Due to deal restructure text to speech player is currently unavailable. Will find a solution soon.

Chapter 358: 358

Upon hearing this label, Chen Chen came to understand that what Little X meant by the Prophet System was that it was a set of predictive algorithms . The nature of its prediction stemmed from a combination of all the variables in the world to yield an answer closest to the truth .

“Won’t there be a significant deviation when it comes to forms of prediction like this?”

Chen Chen considered for a moment before bringing this up . “The deviation will be increasingly notable as the events predicted are farther away from the present . ”

“Here’s how it works . ”

Little X explained, “According to my calculations, the accuracy of the Prophet System prediction reaches up to 99 percent if the event occurs within a one second to twenty-four hours window from the time of prediction . As this time frame grows larger, the accuracy of the prediction falls off significantly . The minute details of the prediction are especially affected by this, causing its accuracy to drop off a cliff .

“For example, if the window is only within a single day, I can predict everything that will occur to a certain individual . This even includes the number of times this person will blink and breathe . However, if the time frame is stretched to a few years later, I can only provide a general timeline of what’s to come for him . This would be rough data such as whether he’ll be promoted, lose his job, break up, and whatnot .

“However, what we’re trying to predict now isn’t the future, but the past instead . ”

Little X suddenly switched tone and said, “Things become a lot easier if we’re predicting something that has already occurred . After all, what has already happened is a given and constant . We’ll have countless evidence available to us to limit all the subsequent variables and fix them into constants as well . This way, the predicted results will be closest to the truth!”

“I understand now . ”

Chen Chen nodded . “In that case, I approve and authorize the temporary use of the nuclear power plant and the two nuclear fusion reactors to generate enough power for your use . Make sure to keep enough power for our reserve, will this do?”

“It’s not enough . ”

Little X answered after calculating, “There’s still a good half missing . Judging by this rate of power generation, I’ll need ten hours to tabulate the results . ”

“Ten hours is too long . Both Eco Science City and the Spire Experimental Base cannot run for ten hours without a dedicated power system . ”

Chen Chen frowned .

“Then I can try using other computers to tabulate for us . ”

Little X thought of an alternative . “We can reallocate a part of this calculation to the Internet and have other people’s computers perform the calculation for us . ”

“Can regular computers do this?”

“The computing power of a single personal computer may prove to be insignificant, but ten thousand personal computers combined is equivalent to a supercomputer . Besides, there are probably far more than a billion computers left on in an idle state all over the world…”

Little X snickered devilishly . “This way, I only need to dedicate one-tenth of my processing power to achieve computational efficiency greater than mine . According to my estimation, I only need an hour to complete running the entire program!”

“Alright, it’s worth a try!”

Chen Chen nodded his approval .

Following Chen Chen’s given order, the Gantz server machine started to rumble and emit a deep buzzing sound .

From where Chen Chen stood, he could see scarlet red rays creeping along the surface of the Gantz server machine . At the same time, an announcement was played over the entirety of the Eco Science City, the Spire Experimental Base, and all of the factories inside the industrial park:

“Due to maintenance in the nuclear power plant, there will be a temporary power outage in the districts, hotels, and factories, safe for the advanced laboratories and recuperation institutions . We’ll notify you as soon as the maintenance is complete . Thank you for your cooperation…”

As soon as the announcement was played, a wave of darkness quickly swept over the Eco Science City in the distance . For the very first time, the city would experience a power outage…

Deep inside the industrial park, Little X had officially connected to the powering system of the nuclear power plant . The Prophet System was subsequently activated as well .

Meanwhile, inside a technology data center somewhere in the region of the North American Continent…

Inside a tightly secured machine room, hundreds of gigantic server machine arrays were left in an idle state . Now and then, one or two maintenance personnel in the machine room would pass by these machinery and monitor the blinking green lights on the host machines .

The crew of maintenance personnel was familiar with what the green light status displayed on these machines meant .

