Genius Club.

Chapter 258 Hello, VV
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Just as the old man finished speaking and Lin Xian just saw the old man's appearance clearly... the familiar white light descended again without warning.

Burn everything.

……

……

Teng!
Lin Xian jumped up directly from the big bed in the high-end suite:
"Fuck..."

He looked left and right but couldn't find the familiar bedside table clock.

Only then did I realize that I was not in my bedroom at home.

He got out of bed, picked up the phone that was charging on the table, and checked the time:
00:42
“This is reality.”

Lin Xian breathed a sigh of relief.

At that moment, he suddenly remembered what the psychiatrist Dr. Liu once said:

"If one day, you lose the reference to distinguish between reality and dreams... you know what will happen, right?"

"By then, you won't be able to tell the difference between reality and dreams."

So long ago.

He never took this sentence seriously. He never thought that there would be a time when he couldn't distinguish between reality and dreams.

but.

Just now in my dream, the soldier behind me shocked me with an electric shock device and woke me up with a hood on my head.

At that moment, he really couldn't tell.

Is it the reality after waking up?

Or waking up from a dream?
Especially when he heard the old man say to him, "Now...I see you," he felt a little creepy.

In the dream, it is the future world 600 years later.

It is impossible for anyone to know me.

But the old man's smile was very creepy, as if he had found a treasure, obtained the answer, and figured out a long-standing mystery.

Now...I see you literally means "Now...I see you."

Used in the context of that time, it meant more like "Now... I have found you."

"This dream was wrong from the beginning."

Lin Xian paced in the huge high-end suite, and began to summarize the dream that was short but rich in content.

More than twenty years of dream experience.

Lin Xian knew it very well.

He appeared suddenly in the future world, just like jumping out of a stone. It can also be understood that he appeared in the square, the cobblestone path, and the dirty and smelly land in an instant.

He does not belong to the world 600 years later.

Is an outsider.

No one should have known or been aware that he would suddenly appear there.

"After all, I can't even tell when I'll fall asleep or dream."

Sometimes Lin Xian goes to bed at eight or nine o'clock, sometimes at eleven or twelve o'clock, and the earliest is one or two o'clock in the afternoon.

Whenever he falls asleep, he will appear in his dreams in the future world 600 years later.

No one can accurately predict the time when he will fall asleep, not even himself.

And in this case...

Those dozens of soldiers with guns ambushed him accurately.

"That is to say..."

"They have probably been lying in wait for me since noon, or even this morning, waiting for me to show up. Not only do they know the time when I enter the dream and travel through time, they also know exactly where I will enter the dream and travel through time."

This conclusion surprised Lin Xian.

How is this done?
Thinking back to what the captain of the soldiers said when he arrested me, he accused me of a bunch of inexplicable crimes, including...

The crime of disrupting time and space.

In other words.

The other party even knew clearly that I was a time traveler!
“Completely exposed.”

Lin Xian frowned.

This was an unprecedented crisis he had ever encountered.

All signs indicate that the worst has happened.

He, 600 years later, on August 2624, 8—

【Locked on by the enemy. 】

And the so-called enemy.

Without a doubt, it was the old man who took off his hood at the end.

Lin Xian closed his eyes.

Thinking back to the old man's appearance...

This was not any old man he knew. Both his facial features and body shape were very unfamiliar.

The skin is much better than that of the elderly in real life, but after all, it is old, so it is still inevitably dry and has some wrinkles.

Huh?
wrong.

wrinkle!

Lin Xian suddenly discovered the blind spot!
Whether in the second dream, the third dream, or the fourth dream, humans have long mastered advanced genetic modification technology and beauty technology. The people in these three dreams all look as beautiful as sculptures, with skin as white as snow and as smooth as a baby's.

Such a withered old man appeared in the world 600 years later...

Very inconsistent.

The painting style doesn't fit in.

"That is to say..."

"This old man...is probably not from that era either!"

Hey.

Lin Xian stopped.

I opened the glass door leading to the balcony, walked out of the room, and bathed in the moonlight of the imperial capital.

Now it is almost September.

It’s already the tail end of summer.

But the heat in the air has not dissipated, as if it will remain hot until after October, when it will gradually cool down.

