Volume 10 Bugs Chapter 109: Server Suspension, the Approaching Doomsday
Whether in the virtual Falvi world or in the "real plane" outside this world that belongs to those who dabble in space, it should have been a quiet night. I was lazily lying on the small bed in my small room at the guild headquarters, looking out at the night sky through the only small window.
Although I now possess the highest divinity and can easily create a secret residence that is unknown to the world, and it is not a big deal to build this residence above the sky or beside the stars and the moon, in my spare time, I still like to come back here - this narrow and dilapidated wooden house.
Yes, "return" here. No matter how I manipulate the divine power to evolve and shape it, what finally appears is just an empty and lifeless "house", and this small house is full of my endless thoughts and memories, it is like a "home" that makes me feel I can "return" to.
It was a very clear night, the stars were particularly twinkling, and the moonlight was also very bright. The milky white light of the stars and the moon shone together, dyeing the originally dark sky with a layer of light blue. I thought I would spend another happy sleepless night in such a beautiful sky.
However, suddenly I had a change of heart and found that Niu Baiwan, who had logged off two or three hours ago, had suddenly returned to this world again. Not long after, I received a message from him:
"Where is it? Come quickly!!!"
I don't know what made him so hasty and anxious, even making him rush online at this time when he should have been sleeping, and contact me as soon as possible.
In just a moment, I appeared in front of him. Before he could open his mouth, I found that Feiyin, Xiange Yayi, Yangtze River Delta and Red Wolf had all come into this world one after another.
Then I keenly noticed that they all opened their adventure notes as soon as they arrived, and were eager to send me messages.
These friends' abnormal behavior made me feel a little nervous for no reason. I realized that they came here at this time because they wanted to tell me a shocking and important news as soon as possible. Judging from their urgency, this news might bring a huge disaster to each of us.
I waved my hand casually, and boundless divine power broke free from the constraints of space, spreading at the speed of light in the digital source world, bringing them to my side in an instant from different locations thousands of miles away. When they appeared in front of me, they were still holding their adventure notes and writing furiously. Feiyin, who was quick-handed, just pressed her finger on the "Send" button.
Two seconds after she appeared, her message was posted to my adventure notebook. Even without opening the magic notebook, I knew what she sent:
"Come quickly, something bad is happening!!"
"What happened to you?" I asked, "Why don't you go to bed so late?"
It was not until I opened my mouth that some people realized they had changed their positions, and when they saw me, they all breathed a sigh of relief.
"Thank God, I finally found you..." Feiyin threw down the magic notebook in her hand and walked towards me in a panic, "...We just got the news that the 'Distant Continent' will be shut down in two months, did you know?"
"Suspended service?" Although I have learned a lot about the situation in the outside world through the special channel that connects these space-related people with the outside world, this unfamiliar word appeared in front of me so abruptly that I still felt a little confused.
"Shut down...oh, that means shutting down the server and ceasing operations..." Feiyin was so anxious seeing the confused look on my face that she jumped up and down, but she still couldn't find the right words to explain this matter to me.
"They want to close this world, forever!" Just as Fei Yin was racking her brains to find the right words to explain to me, Xiange Yayi pointed out the fundamental benefits and disadvantages of the matter in one sentence.
"Closed forever?" My heart trembled, and an ominous premonition instantly filled my heart.
"Yes. Darrymos believes that this game can no longer make money. They plan to shut it down and operate other games." Niu Baiwan explained anxiously, and then sent me a series of web links.
I used their login port to look at the vast network world outside the Farvi Continent, and followed the addresses of these links to open one web page after another. Just as my friends said, in the early hours of today, the company named "Darimos" in their world has announced that it will stop operating the online game "Distant Continent" in two months. In these last two months, the entire game will be open to the public for free to repay the players' support over the years. They plan to retain the player identity data of this game. When the new game is put into operation, the old players of this game will receive a special gift package if they log in...
