76: Chapter 76: Overwhelm You with Technology

"My uncle, he and my father have always had conflicting philosophies. This time, taking advantage of the chaos within our group, he convinced some of the shareholders to consolidate their shares in his hands, becoming the only group shareholder besides my father and my younger uncle."

"He now holds some power within the group, and he fought hard to be solely responsible for this negotiation. And he, it seems, doesn't like you."

This... Wang Shuo was speechless. Isn't this a family conflict? Why drag him into it? How could an adult not distinguish such a small matter?

Although he couldn't quite figure out the reason why Chen Xin's suddenly emerged uncle was so unfriendly to him, there was one thing Wang Shuo was certain of.

This definitely had the handiwork of that old fox Chen Zhongxuan; perhaps he was the one who pushed this entire matter.

What an old fox.

First, he lectures me, then he lets someone else step in to prevent me from negotiating the price. He gets the benefits without hurting his own reputation—where else could you find such a good deal?

What a well-calculated plan, Wang Shuo muttered to himself.

"So our negotiation and cooperation... have fallen through?"

"Not at all." Chen Xin in the screen shook her head slightly and said: "Although it has been handed over to my uncle to be fully responsible, he won't act recklessly. The group has its regulations, and if he damages the group's interests, he will also have to pay a certain price."

"So what do I need to do?" Wang Shuo felt a headache coming on. As someone who lived a quiet, unassuming life, why did he keep running into such inexplicable people?

"I believe in you."

He didn't know if it was just his imagination, but Wang Shuo felt that Chen Xin was becoming increasingly strange. Moreover, she had spoken so much today—it was unprecedented and completely inconsistent with her usual behavior.

"Alright." Wang Shuo sighed: "I'll handle this matter. Thank you for the information."

Chen Xin nodded, then fell silent. Just as Wang Shuo was about to turn off the video, Chen Xin's voice came out again.

"Wang Shuo."

Chen Xin in the video hesitated. He didn't know if it was his imagination, but Wang Shuo actually saw a faint trace of shyness on her face. She bit her lip and said: "Next Monday is my birthday."

Birthday?

Wang Shuo was stunned for a moment and said: "Well, happy birthday in advance then."

The video call ended.

Wang Shuo looked puzzled. What was up with her again?

After thinking for a long while and failing to understand, Wang Shuo had to attribute it to the inexplicable nature of women; after all, being unreasonable was something women were quite good at.

"Zero, help me contact Liu Yemei."

"Understood. Dialing Liu Yemei's phone now."

The call connected.

"Mr. Wang." Liu Yemei's cool, detached voice came through the speakers.

"Assistant Liu, who are you negotiating with right now?" Wang Shuo asked.

"It's the negotiation personnel sent by the Chen Group, the parent company of Zhongzhi Pengcheng Technology Co., Ltd." Liu Yemei paused: "They aren't very professional, but they won't budge on the discount rate. I'm trying to find a way."

"Don't bother," Wang Shuo instructed. "Just take whatever the maximum discount they can offer. Our condition is installment payments. Leave the rest to me, but there is one requirement: I must see the Machining Center placed in the designated location within three days."

Although she didn't understand why Wang Shuo had suddenly changed his mind, Liu Yemei replied: "Understood."

Wang Shuo nodded with satisfaction.

"Also, find a spacious factory building in the suburbs and have them transport the equipment there."

"Understood."

"Additionally, I just created a new website. Release an announcement publicly in the company's name, saying..." Wang Shuo thought of Chen Zhongxuan's gentle face and curled his lip: "Say that the Chen Group has violated the agreement, and our company will be conducting a nationwide invitation for licensing of the Mark I System, inviting interested manufacturers to come to W City for negotiations."

Liu Yemei was silent for a moment, then said in a low voice: "I understand."

Gently hanging up the phone, Liu Yemei turned to look at the conference room behind her, then turned and walked back in.

"We agree to what you just said, but our company has one requirement..."

...

The main task now was to get the CNC Machining Center back first so he could carry out the next step; everything else could be put aside for now.

As for Chen Xin's uncle...

Judging by Chen Xin's tone, it seemed they were not on the same side.

So he would also pay a price if he damaged the group's interests?

"Zero, what is the completion status of the previous task?"

Setting the phone aside, Wang Shuo sat back down at the computer desk and issued the command.

"Completed: 100%. Would you like me to perform a task evaluation?"

"No need." Wang Shuo shook his head. "Create a new task: use the new code to refine the kernel. Record the refinement status in the log, and this record cannot be changed."

