In deep space, a small transport ship slowly approached the temporary spaceport hovering over Ceres.
As a shuttle slowly descended, two experts in spacesuits, escorted by a team of soldiers in exoskeleton armor, walked out of the landing station.
"Welcome to Ceres, I am Yang Wu, Chief Consultant of the Pan-Asian First Fleet."
"Nice to meet you."
Academician Wang Sicheng, who had gray sideburns, shook hands with the middle-aged man in front of him. He nodded to the Chief Consultant in a friendly manner.
As an in-service professor in the School of Information Engineering of Jinling University and an academician of the Pan-Asian Academy of Sciences, Academician Wang had outstanding research achievements and academic status in the field of quantum computers and information security technology.
After learning that a quantum computer array suspected to be left by an extraterrestrial civilization was discovered on Ceres, the Pan-Asian Academy of Sciences immediately sent him an invitation, hoping that he could provide assistance to the Pan-Asian First Fleet on behalf of the Academy of Sciences, investigate the source of this computer, and figure out what it was calculating.
"It's hard to imagine … that someone would build a base in such a place." After letting go of his hand, Academician Wang Sicheng glanced around, and a trace of disbelief appeared in his eyes.
The craters and scrapped mechanical parts all over the ground showed that a big battle had broken out here.
Obviously, not only was the base itself not small, but the scale of the defense facilities deployed here was also not to be underestimated.
Otherwise, the First Fleet would not have poured such fierce firepower on the surface of this asteroid.
Yang Wu: "What's even more unimaginable is that there is also what is suspected to be the largest quantum computer array in the solar system … Whose masterpiece do you think this is?"
Wang Sicheng: "I don't know, many things can only be known after research."
Yang Wu: "If it's just hypothetical."
Professor Wang Sicheng was silent for a while before speaking.
"If it's just hypothetical, I vote for the extraterrestrial civilization."
"Extraterrestrial civilization … It reminds me of the Human Alliance that fell apart more than half a century ago."
Yang Wu's eyes couldn't help but be stained with a trace of nostalgia.
The Human Alliance was probably the first attempt of human civilization to seek global political unity under the impetus of external pressure. Although this attempt ended in failure, it provided a lot of inspiration for the later birth of regional alliances.
If the Human Alliance was compared to a community of destiny within the Earth-Moon system, then regional alliances such as the Pan-Asian Cooperation, the North America Alliance, the North Sea Alliance, and the Iberian-French Alliance were probably small communities of destiny formed based on specific regions.
As for how the Human Alliance disappeared?
That would be a long story.
However, if he were to summarize it according to his own understanding, it would probably be that with the collapse of The Gates of Hell and the retreat of the expedition team, all the clues about extraterrestrial civilization had been cut off. The relevant debates gradually withdrew from people's sight over time and returned to the scope of academia.
The Human Alliance, which was established to fight against extraterrestrial civilizations, naturally lost its meaning of existence …
"Do you think that if this computer is indeed an outpost of an extraterrestrial civilization — or something similar, is it possible for the Federation to be reestablished?"
"It's very difficult." Yang Wu shook his head. "100 years ago, the strongest starship we had was Starlight. If we compare it to now, I'm afraid it's not even comparable to a carrier-based aircraft on Mount Tai."
Wang Sicheng casually asked, "Why is it impossible to become stronger?"
Looking at the devastated battlefield not far away, Yang Wu continued, "Because now, even if we are facing an extraterrestrial civilization, it is not impossible for us to fight them."
…
The specific location was located in the depths of the valley. After passing through the military checkpoint, the group quickly entered the base.
Academician Wang Sicheng looked at the bullet holes left in the corridor. He smacked his tongue and followed Yang Wu and Li Gaoliang, the brigade commander of the Third Orbital Airborne Brigade, to the computer room.
Xing Bian, who was standing at the door of the computer room, looked at the people walking toward him. His eyes lit up slightly, and he immediately greeted them with a smile.
"Academician Wang, you are finally here!"
"You are?"
"Xing Bian, an agent of the Security Bureau, responsible for investigating this incident. This is my business card." Captain Xing skillfully took out a translucent holographic card and gently pushed it in front of him.
Academician Wang Sicheng frowned and glanced at the holographic card. After hesitating for a moment, he accepted it.
It wasn't because he had a bad opinion of Captain Xing. It was purely because normal people would more or less feel a little uneasy when dealing with people from this kind of "spy agency".
"I have read about what happened here in the report. In order to facilitate further investigation, I need to know more specific information."
