Spark

"Overseas military exercises have been launched, codenamed 'Peace Advice'. Whose advice is this?"

"The new type 055 destroyer 'dispersed' the aircraft carrier battle group, live video broadcast!"

"The H-20 is coming? Two top strategic bombers in the same frame, playing house?"

"The risk of war has been eliminated, and both sides may reach a consensus."

Sitting in the office, Chen Nian's eyes flashed across the timeline created by social media for this "exercise" incident.

It has to be said that the situation grasped by the media is relatively accurate. At least, they grasp the key information of every situation change.

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However, their prediction of the situation was not so accurate.

The incident developed faster than anyone imagined. In the eyes of most people, even if the largest military confrontation in history does not evolve into an actual exchange of fire, the two sides will at least remain in a stalemate for more than several months, testing each other again and again. There were collisions again and again, and then because a certain so-called "reconciliation window" appeared that was mutually recognized, we sat on both sides of the table and started lengthy negotiations.

But the reality is that the entire process only lasted 7 days.

On the first day, the exercise units began to head to the scheduled exercise sea area, and multiple aircraft carrier formations were mobilized urgently to organize interceptions.

On the third day, the exercise units arrived at the predetermined position and were ready, and the air units completed refueling support and conducted the so-called "non-landing cruise".

On the fourth day, the exercise officially began - it was just a non-live-fire exercise, and the aircraft carrier formation began to retreat.

On the fifth day, the live-fire exercise began, and the B-2 bomber appeared in the same frame as the H-20 for the first time. The strategic deterrent forces of both sides have emerged, and the risk of war no longer exists.

On the sixth day, frontline commanders from both sides met.

On the seventh day, the exercise ended and Cuba spoke out.

Looking at the entire incident, people were surprised to find that it seemed to be just a routine exercise with no surprises or tension.

Moreover, it is the kind where both parties cooperate and understand each other.

Even the military commentators who know the combat effectiveness of both sides best have to ask one more question:

What is happening to this world?

But in fact, this is the true nature of the world.

The strong do whatever they want, and the weak keep giving in.

Chen Nian sighed. He suddenly remembered that in another timeline where he came from, it was his side that was accused of "constantly lowering the bottom line" and "having a flexible bottom line."

What can be done? Is it really a fight?

Can you really survive a fight? Can the economy bear it? Can the people afford it?

Or should we just throw nuclear bombs at each other and wipe them all out?

How can it be

In fact, the only thing that can be done is to fight as much as possible, to delay the speed of "losing everything" as much as possible, and then continue to accumulate strength to complete the Jedi counterattack at a certain point in time.

It's like a free-fighting match. When the opponent's comprehensive strength leads you, there's only one thing you can do:

Resist the punch, don't fall down, and then find a way to drag the opponent into the ground and win with one blow.

In that timeline, we have really been doing the same thing for decades. We have been close to success several times. The time for counterattack has arrived, but in the end we failed to achieve it due to various reasons. .

It’s frustrating.

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But of course, in this timeline, such helplessness did not happen.

We get stronger faster than a boxing match ends.

All the fists thrown by the enemy were caught.

And when things like this continue to happen, the enemy's confidence is also constantly eroding.

Therefore, when we finally let go of our defensive arms and threw the first punch at them, they had to follow their inner fear and stay away from us.

The same sentence, returned as it is.

"The other side has a flexible bottom line."

Thinking of this, a relieved smile appeared on Chen Nian's face.

He turned off the screen of his mobile phone and said to Chen Guo who was waiting aside:

"This is a key public opinion node. How about it? Li Xiang, are they ready?"

"It's been done a long time ago."

Chen Guo nodded and replied:

"Various content has been released, and we have done what the United States has been doing to us before."

"But to be honest, it doesn't take much time for us to guide you. Everyone pushes against the wall and beats up the drowned dog. This kind of thing is too common."

"What's more, the United States is now almost the enemy of the entire world. Except for Canada and Australia, no one is willing to speak out."

"After this time, the world will truly enter a generally peaceful and stable state."

"Some small-scale conflicts will gradually subside after development dividends begin to appear."

"After pushing the door open for so long, we finally got everyone basically lined up."

queue?

This statement is indeed a bit novel, but it seems to be just that.

After all, we are the de facto "parents" now.

"But having said that, I'm actually quite curious. What on earth did we perform in the exercise, so that we could just make them give in?"

Chen Nian hasn't taken the initiative to get the corresponding confidential information, so he really doesn't know the specific situation.

But he knows that if we just rely on the so-called strategic strike deterrence, generational difference deterrence and the like, it probably won't be enough to convince the United States.

There must be some reasons that make the opponent feel that there is really no way to continue fighting.

"We hacked into their war communications systems."

"Huh? What then?"

Chen Nian asked doubtfully.

In fact, the invasion of the communication system is not a "catastrophic" failure. After all, with the support of various encryption methods, just because you can access the communication system does not mean that you can affect the command.

Even if you use RSA decryption method, it still requires a long time for intelligence collection and decryption, and it cannot end so suddenly.

"Then we sent them several combat plans - including specific dispatch plans for each combat unit and combat plans for specific locations."

"Our battle plan?"

"No, theirs."

A strange smile appeared on Chen Guo's face, and then she continued:

"Guess where it came from?"

"Understood, Zhan Lu figured it out."

"Has it evolved to this extent?"

"That's right."

"So is it accurate?"

Chen Nian subconsciously asked one more question.

"Well we actually don't know if it's accurate."

"But judging from the reaction of Americans, the probability is quite accurate."

On the other side, in the back-end laboratory of the quantum computing project team.

