Chapter 1390 (1/2)

Chapter 1390: 458. Directly into the heart_2

Noland Lee spoke in an even tone:

“The Company gathered a large number of engineers to study the A.I.’s backend data. The A.I. designated to play the role of the Angel Enterprises Alliance is numbered T18. Its anomaly originates from a space station called Angel’s Voice, belonging to the Archangel Group. We must eliminate the brain-like facility within the space station to remove the negative impact and get A.I. T18 back on track.”

“T18… The root of the anomaly is in the Angel’s Voice Space Station…”

Liam Bennett pondered and muttered, asking with confusion:

“Boss, why would the root of the A.I.’s anomaly be in the game? Can we not simply erase the aberrant data on the corresponding physical medium to eradicate the source of the anomaly?”

Noland Lee understood what Liam Bennett meant.

Simply put, Liam Bennett believed the root of the anomaly was a cluster of data residing on some physical medium.

For instance, a virus on a USB drive or hacking software on an external hard drive, and so on.

In such cases, directly formatting the USB drive and the external hard drive might clear out what’s referred to as the root of the anomaly.

So if it’s possible to resolve this issue from the physical layer outside of the game, why would the official game need to clear out the anomaly within the Angel’s Voice Space Station?

This was an issue.

An issue that piqued the curiosity of Liam Bennett, an experienced player.

Knowing the other party had this question, Noland Lee explained:

“It’s because when the A.I. was covering up this portion of the aberrant data, it adopted a distributed storage approach.”

“So that’s how it is.” Liam Bennett suddenly understood.

Noland Lee continued:

“The distributed storage method accomplishes decentralization. It divides the virus into countless components that are scattered across various physical media. Indeed, we could destroy all the physical media outside of the game to eliminate the virus, but that would also affect the game’s operation, and even cause a repeat of the mass logout that happened two months ago. Am I right?”

“Yes, that’s correct,” Liam Bennett replied, his tone slightly grave as he nodded.

Noland Lee said:

“Therefore, we decided to take a different approach. The virus data in distributed storage is scattered when stored, but during operation, it converges. This ‘convergence’ phenomenon of the virus data happens within the Angel’s Voice Space Station, with the brain-like facility acting as a tangible representation. I’m not a professional data security engineer, so I can only explain it to you in this way, there might be slight deviations, but that’s the general idea.”

Liam Bennett wasn’t a professional in this field either.

However, based on Noland Lee’s description, Liam Bennett basically understood the situation.

“I see. Boss, do you need me to do anything?” Liam Bennett asked.

Noland Lee didn’t hide anything and laid out the pre-prepared justification:

“The day after tomorrow, which is Friday night, the Magic Academy will launch a campaign event online. The theme of the campaign is ‘Straight to the Heart.’ At that time, the game will release a series of campaign tasks, guiding Academy Faction players to break through the defenses of the Angel Enterprises Alliance and launch an attack on the Angel’s Voice Space Station. I need you to lead the Alliance players as internal collaborators, cooperating with Academy Faction players to destroy the Angel’s Voice Space Station.”

Liam Bennett fell silent upon hearing this, then asked with some concern:

“Boss, do you mean, we, a group of players who joined the Alliance, are to collectively betray it? Won’t we become traitors to the Alliance after this event is over?”

“No, no, no, you’ve got it wrong,” Noland Lee said with a gentle smile:

“I’m not asking you to openly betray the Alliance, but to drop the ball or slack off at the crucial moment.”

“Drop the ball… slack off…” Liam Bennett rubbed his forehead, mulling it over, his eyes gradually lighting up:

“Oh, I understand your meaning now. You want us to slack in our efforts, right? And also provide inside information to the Academy Faction players to help them break through more effectively.”

Noland Lee nodded in satisfaction:

“Yes, that’s exactly it. It might not be appropriate for a Game Master like me to do these things, which might draw criticism. But it’s different for you. Additionally, I can tell you in advance that on Friday night, when the Academy Faction players attack the space station, you and other players who joined the Alliance will receive an emergent task to return to the United Bureau. You can accept this task to directly betray the Alliance, or delay accepting the task and continue serving in the Alliance. How you choose specifically, I won’t interfere.”

“Okay, okay, let me think this over…”

In the subsequent time, Noland Lee and Liam Bennett discussed the details.

Once Noland Lee was sure that Liam Bennett had committed the matter to memory, he ended the conversation.

“Next is the Assassin Angel. I need to consult with Them and make thorough preparations.”