Xing Bian: "Everything we know has been written in that report. I believe you have already read it. As for the rest … I'm sorry, we know very little."
Seeing that Captain Xing didn't seem to be lying to him, Academician Wang didn't say anything. He nodded to the students who came with him, then walked into the computer room.
"Incredible …" Academician Wang, who was shocked by the scene in front of him, was a little lost for a while, but he soon regained his composure and said to his student, "Get ready to intercept the data, let's see what it is calculating."
"Okay, teacher."
The student nodded, walked forward with a suitcase, and opened the password lock in front of one of the cases.
Then he took out a round metal button from it, placed it on the case, and fumbled on the shell of the case for a while like holding a stethoscope.
It wasn't until the electronic screen in his suitcase lit up that he stopped what he was doing. He left the metal button in place and began to operate the laptop like suitcase.
"Data connection successful … The utilization rate of computing resources has reached 87%. The program running on this supercomputer is indeed not simple."
Looking at his student, Academician Wang frowned and said, "Can you retrieve the program running in the computer?"
"Let me try … No." With a solemn look on his face, the student continued in a difficult tone, "This supercomputer has encrypted the program. Unless you obtain administrator rights, you can't read it at all."
"Let me try."
After asking his student to stand aside, Academician Wang walked forward. His fingers tapped on the mechanical keyboard, which was too old for this era, and he entered lines of dazzling code.
However, the quantum computer array that occupied the entire underground space acted as if it didn't see him at all. It completely ignored his series of operations and still kept its secrets in the case.
Seeing that Academician Wang had stopped, Captain Xing couldn't wait to step forward and ask.
"How is it? Is there any progress? "
"No." Academician Wang shook his head and said solemnly, "The security system of this supercomputer is very strong. At least I don't see any obvious loopholes … For now, there is only one way to crack the secret."
Yang Wu frowned and thought for a moment.
"What is it?"
"The security key." Academician Wang pointed at the laptop in his hand with his chin and continued to speak to the flashing dialog box, "Simply put, it is the administrator password. Unless we know the password, it is impossible to hack in through other methods."
"What about brute force cracking?" Yang Wu frowned and said, "Look at the length of the password … If we use the exhaustive method, the amount of work shouldn't be too large, right?"
"After three input errors, the interface will be closed for three years. If you are patient, the amount of work won't be too large." Academician Wang glanced at Yang Wu and continued, "And we don't even know if the password is numbers or letters … Or symbols that we don't understand."
The computer room fell silent for a while.
The investigation seemed to be in a dilemma.
"If it doesn't work … We can destroy this supercomputer center physically." Li Gaoliang tried to suggest, "No matter what it is planning, as long as it becomes a pile of scrap metal —"
"In that case, its secret will go to hell with it." Yang Wu continued, "This may be related to the origin of the ALPHA virus. It is also the biggest clue we have about the ALPHA virus so far. At the same time, it is probably our only hope to solve this problem."
Academician Wang saw Yang Wu and said seriously, "The key now is to find the password … Have you found any relevant clues from other places? For example, the space station near Ceres. "
Li Gaoliang and Yang Wu looked at each other and shook their heads in unison.
Although some clues were found on that space station, most of them were useless.
However, at this moment, Captain Xing, who was standing on the side, suddenly spoke.
"In other words … this password can be tried three times?"
"It should be." Academician Wang nodded. "But I don't recommend you try it randomly."
Xing Bian: "It's not random … Can I use your laptop?"
Looking at Captain Xing, Academician Wang showed a surprised expression on his face.
"You know the password?"
"I don't know." Xing Bian said with a wry smile, "But here … I happen to have a line of password, although I don't know if it is used here."
Yang Wu's heart moved. He seemed to think of something and spoke immediately.
"Is it that line of formula? Have you solved it? "
Xing Bian nodded.
"To be precise, Academician Lu solved it."
Xing Bian walked to the side of the laptop. He typed the line of numbers given to him by Lu Zhou on the keyboard, then hit the enter button.
Everyone couldn't help but hold their breath when they saw this scene. Especially Academician Wang and his students, they were so nervous that their hearts almost jumped out of their mouths.
There were only three chances.
If they failed, they could only wait for three years.
Fortunately, what they were worried about did not happen. The light blue cursor flickered slightly on the computer, like the key to open the door to a new world. In an instant, the screen was covered with code.
Looking at everything in front of him, Academician Wang's pupils shrank instantly, and then a touch of ecstasy appeared on his face.
Success!
The password is correct!
This is amazing!
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