After the military officer finished speaking, he paused for a moment, then turned his head to look at Jiang Chen with inquiring eyes.

“Is your system intelligent enough to make decisions on its own, or have you already prepared a strategy?”

Before his words were even finished uttering, the confused red and blue teams pushed the door in. They were all soldiers who had secretly trained in this training ground that seemed to be of poor conditions, but was actually a place concentrated with the highest level of technology in the country. Being able to be selected to come here, their ability was naturally extraordinary.

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From enlisting to the present, they have never won/lost so inexplicably and felt at such a loss.

“Reporting in!” The captain of the blue team and the captain of the red team stood still at the same time, saluting uniformly, “The exercise is over, and all members of the blue team/red team have returned!”

“It’s been hard work, take a break.”

At this the two captains were no longer as serious as before. The captain of the red team couldn’t wait to ask the question that had troubled him since the beginning of the exercise: “Why did the commanding officer give inconsistent instructions? First telling us to lay in ambush, and then sending out scouts one by one. As a result, not only did the enemy’s position not be determined, but we were wiped out one by one by the enemy’s snipers. I am really suspicious of the commanding officer’s serious dereliction of duty!”

After losing in such a pathetic way, it would be difficult to raise his head in front of the blue team for a period of time in the future. The captain of the red team couldn’t swallow this down, and his temper was so hot that he was even more unwilling to suffer such dumb losses. If not for several high ranking leaders here, he would’ve even pointed at the nose of the commanding officer and launched into a fierce scolding.

The commanding officer was also very aggrieved. Just thinking about it with their brains, everyone would know that it was impossible for him to issue such terrible orders, but e had to swallow this bitterness down. In order to cope with the high-tech battles that may occur in the future, from the establishment of this covert foreign military simulation force, using the command and squad to cooperate in combat had always been the case, and the combination of the two sides made up the real team.

The commanding officers were not fixed. In addition to combat, the soldiers of the special forces must be knowledgeable of strategic deployment and military acumen, so every time they practiced command, they would rotate soldiers. In order to cooperate with each other in the most tacit way, in the exercise field and training, completely obeying the commands of the commanding officer became the first thing they kept in mind and engraved into their bones since the first day of training.

Obedience to orders was a soldier’s bounden duty, and for soldiers of the simulated troops, this condition also included the addition of obeying the orders of the commanding officer.

In any case, the red team did receive orders from the commanding officer. When the system was cut off or even given false instructions by the opponent, they were unable to fight back, which was indeed their dereliction of duty.

It turned out that Jiang Chen had no intention of actually using tactics to fight wars from the very beginning. Even if he had been in the army for a few years as a system researcher, it was like he would have also become an expert in tactical deployment. Otherwise, he would have gone to the army instead of staying in the research institute.

His initial order to the Changjiang was to use electronic warfare and cyber warfare.

After the red team commander issued the first few correct instructions, Changjiang cut off the opponent’s radio communication, making their command fail, and then pretended that everything was normal. The red team commander was still issuing instructions, but all his instructions would be intercepted by Changjiang halfway, and then sent fake instructions to the red team.

The red team acted according to the false order, and ran to the blue team’s sniper range one by one to die. The red team’s commander was shocked and angry after seeing it on the big screen, and gave the order again, but the other side still didn’t follow the order. No matter what, at this time he would finally realize that someone was playing tricks.

But even if he knew that Jiang Chen was playing tricks, the exercise was still going on, and he could only wait anxiously. And he really didn’t know if he should be thankful that the waiting time was not too long. After the red team members died one by one, even the armored vehicles which were connected to the command network automatically opened their doors, allowing the blue team to win without any effort.

The young and vigorous commander couldn’t suppress the anger in his heart, and said in a low voice, “Despicable.”

Hearing this, Jiang Chen followed the sound and saw the soldier’s still youthful face. He was slightly taken aback, but he didn’t feel sorry. It was just that he, an “old man” who had lived three lifetimes and wielded Changjiang in his hand, was competing with these soldiers who were no older than twenty-five years old. He really did feel guilty of bullying children.

He blinked and wanted to say something, but the sharp eyes of the military officer standing beside him had already swept over, looked directly at the soldier who had just spoken, and said, “Do you think that the other party is despicable just because you lose?”

The soldier didn’t expect the head of the regiment to ask a question directly, but he straightened his back, stood up and said with a stiff neck, “He cut off our system and passed on false orders. Is this not despicable?”

