It is the human heart that releases the infinite light, and it is also the human heart that creates the boundless darkness, the light and the darkness are intertwined and fighting, this is the world that we are attached to and helpless.

- Les Misérables

St. George's Cole Company Control Center

The control center of the [Minghe System] is located on the 60th floor of [Cole Company], and the engineers of the control center are mainly responsible for ensuring the smooth running of the game while the [Minghe System] is running. At the beginning of each game, the top engineers of [Cole Company] are gathered here, and all the details of the virtual scene of [Minghe System] are accurately controlled through the background control system and the evaluation of various values.

There are mainly engineers from 6 departments working in the control center: Bioengineering Department, Science and Technology Engineering Department, Player Monitoring Department, NPC Data Monitoring Department, Game Design Department, and [Nutrition Room] Control Department.

[Game Design Department]: The main department, mainly responsible for designing the rules of each game. The game design department brings together the world's outstanding experts in puzzle games, adventure games, treasure hunt games, gore games, maze games, and survival games, and finalizes the rules of each round of games through the discussion meetings of the expert group. It is required that before the game rules are officially submitted, the game design department should make the possible behaviors of each player according to the player data provided by the [Player Monitoring Department], make predictions, calculate the probability of each ending occurring, and adjust the game rules and adjust the maximum level of the aggressive creatures that appear in each game to increase or decrease the difficulty of the game to ensure that the game ending can be reached. Make each sub-game thrilling without going into a loop. The game design department is also known as the "rule setter".

[Bioengineering Department], as the name suggests, is mainly responsible for the research and development of aggressive creatures, collecting creatures from Eastern and Western myths or horror legends, and reproducing them in the [Minghe System], in addition, it is also responsible for genetic research and development, through the gene cutting, genetic recombination, and gene exchange technology of different species, to achieve the creation of new species, therefore, the Bioengineering Department is also called "Darwin the Pioneer".

In addition to being responsible for building virtual reality scenes according to the drawings of architectural designers, it also needs to be responsible for the stability of the host of the [Minghe system], system code error checking, the company's science and technology encryption, chip research and development, security barrier construction, virtual reality technology research and development, etc., which is one of the most valuable departments, bringing together the world's top computer geniuses, computer engineers, network engineers, and technology leaders, known as "Kohl's new blue ocean".

The [Player Monitoring Department] is mainly responsible for detecting various indicators of 12 players in each round, including basic life indicators, combat effectiveness indicators, emotional indicators and other quantitative indicators. By collecting the physical data of each player in the game, we can control the progress of the game, and through emotional analysis and psychological experts, we can predict the direction of the player's personality development, whether they can continue to withstand the game system, and eliminate dangerous players in time.

[NPC Data Monitoring Department], one of the largest departments of [Cole Company], is mainly responsible for monitoring hundreds of NPCs in the game, and each NPC in the game has at least three scientific researchers responsible for collecting NPC behavior data and recording the outcome of NPCs in each game. In addition, it is also necessary to classify the players who are newly classified as NPCs according to their performance, divide them into defensive or offensive NPCs, and then manage them in a unified manner. After the third alarm sounds, each NPC will be controlled by the system background and transform into a zombie, at which point there is no need to record vital signs.

In the control department of the [Nutrition Room], there are many professional teams composed of medical experts, physiology experts, human research experts, pharmacology experts, etc., mainly responsible for taking care of the flesh of the criminals who have been connected to the [Minghe System], and the [Nutritionist] is located on the 50th floor of the [Cole Company], so the staff in the control center [Nutrition Room] generally receives instructions through video, except for the most senior person in charge, others are not directly involved in the command work. Before a new player enters the game, the [Nutrition Room] needs to cooperate with the [Science and Technology Engineering Department] to scan the player's body data, complete the 3D modeling, and enter the [Minghe System], in addition, the [Nutrition Room] needs to regularly replace the nutrient solution soaked in the flesh every day, and regularly clean the player's body, check whether the nutrient delivery device is operating normally, and complete the player's body nutrition assessment every day, timely supplement nutrition for the body that appears thin and malnourished, and reduce nutrition for the body that is obese and overnourished. After the player is eliminated, the [Nutritionist] also has to do a good job of data handover with the player monitoring department and the NPC data monitoring department, convert the player data into NPC data, and complete the report, together with the player's performance video, behavior report, etc., and submit it to the government department for review. After the review is passed, the player's flesh will be processed, minced through a meat grinder, and supplied to a third-party corporate group for reuse.

