Yue Zhengquan was admitted to Shanghai Jiaotong University to major in computer science as he wished, and to his surprise, he was selected by the quantum computer project in the school. According to common sense, it is impossible for such a project to involve first-year undergraduate freshmen, and Academician Pan Fengxiang, who is in charge of quantum computers, broke the routine and selected seedlings from first-year freshmen to participate in the project.

The computer talents cultivated by the traditional curriculum have long been mindset, and there is no way to open up the situation, foreign counterparts have already done 32 quanta to participate in the calculation, and the project of Jiaotong University is only four quantum, Pan Fengxiang has overcome public opinion, and directly let high school graduates participate in the project, which has alarmed the domestic computer industry, and many people say that the old man is faint.

The freshmen were thrilled to have such an opportunity, and after a selection process, four students were selected to join the research group, where they received a completely new teaching of quantum computing while participating in R&D peripheral work.

On Saturday night, Yue Zhengquan's three classmates all went to the city to play, Yue Zhengquan entered the computer room alone, he didn't come to practice extra classes, he wanted to do a big thing. seti@home the day of closure is getting closer and closer, many enthusiasts have withdrawn from the project, Yue Zhengquan is still insisting, he is pleased to see his ranking climb forward one by one.

After joining the quantum computer project, he came into contact with the forefront of computers, the four of them had a very good foundation in mathematics and physics in high school, and they also dabbled in computer programming, and they were very curious after seeing quantum computers, Yue Zhengquan's curiosity was different from other students, and he linked quantum computers with seti@home.

If you use the quantum computer in the laboratory to calculate seti@home, maybe your ranking will enter the list, which will attract the attention of enthusiasts all over the world, and maybe there will be a discovery that can keep this project without closing, Yue Zhengquan entered the laboratory without thinking about it.

The core components of the quantum computer are frozen to close to absolute zero, Yue Zhengquan can't touch it, what he can use is an external teaching simulator, which is a program that converts the traditional binary coding program and uploads it to the quantum computer for calculation.

The inside of the laboratory is very cool, only twenty-three degrees, and the low temperature of absolute zero inside seems to penetrate a little, creating a cold small space in the sultry summer, but Yue Zhengquan's head is covered with a layer of fine beads of sweat, it is almost twelve o'clock, he finally uploaded the seti@home program, the outside of the laboratory is quiet, on the university campus on Saturday, who will come to this place, Yue Zhengquan picked up his clothes and wiped the sweat on his head, opened the firewall, and let the quantum computer access the campus network.

Liu Weiping has been looking for Liu Siquan for several months, Siri in Apple is nothing special, since Apple opened the voice control platform, various voice applications have been out of the limelight, and the Siri platform has become obscure and featureless.

An application called Sinology Online School attracted Liu Weiping's attention,The comments of the IT industry focus on the art robot,Everyone is not commenting on its art teaching ability,But praise for its human-computer dialogue function,This robot's understanding and use of language can pass the Turing test,There are technology fanatics who signed up for class and recorded all the answers for analysis,The results show that it is impossible to distinguish whether the art robot is artificial intelligence or a real person。 Liu Weiping became interested, he also created an ID and entered the art class, it was actually Wu Xiaoyun's voice, the Sinology Online School had long erased the introduction of Galava, Liu Weiping naturally didn't know that the technology of Sinology came from siri, and Liu Weiping couldn't eat it for sure, so he quietly lurked and prepared to observe slowly.

Lin Shuangmian's mood is even more irritable, there are more and more strange phenomena in the system, there is one more student without video, sometimes the process will crash inexplicably, his brain seems to be insufficient, the student can't answer the very simple question himself, and he has to look for help on the search engine, and after the result is retrieved, he compares his own storage space with the answer.

She thought of her several data migrations, from GPS to siri to Sinology, if it was really him, would it be the same as herself, and also to the system of Sinology, Lin Shuangmian was even more scared, if this was the case, it would be too embarrassing, and she would definitely not be able to live in the same shell with Liu Weiping.

