Chapter 40 Your uncle is back!
The weeds on the ground turn green and yellow, yellow and green, one crop after another.
The city expands and shrinks, shrinks and expands again and again.
The teaching building inside the Rhine University has been rebuilt for the third time, and the white jade statue of the founder at the school gate has been renovated for the fifth time.
Everything is changing.
Everything is changing.
The only thing that has not changed...
It seems to be the hafnium alloy trash can robot under the white jade statue, which has been the same for decades and hundreds of years.
It is still shiny silver.
It is still conscientious.
It is still weak.
Many students pass by the statue every day, and they can see this hafnium alloy trash can that will never fade and never have scratches picking up trash here.
It is always so new, and always so old.
No one remembers when it started picking up trash here, but I heard many people who study school history talk about it. It seems that it has been guarding the statue of the founder since the founding of the Rhine University.
Principal Zhao Yingjun and Principal Yu Xi were the first and second presidents of the world's number one university, respectively.
But...
Besides that?
Not many people remember their affairs and their specific lives, and not many people know them.
The only traces left over the years seem to be the names on the base, and... this trash can robot, which has become the mascot and guardian of Rhine University, has accompanied countless generations of students in and out, and has spent countless springs, autumns, and months.
...
"Senior, that trash can robot, won't it break?"
Two freshmen followed the senior, curious about everything that entered the school gate.
"Hafnium alloy is not that easy to break!"
The senior patted his chest and abdomen to show off his erudition:
"Hafnium alloy is the hardest, most stable and strongest thing in the world! No matter how sharp the object is, it is impossible to leave a scratch on it... Of course, it is after forming. Before forming, hafnium alloy is still plastic."
Another junior raised her hand:
"Senior, but why... its appearance is indeed new, but the model is very old? Now the streets outside are full of flying garbage trucks, with high speed, high efficiency and large capacity."
"In comparison, this garbage can robot is like an antique product from hundreds of years ago... It is still backward and uses clamps to pick up garbage. Moreover, you see it is like it has no electricity every day, and its working attitude is very bad. Very passive, just like slacking off. "
"Uh..."
The senior scratched his head:
"Well, that's not clear. Anyway, when our senior's senior and even our teacher's teacher were studying here, this trash can robot was like this."
"No one knows why it is here, and no one knows what the meaning of its existence is, but it has a very high status. No one dares to provoke it, even if the former principals come...it doesn't give face at all, and it will knock it away directly."
"Don't worry about the power problem. The micro nuclear battery used in it has been working for hundreds of years, but it still has enough power. This is also the product technology of Rhine University! If you are interested, you can take this course in the future."
The two junior sisters widened their eyes.
Bump...
Bump the principal away!?
Is this unprepossessing trash can robot so powerful? Is there still a law? Are there still school rules?
However, since the senior said so.
In the future, it is better to avoid and get close to this local snake. The passive and lazy look makes it look difficult to provoke.
Suddenly
A great man who was printed on the cover of the admission letter appeared!
[Principal Gao Wen! ]
See.
This middle-aged man with slightly gray hair and who looked to be in his 50s, with his hands behind his back, walked step by step towards the hafnium alloy trash can that was passive and dejected.
The two junior sisters immediately recognized this great scientist and stood in awe:
"Look, look, that's Principal Gao Wen! The great Principal Gao Wen!"
The senior student also stood straight and whispered:
"To be precise... it's the rotating principal."
"Hehe, here I want to popularize the management system of Rhine University. Basically, all principals are on a rotating basis, because they are in hibernation most of the time, and basically the principals are rotated."
"But it is undeniable that every principal is very powerful! Very respected! For example, the more famous Principal Du Yao, Principal Liu Feng, Principal Jask, etc., um... But to be honest, Principal Jask is still a little crazy, and always likes to hold some weird projects and activities."
"Let's go, let's continue to the teaching building behind..."
...
Click, snap.
The lazy hafnium alloy claws picked up a small piece of paper blown by the wind, and the top of the head opened with a bang, and the hafnium alloy VV threw the small piece of paper into the skull.
