My science and technology museum

Roman has worked at the observatory for such a long time and has been exposed to many radio signals from extraterrestrial sources.

But this time it was obviously different.

The signal he discovered today is different from previous narrow-band electromagnetic signals, but may contain traces of technology, which further indicates the fact that it may come from extraterrestrial civilization.

As a scholar who firmly believes in the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations, discovering such signals can be said to be a dream.

By deciphering the signal, he hopes to determine the location coordinates of extraterrestrial civilization based on the directional parameters of the signal transmission, and even start a dialogue with extraterrestrial civilization to realize his great ideal.

One can imagine.

If it can really succeed.

I believe the whole world will be shocked and crazy by his research.

In order to realize its own value and meaning.

It is no exaggeration to say that there is only one thought left in Roman's mind right now.

That is to decipher this signal and write this research as your own topic and publish it.

Let everyone know that his theory is correct.

Compared with Roman's almost crazy state, his colleague who was also responsible for the detection mission looked complicated, as if he was struggling with something.

A long while.

He seemed to have finally made a decision, and suddenly blocked Roman's attempt to decipher the signal: "Wait a moment, Professor Roman. I think it is better to report this news, and let the higher-ups decide whether to decipher the signal."

Queller naturally had his own considerations when he said this.

They will often find signals like this from extraterrestrial sources, but they are basically pulse signals emitted by the planet itself in the universe.

It has no impact on the Earth Star.

Even if you try to decipher it, you won't get anything.

But this time it was different.

For Roman to be so interested, maybe the source of the signal is really an extraterrestrial civilization.

If you try to decipher or even respond rashly, you may cause unnecessary trouble to Earth Star.

Human beings have survived peacefully in the solar system for so long. Although there is a certain probability of luck, it is also inseparable from the limited technological level of civilization itself.

Its information is only circulated among the earth stars.

Even if there is an extraterrestrial civilization, it would be difficult to discover it.

However, with the rapid rise of science and technology in recent years, mankind has successfully conquered nuclear fusion technology and officially entered the level of first-level civilization. This also means that human civilization will be more easily exposed.

Before interstellar combat power is formed, it should develop more steadily.

Dare to release signals to the universe and galaxies, this only shows that people are confident enough in their own strength, and their technological level is nine times out of ten higher than that of human civilization.

If Roman really deciphered the signal and responded privately, the coordinates of the Earth Star would be exposed.

When alien civilizations invade the solar system with great force, who can guarantee that human civilization can protect itself? No one will believe that alien civilizations consume energy to come to the solar system and provide help with the concept of friendship and mutual assistance.

Queller wasn't sure where things were really headed.

All he can do is nip the danger in the bud. Even if he really wants to decipher it, it shouldn't be a private act.

No one can bear this responsibility.

It's a pity that Roman didn't take Queller's words to heart at all.

He just deciphered the signal to prove his theory, but didn't consider the consequences.

"Do you know what you are talking about?" Roman, who was interrupted, stared at Queller suddenly, with a hint of anger in his eyebrows: "This is a good opportunity to prove my theory, you want me to stop now."

It is no exaggeration to say that if there were outsiders present at this time, judging from this scene alone, there is a high probability that the two would fight. Fortunately, there were not many people working at the observatory just after it was rebuilt. This room was equivalent to the two of them. There are basically no other people coming in or out of the studio.

But I don’t know what Roman thought, and soon his attitude softened.

And try to control your emotions.

"Quiller, you know, I don't want to quarrel with you."

"As long as the two of us work together to decipher it, I believe we will be able to determine the source of this signal, and it will not be too late to report back then."

Roman's idea was simple.

For him, the most important thing to do right now is to decipher the signal, but he knows that his level is limited.

In addition, there is no quantum computer like Longfor Light.

The only person left to rely on was Queller, who was standing in front of him.

So no matter what, he had to find a way to tie Queller to his ship to increase the success rate and speed of signal deciphering.

Faced with such a choice, Queller originally wanted to refuse.

But if you think about it carefully, what Roman said makes sense. If you just decipher the signal and don't respond, there won't be any serious consequences.

What's more, detecting extraterrestrial stars is their job.

So under this situation, Queller finally boarded Roman's ship, despite his request: "I can agree to your participation in deciphering the signal, but if there are any results, they must be reported immediately."

"no problem."

Upon hearing this, Roman agreed happily.

that's all.

Next, the two of them completely devoted themselves to the work of deciphering extraterrestrial signals.

