Soon, it was the day of the interview in NTN.
Although Gu Xi pretended to be calm in front of Gu Shao, in fact, Gu Xi had secretly prepared for this day.
"Let's go, I'll send you there," Gu Shao said to Gu Xi before they left.
Gu Xi shook her head and said firmly, "No, I'll go there myself."
Seeing Gu Xi's stubborn look, Gu Shao was secretly amused. He did not insist, took his coat, and went out.
After Gu Shao left for a while, Gu Xi calculated the time and set off for NTN.
— —
Gu Xi arrived at the NTN building. As soon as she stepped through the door, she was greeted with a bright smile by the receptionist.
"Xiaoxi, you're here. Good morning."
"Good morning, sister." Gu Xi smiled and greeted her. Then, she took the elevator upstairs with ease.
The difference was that Gu Xi did not take Gu Shao's private elevator this time. Instead, she took an ordinary elevator.
— —
This was not the first time Gu Xi came to NTN. However, this was the first time that Gu Xi was so nervous.
When the elevator reached the 15th floor, Gu Xi took a deep breath and walked out of the elevator. She went to the waiting room according to the notice.
When Gu Xi arrived, there were already six or seven people in the waiting room. They should be the same batch of people who came to take the test with Gu Xi.
These people looked older than Gu Xi. Most of them were probably high school students.
Gu Xi walked into the waiting room. Her small figure seemed a little out of place in this group of people.
"Is she a high school student? Why doesn't she look like one? "Someone whispered.
"She doesn't look like one either. Maybe she's only in junior high school."
"Junior high school?" The short young man who spoke first widened his eyes slightly. Then, he frowned and said disapprovingly, "She's only in junior high school and she's already taking the NTN test?"
He was probably here to make a fool of himself.
Hearing the disdain and dissatisfaction in this person's tone, the person next to him rolled his eyes and retorted, "Does your family own NTN? Who said that middle school students couldn't take the NTN test? Moreover, if you're not outstanding enough, can't you allow someone smarter and more outstanding than you to exist? "
Hearing that he had been insulted, the short young man curled his lips and didn't say anything else. However, in her heart, she was certain that Gu Xi was just here to accompany her and could not pass the test.
This small interlude did not last for too long. Soon, everyone quieted down and continued with their preparations for the test.
When it was time, the test officially began.
The test was divided into two rounds, a written test and an interview.
During the first round of the written test, everyone was brought to a testing room. There was an electronic answer board in front of everyone's seat.
Soon, the test questions appeared on the answer board in front of Gu Xi.
Gu Xi skimmed through it. There were ten questions in the test, five basic questions and five professional questions. These five professional questions involved five different fields related to electronic technology.
Gu Xi began to answer the questions.
Perhaps it was because Gu Xi had read a lot of professional basic books and done a lot of basic questions last semester, but when Gu Xi did these questions again, she felt that it was much easier than before.
However, the last five professional questions were a little difficult for Gu Xi.
For the first question, Gu Xi had read a similar report in a magazine before. Relying on her memory, she could barely answer it.
Gu Xi still did not know how to answer the second question. However, she remembered that when she was in Gu Shao's office previously, she had casually flipped through some related materials out of boredom. Gu Xi tried hard to recall the content she had seen at that time and answered the parts that she could think of.
The next few questions were also very difficult.
Originally, Gu Xi was worried that Gu Shao would go easy on her in this test. Now, it seemed that Gu Xi's worries were completely unnecessary. There was really no room for improvement in this test.
"It's so difficult …" Gu Xi muttered silently in her heart.
For the first time, she deeply understood what Dong Mingming liked to say, "It's so difficult to make you cry."
However, adhering to the principle of "don't leave it empty" that their homeroom teacher liked to tell them before exams, Gu Xi still stumbled and filled in the relevant content that she knew.
When the time for the written test was up, the answer board in front of everyone automatically closed and they could no longer work on it.
Gu Xi looked around and realized that everyone had the same expression on their faces. Obviously, this written test was not easy for everyone.
Before everyone could come back to their senses, someone came to inform them that the interview was about to begin.
According to NTN's test regulations, the results of the written test were only used as a reference. The real deciding factor was actually the interview.
Gu Xi quickly adjusted her emotions and followed the staff lady to the waiting area.
There were a total of nine people taking the test in this batch. Gu Xi was the third.
After the first two people went in, when they came out again, their expressions were still quite normal and nothing could be seen.
