At noon, the fat man came to have another meal, of course he still had an excuse, this time the excuse was to take Xiao Yuan to see Zhu Mingcheng in the afternoon.

After eating, Xiao Yuan and Tang Sa went to Zhu Mingcheng's residence under the leadership of the fat man. When he arrived, Zhu Mingcheng was already waiting for them, and after sending the fat man away, he took them to the research institute on the negative twelfth floor.

Xiao Yuan's brain repair was in Researcher Brown's research room on the negative twelfth floor, so he and Tang Sa had been here once every two days before, and they were quite familiar with the environment here, but when they walked again in this quiet all-white channel where there was no sound other than breathing and footsteps, their hearts were still a little depressed.

Xiao Yuan remembered Kester, but he didn't know if he was on this floor, so he turned his head to look at Tang Sa, but found that her big bright eyes were staring at him, so he curled the corners of his mouth at her and reached out to hold her hand.

After turning a corner in the passage, Zhu Mingcheng led him to a gate, where Xiao Yuan recognized Researcher Brown also working. After the identity was confirmed, the door opened, and inside was another relatively short passage, next to Researcher Brown's research room, Zhu Mingcheng opened a door and walked in with Xiao Yuan and Tang Sa.

Inside the door is a suite, in addition to a larger workshop, there is a relatively small lounge, the color of the workshop is still predominantly white, and a large desk is placed inside, on either side of the desk are two workstations, each with two computers, in addition to the desk, there is also a set of devices similar to the brainwave connection helmet in the game room.

"This is the office I prepared for you, you can come here to work in the future, I checked Tang Sa's file and found that she is still a doctor, enough to be qualified to be your assistant, so the job position here is for her." Zhu Mingcheng introduced.

"Thank you, Elder Zhu." Xiao Yuan said.

"You're welcome, you're my research assistant, and your achievements are equivalent to mine, so from this point of view, I still have your light." Zhu Mingcheng said.

"Do you have anything else to explain?" Xiao Yuan asked again.

"After you turn on the computer, there will be a prompt on it to help you register an account in the central system of the base, and create a working directory, in your working directory there will be a guide subdirectory, which contains some files, and all the precautions are in those files." Zhu Mingcheng said.

"Okay, I'll see it then." Xiao Yuan said.

"In addition, in view of the special nature of your brainwaves, there is a set of brainwave access devices specially prepared for you, through which you can access the base center system through brainwaves, and realize all the operations that can be achieved through the computer, and the specific operation instructions will also be given when you access it for the first time, you don't have to worry." Zhu Mingcheng pointed to the brainwave access device and said.

"Is the brainwave access device just a replacement for the computer here?" Xiao Yuan asked.

"It's definitely not exactly the same, what are the differences, there will be more details after you access it." Zhu Mingcheng said.

Next, Zhu Mingcheng said some other precautions to Xiao Yuan, but did not say how to carry out the work, when Xiao Yuan asked him, he got a somewhat surprising answer.

"You're familiar with the environment now, and you're probably going to stay here for decades in the future, so you don't have to rush the work."

"Do we want to collect our identity information?" Xiao Yuan remembered the matter of collecting certification information in the training area in the morning, so he asked, as for the statement that he has worked here for decades, he completely ignored it, because he never thought that he would stay here for the rest of his life, and firmly believed that sooner or later he would go out of here.

"Didn't you already collect this morning?" Zhu Mingcheng asked rhetorically.

"Well, I thought there was a separate certification and training area here." Xiao Yuan said.

"Except for some special areas, the identity information in the general area is shared." Zhu Mingcheng said.

"Special area?" Xiao Yuan was a little curious, originally he thought that the negative twelfth floor was already a very special area, but judging from Zhu Mingcheng's words, this was just an ordinary area.

