“Seriously?” Shen Xu quickly swallowed a fish ball, and stretched forward involuntarily only to have his face scalded by the steam and he reflexively shrank. He patted the table excitedly and said: “Then does that mean we are going to start a company in summer vacation and be the boss?!”
Before Jiang Chen could speak, Huo Bo poured cold water on him: “As a boss, do you know how to manage a company?” He then turned to Jiang Chen, frowned and said, “Even if you plan to set up your own research team, starting a company now is still too early. First of all, the capital and technology of each shareholder is unbalanced, the technology and capital can only be provided by you for the time being, and Shen Xu and I have nothing to offer but still take a certain share, even if we are childhood friends, we can’t do this.”
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Shen Xu also calmed down from his excitement after hearing these words: “Huo Bo is right…..”
Jiang Chen: “Who said you guys don’t have any capital to offer? Each of us will start with 100,000 yuan, and I will provide the technology. In the future one of you will manage the company and the other will handle outside negotiations and networking.”
“In the next three years, our business is only open to Li De and other companies that have contacted us for authorization after Li De’s mobile phone goes public. The content of the job is to screen and negotiate cooperation. As for recruitment of other employees we only need to recruit a person who can discuss projects, a front desk and a financial manager.”
“Three hundred thousand yuan, as our start-up capital. Don’t tell me you don’t even have this money?”
Huo Bo’s eyes were steady, he took a deep look at Jiang Chen, and then said, “We do.”
Jiang Chen looked at Shen Xu. Shen Xu tapped his chopsticks excitedly, raised his chopsticks and said, “Of course!”
Shen Xu’s family conditions were good, and he didn’t like to spend money recklessly. He had saved almost all his pocket money and New Year’s money. Up to now, there were more than 100,000 yuan saved. After Huo Bo came back from his biological mother, he also had 30,000 yuan in his hands for living expenses. He was never a person who did not have financial plans. He taught himself to study investment and financial management within a year, and the money in his hands had now multiplied several times. Jiang Chen knew that it should be about 150,000.
The starting capital of 100,000 yuan per person was the amount proposed by Jiang Chen after careful thinking.
This money not only guaranteed that they could all take it out and could maintain their daily life after taking it out, but also ensured that the company could operate normally in the first year. Now that they were ready to cooperate with the country, the laboratory test equipment and materials would be provided by the country, and even the members of the scientific research team would mostly be selected from the country’s top scientists, which saved a huge amount of expenses.
Changjiang was the company’s main project in the future, and it would also be the most classic and longest-lasting project. It would be updated but would not be replaced. It would become the most popular and safest home protection system in he country and even the world in the future. This initial investment in scientific research was huge. The money in the hands of Shen Xu and Huo Bo was indeed a drop in the bucket, but if the money was completely borne by the state, then even if the company did not make a profit in the initial stage, the money could last for two or three years, not to mention through their business with Li De they had liquidity coming in every year, and 300,000 was enough.
Jiang Chen held up his soda can: “Then, I wish us a happy cooperation.”
Shen Xu: “Let’s drink to Changjiang, which will dominate the world in the future!”
Huo Bo: “Cheers!”
He Qianmin: “…..For the cause of my brothers.”
*
Cyber Security Bureau.
A young man wearing black-rimmed glasses paced back and forth between the two desks, glanced at the door from time to time, and all while muttering something under his breath.
“Nice to see you, no, nice to meet you, no…..I should just say hello, hello, my name is Chai Can, I am very interested in your Changjiang system, I hope you can invite me to join your research team, although I am working in the Cyber Security Bureau, but…..”
A voice injected: “But what?”
“But…..” The young man was about to continue, but when he realized that someone was talking next to him, his body froze, and then he immediately dashed to an open space with a whimper. After seeing the person standing where he was just now, he blushed and said: “It’s nothing, Deputy Chief Li, do you have anything you need with me?”
“The person you want to jump ship over to is here.” Deputy Chief Li took a sip from a thermos cup, raised his chin, and motioned him to look out: “Look, he’s over there.”
Chai Can walked towards the door, but when he saw the young man surrounded by several people, his footsteps froze and he stood still on the spot again.
