Technological practice: leading the human race to the stars

Chapter 204 Rookie
"You're just a complete rookie, showing off just because you know a little bit?"

Smith deliberately re-locked the file that he had just cracked in order to show his role in front of City Lord Zhang.

If I hold on to this thigh, I will have nothing to worry about in the future, and Li Haisheng will not be able to control him.
He glared at Smith who was drinking beside him. He had never expected that this man would have such a trick, deliberately trying to make things difficult for him so that he couldn't solve the puzzle from the beginning.

"Yuan Ze, don't be in a hurry. Take your time. I'll help you get familiar with the place and suppress this arrogant guy."

Smith glanced at Yuanze, who was concentrating with his eyes closed, and came over, sneering:
"Isn't this just an ordinary encrypted file? You're playing tricks on me for so long, isn't that possible?"

Yuanze ignored him and continued to immerse himself in Astra's guidance and the huge amount of study materials, quickly absorbing knowledge.

He opened his eyes, took a deep breath, and focused all his attention on the screen. However, his hands were typing very slowly, and the characters were occasionally entered incorrectly.

The screen suddenly flashed, Yuanze was startled, but the speed of typing on the keyboard began to increase.

Sure enough, these operations triggered a hidden instruction and a complex program appeared.

He scratched his head. It was obviously very different from the encryption algorithm that Astra had cracked before.

"It seems that there is nothing special about you."

Seeing this, Smith sneered, returned to his chair and continued drinking.

However, he obviously underestimated the artificial intelligence in Yuan Ze, and she quickly deciphered the encryption algorithm.

Yuanze programmed the algorithm into the program according to the formula she derived and broke through the first layer of shielding.

Next, Yuanze encountered the core of encryption and used the superposition and entanglement characteristics of quantum states to make brute force cracking using algorithms no longer effective.

However, this file is not going very smoothly.

The first thing Yuanze encountered was a layer of anti-tampering mechanism, which would immediately destroy the file if an abnormality was detected.

This made him a little nervous. The documents here had not been fully recorded yet. If there was even the slightest mistake, those valuable information would be wiped out.

On the other side, Smith also saw the anti-tampering mechanism and came over with a smile. He patted Yuanze on the shoulder and signaled him to come down and stop being so reckless.

"Young man, as a novice, you have done a great job. I will handle the rest."

Yuan Ze shook his head: "I have a way."

With the help of Astra's operation, he generated a sandbox simulation environment for the virtual machine to ensure the security of the system.

Next, there is the hurdle of reverse engineering.

All the file codes have become a bunch of irregular garbled codes and cannot be read directly.

Yuanze used an advanced disassembly tool to restore the obfuscated code to a readable format. While analyzing the code, he searched for the key hidden in it.

"Smith is really a talented person. He did everything he could to get on top of the game."

Yuanze thought to himself, his fingers quickly typing commands on the keyboard, trying to break this obstacle.

Then, Yuanze discovered a time lock. As long as the cracker cannot use a fast algorithm, the file will be re-encrypted at regular intervals.

"This time lock is a hassle," Genze muttered, "I need to finish this step before it re-encrypts it."

Astra uses a fast FFT algorithm to quickly break the time lock and continue to delve deeper into the file.

The protection measures in the document are endless, and the next one is a biometric-based identity authentication mechanism.

Yuanze used source power to simulate a virtual biometric data and successfully deceived this line of defense.

Smith couldn't help but take a step back and muttered, "This is impossible. Is this guy pretending to be a pig and eating the tiger?"

He shook his head. Judging from his poor performance just now and the fact that he only cracked a small part at the beginning, he must have learned it gradually. His expression gradually changed from contempt to surprise. He saw that Yuan Ze not only cracked the anti-tampering mechanism, but also successfully reverse-engineered it, and finally broke through the restrictions of the time lock and biological lock.

His fingers also adapted to the speed of typing on the keyboard, and with the help of active memory, he developed muscle memory.

He was somewhat envious of Yuan Ze, because next he would be faced with a field of source power decoding that he was powerless to do anything about.

These codes and tools also sneaked into the world of computers along with "Flow", and came to the source force decoding part that even Smith could not solve.

As the decoding progresses, the information in the file gradually emerges.

The secrets of the "Shadow" organization were revealed bit by bit. The document mentioned a long-running plan called "Epidemic", which used viruses to transform the human body into a Source Warrior.

But soon things got out of control, and their best adaptation, the "Ghost Plague", escaped their grasp.

Just when the decoding reached a critical moment, the screen flickered and a series of warnings popped up.

"Mr. Sun, this is a method of cyber attack. I can lend you my computer." Smith judged the situation based on his experience and became more respectful to Yuanze.

Yuan Ze used Smith's computer to first divide B03's network system into an isolation area, temporarily preventing the virus from paralyzing B03's facilities, especially those nuclear facilities.

He couldn't figure it out.

Before this, I asked Zhang Zhisheng to shut down all the surrounding networks and block all electromagnetic signals.

After many investigations, Yuan Ze discovered that he had used his power to stimulate the computer. A special biological signal bypassed the shielding method and was received by the "shadow".

They attempted to re-attack the firewall of the B03 nuclear facility.

"I need more computing resources," Yuan Ze said suddenly, "This attack is too strong, much stronger than the last time. I can't handle it alone."

"Smith, go to the server and help me monitor the traffic to ensure the normal operation of the city network. City Lord Zhang, go contact the technical team of the nuclear facility and ask them to pay attention to any abnormalities."

"By the way, I remember Rick left a brain-computer interface machine in the central control room of the nuclear facility. Give it to me."

Zhang Zhisheng took immediate action, raising the city's danger level to the highest level, mobilizing all resources of the "Free City", and immediately seeking help from B01.

B03's technical team connected multiple high-performance computing nodes to Yuanze's system.

On Yuanze's computer screen, the system resource display bar rose rapidly, and it was finally no longer so stretched.

As time went by, more and more people crowded into the conference room, constantly debugging various instruments.

Yuanze has mastered the attack patterns of the "Shadow" organization.

He discovered that the opponent's attacks were not just random, but were carefully planned and deployed.

Astra was used to analyze the opponent's attack pattern and predict the next attack direction.

However, because the focus was on the protection of nuclear facilities, everyone ignored the computer of the "Shadow Organization".

"boom!"

The computer suddenly exploded, but fortunately the power was not strong and no one was injured.

At this point, Yuanze realized that this was a plan by "Shadow" to make a feint to the east and attack in the west.

They take advantage of the situation and use computers as bait, trying to lure some people and take them to more dangerous places.

Yuanze sighed and wiped the sweat from his forehead. Now Astra was still suppressed by the genius of "Shadow".

If we want to break the impasse, we have to wait for that brain-computer interface, otherwise we won’t be able to fully utilize the capabilities of “Flow” + Astra.

(End of this chapter)