"You'll know when you should know, but not now." Zhu Mingcheng replied, and after speaking, he explained the last point, "The different doors in the outermost passage belong to different types of work areas, and the studios in the gate belong to the same work area, and the researchers in the same work area can communicate freely, but the researchers between different areas are not allowed to communicate with each other without authorization, and they are not allowed to enter at will, otherwise they will be severely punished, you must be careful, there have been people who have died because of this before, and I don't want you to be one of them." ”

After sending Zhu Mingcheng away, only Tang Sa and Xiao Yuan remained in their research room.

"Things are a little different from what I imagined." Xiao Yuan sat next to his computer and said to Tang Sa, who was sitting opposite him.

"It's not what I imagined, when Zhu Mingcheng found you yesterday, he was very interested in the model you came up with, but this time he didn't mention the model, assigned the research room, and didn't even mention the research task, which is a little strange." Tang Sa said.

"Whatever, if you come, you will be safe, Zhu Mingcheng is right, no matter what you want to do, you must first familiarize yourself with the environment, and you can't do anything if you are not familiar with the environment." Xiao Yuan said, turning on the computer in front of him as he spoke.

"What kind of operating system is this?" The computer was quickly booted up, and Xiao Yuan found that the system environment was a little unfamiliar, completely different from the operating system he had seen before, so he said in surprise.

"I don't know, I haven't seen it either." Tang Sa said that when Xiao Yuan turned on the computer, she also turned on her computer.

"Let's follow the prompts first, maybe it's just a shell we haven't seen before, and you can't see what the kernel is from the shell." Xiao Yuan said, at this time, the screen screen changed, and a setting guide appeared on it.

"Assistant Researcher Xiao Yuan, please follow the tips below to configure your user environment." The welcome message on the blue-green setting guide on a black background with a bit of sci-fi effect turned out to be Chinese, which made Xiao Yuan even more surprised, and just as he was about to speak, he heard Tang Sa giggle.

"What's wrong?" Xiao Yuan asked.

"Assistant Assistant Researcher Tang Sa, please follow the tips below to accompany your user environment, haha, Assistant Assistant Researcher, this title is really funny." Tang Sa said.

"Maybe it's computer-generated, but it would be more appropriate to call it an assistant researcher." Xiao Yuan said.

Next, the two chatted while configuring their computers according to the setup guidelines, in fact, there are not many things that can be configured, the username is their respective names, all they need to do is set the login password, and then select some software in a list of optional software, that's all.

"There are too few things that can be configured, and there are not many software options to choose from, except for some algorithm simulation software, there is not even a usable programming environment." Xiao Yuan said with some disappointment.

"In fact, it is understandable that Zhu Mingcheng set up this research room for you to do algorithm design, which should belong to basic research, and there are programmable scripts in the algorithm simulation software, which is enough." Tang Sa said.

"Programming in a scripting language in a simulated environment is always a bit of a scratching shoe, which is very unpleasant, and the system gives us too little permission." Xiao Yuan said that for hackers like him, who have become accustomed to using super privileges to control computers, this highly restricted environment feels like a cage for him, making him feel unbearable and have an urge to break the cage.

"Now we are not familiar with the environment, let's put up with it for the time being, and when we are familiar with the environment, we may be able to get more permissions." Tang Sa persuaded him.

"I know." Xiao Yuan said that he is not a reckless person, and he knows very well that it is very unwise and dangerous to take the liberty of cracking it without being familiar with the environment and without mastering the means of self-preservation.

After setting up, Xiao Yuan found the working directory on his computer, found a guide subdirectory in it, found some text files after entering, opened them and read them, and felt disappointed again, because these files only reiterated the limited permissions he used in the system, and introduced in more detail the use of the system and some of the tools that come with it.

"Maybe it's different if you use a brainwave connection to enter the system." Xiao Yuan temporarily gave up his research on computer systems and stood up from his desk.

"Xiao Yuan, what are you going to do?" Tang Sa raised his head and asked.

"I'll try brainwave access and see what new things I find." Xiao Yuan said, walking towards the brainwave connection device in the workshop.