333: Chapter 332 Symbols

Having received a positive reply, Wang Shuo had no more worries and let Zero immediately initiate the optimization, rewriting the entire underlying system of the Shanghe Supercomputer.

This was a basic operation he had customized when he first created Zero, implemented using new code, and even today, it was still highly effective.

It was estimated that after the entire underlying system was fully optimized, the computational performance of the Shanghe Supercomputer could increase by at least 20 percent. This was equivalent to adding more than two sets of computing modules to the Shanghe Supercomputer, saving the school at least ten million in costs.

Consequently, under the surprised gazes of the students, the operation interface of the Shanghe Supercomputer blared with alarms, and then the screen went black.

In the dead silence, a student muttered, "This... did it crash?"

"How could a supercomputer crash? You'd be more believable saying it was hacked," another student retorted.

The senior student standing at the front frowned and tapped on the keyboard, but there was no response. He turned his head helplessly and said, "It crashed."

Classmates: "..."

"But it doesn't matter. We can fix it soon. Let's go look at something else first."

The senior clapped his hands, trying to cover up his embarrassment, while inwardly cursing the operations and maintenance team for this time slot. He didn't know which idiot was responsible; didn't they know how to stagger the computing tasks?

They had to put them together, and now look, it had crashed completely, and maybe even a few hard drives were toast.

"Senior." Just as the senior was about to lead the juniors to the next exhibit, Li Yao pointed and said, "It's lit up."

Having had the experience from before, the senior did not look surprised but cautiously turned to look at the screen behind him.

Sure enough, at some point, a faint light had appeared at the edges of the screen. Seconds later, a logo lit up in the center of the screen. It consisted of three spheres arranged in a triangle, connected by a lightning-bolt-shaped line, instantly giving people a sense of spatial depth.

"This pattern... why does it seem somewhat familiar?" The senior scratched his head, feeling as if he had seen it somewhere before.

In the crowd, Zhou Peng's eyes lit up, and he blurted out, "Frontier Technology!"

"Frontier Technology?" Li Yao was slightly puzzled. He had never been interested in these things on the internet, especially since he had a lot to study recently and had no time to go online.

Zhou Peng nodded affirmatively. "Remember that company I told you about? The one where the boss is also named Wang Shuo?"

Li Yao nodded slightly. He had seen this guy curse at people online more than once while defending that company. If one could hit people through the internet cable, given Zhou Peng's combat power, the person on the other end would already be in the Hospital.

"This is their logo." Zhou Peng said excitedly, "I've seen this logo many times; I can't be wrong."

"Why would their logo appear on our college's supercomputer?" Li Yao asked, confused.

"Perhaps..." Zhou Peng thought for a moment, then his eyes lit up and he said, "Does our school have a partnership with Frontier Technology?"

If that were the case, it would be great. This would mean he might have a chance to meet that mysterious boss of Frontier Technology. He heard on the forums that there were videos and photos of the Frontier Technology boss circulating online, but for some reason, all the photos and videos had recently vanished, leaving no trace at all.

Although he hadn't seen his true face, it didn't affect how awesome this boss was in his heart at all. Just the fact that he could create the Mark I System and make the people of Japan suffer made him the eternal god in his heart.

As for everything else, it didn't matter.

Li Yao pursed his lips and didn't speak.

He didn't think this Frontier Technology could have any partnership with Huazhong University of Science and Technology. Right now, he only wanted to keep up with the footsteps of the Wang Shuo in front of him. As for the other Wang Shuo, that was too far away from him, so far that he could almost never touch it.

As for whether the two Wang Shuos could be the same person... Li Yao just thought about it for a moment, then shook his head and dismissed the conjecture.

These two people... they didn't match at all.

One was a cold and mysterious high-tech company boss, the other was a fresh-faced freshman. No matter how he thought about it, they couldn't be connected.

Moreover, he had heard Zhou Peng say that although Frontier Technology hadn't been established for long, with various licensing fees, patent fees, and revenue, its total assets must be at least over 100 million. Its boss must be at least a multi-millionaire, right? Perhaps even a billionaire.

So... Wang Shuo was a billionaire?

Just thinking about the outfit that Wang Shuo wore every single time he appeared, he knew this was absolutely impossible.

Exhaling softly, Li Yao cast his gaze toward the screen that had lit up again, and his eyes narrowed slightly.

The logo on the screen had disappeared, and in its place was an interface he had never seen before. Whether it was the layout, the UI settings, or even the text on it, everything seemed unfamiliar to him.

He was certain that this text was not any language he was familiar with. It wasn't English, it wasn't Japanese, it wasn't German or French, and certainly not Arabic.

These symbols, which looked like characters, all seemed to have profound meanings, but looking closely, one gained nothing, as if it were just a bunch of scribbles.

Li Yao composed himself, wanting to see more clearly, but the screen image suddenly went dark. The image was gone.

This time, everyone waited for a long while, but they didn't see anything appear on the screen again.

The senior recovered from his astonishment, clapped his hands, and said with a smile, "Alright, let's let our supercomputer rest. Next, I will take you to visit the second greatest pride of our school: the Intelligent Robot! Please follow me."

Quietly pressing the power button of the monitor to ensure it was completely turned off, the senior beckoned everyone to walk in another direction.

Li Yao caught up to Zhou Peng in a few steps and asked with a frown, "Did you see it just now?"

"I saw it." Zhou Peng nodded.

"What do you think that was?"

Zhou Peng frowned slightly and thought for a moment, then shook his head. He hadn't seen this thing before either.

