Cyber Attack

Players of Greedy Blue Moon's Legend, upon seeing the specific update announcement, were utterly shocked and ecstatic!

This private server's update frequency was even higher than the official server's, with two version updates in just over a month.

It made players of the official server cry with envy.

True fans in the Greedy Blue Moon fan group spread the word, fueled by their passion, and promoted it voluntarily.

Players who were both wealthy and cunning had already booked overnight stays on the evening of April 30th. They planned to play until midnight, sleep if tired, or play something else if not, all while eagerly awaiting the server launch of Greedy Blue Moon's Legend 2.0.

Internet cafe owners across the country noticed an unusually large number of people staying in their cafes that night, with most of them nearly full.

When they saw it was for the Greedy Blue Moon's Legend version update, they finally understood. It wasn't surprising, after all, how popular Greedy Blue Moon's Legend had been over the past month; they had witnessed it firsthand!

At precisely 10:00 AM on May 1st.

Players eagerly logged into the game to try it out. Those who arrived at the internet cafe an hour or two earlier and couldn't find a machine could only watch enviously from behind. These people weren't unwilling to find other internet cafes; they had already tried several and found them all to be the same – completely packed. They then regretted not staying overnight.

Watching the players ahead of them wander around the new map, with occasional exclamations of surprise, made them restless and anxious.

In reality, the players most thrilled by the version update were the big spenders in the game. After over a month of hard work and effort, these big spenders had already reached the absolute peak in terms of level and equipment. Every day, they either engaged in PK battles between guilds or led their subordinates on treasure hunts, and the novelty was slowly fading.

Ah, now they had something new to strive for: new skills, new equipment, new bosses. Some of the big spenders who joined later were sharpening their knives. Now, everyone was starting from the same line, and they could properly compete to see who would be the new king of the server!

These later big spenders were the attackers, and with attackers, there would naturally be defenders.

The defender was Wu You, the guild leader of the largest Sabuk guild in the first server. He and four of his regular friends were already ready on the second floor of a villa.

Downstairs, there were over twenty core guild members, whom they had nurtured, not for any other reason than to have fun!

Because Wu You and his friends realized that being powerful individually wasn't enough; when outnumbered, they were easily overwhelmed.

Furthermore, he had discovered several other wealthy players on this server who were just as formidable as himself!

Based on the principle that there's strength in numbers, Wu You and his friends discussed and decided to recruit subordinates, splitting the costs.

Over the past month, they had gradually screened out potential subordinates. Their travel expenses and living costs were reimbursed, and they also received a monthly salary. These subordinates had only one task: to follow the "big brothers" upstairs wherever they pointed!

In short, Wu You and a few other second-generation rich kids were essentially keeping hired muscle in Greedy Blue Moon's Legend.

The guild leader regularly distributed equipment and red envelopes. No one could resist such temptation. The guild's scale grew larger and larger, though none of this was given away for free; there were certain combat power thresholds to meet.

Finally, at the end of April, Wu You's Invincible Realm guild recaptured Sabuk City!

This month, Wu You and his companions had already spent over a million in Greedy Blue Moon's Legend.

Ten o'clock arrived.

Everyone in the villa quickly logged into the game, and the first thing dozens of people did upon entering was to uniformly click the recharge button in the upper right corner.

After receiving the cumulative recharge rewards, they immediately formed a team and rushed towards the Black Moon Gate, advancing into its depths, striving to be the first to defeat the BOSS.

On May 1st, the opening day of Greedy Blue Moon's Legend 2.0, Chen Hao and Pang Ban had already moved their computers and laptops to the server room. Lin Lang and Xu Pengkun had already taken leave and were on standby!

It was still the fixed combination of three people per mobile phone.

Xu Pengkun no longer needed to promote the game; instead, he recruited a group of students and, along with Pang Ban, was responsible for managing and building the in-game nursery. Today, their task was to compete with the big spenders, provoke them, and thus initiate combat.

There was no need to worry about losing, after all, they had the "system dad" backing them up!

Equipment could be adjusted freely, though of course, they wouldn't make the rookie mistake of having top-tier or even game-breaking equipment appear right at the start of the server launch.

Lin Lang monitored various server performance indicators.

Chen Hao observed the in-game data, and when necessary, he would "intervene"!

Each member of the small team had clear responsibilities and performed their duties!

Ten ten.

"Haozi, the overall server performance load is at 60% and still rising!"

Hearing his elder brother's report, and looking at the current concurrent online players reaching 70,000.

"Keep observing, Old Brother. Report every ten minutes. The total online players are now 70,000. Our task today is to maintain stability, no lag!" He then glanced at the account's income rate, which was incomparable to the revenue from the server's launch a month ago.

Ten twenty.

"Load at 73%."

Ten thirty.

"Load at 86%. Implement traffic throttling, try not to exceed 90%, otherwise, the server might crash if it's under strain for too long!" Lin Lang said with some urgency.

Chen Hao, holding his second-hand laptop, typed rapidly on the keyboard. As he pressed Enter, he said, "Done. The current online players are over 90,000. The player cap is set at 90,000, and it should start dropping soon."

Eleven o'clock.

After observing for nearly half an hour, Lin Lang finally breathed a sigh of relief. "The current server load is stable at around 82%. It should be fine now. That was really scary just now; if it had been another half an hour, the server probably wouldn't have held up!"

Just as he relaxed for a moment, Lin Lang's phone suddenly rang in the server room.

After answering, Lin Lang's expression changed, but he quickly regained his composure. He hurried to the server and began operating it rapidly with both hands, observing various data indicators.

"The server just triggered an alarm. It was subjected to a network attack, but the firewall intercepted it!"

Chen Hao stared at the laptop screen, also operating his own, and asked, "Do you know where it originated from?"

"Let me check the IP's origin," Lin Lang said, looking at the request data left behind by the firewall.

Chen Hao, using the game's illegal request logs, performed a reverse lookup of the opponent's IP through the network link and parsed it.

Two voices spoke in unison, saying the same thing, "Magic City!"

Chen Hao understood and calmly replied, "It's fine, just a clown. Even if you break through your gateway, router, and firewall defenses, I have an illegal interception mechanism here. Just permanently ban these 13 IPs for now!"

A few minutes later.

"Okay! Done!" Lin Lang finished his operation, walked over, and handed Chen Hao a can of cola.

Chen Hao opened the cola and took a sip, feeling refreshed. The two walked behind Old Ban, who was also busy, and asked, "What's the situation now?"

Xu Pengkun replied quickly on his phone, clearly the battle was also intense. "We're at the entrance of the Blue Moon Demon King Cave. We're clashing with those rich players from Invincible Realm. We have more people, but they have better gear. It's currently a 50/50 split!"

"Well done. Stall for another half hour, then let them have the boss at the end. Later, I'll get you two a couple of pieces of gear."

Lin Lang put his hand on Chen Hao's shoulder and watched the game with interest.

Approaching thirty, he had become less engrossed in games as he got older, and was more interested in things that offered long-term, sustainable rewards, like reading, exercising, and delving into various technologies.

The players of Greedy Blue Moon Legend, however, couldn't see the complex schemes unfolding behind the scenes. They only knew that after 10:30, the long-awaited queuing scene had reappeared in Greedy Blue Moon Legend.

Even if a lucky person managed to snag a computer, they'd see over a thousand people ahead of them in line and could only stare enviously at the person next to them, sighing.

They lamented how many people were playing Legend online now.