When she heard the announcer call for number three, although Gu Xi had already mentally prepared herself, she still could not help but feel nervous.
Gu Xi stood up and followed the sign into the interview room. No matter how many times she took deep breaths, Gu Xi still could not control her nervousness.
The moment the door of the interview room was opened, Gu Xi saw a row of people sitting in front of her and was dumbfounded.
— — Everyone in the room was actually someone she knew.
This was not surprising. Gu Xi liked to follow Gu Shao to NTN when she had nothing to do. During the holidays, she even spent most of her time here accompanying Gu Shao to work. She was already familiar with all the uncles and aunties in this building.
When they saw that the person who came in was Gu Xi, a benevolent smile appeared on the faces of the experts present. The originally solemn atmosphere instantly disappeared.
In order to prepare for this test, Gu Xi had specially tied her hair into a very spirited ponytail today and wore a more formal suit. She looked much more serious than she usually did in her school uniform.
However, in everyone's eyes, Gu Xi was still the cute and adorable child who followed Gu Shao around.
Therefore, when everyone saw Gu Xi, the smiles on their faces were completely subconscious.
However, when they thought about what their boss had specially emphasized earlier, they quickly put away the benevolent smiles on their faces and put on a serious expression.
"Ahem." This time, the main interviewer coughed dryly and said to Gu Xi, "You are participant number 03, Gu Xi, right?"
"Yes." Gu Xi nodded.
Although the atmosphere became serious again, Gu Xixin's nervousness dissipated a lot because the people in front of her were all familiar faces.
"Please take a seat."
Upon hearing this, Gu Xi sat in the chair in front of them.
At this moment, Gu Xi's application materials and personal resume had already been presented to the experts on the computer screen in front of them.
— — Xiaoxi is so amazing.
After looking at Gu Xi's resume, achievements, and awards, the main interviewer subconsciously wanted to praise her. However, when he realized that the environment was not right, he quickly put on a serious expression, nodded, and said pretentiously, "She's alright."
"You're applying for the safety category?" The main interviewer looked at Gu Xi.
Gu Xi answered, "Yes."
The main interviewer nodded. "Then, the interview for you will also be inclined towards the safety category."
"Okay."
The interview officially began.
The first two minutes were spent on Gu Xi's self-description. Then, the experts began to ask questions, from some basic questions to five questions related to safety. Finally, they asked Gu Xi to talk about her understanding of the technology in this field.
"Okay, that's enough. We're clear about your situation. The grading has been completed. If you have any questions, you can ask us. "The main interviewer finished the prescribed process.
"No …" Gu Xi shook her head, got up, and bowed to everyone. She said "thank you" and left the interview room.
Just as she was about to enter the interview room, Gu Xi couldn't help but turn around and look at the experts in the room.
"Uncle Li," Gu Xi whispered as she stared at the main interviewer.
"Huh?"
"Did you really not go easy on me?"
Gu Xi tried to hold back, but in the end, she couldn't help but ask about the things she was really curious about.
The main interviewer was stunned when he met Gu Xi's sharp gaze. "Of course not."
In fact, they were also quite surprised. They didn't expect Gu Shao's baby to have so much professional technical knowledge.
The content of their interview questions was based on the candidate's choice of direction and their previous written test answers. Although the emphasis of the direction was different, the difficulty of the questions was about the same.
Hearing this, Gu Xi nodded skeptically and left the interview room.
Her entire interview process went smoothly. However, if they didn't go easy on her, why did she feel that those questions were very easy?
Gu Xi was still puzzled.
In fact, Gu Xi didn't know. Because she was too concerned about the incident in the novel where the opponent used the NTN security system to attack Gu Shao, she had been paying attention to the problems of the security system during this period of time, whether it was theoretical, public opinion, or technical issues.
Gu Xi's brain had already accumulated a lot of relevant knowledge under the influence of others. Therefore, she didn't find it difficult to face the experts' questions.
— —
After the interview, the candidates left the meeting room and passed by the waiting area.
In the waiting area, the short young man's number was two places behind Gu Xi's number.
Seeing Gu Xi leave with a very calm expression on her face, it didn't seem like she had suffered a blow at all. The short young man couldn't help but reveal a surprised expression.
"Could it be that the interview wasn't difficult?"
"How do you know if it was difficult or not?" The person next to him glanced at the short young man and said.
"Look at that junior high school student just now. He didn't look like he had encountered a difficult problem at all."
