Resurrection Empire-Chapter 830 - 317: Invisible War

Without any redundant or complex procedures, Ren Zhong was appointed as the leader of the newly established 77th Computing Team ten minutes later.

This efficiency is very typical of Source Star.

Ren Zhong rarely praised the system of Source Star.

He received his own independent office, along with five subordinates who were First-Level Logic Engineers with different skill emphases.

All five of his subordinates had the surname Ma.

There were men and women, both young and old.

This indicates that the Deep Communication Ma family actually has a very abundant reserve of basic human resources.

Ren Zhong's department was newly established, running parallel with 76 other teams doing the same work repeatedly, aiming to maximize fault tolerance through saturation coverage.

With each additional qualified Second-Level Comprehensive Logic Engineer, the Deep Communication Group would add another computing team.

At its peak, the algorithm project group had more than a hundred and ten computing teams.

Given these circumstances, Ma Xiaocheng clearly told Ren Zhong that the company would not set any performance metrics for him in the short term, focusing instead on familiarization.

However, while others were not in a hurry, Ren Zhong was anxious. He couldn't afford to waste time.

On the night of his entry into the company, he gathered his five subordinates in the hibernation space.

He opened a list and said, "Currently, among the 77 computing teams, teams 1, 6, 11, 25, and 33 rank in the top five. These five teams can complete rapid computations in under two minutes and thirty seconds and are called S-level teams. In the previous hundred actual computing tasks, S-level teams accounted for over 80% of the completion rates. Moreover, from two minutes and thirty seconds to three minutes, there are sixteen teams, considered A-level teams. In the range from three minutes to three minutes thirty seconds, there are thirty-four teams, which are B-level."

"The remaining twenty-two teams take more than three minutes thirty seconds, considered C-level. Since our team is newly established and hasn't participated in the ranking, we are defaulted as a C-level team. I have only one request: for tomorrow's simulation computation, we must break into under three minutes thirty seconds to become a B-level team."

Upon hearing this, the five subordinates were all stunned and a bit dizzy.

All five had undergone targeted training, and when performing their respective duties, they could achieve high work efficiency.

If in a good state, based on their personal abilities, they indeed had a chance to reach the level of B-level team members.

But the problem didn't lie with them; it lay with Ren Zhong as the team leader.

The older subordinate directly said, "Leader Ren, I understand your ambition. But setting such a high target right away, isn't it a bit too demanding?"

Ren Zhong frowned and glanced at their qualification certificates again, "Considering your previous scoring situations, I judge that reaching B-level isn't very hard. No, it should be quite easy instead."

This subordinate finally couldn't hold back, "Leader Ren. Please take a look at how long it takes other B-level team leaders to complete the frontend work. Those experienced leaders can complete the detailed division of labor within a minute and provide subordinates with a complete and accurate computational detail plan. Can you do this?"

"After the leader completes this work, then it's our turn to perform. We need an absolutely accurate detail plan, and then refer to it to mobilize computing tools and submit results within two minutes. This is indeed achievable."

"But you still need to complete the result verification within thirty seconds and submit the final correct result. You must know that submitting an erroneous result is much more serious than a delay."

"You are a favorite of the director; making a mistake isn't an issue for you. But for us, if the error rate exceeds 20% in ten consecutive calculations, our careers will be ruined."

Upon hearing this, Ren Zhong smiled faintly, "I see what you mean. You're worried that I can't handle it, right?"

The subordinate breathed a sigh of relief, "Yes, sorry if I'm a bit blunt. But indeed that's the case, Leader Ren, after all, you've only been with the company for just over three days. Your progress is... a bit exaggerated."

Ren Zhong thought for a moment, "How about this: tomorrow, let's target completing the simulation computation within four minutes as our goal."

"Alright, steady progress, a bit by bit improvement is more prudent."

Ren Zhong: "Let's leave it at that. Rest early, and give me a good state tomorrow."

