39: Chapter 39 Wang Shuo is stumped by a single penny

At this moment, our classmate Wang Shuo...

"Number Two, Number Two, hurry and come to the middle lane to support!"

Zheng Jun roared from the top lane.

"I'm currently farming jungle monsters, just a moment, I'm buying equipment!" Wang Shuo replied anxiously, hearing Zheng Jun's shout.

"Farming monsters my foot! Hurry up, the team fight is about to start, we're just waiting for your ultimate!"

"Okay, coming, coming." Wang Shuo glanced at his gold, saw he had saved enough, hurriedly pressed the recall button, and shouted: "Wait for me, wait for me, don't start yet!"

Having finally bought his equipment, he rushed out of the fountain and arrived under the middle lane tower, ready to coordinate with his teammates for a perfect ultimate, only to see the screen suddenly go dark. He was dead.

"What... the situation?"

Wang Shuo was completely bewildered.

"Number Two! Do you not look at the map at all!" Zheng Jun roared in anger: "We're all dead! Are you going in one by one to die like that?"

"But I clearly saw teammates around me..." Wang Shuo felt a bit wronged.

"Those aren't our people! Can you take the game seriously!"

"Uh... fine."

Wang Shuo couldn't even count how many times he had made such a childish mistake; in any case, he didn't seem to be very good at this kind of game.

"It's over, it's over, we got wiped again..." Zheng Jun watched with tear-filled eyes as his side's towers were pushed down one by one, while the enemy forces surged forward. He couldn't help but sigh: "Eight consecutive losses! Eight! Number Two, playing games with you is toxic!"

Wang Shuo looked at the defeat message on his screen, not knowing how to comfort Zheng Jun.

If only Ling were here. With Ling here, he would only need to put on a show; wouldn't he be dominating the field like he was using hacks in no time?

What? You say there's an anti-cheat mechanism?

Heh, such childish things, how could they stump classmate Wang Shuo? After all, classmate Wang Shuo is now the sole heir to a Humanoid Race civilization.

A very simple solution—just command Ling to analyze the data packets received by the computer in real-time, then simulate the corresponding mouse and keyboard operation feedback packets and upload them to the server. It would be completely undetectable. No matter how powerful your anti-cheat mechanism is, could it possibly disable the data ports for the keyboard and mouse?

Thinking about it carefully, it seems it really could work.

What? You say this is a script? Hmm... it does count as a script, just much more advanced than a typical one. That script stuff can still be detected and occasionally has bugs, but Ling is different. What? You want to detect Ling? Sure, get past the code and logic core first.

However, it's a pity that Ling can only be placed in the Software Park and used by relying on the server, which greatly limits Ling's room for performance.

It seems I need to find time to produce a few necessary devices. Wang Shuo stared blankly at the computer screen, thinking, but then immediately sighed pessimistically. He didn't lack the technology, but the key was...

Money!

Only with money can one have equipment!

Without money and without equipment, he couldn't even build the most basic processing tool, let alone anything more in-depth! As for those things that appeared in the Humanoid Race civilization that were far beyond the current level of civilization, that was even more impossible.

As for where to get money... Wang Shuo silently calculated. His contract with Chen Xin could earn him one million, and the system, with a decent completion rate, should have a commission. Counting that as five hundred thousand, if he paid it all back to Chen Xin, he would still owe Chen Xin... one million five hundred thousand!

Sure enough, he should just wash up and go to sleep; money is not something he should be considering.

"Forget it, not playing anymore." Zheng Jun sighed, dropped the computer, "I'm going for a run, are you coming?"

"Not going, not going." Wang Shuo came back to his senses and shook his head hurriedly. If he hadn't heard about the miserable state of Li Li and Zheng Jun after their runs, he might have gone, but with Li Li's cautionary tale, he wouldn't participate even if he died.

Just kidding, Zheng Jun's run wasn't called a run, it was a ten-kilometer long-distance race, okay?

Running twenty laps around the track at a cruising speed, who could stand that? If he really went, he would probably end up in the Hospital on the spot, and might even have to lie in bed for a month. In that case... Thinking of the counselor's long face, Wang Shuo couldn't help but have a profound understanding of the image described by the words Old Witch.

"If you're not going, don't go. What's the meaning of shaking your head like a rattle-drum? Do you think I'd force you?" Zheng Jun mumbled with dissatisfaction, then took off his clothes, and in front of Wang Shuo, changed into a set of capable short sleeves and shorts, revealing the toned muscles on his limbs.

Wang Shuo curled his lip as he watched.

"I'm off!"

"Okay."

"Clap!"

The sound of the door closing.

Wang Shuo leaned back in his chair, feeling bored, hugging his head with both hands, and continued his brainstorming.

No need to consider the money issue for now. At the current stage, the only things he could take out that didn't require money were Ling and the new code.

