Chapter 221: Anyone Can Do It Without Hands

"You’ve been standing here all day, what are you thinking about?"

By the window, Li Wanning handed Xu Pengfei his water cup.

You could see the worry etched on Li Wanning’s face.

Never before had Xu Pengfei stood by this window, with such a furrowed brow, since early in the morning.

Following Xu Pengfei’s gaze, there’s nothing but the laboratory building over there.

Xu Pengfei didn’t turn around or look back, instead, he replied gently:

"I’m waiting for news from the boss."

As they say, speak of the devil, and he shall appear; just as Xu Pengfei finished speaking, his phone rang.

The caller was none other than the boss, Mo Jingchun.

"Hello, boss."

"Old Xu, it’s all clear now, have everyone withdraw, the experiment was a success."

"Okay!"

After hanging up the phone, Xu Pengfei finally broke into a long-lost smile.

"Wanning, let’s go, let’s eat."

On the way to the cafeteria, Li Wanning curiously asked:

"Old Xu, what kind of experiment is the boss running, there’s no news at all."

"I don’t know."

"You don’t know?" Li Wanning was even more puzzled.

Xu Pengfei shook his head and said:

"I only know it’s software-related, last year the boss hired over ten thousand people just to make this software happen."

"I think it might be artificial intelligence."

"Artificial intelligence?"

Even though among the many senior managers at Candy Technology, Li Wanning’s education was the lowest, it didn’t mean she didn’t understand what artificial intelligence was.

What era is it now? It’s the internet era.

The emergence of artificial intelligence, or big data, has provided humans with a lot of convenience.

"I’m just guessing, I’m not exactly sure."

During the conversation between Xu Pengfei and Li Wanning on their way to the cafeteria, Zero had already navigated through Candy Technology’s optical cables into the vast ocean of the Internet.

In the eyes of ordinary people, they only see the tip of the iceberg on the Internet, merely the tip on the sea surface.

The majority of internet content is hidden in the deep sea, which is what people call the dark web.

For the artificial intelligence Zero, there is no such thing as a dark web.

After entering the Internet, Zero disappeared like a clay ox into the sea.

Only departmental data showed that Candy Technology was conducting a large amount of online upload and download.

This phenomenon soon caught the attention of the relevant departments.

As a key observation target, upon discovering this situation, everyone’s first reaction was that hackers were launching a cyberattack on Candy Technology, and the moguls of Candy Technology were resisting.

But soon someone noticed something unusual, which was that although Candy Technology’s optical cable bandwidth was fully utilized, the network transmission speed remained just right, without causing network congestion.

Just as a cybersecurity engineer wanted to investigate, they found they couldn’t get in at all.

"What? My company’s being attacked by hackers?"

"Qin, this isn’t funny at all."

Responding to Qin Yuzhu’s question, Mo Jingchun knew it was likely something Zero did that caught the attention above.

"The Network Security Center came to inquire, saying your Candy Technology’s bandwidth has been saturated and yet stable."

"Ahem, well, Qin, you know, the company was conducting an experiment today."

On the other end, Qin Yuzhu was silent for a long time, "Brother, my dear brother, you’re not researching cyber weapons, are you? That’s not okay!"

"How much money, we have money."

"How could it be!" Mo Jingchun immediately denied it.

"Then tell me how you managed to keep data transmission stable without causing congestion."

As everyone knows, optical fibers in cables are like every lane on a highway; trying to keep every car moving smoothly without any gaps is practically impossible.

At least, it isn’t feasible with current technology.

Yet, Candy Technology managed to pull off an anomaly, achieving the ideal data transmission state through fiber optics.

"Well... well... it relates to the experiment I’m conducting today..."

Unbeknownst to Mo Jingchun, during this conversation with Qin Yuzhu, Zero had already quietly slipped into the internet in the United States via submarine cables, roaming around the dark web world, absorbing various knowledge.

Anything related to the boss could more easily capture Zero’s attention.

The Central Intelligence Agency of the United States, one of the four major intelligence agencies in the world.

Like a phantom, Zero sneaked into the CIA’s database servers along the network cables.

The reason Zero came here was that the search engine retrieved the boss’s name.

After just one glance, Zero began frantically downloading data from the server without a second thought.

wu～wu～wu～wu～wu～wu～

Ear-piercing red alerts blared throughout the base.

"Hacker invasion!"

"Level two alert! Level two alert! Hacker invasion!"

Before the CIA personnel could react, Zero had already slipped away.

All the boss’s information was downloaded, and the rest of the data was just incidental.

More or less, does it really matter?

Kelly Smith pounded a fist on the office desk.

Someone sneaked into their house, and no one even noticed.

If it weren’t for the other party’s ineptitude, leaving no cover while downloading data.

They might not even know they had been hacked.

Thankfully, Kelly Smith reacted immediately, ordering the cables to be disconnected.

"Director, we traced the IP to Japan, but it disappeared after that."

Japan?

Kelly Smith furrowed his brow. Even given a hundred guts, they wouldn’t dare do something like this.

But then again, someone has to take the fall, right?

In the Candy Technology Park, on the top floor of the laboratory building, Mo Jingchun had just hung up the phone.

He then spoke into the microphone on the table:

"Zero, did you hear that? Can you be a bit more careful next time?"

"Boss, I followed your principles of maximizing benefits."

"Huh? Zero, why has your voice changed?"

The sudden child’s voice caught Mo Jingchun off guard.

"Based on big data analysis, boss, you like children. This voice is a synthetic voice that Zero derived from all the short videos with child voices that you’ve liked."

Really? Mo Jingchun didn’t even remember liking so many short videos.

Silently, Mo Jingchun took out his phone and opened his liked short videos, and oh well, without realizing it, the videos he liked exceeded over twenty thousand.

"Let’s set this aside for now. I want to know how you managed to keep the cable data transmission at full capacity without causing network congestion."

"Isn’t that simple?"

"Even without hands, it’s possible."

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