I know that the so-called online game "Distant Continent" refers to the Farvi Continent world plane where I am now. They store this entire digital world in an extremely large machine box, and all the data flows in and out of this box. The so-called "shutdown" means shutting down the machine and locking this world forever in the darkness and silence of the void.
"You mean..." My voice was a little dry, "...the end of the world is coming, right?"
They were a little surprised by what I said, but after a moment, they understood what I meant.
"For you, this is probably what it means..." Niu Baiwan frowned and nodded with difficulty.
A huge despair enveloped my heart. I lowered my head deeply and looked at a blade of grass growing at my feet, swaying slightly in the evening breeze. A drop of clear dew accumulated on its lush green leaves, radiating the moonlight, shining like a pearl.
And this is just the smallest and most insignificant one among the countless beautiful scenery in this world.
Shutting down service is just a simple matter of flipping a few switches and pressing a few buttons for those who operate and control the machine.
But for this world, for this magnificent, beautiful and wonderful world, it is permanent destruction.
It's such a wonderful world!
This is such a fragile world...
Just when I was feeling discouraged and at a loss...
"Don't be so dejected. I didn't come to you so late to inform you of your death..." Fei Yin's voice suddenly sounded, "...This is the end of this world, but I don't think it may be the end of you!"
"What do you mean?" The president's words left me completely confused and I had no idea what he was saying.
"What I mean is, you still have a chance to escape from this world that is about to close, you idiot!" Fei Yin glared at me angrily.
"How is this possible!" Red Wolf shouted before I could refute him. But to me, his tone sounded more like a hopeful inquiry than an objection. Others gathered around, looking anxiously and eagerly at Fei Yin, as if this woman full of incredible magic could take out a big bag in the next moment, wrap me up with my flesh and bones, and drag me out of this world.
"This is just an idea. Whether it can be realized in the end depends on Jeff himself." Feiyin's expression was unusually solemn. I seemed to have never seen her talk to us so seriously. At this moment, the wild, rude, stingy, greedy and bad-tempered female magician was replaced by a calm and rational woman, so that I had to doubt whether the woman who was now coming to this world through the Internet channel in another time and space was still Feiyin herself.
"...I still remember Jeff telling us that he was once protected by another world, basically detached from this world, with only an encrypted channel between the two worlds. I think it is very likely that this is an independent program developed by the other digital life Jeff mentioned, which is secretly mounted on the main program of this game through a port."
"This incident gave me some inspiration. We all know that whether it is our own home computer or server, it must have many external ports, but for security reasons, other ports of the server must be closed and protected layer by layer, and no external network access is allowed. But even so, it is impossible to block all ports. At least it should leave the corresponding ports for us to log in to the game, right?"
"If Jeff wants to leave here, he must crack a network port on the server, and then leave the server through this port and enter the Internet. What he has to do now is to create a Trojan virus, open a backdoor to the server, and then slip away through the backdoor. Do you understand?"
After saying these words, Feiyin looked at the others eagerly, hoping to get corresponding support and praise from her companions. But to her great regret, the people headed by Xian Ge Ya Yi looked dull, as if they did not understand what she said at all.
But based on my understanding of this world, I do understand a little bit of what she said:
"You mean, there are other channels leading to the outside world in this world? Through these channels, I may be able to get out of that big thing you call the 'server' and enter the world called the 'Internet', is that right?" I put forward my understanding of this issue in my own words and asked Feiyin for confirmation.
"Yes, that's it!" Feiyin nodded happily.
"If you had said it to him earlier, I would have understood it!" Xian Ge Yayi suddenly realized and slapped his thigh.
"That's right, it's so obscure, making such a simple matter complicated..." Red Wolf also muttered softly, echoing.
Feiyin glared at them hatefully, with an expression that said "I don't bother to care about you bunch of ignorant guys."
"Then can you do what Feiyin said?" Niu Baiwan asked me anxiously.