So, how to make full use of Ling under the existing conditions?

Wang Shuo found a piece of paper, picked up a pen, and started writing and drawing.

To allow Ling to help him anytime and anywhere, based on existing and future technical means, there are two plans.

First, naturally, is to carry Ling with him. This plan requires a portable computing device. This device needs to be small enough, lightweight, sturdy and durable, dustproof and waterproof, and possess sufficient computing performance.

Under such conditions... mobile phones naturally won't work.

Not to mention the appearance and portability of mobile phones, just speaking of their performance, it is far from meeting Ling's needs. Wang Shuo didn't want Ling to become a dull idiot after moving; if it took two or three minutes to run a sentence, he would rather not bring it.

But the performance of mobile phones has now reached a bottleneck. To improve again, besides improving the Chip manufacturing process, one can only change the design structure of the Chip. Wang Shuo could do both, but as the saying goes, no money, no equipment.

A penny really does stump a hero.

Hmm... the battery life of the mobile phone is also a problem.

So, the plan to replace it with a mobile phone... pass.

Then this requires Wang Shuo to design a portable device that fits his own ideas. There are several usable portable smart devices in the Humanoid Race civilization, but unfortunately...

Wang Shuo gritted his teeth. The evil money-driven society!

The second plan is the one Wang Shuo has been thinking about for... hmm, a few minutes. Using remote communication means to remotely command Ling. Using this method, Ling's computing base camp is still in the Software Park, and the results only need to be transmitted to the terminal specified by Wang Shuo via communication means.

The advantages of this plan are: economical, cost-effective, low technical cost, no need for major efforts, and can be operated using current networks and communication equipment.

The disadvantages are: extremely poor stability, extremely susceptible to network fluctuations and communication terminals, weak anti-interference ability, and most importantly, extremely unsafe.

Data transmitted through public networks, even if encrypted, is very easy to be intercepted and cracked. Even worse, data might be lost due to network problems, which would be terrible.

Of course, there are ways to solve this, which is to establish his own communication channel, using a technical method completely different from the existing communication channels to find another way, for example, launching a more mature quantum communication satellite.

The technical problems are not big, but... heh, everyone understands.

"Money, money." Wang Shuo threw down the pen, raised his head, and looked at the ceiling, feeling worried.

He couldn't use advanced technology, and he didn't want to use backward technology. Wang Shuo found that he had developed an "eyes high, hands low" condition—he drooled over the food in the pot, the cook gave him the ingredients and cooking methods, and even taught him personally, but he couldn't make it because he didn't have the cookware.

This is really... nonsense. No one would believe it if he said it out loud: a dignified heir to a civilization is actually stuck because of money.

A penny stumps a hero... the ancients did not deceive me.

Especially thinking that he still owed that girl Chen Xin a huge debt of nearly three million, the wrinkles on Wang Shuo's face became deeper. He didn't know when that girl Chen Xin would pay him, so he could lighten his burden a little.

Wang Shuo, who had been sighing for a while, seemed to realize that this was useless, sat up again, and lit up the computer screen with a bitter face.

He was preparing to find something to do for himself.

First, open QQ.

Hmm... calm and peaceful, it seems no one sent messages.

Then open YY.

Hmm... no friends talking, no one chatting in the channels, even the beauty dating group he often pays attention to is quiet today, no young ladies selling themselves.

Continue to open the browser.

Hmm... what was he going to do again?

Wang Shuo stared blankly at the computer screen, thought for a moment.

Then he subconsciously entered the website, brought up the source code page, modified, jumped, entered the membership number, and entered.

The web page that finally popped up had "Explorer Forum" written in big letters in the top corner.

After nearly two months, Wang Shuo finally returned to his holy land again.

"Let me see, is there any good stuff." Wang Shuo licked his lips, moved the mouse, and browsed carefully. As for the red dot on the bell in the upper right corner, he directly ignored it.

"This question... tsk tsk, very deep, but it seems very simple. Should I answer it?" Wang Shuo looked at the number of forum points in the upper right corner, silently clicked on this question about computer intelligence, and then wrote a long paragraph with a very confident tone.

Then he chose two more questions related to computer programs to answer.

Just when he was itching to do it again...

"Your forum points are insufficient, unable to reply to the current question."

Wang Shuo sighed with satisfaction. After using up all the forum points, he could honorably retire from the forum circle.

As for recharging?

Heh, recharging or something, that's impossible, he can only live by leeching off freebies.

Wang Shuo, who had nothing to distract him, finally noticed the red dot in the upper right corner again. Why does this red dot look so glaring?

Wang Shuo, who had been tortured by WeiChat into having a profound obsessive-compulsive disorder, expressed that he could not tolerate this and had to eliminate it.

So he gently clicked on this bell icon, and the next moment...

"What the hell?" Wang Shuo stared at the screen with wide eyes: "What is this thing?"