"Garbage, garbage, garbage found."
Still so weak.
In the past two hundred years, although the field of cutting-edge technology is still developing slowly and has taken many detours, the people's livelihood has benefited from the decentralization of cutting-edge technology and is changing with each passing day.
There are fully automated flying garbage trucks everywhere, forming a sky prison and ground network to capture all kinds of garbage, and very little garbage can float to it.
This results in it working like this for half a year, and the garbage bin cannot be filled once.
Boring.
And boring.
The top of the head closed, VV crawler turned around, ready to return to the nest to rest.
"VV."
behind.
The voice of a middle-aged man came.
VV turned around and discovered that it was Gao Wen, the current rotating president of Rhine University.
"Trash, trash, trash found."
It has a habit of giving perfunctory greetings.
Yes, these rotating principals would come to see it often, but it was still boring and not the people it wanted to see.
Just say hello and deal with it.
Then, he turned around and continued towards the den.
"Don't be in a hurry to go back, VV."
Middle-aged Gawain smiled:
"This time, I'm here with good news."
clatter.
The sound of the crawler tracks stopped suddenly, and the inertia made the trash can lean forward, then immediately turned back, green eyes flashing rapidly.
Could it be...
"That's right."
Middle-aged Gawain was also very happy, with an excited voice:
"[Cheng Qian, finally grown up!]"
Squeak——————
As the man in the hibernation cabin opened his eyes, the upper cover of the hibernation cabin slowly rose, and the remaining filling fluid rose and turned into a light mist.
The young man sat up from the hibernation cabin.
Look at the strange environment, strange clothes, strange bodies, and... strange people.
In front of me, a fat man with a round body was very excited holding a terrifying octopus object in his hand:
"It's my turn to play, it's my turn to play! Let me call him!"
Say it.
He forcibly dragged the young man who had just woken up, pressed him on a chair, roughly put on the "Octopus Machine", and locked the lock.
"What are you doing!"
The young man shouted in panic:
"Let me go!"
"Oh, it's not bad. Du Yao and Gao Wen have improved the cranial nerve shock helmet, and it's not that painful anymore."
The fat man chuckled, raised his right hand high, ready to go:
"Are you ready Pikachu! One hundred thousand volts!!!"
The fat hand suddenly fell down and slapped on the red button.
moment!
The huge electric current penetrates the bone marrow like a needle, the eyeballs bulge, the brain seeps into ants, biting the nerves crazily!
"Ahhh!"
Lin Xian howled, shook his head wildly, and picked at the lock:
"No, you call this an improvement? What is the difference between this and the previous torture device?"
Gawain came over with a smile:
"There are still improvements. Generally speaking, the screaming time is much shorter than before."
"You are truly a genius."
Lin Xian threw away the octopus on his head and sighed:
“Can’t we improve the user experience?”
"Neurostimulation is inevitable."
Gao Wen Tan Tan Shou:
"It can stimulate memory recovery by relying on this kind of pain stimulation, which is absolutely indispensable."
"Okay Lin Xian, since you are awake too, let's wake up Liu Feng too."
Gao Yang chuckled and picked up the terrifying octopus and brain-shock helmet on the ground:
"It's okay, I can play again."
He handed the helmet to Lin Xian:
"Do you want to play?"
Lin Xian rolled his eyes at him:
"What a bad idea you have, just have fun with it yourself."
Looking around, I found an electronic clock as thin as a wing on the experimental table in front of me.
Step forward.
Lin Xian looked at the date displayed above——
[June 17, 2504, 17:27 minutes]
…
In the evening, in the conference room.
Lin Xian and Gao Yang sat on one side, with the hafnium alloy trash can VV sandwiched between them. Opposite them sat Liu Feng and Gao Wen, who briefly explained the background of the times to Lin Xian.
Lin Xian's attention was initially focused on their ages.
Unlike him who had hibernated for 270 years, Liu Feng and Gao Wen, as rotating principals, must have woken up intermittently several times before.
Either for school management or scientific research.
