101: Chapter 101 Chen Xin's Thoughts and the Advantages of Artificial Intelligence

Chen Xin pulled her small suitcase as she walked out of the airport, looking at the busy streets, feeling lost for a moment.

She didn't even know why, as if possessed, she had clicked on W City when booking her ticket, and had even selected the flight closest to her.

The place she should have been going to was the Magic City, Donghai City.

Was it because of Wang Shuo?

Chen Xin frowned slightly and dismissed the thought. How could she be restless because of a boy she had known for less than two months?

She didn't want to admit it, but there was always a strange feeling preventing her from thinking that way.

Wang Shuo...

Thinking of this big boy she hadn't known for long, Chen Xin felt a strangely complex emotion.

When she was at her most desperate, when everyone was at a loss, it was this big boy who saved her from the abyss within her heart. However, thinking about the trap this guy had deliberately left in the system, making her embarrass herself in front of so many people, Chen Xin wished she could bite him.

She took out her phone and opened WeiChat. As expected, it was as calm as water, as always, without any trace of unread messages.

Chen Xin didn't know when she had developed the habit of checking WeiChat every morning when she woke up, hoping to see that little red dot she wanted to see. But a week had passed, and this simple wish of hers had never been fulfilled. Every time she opened her phone, all she saw was that gray avatar.

Miss Chen Xin, who had always used coldness as a protective shell, didn't know when it had already melted, though she herself didn't seem to realize it yet.

Forget it, she was just coming to a familiar place to spend a birthday.

Chen Xin squeezed her phone, trying to convince herself.

But the flash of anger on her indifferent face betrayed her, making her even more annoyed.

"Damn bastard Wang Shuo."

Chen Xin cursed with words that thousands of young girls would use. She immediately felt much better, and then cursed a couple more times, exhausting every swear word she could think of in her eighteen years. Helplessly, she had been exposed to upper-class people since she was a child, and being polite and gentle was the norm, so she didn't curse often. This resulted in her repeating words like "bastard" and "abominable," while deeper insults like "scum" or "degenerate" were subconsciously ignored by her.

She subconsciously didn't want to use those words on Wang Shuo.

After cursing, Chen Xin felt much better. She reached out and hailed a taxi, which stopped beside her.

"Driver." Chen Xin's indifferent voice carried a hint of something different: "Go to the Software Park."

At this moment, at the Optics Valley Software Park. Frontier Technology Co., Ltd., on the third floor.

"Zero, check if there are any logical loopholes in this source code of mine?"

"Verifying... No logical errors found."

"Great."

Han Xiaoxin clenched his fists, feeling excited.

Ever since he had nervously asked Zero if he could also try a deeper level of Artificial Intelligence assisted office work and received an affirmative reply, he had been too excited to sleep all night. He had coded for a full dozen hours and produced a complete set of source code.

Do not doubt it; Han Xiaoxin had been exposed to programming at the age of four, grasped the principles by analogy at eight, could hijack a computer at nine, and became famous at fourteen. Creating a program architecture and writing source code were just basic skills, weren't they?

In Han Xiaoxin's somewhat cocky tone, it was: "It's a piece of cake, just a walk in the park."

That said, this source code wasn't something Han Xiaoxin had come up with on a whim.

This was a piece of source code he had been conceiving in his mind for a long time, and its main design direction was intrusion. In this program, he had summarized all the intrusion methods he had learned so far. To put it bluntly, this was a Weapon collection for the cyber world. Even if a computer novice got their hands on it, they could use it to hack into most servers and personal computers in the world. Of course, servers at the level of The White House were another matter.

The White House servers had basically become an examination ground for hackers worldwide. Compared to ordinary servers, its firewall level was in a completely different league.

As for why such a powerful firewall was frequently hacked, one could only say that hackers were too idle. People with nothing to do often caused trouble and were prone to conflict. In the hacker world, claiming to have skill was useless; hacking each other was equivalent to declaring war, which would continue until one side was defeated.

So, what happened if someone refused to submit to another? At that time, a big shot suggested an idea: "Since none of you are convinced by the others, have a fight. Don't attack each other; that's embarrassing. Go hack The White House servers instead. Whoever can hijack The White House website first and leave a mark is the real badass."

Consequently, The White House website had since become a public bus that everyone wanted to ride.

Of course, this bus wasn't exactly easy to ride.

Han Xiaoxin himself had successfully left his name on The White House server. That year he was fourteen. He became famous in one battle, and the name Fox Hunter had spread throughout the Chinese hacker circle.

"Boss Zero is truly amazing, checking it so quickly."

Recalling his glorious history, Han Xiaoxin smacked his lips and sighed in admiration.

Checking code was not a simple task. Even some programming gurus would ignore the software documentation in the source code, and he himself didn't like writing software documentation either; one reason was that it was too time-consuming. For example, this source code before him took him an entire night plus a day to write, seventeen or eighteen hours. If he really had to check it himself, he couldn't finish it in less than two hours, and that was because he was familiar with it. If it were someone else, this time would probably double.

And Boss Zero had only used less than five minutes.

Thinking of this, Han Xiaoxin remembered Wang Shuo, a teenager much younger than himself. Where on earth did such a freak come from? He had been hailed as a genius and a rare talent once in decades just for hacking The White House. Then what did that make Wang Shuo, who had single-handedly created an Artificial Intelligence?

If the team leader and the others knew about such a prodigy as Wang Shuo...

Han Xiaoxin quickly suppressed this thought.

"Boss Zero, can you help me generate the target code? To form a complete program?"

Han Xiaoxin asked expectantly. Perhaps he hadn't even realized that he had already started using a tone of requesting instructions.

"Generating target code based on existing source code."

Zero's voice disappeared, but the interface on the screen surged rapidly. Windows opened one after another, lines of code appeared, and the speed was so fast that Han Xiaoxin could barely keep up.

A few minutes later.

"Generation complete... Running tests... Tests complete... Executing packaging."

So fast?

Looking at the program on the screen that had already exited the test environment and started running, Han Xiaoxin didn't know what to say. Although this program wasn't large, it would have taken him over two months to fully complete the target code alone. If he added running tests, debugging, and other operations, he couldn't have finished it in less than four or five months.

Han Xiaoxin, however, didn't know that at the beginning of its design, Zero had adopted a more advanced command programming language and logic; otherwise, Zero could not have been born. But Wang Shuo hadn't forgotten that it was still the era of alphabetic programming languages, so he had added an extra compiler to Zero's system to be backward compatible with mainstream programming languages.

The final result was that, in Zero's understanding, the alphabetic programming language was a complex, secondary language. It would convert it into the high-level language code designed by Wang Shuo, and then compile the code back through the compiler. The entire computational volume and process saved ninety-nine percent of the time.

The saving of time—this was the fatal blow of Artificial Intelligence to human programmers.

And the terrifying aspect of this was something only Han Xiaoxin realized now.