Hearing this, the few people next to him sneered and didn't say anything else.
However, the short young man heaved a sigh of relief in his heart and began to secretly rejoice. If even a junior high school student didn't find the interview difficult, it should be easy to pass.
However, he was wrong.
By the time he entered the interview room and came out, his face was already ashen.
The person who had finished the interview should have left, but the short young man stopped when he walked past the waiting area.
"I think this test is unfair," the young man said to the staff member next to him in a deep voice.
The staff member frowned but still asked calmly, "What do you think is unfair?"
NTN's talent selection mechanism had always been the strictest in the industry.
"I think that since we're here to take the test together, the difficulty of the test should be the same regardless of the age of the tester. They shouldn't be treated differently based on age."
He still felt that Gu Xi's expression was so calm when she came out must have been because the expert judges saw that she was a junior high school student and deliberately lowered the difficulty.
Hearing the young man's words, the staff member's frown deepened, but the next second, he smiled.
"Do you think that the third participant's interview was more successful because we lowered the difficulty of the test?" the staff member asked rhetorically.
"Isn't that the case?" It wasn't just Gu Xi. The other participants' interview results seemed to be better than his. Moreover, he was relatively older in this batch of testers, so he reasonably suspected that NTN had adjusted the difficulty according to age.
The staff member didn't explain further. Instead, he directly led the short young man to the office next to the waiting area. He directly pulled up the young man's and Gu Xi's respective written test answer cards from the computer.
When he saw the two large answer cards on the screen, one on the left and one on the right, the young man was stunned.
The junior high school student he looked down on actually had a higher written test score than him! And it was more than 20 points higher!
It wasn't that Gu Xi's knowledge level and reserve were really much higher than his, but judging from the test paper, Gu Xi answered the questions more seriously. Her score for the first few basic questions was slightly higher than the young man's.
The professional questions at the back really widened the gap between them.
For the sixth question, the young man's score was higher than Gu Xi's, and his answer was also better.
However, except for this question, he almost didn't do any of the other questions. On the other hand, Gu Xi had done all the questions. Although she didn't get them all right, he could always find some points in her answers.
The young man's main focus was SKD automation, so he mainly did the sixth question. He didn't do the other questions, and he didn't know how to do them. He never expected that this junior high school student could actually answer some of the questions.
The two answer cards in front of him seemed to have given the young man a heavy slap in the face, and he was stunned.
"Got it, I'll work harder …" The young man left NTN dejectedly. Although he didn't know the test results yet, he knew that he had lost.
— —
Three days later, on the way home from school, Gu Xi received a new email on her phone. It was from NTN.
Gu Xi held her breath and opened the email. The content jumped out: [Congratulations, you've successfully passed …]
"Okay!" Just seeing the first few words, Gu Xi's face was already filled with excitement. If they weren't in the car, Gu Xi would have jumped up in excitement.
Holding the phone tightly, Gu Xi read the content of the email several times to make sure that she didn't read it wrong.
Gu Xi couldn't wait to take the phone in front of Gu Shao.
"Dad, look, look!"
"Gu Xi, congratulations, you've successfully passed the center's …" Gu Xi pointed at the content of the email and read it word by word to Gu Shao. At the end, she smiled foolishly.
"How is it? I passed! "Gu Xi jumped up in the car and said as if she was showing off a treasure.
In the next second, Gu Xi suddenly stopped and looked at Gu Shao faintly.
"Did you already know?"
Looking at Gu Xi's angry expression, Gu Shao was amused. He held back his laughter and nodded.
Seeing this, Gu Xi suddenly felt bored. She pouted and turned her head to lie down outside the window.
However, less than half a minute later, Gu Xi came over with a smile on her face again.
"Dad, are you not busy?" If he was busy, Gu Shao wouldn't have time to pick her up from school.
"What's wrong?"
Before Gu Shao finished speaking, Gu Xi took her school bag from the side.
"Then help me take a look at this." As Gu Xi spoke, she took out a book from her school bag and handed it to Gu Shao. She explained, "This is the strategy I made."
In order to successfully be selected to join the project team of NTN's security system, Gu Xi had specially made the strategy.
The corner of Gu Shao's mouth twitched as he looked at the densely packed guide that took up almost half of the book.
There was actually an analysis of how to win his appreciation.
…
In the end, Gu Xi didn't get any useful advice from Gu Shao. She only received a "warning" from her parents, telling her to listen to class and study hard.
