10. Conflicting Intelligence

Time went back to shortly after the game began, to Shi Xinglan's side.

After leaving on her own, Shi Xinglan found a high-rise apartment building at random, went up to a floor above the tenth, found a door, and went straight to knock and ring the doorbell.

When no one answered, she took out the Master Key from the system and broke in.

After closing and locking the door, she drew the curtains and turned on the lights. Then she took a pile of precision electronic components out of the system and sat on the wooden floor, assembling them with practiced ease.

What was Shi Xinglan doing?

She was putting together a Computer Cluster-in other words, the hardware architecture for a Supercomputer.

As Shi Xinglan worked, the precision electronic components she had already taken out were soon assembled. At the same time, she kept taking new components and parts out of the system, making the device look increasingly complex and sophisticated.

It didn't take long before Shi Xinglan was surrounded by a sea of electronic equipment. Dense, intricate wiring covered half the living room around her!

Several Super Batteries provided independent power, and a simplified Supercomputer equipped with 32 ultra-advanced processors was assembled!

Since she was only using it temporarily, Shi Xinglan hadn't assembled a server rack. The wires and electronic components were all exposed, giving it a mechanical, cyberpunk feel.

After finishing, Shi Xinglan went to the floor-standing air conditioner and unplugged it from the room's power outlet. She plugged it into an outlet powered by the Super Batteries, then took four electric fans out of the system and connected them to the power. After adjusting them to an appropriate speed, she turned off the room's lights.

After all that, Shi Xinglan took the air conditioner remote and nimbly