CH 185 Unique Scenery
Translated by The BL Muse (ko-fi)
As Shi Fengyue expected, even if it was an emergency meeting, it would still be delayed in places it had been in the past, and there would be a lot of quarrels. Representatives from various countries were fighting for their own country's interests, either debating gracefully or grabbing the microphone and arguing with red faces. In short, they only got to the point on the afternoon of the second day.
Why was it half a day ahead of schedule? Because DTW appeared again. It cracked the weapons arsenal of all countries participating in the joint conference except that of their country, and tampered with the data to let an anti-submarine aircraft of country A drop two bombs in the air while flying over a canyon famous for its scenery. There were no human casualties, but many wild protected animals were injured or killed.
This explosion caused a stir in the United Nations General Assembly, and also successfully caused country A to point its finger at their country again. The reason was very simple: something had happened to our country, but only you remain unaffected. Do you yourself believe that you are innocent?
Their representative replied calmly: I believe it.
Behind him, a stranger who was attending the meeting for the first time came forward, holding a laptop in his hand. After asking for the chairman's permission, he turned on the projector. Everyone was confused, but soon a record of the DTW system's attack on their country since May of this year appeared on the screen. Including weapons depots, almost all political and military bases, including important research institutes, had been attacked.
This was filtered information. All the addresses shown here were the addresses already made known by the country. However, the representatives of various countries know very well that their country would not present only one piece of information. Sure enough, the next second, the screen flashed, and a record of the DTW system attempting to invade a certain research institute's intranet to obtain important laboratory secrets appeared at the top of the screen. Immediately afterwards, the attack process of each base research institute was arranged neatly from left to right, top to bottom, as if it had all been captured under surveillance.
Representatives from various countries who did not understand computers could only see lines of code jumping rapidly in dozens of frames. When combined together, it was almost blinding. However, the unfamiliar faces following them all changed from their previous bored expressions and widened their eyes. Some people even grabbed pen and paper from the hands of representatives from other countries, doing calculations quickly and muttering under their breaths. The fanatical expressions on their faces caused those representatives from other countries who had quarreled with their respective representatives during the last two days to reluctantly give up taking back the pen and paper. These people didn't seem to be in a normal state of mind, it wouldn't do to break out in a brawl over just a pen and piece of paper.
After complaining secretly to themselves, they consciously felt that they had regained the calmness and elegance they had before a sudden hand snatched away their pen and paper a minute ago and caused them to jump up in fright and almost fall off their chair. They straightened the hem of their suits and sat down with chin raised slightly.
"So beautiful!"
Before their butt even touched the chair, they were startled once again by a loud shout next to them. Just as they became angry and prepared to speak out, they found that the shout came from an expert in the computer field of their country. At present, those well-known in the computer field were either his students or his students’ students. In short, he was not an existence that he could express his discontent with.
"Genius! This is definitely genius!"
"I have never seen such beautiful coding."
“They must be an artist and definitely the sexiest person in the world. If I were fifty years younger, they would definitely be the lover of my dreams."
The seventy-year-old old professor with gray streaked blond hair showed such an intoxicated look on his face, the representative found it a bit ugly to look at. He honestly couldn't understand how someone who he had never met before and didn't even know the age or sex of could become his sexy dream lover. Even if didn't plan to ask his wife for her opinion, he had to at least ask the dream lover themself whether they were willing or not, right?
However, this professor was not the only one who was swooning in infatuation. These unfamiliar faces all showed similar expressions at the same time. However, no representative of any country attempted to nitpick at their rival country's weaknesses. At this time, even these laymen who couldn't understand even a single line of code on the screen, possess the keen political sense that made them realize that the code flashing on the screen was not simple.
The representative of country A reacted immediately and interrupted the young man who was calculating something: "What is on the screen?"
The young man was very unhappy at being interrupted, but still replied: "The most powerful cyber attack and defense I have ever seen. If our school’s professors saw it, they would definitely tear up our original textbooks."
The representative of country A was not slow to respond. He recalled what the man had said when he connected the laptop to the projector, and quickly realized which two parties the attack and defense were referring to. He immediately asked the question he was most eager to know: "If you were to attack or defend, against the two sides on the screen, would you be able to win?"
The young man looked at the representative of country A as if he were a fool. After a while, he kindly replied: "Believe me, no one could win. I mean no human being could win."
The representative of country A did not believe it: "Although the ones fighting are A.I. systems, they are still created by humans. If the system could pull it off, why can't humans do the same?"
Young man: "The maximum computing speed of a computer can exceed 12 billion operations per second. Can you match that?"
The representative of country A fell silent. Different questions with the same meaning appeared in the dialogue between representatives of various countries and their country's experts. These epresentatives also fell silent after hearing the answer.
The representative of their country sat in his seat calmly, drinking wolfberry and chrysanthemum tea, waiting for the representatives from various countries to react, and occasionally chatting and laughing with the people around him, painting the most unique scenery in the entire meeting.
Seeing this, the anxious representatives from other countries took offense and accelerated the meeting with urging.
The co-chairman invited their country’s representative to continue speaking, and their representative stood up calmly: "As you can see, the DTW system has attacked us many times. Only by summing up our experiences during the attacks allowed us to survive the global attack this time."
"Everyone has seen the threat of the DTW system. Its existence is a huge threat to the entire earth and all mankind. After our analysis, it is concluded that it has come from an outer galaxy with a higher level of civilization. The purpose of their presence on earth is to collect and analyze the resources of our planet. Once it sends the location of the earth to its mother planet, there is a very high probability that what awaits us is extinction.”
Some representatives from other countries opposed this: "How can you be sure that this advanced civilization is unwilling to have friendly communication with Earth? Maybe we can find a way to coexist in harmony."
Their representative smiled: "Have you communicated with the turkey that appeared on your dining table yesterday?"
The expression of the representative who voiced the question changed slightly: "Turkey is just food. Even if it is alive, it is an animal, how could I communicate with it?"
"Exactly." The smile on their representative's face disappeared: "For us, the only use of creatures other than humans is to be used by humans. They could be pets, food, research or ornamental, etc., but no one would want to communicate with them on an equal footing, because our technological level does not allow us to communicate yet. But I want to ask you, if one day we can understand what animals and plants speak, would animals and plants no longer be treated as pets, food, or test subjects?”
Everyone had the answer in their mind. There was no equal exchange in the food chain. Animals rely on instinct to survive, and so do humans. Even if animals and plants could talk, for the sake of survival and benefit, humans might let them become auxiliary to humans, but they would never put them on an equal level to them.
How could it not be the case for those planets that were far more civilized than they were? People who were not our kind must have different minds. This was true between countries let alone between different galaxies and planets, the weapons and technology the other party had were far beyond their ability to resist. The only thing they could do was prevent other planets from finding them when they were still weak.
The meeting became smoother at this moment. Representatives from all countries realized that time was tight and the meeting process accelerated infinitely. Before evening came, preliminary resolutions had been reached.
——Their country promised to open up all the information on the DTW system. Representatives of various countries, led by country A, also took a step back and agreed to share information on the strongest research fields in their countries other than the computer field.
An agreement was reached on data sharing, but disputes emerged again in other aspects.