noffsinger Chapter 233 Surprise
Chapter 233 Surprise
Just as Einstein expected, an hour later, Walter Young arrived at Haiyuan City. However, the Destiny Fleet outside still showed no signs of taking any action.
"After all, Destiny is also an important force in the fight against Honkai. If we take action and directly destroy the fleet and kill the Valkyries on the warships, humanity's ability to fight Honkai will inevitably suffer a blow."
"Moreover, Anti-Entropy and Destiny are likely to fall into civil war due to their hatred for each other. In this case, before the Honkai begins, humans will destroy themselves."
"Of course, considering the overall situation does not mean that we can compromise and give in without any bottom line. If the fleet of Tianming launches an attack on Haiyuan City, then we will destroy them all. But if it is just Otto's bluff, then we don't need to care about them."
At the combat meeting, Walter Yang, as the leader of Anti-Entropy, set the tone for this operation after discussing with Theresa Cocolia, Einstein and others.
After the meeting, just as everyone dispersed, Anti-Entropy received a mysterious communication.
"Alliance leader, the other party claims to be the World Serpent."
The Anti-Entropy personnel connected the communication, and the figure of Gray Snake immediately appeared on the big screen.
"World Snake has been entrusted by someone to bring you a surprise. Please sign for it on time."
Gray Snake hung up the communication after he finished speaking. Just when Walter and others were confused, Anti-Entropy discovered that an unknown transport ship was approaching Haiyuan City at high speed and sent a login request to Anti-Entropy.
"Alliance leader, this seemingly insignificant transport ship was able to pass through the blockade of the Destiny Fleet intact, and continued to communicate but no one responded. I'm afraid..."
Walter Yang pushed his glasses:
"Agree to its request, and inform Ms. Theresa to go to the Third Skyport with me."
15 minutes later, Walter Yang and Theresa arrived at the third airport in Haiyuan City.
Unlike the Tianming Headquarters, the third airport in Haiyuan City is very empty, without a single spaceship.
After Anti-Entropy's preliminary detection and the transport ship's reaction, it can be known that this is an unmanned transport ship controlled by AI, but the material of this transport ship is very special. Anti-Entropy can only know that it is not empty, but it does not know what it is specifically.
Since Walter Yang's first impression of the World Snake was not very good, in his perception, the World Snake's level of madness was probably not as high as Otto's, but it was not much different.
Therefore, although we don't know what the purpose of the World Snakes is in doing this, the "surprise" they bring is probably mostly a fright, and not a prank, but a fright that can threaten the lives and safety of many people.
But since it could threaten the lives of many people, it would be even more impossible for Walter Yang to let it fly around.
Such a transport ship that can evade detection by the Destiny Fleet and may contain dangerous goods would be a serious problem if Anti-Entropy rejected its request to land and it flew towards a densely populated city.
Walter and Theresa were very nervous as they watched this strange-looking transport ship, which was obviously neither Destiny nor Anti-Entropy, slowly land at the third skyport. One of them tightly grasped the Judas Chain, and the other tightly grasped the Simulated Star of Eden. As long as there was a certain degree of danger in the transport ship, they would immediately take action to prevent the situation from escalating.
The hatch slowly opened, and the two men stared inside, as if something terrible would jump out at the next moment.
"Um...Excuse me...where is this place..."
A girl with short dark blue hair stood at the door of the transport ship, looking at Walter and Theresa who were ready to go, with timidity written all over her face.
In sharp contrast to her expression was the astonishment on Walter and Theresa's faces. The girl in front of them didn't look dangerous or scary, but at least she looked harmless.
"Don't be afraid, kid. You are safe now. Before you come out, we don't know what is in this transport ship. This is the base of Anti-Entropy, Haiyuan City."
Theresa felt like she was back at St. Freya's Academy, serving as a teacher to new students.
"Anti-Entropy...Excuse me, can you contact Cocolia's mother?"
"Are you a child from the Cocolia Orphanage? That's easy, follow me."
Theresa and Walter looked at each other, nodded to each other, and brought her to Cocolia.
"Xie'er!"
Cocolia hugged her tightly, speechless with excitement. Although there were still many doubts about why she appeared on the World Serpent's transport ship, but... Xier was fine, that was the best.
After a brief hug, Cocolia gently patted Xier's back:
"I haven't seen you for a few years. Seele has grown taller... Rosaria, Lilia, and Bronya are all here. They must be eager to see you. Go ahead. I have something else to do, so I won't bother you."
(Switching to Bronya's perspective...)
Bronya was busy in a laboratory. Since the destiny could launch a large-scale attack at any time, Bronya's mission was to check the defense system of the Abyss City.
Einstein told her that there were also network experts within Tianming who could hack into the defense system of Haiyuan City at any time. Once this place was lost, all the automatic mechas and artillery of Haiyuan City would fail at best, or even directly [rebel]. Therefore, Bronya knew very well that this war without gunpowder smoke was related to the victory or defeat of the entire battle.
After a careful inspection, Bronya found that there was indeed a problem with the defense system of Haiyuan City. But during the repair process, something happened that made Bronya irritated:
The originally functioning system became paralyzed after the bug was fixed. It turned out that fixing a small bug caused a bigger bug to appear in the system. If Tianming launched an attack at this time, Haiyuan City would probably collapse at the touch of a button. After working overtime, Haiyuan City's defense system was finally able to function again before causing serious consequences.
"There is a loophole here... There is a problem with the defense system of this place... No, why does it look so strange here... No, Bronya remembered that the squad leader once said that there is such a saying in her hometown:
"A thousand-mile dam can be breached by a single ant hole." Every small loophole could lead to the collapse of the entire defense system. Bronya must find them all and solve them..."