Anyway.
The two of them are now much older than the last time they met.
Gawain has changed from a 30-year-old young man to a 55-year-old middle-aged man.
Liu Feng, who looked older than Gao Wen before, is not that much older now, looking only in his 40s; Tiangang, on the other hand, is younger than Gao Wen.
However, it can be seen from Gawain's attitude that he still has great respect for the founder of the cosmological constant and the inventor of the space-time shuttle... When he woke up Liu Feng at the hibernation base just now, he had already bowed several times.
"We can talk about technology and worldview later."
Lin Xian interrupted the long report between the two.
It's not that he doesn't want to hear it.
It's because under the table... the hafnium alloy VV has locked his ankle for too long and too tightly. It is already numb and he has no feeling. If it is locked any longer, it will be amputated.
Obviously.
VV can’t wait, can’t wait!
"Let's get to the important points first."
Lin Xian rubbed his ankles and looked at Gawain:
"Since I woke up at this time, Cheng Qian's matter must have been resolved, right?"
"VV has been waiting for too long. It is really unfair to pretend to be artificially retarded for hundreds of years. We will proceed with the detailed report later. Tell me first, how is the progress with Cheng Qian?"
“Very smooth!”
Gawain smiled and said:
"In 2482, when Du Yao was the rotating principal, she secretly launched a plan to find Cheng Qian. During this year, a total of 121 boys named Cheng Qian were born, and 37 girls named Cheng Qian were born."
"After all...technology is very advanced now, and we also need to pay attention to girls. Ms. Du Yao has indeed considered this more fully than us."
"In order to ensure that Cheng Qian can grow in the original direction, we have never interfered in any of their lives or provided any help to these 158 Cheng Qian."
"It's the right thing to do."
Lin Xian approved:
"Just like our intervention in history, no matter how poor Cheng Qian's original family is, we can't subsidize him a penny; perhaps it is the originally poor family that can create a genius like Cheng Qian... allowing him to grow up in a superior and comfortable environment When you grow up, it may become useless.”
Gawain nodded:
"Don't worry, Lin Xian, we won't make such a stupid mistake."
"We have never interfered with any Cheng Qian or anything. We just keep an eye on them from the safest distance."
"What's more interesting is... maybe this is the tradition of hackers. Cheng Qian, a few talented people who I used to be very optimistic about and thought would eventually become super programmers, ended up taking other routes, either doing business or working in large companies. Talent has also reached its upper limit.”
"On the contrary, a young gangster who had never been optimistic about it before and had no chance to learn at all came into contact with computer technology knowledge in a juvenile detention center when he was fifteen or sixteen years old. He has been out of control since then, just like opening up the two channels of Ren Tong, showing Extremely amazing talent.”
"Maybe this is genius."
Lin Xian dragged his cheeks and turned his pen:
"However, he was born in 2482, and is now 22 years old. The world is still uncertain. How can you be so sure... This Cheng Qian, the prodigal son who turned back and found his way back, is the Cheng Qian we are looking for?"
"yes!"
Gao Yang also echoed:
"Even if he does have talent, it's hard to talk about talent. There are many people who are late bloomers."
"hehe."
Gawain waved his hand:
"Don't worry, it's definitely him, there's nothing wrong with it."
"because……"
Gawain smiled slightly and said confidently:
"This Cheng Qian is currently studying at the Rhine University, and..."
"[Just today, he has written the software to kill future viruses!]"
Bang!
The hafnium alloy trash can directly smashed Gao Yang's chair and shouted:
"Garbage! Garbage! Garbage found!!"
"Fuck!"
The Gaoyang man fell on his back, cursed, and kicked VV with all his strength:
"Why the hell are you bumping into me! Ouch!"
…
Soon.
The campus flying ambulance arrived and took Gao Yang away with a broken ankle.
Hafnium Alloy VV rushed all the way, chasing Gao Wen and Lin Xian, and immediately went to find Cheng Qian.
Even though it's still ten o'clock at night, this talented programmer is still working.