The military officer snorted coldly: “Go to the battlefield and ask the people in our military industry research department whether the new stealth aircraft is despicable. Whether the nuclear weapons developed by the research institute are despicable. As a soldier, if you can’t even accept the newly developed weapons, why are you still a soldier?”

These words were not insignificant, and in front of so many people, the young soldier’s red face gradually turned pale. His hands beside him were clenched into fists, shame and embarrassment alternated on his face, and he slowly lowered his head.

Jiang Chen swallowed what he wanted to say. Forget it, if they want to understand Changjiang’s method of cutting off the enemy’s communication as a weapon, it couldn’t be considered completely inaccurate.

“And you!” Jiang Chen didn’t speak, but the military officer’s lecturing did not end. His eyes swept over every soldier present, his aura serious and solemn: “Our country is developing every day, and technology and weapons are changing with each passing day. What is the purpose of this? It is to protect the peace of the motherland, and to give you more protection in battle!”

“Every minor detail on the battlefield can become the direct factors that determine success or failure. In the past, it was a bullet and a knife, but now it is the gap in military strength between the enemy and us. How can these gaps be closed? Technology and weapons! Let me ask, if one day, the system that just commanded the blue team appeared on the battlefield, and we can repel the enemy without losing a single soldier, as well as be able to defend our borders and our allies. Could it be that you will think it’s still despicable then?”

Most of the people who were caught by the military officer’s gaze lowered their heads in shame. They were only annoyed by the exercise that ended like a joke, but they didn’t think about how powerful this would be as a secret weapon if it was placed on the international war stage.

If they have the system shown in today’s exercise, they would be able to reverse control as long as the enemy used weapons connected to the computer system in the future, and most of the weapons connected to the computer system were the most powerful secret weapons of various countries.

The scene of the enemy country firing laser cannons and suddenly finding that they couldn’t activate the turret came to mind. Just thinking about it made their blood boil excitedly, and they looked at Jiang Chen——or rather the computer beside him with scorching eyes.

Jiang Chen felt the soldiers’ “enthusiastic” gazes. Not only did he not feel uncomfortable, but a little nostalgia floated in his heart. In the interstellar era, whenever a new type of weapon or mech appeared, the soldiers were also so enthusiastic and excited.

Sure enough, no matter how the times change, some enthusiasm would never change.

“Jiang——” The military officer faced Jiang Chen, but recalling that he had no official position, he changed his address to the respectful manner of address: “Mr. Jiang.”

Jiang Chen was used to this kind of address, and he didn’t feel that there was anything strange at all, and he responded readily, “Please speak your mind.”

“Let’s move to the conference room to talk, how about it?” The military officer was obviously not used to speaking like this, but facing the handsome young man in front of him, he couldn’t utter those straightforward and rough words he would use with his subordinates, and for a while, he utilized the tone that he used to speak to his old father at home.

Hearing his tone, Jiang Chen felt a little strange in his heart, but he couldn’t figure out what was so strange, so he nodded and followed behind him. 

In the meeting room, apart from the old gentleman and Professor Xiang who didn’t make a sound from the beginning to the end of the simulated battle exercise, there were also two unfamiliar old men and two middle-aged men wearing epaulets. They all seemed to be of a certain age. Even the military officers who walked side by side with Jiang Chen were definitely juniors among these people, let alone Jiang Chen.

The military officer saw clearly the people present and his pupils dilated, immediately giving a loud report.

Jiang Chen glanced politely at the few people he didn’t know but obviously had a deep background. After slightly nodding his head, he greeted the two he knew: “Grandpa Zou, Grandpa Xiang.”

Hearing Jiang Chen’s address, some people present looked slightly surprised, and turned to look at the old gentleman at the main seat.

The old gentleman didn’t seem to notice other people’s gazes, and nodded to Jiang Chen with a smile, saying with a kind tone: “Come and have seat, we’re going to have a meeting.”

Jiang Chen and the military officer sat at the same time——the conference room was not big, and there were only two seats left, and the two of them didn’t need to look much to know where to sit.

However, what surprised Jiang Chen was that his seat was actually in the second seat on the left side of the main seat, which was just below Professor Xiang.

The seats in the conference room were very particular, and even in the interstellar era, some hidden rules still exist. From Jiang Chen’s point of view, no matter how powerful his Changjiang was, it was not suitable for him to sit in such a position before he had really produced results, not to mention that he had no official position at all at this time.

But the people present seemed to think that he should sit there, and they didn’t even show a look of surprise at his sitting down. They looked at him with kindness and calmness.