The control center is like the brain of the huge operation team of the [Minghe System], every time the [Minghe System] starts a new game, the top responsible team of each department will gather at the control center on the 60th floor, and each is responsible for its own modules to complete each game. In addition, the control center also has special video recording equipment, recording equipment, inspection and recording instruments, which can record every detail in the virtual scene in an all-round and three-dimensional way to facilitate later playback and recording.

It is this efficient and orderly division of labor that maintains the operation of the [Minghe System].

According to rough estimates, the smooth operation of a game requires 3,000 of the most senior engineers to participate in the front-line control in the command center, 8,000 intermediate engineers to record the operation of the host in the computer room of the [Minghe System] host, 20,000 junior engineers to participate in the operation of their respective departments, and 30,000 data engineers to record every data in the game and submit it into a final report, which is reviewed by the top person in charge Scott and submitted to the government department.

Back to the present.

The two-storey wide screen in the center of the command center is showing the situation of the 13th round of the game, the 3rd sub-game - [Mirror Connection] in real time, in the upper left corner of the screen, it is clearly grouped: [Mirror Front Group: Caesar, Ogar, Colin, Duke, Mars, J] [Mirror Reverse Group: Arthur, Black Blade, Icarus, Beauty, Lorraine, One-Eye], each player has their 3D avatar under their name, and the dead player's avatar and name are gray, and the player who is still alive, The names and avatars are colored, and you can see that the names and avatars of the other players except Caesar and Arthur have completely turned gray. In the upper right corner of the screen, the information of the two connected people in reality are: [Caesar-Arthur] [Ogar-Black Blade] [Colin Icarus] [Duke-Beauty] [Mars Lorraine] [J-One-Eye], of course, except for the [Caesar-Arthur] group, the avatars and names of other players have also turned gray. In the lower left corner of the screen,There is a table,The header is the player's death method,Death location,Time of death,Number of unknown creatures killed,Player kills and other data,Behind these complex data,There is a column called [Blood Score] Statistical column,In this column,As long as the player is alive,The value is constantly changing,There are ups and downs,Once the player dies in this game,The value will enter the stationary,After checking by the background technician,Enter the [Minghe System] host,Credited to the [Blood Rank Total Value]. And the lower right corner of the screen,There are some miniature monitoring screens,Densely arranged in rows,There are thousands of monitoring angles,Controllers can call up the monitoring angles they want to see at will,Enlarge in the center of the screen,People in the control center of the two layers can see it。

Strictly speaking, the control center has two floors, but it is opened, and the interior is separated into two floors by transparent suspended glass.

The upper level is the most senior commander, generally composed of the heads of six branches, and the lower level, there are thousands of senior engineers sitting in front of the computer, according to the different departments, divided into their own actions, they all wear white engineer clothing, only from the color of the epaulettes to distinguish different departments. Once the game starts, their task is to sit in front of the computer screen and closely monitor every indicator in the game, complete their work, and report to the supreme commander in time if there is an abnormality, which is generally decided by the six supreme commanders, but some major decisions will also be directly ordered by Scott. The command room has 360 blind spot monitoring, sometimes Scott will watch the whole process of the game, and sometimes he is busy with business trips and meetings, so the decision is left to the top commander.

The first 12 rounds of the game were all carried out in such an orderly manner, although there were occasional moments of small panic, but these world's top high-IQ talents gradually formed a team tacit understanding and cooperated with the completion of the [Minghe System].

But this time, the progress of the game of [Mirror Connection] does not seem to be satisfactory.

The picture on the big screen was frozen at the moment when the blood lynx straightened up and was ready to attack, Caesar rode on the blood lynx, she pulled the iron whip tightly, the blood lynx stood up with its upper body, and its two huge claws were aimed at a [hunter] wearing a mole's hood and was about to step on it! Arthur lay on his side, covered in blood and dying, while the other [hunters] were rifle wields with stunned and frightened expressions.

The picture freezes at this moment, and the senior engineers sitting in front of the computer stop their work and look at each other, not knowing what to do next.

From time to time, they looked overhead, the six leaders in the highest level of control, waiting for new instructions.

In the control room on the second floor, there were thousands of people, but not one of them spoke.

Everyone had a bad premonition, and the superiors were going to get angry.

It was a serious mistake.

Unprecedented.