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"Well, as long as it's not urgent, I won't refuse. After all, Shiyu is a very beautiful girl. I feel very happy to be with you."

"I'm also very happy to hear You say that, but... I hope You can be more proactive next time we go out to collect folk songs."

Kasumigaoka Utaha's words obviously had a hidden meaning, and Muto Yu was not a fool either. Upon hearing such words, he reached out and hugged the other person in his arms.

"Yu?"

"Why do you look so surprised, Shiyu? Didn't you expect me to take the initiative?"

As Muto Yu spoke, he slowly lowered his head. Today's field trip, or date, ended with a kiss under the sunset.

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The final exams were approaching, and the girls spontaneously came to Muto Yu's house to hold their usual study session, and left together in the evening.

What Kasumigaoka Utaha didn't know was that after leaving, Sawamura Eriri and Kato Megumi would take a walk outside and then return to Muto Yu's house.

The senior sister, who was originally very smart, has not noticed this situation until now, but it is not too surprising. After all, the copywriting work she is responsible for is indeed quite stressful.

My energy every day is basically exhausted in work, so naturally I don’t have much energy to think about other things.

After Eriri Sawamura and Megumi Kato's second-row daily defeat, Yuu Muto received a call from Gamma Studio, and his face instantly turned ugly.

"Yuu, what happened?"

The exhausted Kato Megumi noticed the change in Muto Yu's expression, and after the other party hung up the phone, she asked worriedly.

"There's a server problem."

"Eh?! Is it a serious problem?"

"It's serious if you say it's serious, and it's not serious if you say it's not serious either."

Muto Yu rubbed his forehead. He had clearly chosen a server rental company with a moderate price and good reputation when he first chose it. But now that the rental agreement is about to expire, the other party has started to make some small moves.

The other party did not ask for a price increase, and even suggested that the price could be lowered if more servers were rented. However, Muto Yu knew what they were planning without having to guess.

Akihiko Kayaba is a golden brand, and since Yu Muto used the company's servers, they can naturally get traffic. Some small-scale game development studios will also subconsciously prefer this server rental company.

Because the famous teacher Akihiko Kayaba is renting their servers, it is like an endorsement, and they don’t need to pay any endorsement fees.

For the sake of this huge profit, after realizing that Yu Muto might not be willing to renew the contract, the server leasing company, blinded by the profit, made several attempts and after confirming that the situation was true, took a series of actions.

This includes, but is not limited to, prohibiting data migration and temporarily suspending the administrator account permissions of Gamma Studio...

But they probably didn't expect that as early as two or three months ago, Muto Yu had the foresight to build his own server center and also built an additional off-site backup data center.

The server leasing company's attempt to use the data in the server to blackmail and kidnap Muto Yu was completely futile and did not cause any substantial loss to him.

However, the other party's unethical behavior that violated the contract agreement made Muto Yu very unhappy.

He didn't know whether it was because he was too young that the server rental company looked down on him, or because when the profit was big enough, they would not consider anything else and would even dare to sell the rope to hang themselves.

Their behavior reminded Muto Yu of the famous quote from Capital:

If there is a 10% profit, it is guaranteed to be used everywhere; with a 20% profit, it becomes active; with a 50% profit, it takes risks; for 100% profit, it dares to trample on all human laws; with a 300% profit, it dares to commit any crime, even at the risk of being hanged.

Chapter 241 Dimensionality Reduction Attack

Yu Muto conveyed his decision to Gamma Studio and asked them to negotiate with the server leasing company with an extremely tough attitude.

So the two sides completely broke off relations. After seeing that Yu Muto was so tough, the leasing company realized that they had backed up the data long ago. After checking the data in the server, the data transmission records also proved this.

Things were already irreversible, but to Yu Muto's surprise, the server rental company not only had no intention of stopping, but also directly used the data in the server as a threat.

If the letter of understanding is not signed, all the user data will be made public. This method is an act that hurts the enemy by a thousand and hurts yourself by eight hundred.

With such a large-scale data leak, Yu Muto will definitely be pushed to the forefront. It is unknown how many people have been affected, and the angry victims have no time to consider who is the culprit behind all this.

Moreover, in this situation, there will definitely be some behind-the-scenes masters who will seize the opportunity and work in secret to make the situation completely out of control, and finally bring Muto Yu down from the altar.

This situation does seem a bit tricky?

But the tricky premise is that the user information is true and valid, and Yuya Muto has no countermeasures.

Looking at the message sent by Gamma Studio, Muto Yu shook his head slightly and sighed helplessly.

Why bother?

Since he had already set up the server and performed data backup to prevent certain situations from happening, how could he ignore this possibility?

Kato Megumi was wearing a thin coat and stood behind Muto Yu with concern, wanting to touch his head to make him relax.

The girl who learned programming naturally understood the importance of servers.

"Don't worry so much, these are just minor issues. I already have a backup plan. It's cold outside, go back and lie down to rest."