“Xiao Jiang.” The old gentleman at the main seat opened his mouth and said kindly: “Talk to your grandpas about the functions of your Changjiang. The extent to which it can go and after successful research and development, how much percent of its capabilities can it maintain within the maximum radiation range.”

Jiang Chen raised his eyes. Out of the corner of his eye Professor Xiang who sat calmly beside him. He guessed that during the period just now, Professor Xiang explained alot about Changjiang to the old gentleman.

“If the bearer server is successfully developed, Changjiang can radiate to all places where signal receiving towers are built. In terms of security protection, different security levels can be set, such as civilian level and military level, as well as the level of ordinary databases and special databases. Depending on the level, the server level required for the coverage area is also different.”

After digesting the content of Jiang Chen’s words, the old gentleman asked, “Do you have a direction for server development?”

“Yes.” Jiang Chen nodded: “But I’m not a hardware engineer, so I can only provide some theories. It may take a long time from development to achievement.”

An old gentleman in a military uniform asked, “How long?”

“I can’t be sure.” Jiang Chen told the truth, he was a software engineer, no matter how good he was, he couldn’t know the hardware well. When he was in the federation, there were no less than 200 people in the Changjiang R&D Center, and the specializations were extremely clear. As the person in charge of the system, even if there were necessary debugging and discussions, he only focused on the running speed of the system, and he knew nothing about the server.

Today’s Changjiang could run on his laptop, all thanks to his excellent memory. At that time, he had seen the portable server made by the researchers of the server team for easier and clearer research. Although the process was complicated, the materials were relatively simple, so Jiang Chen remembered most of it after seeing it a lot.

But even so, this simplified version of the server was made by Jiang Chen after countless failed experiments, and once the attack and defense system was turned on, the usage time varied according to the level. For the highest level of defense and attack it could support up to 30 minutes. Fortunately, the information warfare and the exercise just now only need to be turned on to the lowest level, so Jiang Chen could use this laptop which had a shorter time support than if it was connected to a PC to go through the two information battles.

However, Jiang Chen’s answer made another old gentleman in military uniform dissatisfied.

“Isn’t this what you’re researching? You don’t even know how long it will take to develop it successfully?”

There was no need for Jiang Chen to speak, Professor Xiang replied coldly: “He only makes software, and you ask him how long it would take to make the hardware, why don’t you ask yourself, can you also dance if you know boxing? How about ballet?”

Directly asking an old man who was over sixty years old if he could dance, whether it was ballet or not, it was really a retort full of gunpowder.

However, no one in the room took offense. It was no secret that Professor Xiang and the general in front of him were at odds, but the two had quarreled from young to old, and it was just verbal smack talk.

Sure enough, the old man in military uniform just snorted coldly, as if he was too lazy to argue with him.

Seeing this, Jiang Chen continued with a slight smile, and said, “Although I can’t predict the length of the server’s research and development, it doesn’t mean that Changjiang can’t run. The simple server I’ve made can carry Changjiang for a period of time. With this simple server, I believe the scientists in the engineering department should be able to get inspiration more easily.”

In fact, the old man just now only asked habitually. He usually spoke this way to his subordinates and his children and grandchildren. So he really didn’t realize his problem when he spoke. It was only after Professor Xiang spoke up that he realized he shouldn’t be taking his big temper out on the young man in front of him.

Seeing that he obviously didn’t care about his unprofessional question just now, but explained from another perspective gently and patiently, which not only took care of his face, but also gave him a step down and shifted everyone’s focus, the old man’s good feelings towards Jiang Chen couldn’t help but increase greatly.

“Do you have any requirements for the researchers of the scientific research team?” A middle-aged man with a square face who had not said anything before looked at Jiang Chen, and his tone unconsciously revealed a bit of majesty when he spoke: “I heard that you plan to start a company to cooperate with the research institute. Where do you plan to find people for the scientific research team?”

Jiang Chen replied to the questions one by one: “I hope to personally select each collaborator. The current plan is to set up a team of twelve people a day, six of whom will specialize in servers, and the other five will work with me to further develop Changjiang. I will try my best to select researchers from the establishment of the National Research Institute and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Other researchers who contract with the company will also be hired after the national verification.”

Jiang Chen’s considerations were practically comprehensive, and he methodically explained every detail and possible concerns of the people present and calmed any concerns that they may have. Even the elderly gentleman sitting at the main seat felt that this plan was the most feasible and acceptable plan for the Institute to cooperate with a private and state-owned company.

