Tony, one of ILM's special effects artists, graduated from MIT, and unlike most of his classmates, he gave up invitations from many companies in Silicon Valley to join ILM's team.

He gave up his high-paying job as a padded jacket blowing air conditioner in the eyes of others, but devoted himself to the job of a special effects artist in the sun and rain, just for his personal hobby.

His dream is to create a virtual world of his own, so when he gets the CG simplified version technology provided by Yingshuai, he is also like a treasure, and he can't extricate himself from it all day long, and his girlfriend who finally made it hard to get can't stand the cold and left.

Tony didn't pay attention to it at all, how could his girlfriend have fun with a computer.

Although the technology provided by Yingshuai is already a simplified version, it is still much ahead of the technology of this world, and Tony has been studying it for a few months, but it can only be said that he has just started.

However, he has made rapid progress in the past few days, because he has met a master.

Tony has never seen Daming's martial arts, otherwise he would definitely suspect that he is the protagonist, and he can meet a master in the world if he chats on the Internet.

"Hey, is the Phantom there?"

Tony is typing on the keyboard, this is a chat software from Daming, because the street is simple and functional, and now it has swept the whole mold country, and Tony's technology nerd naturally installed it at the first time.

Phantom World is the master he met a few days ago, many questions that have troubled him for a long time, ask Phantom World, but the other party can easily answer, and his answers are often to the point, so that Tony has a feeling of enlightenment.

"Special effects maniac, what's wrong?"

The other party happened to be online, and there was a reaction quickly.

When Tony saw the Phantom World Online, he immediately became excited, and hurriedly tapped: "I encountered a little problem today, we need to show the movements of tens of thousands of mice in our film, but we actually only have about a thousand real mice on the scene, I tried to collect the mouse action data, but once a large number of mice are made with these data, it will make people feel that the rat tide movement machinery is not smooth... ”

Tony's tapping motion was extremely fast, and soon the screen was full of dialogue, and Phantom didn't even seem to have time to answer.

Phantom said: "Wait a minute, this may involve the similarity interference problem of the multi-point matrix algorithm, I have to look at the first draft you have made to be sure." ”

"I'm sorry, I'm in a bit of a hurry. Tony realized he was speaking too quickly.

However, when he heard that the other party asked for a rough cut of the movie, he hesitated, for a film that has not yet been released and has not even started promotion, this kind of clip is top secret, if it is leaked on the Internet, the leakage of the film in advance will have too great an impact on the future box office.

And although the other party is half a teacher and half friend with him, he has not met after all, Tony is a house, but he can graduate from MIT and his IQ is also outstanding, and many thoughts have flashed in his mind in just one second.

"What's the problem?" asked Phantasm, seeing that Tony didn't answer right away.

"I'm afraid this is a little inconvenient. Tony said embarrassedly, thinking that he had troubled people for so long after all, and such a refusal was clearly distrustful of the other party.

"Hehe, I was also abrupt that this involves company secrets. "The phantom world seems to be lifeless.

Phantom World said: "In this way, I will send you a small program of matrix algorithm that I wrote, you can receive it, try to apply this model to calculate, will the effect be better." ”

"Hmm," Tony hesitated, it was easy to be poisoned by receiving an unfamiliar program, but he wanted to test the program at his own level, it shouldn't be so easy to be tricked, and he had already rejected the other party once just now, and if he refused again, he would offend this master.

"Okay, thank you then. Tony hesitated but agreed.

The program sent by the phantom world is not big, but with the current network speed of less than 5M bandwidth in the mold country, Tony still received it for more than 20 minutes before downloading it.

After finishing the program, Tony didn't dare to open it immediately, but tested it for a long time, and all indicators did not show abnormalities, so he breathed a sigh of relief.

He also had to become relaxed in his heart, which could be because there was no problem with the program, or because there was no problem with the Phantom World, or maybe both, although he and the Phantom World had never met, but he still cherished this friend Tony.

After checking that there were no problems, he installed the program from the spare computer to the work computer, and began to run the prepared rat tide clips in the new program environment.

It seems that the effect is not bad.,The sense of stuttering in the picture has been reduced a lot.,But the similarity of the rat tide action hasn't improved much.。

Tony shook his head and laughed self-deprecatingly, the other party is just a computer expert, but after all, he has not been exposed to the CG technology in his hands, if he can be pulled into ILM, it is estimated that the progress of the project will be much faster.

Thinking of this, he sent a message to the phantom world for a day, but it is estimated that the phantom world is not online, and the message sent in the past is like a mud cow entering the sea without any response.

Tony looked at the clock on the wall, and before he knew it, it was already two o'clock in the morning, and he felt tired, and he lay down on the couch and fell asleep without even taking off his clothes. For this kind of tech otaku, this kind of life is normal, working until the early hours of the morning and falling asleep.

"No matter, I'll definitely be able to see my news when the Phantom World goes online tomorrow.,Ask him if he's interested in coming.。 Tony mumbled and snored, but fell asleep.

Even if New York never sleeps, it is dormant at two or three o'clock in the morning, and there are not many lights on the street, but there is still a light shining from a window in an apartment not far from Tony's house.

"Great!" a man by the window was staring at the computer screen, flicking his fist excitedly, almost shouting.

However, he immediately realized that something was wrong, and laughed in a low voice: "I didn't expect this computer master to be so careless, but it's no wonder that after all, he graduated from the orthodox computer department of MIT, how can he understand these hacking techniques." ”

This man looks extremely ordinary, and belongs to the type that is immediately lost in the crowd.

Mu Ne's expression, slightly messy long hair, and loose clothes all show that he is also a tech nerd, but if you look closely, you will see that the confidence and strange look in the depths of his eyes seem to be different from ordinary.

The man patiently watched the progress bar on the screen and walked slowly, as if admiring a beautiful painting, as if he was completely oblivious to the maddening speed of the Internet.

Bite!

As the prompt sounded, the progress bar had already gone, the man closed the screen, put the computer into his backpack, lifted the suitcase that had been packed a long time ago, and slowly opened the door.

The moment he walked out of the door, he looked back at the almost empty room, as if he was a little reluctant.

He muttered, "The mission is complete, I won't be a hacker anymore when I get the money, it's time to go back and realize my dream!"

With that, he turned and went downstairs and disappeared into the night.