CH 191 System vs. Humans
Translated by The BL Muse (ko-fi)
The waves of pain that penetrated from the inside of his brain, as if to break through the skull, tortured He Qianjian to tears. At first, he could grit his teeth and barely stay rational, but later, he was overwhelmed by the pain that ordinary people could not bear. Completely reduced to being without dignity and sobriety, he could only struggle and scratch at himself and the ground.
In just half an hour, He Qianjian's elbows and arms were dripping with blood where they had rubbed against the ground many times. His fingernails were all broken off, exposing his bloody flesh and bones. His clothes were soaked through, and even the ground he was laying on was vaguely wet. Sweat mixed with blood stains on the silver-gray ground, leaving traces one after another as he struggled.
The two people who came in through the door were stunned at this sight. One of them was obviously shocked by the scene in front of him and unconsciously let out a curse word.
The researcher paused for a few seconds before recovering from witnessing He Qianjian's painful state: "Boss, if I hadn't believed in your character, I would have suspected you of resorting to revenge torture."
Jiang Chen's fingers were tapping quickly on the keyboard, his expression as calm as ever: "You can think so."
The researcher was stunned for a moment, then Shi Fengyue walked straight towards Jiang Chen: "The plan was successful."
A smile appeared on Jiang Chen's face, which had always been calm and composed: "Stopped?"
"En." Shi Fengyue walked to Jiang Chen's side, "How are you doing here?"
"Just cleaning up the tracks."
“The higher ups want me to tell you that it is best to restore the hijacked signal as soon as possible. Professor Xiang asked me to remind you that with your ability, it should be over within an hour."
Jiang Chen's fingers paused and couldn't help laughing for a while: "Grandpa Xiang is really..."
Shi Fengyue's lips also curled in a smirk and he glanced at He Qianjian casually. His expression was as calm as if there was nothing there, and he soon looked away: "Still half an hour?"
Jiang Chen looked at He Qianjian and pursed his lips: "Forget it, in half an hour, he will go crazy even if he is not dead."
Just at that moment the pain passed for He Qianjian to catch this. His eyes turned red, and he spat every word full of hatred: "You have no intention of helping me get the System out of my head. You have been lying to me from the beginning."
Jiang Chen said indifferently: "It's just beating you at your own game."
"I want to know how you know." He Qianjian gritted his teeth and said: "The System said that it rebuilt the communication program. Even the machines are not able to catch my conversations with it. How did you know."
Jiang Chen: "I don't know."
"You're lying to me!"
Jiang Chen stood up, supported himself on the table with one hand, leaned forward, and faced He Qianjian: "What the DTW system is best at is neither defense nor attack, but collection. It is good at collecting and analyzing all the data it can get, from materials on the earth to humans, all it sees is its data. And this powerful database often allows it to calculate the most accurate results."
He Qianjian opened his mouth but no refute came out. Jiang Chen was right. It was precisely because of this that he trusted the System so much. From the time he was selected by the System to now, it should be said that the System had never calculated a miss before this moment. Including the System warning him not to provoke Jiang Chen, he thought about it countless times in prison and wondered if his current situation would be different and better than now if he had listened to the System at that time.
Jiang Chen: "When the algorithms are comparable, the System calculating humans or humans calculating the System, which one do you think will be more accurate?"
He Qianjian: "So you know everything."
"I misjudged you from the beginning." He Qianjian coughed twice, as if he could squeeze blood out of his throat. "I thought I had grasped your fatal weakness and laughed at your so-called kindness and bottom line. But I didn’t know…” He suddenly clasped at his own neck and began hitting his head. The bulging veins and bloodshot face made a bit of a frightening image.
The researcher was startled and at a loss: "Boss, should we call a doctor in?"
Jiang Chen shook his head, the emotions in his eyes were complicated and difficult to distinguish: "It's the DTW system, it's useless even if a doctor comes."
Sure enough, He Qianjian soon let go of himself, his face covered with tears, snot, and blood.
He wiped it off and asked Jiang Chen while he was still awake and in control: "Are you not planning to help me get the System out at all?"
Jiang Chen: "No matter how powerful the network or artificial intelligence is so far, it needs to be powered by electricity to operate, but DTW is an exception. Have you ever thought about what it uses to maintain operation?"
"There is no free lunch in the world, and the same is true for the DTW system. Every transaction and communication you make requires energy to maintain. For more than 20 years, DTW has already taken root in your nerves. I was not sure before, but now I can be sure that the energy that supports its operation was exchanged for your life force."
"Life force..." He Qianjian was in a daze for a moment. When he came back to his senses, his eyes were no longer clear, and his expression was a little more crazy: "My life force? I don't believe it! How can there be something in the world that can extract people's life force and use it as energy?! I don’t believe it! You're lying to me!”
The researcher took half a step back. Seeing He Qianjian's miserable condition, he couldn't help but feel pity. Jiang Chen looked away, but Shi Fengyue remained unruffled.
"You're lying to me!" He Qianjian struggled to get up with the burst of strength that somehow appeared at this moment. He crawled inch by inch in the direction of Jiang Chen: "You're lying, aren't you...you're, you're, lying to...me!"
Jiang Chen remained motionless, looking down at He Qianjian at his feet.
"Tell me, that you are lying to me." He Qianjian raised his head. The pain just now caused him to bite his lips to shreds, and the inside of his mouth was also bloody, such that even his teeth were stained bright red. He grabbed at the hem of Jiang Chen's trouser leg, “Tell me! I could've lived for a long time! If you didn't show up! I would definitely live a hundred years!"
Jiang Chen's hand on his side slowly clenched into a fist, and just as he was about to speak, Changjiang's voice came from the computer behind him:
"Dylan, someone has broken in, a total number of 3, two men and one woman. They came up from the safe passage, west stairs and east stairs of the building respectively. They have passes and weapons on them, and the level of disguise is high."
Jiang Chen paused and looked at Shi Fengyue.
"They're here."