Did the world end today?

Chapter 298 Hello, World (It's the 15th! Requesting monthly votes!)
Is dimensional ascension just a scam?
Lin Xu wanted to ask more questions, but at this point, his consciousness was no longer under his control.

His vision went black, and when he opened his eyes again, he was back in his office.

Silently repeating Yu Changwen's last words, Lin Xu quickly sat down at the table and wrote down the clue.

Yu Changwen said that dimensional ascension was a scam, but he remained skeptical. He didn't agree with the claim from the beginning; he only asked the question after hearing about the "failed dimensional ascension" from himself.

This proves that someone had raised this point with him, and that person was most likely not from within the error-correction team.

Not from within the ranks of those who correct errors, yet opposing their plans, and even bluntly stating that dimensional ascension is a lie?

Who could this person be?
Or rather, where would this message come from?
Lin Xu frowned, and after thinking for a moment, he finally shook his head and gave up.

No clues.

This thing, like the information Aishwarya obtained from Yu Changwen's personality, is completely sourceless and independent information.

Analyzing this kind of information is pointless and will only add unnecessary burden to yourself.

It would be better to first record the document that Jiang Xingye deduced in the bracelet world!

Lin Xu quickly wrote down the negative energy-fusion synergistic reaction equation in his notebook, and then recorded the approximate composition and synthesis method of the so-called "CKC" Casimir-Klein crystal material.

This time, however, he didn't upload the document directly. Instead, he sent a message to Jiang Xingye, calling her to his office first.

Jiang Xingye's eyes were bloodshot by this time, clearly the result of staring at the screen all day.

Lin Xu didn't even have time to feel sorry for her; instead, he pushed the notebook directly in front of her and said:
"Come on, take a look at this."

Jiang Xingye rubbed her temples, looking slightly tired, and sat down in the chair. Lin Xu stood behind her and reached out to massage her neck and shoulders.

"Ouch, be gentle, don't rub it so hard it causes a brain hemorrhage."

"Do I really have that much strength?"

Jiang Xingye ignored Lin Xu, stared intently at the formula on the paper for several minutes, and finally shook his head, saying:

"No, I can't see anything more."

"What I mean is, I'm very familiar with this. I know where this formula comes from, and I know it should be like this."

"However, I can't deduce anything more."

"This is probably the limit of the information I can receive—if all information can be derived from me, what's the point of having butterflies?"

Also.

Jiang Xingye is indeed undergoing some changes at this stage, but the "magnitude" of these changes cannot exceed the objective laws.

Information storage and transmission have their limits; after all, she is just a flesh-and-blood being, not a supercomputer.

Being able to roughly deduce the core information based on clues is already impressive enough; it would be even better if one could go further.
Even I find it unbelievable.

"Then let's just leave it alone."

Lin Xu nodded slightly and replied:

"I'll upload the document in a bit and let the expert panel analyze it."

"According to what you said in the bracelet world, with the research on higher dimensions already underway, the technical threshold for this thing should not be high, but the manufacturing process is relatively complex."

"They should be able to deduce the specific manufacturing method. Shall we go eat first?"

"Let's go."

Jiang Xingye stood up, then suddenly turned his eyes and walked behind Lin Xu.

"Carry me on your back!"

As she spoke, she jumped onto Lin Xu's back.

Lin Xu quickly grabbed her leg, and the two of them almost fell to the ground.

"Are you really going?"

Lin Xu asked with ill intent:
"sure?"

Seeing that he was about to reach the door, Jiang Xingye panicked a little.

"No, no, no, put me down! Put me down!"

Lin Xu clung tightly to Jiang Xingye's leg and refused to let go. The two were playfully fighting when a sudden knock came from outside the door.

"Bang bang--"

Jiang Xingye jumped off Lin Xu's back in an instant.

Lin Xu coughed and reached out to open the door.

At that moment, standing outside the door was Qin Feng, with a mysterious smile on his face.

"What's wrong with your cough?"

Qin Feng looked Lin Xu up and down, then said:

"Well, it's nothing serious."

"Nine Chapters No. 3 has officially passed testing and is now able to perform most of the functions of a traditional computer."

"Based on the information you previously provided, this computer is undergoing its first external functional experiment."

"I was wondering if you'd like to take a look?"

???

You think this is no big deal?
Lin Xu stared at Qin Feng in disbelief.

Nine-Chapter Computer! Quantum Computer! Capable of most functions of traditional computers!

Ready to conduct functional testing!
Do you know what this means?
You're telling me this isn't a big deal?

