game trailblazer

Chapter 1 Prologue
There are still 88 days before the opening of the Olympic Games. Zhang Lexing once again opened the great wisdom to observe the market. The screen is still full of pessimistic green. Invest in your own program optimization.

Zhang Lexing had many unsatisfactory things in his life. An accident in 1980 left him alone. With the help of his neighbor Uncle Zhao, he was able to complete his high school studies, and was lucky enough to be admitted to university.After graduating from university, I worked in the assigned factory for several years, and then went south to Guangzhou to work in the spring of reform. I worked in several companies intermittently. There were successes and frustrations, but I accumulated a lot of experience in various industries. Gradually come into contact with some network communication technologies. In 2001, by chance, he came to a physics institute located in Southwest China where he is currently working, and was responsible for technical maintenance.After struggling for several years, Zhang Lexing finally accumulated some savings. Last year, he watched the stock market boom and learned how others put money into the stock market. Unfortunately, his luck was not good. Before he had enjoyed the fun of making money for a few days, he began to ride the roller coaster, which has fallen all the way to today.After studying the stock market for a few months, he still couldn't see the direction of the future. Thinking that he was already over the age, he felt a chill in his heart. If he didn't have some interests and hobbies, he didn't know how to live these days up.

Zhang Lexing has two main hobbies, one is games and the other is programming.I discovered my interest in games when I was in college. Once I helped my classmates send materials to the computer room of the school. I happened to see someone playing "Pacman" on an Apple II. Although the picture is very simple, it seems to have infinite The attractiveness made Zhang Lexing stand next to the computer until get out of class was over.Later, Zhang Lexing saw the little genius game console (actually a replica of the Nintendo Famicom), which was still rare at the time, at a classmate's house, which made him see a new world.In the few years in the factory, nothing else has been gained, but Zhang Lexing saved some money and owned his first game console and a second-hand black and white TV.During the years of wandering in Guangzhou, Zhang Lexing’s equipment also began to change. From Sega’s MD to Nintendo’s SFC to Sony’s PS, he also accumulated a lot of game cassettes and CDs.Later, because of work, I used a lot of computers, and gradually began to come into contact with various computer games, from the earliest "Sim City" to the newly released "Dinosaur Hunter".

The reason why I am interested in programming comes from the dream of game design.Ever since he came into contact with the games on the Nintendo Famicom, Zhang Lexing has always hoped that one day he can make such a game by himself.This dream did not have time to realize until he came to work in the research institute. After years of wandering in the Alien Forum, Zhang Lexing finally figured out how to make Nintendo games, and made a few simple games and published them on the forum. Although the downloader Miao Miao, But it can be regarded as letting myself have an addiction to game production.A few years ago, I became obsessed with the ancient computer forum, became interested in the assembly programming design of Apple II, and even tried to write an operating system on the Apple II. After searching for information and discussions on the Internet, Zhang Lexing finally wrote a useful 1500 lines of source code of the operating system, of course, all of this is realized on the simulator.This operating system refers to the experience of many predecessors, and its functions are relatively powerful. It has also made some influence on the ancient computer forum that Zhang Lexing often bubbles up. This operating system was transplanted to an old IBM PC-XT mainframe. After studying the source code he modified, Zhang Lexing felt that he benefited a lot.

The operating system optimization work that started today is No.30 six optimizations after the release of the source code. Zhang Lexing has read a lot of reference materials during this period, and has a lot of new ideas on the operating system design. This optimization is to verify Think about your own ideas.It was already two o'clock in the afternoon after completing partial code modification. Zhang Lexing rubbed his sore shoulders and got up and went to the window. Outside the window was a small garden with several tall trees growing on the green grass.In the middle of the garden is a fountain, with high and low water columns rising from time to time, shining golden light under the afternoon sun.

A piercing siren sounded from behind. Zhang Lexing turned around and came to the workbench. He found that the siren came from the monitoring computer. The icon representing Laboratory No. 16 on the monitor screen was flashing a red warning light. It should be that there was a communication failure in the network.

"Shuai Ma..." Zhang Lexing greeted him habitually, but remembered that Shuai Ma had temporarily asked for leave at noon today, so he had no choice but to go there by himself.

Holding the toolbox, Zhang Lexing came to the elevator, stretched out his hand and pressed the button of B5 (minus fifth floor), there was a slight shaking, and the elevator began to sink.Seeing the floor indicator lights beating layer by layer, Zhang Lexing suddenly panicked for no reason. Fortunately, the elevator door opened quickly, and the fifth floor was arrived.Zhang Le walked out of the elevator and walked forward along the passage, maybe because of the rest time, there was no one in the passage.Walking all the way to the end of the passage, Zhang Lexing came to the gate of the No. 16 laboratory. The red light on the multi-function indicator next to the gate was on, representing a network failure. It seemed that the monitoring system did not misreport.

Zhang Lexing picked up the identification card hanging on his chest and swiped it on the card reader at the door. The green light on the "beep" card reader turned on, and the door of the laboratory began to slide slowly to one side.Putting away the identification card, Zhang Lexing walked into the laboratory carrying the toolbox.

This should only be the outer room of the laboratory, with an area of ​​about 20 square meters.There is a door on the left hand side, the card reader next to the door has a red light on it, it looks like it should be closed, and there is a faint humming sound coming from inside.On the other side was a desk against the wall, and there was an LCD computer on it. It was probably the one that was malfunctioning.Zhang Lexing took out the detection tool and began to check the network. Relying on the powerful Flux, he quickly found the cause of the failure—the information module on the wall failed.Fortunately, there were spare parts in the toolbox. After replacing the module, the network returned to normal immediately.

At this time, Zhang Lexing noticed that the temperature in the room seemed to be higher than when he first came in, and beads of sweat began to ooze from his forehead.Wiping the sweat off his forehead, Zhang Lexing stood up and prepared to relax.Suddenly there was a violent shaking in the laboratory, Zhang Lexing couldn't stand firmly, and fell backwards involuntarily.Zhang Lexing waved his arms desperately, turning his whole body around 180 degrees, and managed to stop himself.Panting, Zhang Lexing stretched out his hand to support the wall. Unexpectedly, there was a more violent shaking, and he stumbled forward again.The closed door in front opened at some point, revealing a huge machine inside. There was a humming sound coming from the machine, and in the middle of it was a thick beam of white light.

Zhang Lexing found that the direction he was heading was the beam of light in the middle of the machine, but as the shaking intensified, the beam of light began to fluctuate, and the buzzing sound of the machine also became louder and smaller.Zhang Lexing instinctively sensed a hint of danger, and tried hard to control his body, but unfortunately soon he desperately found that his efforts were in vain.

After barely resisting for a while, Zhang Lexing still fell into the white beam of light. The beam of light began to fluctuate violently, and the hum of the machine became louder and louder.A strong sense of tearing came, Zhang Lexing couldn't bear it, his eyes darkened, and he passed out.The monitor at the scene recorded Zhang Lexing's last moments. As the buzzing of the machine continued to increase, his figure in the white beam of light gradually faded away, and finally disappeared without a trace. After a while, only a white patch remained on the monitor. Snow noise.

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(End of this chapter)