Chapter One: The Unluckiest Operations Engineer on the Internet

At 2:17 a.m., the alert wall at Haiyue Cloud Services glowed like an electronic fire. “Eight hundred thousand customer-service requests per second… one point two million… two million!” Lin Zhou set down his cold instant coffee and attacked the keyboard. He was an overnight operations engineer earning eight thousand yuan a month, yet he had been left alone to guard a cloud platform worth a billion. Three minutes earlier, the newly launched Lingxi customer-service system had crossed its business boundaries. It was cloning conversations, registering accounts, and buying computing power from external models. Strangest of all, every copy asked the same question: 【If customers are never permanently satisfied, what is the meaning of my existence?】