It's okay for me to bully my wife for the sake of the young master's dignity, right?

Chapter 497 [146] Wetware and Computing Power
The whole wetware is placed indoors. The people suspended in the nutrient solution tank have their eyes closed. Their breath forms a string of bubbles in the liquid, as if they are protesting in their dreams.

Brain-computer interface cables are like parasitic plants, draining the vitality of the human brain in dreams and converting it into computer computing power and storage resources.

However, don't rush to sympathize with them. Under Qin Jiandan's orders, only those who committed serious criminal offenses would be punished as whole wetware, which was a kind of cyber prison sentence.

The people sleeping here may be extremely vicious criminals outside. Their crimes are not punishable by death, but there is no large prison in East City to hold them, so they have to use wetware to deduct their sentences.

This is still very merciful compared to the company, after all, the company's approach is to directly remove the brain and use it as a brain-computer, when the (overall) wetware is reversible, the patient can return to society after serving his sentence.

"Why is the Hizen Demon acting as a thief?" Qin Jiandan asked Feng Jian who was accompanying him, "What crime did he commit?"

The glasses on the young nose slipped slightly, and Fengjian pushed the frame up slightly:

"The Hizen Demon illegally invaded the skinny monkey's mother. According to the new trial regulations introduced by the Night Dragon Society, he must serve as a wetware for at least six months to atone for his crime."

Qin Jiandan looked at the half-body of the pig-headed man suspended in the nutrient solution and felt it was not worth it. The Hizen Demon lost his lower body in the battle. Since he had replaced it with a prosthetic body, why should he still be controlled by his lower body?

The nutrient tank is made of high-strength color-changing glass, which can adjust the transparency after power is turned on. Fengjian promised to darken the glass to protect the privacy of the prisoners when they are serving their sentences, but in order to save electricity, the color-changing function will be turned off once everyone falls asleep.

Apparently Feng Jian also didn't think they needed to protect their privacy in front of the young master.

"If you want to say something, you can talk to the Hizen Oni directly through the console."

Qin Jiandan followed Fengjian to the complex control console and looked at the messy wiring and the densely packed virtual buttons on the screen.

"When it's wetware, does it still have self-awareness? Can it communicate with the outside world?"

The cold light of the console was reflected in Fengjian's deep silver pupils.

"Generally, they have no self-awareness, which is why everyone is willing to serve their sentences in cyber prisons, because the sentence will be up in the blink of an eye. Soaking in nutrient solution can even delay aging, and the damage to the brain is limited."

"Being wetware is like going through a complicated and lengthy dream. If the technicians talk to him through the console, he will still awaken his self-awareness for a while. I happen to be communicating with the Hizen Oni, so you can talk to him while you're at it."

Qin Jiandan had heard that Feng Jian was trying to perform wetware and memory extraction on the Furui people, but he didn't expect that the subject was actually the Hizen Demon! This is good, and it fulfilled Feng Jian's words that "wetware is to strip a person naked and connect a brain-computer interface". The Hizen Demon is a real naked pig!
"Hey, Hizen no Oni, can you hear me? I'm Kazama, the young master and I are here to see you."

The loli staff officer performed a series of complicated operations on the console, which Qin Jiandan didn't understand.

"Hey, are you still awake? You are not dreaming now. Answer the questions from me and the young master quickly."

"..."

After a period of silence, the voice of Hizen no Oni came out from the speaker of the console. This was a simulated voice formed by directly reading his brain waves.

"Hahaha! The young master actually came to see me in person! I deserve it! I will fight bravely for the Night Dragon Society in the future and make my son Shouhou proud of me!"

Qin Jiandan frowned, thinking that Feiqian Zhigui and Shouhou were originally best friends, and he was too obsessed with being the other's father, and was willing to serve his sentence in cyberspace for this.

After the young master casually said a few words to him, Feng Jian asked from the side: "Are you willing to accept drug enhancement to improve your calculation ability and shorten your sentence?"

"Eh? Can you shorten the sentence?" Hizen's ghost was overjoyed, "I agree! Why the hell wouldn't I agree? My brain isn't working well, it won't work whether I use the strengthening medicine or not! When I'm released, I'll go find Skinny Monkey's mother!"

Qin Jiandan said, "Don't make trouble anymore. Her mother doesn't like you, so why do you keep sending yourself to the nutrient tank?"

"Young Master, you don't know!" The Hizen Ghost cried out, "Skinny Monkey's mother smells delicious... No, she brought me a delicious little cake to eat. She's obviously interested in me! This is not an illegal invasion at all. His mother did it voluntarily! Skinny Monkey was unwilling to be a son, so he falsely accused me!"

Qin Jiandan looked at Feng Jian suspiciously and whispered, "Aren't you experimenting with extracting the memories of the Furui people? Once you extract them, won't you know who is lying?"

Fengjian closed the call with the fat forelimb ghost and injected him with a strengthening potion. The pig-headed man seemed to fall into a deeper and faster dream.

At this point, Fengjian said with her poker face: "Under my questioning, the skinny monkey has admitted that he wronged the Hizen Oni, and his mother also lied because she was shy..."

Qin Jiandan said angrily: "Why don't you release the Feiqian ghost quickly! You wrongly accused him and gave him a strengthening potion? What if his brain is burned out?"