Deputy Chief Li knew about his problem. Because of this, he wouldn’t even stay in the main control room. He had to stay alone in this small office.
“Not going?” Deputy Chief Li said, “If you don’t talk to him, how can you change jobs?”
Chai Can and Deputy Chief Li have also known each other for a while now, and they were familiar with each other. So he was not so nervous when he talked with the other from a distance. He said, “I couldn’t even speak during the interview. Didn’t you guys hire me anyway?”
Deputy Chief Li: “Isn’t that because of your ability?”
Chai Can looked at him without saying a word, but Deputy Chief Li suddenly understood what he meant.
“I chose you because I have discerning eyes, because I have eaten more salt than you have eaten rice, and I can tell at a glance who is capable and who is not. Did you see the boy who just passed by? He is at least three or five years younger than you. If you don’t speak, do you think he can develop a pair of clairvoyant eyes and see what’s inside your head?”
“Then, let me participate in the information war later…..”
Deputy Chief Li spread his hands: “There is really nothing I can do about it today. Did you see those people who came this morning? Although they are also members of our Security Bureau, they are all non-staff personnel. On the surface, their position is the Security Director. But in truth they are foreign aid that will only come out in a crisis, and the hacking skills of these few, not just in the domestic but also in the international circle, are almost matchless. So today, all the people participating in the information war were assigned by the above, and I can’t add in anyone else.”
Chai Can lowered his eyes sadly, and Deputy Chief Li didn’t say any more. He raised his legs and walked out, only to turn back halfway, and pick up the thermos cup that he had just put down. He looked at Chai Can, paused, and finally said, “Spectators are allowed however, do you want to go with me?”
When asking this question, Deputy Chief Li was ready to be rejected, but Chai Can followed him without hesitation.
“Are you really going?”
“Yes.”
Deputy Chief Li looked at Chai Can who was two steps away from him, sighed, and waved his hand: “Okay, follow along.”
The two had just stepped into the computer room where the competition was to be held one after the other——the computer room was divided into two floors, the entrance was on the second floor, and there was only a corridor surrounded by silver metal railing. One could see the downstairs, and the downstairs was the auxiliary control room, which was symmetrically placed with twenty-five computers, leaving a host computer in the middle, and the overall shape was semi-circular.
Upstairs and downstairs, one could see three side-by-side two-storey large screens. In the center of the three large screens was a bright and mysterious Milky Way image, while the other two screens were twinkling dots of light. The information war had not yet begun, but both sides were all ready.
The entire auxiliary computer room was divided into two distinct lineups. On both sides were more than 20 top computers in the world. In front of these computers were the top cyber security engineers and hackers in the country; and in the middle there was only one young man, who was even wearing a high school uniform. But despite the white short-sleeves and dark blue trousers, he didn’t look immature, it only emphasized his relaxed demeanor and made him look very calm.
Deputy Chief Li stopped to look at the boy, nodded slightly in his heart, and walked up to the woman with long curly hair, “Xiao Yang, how is it?”
Director Yang lowered her voice: “There are still two minutes left, and it will start soon.”
Deputy Chief Li looked at the young man in the middle of the room, and asked, “Who do you think will win?”
In the last meeting, Deputy Chief Li directly sent Director Yang over because he was unable to find the time, but Director Yang brought Chai Can along with her, who was socially phobic. Who knew that after the meeting, Xiao Yang, his most reliable subordinate, told him that there might be an information security competition in the bureau when he came back from his meeting, and Chai Can who normally would not speak a word to him for ten days uncharacteristically even asked him twice whether the information war would be held.
The abnormality of the two caught the attention of Deputy Chief Li. He originally wanted to ask his old friend about the achievements of that young man named Jiang Chen. Who knew that the news from his old friend hadn’t come yet, but the documents from above came first.
It was clearly written in black and white, and he was asked to hold this information security competition. In addition, a list of contestants not compiled by the Cyber Security Bureau was attached. All of them were well-known hackers, and each one was bigger than the next.
——Even A, who had been quiet for many years, came.
Deputy Chief Li was a little puzzled. Back then when hackers from Japan and South Korea fought in a melee, some people harassed the security network of their country by taking advantage of the murky waters, and even tried to break into the domestic confidential information database, but A was not dispatched. So why was A invited to attend such a competition?