Suddenly and without warning, one of the signal lights on one of the server machines in the machine room that should otherwise not light up suddenly lit up . It only blinked for a brief moment .

After that, the same happened to a second machine, then a third…

It did not take long before the same thing happened to nearly all of the server machines . One of the maintenance personnel happened to notice this abnormal flash and instinctively reached for his monitor tablet to investigate . When he saw that there was nothing out of the ordinary in the readings displayed, he shook his head and took his leave .

Unbeknownst to him, just several seconds ago, a foreign Trojan had invaded the back-end of these server machines . Without affecting the server machine’s original processes, they began to simultaneously run a third-party program…

In an International Astronomical Center in Europe .

A computer connected to an external network was turned on silently .

This computer had just been shut down moments ago . Due to a minor slip-up of one of the employees, the power was not cut off after the computer was used to browse the Internet . The device was only powered off .

It did not take Little X much effort to detect the signal from the motherboard of this computer as the device was still powered despite being shut down . This was part of its implemented design to help it receive initialization signals at any given time . Little X exploited this feature and simulated a power-on signal which was transmitted using voltage pulses . With that, the computer was turned on remotely by itself…

Strings of code quickly filled the display as if someone was seated in front of the computer and operating it . Lines of paragraphs were displayed:

“Searching for an external port… External port detected, establishing connection to local area network…”

“Internal system detected, establishing connection…”

“Booting up in standby mode . Initializing secondary control module, standby…”

“Data scanning sequence complete, receiving compressed packages…”

“Data reception complete, initializing large-scale unit processing . ”

“Camouflage mode activated… Turning off external display… Operation complete . ”

Immediately after that, the large computing arrays in the machine room started to produce a dull buzzing sound . Using the computer connected to an external network as an intermediary, Little X seized control of all the computers in the machine room and converted them into part of her auxiliary computing system .

However, anyone stumbling onto the scene would see nothing but plain darkness inside the machine room as if they had been shut off for some time . What they did not know was that these machines were all operating on low battery mode . It did not matter if any staff member were to turn them on or off manually . These machines would continue to circulate information back and forth in camouflage mode .

The same scenario was happening on a global scale . Little X had transformed into the deadliest virus on the Internet and injected Trojan into every single vulnerable device . It only took minutes for hundreds of millions of computers to be affected .

This phenomenon was rapidly spreading across the world . Little X had packaged the necessary data and branched them off to all online computers in the world to help with the calculation . The output was then transmitted back to Little X for final aggregation .

The personal computers themselves may not be efficient, but the quantity more than made up for it as hundreds of millions of computers combined made for a prominent force . However, this maneuver had caused network congestion in most parts of the world and overloaded most information networks .

This anomaly was quickly identified by the supervision departments of all the continents . These monitoring departments observed an unbelievable amount of information passing through the World Wide Web . When they attempted to intercept and decipher the data, they found that they could only intercept a part of the data and these intercepted data could not be translated unless they had access to the entire data flow .

When they attempted to reverse-engineer this process and download the entire data stream, they realized they would need a data storage equivalent to the National Data Center to contain all of the data .

So, each of these departments of their respective continents began reporting this incident to the higher-ups and prepared to counter what Little X was doing . The problem, however, was that mobilizing all the personnel and infrastructure for accomplishing this would take at least several hours . By the time they had everything ready to be deployed, this mysterious phenomenon had vanished .

The members of each of these continents were bewildered .

An hour later .

By this point, Little X had recovered all the data reports yielded from the calculations and was starting to integrate the data packets to be decompressed later .

“If I had to guess, I’d say there’s quite the spectacle in the cybersecurity departments in all of the continents right now . ”

Chen Chen shook his head with a bitter smile on his face . “It looks like you’re going to need a designated high-power nuclear fusion reactor in the future . Otherwise, it’s going to be difficult to put your extreme proficiency to use . ”

“It’s okay, there’s such a wide gap between our computing speed that there’s no chance of their information collection speed matching up against mine . ”

Little X described, “If I was a light-footed, agile thief, then their departments would be as good as an elderly, perhaps even blind police . The most that they can manage is to discover the tracks I leave behind but it’s impossible for them to track me down using those breadcrumbs . ”

“I hope so . ”

Chen Chen turned to look at the silver-white cube beside him .