“I heard that you are still in the third year of high school.” Wearing gold-rimmed glasses, the thin, middle-aged man had a more refined aura compared to the square faced middle aged man, and he said: “If the R&D team and project is established, can you ensure that your school studies and research can be carried out at the same time?”

Jiang Chen was asked this question more than once when he entered the Seventeenth Research Institute, and when he heard it again at this time, he still gave the same answer.

“I can handle everything well.”

The thin middle-aged man nodded and it was unclear whether he believed it or not. Instead of continuing the question, he asked, “Are you planning to go to Yan University or Hua University?” The tone was positive, without the slightest hesitation that Jiang Chen might choose other schools or fail to get into these two top 2 prestigious schools.

“Yan University, Department of Computer Science.”

A smile floated on the thin man’s face: “That’s my alma mater, your choice is good.”

There was a soft snort in his ear at this. Every time Professor Xiang thought of Jiang Chen not choosing Hua Uni’s Department of Mathematics, he was still angry, even if Jiang Chen didn’t bring it up.

Jiang Chen was a little helpless, but he had nothing to say.

The thin man continued: “If you are at Yan Uni, you can conduct research and studies at the same time. Yan Uni has always had examples of undergraduate students entering the research institute in advance to participate in research. After applying, you only need to take important exams every semester and complete the credits.”

Jiang Chen had heard of this before, but a big reason he chose Yan Uni was its basic computer courses, and he didn’t intend to just pass the exams to get a diploma. But the elder in front of him told him this clearly out of good intentions, and even if he didn’t intend to take the advice, he still thanked him.

“Yan University is not the only one that can do this. The national military school is also the same.” The old man in military uniform glanced at the thin man, and had no intention of continuing this topic. He said to Jiang Chen, “The research and development of Changjiang will become a national first-class secret. In the future, your daily necessities will be closely monitored, including your parents who will also have a dedicated security detail. Besides the researchers, you can also choose those who will protect you. I tell you this in the hope that you will be prepared, and your life may be turned upside down in the future.”

Jiang Chen had already adapted to the life of being protected at all times. Although he occasionally felt that he was not free when he was in the federation, it was this strict protection that allowed him to survive many assassinations and explicit attacks, so naturally he would not reject it.

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Hearing the old man’s seeming warning but actually a kind reminder in advance, Jiang Chen nodded: “Thank you, I will be ready.”

The old man frowned. What did he say that deserved thanks?

This kid was smart, but his personality was too soft. When he chooses his security detail, he would have to let his old subordinates insert the good youngsters under his command. He must choose people from his most elite subordinates to protect him so that everyone could be at ease.

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——Wingnet.

This keyword that could be captured almost without thinking was also a hacker website that everyone here was familiar with. Some of them could even be said to be one of the few people in the world who were most familiar with Wingnet.

Under the screen on the right, an ordinary-looking man raised his eyes, and his face, which had not shown any fluctuation of emotions even after the attack failed just now, revealed a trace of curiosity and interest.

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Some reacted calmly, while others reacted in astonishment, especially the burly man just now. Before he could even walk back to his seat, he suddenly heard a familiar website and a familiar name. He immediately stopped and ran towards Jiang Chen again.

“Bro! It’s me! Short Ruler! We know each other, don’t you remember? Last year, Japan and South Korea fought each other, and we fought side by side to stir up the chaos even more!”

Jiang Chen was still a little dazed at first, but when he heard the last part, something vaguely flashed through his mind. He blinked and said hesitantly, “H?”

“That’s right!” The big man clapped his hands, his thick black eyebrows flying in excitement, “It’s me, Short Ruler! I kept thinking your English name was familiar! We have known each other for a long time, bro…..”

“Cough cough cough!” Deputy Chief Li coughed deliberately and loudly, interrupting the big man’s words: “The next battle will start soon, you can go back and prepare first.”

The big man could only nod his head, and reluctantly said to Jiang Chen, “Don’t leave when it’s over, let’s have a good chat.”

If one ignored the tone of voice and only looked at the body size and expression of the other, it would seem like he was tough talking or throwing down a challenge.

Jiang Chen also felt a little pleasantly surprised. He thought of inviting hackers from Wingnet to join him when he was preparing to create a research team. However, the time since he registered on Wingnet was relatively short compared to those masters, and except for 196 and C, there were almost no people he knew well enough, whether it was their tempers or their skills, so this idea had never been put into action.