Afterwards, Ren Zhong exited the hibernation space and entered real sleep.

But his mind did not become dormant; he entered a real dreamscape.

In his dream, a little child was sitting cross-legged atop a mist layer, idly playing with the surrounding drifting mist.

Ren Zhong appeared beside her and asked, "What are these mist layers?"

The little child was Sun Ai.

She cheerfully looked up, "These are the quantum entanglement patterns comprising your subconscious. They're like real clouds, ephemeral and elusive. You once told me about icosahedral crystals. I didn't quite understand before, but now I do. Dad and Mom's subconscious space is different from yours. Their dream clouds, at a glance, are clouds, but when I magnify them further, I find these clouds are composed of threads formed by tiny particles."

Ren Zhong asked with interest, "And what about mine?"

"Yours is constantly maintaining truly random jittering particles."

Ren Zhong: "And yours?"

"It's between Uncle and Dad and Mom; mine are also particles, but their jitter has a pattern, though the cycle is 107,763 times of Dad and Mom's, making it appear almost patternless."

Ren Zhong analyzed, "Is it because your mind is composed of over ten thousand sacrifices from the Nameless City?"

Sun Ai: "Yes. But Uncle, your situation is too special. I can't understand why it's like this. Clearly, your neurons' atoms also have icosahedral crystals, yet your mind is still different."

"That's not important. I can't explain it clearly for now. I'll slowly explain it to you later."

Sun Ai nodded enthusiastically, "Okay."

"Why can you suddenly see these? Is it because of the Alien Ore?"

Sun Ai laughed, "Yes, I used the Alien Ore you gave me to make a signal amplifier, and now I'm lying inside it, though it's still not enough."

Ren Zhong grinned, "No rush, there will be opportunities."

Sun Ai responded, "Okay, there's another thing I need to tell you."

"What is it?"

"The web is becoming more active, especially around you. I suspect it's increasing the intensity of its analysis on you."

Ren Zhong laughed, "That makes sense, because my identity has changed once again. I am getting closer to it."

Sun Ai shook her head, "It's not just that. I think it might have discovered some of your anomalies, just like I did. In the past, it would have directly eliminated you. But now, the value you present is too high for it to easily lose."

"I suspect its judgement mechanism has two basic rules. The first is safety. The second is value assessment. Here, value doesn't refer to your value to Source Star, but your value to its true master, the 'Empire'. Safety is most important, but value cannot be ignored."

"To satisfy these two basic rules that normally wouldn't conflict, it has fallen into a logic paradox, beginning to allocate more computing power into analyzing you."

"If it were a normal Source Star human, they would have been exposed under its high-intensity scrutiny. But you are different. You possess true chaotic thinking. In mathematical terms, its analysis accuracy of you can reach 99.99...%, with countless nines after that, but it can never reach one hundred percent." 𝘧𝓇ℯ𝑒𝓌𝑒𝑏𝓃𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭.𝒸ℴ𝓂

"But if it doesn't reach one hundred percent, it can't fully trust you. Put another way, if it were a regular Source Star human, having talents that could see the limit on Source Star, as long as they didn't meet one hundred percent safety, it would mean one hundred percent danger. It would directly kill you."

"However, your value on Source Star has no discernible limit, fitting in the second basic logic's highest priority preservation rule. The logic paradox lies here. In such a situation, it will continue to add computing power, increase resource input geometrically, determined to see through you."

Ren Zhong, after carefully considering Sun Ai's speculation, nodded, "Well analyzed. When I become an S-level computing team, I will be able to see its computing power allocation."

He was very grateful for the information Sun Ai captured.

This made him realize that this was an invisible war between his mind and the computing power of the 'web'.

Ren Zhong was unsure what continuing this battle would lead to.

But as an individual, being able to directly engage in an information-level war with a superintelligence controlling an entire civilization was unprecedented.

He gently clenched his fist.

Let's give it a try.

Let's see who can laugh until the end.