This cube was the projection tool used for this occasion .

This cube was instantiated from Earth in the dimension of Prometheus . Its features were very elaborate and akin to a camera and a projector . The only difference being that it was a holographic projector .

After that, Chen Chen decided that this was a useful tool and went ahead and instantiated several more of them from the movie . Since the engineers did not have to proceed with caution for fear of damaging it, they had gradually managed to figure out the production process of some of its high-precision parts .

Although holographic projection technology existed in the real world as well, most of them were not in their mature stages yet . Not only was it costly to produce and came with many restrictions, but the color scale was also one-dimensional and the angles projected were narrow as well .

However, with Chen Chen’s consistent efforts, a fully-mature holographic projection technology would be developed soon .

Chen Chen gave this silver-white Rubik’s Cube a simple, impressionable name — the Silver Cube .

Meanwhile, Little X quickly integrated all the compressed packages and decompressed them . A 10TB large video was quickly generated .

The length of the video was — 30 seconds .

“Begin playing . ”

Following Little X’s prompt, three square blocks on the front face of the silver cube suddenly opened . Chen Chen’s surrounding environment changed as well, immediately shifting from the original simple and barren factory building to a lush, dense forest!

However, Chen Chen did not direct his attention to the surrounding greenery but instead to a peculiar building that immediately came into view in front of him .

The building was roughly thirty meters tall and up to a hundred meters wide, similar to a gigantic shopping complex . What was peculiar about it was that it was built in the middle of a vast forest .

What was even stranger was that the building was sealed with a formation of walls constructed with a unique material that cast a large patch of gray along the exterior of the building .

In front of the building’s gate, dozens of huge golden strips could be seen inserted into the ground to construct an odd arrangement . This scene was especially intriguing to Chen Chen .

The imagery immediately shifted and seemed to have entered the first-person view . Chen Chen saw the perspective of the camera slowly advancing until it passed through the entrance of the building .

Chen Chen saw that the interior of the building was vacant . The inside of the building was decorated with a splatter of bright gold but there were no high-tech installations to be seen anywhere in the building . The only thing notable was that it was extremely clean inside .

The camera continued to pan further inside and soon passed through several secured checkpoints until Chen Chen came to an elevator . The doors of the elevator were made of glass and completely transparent . What he saw through the transparent glass door made his eyes turn wide .

What was behind the glass door was a magnificently large space . This space took up approximately thirty percent of the building’s total space . As it turned out, the central section of the building that Chen Chen had entered was such an enormous space .

Many electromagnetic devices could be seen inside this large space behind the glass door . What was even more shocking was that as these devices operated, they created a magnetic levitation effect which caused a tiny laboratory to levitate in the void section in the middle!

“Could this be…”

Chen Chen took in a breath of cold air . He had seen enough marvel in his time and although this was only a mere holographic image, the otherworldliness of this laboratory he was looking at greatly stunned him .

As the camera pulled closer, it phased through the entrance of the levitating laboratory . The interior was also clad in bright gold, the only distinct difference was that it was filled with computers . There were even some extremely advanced devices that Chen Chen could not identify .

The camera continued to pull closer until it arrived at the center of the laboratory . It was then when Chen Chen saw a protruding black mass in the middle of a display section as if something had been ruthlessly carved out of it…

There was a flash after that and the video abruptly ended afterward . Chen Chen had returned to reality .

“Sir Godfather, what you saw just now was footage of a laboratory sealed off by the military in an unmarked forest in the region of Yellowstone Park, North America .

Little X quickly elaborated, “The name of this laboratory is ‘Quantum Deity’…”