He had fought side by side with H before, and he knew that he was actually not good at cyber attacking methods, but in terms of security, almost no one in the entire Wingnet could match him.

In the interstellar era, the core of the protection system was no longer a firewall, but a secure network architecture built by sophisticated algorithms, which combined the advantages of almost all current and future network security tools, and could resist almost all external and internal attacks, including viruses, Trojan horses and backdoors, etc. They have long since lost the limitations of firewalls used in this era and were not only impenetrable, but also unstoppable.

Changjiang was able to resist so many hackers using various means to attack at the same time because it had already surpassed the “firewall” technology in this era. In the interstellar era, its name was “boundary”, the meaning of which was similar to that of the same concept written in the ancient myths or fantasy novels of their country. It could resist external attacks, and at the same time, it would not prevent the people inside the magical boundary from attacking the outside world. Basically being able to both attack and defend.

There was always specialization of skills in every industry so although Jiang Chen was the chief researcher of the Changjiang Research and Development Laboratory, he was better at framework and algorithms than security. The current Changjiang was developed by him alone, so it would naturally lack security. Even if, as he said, Changjiang would be the glass ceiling of information warfare within ten years. But what about another fifteen years? Twenty years? 

He could keep studying cyber security knowledge, but he had a long way to go. No matter how much time he spent on security research, he may indeed develop a more advanced security system after fifteen years. But what about the framework and algorithms? Just don’t upgrade them? Letting go of what he was good at and using a long time to make up for his shortcomings was by no means Jiang Chen’s way of doing things.

Therefore, the scientific research team he wanted to build needed programmers who were good at cyber security more than programmers who were good at framework and algorithms. And the big man known as H in front of him was one of the people he had considered.

Jiang Chen smiled and waved to the big man, changing from his previous calm but slightly distant attitude: “Let’s chat later.”

The big man was so excited that he couldn’t help stamping his feet when he got back to his seat. The people sitting next to him: …..Bro, if you stamp again, the chair will collapse.

Fortunately, the second battle started soon, and the big man immediately focused, and everyone also did the same and started defending.

Almost within ten seconds, the battle ended before it even started——every computer screen that had someone sitting in front turned into a small rotating planet. People with a good attitude also had the mood to notice that each planet was even different from the rest. If someone was interested in astronomy, they may find that most of the planets here were planets that have not yet been discovered at this time.

But losing in ten seconds, maybe even shorter, only holding on for three or two seconds and still having a good mentality, there were actually not many people who could maintain such a good mindset. Being secretly selected by the government to participate in this information war game in which dozens of hackers went up against one person/one system. There was no one here who hadn’t wondered about who could mobilize such a big show.

They had curiosity and expectations in their hearts, and they were even eager to test this person. They thought about losing and winning, but they never thought that they would lose so badly, without a hope of winning at all.

Before the start of the battle, and even now, they were not sure why the government called them here, but now they could vaguely guess that it must have something to do with the glowing planet on the screen.

A system that could integrate offense and defense, and was so powerful in both offense and defense, probably had yet to appear in the whole world.

Everyone here had different expressions, and most of them have their own guesses and ideas.

What Jiang Chen was thinking now was another matter.

The follow-up research and development of Changjiang would definitely be the highest-level confidential scientific research project in the entire country. The hackers who could appear here, whether they were in the establishment of the Cyber Security Bureau or non-staff personnel who come as foreign aid, were all screened by the state through layers of screening. They had clean backgrounds and top-notch skills, making them the most suitable programmer candidates to be selected into the scientific research team. On this point, Jiang Chen was very clear.

However, as early as the beginning of conceptualization, Jiang Chen thought that the entire team should be controlled within twelve people, of which the ones responsible for software, that is, system upgrade and follow-up development, including him and Yu Yi, would not exceed six people, while the other six would focus on research and development of a CPU that was more suitable for loading the Changjiang system.

Among these twelve people, at least three must come from his own team, which meant that the people signed to his company must account for at least a quarter of the entire research team, preferably one-third. After all, the scientific research team to be formed was not a national scientific research team, nor was it a research institute funded only by his company. Only when the core technology and interests were clearly divided, the entire team would be stronger in the future.

At present, Jiang Chen’s idea was that among the other two or three people who have signed contracts with his company, it was best to have two security personnel, and one who took care of algorithms and framework as he does, or if they just specialized in one of the two, they could also be considered, and other aspects could be discussed later.

