At 8:20 in the morning, Shi Tie Zhu arrived at Sister Mengmeng's room.
Three and a half hours had passed since Shi Tie Zhu received the Third Ciphertext.
The moment he entered, he saw the grave expression on Sister Mengmeng's face, and his spirits rose with it. "What's going on?"
"It doesn't look good." Sister Mengmeng explained in detail. "The encryption level of this Third Ciphertext is higher than I expected. It uses an extremely advanced Spiral Encryption."
"This Spiral Encryption can be considered one of the cutting-edge achievements in modern Mathematics and computer science. Every decryption is like circling along a spiraling chain. With every turn, an even vaster chain is deconstructed, and the data volume rises exponentially. The difficulty of deconstruction keeps increasing, while its functions, effects, and so on keep changing as well."
"I can't openly mobilize computing resources yet, so the deconstruction process hasn't been fast."
"I kept adjusting the algorithm and found a relatively suitable method to run this information through three cycles. Data that originally contained only several dozen bits has now expanded to eight megabytes, and it is still nowhere near the end."
"The first cycle was blank, as though it were merely Garbled Code without any valid information. But in the second cycle, one character was decoded—" Sister Mengmeng raised one finger, her eyes heavy with pressure. "Danger."
"Danger?" Shi Tie Zhu's eyes widened. "So it really is a warning message. But who is in danger? And why?"
"We don't know why yet, but the third cycle answered who was in danger. That's why I called you here." Sister Mengmeng said solemnly, "The third-cycle decoding result was four words—Mars Base."
Shi Tie Zhu immediately furrowed his brow. "Mars Base? Which base on Mars? Mars currently has seven military bases, four research bases,