CH 111

With the help of Shi Fengyue, the navigation department restarted the experiment much faster than expected. For this reason, Yu Yi’s friend came to the security department to thank Jiang Chen.

Since Jiang Chen brought Shi Fengyue to the navigation department after lunch that day, he hadn’t seen him again. Even though Shi Fengyue stayed in the research institute for a week straight except for leaving to do the surgeries that had been booked in the hospital, Jiang Chen never ran across him. The only contact was through the text Shi Fengyue sent after finishing the laboratory affairs:

——I’m at the gate of the research institute, let’s have a meal together if you have time.

At that time, Jiang Chen happened to be processing the information that Changjiang grabbed from He Qianjian’s system, and it was almost early morning when he saw the message, and seven hours had passed since the text message was delivered. He wanted to explain something or call back, but in the end he only texted back with a few words: Sorry, just saw your text.

After waiting for a long time, Shi Fengyue still didn’t reply, and he didn’t send any texts to Jiang Chen after that. Jiang Chen didn’t have time to think about it, and was quickly distracted by the many assignments in the second semester of the third year of high school and Li De’s software upgrade.

His work at the research institute had already determined a clear direction. It now mostly involved repeated experiments and looking for loopholes to improve the software. There were other researchers in the laboratory besides Jiang Chen so he did not need to stay in the laboratory all the time. But as the person in charge of the entire project, and in order to be persuasive enough to start the next project after the success of this project, Jiang Chen had to be involved in everything himself.

Under the triple pressure of school, research institute, and Li De, Jiang Chen had been very busy since the start of school, but even so, the work of finding new loopholes in the Changjiang Defense System every night before going to bed had never fallen behind, and had even made great progress——the Changjiang Defense System was already operational. Through deep learning, it could accurately distinguish between intruders and protectors, and take countermeasures.

This point was discovered by Jiang Chen after he was attacked by the system. That day happened to be the first day back at school. Jiang Chen only stayed at school for half a day before going to Li De to discuss with Li Nanfeng’s team the upgraded version of the image recognition system, and it was past ten o’clock at night when he got home.

Yang Si and Jiang Zhuo had already fallen asleep. After Jiang Chen took a short shower, he turned on the computer to run the Changjiang Defense System as usual, but after turning it on, he did not start looking for loopholes as before, but stared at the keyboard for a while.

Before leaving the research institute yesterday, Yu Yi called him to the small conference room and asked him a very serious question: how would he allocate his time in school and the research institute after the term started.

In fact, when he chose to enter the National Research Institute in advance, he made preparations for this aspect, but at that time he did not expect that the project would go from approval to preparation to the establishment of a scientific research team so quickly. The previous plans had been disrupted so replanning was needed. There were only twenty-four hours in a day, and even if he didn’t sleep, Jiang Chen knew that he could no longer take care of school and research at the same time.

Now there were less than 100 days left before the college entrance examination. This period of time was extremely urgent for third year high school students, but for Jiang Chen who had already received a direct admission and skipped four years of university study and directly entered the research institute, this period of time held a meaning that was far more than that. This was the third year of high school life he had held regrets on, and it was also the path he must take to accompany his friends on the battlefield.

It was easy to get the answer by weighing the pros and cons, but what was involved was not only the pros and cons, but also many other things. In the choice between the two, Jiang Chen was caught in a dilemma.

While he was thinking, Changjiang issued an alarm: “Dylan, the target has established a channel and is tracking our IP and launching an attack.”

Jiang Chen regained his senses, and immediately ordered: “Open the first-level firewall.”

During this period of time, he had been working hard to capture the system’s coding. At first, he captured only minor details, and the system didn’t pay attention to them. However, after the number of confrontations increased, the system probably guessed his intentions and became more cautious and cunning. In each confrontation, the effective coding captured by Changjiang decreased again and again, and even in a certain confrontation, Changjiang caught the virus deliberately buried by the system.

Even though Jiang Chen discovered it in time, the string of viruses still allowed the system to penetrate some gaps, so the system’s attacks became more and more violent during this period, and gave the feeling that it would not rest until the person behind the scenes was found out. Fortunately, the system did not catch the flaws in the security of the Changjiang Defense System, otherwise Jiang Chen would be found sooner or later.