Jiang Chen raised his eyes and looked smilingly at the burly man walking towards this side. It was as if he was dozing off and someone gave him a pillow.

However, before the big man had time to approach, Deputy Chief Li ran over in small steps and whispered in Jiang Chen’s ear, “Student Jiang, please step out with me.”

Jiang Chen turned his head to look at the burly man, raised his hand to greet him, signaling to him he would leave for a bit, and followed Deputy Chief Li to the second floor.

Before leaving the auxiliary room, Jiang Chen passed a young man wearing black-rimmed glasses. He was leaning against the wall and looking at him with a blushing face. His wide-open eyes were full of things he wanted to say. Originally, Jiang Chen wanted to ask if he knew him, but Deputy Chief Li urged him on as soon as he paused, so he could only nod to the young man and pass him by.

“Deputy Chief Li.” Jiang Chen followed him unhurriedly, and asked curiously, “Why did you call me over?”

Deputy Chief Li paused slightly, turned his head to look at the young but accomplished boy beside him, and sighed in his heart. He said in a low voice: “The higher cups above have high regards for this information war game, and there is a big leader who has been watching the game in the monitoring room, Now that it is over, I am taking you there to meet the old gentleman, don’t be nervous, you can just answer whatever he asks.”

“I see. Thank you, Deputy Chief Li.”

Jiang Chen remained calm on the surface, but in his heart he was guessing who this person would be. Deputy Chief Li’s position was not low, and the status of the person who could make him so respectful and careful to be called a “big leader” must not be low. A few figures that he often saw on TV flashed through his mind, but he couldn’t guess who it might be in the end, and could only follow Deputy Chief Li in speeding up the pace.

“Knock knock knock——”

The voice inside the door was deep and majestic: “Please come in.”

Deputy Chief Li straightened the hem of his striped T-shirt, gave Jiang Chen a comforting look, opened the door and stepped in first. Jiang Chen followed closely behind, and finally saw the two old men standing inside. Even though he had been prepared, he still couldn’t help being stunned for a moment.

He had guessed many people, and it was undeniable that this person also appeared in his guesses, but yesterday’s news was still the image of him sitting in the White House shaking hands with the president of the United States, so just when this guess came to mind the possibility was ruled out almost immediately. After all, apart from the itinerary, Jiang Chen didn’t think that the project in his hands would have the opportunity to be inspected by the busy old gentleman before him before it was officially launched.

However, no matter how unbelievable it was, he had to believe that the kindly smiling old man in front of him was really standing here.

“Child.” The old gentleman with a gentle but dignified smile waved to him, “Are you Jiang Chen? I saw the system you designed just now, and it’s indeed very powerful.”

Jiang Chen restrained his emotions, walked up to the old man, and said politely and respectfully, “Premier Zou…..”

The old gentleman waved his hand and said with a smile, “You can just call me Grandpa. Today, Grandpa Zou was pulled over by an old friend to see the kid he admired. And indeed you are quite extraordinary.”

Jiang Chen wasn’t too surprised. In fact, when he saw Professor Xiang standing with the old man in front of him, he guessed the reason why the busy old gentleman would appear here——Professor Xiang said that he would give him a gift.

This gift could no longer be described as simply just precious. Jiang Chen could only bury his gratitude in his heart and savor this warmth and caring heart carefully.

“Grandpa Zou.” Jiang Chen changed his form of address readily. After a brief surprise, he quickly recovered his usual calmness. He had a calm expression, and with a peaceful and calm smile in his eyes, he asked, “Do you mind if I introduce you to Changjiang?”

“Changjiang?” The old gentleman was surprised for a moment, then laughed loudly: “A good name.”

Jiang Chen smiled and thanked him, and spoke unhurriedly, using the two information battles just now to briefly introduce Changjiang’s offensive and defensive systems in a way that laymen could understand, and by the way, mixed in a lot of his own views, such as the future development trend of the Internet and the importance of information security.

After the old gentleman listened carefully, his tone was kind, but his eyes were sharp and dignified: “If information warfare will be the main method of future wars, do you think Changjiang can have a place in it?”

Jiang Chen responded calmly: “The development of the Internet is changing faster than any other industry, but the deep learning algorithm owned by Changjiang can guarantee that it will always be one step or even ten steps faster. If Changjiang’s coding can be perfected and a server that can load Change lamb’s system is developed, then Changjiang will not just have a spot, but take over most of the global territory.”