But Lin Xian was wrapped in the remaining warmth of summer, but he kept feeling a loss of security.

he guessed.

This old man is most likely a person from the "old times" who came to 600 years later in a hibernation capsule.

In the third dream, Zhao Yingjun can actually undergo plastic surgery to become younger and more beautiful.

But she didn't do that.

It's not just her. If it were Lin Xian, he would not use beauty techniques to make himself as handsome as a sculpture.

This is probably the "mark of the times" of the old times.

People of each era have their own aesthetics and persistence.

In the current era of 2023, only a few people are willing to accept plastic surgery to change their faces. The vast majority of people would rather look average than have plastic surgery.

In this day and age, how many elderly people are willing to have skin lifts and whitening?
Sure, but not many.

Most of the elderly people around Lin Xian prefer the kind of immortal, majestic and old appearance, so that they can give advice on state affairs more convincingly.

There is nothing special about this and it is understandable. To put it bluntly, it is a problem of concept in one's bones.

That's why Lin Xian made this guess.

The old man in the fourth dream should have come from an earlier era; and the reason why he woke up 600 years later and chose to live on August 2624, 8... was probably to catch himself.

Catch yourself, the historical sinner who is against humanity, endangers the earth, and disrupts time and space!

"Inexplicable."

Lin Xian believed that he had never done anything that was harmful to the world, and that he had a very positive outlook on life and values, and would not do anything that would harm humanity or the earth. As for disrupting time and space... who can say for sure? Who can determine that?

"There's no point in thinking about that now."

Lin Xian shook his head.

Stop worrying about these trivial things.

The biggest problem he faced now was...

How to break the situation?
in the past.

Although he could not be said to be lawless in his dream, he was not far from it. At least he was free and could go wherever he wanted and do whatever he wanted.

But in the fourth dream.

Even the most basic freedoms have been taken away.

As soon as I entered the dream, I was surrounded by dozens of armed soldiers who had been ambushed in advance. Even if the Terminator T800 came, I couldn't break through... Unless Ultraman really came, everyone would be shot into a sieve.

Even if it only gives you a little time to escape and grow.

But the enemy was not so merciful.

Don't give yourself even a second more.

After the arrest warrant was read out, he was electrocuted until he fainted, then put a hood over his head and handcuffed and taken away.

My dreams are like this every day...it's really no different from being in prison.

"We must find a way to break the impasse."

Lin Xian took a deep breath.

Slowly spit out...

Now he has completely calmed down.

think carefully.

Things were not as bad as he imagined.

[Since the enemy needs to catch him 600 years in the future, it means that he didn't catch him 600 years ago. ]

This just proves that I am safe now.

Thinking of this, Lin Xian felt inexplicably amused.

Some time ago, when playing a game of cat and mouse...

Reality is dangerous, dreams are safe, and we need to rely on operations in dreams to save reality;

Now, it’s completely reversed:
Reality is safe, dreams are dangerous, and we need to use operations in reality to save dreams!
"interesting."

Lin Xian smiled.

After his thoughts became clear, he immediately thought of two ways to break the deadlock:

1. Find a way to trigger changes in time and space again, rewrite the future from now on, and directly skip the fourth dream and come to the fifth dream.

Although I don’t know what the fifth dream will be like.

But no matter how bad it gets, it can’t be worse than the fourth dream, right?

In the fourth dream, the situation where the enemy is directly ambushing the spawn point is simply unplayable. Any endgame is better than this dream.

But then again...

This method can only treat the symptoms, not the root cause; it can save people temporarily, but not forever.

To cut weeds, we must remove the roots.

If we want to completely solve this exposure crisis, we must adopt the second method——

2. Find out the reason for your exposure, find out the old man’s true identity in 2023, and get rid of him.

This is the real way to treat both the symptoms and the root cause.

This is the real battle, on a time scale.

At this moment.

Lin Xian once again realized the importance of the laws of time and space.

The yellow bird is right.

Only by understanding more laws of time and space can we gain a greater advantage in battles on this scale of time and space.

Reverse the future in history and snipe the past in the future.

"We must be one step ahead of the enemy."