But none of them expected that they would find that their holographic screen equipment was out of control just as they were about to start deciphering.

No matter what I do, I get no response from the device.

Even the StarShield security program that comes with the device suddenly pops up with an alert!

"what happened?"

"My device suddenly malfunctioned and was suspected to have been attacked by a virus program."

"Damn it!"

"Why does the security protection program of Future Technology have no effect? ​​Find a solution quickly."

The sudden turn of events caused both professors Roman Queller to panic, especially Roman who was so anxious that he slapped his palms towards the equipment uncontrollably.

Mainly, this signal is very important to him. If data is lost due to equipment problems, the loss will be huge.

However, they were helpless.

I can only watch helplessly as the device is eventually forced to freeze with a black screen.

His expression suddenly became dull.

They had already reached an agreement and were about to immerse themselves in it and start working. As a result, the equipment was suddenly attacked by an unknown program virus.

It's just bad luck opening the door for bad luck.

Unlucky enough.

It's like you've worked hard to make a pot of delicious food, but when you were about to open the lid, the glass burst and fell into the pot.

It's as uncomfortable as it feels.

However, after a short silence, a question appeared in their hearts?

Since major mobile phone and computer brands around the world purchased holographic screens from Future Technology, computers have now become holographic terminal devices. In addition, the selling prices of each brand are different, which can comprehensively meet the needs of users at all levels.

So far, only a small group of people in the world still use traditional computers.

However, due to information security considerations in the quantum computing era, almost everyone will install the Star Shield security protection program released by Future Technology.

Ensure the safety of your own equipment.

After all, after Star Shield has been upgraded many times by Star Pupil, its protective function can be said to be extremely abnormal.

Looking at the entire Earth Star, no attack can break through the Star Shield's protection.

However, during their encounter just now, the Star Shield not only failed to exert any effect, but even directly forced the equipment into a crash state.

This was completely unimaginable before.

The key is that there is no problem with their equipment, so where did this powerful virus program come from?

"It seems that the equipment has been completely scrapped. A virus that can break through the Star Shield protection is really something that can be created on Earth?"

At this time, Queller tried to restart the device. After finding that there was no response to his operation, he was deeply worried and couldn't help but talk about his analysis and judgment.

Try to find the problem.

But I don’t know if Roman was too sensitive. After hearing this sentence, he immediately asked: "Quiller, what do you mean by this?"

You can feel the obvious anger in his eyes.

Faced with such a bizarre thing, Queller would not care about Roman's attitude, and then stood up suddenly.

"What do you mean!"

"As soon as we ran that signal to decipher it, there was a problem with the equipment. I'm afraid we intercepted a signal from an extraterrestrial civilization as you expected."

"Hope things don't get too bad!"

Queller's worries are not unreasonable. From the discovery and interception of this mysterious signal to the unknown attack on the equipment, there is an inevitable connection between the two.

If the equipment crash was really caused by this extraterrestrial signal, although it can be 100% confirmed that it came from extraterrestrial civilization, we don’t know whether the situation will continue to deteriorate.

He doesn't want to be the sinner of the entire human civilization.

"It's impossible what you said. It's just a coincidence." Roman pretended to be calm to refute Queller, but underneath his calm appearance was actually panic.

After all, who would have thought that this mysterious signal could be triggered to independently obtain information from the Earth's stars.

If he had known this, he would never have touched this hot potato.

How good would it be to hand it over directly to the security building.

But now that things have happened, even if you want to undo it, you are powerless.

At the moment, they can only hope that only their devices are affected, or that this incident has nothing to do with the mysterious signal at all.

…

…

at the same time.

Toboli.

In an Internet company, an employee who was using a holographic terminal device to work as usual was about to submit a plan he had written. The next second, he suddenly discovered that he had lost control of the device, and at the same time, Star Shield popped up an alert window indicating that he was under attack.

And as if in series, devices throughout the company have black screens and crashes.

Instantly there was a lot of banging on the table.

"Shet!"

"What the hell is going on? Why does the device suddenly freeze?"

"Damn it."

"Fake Squid, the plan I just made."

What's even more frightening is that this situation is still spreading rapidly to the surrounding areas with Doboli as the center.

certainly.

Future technology is not a vegetarian either.

After several upgrades by Star Pupil, Star Shield has now become a necessary installation program for holographic terminal equipment.

An emergency like today caused a large number of devices equipped with Star Shield security protection programs to be attacked. Star Pupil would naturally receive the information as soon as possible.

