

"In order to achieve the final victory, for the good of the country, both we and the players must go all out!"