Muto Yu reached out and patted Kato Megumi's slender hand that was massaging his head, then persuaded him in a gentle tone, without any nervousness or anxiety on his face, but instead had a strange smile on his face.

"Is it really okay?"

"Of course it's true. The important data in the server has long been migrated out, and I also left some countermeasures to prevent hackers from invading."

How should I put it? For this situation, the most appropriate description is "no coincidence in the world".

Because the rented server itself belongs to the server leasing company, Muto Yu cannot completely rewrite the server's underlying code.

However, if the underlying code is not completely rewritten, it will lead to certain security vulnerabilities. Although this vulnerability is for Lv7's Muto Yu, very few people can invade the server through this vulnerability.

But there is an old saying that there are always people better than you. To be on the safe side, Muto Yu developed a special data encryption method.

I won’t go into the specific professional details here, but to put it simply, if someone else copies this data and attempts to forcibly decrypt it, a terrifying computer virus will be released, damaging the intruder’s device.

After that, Muto Yu had enough funds to build his own server cluster. After migrating all the important data, he left fake user information and then specially encrypted it.

After all, the main server is solid, while the defenses on the rental server are slightly weaker. Once the hackers discover this, they will naturally launch an attack in ecstasy.

If it fails, that's fine. If it succeeds, congratulations to the hacker for successfully bringing the "time bomb" home.

In the final analysis, this was actually a bait for fishing, but Yu Muto never expected that the one who took the bait was not the expected powerful hacker, but the leasing company, his nominal teammate, who embezzled money.

This is also the reason why Muto Yu's face looked strange. When he first heard that the other party did not abide by the contract and made some small moves, he was indeed quite unhappy.

But now, Muto Yu felt a sense of sympathy for some reason. After going through so much trouble, he successfully cracked the user information, but all he got was randomly composed false information.

If the cracking fails, the damage caused to the server rental company by the computer virus written by him with his Lv7 game programming skills will be absolutely terrible.

Moreover, this kind of virus cannot be blocked by ordinary sandbox isolation. The network must be disconnected. If it is connected to the server's local area network, then... I'm afraid all the servers will be affected.

"I'm glad you're okay. If anything happens, you can tell me. Even if I can't help, sharing the burden with You will make you feel better."

"Don't worry, the other side seems to be even dumber than I thought."

Muto Yu looked at the pop-up window that suddenly popped up on the computer, and the expression on his face became even weirder. The other party began to try to forcibly crack the encrypted data packet that looked like user information data.

Moreover, they used the computing power of all the server clusters under their name to forcibly crack the data packets. Now the virus has begun to obtain the highest authority of the computer quietly according to its original purpose.

Yuya Muto started typing on the keyboard, and when the other party borrowed the computing power of the server cluster, he easily implanted the virus into all the servers providing computing power.

During this process, Muto Yu felt like he was in an empty space, and it was... so smooth that it was unbelievable. It even made people suspect that the other party had already discovered his existence and was secretly watching him, and had already prepared traps and snares.

Muto Yu cautiously tested for a moment, and then realized that he was overthinking it. The opponent was just really bad.

But if you think about it, the other party is just an ordinary server rental company, and the scale is not very large. How many capable network security technicians can they hire?

Since they can afford to hire top network security technicians, this server rental company will not go into conflict with Muto Yu for such a small profit.

Of course, even the top network security technicians may be completely clueless when faced with some of the hacking techniques that come with Lv7 game programming skills.

Coupled with a high-performance laptop with terrifying performance, the term "dimensionality reduction attack" is the most appropriate adjective.

While the opponent was forcibly cracking the bait, Muto Yuya upgraded his authority to the highest level in the server cluster, and then began to browse and retrieve various data.

Less than a moment later, Muto Yu's expression became even more subtle, because when he was recovering some deleted information, he found that this was not the first time that the server leasing company had done this.

Chapter 242: The Boy Who Delivers Wealth

All the good reputations are actually fake. I can only say that the Internet is like this now. It is hard to tell what is true and what is false. You can only see what they want you to see. You can never see what they don't want you to see.

They didn't do anything to some users who didn't make any money, so many of the good reviews were true, but they were not polite to users who could make some money.

Of course, normally they wouldn't dare to offend a client of Yu Muto's size, but the publicity effect of the title "server leasing company for Akihiko Kayaba" was so good.

In addition, everyone knows what kind of people the Sakura Empire people are like. By leveraging the fame of Kayaba Akihiko, they have attracted many small-scale game developers to rent the server, and have also gained reputations such as "the best game server rental company."

As they earned more money and expanded the server cluster, the company's leaders no longer knew who they were. In order to allow Yu Muto to continue to "endorse" the company, they immediately came up with their own plans.

As for Muto Yuu not continuing the lease, is there an option to pay for the official endorsement? Why pay when you can get it for free?!

And then... nothing happened. Muto Yu casually sent these malicious messages of breach of contract and blackmailing other users directly to the Internet.

