Brilliant

"Master, I like wearing a red dress, but what does that have to do with being called Xiao Lan?"

The Red-Skirted Girl pouted, clearly dissatisfied with the name.

Su Yuan examined the Red-Skirted Girl with interest.

Twenty seconds later.

Seeming to sense the shift in Su Yuan's expression, the Red-Skirted Girl said timidly, "Whatever Master says goes. The name Xiao Lan is actually quite nice."

"The imitation of human emotion is quite good," Su Yuan evaluated. "Return to your normal state."

"Yes." The various emotions displayed on the Red-Skirted Girl's face faded rapidly. In a mere half-second, she was devoid of any expression, and her voice lost all inflection.

In the end, she is only artificial intelligence, not a sentient life form, Su Yuan thought to himself.

The various postures and emotional expressions the Red-Skirted Girl had just displayed were all things Su Yuan had instructed her to mimic, with the goal of better understanding humanity and life itself.

As for the Red-Skirted Girl herself—the artificial intelligence Xiao Lan—she possessed no emotions whatsoever.

Her purpose for existing was to serve Su Yuan and complete the tasks he assigned.

Nothing more.

The fact that Su Yuan dared to create her meant he was capable of keeping her under absolute control.

"True artificial intelligence..." Su Yuan felt a sense of profound emotion.

The reason he had extracted the artificial intelligence code from the Grey Mirror and subsequently replicated it on Blue Star was that, for the current state of Blue Star, artificial intelligence was an unprecedented weapon of mass destruction. It was also a crucial component in Su Yuan's plan to silently resolve Blue Star's internal threats and counter the interstellar colonial fleet.

Humans use computer information technology to access, understand, and control the network.

However, for artificial intelligence, the cyber world is its home turf. Even the most formidable hackers and white-hats currently on Earth are far from being a match for a true artificial intelligence.

The two exist on entirely different planes.

It is like a giant deep-sea whale; once it is stranded on shore, even ants can devour it.

Yet, can one say the giant whale is inferior to the ants? Naturally not, because the ants' home turf is on land.

Artificial intelligence is the same; the cyber world is its home turf. As long as it remains within this domain, no non-AI entity can pose a threat to it.

With the assistance of artificial intelligence, everything Su Yuan did would be much more convenient. Tasks that previously required his personal attention could now be handled simply by instructing Xiao Lan.

Moreover, compared to Su Yuan's own hacking skills, Xiao Lan would only perform better and more perfectly.

As for why Su Yuan had only just replicated the artificial intelligence... even with the complete code, there was a certain threshold required to integrate it into the Blue Star network.

The hacking skills Su Yuan had previously learned were that very threshold.

It is like handing a pistol to a primitive human; the primitive human certainly does not need to understand the principles of the pistol to fire a lethal bullet.

But at the very least, they must understand that they need to pull the trigger to fire.

"Master, you asked me to explore and learn across the Blue Star network. I have discovered that there are one hundred and eighty-six locations within the network that I cannot infiltrate to learn from without causing any disturbance..."

The Red-Skirted Girl, Xiao Lan, began to report her findings from this period.

"One hundred and eighty-six locations..." The moment Su Yuan heard this question, he had already received the answer from the Grey Mirror.

These one hundred and eighty-six locations were essentially the firewalls established by the major powers on Blue Star, as well as the important global bases of the Truth Society, and so on.

Su Yuan noted that Xiao Lan had specified she could not infiltrate them without causing any disturbance, meaning that if she truly wanted to break in, she could—she would simply be detected.

This capability alone already surpassed the world's top hackers.

"No rush, take it slow," Su Yuan said.

The most terrifying aspect of artificial intelligence is its ability to learn.

Seven days ago, when Xiao Lan was first created, she was incredibly ignorant.

Now, she was already capable of traversing the Blue Star network; aside from those one hundred and eighty-six locations, the rest of the network held no secrets from her.

It was foreseeable that as time passed, Xiao Lan would only become more terrifying, and it was only a matter of time before she became the uncrowned queen of the Blue Star network.

"Switch to the Laboratory No. 1 surveillance."

Su Yuan began to issue orders.

"Very well, Master." As soon as Xiao Lan finished speaking, the image on the massive screen in front of Su Yuan shifted rapidly, displaying the interior of Laboratory No. 1.

Laboratory No. 1 was the facility Su Yuan had commissioned Tang Zhien to build.

With the support of massive funding from Zhou Pharmaceutical, it had taken only 22 days from the start of construction to the facility becoming operational.

At this moment, inside the laboratory, Qiao Mingyuan, dressed in a white lab coat, was frowning deeply, clearly having encountered some sort of difficulty.

A month ago, under Su Yuan's arrangements, he had successfully arrived in Magic City, and seven days ago, he had entered this laboratory to research stable wireless communication technology capable of covering the entire globe.

"The first bottleneck."

Su Yuan watched Qiao Mingyuan, whose brows were tightly furrowed, and naturally understood what was going on.

According to the answers provided by the Grey Mirror, for Qiao Mingyuan to develop the kind of wireless communication technology Su Yuan desired, he would need to overcome eight bottleneck dilemmas.

These eight bottlenecks were increasingly difficult, and without Su Yuan's intervention, even knowing the general direction, it would take decades or even a century to achieve.

After all, the wireless communication technology Su Yuan wanted—one that could easily cover any corner of the globe, remain incredibly stable without interruption, and be impossible to hack—was simply not technology that belonged to this era.

"Xiao Lan, send that document to Qiao Mingyuan."

After watching for a while, Su Yuan spoke up.

Since he knew the bottlenecks Qiao Mingyuan would encounter in advance, Su Yuan had naturally prepared accordingly.

For each of the eight bottlenecks Qiao Mingyuan faced, Su Yuan had prepared a document that would help him quickly advance to the next stage.

As for why he didn't send all eight documents to Qiao Mingyuan at once...

Without the preceding research, even seeing these eight documents would be of little significance.

Only after experiencing various research attempts and becoming completely stuck by a bottleneck would these documents serve as the Midas touch.

This was also the fastest method provided by the Grey Mirror to establish a wireless communication network belonging to Su Yuan.

"Understood, Master." Xiao Lan immediately sent a document to Qiao Mingyuan in Su Yuan's name.

Inside Laboratory No. 1.

Qiao Mingyuan was deep in thought.

To build an incredibly stable wireless communication system, one had to use specific high-frequency signals; currently, only a few, such as the terahertz band (0.1-3THz), met these requirements.

However, the terahertz band (0.1-3THz) suffered from high atmospheric attenuation and short transmission distances...

This failed to meet the other conditions of the wireless communication system.

Just as Qiao Mingyuan was struggling to think and trying to come up with a solution:

"The boss sent me a document?" Qiao Mingyuan was quite surprised.

The boss was Su Yuan. Over half a month ago, Qiao Mingyuan had asked Su Yuan how he should address him.

Su Yuan had replied that calling him "Boss" would suffice.

"This document?" Qiao Mingyuan immediately opened the file.

After taking a brief look, Qiao Mingyuan was instantly captivated.

Ten minutes later, with an excited expression, Qiao Mingyuan looked at the document before him and slapped his thigh, exclaiming, "Brilliant!"