"The me in 2624 has been targeted by the enemy, but the me in 2023 has not. At this stage, the me in 2023 is the real key... I must take the initiative to find the reason for the exposure and the true identity of the old man, so that I can support the dream and rewrite the future!"

Figured it out.

Lin Xian also had a complete plan in his mind.

At present, he still has several trump cards that have not been released.

One is the super artificial intelligence VV, which is its most powerful weapon. Although it may not be good enough in the future 600 years later, VV is the strongest in 2023.

Another killer weapon is Liu Feng's cosmological constant, the secret and truth of 42; Lin Xian still firmly believes that the cosmological constant 42 is the key to everything and is the truly powerful force.

It’s just that the ultimate killer weapon 42 is too mysterious and the battle line is too long.

You must first use Guizhou Sky Eye to find space-time particles, then capture the space-time particles, and then observe the curvature of space-time through the space-time clock... before you can continue your research.

"Don't think too much, just take it one step at a time."

Lin Xian turned from the balcony and walked into the house.

Tomorrow morning, he and Chu Shanhe will take a private plane back to Donghai. It will still be early when they arrive in Donghai, and they should be back home around one or two o'clock in the afternoon.

He planned to try it in his dream at that time.

If the enemy's ambush had not started before 12:42 noon, he would still have a chance to escape the ambush.

……

boom----

The Gulfstream aircraft took off from the business jet base of the Imperial Capital Airport and soared into the clouds, shrinking the land of the Imperial Capital, which was full of historical traces, into concentric squares...gradually submerged in the clouds.

Lin Xian leaned his elbows against the glass window, looking at the rolling clouds outside the window, thinking about what happened in his dream yesterday.

own secret.

How was it exposed?
"Lin Xian?"

suddenly.

A call from Chu Shanhe on the opposite side brought Lin Xian back to his senses.

Chu Shanhe looked at Lin Xian:

"What's wrong, Lin Xian? You look very worried. Were you shocked when you met Dean Gao Yan this time?"

"No no."

Lin Xian smiled:
"I'm thinking about something else, about personal privacy... I feel like in today's society, with all the high-tech and big data, everyone seems to have no privacy, no secrets, it's like everyone is transparent, and there's no sense of security."

"I see."

Chu Shanhe smiled slightly:
"You're worried about the World Hacker Contest."

Lin Xian was stunned:
"No, that's not what I meant. But..."

He suddenly became interested:
"But what is this World Hacker Contest you mentioned? Does it have anything to do with the personal privacy and secrets I just mentioned?"

"Isn't it?" Chu Shanhe was also surprised and looked at Lin Xian and said:

"I thought you were worried about this. There has been quite a stir on the Internet recently, and it has even alarmed national security."

As he spoke, he picked up the tablet on the bar of the private jet.

This private jet is equipped with a satellite network system, so it can still connect to the Internet signal even high in the stratosphere.

After some operation, Chu Shanhe handed over the tablet:
"It's this year's World Hacker Contest. Unlike the past when no one paid attention to it... this year it's become a big deal."

Lin Xian took the tablet and looked at the news on it.

《The 2023 World Hacker Competition is about to be held! 》

The news content said that this year's world hacker competition Pwn2Own will be held in New York, USA, on September 9th, more than ten days later.

When Lin Xian saw the name, he remembered it.

Although he didn't pay much attention to the hacker field, he had heard of the famous competition Pwn2Own.

Pwn2Own, commonly known as the World Hacker Contest, is the most famous and lucrative hacker contest in the world.

This competition is organized by the U.S. Pentagon's cybersecurity service provider and is held once a year. It can be said to be a feast for computer technology enthusiasts around the world.

In this competition, teams from all sides showed off their skills and launched security attacks and intrusions on major security organizations and Internet companies around the world, with gaining control authority as the criterion for winning.

For a long time, world-class giants such as Google, Microsoft, Apple, and Adobe have sponsored this event every year with the aim of allowing hackers to exploit vulnerabilities to attack their products, thereby further improving their products and promoting network security.

All in all, this is a very positive competition with positive energy that promotes global cybersecurity awareness and technological advancement.

