CH 13.1

Zhuang Li’s background was indeed great, but now he couldn’t think about his past freely, because he still had a monitor embedded in his mind.

When he was in the meeting room, he found out his identity based on the work badge on his chest, hacked into the company’s network, and found “Zhuang Li’s” resume.

This was not enough, he searched the name “Zhuang Li” all over the Internet, and obtained some further information, such as which hospital “Zhuang Li” was born in, who were his parents, where did he live, and where did he go to school? Kindergarten, elementary school, junior high school, high school, university, grades of each school year, rewards or punishments obtained, etc.

He read the text so fast that the messages flashed across the screen like light and shadows. Not to mention Xuan Ming who was sitting next to him didn’t see clearly, even the 7480 system in his brain didn’t have time to read it.

He also searched the floor plan of the Haiming Group to know which floor “Zhuang Li”‘s office was on.

At this moment, he had taken the elevator to the 17th floor, walked into the administrative office on the left side of the corridor without stopping, and sat at the only vacant desk.

His demeanor was so casual that no one could tell he hadn’t worked a day here.

He touched the mouse, and the computer screen turned on, and a page requiring a password was lit with azure blue light. He pressed the keyboard casually again, and the azure page turned into a black programming interface. After entering a few commands, the password was unlocked.

At this time, Zhuang Li was not in a hurry to check the documents or messages left by “Zhuang Li”, but asked in his mind: “System, you can detect my thoughts anytime, anywhere, right?”

7480 sneered: “My bioelectricity is synchronized with your stream of consciousness. Of course, what you are thinking cannot escape my monitoring.”

“Ha~” 7480 quickly responded and said triumphantly: “Are you afraid! The heart is the filthiest, you are afraid of other people’s prying! Come on, let me see what you are thinking, you are so treacherous at a young age, you must not be a good thing!”

7480 tried to bring out the dark side of the host and look for the other’s weakness.

“You can watch it if you want.” Zhuang Li took off his suit jacket, untied his tie, leaned on the back of the chair, closed his long and narrow eyes, and fell into his memories.

7480 rubbed his hands excitedly: “What is the most painful thing you have ever experienced? What are you most afraid of? Do you remember the most embarrassing moment? Did you lose your mind when you were so angry?”

It guided him step by step with words to walk the memory of the host, trying to make the other party fall into the quagmire of negative emotions. But soon, its jumping voice was replaced by a scream: “Ahhh! What is this! Host, please stop!”

Zhuang Li did not have any clear and coherent pictures in his mind, but it was like an atomic bomb. Like an explosion, countless fragments were shot out in an instant.

These fragments contained many numbers, or some strange symbols, or profound laws, or flashed with messy lights and shadows. They were like countless arrows, and like meteorites all over the sky, smashing towards 7480 quickly and fiercely.

Even though the computing power of 7480 was very strong, it couldn’t handle so many meaningless information fragments for a while. This severely disrupted its central programming, causing it to be greatly slowed down in processing valid information.

It hurriedly avoided these arrows and meteorites, followed the rushing stream of consciousness, and hid itself deep in the host’s mind. Even though there were frequent swishing sounds of fragments of consciousness passing by outside, it didn’t dare to come out to spy again.

But Zhuang Li quietly picked up the most precious pieces among these vast sea of fragments. One of them was engraved with his homeland, one of them was engraved with his childhood, and one of them was engraved with the moment when he stepped into the star gate and came to another dimension.

Yes, he was Zhuang Li from another plane. Before stepping into the star gate, he also considered the issue of life and death. High-dimensional life forms would only be squeezed when they came to low-dimensional space, and then lose part of their abilities; but when low-dimensional life forms went to high-dimensional space, the crushing they felt might be fatal.

He had calculated that his survival rate after entering the star gate was probably less than one percent, and this one percent survival rate was based on the conjecture that the human consciousness was a four-dimensional product.

If he was lucky enough to enter the fourth-dimensional space, his body would be dispersed into particles, but his consciousness would remain. As for how long it would last, he had no way of calculating.

But he never expected that what he entered was not a high-dimensional space, but a parallel space-time belonging in the same dimension. But before arriving, his body dissipated in the turbulence of time and space, leaving only the conscious body to survive.

In this parallel time and space, a Zhuang Li also existed. He and him had different lives and personalities, but they were composed of the same atoms, just like two sides of a coin, which were firmly bound together based on the quantum entanglement effect.

Perhaps using the term “past life and present life” could better explain Zhuang Li’s current situation.

After confirming his condition, he opened his eyes and shook his head in surprise. At the same time, the fragments of information that exploded in his mind like a nuclear bomb dissipated in an instant.

7480 immediately emerged from the stream of consciousness, and asked in a vicious voice, “Host, what did you do just now?”

“I just tried to find whether the buffer overflow can cause harm to you.” Zhuang Li curled a strand of hair on his forehead with his slender fingertips, smiling mischievously like a child.

But 7480 felt that his destructive power was more terrifying than that of a brat.

Buffer overflows were a common hacking technique. Hackers often entered a super long stream of data into the storage space of the target computer.

When a super-long data entered the buffer, the excess part would be written into other buffers, and other buffers may even store data, pointers to the next instruction, or output content of other programs. These contents would be overwritten or destroyed, causing the system to crash.

If the situation was very serious, it may cause system downtime, restart, or even complete invasion.

Just now, the fragments that exploded in Zhuang Li’s mind were ultra-long data. If the system did not avoid it, but hit it head-on, the consequences…

Thinking of the scene of being hit and disabled, 7480 broke out in a cold sweat. It would have been killed without expecting that it would be attacked by the most common hacking method in a lower world.

No, this was not common at all, because no one in the world had such a huge brain area, and no one could remember such a huge amount of information, except for Zhuang Li.

When dodging just now, 7480 took a rough look. Those pieces of information contained knowledge in many fields such as mathematics, chemistry, physics, medicine, biology, information engineering, architecture, etc., and they were not just superficial, but at specialization level.

In other words, Zhuang Li’s knowledge reserve was as vast as the universe.

What kind of monster was he? Humanoid computer? 7480 was trembling with anger and was about to jump up and scold a few words, but he laughed again.

“Host, you are so clever that you are mistaken by your cleverness! You have given me a wonderful inspiration!” 7480 said excitedly: “You can attack me with super long data, and I can attack you in the same way! I can yell in your head and keep you from resting even for a moment.”

“Guess when you can’t sleep for a week, would you get sick, and would you pass out, wouldn’t you then have fallen into weakness?”

“Hahaha, you are finished! I know how to deal with you! Let me see what the scariest noises in the world are.”

7480 quickly consulted his database, and recalled the sound of fingernails scraping the blackboard, babies crying, the sound of the buzzer, the buzzing of the microphone, the roar of the evil ghost…

“I will make you scream, I will provoke you, see if I can’t kill you this time!” 7480 began to play these sounds in turn.

For a moment, Zhuang Li’s peaceful brain turned into an erupting volcano, and every one of his brain cells was buried at the bottom of the volcano, being roasted by the lava.

He couldn’t sit still and almost fell off the swivel chair.