89: Chapter 89 The Mysterious Host/Mentor

"This is... a brand-new CNC machining design and construction system, along with complete material processing methods and ingredients. It seems there is also some other technical data..."

Wang Shuo let out a breath and rubbed his temples. The quality of the data transmission this time exceeded his expectations; it involved the synthesis methods for over a dozen special metals with extremely wide application fields, not to mention some basic mechanical technologies of the Humanoid Race, such as... the principles of pulse motors.

Additionally, he had also obtained the mature version of the full Humanoid Race CNC system data, including both the software system and the mechanical system.

More importantly... he had found the configuration list for the Room-temperature superconductor. With the configuration list, Wang Shuo could set about synthesizing the Room-temperature superconductor, and the superconducting computer could also be officially put on the agenda.

Things were going so smoothly, which was something Wang Shuo hadn't expected. Could it be that after being unlucky for so long, the Goddess of Luck had finally descended upon him once again?

Pfft, pfft, pfft. Western goddesses wouldn't favor an Easterner.

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"But this Humanoid Race is just too careless..."

Wang Shuo couldn't help but complain. After interacting with them for so long, he had discovered that the Humanoid Race civilization truly had no talent for naming things, and of course, they had no interest in it either.

For instance, the new material currently lingering in his mind; according to the detailed data, this new type of material had a simple structure, stable properties, was particularly resistant to high temperatures, and was a new type of single-crystal metal material. But the Humanoid Race had actually named it... well, anyway, it was in the Humanoid Race language, so it wasn't easy to translate directly. The general meaning was just "so-and-so material, such-and-such model."

Fine... that could be let slide, but there was also this new type of pulse motor, which, if translated directly, was called "Rot-113"?

Let's just treat it as a model number... Wang Shuo touched his nose and thought silently.

Wang Shuo held his pen and thought for a moment, then wrote down the name of the special material on paper: Special Material Type I, No. 138...

Then he listed the Room-temperature superconductor ingredient list and production process, and wrote the name: "Super-normal Material — Type 001."

Hmm... the abbreviation will be "cw-001", easy to remember.

"Sir, while you were asleep, new feedback data was discovered and has been recorded. Task 5 is complete. Would you like to display the results now?"

Wang Shuo, who was silently complaining, was stunned. Task 5? After recalling carefully, Wang Shuo had some impression and asked in astonishment: "The USB drive was found? Where?"

Task 5, if he remembered correctly, should be the task about locating the USB drive. After Chen Xin told him about it, he had Zero set up a new task to monitor it at all times.

As a fairly experienced programmer, wasn't it normal to design a security program or something for the software he created himself?

"Current location is: W City. The detailed location has been displayed for you."

On the monitor in front of Wang Shuo, a map of W City had already appeared, with a small red dot blinking constantly on it, extremely obvious.

This is... Wang Shuo looked at the small dot that wasn't very far from him, held down the mouse, and scrolled the wheel. As the map continued to zoom in, Wang Shuo finally saw those words clearly.

"Xindong Technology Co., Ltd."

This company... Wang Shuo thought carefully and felt like he had heard of it somewhere.

"Zero, send a data packet to the other party; I want to know specific information."

"Sent, connection successful. Detected active information string from the other party. Target IP has jumped to outside the domain. Have copied it for you. Starting decryption... Progress: 5%."

"After decryption, save the content locally and execute encryption. Continue to maintain monitoring."

Wang Shuo said indifferently. Taking his USB drive and still daring to connect to the internet, he really didn't know what they were thinking. It didn't look like they were very smart, did it?

The next moment.

"Sir, connection lost. Assessment: Network connection failed. Continuing to attempt connection, connection failed..."

Wang Shuo: "..."

Fine, he had miscalculated. This was an expert. Fortunately, he had Zero, which could quickly intercept and download what he wanted in a short time; otherwise, he would probably have really returned empty-handed.

Looking at the interface, Zero was still continuing to crack the encryption. It looked like it would take a while, which was just enough time to perfect the product he had been conceiving for a long time.

"Zero, open the CAD interface, create a new task..."

...

Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Graduate Research Building, in the experimental classroom on the third floor.

Zhou Peng looked around the classroom, watching the students who were already standing in twos and threes on both sides, and secretly clicked his tongue.