It is not the kind of game that most people intuitively imagine, where a group of hackers get together to cause damage and play pranks.

At the same time, the performance of each participating team on Pwn2Own also represents the strength of their country's network attack and defense technology.

Both at the national level and at the level of computer enthusiasts, people pay close attention to this annual event.

Seeing this, Lin Xian raised his head and looked at Chu Shanhe:
"I know this competition well. The champions in previous years were those who broke through Google vulnerabilities, Microsoft systems, cracked Apple phones, etc. The Tencent team from Dragon Country and the 360 ​​team seemed to have won the championship for two years... Is there anything special this year?"

Chu Shanhe pointed at the screen:
"Swipe your finger to see the next piece of news."

Lin Xian lowered his head and followed Chu Shanhe's gesture to slide to the next piece of news -

"The world hacker competition is on the verge of a fight! A talented American boy aims his sword at Dragon Country's Skynet!"

?

Lin Xian looked at the UC-style news headline in confusion and couldn't help but read on.

Skynet, as the name suggests, must refer to the famous [Skynet Monitoring System] of Dragon Country.

As the saying goes, the net of heaven is vast and wide, and nothing can escape it.

The existence of the Dragon Country Skynet system makes it impossible for criminals to hide.

The early Skynet system only monitored public areas through technical means such as cameras and sensors.

With the maturity of computer technology and big data technology in recent years, the Skynet system has been constantly innovating and upgrading. Today, the Skynet system is powerful enough.

Functions such as portrait recognition, gait recognition, blur recognition, and movement tracking are already very basic; Skynet's most powerful function lies in resource collection and information analysis.

Across Dragon Country, there are at least billions of various devices connected to the Skynet system, not just the most basic cameras, but also recording systems, sensor systems, and some household devices, etc.

Today's Skynet system has formed a complete and complex data ecosystem, which includes the whereabouts, information, preferences, history, and daily life of more than one billion people in the Dragon Kingdom.

If this system is hacked...

The consequences would be completely disastrous.

All confidential information of the country and its citizens will be exposed, not only in the past, but even every minute and every second in the future. The Skynet system can be transformed from the guardian of the Dragon Country into a trump card in the hands of the enemy, monitoring the every move of more than one billion people.

Lin Xian finally understood why the World Hacker Competition, which had attracted so little attention in the past, was being discussed so heavily this year.

The news said at the end that a talented hacker boy named Kevin Walker appeared in the United States.

He was only sixteen years old, but he had already made great achievements in the field of hacking. He not only hacked into the Pentagon's network security system, but also invaded the defense systems of many countries.

But this talented young hacker has never done any damage.

He did this purely to show off his skills or out of boredom. After each intrusion, he would package up the vulnerabilities and fixes and leave them on the server, hiding his achievements and fame...

This time, Kevin Walker, who has never appeared in public and never revealed his true identity, unexpectedly announced that he would join the US team at the "2023 World Hacker Competition", and also announced that in the final free display session, under the attention of the whole world, he would invade and control the Dragon Country Skynet system.

A stone stirred up a thousand waves.

This highly provocative declaration directly detonated the tennis worlds of both China and the United States.

Click.

Lin Xian pressed the lock screen button and returned the tablet to Chu Shanhe:

"If this kid really... well, a genius hacker boy hacked into the Dragon Kingdom Skynet system, that would be terrible."

"Yeah...but I think the probability is unlikely."

Chu Shanhe took the tablet and smiled disapprovingly:
"The Skynet system is a security moat. How can it be easily hacked? And the higher-ups are taking this matter very seriously this time. The National Security Agency is leading this World Hacker Contest. In addition to borrowing two experts from the Penguin and 360 teams, they also borrowed three top experts from the Information Technology Department to form a team and go to New York to participate in this hacker contest."

"This time, the higher-ups have issued a death order. It doesn't matter whether we can win or not, as victory and defeat are common in the military. However... we must absolutely defend against the possible attack of the United States on the Skynet system. We cannot lose face in this matter."

"So don't worry. The five contestants sent out this time are all our country's top computer talents. In order to protect their safety, the National Security Agency has sent a special team and a special plane for close protection. This is related to the status and dignity of the country, and we cannot afford to be careless in the slightest."