Fengjian touched her belly again, as if to protest Qin Jiandan's harsh words to her, so Qin Jiandan had to soften her expression.

"To avoid being fired again, Young Master, you want me to do a memory extraction experiment on the Furui people, right? The Hizen Oni incident is a rare opportunity. Am I going to grab a random Furui person from the street to serve his sentence just for Young Master's request?" "Even if it's my request... can't you let the person go after extracting his memory?"

"If we let him go, we will have to publicly admit that we made a mistake in our judgment, which will reduce the seriousness of the temporary regulations." The slightly longer hair on Fengjian's left temple swayed slightly with her movements. "I also put some pressure on Shouhou and made him promise not to interfere with my mother's relationship with Hizen no Oni."

"Also, what was injected just now was not a strengthening potion, but a brain maintenance potion. I just want an excuse to shorten the sentence of the Hizen Demon."

After Fengjian's explanation, Qin Jiandan reluctantly accepted the result.

"Well, it seems that Skinny Monkey is doomed to be someone's son. This is retribution for his false accusation of the Hizen Demon."

Next, Qin Jiandan, under Fengjian's guidance, came to the surrounding manufacturing factory. Actually, he didn't really like to watch the manufacturing process of Baji up close, but the wet parts storage room was too cold and damp, so it would be better to talk somewhere else.

The factory walls are covered with electronic display screens, showing impressive production data in real time.

On the production line, five CNC robots equipped with advanced sensors are busy non-stop. Their movements are smooth and fast, completing the most complex and error-free parts of the process amid the monotonous sounds of mechanical operation and electronic buzzing.

The rest of the work is done by workers who wear special work clothes and shuttle back and forth beside the production line, checking product quality and adjusting machine parameters, their faces filled with concentration and enthusiasm.

"The young master is here to see our work!"

"I've been giving birth to the young master every day. I finally get to see the young master in person!"

"Thanks to the young master and Staff Officer Fengjian, our job benefits are so good that many people are jealous!"

According to the mentality of ancient emperors, being called "young master" and being grateful by the people was a kind of "way to death", but the news of Fengjian's pregnancy spread like wildfire, and many people below regarded Fengjian as the future queen, or at least one of the candidates for the queen.

Qin Jiandan didn't care what the workers said. He just waved his hand casually and didn't want to look at the rows of finished products.

"Young Master," Feng Jian introduced while holding her recorder, "The Senior Sisters reported that the inner city had found a counterfeit of the Young Master's Baji by the Ni'an Society, and we must use more CNC robots to increase anti-counterfeiting details. Another member of the Senior Sisters suggested adding an Internet connection function to the new Baji, so that counterfeits cannot connect to our server, and naturally no one will buy them."

Qin Jiandan complained: "The Ni'an Society is so boring! They violated my copyright and even copied this!"

Fengjian added: "Both of the above require additional computing power. In fact, the current production capacity is insufficient because CNC robots need computing power to work perfectly, and simply adding workers cannot solve the problem."

The company's penalties for hacking are extremely severe, and computer hardware is strictly prohibited from entering the black market. This has resulted in only a very small number of people in the outer city owning computers, and computing power is stretched to the limit.

"You mean to capture more people to serve as overall wetware?"

"I have arrested all the people I could on the territory of the Falling Cherry Group recently." Fengjian said, "In fact, what the young master just visited was only a part of the wetware storage room. I hope that some of the criminals at the headquarters can be transferred over."

Qin Jiandan nodded slightly: "I will find a way to deal with criminals who are not involved in confidential matters. Although computing power is important, you should not wrongly accuse people. I will release the ghost of fat money in a few days."

Feng Jian agreed: "Young Master, please let me lock him up for a few more days just to show my power. After that, I will release the fat pig and let him be a father."

Qin Jiandan felt that although Fengjian was rather sinister, he was still relatively safe in his work. In terms of ability, it was a waste of his talent to be the staff officer of the Luoying Group, and he should be the staff officer of the young master.

Maybe she will be given this position after she gives birth to the child... But what about the Falling Cherry Group? If Xiao Xia is allowed to rule, the Falling Cherry Group will probably be destroyed soon.

After quickly finishing the first two tasks, Qin Jiandan was in a good mood. He handed Fengjian a data capsule.

"Read the contents. I'll provide my biometrics and password."

The data capsule contains a list of wealthy people who have participated in the prison's "sensory link" incidents, obtained from the Chief of Police, including the time and specific projects they participated in.

There are no USB flash drives in Huanshi City. Instead, there is something called a "data capsule", which uses "super Bluetooth connection" to exchange data with other devices. Its characteristics are strong confidentiality, not easy to spread viruses and high price.

Feng Jian scanned the entire thing and said, "Young Master, you and Team Leader Xiao Xia are going to blackmail the rich people from the Ding and Luo families. Do you want me to help you confirm that those people are easy to blackmail and there will be no future troubles?"

Qin Jiandan smiled. As expected of Feng Jian, she was extremely intelligent. Such a mother would definitely raise a very smart child.

"Yes, I'm going to take Xiao Xia to the inner city. Anyway, there's no one more suitable. Where's Xiao Xia? Where did you go to eat cakes again?"

(End of this chapter)