Soon, Bronya fully realized the flaws of the anti-entropy system.
Since Anti-Entropy is composed of countless branches, and for a large fortress like Haiyuan City, it is definitely not possible for Einstein to program and produce the defense system alone, after all, she also has other tasks. So the final solution is to outsource it to multiple branches, each of which is responsible for a part.
But the problem is that different contractors have different capabilities and programming habits. Although the final result is the same and the parts contracted by each contractor can operate normally, it poses a great challenge to Bronya who is checking for loopholes.
Some codes are clear and concise. Although there are no comments, Bronya can tell what is going on at a glance. But some people's writings almost made Bronya, who has almost lost her emotional ability, blush. The situations she encountered include but are not limited to:
1. Define names that you yourself cannot understand and are meaningless, such as: const a number = 2; let dogfish skin = 'dog'.
2. The definition of the function is very long, which makes people dizzy at first glance. But after careful observation, Bronya found that in order to achieve the same output effect, she can shorten the function length to one-fifth or even one-tenth of the original.
3. Large sections of repeated code are not encapsulated.
4. Tens of thousands of uncommented if-else nestings. Bronya found that in some places, once it was run, the number of if loops would start at .
……
To put it bluntly, Bronya's current job is to fix all the bugs in the Shit Mountain code that has been running for more than ten years.
Why did such a problem occur in such an important place like Haiyuan City? It all comes down to the problem of the anti-entropy system. As mentioned earlier, the defense system of Haiyuan City was outsourced by Einstein to various branches for joint design, and each branch actually outsourced the system multiple times.
The advantage of doing this is that many individuals and companies that actually serve anti-entropy do not know that they are serving anti-entropy, and the concealment and confidentiality are very good.
But the disadvantage of outsourcing is that when the parts with different standards are combined into a whole, it is very easy for various problems to occur. Many people have the attitude of completing the task and getting paid, and they just want the work to work. As for whether there are bugs? Then we have to trust the wisdom of future generations.
Secondly, it is very difficult to hold people accountable. In order to ensure that Tianming would not follow the code to find out who wrote the program for Anti-Entropy, most of the code in the Anti-Entropy program was in the hands of Einstein and others, and no one knew who wrote which part. Therefore, once a problem occurs, no one knows who to hold accountable.
Tianming is the opposite. Although many of Tianming's programs are not written by one person, there are detailed signatures of who is responsible for what part. If there is a loophole in an important place like the defense system of Tianming headquarters, Tianming can immediately hold the person responsible. At the very least, the person will pay money and leave, or at the worst, he will be imprisoned or even lose his physical life. Under such a system, if Tianming's programmers dare to be perfunctory, they will think they have lived too long.
After a long time, Bronya leaned against the wall in frustration, her eyes full of fatigue. As a hacker expert, she finally experienced the feeling of a programmer who was so tired of fixing bugs that he went bald.
"There are problems everywhere. At this rate, we won't be able to finish it within the stipulated time even if we work overtime... Hmm?"
Just when Bronya was feeling irritated and tired, she suddenly felt something soft touching her neck - it was a fluffy, comfortable, and fragrant U-shaped pillow.
At the same time, two hands were wrapped around her waist from behind, and Bronya felt as if she was electrocuted.
"Xie'er..."
"Sister Bronya, it's me."
The gentle voice with a warm breath entered Bronya's ears, and the touch on her body made her realize that she was not hallucinating due to overwork.
"Sister Bronya is still as serious as ever."
After hearing this, Bronya immediately realized that Seele might have been here for a long time, but she didn't notice her.
"Sorry……"
"Ah, why did Sister Bronya apologize... I don't understand what you are doing now, but Sister, maybe it would be more efficient to take a break. Besides, I also want to..."
"Okay, I understand. I'll listen to Xier."
Bronya completely relaxed her tense nerves and thoroughly enjoyed this long-awaited moment.
"Can you tell me what Xi'er has been through in the past few years?"
Xier nodded gently:
"Of course. After the X-10 experiment, my form changed and I drifted in the quantum ocean for more than a year. Then, the World Serpent discovered my location and, with the efforts of Sisters Silin and Enosia, brought me back to the Eigenworld."
"The power of the Herrscher of the Void... There is indeed no one else who can enter the Quantum Sea at any time."
"After returning to the Eigenworld, I have been living in Sister Ino's house until a few days ago, when Sister Ino said it was time to leave. I came here on the World Serpent's transport ship, and..."
"Ok?"
"No, it's nothing."
Perhaps because she hadn't seen Bronya for a long time, Seele almost told her everything she had seen and heard at Enosia's house. According to Enosia, Bronya and her daughter would definitely meet in the end, but now was not the right time. Seele swallowed the words that were on the tip of her tongue.
Bronya relaxed completely, closed her eyes and rested her head on Seele's body. Her thoughts became more and more hazy, and she was gradually enveloped by a deep sleepiness. She did not realize that Seele was hiding something from her.
Listening to Bronya's even breathing, Seele slowly moved her body, allowing her to lean on her in a more comfortable position without disturbing her.
[I have met Bronya. Are you satisfied now? 】
"Well, from now on, we can always be with Sister Bronya."
[We, who said that... well, what onee-sama said wasn't bad. ]
About a quarter of an hour later, Bronya turned the computer back on. She felt that her originally confused mind had become clearer than ever before.
She turned around and looked at Xi'er's cute face, and the experience that only belonged to them came into her mind. She stretched out her hands, held Xi'er's face, and then kissed her lips.
"Bronya remembers everything about Seele. Before we parted last time, Seele said that the next time we meet, Bronya will return Seele's kiss."
"Now, it's time for Bronya to fulfill her promise."