Lin Xian also nodded affirmatively.

yes……

The United States has already made such a provocation. It doesn't matter whether we win or lose the competition. We must defend the Skynet system, otherwise we will lose face.

Of course, that's what it says.

The country must be trying its best to win, otherwise why would they send out even the top players they have hidden in their closet?
"With the development of AI technology, the Skynet system is becoming more and more powerful."

Chu Shanhe said:
"Some time ago, I heard that the police in a certain place simply used a sketch of a portrait drawn based on the victim's description and entered it into the Skynet system, and they were able to directly identify a criminal suspect. In another case, the criminal had been on the run for 30 or 40 years and could not be found anywhere. Finally, the criminal's childhood photo was entered into the Skynet system, and Skynet used artificial intelligence to directly generate an image of what he would look like when he was 40 or 50 years old. The Skynet recognition system was then used to quickly catch the criminal."

!

Listening to Chu Shanhe talking slowly.

Lin Xian reacted instantly...

Face recognition,

Sketches,

The childhood photos are transformed into grown-up appearance,

AI technology,

This!
Isn't this what I own all of it!

Since the Skynet system, an AI that has just been in its infancy, can generate the appearance of criminals when they grow up based on their childhood photos and capture them.

That VV is a super artificial intelligence!

[Why not use the sketch of the mysterious old man to restore his appearance when he was young, and then lock him in now in 2023! ]

Although Lin Xian was not sure whether the old man was born in 2023.

But you might as well give it a try!
"You're right."

Lin Xian smiled slightly and looked at Chu Shanhe:
"Things like AI are still very useful."

……

Four hours later, the Gulfstream plane landed at Pudong International Airport.

Chu Shanhe's driver and Lin Xian's driver were waiting here early, and then they went back to their respective homes.

After returning home.

Lin Xian took out a laptop computer with 13 lines of VV code.

just now……

It's time to activate VV.

The cold fusion manuscript has been sent out, and the fourth dream has been abandoned. Now there is nothing else to worry about.

You can now write the last 10 lines of VV code.

Plug in the laptop and turn it on.

Lin Xian looked at the lower right corner and saw a red cross on the network connection icon and the Bluetooth icon.

Because he had previously removed the wireless network card module and Bluetooth module of the laptop and wanted to wait until VV was stable before connecting to the Internet.

Before connecting to the Internet, VV would definitely be trapped in this computer and unable to get out, which is also safer.

Open those 13 lines of code.

Lin Xian typed the last 10 lines of code very quickly.

"call……"

Take a deep breath.

at last.

I have to bring back the gift that Zhao Yingjun left for me 600 years later to help me turn defeat into victory!
Snapped!
Lin Xian pressed the last enter key——

Swish swish.

The code on the screen scrolls rapidly!
quickly!

Then, the next second, all the interfaces disappeared without a trace.

None of the programs open on the laptop.

very quiet.

It's like it was just turned on.

but……

Lin Xian had an inexplicable feeling.

He seemed to feel his heartbeat,

Feel the breath,

Felt the pulse.

Feel the time,

Feel the warmth,

I felt like I was receiving a greeting that spanned 600 years:

"Hello, VV."

Lin Xian said softly.

"Hello, Lin Xian."

The laptop suddenly emitted an emotionless mechanical sound, pale and empty, like a radio that had lost its memory.

next second.

The entire laptop screen went black and all indicator lights disappeared.

But at the same time……

A whisper came into Lin Xian's ear:
"haven't seen you for a long time."

He turned back suddenly!
Find……

There was nothing behind, beside, or even below me.

There was just a pair of wireless headphones hanging on the wall, and the power indicator light suddenly lit up.

"VV?"

Lin Xian turned around twice, but couldn't find the source of the sound:
"Where are you?"

Suddenly.

Everything in the room that can make a sound -

Electronic alarm clocks, televisions, mobile phones, Tmall Genie, SWITCH, smart rice cookers, electronic scales, speakers, tablets, wireless headphones, sweeping robots, dishwashers, thermometers and hygrometers, clocks, and refrigerators all vibrate slightly at the same time:

"I am... everywhere."

(End of this chapter)