Surprise floated in the eyes of the old gentleman. For so many years, few people could speak so openly in front of him. However, compared with the boldness of the young man, he cared more about his clean and clear eyes and the steadiness that could only be obtained after polishing and experience. Even if he had seen countless people, it was extremely difficult for him to find a few existences whose temperament could match the boy in front of him.

“I heard that you once said that Changing can not only win the information war, but also have an advantage on the real battlefield.”

Jiang Chen nodded: “Yes.”

“Has the time for the military exercise been decided?”

“Not yet.”

The old gentleman smiled slightly and said, “Then how about now?”

Jiang Chen was slightly stunned, but quickly replied: “No problem.”

After the old gentleman’s order was issued, the execution speed was astonishingly fast. When Jiang Chen and Professor Xiang drove together to the military area hidden in the deep forest in the next province, there were already military officers leading a team to greet them. He helped Professor Xiang get out of the car, and with a quick look, he could tell at a glance that the soldiers in front of him were not simple, at least they should be part of the special forces.

The soldier standing at the front saluted and talked to the old gentleman from a distance. Jiang Chen could only tell from his epaulets that his rank was not low, but he couldn’t tell anything else.

Jiang Chen and Professor Xiang stood in place, looking at the people talking in front of them, waiting for the next order, only to see the head soldier suddenly nod and beckon a soldier to step out from the troops behind. He bowed his head and said something to the soldier and the dark-skinned soldier ran towards this side.

The soldier saluted, and after introducing himself, he said to Jiang Chen with a serious face: “We have prepared the things you need, just follow me.”

Jiang Chen glanced at Professor Xiang. Professor Xiang looked around and said, “I’ll be there later, you can go with him first.”

“Pay attention to your steps.”

This place was located next to a deep mountain. The road was covered in mud and rocks. Even at the gate of the military area, it was not so smooth. Prpfessor Xiang was old, and Jiang Chen was still a little worried.

“Walk slowly, don’t fall.”

“Am I the old man or are you the old man? Long-winded!”

Professor Xiang waved his hands, then put his hands behind his back, and strolled forward.

Jiang Chen smiled helplessly, and left with the dark-skinned soldier.

“Do you have a satellite network here?” Jiang Chen walked behind the soldier and asked while looking at the surrounding environment.

The soldier nodded sternly: “Yes, there are satellite TVs and satellite phones. They are not allowed to be used at ordinary times. You can set aside time every week to call your family.”

Jiang Chen didn’t intend to ask about this but hearing him say this, he couldn’t help but think of the days when he was in the research institute of the Imperial Military Department.

It was an independent and primitive planet, with almost no modern equipment. Although they were researchers, except for their daily routines, the living conditions and the rules and regulations they need to abide by were almost the same as those of the army stationed there. Due to the confidential nature of military training, the entire planet was shielded from all signals most of the time.

Whenever a fixed communication day came, most of the researchers and soldiers would be elated for a long time, but at that time Jiang Chen had no relatives, and his only friend was also in the same research institute, so there was almost nothing to worry about on this front, so every month on this day, he would find a place to have a meal alone, missing his family from his previous life.

Later, Liao Zhe discovered his secret base somehow, and he was never able to return to his lonely peace.

It had been nearly two years since he returned to his original world. He had parents and friends here, and he had not thought of the people and things in his last life for a long time. Now he suddenly returned to a place where the environment was not similar, but the feeling was the same. So he couldn’t help thinking of people who hadn’t thought of for a long time.

Jiang Chen was immersed in his memories and didn’t pay attention to his surroundings. He didn’t come back to his senses until the soldier spoke. He stood at the bottom of the steps, looked into the building where the wall was peeling off, and couldn’t help hesitating: “Is this the training base?”

The soldier nodded, walked in first, and said as he led the way, “It’s inside.”

Jiang Chen followed behind him, looking at this computer room, which was no different from an ordinary office and was in fact even more dilapidated. Several ordinary computers were randomly placed on the table, and although the screens were wiped clean, the yellowish shell on the bulky body betrayed the painstaking cleaning.

Going further inside, there was another computer room, which was no different from the one outside. After passing through five computer rooms, the soldier stopped in front of a door, which looked the same as the previous ones. But Jiang Cheek keenly noticed that the key hole of this door was not the same.

Sure enough, the soldier gently turned the lock, and there were two clicks, revealing the combination lock inside. He entered the combination skillfully, and the green-painted door clicked open.

“This is…..”

