"Let the operation and maintenance team issue an announcement to explain the situation where some users felt paused yesterday, and then all users will be given one day's worth of advanced feature experience compensation."
"Do you want to send it to all users?" Christa hesitated.
The current advanced functions of the computing power pool mainly have three specifications. The most advanced one is called the supreme mode, which charges 500 gold coins per hour, but there is a limit. It was only opened to 500 places at the unanimous request of many high-level mages.
What Xia Duo said about compensating one day is definitely not this. The remaining two slightly inferior specifications are [Enhanced Mode] and [Professional Mode]. The cheapest [Enhanced Mode] costs 100 gold coins per hour.
Based on the current total number of users in the computing power pool, which exceeds 150,000, even if each user is only compensated for the cheapest [Enhanced Mode] that lasts for 1 day, this subsidy is equivalent to throwing out 600 million!
This is not a small amount. Although the computing power pool has a strong ability to make money, the various subsidies and hardware costs are also very high. Coupled with the shares given to various countries and alliances, the money that will eventually fall to the Lingsi Network Research Center is actually
There isn't much left.
This will require a one-time investment of 600 million. Although it can be shared by various countries and alliances, it will always be included in the operating costs, which will make the final balance of Lingsi Network Research Center even less.
A considerable part of the remaining money at the research center is used to support the research of researchers such as Christa. In other words, once the money is less, the research center will become tight.
It is impossible for the alliance countries to allow Chateau to convert all the costs of the research center into operating costs, and it is certainly impossible for him to personally pay the salaries of researchers such as Christa or provide research funds.
Therefore, as soon as Chateau's current compensation plan was announced, Christa subconsciously began to oppose it. However, due to Chateau's authority in the research center, he did not say it directly, but it was also very obvious.
In this regard, Xia Duo could only comfort him with kind words, "Currently, the research center's financial flow is very abundant, and some compensation is nothing. It is better than rumors flying around that affect the access of new users to the computing power pool!"
"Then after?"
"We will also subsidize users when encountering this kind of thing in the future. It should be noted that every gold coin we use now comes from users. It is also our responsibility and obligation to maintain users well."
At this point, Xia Duo's tone slowed down again, "I know what you are worried about, don't worry, I will definitely make maintaining the computing power pool my top priority. If the computing power pool is gone, everything will be meaningless.
"It is still in the early stages of the development of the computing power pool. We still need to reserve a certain amount of funds to deal with unexpected situations like now. When the situation becomes more stable, I will increase funding for the research team."
Xia Duo had already said that. What else could Christa say? Fortunately, he heard everything he wanted to hear, so he quickly found an excuse to leave.
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After Christa left, Shado wandered around the gateway control hall for a while before returning to his office. As for the research team, I believe Christa would have brought the conversation there, so there is no need for him to go now.
In order to prevent those elves from thinking that he was deliberately suppressing the operation of the computing power pool, which he was most concerned about now, after confirming that it was okay for the time being, he returned to the office and waited for representatives from various countries to summon him.
But he didn't just wait. Although the Illuminati prisoners had copies of their consciousness made by him, this was not equivalent to an interrogation. They still needed to go through an analysis process before the interrogation was completed.
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Taking advantage of the gap before summoning representatives from various countries, Shado wanted to see why Hippocrates chose to join the Illuminati. He really couldn't figure it out.
Because in his impression Hippocrate was not a prophet, and he was not a demon himself, so what reason was there to abandon the more powerful alliance and choose the Illuminati who were hiding in the dark like mice?
With such doubts, Shado turned around and realized his true nature, took out the first copy of Hippocrates' consciousness, and spent nearly a day making a copy of Hippocrates' consciousness, mainly to make a copy of Hippocrates' consciousness.
After all, among the Illuminati prisoners, he is the only high mage, and other elves can be interrogated by means other than analytical consciousness.
Of course, to be on the safe side, he still made at least one copy of his consciousness for all the prisoners.
Among them, Hippocrate, as a high mage, it is almost difficult to use conventional means to get anything out of him if he is not willing. Moreover, if a high mage wants to commit suicide, it is almost impossible for outsiders to stop him.
This was also the main reason why Xia Duo judged that the war mage he had summoned had captured a high mage alive and concluded that the other party might intend to surrender.
Since he is not dead, he must not want to die. He was arrested as a member of the Illuminati. If he wants to survive, the only way to survive is to cooperate with the alliance and sell the Illuminati at a good price.
But to be on the safe side, Shado still made a large number of copies of Hippoclete's consciousness, just in case this guy was accidentally captured alive, or maybe he just pretended to surrender but actually wanted to capture his person.
These are all things to consider.
Therefore, Xia Duo has always had a principle, which is to never give the high mage captives a chance to speak, unless they are consciousness copies. If you want to ask something from the high mage captives, never expect them to take the initiative to speak, or
It's refreshing to directly brute force the copy of consciousness.
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But now, facing the first copy of Hippocrates' consciousness, Shado was not in a hurry to break it into pieces and analyze it immediately. After all, he had to meet with representatives of the alliance later and there was not much time.
It is better to meet the other party in the illusion of the consciousness cage. Even if it is a preliminary trial, if the preliminary trial is inconclusive, it will not affect the subsequent violent cracking of this consciousness copy.
In fact, if he could directly ask for what he wanted, Xia Duo would be too lazy to decipher his consciousness. Not only would it be time-consuming and labor-intensive, but he would also run the risk of contaminating his own consciousness.
The prison of consciousness.
Shado shaped this place into the appearance of the Alliance camp outside the foggy area in Sluvende. It was here that he and Hippoclet first met.
At that time, Hippocrates went there as an investigator for the Erlan side to participate in the joint investigation operation. However, looking at it now, perhaps Hippocrates at that time was more likely to be a spy of the Illuminati to find out the information.
But no matter what, Shado still had some friendship with the other party. Although it was not much, it was not like most of the high mages of Ellan and the great arcane masters of Netheril, who had a cold face when they met.
After the environment was set up, Shado woke up the protagonist. Hippocrate had just regained consciousness, and his first reaction was to look at the surrounding environment. When he saw that it was the alliance camp he had been to before, a trace of astonishment flashed in his eyes.
At this time, Chateau, as a director, entered the picture very casually, and directly revealed the identity of the other party: "Hippoclete, long time no see!"