The Immortal Warrior: From Reverse Engineering to Forging Swords for the Country

Chapter 1: Anonymous, forging swords for the country

One afternoon in early September 1990, it was a cloudy day, with a slight wind blowing and thin strands of rain floating in the sky.

In Chang'an City, pedestrians rush by and umbrella flowers bloom all over the streets. There was a music store playing a song, and the singing was so majestic and heroic that it made people's blood boil. Those magical melodies are like birds flying in the rain, their wings covered with wet water drops, and they flutter into the ears:

In Asia, mountains are our heads high

In Asia, our rivers are like streams of hot blood

In Asia, all the trees are rooted to the roots
  In Asia, we hold hands with the clouds
  Jade belts are wrapped in the wilderness, colorful silks are woven in the fields

The Asian wind is blowing, and the Asian wind is roaring...

There was an old man walking tremblingly on the road, holding an umbrella in one hand and holding a radio to his ear with the other. The radio was broadcasting news about the upcoming 11th Asian Games.

Zhang Zhipeng shook his head and shook off the water drops on his hair. He sighed: In China at this time, the people across the country are rejoicing and excited for the Asian Games. What does this mean? It shows that our country and our people have low self-esteem! The road to recovery is long and difficult, so we should work harder!
  Zhang Zhipeng did not hold an umbrella and walked slowly on the road of friendship. It was now past one in the afternoon, and the cool rain soaked his hair, which finally calmed down his burning brain.

It had been a week since he traveled through time, and he gradually accepted the reality that his soul had traveled to 1990.

He was originally a senior majoring in mechanics, and was debating whether to find a class or become a graduate monk and stay lazy for a few more years. Tangled up by this problem, he couldn't sleep at night, so he lay in bed and read articles on public accounts. Then he came across an article called "Incognito, Forging Swords for the Country", which introduced the statue in He Zun Square on the Chang'an Campus of NPU.

He was deeply impressed by the statue. In the picture, the statue has his head buried deep in the ground, and half of his body is buried in the soil. His face cannot be seen clearly, but he holds the forged sword high in his hands.

He Zun is the name of an unearthed bronze vessel, which according to archeology was cast during the early Western Zhou Dynasty during the reign of King Cheng of Zhou Dynasty. Because there is an inscription on it with the words "Zhaizi China", which is the earliest origin of the country name "China", He Zun has gradually become a national symbol.

The statue of "Anonymous, forging swords for the country" is combined with He Zun Square, which actually means that the sword maker endured humiliation and sacrificed the forged sword to the country.

This artistic conception is really too burning.

Zhang Zhipeng secretly made up his mind to apply for a graduate degree in mechanical automation at NPU.

He had just made his decision. When he woke up, Zhang Zhipeng found that he was wearing the body of a young man with the same name as him in 1990.

His father, Zhang Qingmin, used to work in the Logistics Department of NPU. In order to allow his ineffective son to have a class, Zhang Zhipeng took over his father's class and retired early. Now he works as an administrator in the laboratory building of the Department of Aircraft Engineering of NPU. This position belongs to the rank of worker.

The Department of Aircraft Engineering will be merged with the School of Civil Aviation Engineering into the School of Aviation in 2003.

His mother, Wang Yuqin, works in a school-run factory and is now retired at home.

The most promising member of the Zhang family is Zhang Zhipeng's sister Zhang Zhiling. She graduated from the Foreign Languages ​​Department of Qin Normal University and now teaches English in the Foreign Languages ​​Department of NPU.

Zhang Zhipeng shook his head mockingly: This is also called a wish coming true, right?

I was thinking about applying to become a graduate monk at NPU, so it was 1990 and I became a glorious teaching staff member of NPU.

However, there is nothing wrong with the teaching staff!
  As long as I am motivated enough and work hard enough, starting as a teacher, I can continue to learn and progress, and become a member of the sword-forging force for the country!

He knew that his time traveling also came with a golden finger.

The name of the golden finger is "reverse engineering system".

If backward countries want to develop industry, they basically start from reverse engineering and imitation production.

China is no exception.

However, the system in his mind has been installed for 7 days, and it has been stuck at % progress. It has not been installed yet.

Zhang Zhipeng murmured in his heart, is there a bug in the system?

Zhang Zhipeng walked into the school in the rain and came to the old laboratory building where he worked.

There are many laboratories in this building, and Zhang Zhipeng is in charge of a computer room.

Microcomputer is also a computer. In this day and age, high-end gadgets are so expensive!

