I am weak and friendly

Chapter 220 Tang's Most Proud Program

Rewind time by one hour.

In front of Tang Yiping and Wei Song's respective vending machines, Stoka twitched his nose and diligently sniffed the ground.

However, it sniffed for a full five minutes and still kept circling around in the same spot.

It's just like when the boss is around, you frantically type on the keyboard, but in reality, you're just a beast of burden, writing and deleting and rewriting.

"Stoka, haven't you smelled it yet?" Tang Yiping asked.

"Awoo..." Stoka cried out, still sniffing with its head down.

Tang Yiping felt a bit thirsty and realized that he had come out too quickly and forgotten to bring some things with him.

But it doesn't matter, as long as he's in Hailing City, he'll almost never lack supplies.

He took out his phone, opened an app, connected to the vending machine next to him, tapped it twice, and two bottles of drinks fell out of the vending machine.

Tang Yiping couldn't help but clench his fist and give himself a thumbs up.

I am awesome!
I can't believe I was able to write such a great program! Who said I'm just an average coder?

Then, he looked around and saw that the pedestrians were hurrying by, and not a single person stopped to applaud his earth-shattering and awe-inspiring work.

Life is truly as lonely as snow!

With that thought in mind, he unscrewed a bottle of water, handed it to Stoka, and then gulped down a mouthful for himself.

Hmm... this water tastes slightly plasticky, it should be left for Lola.

he thinks.

Since deciding to try using vending machines as his food source to see if he could complete the task of "not having enough to eat," Tang Yiping has been thinking about how to improve his efficiency in getting food from vending machines.

Shaking the vending machine frantically or reaching in with your hands is obviously inefficient.

Then he discovered that many of the vending machines were still working.

There are more than a dozen vending machines near Qihang Building alone, and most of these vending machines are still connected to municipal electricity.

Since the vending machine is still working, the solution for a programmer is quite straightforward.

It's definitely about writing a program to "crack" it!
Of course, it's impossible to crack it out of thin air. Fortunately, Linghai Technology has one, although it's currently a Lagrange prosthetic body.

Tang Yiping originally intended to dismantle the vending machine to see what was inside.

Although Lagrange was trembling with fear that his prosthetic body would be damaged, Tang Yiping was full of confidence.

Then Ban saw it and told him, "Why are you taking it apart? If you just want to control it, we have the interface for a vending machine."

Tang Yiping: "???"

Ban Ge said, "Have you forgotten that we are a local services app? In fact, we used to be the number one local services app in Hailing, and we are still in the top five now."

The top five are basically user-free, right...?

After all, if the first and second place are fighting, nobody knows about the third, let alone the top five.

Tang Yiping wanted to complain.

"When the vending machine company came to install it here, they also discussed integrating our application. They gave us a large sum of money and opened a port... Later, the company went bankrupt, and this code was deleted. The cooperation documents from back then are still there. Wait a minute, I'll go find them..." Brother Ban turned and left.

Tang Yiping was initially worried that all information related to Touchpoint Connect would disappear and that Brother Ban wouldn't be able to find it, but it turned out that Brother Ban actually found the cooperation documents from that time.

Moreover, Tang Yiping tried it and it worked!

Local lifestyle apps can communicate with local vending machines—how is that logically consistent?
However, Tang Yiping then encountered another problem.

These vending machines were originally connected to the internet, but after so many years, their servers have all gone down.

Tang Yiping spent a long time going through the cooperation agreement from back then, and then discovered that in the cooperation documents provided by Brother Ban, there was a locally maintained port that could be used...

Next, Tang Yiping spent about four hours writing a very simple program.

The specific function is to use the phone's Wi-Fi to connect to a hidden Wi-Fi network, and then bypass the server restrictions through this local maintenance port to access the vending machine's product and inventory interface, and control the vending machine to dispense goods.

This program is very simple; even someone with Tang Yiping's skill level could write it.

This was probably the first time Tang Yiping had written a program entirely based on his own programming skills without relying on that strange code.

After finishing it, I felt an immense sense of accomplishment! Of course, the first version of this program was able to run entirely thanks to the Stackworm.

So, Tang Yiping then spent about 8 hours modifying the program, fixing every bug that caused the bug to infiltrate.

A true programmer dares to rely entirely on their own code, without using bugs!

Who says my code is mediocre?
It can be said that this program is Tang Yiping's most proud work to date!
He decided to make some more revisions and then take it out to Brother Ze for his feedback.

No programmer is content with mediocre code!

Just like every gamer who relies on cheats, they all have a competitive spirit!

Tang Yiping made an ambitious decision: he would take back everything he had lost with his own hands!

The clothes I took off myself, one by one... cough cough cough... wrong channel.

Tang Yiping even used this software to show off a little in front of Wei Song, which fooled Wei Song so much that he thought Tang Yiping had just slapped the drink twice and taken it down.

Tang Yiping was planning to further refine the program before showing it to Wei Song, but before he could, Wei Song disappeared.

Now, Tang Yiping suddenly sensed a familiar aura.

It's Wei Song's scent.

Tang Yiping was puzzled for a few seconds.

Wait, I smell it!
what happened?

How could I smell Wei Song's scent?
Then he suddenly realized.

Because Wei Song has been forgotten.

He turned his head and looked in a certain direction.

Here!
……

At the same location, one hour later.

Shen Hong's phone rang.

"That was pretty fast." Shen Hong smiled somewhat reservedly, then answered the phone.

"Report, we have located Tang Yiping, who is in a wheelchair, and are sending the location data to you..."

"What about Touchpoint Connect and Wei Song?"

"Uh...who? Didn't you just ask us to check the surveillance footage and whereabouts of the boy in the wheelchair?"

Shen Hong: "..."

He opened his mouth as if to say something, but saw Li Tieqiang across from him shake his head slightly.

He said in a deep voice, "Alright, that's settled then."

Then he hung up the phone and looked at Li Tieqiang.

Li Tieqiang handed over the tablet in his hand.

That was from previous surveillance footage; Tang Yiping and Wei Song were standing in front of this vending machine.

However, the surveillance footage only showed Tang Yiping.

He was talking to the person opposite him, but there was no one there.

There are only two possibilities.

Wei Song does not exist.

Wei Song has disappeared from all the records.

On the surveillance footage, opposite Tang Yiping, a bottle of purified water automatically unscrewed its cap in mid-air.

"What kind of power is this...?" Shen Hong's heart was filled with turbulent emotions.

"Where is Pingzi now?" Li Tieqiang asked.

Shen Hong glanced at the coordinates, then looked behind him with a strange expression.

(End of this chapter)