Just when Jiang Chen thought that there would be another fierce battle tonight, the Changjiang Defense System automatically operated, the firewall was opened to the highest level, and a counterattack began. Jiang Chen withdrew his hand from the keyboard, looking at the codes that quickly slid up in front of him, a hint of surprise flashing in his eyes.

——The Changjiang Defense System finally possessed the embryonic form of its interstellar era version.

In less than ten minutes of confrontation, the system failed. The Changjiang Defense System not only captured the system’s code, but also automatically generated a folder, saved and analyzed the captured data, stored and marked as high-risk prevention targets, and strictly prevented the system from repeating its old tricks.

But in this complete victory, Jiang Chen was not without loss. The computer equipped with the Changjiang Defense System was scrapped.

This was within Jiang Chen’s expectation. In order to ensure the successful operation of the Changjiang Defense System, he had already upgraded the computer configuration to the highest level. However, for the Changjiang Defense System, this level was far from enough. It needed a more professional server to ensure smooth operation.

In this era, no single server could fully load and maximize the functions of the Changjiang Defense System. This hardware difference could not be overcome. Jiang Chen could only use the best servers in the world’s current technology to improve the Changjiang Defense System as much as possible.

And this kind of server was only available in the country’s top research institutes.

Although the current image processing project had given Jiang Chen a certain reputation in the circle at a certain level, it was far from enough to really make them interested. It was precisely because he knew this that Jiang Chen wanted to make achievements in the image processing system as soon as possible. Only when he truly demonstrated his own strength could he have the right to speak, so that the top few could truly recognize his value and open all doors for the research on the Changjiang Defense System.

After figuring this out, Jiang Chen also made a decision.

The next morning, instead of going directly to school, he told his parents what he thought, and then went directly to the institute. That afternoon, he had already asked the school for a long leave, and he would not return to school to review until a week before the college entrance examination.

Jiang Chen’s long leave sparked heated discussions in Yan No. 1 High School. Most of the year three high school students could only envy this, and a small number of people put themselves on the moral high ground and condemned Jiang Chen: Seeing that this year’s college entrance examination science champion was about to come from Yan No. 1 High School, the teachers spent countless efforts to train Jiang Chen, but Jiang Chen asked for leave just like that, completely disregarding the honor of the school and the cultivation of his teachers.

When Shen Xu heard these words, he rushed forward with a shout, grabbed the boy who was speaking, and said condescendingly, “What did you just say? You have the balls to repeat that?”

In the past six months, Shen Xu’s stature had skyrocketed, and now he had broken through the 185cm mark. Although he still had a baby face, he was already taller than Jiang Chen and Huo Bo. So when he grabbed the boy under 175cm in this way it felt a bit like bullying the weak.

The boy was a little nervous, everyone in Yan No. 1 High School knew Shen Xu, not to mention his relationship with Jiang Chen and Huo Bo. Just his status as the president of the student union was enough to make ordinary students fearful.

“I didn’t say anything…..” The boy dared not admit it: “We were just chatting casually just now.”

“Chatting casually?” Shen Xu sneered, “Chatting casually about school honor? And even involving Jiang Chen?”

“I…..” The boy shrank his neck, “I was just talking casually…..”

Someone came over to smooth things over: “We’re all classmates in the third year of high school. There will be an exam later in the afternoon. Let’s take a step back and don’t quibble with him?”

Shen Xu let go of the boy, looked at the round-faced classmate who was trying to smooth things over, and said in a bad tone: “So you also think that Jiang Chen’s asking for leave is a disappointment to the school and a disappointment to you all?”

“No.” The round-faced classmate said: “We all have high academic pressure. Seeing that God Jiang can take a half year leave, everyone just can’t help feeling a little unbalanced, and just complained casually, so don’t take it seriously. Besides, it’s already the second semester of our third year of high school, and the college entrance examination is coming soon. If we get a demerit for fighting at this time, it would be bad for everyone, right?”