—
However, what made Gu Xi very excited was that she finally passed the review and was qualified to participate in the security project.
This project had been in preparation for half a year, but the project still didn't have an official name. Now, the people of NTN still referred to this project as 709, which was the project office's number.
However, Gu Xi knew that the more this was the case, the more extraordinary this project was.
—
On Wednesday night, Gu Xi officially received her work permit for Project 709. She came to NTN as a trainee to participate in the Project 709 seminar.
As a trainee, Gu Xi was not qualified to participate in the core meetings and core research of Project 709. However, she could participate in some directional seminars.
During the meeting, Gu Xi unexpectedly discovered that the team leader of Project 709 was Gu Shao himself.
"No wonder …" Gu Xi muttered softly.
No wonder in the novel, Xie Hongbo tampered with the submitted materials of this project. After the project went wrong, Gu Shao was the first person to be held accountable.
At the beginning of the meeting, the key members of Project 709 sitting at the conference table at the front began to report the progress of the project.
Gu Xi sat in the back row, took out a notebook, and began to take notes seriously.
The meeting entered the discussion stage, and everyone expressed their opinions.
"My suggestion is that the 709 system can be linked with the existing Skynet system," someone suggested.
Another person expressed his concerns. "From a technical point of view, it is indeed a good thing to link the two systems, but from a safety point of view, there are hidden dangers in doing so."
This concern was not unreasonable, and the discussion entered a stalemate.
At this moment, Gu Shao spoke.
"Linking the two systems is indeed a direction that can be considered, but I need to emphasize to everyone that the 709 security system and the Skynet system are not two systems of the same level. The data of the Skynet system can be used as auxiliary data to serve the 709 system. In other words, even if the data is linked, the transmission of information is also one-way …"
Gu Shao's words made everyone present suddenly feel enlightened.
Gu Shao's gaze swept across everyone again and asked, "Is there anyone else?"
"There are no problems here for the time being."
"That's all."
"Work here will be carried out according to plan."
…
At this moment, Gu Xi, who was sitting in the back row, cautiously raised her hand.
Gu Shao raised his eyebrows and said, "Go ahead."
Upon hearing Gu Shao's sudden words, the people with their backs facing Gu Xi didn't realize who Gu Shao was referring to until they heard a clear voice.
"I have an idea," Gu Xi said.
Seeing Gu Shao nod, Gu Xi continued, "Can we start with two sets of this security system?"
Gu Xi's proposal caused a round of discussion among the people.
"Two sets of security systems?" Someone's eyes lit up. "It's not impossible to make two parallel systems."
"Indeed, this way, it's equivalent to having two insurance systems. When one system is operating normally, the other will be used as an emergency or backup."
The people at the side also nodded in agreement.
However, there were also people who had concerns. "I wanted to consider this before, but the cost will be much higher. In addition, there is also the problem of the burden on the basic equipment."
While everyone was discussing, Gu Shao looked at Gu Xi.
Others might not know the real idea behind Gu Xi's proposal, but Gu Shao could guess it.
— Gu Xi cared so much about this project. It was probably related to the dream she had once mentioned.
This girl was worried that Xie Hongbo would tamper with this project and make an issue out of it, wasn't she?
Gu Shao lowered his eyes and thought to himself.
Indeed, it was possible that Xie Hongbo would do something like this.
…
At this meeting, Gu Shao didn't express whether he agreed to the plan of two systems or not.
However, at the core meeting later, Gu Shao directly decided on the plan of two systems.
—
In the evening, after the meeting, Gu Xi and Gu Shao went home together.
Sitting in the car, Gu Xi secretly played with her mobile phone while Gu Shao wasn't paying attention.
A piece of news popped up.
Gu Xi usually didn't pay much attention to such news, but she saw a few familiar names in it.
Something had happened to the Sun family's business. A large number of prohibited items were found in their foreign-related goods.
As the main person in charge of the Sun family's business, Gu Yaobai had been attacked in an unknown country in the south. His whereabouts were unknown, and he was most likely dead.
The content of the news was very simple, but often, the simpler the news, the more serious the situation.
Gu Yaobai's accident surprised Gu Xi.
"Did you attack Gu Yaobai?" Gu Xi turned to look at Gu Shao and asked.
"No."
"Then was it Uncle, Grandpa, and the others?" Gu Xi asked again.
"No."
After a pause, Gu Shao said, "It was Xie Hongbo."
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