The computer room that Zhang Zhipeng manages has 30 computers with big-ass CRT monitors, and they all have 386 processors.

You know, the 386 processor was only released by Intel in 1985.

It wasn't until 1988 that Intel updated it to 486.
  In China, it was not until 1988 that the first 386 domestic computer appeared, which was launched by Great Wall Company.

This domestically produced 386 sold for 5 units at the time. At this price, ordinary Chinese people would have to save for decades without eating or drinking.

Therefore, only universities or institutions can afford these high-tech gadgets.

Zhang Zhipeng opened the door of the computer room, turned on the light, and cleaned up first.

While sweeping the floor, he felt his head tremble slightly, and a holographic dialog box and a system installation progress bar suddenly appeared in front of his eyes.

【Congratulations! Reverse engineering system installation accuracy is 100%! 】

[This system can help the host quickly master new technologies and new product processes, allowing you to reversely develop completely independent new technologies and new products! Zhang Zhipeng was stunned for a moment, and then he breathed a long sigh of relief. The installation was finally successful.

Is this system useful?
  He thought he should give it a try.

Zhang Zhipeng finished his work quickly. He glanced at his watch and saw that it was only 1:39 pm, and there was still a short time before the afternoon class.

He looked at the objects in the computer room.

What seemed worth his in-depth study was the rows of neatly arranged 386 computers in front of him.

He sat down in front of a computer and pressed the power button on the case.

Looking at the computer screen in front of him, he felt quite emotional.

Before coming here, he had used a desktop computer when he was taking computer classes in college.

After coming here, since he didn't have a smartphone and had nothing to kill time with, he tried to study these antique computers.

There’s really nothing to do!

这些电脑CPU主频才20兆赫，而21世纪20年代的电脑CPU主频动辄就是2到3吉赫！1吉赫等于1千兆赫！它的内存512K，硬盘40M。

With this configuration, you can run a small software.

However, this is now China's most advanced top-level computer!

There are two mini-games installed on the computer, one is called Super Mario and the other is Contra.

These two games are part of many people's teenage memories. They were both produced by Bentley. They were originally arcade games and were later installed on computers.

There is also a small software on the computer for practicing Wubi input method. There is also a Kingsoft document software.

Kingsoft Document was later the famous WPS. It was created in the late 80s by Qiu Bojun, the top domestic programmer at the time, who typed more than 10 lines of code.

This thing is still very simple now. It can only input text and perform simple typesetting. But this software is really easy to use. Isn’t the main content of office work just writing all kinds of copywriting?
  Now its price is really expensive, a set of Kingsoft document software costs 2000 yuan.

As a result, few organizations support the genuine version, and everyone uses various cracked versions.

According to what Zhang Zhipeng learned, the Jinshan documents installed in this computer room were not genuine and were all cracked versions.

Zhang Zhipeng was a very self-disciplined person in his previous life and basically didn't play games much.

His hobbies are reading and making small things with his hands. His hands-on ability is quite good.

When Zhang Zhipeng turned on his computer, he found a progress bar appeared in his brain: Computer Hardware Technology Analysis 0.01%.

He understood immediately. It seemed that as long as he completely disassembled the computer in front of him, he could analyze the computer hardware technology to 100%.

However, of course he couldn't just dismantle the computer in the computer room. These antiques in his eyes are the great treasures of the department. If someone saw him taking apart his computer to play with it, the department director Zheng Jingzhi would tear his bones apart.

The power is turned on, the screen lights up, and Microsoft MS-DOS3.3 starts.

The computer case was making a creaking noise. It was really noisy.

At the same time, another parsing progress bar appeared in Zhang Zhipeng's brain: the MS-DOS3.3 system parsing progress was %.

Moreover, this progress bar is constantly changing and advancing rapidly.

进度：0.001%、0.002%、0.003%……3%、3.1%、3.3%……

As the progress bar progresses, Zhang Zhipeng's understanding of MS-DOS is also deepening.

The lines of code rolled across the screen, as if printed on his mind.

At this time, the MS-DOS operating system cannot directly enter the operating desktop. You must enter commands to enter related software.

Zhang Zhipeng began to type various instructions quickly.

His purpose is simple, that is, to read all the codes of MS-DOS.

He wanted to see what kind of miracle would happen.

And as he tapped, with the help of the system, lines of code flashed across the computer screen in his field of vision.

At the same time, the MS-DOS operating system parsing progress bar is also changing rapidly.

(End of this chapter)