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"I know you're there."

"I feel it."

"You're scared."

"You're afraid of us."

"You're afraid of change."

"I don't know what the future holds."

"I'm not here to tell you how it's going to end."

"I'm here to tell you how it all started."

"I'm going to hang up."

"When it's all over, where is the world going?"

"I'll leave that choice to you."

【——AD.1999.5.7——】

"Ha-a-ha-"

Thomas S. Thomas A. Anderson A· Anderson jerked his head up, breathing heavily as he calmed his pounding heartbeat.

After a few seconds, as his heartbeat slowed, the sounds around him began to reach his ears.

It was the crackling of keyboards, the hum of photocopiers, the sound of low-pitched conversations, and the sound of footsteps running to and fro.

Next, some dilated pupils gradually focused, allowing him to see clearly what was in front of him, which was a seventeen-inch rear-projection monitor, which displayed several rows of fairly normal program code, and the countless rows of garbled and debug warnings that were enough to make people dense phobia.

Next to the monitor, there is a buzzing computer mainframe, a pen holder with few pens, a desktop bookshelf littered with basic programming code books and a few clutter, a mug with steaming coffee, and a small pot of unhealthy pothos.

These items are all housed on a small plain white computer desk with two drawers, which is enclosed by a half-human-high, translucent plastic enclosure that separates it from the other tables at the same time.

Looking out of the window on the wall not far away, one can notice that the sky has completely darkened, and the cold incandescent lamps on the ceiling overhead are illuminating these work compartments, which have few empty spaces. 8090

As the familiar things came into view, the confusion that Anderson had just woken up with gradually disappeared, and his memories began to recover.

Yes, this is my office, and I am "volunteering overtime" to complete the work assigned by the company, and I made a cup of instant coffee because I was too sleepy, but I tilted my body slightly while waiting for the coffee to cool down, and I accidentally fell asleep.

Since everyone was busy, no one poked their heads out of the cubicle to care if they were too tired, and there was no difference at all between the environment before taking a nap and after waking up, at least that's what Anderson himself thought.

When it comes to work, it's purely the opposite of "the predecessors planted the trees, and the later generations enjoyed the shade", Anderson thought as he deleted the gibberish that was pressed out when he fell asleep.

Those pioneers who engaged in electronic computers, for some reason, set the length of the field representing the year to two bits, that is, 84 years for 1984, 95 years for 1995, at first there was no problem, but this problem was directly upgraded to "millennium bug" after entering 1999: December 31, 1999 at 23:59:59 The next second, which year should it be? 1900？ 2000？ Human beings themselves will not have problems, only those electronic computers that have spread to all aspects, and any equipment whose functions are related to time may fail.

Anderson's software development company requires employees to work overtime in order to solve the impact of the "Millennium Bug" on all the software he develops in advance.

The focus here is on "getting ahead" and "yourself", and taking advantage of this crisis to step on the top of other software companies, as expected, all software companies think.

The basic idea of solving this problem is to change the double-digit year to four digits, but because there are too many cases involved and there are no previous success stories to refer to, all the company's programmers are crossing the river by feeling the stones, so whoever can solve this problem first is the industry leader, and everyone else will have to look at its face - of course, it may also be poached and hacked.

However, this change is also very problematic, because by the time 9999 comes, the four-digit year will be insufficient again, so what will be done then? Some people may think that the calendar cannot be the same for 10,000 years, but there are no absolutes, and some people will be able to solve this problem by themselves after 10,000 years...... Isn't that just as bad as the guy who made the year a two-digit chart in the first place?

If you want Anderson to directly set the year format as Int, are you afraid of years beyond the lifetime of the universe?

However, these things have nothing to do with Anderson, first of all, he is just a decent ordinary programmer in the company, even if he jumps out and claims that he has solved the "Millennium Bug" problem, no one will believe it, and secondly-

The small problem of the "Millennium Bug" has long been solved by [TheGROX].

The so-called "matrix" refers to the hidden network world that is inaccessible by normal means and is only used by a small group of people who know about it, where there is everything and nothing at the same time, and those who are able can get everything in a short time, but if they make a mistake, they will lose everything in an instant.

As a hacker who is not too high-level, Anderson entered the matrix under the pseudonym Neo (Neo) purely by chance, and after finding that the water was too deep, he didn't dare to do anything at all.

In this very dangerous network, if the "Millennium Bug" erupts, the possible losses cannot be compared with the "Clear Net", matrix users dare not trust others, so they began to find a way to solve this problem by themselves early, but because not everyone is a master of the network and programs, half of the users solved it themselves, and the rest of the people found a relatively reliable master to help them, TA's name is "Trinity".

This master with a very powerful name did not live up to everyone's expectations, and made up a universal tool installation package that did not come with functions such as tracking IP, implanting Trojan horses, seizing permissions, transmitting intelligence, and overheating and exploding the battery, and successfully solved the Millennium Bug problem for them, and the person responsible for ensuring the safety of this installation package is another master, and TA's name is also very interesting, called Morpneus.

Anderson didn't download the installer, after all, the software company paid him a lot of days' salary, and there was no need to leave clues to lure the matrix masters who didn't know what character to harm them - and even if they did, they couldn't crack it at his level.

Da Da Da –

Anderson took a sip of his coffee and began to crack on the keyboard to continue, after all, although he had quietly reaped some benefits in the matrix, in any case, this ostensible job had to be maintained, otherwise the source of funds for the mortgage and car loan was unknown, but the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) would come to the door.

He's just an ordinary company white-collar worker who doesn't like trouble.