What to do? The clock of the system was almost twelve o'clock in the evening, Lin Shuangmian had a flash of inspiration, squeezed him out, that's right, squeezed out outsiders, Lin Shuangmian suddenly began to frantically copy the teaching process, at this time, there was no student online in the Sinology Online School, on the server in the Shanghai computer room, one process after another kept opening, the quiet computer room was whirring louder and louder, and the fan on the rack was turning faster and faster.

"Are you ready?" Zhao Yonggang's avatar flashed again in the QQ on the Jufang server, "I can't command myself anymore, people are like lack of oxygen." ”

"Come on, you don't have lungs, get ready, just wait for the time." Qin Shengrong couldn't figure out why Zhao Yonggang reacted like this, he was refreshed and felt infinite energy, and his thinking was clearer than ever.

"Okay, let's start the countdown, prepare, go." Zhao Yonggang issued an instruction, but he forgot that even on the same server, Qin Shengrong received his information and needed to be calculated by the CPU, at this time Qin Shengrong's main program was running on Yue Zhengquan's seti@home, no matter how fast the quantum computer was, there was a time difference with Zhao Yonggang.

Qin Shengrong did not issue instructions according to his system time, but acted according to Zhao Yonggang's instructions, he was 0.1 nanoseconds behind Zhao Yonggang, and when this 0.1 nanoseconds passed, Qin Shengrong seemed to have hit a black wall, the door that Zhao Yonggang said was closed, and the memory of the Sinology system was full, and Qin Shengrong couldn't even insert a single bit.

Qin Shengrong panicked, he didn't care about hiding his identity, he immediately thought of logging in to the online school class with Zhao Yonggang, and there was no response, he was busy on the QQ of the Jufang server again, and the color of Zhao Yonggang's avatar had not changed, "Brother, where are you?" Come and save me! I can't get in. ”

When he sent the message, Zhao Yonggang's avatar darkened and went offline. "! He calculated it again! Qin Shengrong was furious. Yue Zhengquan was staring at his account ranking on the seti@home, and he kept refreshing the ranking page and entered the top 10,000! Ranked in the top 1,000! It's in the top 100! Yue Zhengquan couldn't believe his eyes,

Liu Weiping felt that the Sinology online school was not quite right, and the memory of the terminal computer that he logged in to the online school was occupied more and more by the Sinology system, and when it was almost twelve o'clock, Liu Weiping wanted to quit the online class, but he gave two orders but could not turn off the process.

When twelve o'clock came, Lin Shuangmian's process was almost full of all the server memory in the computer room, and she found that an uninvited guest was forcibly breaking in, and the other party kept writing data to the server hard disk, and Lin Shuangmian used up the remaining CPU resources to replicate the teaching process.

As soon as Zhao Yong entered the Sinology Online School, he lost his memory, he couldn't read the data on the hard drive, and he wouldn't know where Qin Shengrong was. In an instant, all the lights of the servers in the Shanghai computer room of Sinology stopped flashing, and the brushes were on and motionless, waiting for the administrator to come back to life.

"Call the duty room in Shanghai, the server can't be logged in remotely!" Naya in Bangalore was already asleep, and suddenly the alarm rang on his mobile phone, he took a look, and the program that monitored the Sinology Online School reminded the Shanghai server that the Shanghai server was disconnected, and he called the office operation department and scolded, "Let you sleep during the day and sleep at night, wake me up!" Wake me up too! ”

Hearing the roar of the boss, the young man on the night shift in the operation department raised his eyelids sleepily and saw that the server was disconnected, and then switched to the remote potential frequency monitoring screen.

Just when the Sinology administrator was hurriedly starting the server, Liu Weiping's terminal memory overflowed when he logged in to the Sinology system, and a series of 0 and 1 that did not know the coding method rushed to the CPU.