Xu Weiyun sat in front of the computer and repeated the same operation for the 161st time, that is, starting the preset program and trying to write information to the adjusted quantum register.

In fact, the reason why the laboratory he works in is called "backend" actually has a very clear meaning, that is, they are indeed the last link of all experimental steps.

They are researchers and testers. They do not participate in actual development work, but they have to make the most ruthless judgments on the results of development work.

Xu Weiyun once felt that this work was meaningless, after all, it was too repetitive.

But if you don’t do it yourself, who can you find to do it?

You can't just apply for an internship certificate and recruit an intern from outside like those commercial companies, right?

The top secret units are all serious industry top talents who have mastered the core technologies and information. No one is any worse than the other.

Therefore, I had to spend more time to finish this boring work.

However, this may not be a purely bad thing?

After all, if there is any breakthrough, I must be the first to know.

"The data channel is established, the register feedback is normal, and the channel is normal."

"Prepare to start program write operation."

"OK, start writing."

The colleague on the side quickly typed on the keyboard and typed a line of words in a document, and then said:

"I don't know if it will be successful this time. It is said that the front-end register design has undergone a major adjustment and has been optimized in quantum logic."

"Basically, more than 40% of the early design plan of the register has been overturned - to be honest, it looks pretty confident."

Xu Weiyun nodded slightly and replied:

"Yes, if you are not sure, you definitely can't take such a big risk to adjust the plan that has been mature in the early stage."

"It is said that the technology comes from Starfire - does this thing guarantee authenticity?"

"Who knows?"

The colleague shook his head, pressed the button to start the program, then relaxed and leaned back in the chair, and continued:

"The overall structure of Spark is still top secret until now."

"We don't know who they have; we don't know where their laboratory is; we don't even know how their organization operates, whether it is a physical organization or a virtual organization."

"The only thing that's certain is that they can actually make something."

"It's quite mysterious. It's the same this time."

"Instead of optimizing materials and circuit design according to the original ideas, we adjusted the logic of the qubit path."

"What's the success rate? Hmm"

"Hard to say."

Xu Weiyun continued.

"Yeah, it's hard to say."

"Just wait, the automated adaptation program still needs to run for half an hour, and the results will be known in half an hour."

"I'm going to have a meal first, so you can stay here and watch. I'll bring you whatever you want to eat."

"Anything you want is fine with me."

The colleague got up and left, and Xu Weiyun switched to the backup work computer and started working on his real main project.

Of course, this would take more time than a simple test. For more than half an hour, he was completely immersed in his work. It was not until he stretched out to rest that he saw out of the corner of his eye that the adaptation program had finished running.

He sat in front of his colleague's computer, dragged the document he prepared into the main test program with a simple interface, authorized it on his own computer, and then stopped caring about it.

It's not that he doesn't care about the results or has no expectations for the results.

It’s just that hundreds of failures have long since worn away his enthusiasm, and he can never regain the original passion of staring at the screen and staring at the visual display of writing progress.

Rather than wasting this little time, it's better to do more work.

In my own hands, I still have a lot of data that I haven’t finished calculating yet.

So, another 20 minutes passed, and he didn't raise his head again until his colleague came back with food.

"How's it going? Have you started testing?"

"It started, uh, about 20 minutes ago. I'll have a bite to eat and you can go and see the results."

"OK OK."

The colleague put down his lunch box, turned around and sat back in his chair.

Xu Weiyun picked out the lion's head from the lunch box and bit into it, but before he could swallow it, his colleagues' exclamations suddenly came to his ears.

"What the hell?! What the hell happened? The program didn't report an error?!"

Xu Weiyun shook his chopsticks and subconsciously looked at his colleague's computer screen.

And above it, there is only an "empty" test program interface.

"Did you really start it? Did you guide it?"

The colleague hurriedly found the record of this program that was not designed to be user-friendly. Then he saw that Xu Weiyun's operation records were clearly recorded on it.

Of course, there will be no prompt like "Write successful" because no one can judge whether the write is really successful.

"Wait. It may be a bug, the file is lost."

Xu Weiyun's voice trembled slightly.

He had a vague feeling that he seemed to be witnessing some kind of history.

However, this was so unbelievable and unbelievable that his first reaction was to subconsciously deny it.

"There is no file loss and the logs are normal."

"I want to adapt the reading function. Whether it is successful or not, I will know after reading it once."

The colleague's hands were visibly shaking. Xu Weiyun had already dropped his chopsticks. He didn't even have time to wipe the oil from the corners of his mouth and immediately moved behind him.

"How long does it take to adapt?"

"20 minutes, wait."

The two of them looked at the screen in silence. At this moment, their hearts were beating violently in unison.

Will it succeed?

Countless thoughts flashed through Xu Weiyun's mind.

Nuclear fusion and superconductivity, these two technologies represent huge breakthroughs for mankind in the energy field, but in his opinion, the importance of quantum computing is definitely not lower than these two technologies.

Because it represents a breakthrough in information technology, once a universal quantum computer is invented, it means that GAI will be realized and applied in the shortest possible time.

Time passed by, and as they waited extremely anxiously, the adaptation was finally completed.

Xu Weiyun immediately returned to his computer and pressed the test authorization button.

There is no lag and the results are fed back immediately.

A document was extracted to his computer.

And he didn't make any "shaky" movements, he just hit the enter key like an instinctive reaction.

The document opens, which is a text document.

The information above has been presented in front of Xu Weiyun.

But this piece of information made him dumbfounded.

“The lion’s head in the cafeteria is so delicious!”

In the history of mankind, the first piece of information saved and transmitted through a general-purpose quantum computer was such a common sentence that was almost childish.