They raise rents when contracts are renewed, formatting the data on the server if you don't renew; they use internal permissions to directly install viruses on the rented servers, then disguise themselves as unrelated hackers to conduct malicious extortion...

In short, there are all kinds of methods, which can only be said to be eye-opening.

After completing the invasion and obtaining evidence, Muto Yu directly contacted Gamma Studio and asked them to pay attention to guiding the online topics so that the storm would not be settled so easily.

The server leasing company, which was still trying to crack the encrypted "user information", had no idea that it was about to face disaster.

Blinded by money, they dreamed of cracking the data as quickly as possible and then using it as a threat to force Muto Yu to continue renting their servers, and even publicly endorse them on social platforms.

But they did not wait for their dream to come true. Instead, they received an announcement directly released by Gamma Studios about the relevant situation, and it directly stated that they had reported the case and filed a lawsuit.

Some other victims also filed lawsuits, and other related users who had not suffered any losses also applied to terminate the lease early and requested a refund through various means.

Later, with the efforts of the Sawamura family and the Spencer family behind the scenes, and the public opinion secretly guided by Gamma Studio, the case finally came to a conclusion very quickly.

The people involved in the case were thrown into prison, and the server leasing company had to pay a large amount of compensation, especially the compensation to Muto Yu, which amounted to hundreds of millions.

The company was insolvent, and after negotiations, it simply used a large number of 90% new servers that had been purchased less than half a year ago to pay off its debts.

Of course, it is said to be 90% new, but each server is discounted at 50% of the market price. Without spending a penny and without any loss, he got so many servers for free. Muto Yu hopes that there will be more such fortune-giving boys.

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Before we knew it, half of the summer vacation had passed, and after a year, Alpha Studio finally released news about its new game "Clannad".

I still remember that the small-scale pixel-style "To the Moon" released by Alpha Studio last year moved countless audiences, and this year their new work naturally attracted countless players.

"Stop swaying in front of me. It makes me dizzy."

Yu Muto looked at Eriri Sawamura who was pacing back and forth in front of him with a worried look on her face, and sighed helplessly.

After all, the promotional video was released a few days ago and the release date has been set. It will officially go on sale in a while today, so what is there to rush about?

"But I'm worried that people might find fault with the original art I drew, or that players might be dissatisfied with the story and start bashing it online."

"Just worry about your own original painting, why worry about the plot?"

Kasumigaoka Utaha, who was already shaking her legs due to nervousness, also had a face that turned extremely dark in an instant after hearing Sawamura Eriri's words that were like a crow's mouth.

"Okay, stop arguing and ask yourselves, have you cut corners on the parts you're responsible for?"

"Of course not. I have always held myself to the highest standards. Even my teachers are amazed by my progress this year."

After hearing Yu Muto's question, Utaha Kasumigaoka could confidently pat her chest and guarantee that the copywriting of "Clannad" was the product of careful consideration and continuous improvement from beginning to end, and was much better than the original "To the Moon".

"There shouldn't be any problem with my original painting. I've tried my best anyway."

Unlike Kasumigaoka Utaha who gained a little confidence, Sawamura Eriri seemed a little unsure.

In fact, this is normal. After all, the most important thing about "To the Moon" is the copywriting done by Kasumigaoka Utaha. She had already endured the greatest pressure last time and achieved success.

Even though I was just as nervous this time, I also had the confidence I had accumulated on "To the Moon". This was the confidence that Utaha Kasumigaoka's writing gained after it withstood the test of the market and players.

But Eriri Sawamura is different. Even though there are a few exquisite original paintings occasionally interspersed in it, "To the Moon" is ultimately a pixel-style game, and players will subconsciously lower their expectations for the art aspect of this game.

Therefore, whether the original paintings drawn by Eriri Sawamura can be recognized by the market and the majority of players still depends on this time. Moreover, for the all-ages version of "Clannad", she also deliberately changed the style of Kashiwagi Eri's previous paintings.

"Shouldn't you feel more at ease than Shiyu? Even if you don't believe in your own abilities, you should trust my vision as the one who checks your original drawings, right?

My drawing skills are far superior to yours. I'm also Kayaba Akihiko, the creator of a ton of hit games. Trust me, I recognize you!"

After listening to Yu Muto's inspirational words, Eriri Sawamura gradually calmed down, and then Megumi Kato, who gave him the least worry, suddenly spoke.

"President..."

Looking at the girl's calm eyes, Muto Yu's mouth twitched slightly. In fact, Kato Megumi was not very nervous or worried. After all, the game had been tested repeatedly, and the game program was actually quite simple.

The simpler something is, the less likely it is to make mistakes. The game program of galgame is undoubtedly quite simple.

But the other party still seeks comfort from Muto Yu. The reason is actually very simple. Whatever Eriri Sawamura and Utaha Kasumigaoka have, she must have it too. That's all.