In order to leave a good impression on Professor Zeng, Teacher Ding, and the seniors who were about to arrive, he had specially gotten up early today, tidied himself up carefully, and arrived at the research building early, but he hadn't expected to see this scene before him.

He looked at the time: 7:00 AM sharp, a full hour earlier than the 7:30 AM notified by Teacher Ding.

It seemed he wasn't the only one wanting to show off. Zhou Peng was a bit depressed, glancing at the class monitor, Du Juan, not far away, watching her sitting quietly in the corner, flipping through the thin booklet handed out by Teacher Ding yesterday, frowning from time to time, seemingly deep in thought.

"Can you understand it?"

Zhou Peng felt like laughing. Although he also greatly admired Du Juan's grades, if a freshman could understand Professor Zeng's research project, wouldn't that be ridiculous? Besides, he and Li Yao had discussed it in detail yesterday, and he also... Speaking of which, where was Li Yao?

Only then did Zhou Peng realize that he hadn't seen Li Yao in the crowd. This shouldn't be right; given Li Yao's personality, he shouldn't be absent.

Looking around again, Zhou Peng saw other students one after another opening their booklets. He also hurriedly picked one up, opened it with a pretense of studying it, looked at the lines of code on it, closed his eyes slightly, and seemed to fall into deep thought.

He didn't know how long had passed when Zhou Peng was suddenly awakened by a female voice. He hurriedly opened his eyes, only to find that Teacher Ding Runan had stood in the classroom at some point, and behind her were a few somewhat unfamiliar figures.

"Everyone is very punctual." Teacher Ding Runan looked around and said indifferently: "Then let's begin. I will first introduce the official members of the project team to you."

Teacher Ding Runan moved slightly to the side, revealing a male student standing next to her.

"Gao Feng, a master's student in the School of Computer Science and Technology, is currently a member of Professor Zeng's Mechanical Intelligence Research Group."

"Tang Xin, a master's student, assistant to Professor Zeng's project team."

"Zhao Feipeng..."

Taking advantage of the time while Teacher Ding Runan was introducing people, Zhou Peng quickly looked around, and finally saw Li Yao standing behind him. He quietly took a step back.

"Li Yao, why did you only just arrive now?"

Li Yao said softly: "Some things delayed me for a bit of time."

Things? What could be more important than you joining Professor Zeng's research group? Zhou Peng wanted to ask, but heard Li Yao continue: "My senior is also in this research group. For the next period of time, this research group will be the top priority."

Li Yao said mysteriously: "Do you know who wrote that booklet?"

"Who?" Zhou Peng asked expectantly.

"I don't know either."

Zhou Peng: "..."

"But my senior said that the person who wrote this code is definitely a big shot in this field. He said Professor Zeng evaluated this as code sufficient to change the computer AI field. My senior doesn't know the specifics either; they also can't understand some of the logic and principles in this code."

Even the seniors can't understand it... Zhou Peng gasped. If he hadn't misheard, the seniors Teacher Ding had just introduced were at least master's students, and they had followed Professor Zeng on many projects and had very rich experience.

If even such people couldn't understand it, then could they, a bunch of greenhorns, really get involved in it?

Seeming to see Zhou Peng's unease, Li Yao comforted him: "Don't overthink it. For this research, the school didn't require us to produce any specific results; as long as we can learn some knowledge from the lead mentor, we have already completed the task. Even our seniors are just helping the lead mentor."

"So this research group... actually only has one person? Are we all just here to intern?" Zhou Peng widened his eyes.

Li Yao sighed: "Although I really don't want to admit it, that is the fact."

He had also once thought about achieving something in the project team, but after hearing the seniors introduce the situation in detail, he had long extinguished that thought. Now he only hoped that he wouldn't fall behind in the upcoming learning; after all, this time, the one he had to compete with was not just Du Juan.

Zhou Peng's depression only lasted for a second, and then he quickly recovered his mood and asked: "Then this lead mentor is very likely the author of that code?"

"Nine times out of ten." Li Yao nodded very affirmatively; this was also the conclusion he reached after communicating with his senior. The problem now was... who exactly was this person?

In Li Yao's impression, he had never known any big shot who could "subvert" the intelligent AI field. Could it be a scholar who had just emerged recently?

The mysterious lead mentor, the mysterious research group.

"I really want to see this lead mentor right now." Li Yao sighed deeply.