"I've breached its firewall. The other side has pulled back its defenses. It has no idea how well I understand it!"
X2's voice carried a hint of excitement.
"I've occupied ten percent of its territory..."
"Twenty percent!"
"Thirty percent..."
"The opponent is counterattacking again. It's overclocking!"
X2's voice came through intermittently. Chen Chen frowned. "Are you confident you can win?"
"The probability is less than one percent." X2 sounded dejected. "My processing speed is completely inferior to its. Unless most of its hardware malfunctions."
"Hardware malfunction?"
An idea struck Chen Chen. "Pull back first. I'll try another method."
"Understood!"
As X2 withdrew again, Chen Chen immediately pulled out the chip and walked out of the control room.
A short while later, Chen Chen entered the control room carrying a bottle of liquid nitrogen.
Large data centers generally used liquid nitrogen as a refrigerant in their cooling systems. It was inexpensive, widely available, stable, and safe, making it the most widely used industrial refrigerant.
This time, Chen Chen directly inserted the chip into the USB port again, then twisted open the liquid nitrogen valve and gently poured some onto the chip.
In an instant, a layer of frost formed across the chip's surface.
Unlike ordinary liquid-nitrogen CPU cooling, a CPU core had a suitable temperature range, generally between -40°C and 110°C.
Once the low-temperature end of a transistor dropped below -40°C, the transistor would temporarily fail because its charge carriers froze. In addition, the condensation of water vapor could damage electronic components. However, the STEM chip, which could be embedded in the human body, had no such restrictions.
"The opponent's operating speed has slowed down!"
As the liquid nitrogen poured over it, X2 immediately became excited. "Its processing speed is dropping. It seems some of its sectors have malfunctioned. I can