The high-tech equipment in front of him contrasted sharply with the dilapidated computer room outside. Looking at the huge electronic screen in front of him, Jiang Chen was slightly startled. In the interstellar age, because he stayed in the military research institute of the empire for a long time, he had some knowledge of the military strength and modern military equipment of each country before the interstellar migration, but most of the information was lost at that time, including the strategic situation of each country, so in truth he did not know too much.

At least, according to the information he saw at the time, their country in 2005 should not have such advanced technology.

“The preparations were done in a hurry, so we could only pull two teams to do the exercise for the time being.”

Behind Jiang Chen, a loud voice approached along with the sound of footsteps. The military officer who had been talking to the old gentleman came over and pointed to every detail on the giant screen to explain to him: “Each team has sixteen people, that is the equipment vehicle, two for each team, the weapons are…..”

Jiang Chen was listening carefully, and asked a few questions related to weapons from time to time. The military officer saw that everything he asked was on point, and asked in surprise, “Do you usually like to watch military channels?”

“Somewhat interested.” Jiang Chen smiled. He didn’t say that his database contained information on most of the existing weapons from various countries in the world. Although the secret research could not be loaded into the database, most of the weapons used in this exercise were already available. He knew that there was going to be a military exercise, so he would naturally do his homework in advance.

The military officer nodded and didn’t say any more. He waited until a  soldier came to report, and then said to Jiang Chen, “Are you ready? The blue team will be under your command. What you have to do is let the blue team operate under the command of your system to win against the red team.”

Jiang Chen turned on the computer and loaded the data: “We’re ready.”

At the same time as these words fell, a red flare was shot into the air, and the two teams on the practice field were also ready to go.

Both sides were the elites of the army, and had likely been in many actual combats as well, but this was their first time for such an exercise. They have been fighting under the direction of a commander for the past year, so even if the commander connected to the headset was said to be artificial intelligence, there was no need to adapt and get used to it.

The red team attacked fiercely, and soon drove the only armored vehicle to attack this side. At the same time, other soldiers were also hiding, outflanking or sniping.

However, the blue team hadn’t received an order for a long time. The captain stood there, frowning. He wanted to give orders to command his own soldiers, but his duty as a soldier forced him to obey the orders from above. Now that the orders hadn’t been issued, he could only wait.

Suddenly, a voice came from the headset, “All take cover and conceal yourselves in the three o’clock direction, sniper on the ready, and the rest will wait.”

The captain of the blue team raised his hand and immediately acted according to the instructions. They had just laid in ambush in the designated building when they saw members of the red team moving not far away.

“Sniper, attack.”

The sniper aimed at the members of the red team, and with one shot, the red team lost one member. Just as the sniper was about to wait, another member of the red team appeared soon. The sniper reacted quickly and pressed the trigger at the same time as the headset voice appeared.

“Snipe all opponents you see.”

Bang, bang, bang…..

The members of the blue team looked at each other, completely unaware of what was going on with the red team. They had already sniped five people on their side, and they supposedly knew that someone was ambushing and sniping here, so why did people keep running into their shooting range?

Except for the sniper, the rest of them hardly needed to do anything, and half of the opponent had already been lost.

However, what was even more weird was that the red team members seemed to be half-bewitched, running out one by one. Although their movements were very vigilant and covert, they all had experience in actual combat, and the blue team had occupied the best line of sight. No matter how cautious the red team was, they still fell one after another.

After a while, the red team only had two armored vehicles left.

The blue team captain frowned, and couldn’t help whispering, “What are they doing?”

The headset sent an order again: “Except for the sniper, all the troops are dispatched to capture the enemy alive.”

The captain had been waiting inexplicably, and immediately waved his hand and led the team downstairs. He thought it would be an offensive and defensive battle against the sturdy armored vehicle. But unexpectedly, as soon as they got down, the door of the armored vehicle opened automatically. Both sides stared at each other, obviously not realizing this situation. Although the two sides reacted quickly, the blue team had the numerical advantage and captured the red team with almost no effort.

The personnel on one side either died or were captured. The exercise ended unprecedentedly quickly, and the whole process made people feel at a loss. The captain of the blue team and the captain of the red team looked at each other and walked quickly to the exercise room.

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In the exercise room at this time, the people watching the battle were also dumbfounded.

The commander of the red team wanted to curse, but he could only grit his teeth and bear it when he thought about who was watching the battle.

Only the military officer who had been standing by Jiang Chen’s side was thoughtful: “It’s actually possible to fight like this.”

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“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?”

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