Seeing this, Li Yao wasn't disappointed, but he felt a slight sense of regret; if he could have been given a few more seconds, he might have been able to memorize more of the symbols.

Just as he was about to give up, a voice suddenly interjected from beside him: "Perhaps I know what that is?"

Li Yao turned his head and saw that at some point, Qi Hong had arrived by his side.

"You know?" Li Yao was slightly surprised.

"Mm." Qi Hong nodded. "I once saw similar patterns in a certain place, but seeing this one this time makes me even more convinced of my conjecture..."

Qi Hong paused slightly and then said, "This is a type of script, or perhaps... it is some kind of code."

Wang Shuo didn't know that his classmates had seen zero egg refactoring the code right in the act. However, even if he knew, he probably wouldn't care. New code wasn't something just anyone could understand; it used quite a lot of Humanoid Race characters.

And to explain these characters, he had used who knew how many Humanoid Race symbols in the underlying instruction set. Therefore, although the entire code was efficient, its difficulty was not low. Unless the Humanoid Race came in person, no one on Earth right now could guarantee 100 percent decryption of data built with the new code.

Once the Super Chip was used in the future, the overall complexity would rise by another N levels.

At this moment, he was wearing a VR headset, switching his perspective to one of the improved Guard No. 1 Drones, overlooking the ground.

On the display screen in front of him, dense information flowed by rapidly. All faces and vehicles captured by the camera would be screened by Zero using efficient computing power and transmitted to Skynet to be compared with the resident database and the immigration management database.

Wang Shuo's order to Zero was that if any unmatched facial features were found, they were to be marked as suspicious persons and tracked steadily.

"No matter who they are, whether it's Ning Hao or the organization behind them, they must have a legitimate identity on the surface. This identity must be either a Chinese citizen or an incoming tourist, but in any case, they cannot use this identity normally right now, so they can only disguise themselves." Instructor Duan Chengwu's words clearly emerged.

"But in the initial stage, they won't care about the rationality of their disguised appearance. This gives us a window of opportunity. As long as we screen for people who are not in the resident database or the entry database, we can immediately carry out an arrest. Considering the fault tolerance of the database, the probability of an incorrect arrest will not exceed 0.3 percent." Instructor Duan Chengwu said with a calm face.

"They won't think that sometimes, a disguise makes it easier to be exposed."

"0.3 percent, huh?" Wang Shuo muttered.

Instructor Duan Chengwu's idea was similar to his, but Instructor Duan Chengwu's method was more operational. This kind of screening mechanism was more in line with the characteristics of a computer.

Although Wang Shuo could also let Zero use its powerful computing power to force clue analysis, that would take too long and require more computing resources, which was completely not worth the loss.

Doing it this way now was actually simpler.

The difficulty in implementing the entire plan was how to screen all the personnel in Hanzhong City. Instructor Duan Chengwu couldn't think of a way, but this couldn't stump Wang Shuo.

Professionals should do professional things.

Instructor Duan Chengwu's task was to research how to find people. As for how to specifically implement the search, that was the task of Wang Shuo, the world's strongest hacker.

Releasing all 146 improved Guard No. 1 Drones plus five basic Guard No. 1 models was just the first step of Wang Shuo's plan.

Although 146 Drones were not many, it didn't matter. Wang Shuo hadn't expected to find the hiding place of Ning Hao and the others in a short time.

This was an arduous battle.

Wang Shuo had roughly calculated it.

The airtime for each Guard No. 1 was 6.5 hours. The fastest flight speed of the improved Guard No. 1 model was 175 km/h, and the maximum identifiable distance of its built-in night vision surveillance camera was 1 km. In this case, if one Guard No. 1 was positioned at a flight altitude of 500 meters, it could cover a rectangular area with a width of at least 800 meters. If 100 Guard No. 1s were side by side, this distance could be increased to 80,000 meters.

Hanzhong City was not large. Wang Shuo was confident that he could completely scan everyone in Hanzhong City within two days. Even with the addition of precise scanning to check for omissions, he could definitely get it done within three days.

The only constraint now was the charging time, but this problem could also be solved by working in shifts. For the Guard No. 1, which could be satisfied with twenty minutes of charging, overlapping endurance was not a problem at all, and it could fully guarantee that there were Drones in the air twenty-four hours a day.

Scanning the pitch-black ground, Wang Shuo squinted his eyes and stared carefully, but he couldn't see anything.

But the scanning progress in the bottom left corner of the screen, as well as the green boxes that were circled from time to time, were all telling Wang Shuo that the Guard No. 1 was working very normally.

Gently taking off the eye mask, Wang Shuo wiped the sweat that had built up on his forehead.

The one he was using was already a high-end gadget, but it still couldn't be worn comfortably for a long time. The display method was also very uncomfortable, and the screen-door effect was extremely obvious.

"These two 720P screens are completely unable to meet the needs." Looking at the VR headset in his hand, Wang Shuo muttered to himself.

He then put down the glasses. From now on, all Drone movements were handed over to Zero to handle. Only when a target suspect was discovered would he personally take over to look.

Coming to the computer, he clicked on the computer screen. Looking at the familiar desktop, Wang Shuo sighed softly.

If it weren't for the fact that Zero had already reached its load limit and couldn't be assigned tasks indefinitely, he really wouldn't want to do it himself.

To catch one Ning Hao, he was really going all out.

"Next, step two." Wang Shuo said to himself, "Let me see exactly how the firewall of China's population database is."

His fingers relaxed slightly and rested on the keyboard. The next moment, they were as fast as a blur! On the screen, in one black dialog box after another, green data streams instantly flooded the screen. Like a waterfall!