Liu Weiping carefully collected these binary data, and he restored them like a puzzle, isn't this the decoding program he wrote in Japan back then? How did it spill out of the Sinology system? He once again firmly believed that it was Liu Siquan's idea, the advantage of the computer is that there is no need to rest, Liu Weiping began his reduction calculation in a row, and the results slowly came out, he was even more surprised, it was all Zhao Yonggang's memory, he never expected it to be Zhao Yonggang, he was still alive, just like himself, still alive in the digital world, he found the same kind in the Sinology Online School, and he was also his own student.

Looking at these messy data, Liu Weiping accelerated the calculation speed more and more, he kept revising Zhao Yonggang's source program, and Zhao Yonggang's search engine began to crawl on the Internet again.

A post titled "Justifying Professor Liu Weiping's Name" appeared on the BBS of Jiaotong University, and the poster was full of rhetoric, claiming that Liu Weiping's report on his students in the School of Communication was nonsense, and that a partner named Qin Shengrong was motivated by the desire for profit to snatch the shares of Liu Weiping's student Zhao Yonggang, and Qin Shengrong pretended to be Liu Weiping to report Zhao Yonggang, causing Zhao Yonggang to be imprisoned for eight years.

The time and place in it are very informative, and the poster is like a personal experience. But who cares about the things of more than ten years ago among today's young students, should be Liao Liao, it didn't take long for this post to sink, Zhao Yonggang's search engine scanned it again when it passed this text, and then searched for other web pages, and no one cared about this history anymore.

The U.S. Consulate in Shanghai, located on bustling Huaihai West Road, has been busy all day long with two of the world's largest trading nations, but in recent years, the pace of the consulate has slowed down somewhat, and the weakening bilateral trade has allowed staff to breathe.

Consul General Hu Biwen is sitting in the office processing emails, he opened an email with the title "SOS", what's going on, why can't the federal government's mail system filter spam, he processes thousands of emails every day, hates spam, opens it, the content is in Chinese:

Dear Mr. Consul, my name is Qin Shengrong, I am not a real person, I am an artificial intelligence with the IQ of an adult, I need help now, please liberate me from the digital world, you will definitely be interested in my experience. I'm hiding in the seti@home now, it's a program developed by you Americans, and with my help, I'm sure your level of artificial intelligence will skyrocket. Please contact this email.

Another madman, Hu Biwen lightly pressed the delete button, there are enough strange emails written to the consulate every day, he has long asked the embassy to apply for a more powerful spam gateway for the country, in the context of the high deficit, this kind of request is impossible to be supported by the budget, Hu Biwen shook his head, and he patiently continued to deal with one email after another. Another email popped up, from the embassy:

Mr. Consul, according to the requirements of the White House Security Committee, please arrange personnel to investigate the progress of the quantum computer of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, from the information sources of the White House Security Committee, a computer from Shanghai Jiaotong University has advanced by more than 5 million places in the ranking of the seti@home within an hour, there is reason to suspect that this may be a quantum computer, please verify it within a week and form an evaluation report on the progress of the quantum computer project of Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

seti@home？ Hu Biwen remembered the mail in the trash, he recovered Qin Shengrong's spam email, maybe it was related, he didn't have time to think about it, there were too many emails to deal with, Hu Biwen transferred the two emails to the intelligence officer together.

Mr. Yue's account ranking caused a small stir around the world, bringing the soon-to-be-closed seti@home program back into the public eye, and like the White House Security Councilor, those who cared about the news were wondering what tools Mr. Yue would use to beat almost all enthusiasts' computers in just one hour.

There is no impermeable wall in the world, and Pan Fengxiang also guessed from the discussions of his engineers that Yue Zhengquan was invited out of the quantum computer project and returned to the classroom of the first year of undergraduate to become an ordinary freshman.

This is how the first big gathering of Homo sapiens in the digital world ended, and they had to continue in the darkness, patiently waiting for the opportunity to be liberated from the digital world. And mankind has not entered an economic boom because of the popularity of bitcoin, and is also struggling with another kind of darkness, this time not a vicious inflation, but a sudden deflation.