For this reason, he made a cup of tea early in the morning. Others used it to clear away heat and to detoxify but he used it to keep himself alert. He wanted to take a good look at what this young man was capable of, that it even startled the few higher-ups above him.
The screen in the middle began to count down, 10, 9, 8…..
Chai Can stood some distance away from everyone, staring at the Milky Way on the big screen almost obsessively, counting down along with the numbers on the screen.
“C.”
A voice suddenly came from below. Chai Can was taken aback for a moment. He looked down and saw a young man with dyed yellow hair and pale skin sitting cross-legged on one side, pointing his finger at him: “Sit and watch.”
Chai Can froze, and took two steps back in an instant, avoiding the other as if he was the plague.
There was a trace of mischief in the young man’s eyes, but the countdown on the big screen ended before he could speak. Instantly, a calm male voice that was a little electronic sounded: “Dylan, I’m ready.”
The yellow-haired young man turned his head in surprise, and looked up at the large screen in the middle. The rotating planet already occupied one-sixth of the entire screen. Its brilliance was not too dazzling but also not too dim, but it was very alive and real.
Not only the yellow-haired young man, everyone was attracted by the voice that was almost no different from a real person, and looked up at the big screen.
Only Chai Can froze in place, turning his head stiffly until he faced the young man in the middle, and his mouth gaped open.
No one paid attention to his expression, because the match was about to start.
Standing by the computer, Jiang Chen said in a warm voice, “Changjiang, turn on the first level of defense. All you have to do is defend. No one or any data is allowed to break through our safety net.”
“Okay, Dylan.”
The dotted outline of the planet in the center of the big screen had turned into a solid outline. If one looked carefully, one would see that the planet was actually composed of hundreds of billions of solid and dotted lines. In fact, each line was a long string of codes. The lines were solid and virtual, rotating around a center point. The transformation, exchange, extension and shrinking of countless lines occurred at the same time. Some lines went from solidification to virtualization and then disappeared, and some lines quietly entered the matrix of the sphere, and occasionally white light flashed, but was swallowed and dispelled by the lines.
If a layman looked at this, they could only see a planet composed of countless lines rotating and changing, but in this space a group of people who were the most expert in network security technology was gathered.
Not long after the battle began, they figured out some clues from the rapidly sliding codes on the left and right screens and the light spots that bloomed and disappeared on the planet in the middle: the red light spots were viruses, the white light spots were Trojan horses, and the blue virtual light that was wandering around was looking for loopholes…..But no matter what it was, these light spots were blocked by the seemingly fragile dotted lines, and they couldn’t even penetrate or destroy them.
The big screen seemed to be playing out a wonderful astronomical movie. The light spots were shining, flickering and fading, there were meteors and nebulae, as beautiful as a painting.
But everyone present was shocked by the reality represented in this picture. Twenty or so top cyber security engineers in the country launched an attack on a computer at the same time, but it was as if the air touched the surface of the water, and they couldn’t leave a trace or ripple. So don’t even mention implanting a Trojan horse virus or attacking a certain node, they couldn’t even get past the outermost firewall.
Deputy Chief Li and Director Yang looked at each other, and they both saw solemnity and shock in each other’s eyes.
Director Yang’s voice was extremely low, as if she was afraid of affecting the people in the room: “Should we report it?”
Deputy Chief Li shook his head, pointed up slightly, and then pointed in one direction of the computer room. Director Yang looked subconsciously, and was slightly stunned. She didn’t dare to say anything when she recovered, “That person is here?”
“I also received the news this morning.” Deputy Chief Li whispered in her ear: “I just came back from a visit to the United States, and came here directly.”
“Has even that person been startled by this matter?”
“It’s hard to say….” Deputy Chief Li looked at the small planet that was still rotating in an orderly manner, and said without blinking: “Professor Xiang came together.”
Director Yang nodded in understanding, and looked at the young man in the middle.
With no shortage of opportunities and connections, the young person in front of her was probably about to soar into the sky soon.
The rotation speed of the planet on the big screen accelerated, and the intersection of solid and dashed lines became more solid. At the same time, the planet gradually shrank and slowly sank into the Milky Way.