"Task created."

"Create another task: create a website template. I will fill in the specific content."

"In progress. Estimated time required... three minutes."

Wang Shuo nodded. When it came to auxiliary tasks, Zero's advantages were unparalleled. However, this also exposed Zero's greatest weakness—a lack of creativity.

For example, if you asked Zero to draw, unless you provided a specific image, it would be unable to autonomously design a completely new graphic.

However... as the saying goes, this was still much better than all the smart voice assistants on the market.

Five minutes passed quickly.

Wang Shuo could already see the website template generated by Zero on the computer screen.

Using professional software to make slight modifications, Wang Shuo began adding content to the website. The first thing to add, of course, was the logo and name he had painstakingly created.

"Put this here, put this here... Hmm... Putting this here doesn't look good, let's move it. Link this button to this page, hmm, hmm... Not bad."

After some fussing, Wang Shuo looked with satisfaction at the website homepage that had appeared before him. The line "Frontier Technology Co., Ltd." and the beautiful logo were clearly visible and very eye-catching.

"Zero, register a domain name. Let's use... hmm, let's use the pinyin abbreviation for 'qianyan'."

"Querying registration address... Registering. Registration complete. Do you need to view the website tips?"

"Website tips?"

Wang Shuo was stunned for a moment. Looking at the desktop content provided by Zero, he realized it was a payment prompt.

"Profiteer." Wang Shuo curled his lip and paid the fee through gritted teeth.

"Zero, upload the website."

...

In Beijing, inside a building near the suburbs.

A teenager was clicking his mouse, bored, looking at adult content on it.

Suddenly, a notification popped up in the bottom right corner.

"Yo, a new zombie has arrived."

The teenager wiped his mouth and clicked on the notification. This was his latest designed web information filter, specifically used to filter website information. One of its very important functions was monitoring new websites.

This was an epoch-making technology, a new type of detection method that even the state hadn't mastered, and the teenager was very proud of it.

"Let me see what kind of stuff this is this time."

"Huh, the transmission volume is only this much? Looks like it's just a trash website." Curling his lip in disdain, the teenager lost some interest.

Since the monitoring function went online, he had once received information on over a hundred thousand new websites in a single day, making him think his program had a bug. After some investigation, he found that most of these websites were adult sites used to pad numbers; after all, if there weren't enough URLs, they would be blocked in minutes. So, he had to helplessly raise the filtering criteria, only triggering an alarm when a website met the requirements.

"But since it popped up, I can't let these servers go."

Holding the mindset that even a mosquito's leg is meat, and also considering it a way to pass the boring time, the teenager cracked his knuckles and gently placed his fingers on the keyboard.

The next second, his fingers moved like the wind.

A series of commands issued from the teenager's fingertips, converting into lines of code jumping across the screen. In the teenager's view, layer upon layer of data strings had already replaced the content of the adult website.

After checking the content of the new website, the teenager was surprised to find not a single flaw, and he couldn't help but exclaim in surprise.

"This is interesting." The teenager became interested. "Let me give you a cluster bomb to taste."

The so-called cluster bomb was a packet flood attack, causing the opponent's server to crash by sending a massive amount of access data in an instant, thereby artificially creating a flaw. Given the number of zombies the teenager had, generally, no firewall could withstand it.

However... after the massive amount of access data was thrown over... it was like a stone sinking into the ocean, with no reaction at all.

The teenager was dumbfounded. Refusing to believe it, he tried again, but there was still no reaction.

"If the cluster bomb doesn't work, then let's try something more technical. Let me crush you with technology." The teenager raised his head, looking a bit serious, staring at the computer screen, his hand speed flying.

A moment later.

"How is this possible?" The teenager widened his eyes, looking at his computer screen.

In the time that had just passed, he had tried various intrusion methods, even attempting to deceive the main system and firewall, but without exception, the failures were clean and decisive.

Scanning technology attack... Failed.

Architecture probing attack... Failed.

Hijacking information service attack... Failed.

Deception message to obtain key... Failed.

IP spoofing... Failed.

...

The teenager was dumbfounded.

What... what kind of firewall is this?

It was clearly a small server, so its resources should be limited, but why was it so resilient? Being resilient was one thing, and him being able to understand why the cluster bomb had no reaction was another, but why was it so airtight?

Having been into intrusions for so many years, this was the first time the teenager had seen a firewall with a defense like a turtle shell.

"Since that's the case, don't blame me for being impolite."

The teenager gritted his teeth, opened his contact list, and posted a message.

"Fresh meat, come quickly!"