The boy and the others immediately nodded in agreement. Shen Xu saw the round-faced classmate’s indifference hidden under the playful smile, and squeezed his fists, feeling very uncomfortable, not for himself, but for Jiang Chen.

Ever since Jiang Chen asked for leave, there were not only such discussions among his classmates, but even some teachers were puzzled by his actions. Shen Xu heard that a teacher who did not teach Jiang Chen once mentioned this in his class, saying that Jiang Chen’s request for leave made the attention of the students in the third year of high school fluctuate, and it really set a bad example at the beginning of this semester. Because of this teacher’s public remarks, the matter of Jiang Chen asking for leave in the school turned from ordinary envy to persecution.

“Be careful what you say in the future.”

Shen Xu turned and left. Before he had gone far, a voice from behind floated over:

“On the next practice exam. I wonder whether it will be Chenghua or the attached secondary high school taking first place this time.”

“Probably Chenghua’s He Qianjian, I heard that he is very aggressive this semester, and studying in class and after class. He withdrew from the math competition before, so he has to fight hard in the college entrance examination.”

“If you ask me, Jiang Chen takes himself too seriously. Giving up after getting direct admission by Hua University. He Qianjian’s family background is so good but he is still sitting in the classroom obediently and attending class…..”

Shen Xu paused, turned his head and wanted to go back, but just as he moved, someone grabbed his arm. He turned his head to look: “Why are you here?”

“I didn’t see you in your classroom.” Huo Bo said lightly, “Let’s go.”

“Didn’t you hear what they said?”

Shen Xu didn’t lower his voice, and the voices of the people inside paused, and then there was the sound of footsteps leaving quickly.

“I heard.” Huo Bo glanced at the several people who ran away, his expression unchanged: “So what? You want to start a fight?”

“I…..” Shen Xu pursed his lips. He relaxed his tense muscles, rubbed his face and said, “I just don’t like what others say about Jiangzi.”

“Even if he heard it, what those people said would not affect him in any way.” Huo Bo turned around and said, “You should think about how many test papers you did when he comes back to collect the papers on the weekend.”

Shen Xu froze, quickened his pace to catch up with Huo Bo, and complained: “Jiangzi is so busy, and he still collects our test papers every week. Now whenever I see him calling on weekends I can only feel panic.”

Huo Bo sneered: “Isn’t it because you don’t hand in all the papers every time?”

“Is it my fault? There are already so many test papers to do in school every day, and I have to do Jiangzi’s test papers as well. I don’t have six hands to write with, and I have already entered the top 50 of our year. Although Hua/Yan Uni are a little far away, I can choose any other college in Yan City at will, so I can relax for a while now and then.”

“Then in the future, Jiang Chen and I are at Hua University, and you will be in the college next door?”

Shen Xu paused, kicked a stone, and said sullenly: “I just feel that the distance between us and Jiangzi is getting farther and farther. He has already entered a research institute before even entering university, and he has already determined the path he will take in the future. But me, I don’t know anything, I don’t know what I want to do. We said before that the three of us will start a company together, but now I don’t know what Jiang Chen thinks…..”

Huo Bo took out a stack of materials from his schoolbag, hooked an arm around his neck, and said with a smile, “Have a look.”

Shen Xu’s eyes fell on the cover of the document, and he was stunned for a moment: “Application form for enterprise name? Isn’t this only used when registering a company?”

Huo Bo smiled: “Think about the name of our company.”

“When did this happen?” Shen Xu was a little confused: “Why don’t I know?”

“Birthday surprise for you.” Huo Bo said: “We planned to wait until your birthday to tell you, but we decided to let you see it first because you have been thinking nonsensical things recently.”

“Registering a company…..” Shen Xu’s eyes lit up: “Will Jiangzi still start a company with us?”

“Of course.” Huo Bo stopped, handed the information to Shen Xu, and said slowly but seriously: “Since childhood, we have been walking on the same path, no matter who is faster and who is slower, the one who walks in front will stop and wait for the one behind. It was like this in the past, and it will be like this now and in the future. Now Jiangzi is going faster than us, so what we have to do is to catch up with him as much as possible and not let him wait too long.”