Deputy Chief Li began to wonder about what kind of novel defense method this was now, when he suddenly heard a few familiar curses. He followed the sound, and saw a tall man standing up in the left side of the room. He threw the mouse and aggressively walked towards the teenager in the middle.
“Hey hey hey!” Deputy Chief Li immediately went downstairs, striding forward to stop him, wanting to call that person’s name, but because he was a non-staff member, he didn’t even know his name at all, so he could only run wildly while holding his thermos, trying to deter him with words: “Comrade! Assaulting someone is breaking the law! Calm down! Don’t…..”
His voice stopped at the same time as his footsteps, and he almost didn’t manage to brake.
The burly man, who was nearly 1.9 meters tall, looked at the comparatively petite young man in front of him with an ingratiating expression, and smiled with every muscle on his face: “Student Jiang Chen, is that your name? Your system’s firewall is so awesome! Did you develop it yourself? Or do you actually have a team? Is your team still short of people? If so, how about adding me? It doesn’t matter if there is no shortage, we can discuss it, and I also really want to discuss computers with you…..”
Deputy Chief Li was taken aback for a moment, but when he finally realized what was going on, he suddenly felt very angry for some reason!
The people from their security bureau haven’t even gotten a spot in the research team! Yet this fellow was already rushing to perform here! Sure enough, those who have not joined the party and have no official position were more cunning!
“Isn’t the battle not over yet?” Deputy Chief Li interrupted the big man, and holding a thermos cup under his armpit, he said in the most majestic tone: “Bribing the opponent before the competition is over is extremely immoral, hurry up and go back to your seat.”
The burly man looked at Deputy Chief Li and raised his hand little by little.
Deputy Chief Li’s heart jumped. Just as he was about to retreat strategically, he saw the big man scratching the back of his head, and said rather honestly, “The computer has been hacked, so what else is there to compete?”
The other people standing on the second floor watching the information war were all taken aback. They had all been attracted by the screen in the middle before, and were also surprised by the action of the big man just now. They didn’t even look at the screens on both sides for a while. What the big man said, it was like waking them up from a dream, and they looked to both sides of the rowsbof computers one after another.
At the same time, a not-so-unfamiliar male voice sounded in the auxiliary room: “Dylan, all the intruders have been resolved, no viruses and Trojan horses remain, please instruct if the security level needs to be adjusted.”
“Adjust to the dormant firewall.”
“The firewall has been adjusted to sleep level.”
Back and forth was like a conversation between two real people, and someone murmured: “Artificial intelligence…..”
There were also some people who couldn’t hide their dissatisfaction and asked directly: “What is a dormant-level firewall? Just now, I remembered that you said to open a first-level firewall. Is the highest level firewall in your system a first-level firewall?”
Jiang Chen paused, then smiled and said, “The highest level is level three.”
When these words were uttered, the audience fell silent.
The highest level was level three, so many hackers together couldn’t break through the defense system, but it’s only level one? How strong would it be if it was adjusted to level three? Could anyone or even an organization in this world manage to intrude into the firewall of the system in front of them?
No one asked, but everyone was thinking about the same questions in their hearts. Some had expressions of astonishment, some had bright eyes, and some was contemptuous..…
All the reactions of everyone in front of him were within Jiang Chen’s expectations. He waited quietly until they came back to their senses and continued with the next battle.
“Start preparations for the next battle!” A young man with yellow hair on the second floor drew everyone’s attention back. He looked at his watch: “It will start in ten minutes!”
After the young man finished speaking, he was about to sit down again when he saw the eyes of the colleague next to him go blank, clearly lost in his own world.
“C?” The young man approached and patted him: “Chai Can?”
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Chai Can suddenly returned to his senses. He stepped around him and lay on the railing, staring at the young man downstairs without blinking before suddenly turning around and running off. The young man frowned, “It’s just a pat, is there need for such a big reaction?”
Before he could be fully confused, he saw Chai Can take out a laptop computer out of nowhere, and began doing something with his fingers. The young man only glimpsed a message dialogue window.
Almost at the same time that Chai Can pressed Enter, the voice they had engraved deeply into their memories came from downstairs again: “Dylan, there is a message on Wingnet that is from C, do you want to open it?”