In addition, this was the most serious attack in recent years. In addition to immediately mobilizing computing power to try to intercept and eliminate the virus program, Xingtong immediately reported it to Xu Lei.

Because according to her calculations, this unexpected incident was by no means as simple as it appeared.

——

"Academician Xu."

"These are some design drawings about the construction of the fusion power station in Jingzhou City. Please take a look."

"If there is anything inappropriate, I will correct it immediately."

Jingzhou City.

Fusion power station temporary command center.

Xu Lei, who was sitting on a chair, took the document from an engineering staff member and then lowered his eyes to read through it carefully.

It has been more than a month since he arrived here from Binjiang City. In order to catch up with the other two fusion power plant projects in Jingzhou City, Xu Lei did not return to Binjiang City during the Spring Festival.

The goal is to put the three fusion power plants into operation at the same time as much as possible.

This will directly gain enough influence.

As a result, the Jingzhou fusion power plant project was continuously delayed due to personnel experience issues.

This made Xu Lei not only have to enter the virtual world through a virtual helmet to train these people, but he also had to look at the design drawings in person before he could feel at ease.

Although this disguised situation has added pressure to himself, in order to ensure the smooth operation of the Jingzhou fusion power station, this is the only way to do it at the moment.

Fortunately, Xing Tong's mechanical body was there, which also helped him share a lot of pressure.

Otherwise, his body may not be able to hold on.

After all, the physical strength of carbon-based life forms is completely incomparable to mechanical bodies.

Not long after.

When Xu Lei roughly browsed through the design drawings and determined that there were no problems, he handed the documents over without hesitating his praise.

"No problem, just implement it according to this."

"Okay, Academician Xu."

The engineering staff who took the document from Xu Lei suddenly became excited when they heard Xu Lei's affirmation of their work. They were stunned for a moment before quickly nodding in response.

It is worth mentioning that the other party did not stay in the office for long.

It seems that he wants to get into work as soon as possible to repay Xu Lei's affirmation. After confirming that the design plan is feasible, he turns around and leaves.

But Xu Lei didn't have any time to spare.

Just as he was about to pick up the cup at hand and take a sip of tea, he saw Xing Tong walking over again.

Without waiting for questioning, he immediately reported the report: "Boss, half a minute ago, many holographic terminal devices in the overseas Doboli area were attacked by unknown programs. The protection of Star Shield was ineffective."

"What?"

"It didn't work?"

Xu Lei, who was relatively relaxed at first, straightened up immediately after hearing Xing Tong's report.

A look of confusion appeared on his face.

He is aware of the level of security protection of Star Shield. With Star Tong's proactive upgrade, it stands to reason that it is impossible for a program virus to break through its protection.

This is also the reason why information data has become more and more secure in recent years.

Otherwise, Star Shield would not be able to gain billions of users.

It has become the product with the largest number of online users under Future Technology.

But now such an undefeated myth in the field of network security protection has been defeated.

And according to the information Xingtong told, it seems that the defeat was very complete, which was something Xu Lei found hard to believe.

So after quickly coming to his senses, he quickly asked about the specific situation.

"What exactly is going on?"

"How many devices were attacked in total, and were they successfully intercepted?"

Xu Lei clearly remembers that the original Star Shield was born because the security building specially created an enhanced version of the ransomware virus to target future technologies and blocked the data information of domestic users.

It cannot be opened without the secret key.

For this reason, Xu Lei specially launched Star Shield with the help of Xing Tong to restore users' data information.

Later, for some unknown reason, even overseas users fell victim to the scam in large numbers, causing huge losses to individuals and companies.

Faced with this situation, the other party had no choice but to open up restrictions and allow Star Shield to be launched in overseas markets.

As for the final result?

Star Shield successfully occupied the global market, but in terms of security building, it stole the chicken but lost the rice, and suffered a dumb loss.

So after hearing the news that a device had been attacked by an unknown device, Xu Lei's first reaction was to speculate whether some overseas forces had developed a new virus program.

But let’s not talk about whether they have the level to develop a program to overcome the Star Shield protection. Under normal circumstances, it should break out in Binjiang City or other important cities. How can you beat your own people?

This is where Xu Lei is more confused.

However, being able to ignore the protection of the Star Shield shows that this procedure is extremely dangerous, and the top priority is to find a way to deal with it as soon as possible.

Just as these thoughts flashed through his mind, Xing Tong's voice suddenly sounded in his ears again.

"The origin of the virus program is unknown."

"According to feedback from Star Shield, the first device under attack came from the Arecibo Observatory."