This is the cornerstone of future unmanned productivity. If miniaturization technology of quantum communication can be added later, all unmanned machines in the world can be controlled by a single "brain".

If this isn't a big deal, then what is?
"where?"

Lin Xu asked impatiently.

"Let's go to the conference room. We can remotely access the testing process." Qin Feng led the two towards the conference room, and as they walked, he quietly leaned close to Lin Xu's ear and said with a hint of teasing:

"Engineer Lin, you still need to exercise restraint."

Lin Xu rolled her eyes at him irritably and ignored him.

At this moment, the conference room door was wide open, and everyone who had remotely joined the meeting was already on high alert.

Lin Xu sat down in his seat, and all eyes were on him.

He took a deep breath and began to speak:
"Begin the test."

Meanwhile, inside the main control room of Chapter 9, Unit 3.

The breath of lab technician Fan Ming condensed into fine white frost behind his anti-static mask.

His fingertips hovered above the physically isolated keyboard, like a pilgrim about to knock on the gates of heaven.

The screen displays only a single, simple instruction, yet it carries immense weight.

SEARCH_TARGET: BOX_NO=7, IDENTIFIER=π, READ_QUESTIONE, RESPONE_MESSAGE.

This line of code has been on the screen for over an hour.

Simply press the Enter key and it will be executed immediately.

The only reason we've waited until now is that one crucial person hasn't arrived yet.

To be honest, Fan Ming was getting a little impatient.

From initial tension to later anxiety, and now to relief, in just one hour, he seemed to have undergone a test akin to "refining one's heart in the mortal world."

He was completely calm, so calm that his fingers didn't tremble at all when he heard the command.

"Begin the test."

The order was given, and within a second, Fan Ming pressed the Enter key with a resolute and decisive action.

It was as if he simply wanted to change careers.

But the moment he pressed the Enter key, the "history of human intelligence development" also changed a line.

The command was injected into the quantum core through the optical fiber. Instantly, the originally disordered and flickering light spots deep inside Chapter 9-3 seemed to be moved by an invisible hand, and suddenly accelerated their leap.

The specter of entangled states rushes through the superconducting circuit, crashing into the logical dam built by classical algorithms.

A faint humming sound indicates that the cooling system is running at full speed.

On the monitoring screen, white execution logs cascaded down like a waterfall.

Fan Ming stared nervously at the logs, though he couldn't actually see anything clearly, but he dared not look away.

He was terrified that if he looked away, a red log entry would pop up.

That would mean the complete failure of this experiment.

But what he feared did not happen.

As Chapter 9-3 begins operation, a robot powered by a traditional computing unit is slowly moving.

Several boxes were placed in front of the robot, and each box had a handwritten label attached to it.

The image recognition system identifies each label and then parses the text on the label into "0-1" codes that can be understood by the computer system.

These codes were not processed on the robot's local chip, but were instead sent directly back to Chapter 9-3.

This is the most crucial part of the test.

Testing the collaborative performance of quantum computers with traditional intelligent systems.

If the experiment succeeds, it will mean that a comprehensive intelligent and automated strategy based on quantum computing has taken its first step.

The robot's mechanical arm was trembling slightly, and Fan Ming's fingers also began to tremble.

He saw on the monitor screen that the robot had reached the designated box, and the label he had handwritten on the box was clearly visible under the light.

π.

This is the identification mark he designed for this robot.

Chapter 9-3 needs to determine whether this identifier matches the command identifier before proceeding to the next step.

He had originally thought that the still immature Nine Chapters would get stuck at this step.

But in reality, the robot's movements did not stop at all.

Almost the instant the image recognition system read the information of "π", it extended its robotic arm, removed the box, and then opened it.

There was a card in the box.

The robotic arm then gripped the card and held it up in front of the camera.

Another round of image recognition was conducted, and the information on the card was transmitted to the Nine Chapters No. 3 system.

The text was instantly displayed on the monitor screen. Fan Ming turned his head and glanced at it; the dialog box had already opened automatically.

"Hello, Jiuzhang."

This is a greeting he wrote himself.

If all goes well, Chapter 9-3 will respond to the greeting according to the pre-set program and the natural language model of "limited intelligence".

The search for the box and the note tested the lower limit of Chapter 9-3, while this response is testing its current upper limit.

Fan Ming's heart began to pound violently.

He knew that whatever response Chapter 9-3 made next would be the first message the "new intelligent era" would send to humanity.

He took a deep breath, suppressing his heart which was pounding wildly, and looked at the screen.
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At that very moment, Chapter 9-3 made its response.

There were only four words on the screen.

"Hello World."

(End of this chapter)