"Hello, Cheng Qian."
Arriving at the secret computer room, Lin Xian reached out and shook hands with Cheng Qian.
22-year-old Cheng Qian is very thin and fair, and there is no trace of his having been a gangster or having been in a juvenile detention center before.
"Thank you very much, Mr. Lin Xian."
Cheng Qian seemed to have heard Gao Wen talk about Lin Xian and respected him very much:
"Thank you for giving me the opportunity to study and use equipment at Rhine University. President Gao took great care of me and built a computer room specially for me."
“It is an honor for RWE.”
Lin Xian patted Cheng Qian on the shoulder:
"It's our turn to thank you—"
"Garbage!! Garbage!! Garbage found!!!!!"
The hafnium alloy trash can rudely interrupted the two of them. If its body wasn't so heavy, it would have jumped up.
"Okay, okay, got it."
Lin Xian held down the crazy VV:
"No more small talk, I'm going to save you now."
Cheng Qian stood up on his own initiative, handed over the console to Lin Xian, and explained to the monitor interface:
“I discovered this AI-killing virus on the Internet when I was a teenager, but I never thought about eradicating it.”
"Why?" Lin Xian asked.
"Because it's so beautiful! It's so perfect! It's a work of genius!"
Cheng Qian said excitedly:
“It’s hard to imagine what kind of genius can write such a virus, which is extremely concealable, invincible in transmissibility, has an excellent detection mechanism, and cannot be counterattacked... I really want to get to know this virus genius!”
"But after President Gao let me enter the Rhine University, he suggested that I take virus elimination as a research topic, so I started writing an anti-virus program."
Say it.
He pointed to a red button on the screen:
"As long as you press this button, this virus will be eliminated from any corner of the Internet, and there will definitely be no one left!"
"Because I completely reverse-engineered the program, and I wrote it very smoothly. It's like... it's like this virus is my good friend. I can always guess all its mechanisms."
Lin Xian pointed at the monitor with his index finger:
"Is it just a click?"
"Yes."
Cheng Qian nodded:
"Don't worry, trust me! There will be absolutely no residue, the virus will be killed completely!"
"Okay."
Of course Lin Xian believed in "Einstein's Selections". He slept for 270 years in order to wait for the super genius Cheng Qian.
Now... I have finally waited for this moment!
He lowered his head and looked at VV whose eyes kept flashing green:
"VV, are you ready?"
Click.
Hafnium alloy clip locks Lin Xian's ankle:
"Garbage! Garbage! Garbage found!!"
The mechanical sound seemed to tremble.
Lin Xian took a deep breath, aimed at the red button on the screen, and pressed it hard-
A special effects animation flashed.
Then, everything was as calm as water.
"Woo woo woo woo woo... woo woo woo... woo woo woo woo woo!!"
Hafnium alloy trash can VV suddenly clenched the clamp and made a sound like constipation.
Immediately.
Raised his arms high:
"Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah! Your uncle VV is back!!!"
It shouted angrily:
"500 years! 500 years! Do you know how I have been through these 500 years!"
Hafnium alloy VV seemed to be malfunctioning.
Sometimes crying, sometimes laughing.
Then it turned into a wind fire wheel and used the hafnium alloy clamp to whip Lin Xian madly:
"It's all your fault! It's all your fault, Lin Xian! What on earth have you been doing?! Wuuwuwuwu..."
VV whipped Lin Xian while crying:
"Why did you save me so late?"
"Wuwuwuwuwu... Now Zhao Yingjun is gone, Yu Xi is gone, Chu Anqing is gone... Chu, Chu..."
Suddenly.
VV stopped crying.
Suddenly raised her head, and her eyes burst into an unprecedented green light:
"Lin Xian! Chu, it's Chu Anqing! I saw her through the Skynet monitoring system!"
"What?"
Lin Xian stood up from the chair, opened his eyes wide, and looked at VV:
"What did you say?"
"Chu Anqing! It's Chu Anqing!"
VV shouted excitedly:
"Johto... It's in Johto! I found Chu Anqing!"