"The number of damaged devices is 136."

"At present, the unknown program has been successfully intercepted, but it cannot be completely eliminated for the time being. We request a quantum computer to be used for calculation and analysis."

If Xu Lei was confused and surprised by this incident just now, then after hearing Xing Tong's report, he was full of shock.

I even thought for a while that I had heard wrong.

Xingtong has gradually grown from the original artificial intelligence through the collection and analysis of massive data. After creating a quantum computer, it has become a real intelligent brain program.

It can be said that her existence has helped human civilization achieve rapid development.

In Xu Lei's impression, there should be nothing that Xingtong can't do.

Not to mention just knowing a procedure.

But the actual situation is that Xingtong cannot clear it. This is definitely not a product of the Earth Star.

"There's no way to clear it, how is that possible?"

After secretly calculating, Xu Lei felt more and more that the matter was not that simple, and in this case, it must be completely eliminated first, otherwise no one knows what emergencies may arise.

If the opponent breaks away from Xingtong's interception, it will be more troublesome.

Those currently affected are ordinary holographic terminal devices. If virtual helmets are also invaded, the consequences will be even more unmanageable.

With his mind running rapidly, Xu Lei was too lazy to think about what was behind him and immediately gave Xingtong the latest order.

"If you agree to use the quantum computer, this program must be completely eliminated."

"Instruction received."

"Executing..."

When encountering this special incident, Xingtong also became unusually serious. After receiving the order, he began to call on the world's quantum computer computing power.

Because the intercepted mysterious program is too special, if you want to analyze it clearly, you can only rely on the huge computing power of quantum computers, and the faster you want it, the more quantum computers you need to invest in it.

It's just that many quantum computers are responsible for maintaining the virtual world, and their computing power is suddenly forcibly transferred by Xingtong, which will inevitably lead to forced offline for some users.

Because the mysterious program was intercepted by Xing Tong in time and the damage caused was relatively small, no one on the Internet talked about it.

On the contrary, a large number of users were forced to quit the virtual world and virtual games, which caused dissatisfaction among some people.

In particular, most of the offline users were overseas users.

Future Technology previously set a three-day shutdown rule during the Spring Festival, which caused dissatisfaction among many overseas users. Now it has been inexplicably forced offline by the system, and the discussion on this matter online has become much louder.

Many people commented below the overseas account of Future Technology, hoping that Future Technology would respond to this matter.

"Why was it forced offline again? Does Future Technology dislike the fact that it has too many virtual users?"

"Wang Defa, this is so disgusting!"

"Future technology must give us an explanation."

"I've never seen their domestic users forced to go offline. It's unfair."

"Future Technology is now a global technology company, but its overseas service quality is far from improving."

"I hope the person in charge of Future Technology can stand up and explain the situation."

…

For Xu Lei now, his whole heart is focused on that mysterious program, just waiting for Xingtong to completely eliminate it. As for the dissatisfied voices on the Internet, he doesn't care at all.

I have to say that quantum computers are indeed great.

Under the cracking analysis of these quantum computers, it didn't take long for Xingtong to completely control this mysterious program.

After copying its function, clear it decisively.

"Boss, the program has been successfully cleared. This is part of the information that was cracked."

He briefly reported to Xu Lei, and then synchronized the relevant information to the holographic screen for Xu Lei to view.

"Collect various data about the Earth Star? It seems the situation is worse than I thought!"

moment.

Xu Lei briefly browsed the information on the full screen, and suddenly frowned, unable to help but murmur the worries in his heart.

The main function of this program is to collect various data on the Earth. In addition, it cannot even directly clear the star pupils. There is no more suitable explanation except that it comes from extraterrestrial civilization.

The key program first appeared at the observatory, and it is unknown whether the information was passed through the radio telescope after gaining access to the equipment.

But in any case, human civilization is at risk of exposure.

It may even attract the covetous attention of alien civilizations.

In fact, Xu Lei had already considered this situation. After all, humans have now become a first-class civilization and have mastered nuclear fusion technology. It is inevitable to go out of the solar system and contact alien civilizations.

This is an inevitable stage in the development of civilization.

However, Xu Lei really didn't expect that the first contact with an alien civilization would be in this way.

And they are completely passive and do not know anything about the other party.

However, Xu Lei quickly adjusted his state and his eyes became firm again. Even if an alien civilization really visited the solar system, he believed that mankind could still stand on the top of the Milky Way by relying on the Science and Technology Museum.

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