Sweeping the Universe Starting with a Hand-Built CPU
Chapter 5

Open for Business

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This thing is a metal box about twenty centimeters square, with two mechanical arms extending from its sides, allowing it to move nimbly. The end of one mechanical arm is a metal hand with five fingers that can bend and extend.

Han Yang planned to use this metal hand to operate the keyboard.

The end of the other mechanical arm is a cover that fits perfectly over the mouse. In the positions corresponding to the left and right mouse buttons are two metal rods that can pop out and retract, with a scroll wheel in the middle.

The metal rods can tap the left and right mouse buttons, and the scroll wheel can turn the mouse's scroll wheel.

On top of the metal box is a camera, facing the computer screen. A wire extends from the back of the box, which can get power by plugging into a power strip.

After finishing this, Han Yang put on the second-hand brainwave control device he had purchased at great expense.

The brainwave control device can convert brainwaves into radio waves and also convert radio waves into brainwaves, allowing the human brain to perceive them.

The metal box is equipped with a radio wave receiver and transmitter, which can connect to the brainwave control device.

After starting it, instantly, the image captured by the camera on the metal box was transmitted through the radio wave transmitter to the brainwave control device, and then converted by the brainwave control device into the image in Han Yang's mind.

It was as if he was seeing it with his own eyes.

With a thought, Han Yang issued an instruction. The next moment, the mechanical arms on either side of the metal box began to move.

The right arm operated the mouse to open the browser and clicked on the address bar. At the same time, the left arm moved, the metal fingers tapping lightly on the keyboard, quickly typing a string of letters, and then hitting the enter key.

Immediately, a website was opened.

Han Yang took a deep breath, somewhat excitedly removing the brainwave control device.

His idea was truly feasible!

The brainwave control device was originally created to directly connect brainwaves with electronic devices. In principle, there was no need for a mouse or keyboard; signals could be directly input into the computer.

Doing what Han Yang did, controlling a robot through a brainwave control device, and then controlling a keyboard and mouse to operate a computer, was like pulling down your pants to fart – no normal person would do this.

Even in the power leveling industry, which requires high operational precision, no one would do this. Are you kidding? Why would I go through all that trouble? I can just use my own hands to operate it, right?

But Han Yang insisted on doing it this way.

Because limited by the current performance of brainwave control devices, directly inputting signals into the computer is too inefficient. It's better to add an extra step and control the computer through a keyboard and mouse. Also, through this method, he can split his "computing power" into multiple parts and operate multiple computers simultaneously. In this way, Han Yang alone can do the work of several people, achieving multiple times the income.

For ordinary people, this is simply impossible. After all, people cannot do two things at once. But for Han Yang, who had "devoured" a computer chip, multitasking was a piece of cake.

Calming himself, Han Yang put on the brainwave control device again, operating the robot to operate the computer, and searched for some information online. He found that the most popular game recently was a 3D online game called "Cosmic Warfare". Correspondingly, the demand for power leveling in this game was also the highest. There were a large number of shops on various online shopping websites undertaking power leveling services for this game.

The content of this game was quite simple: players control game characters to fight monsters on different planets in Cosmic Warfare, then collect materials, craft equipment, and so on.

Han Yang downloaded this game and found a large amount of game data, tutorials, and other materials to start studying.

During this time, Han Yang felt a little thirsty, so he got up directly, picked up his water cup, and poured a glass of water. Throughout this process, the brainwave control device remained connected to the metal box via radio waves, and the robot continued to operate the computer without interruption.

As long as there was a signal, it wouldn't matter where Han Yang was; it wouldn't affect things here.

The hand-crafted chip that had merged into his brain, along with Han Yang's own brain, perfectly controlled both aspects without any confusion.

Time slowly passed, the sun gradually set, and night covered the sky. Han Yang ate a quick meal and continued to concentrate on his research.

A sense of fatigue slowly washed over Han Yang. At this moment, Han Yang had a very peculiar feeling.

He felt as if his consciousness had split in two. One part was his original consciousness, which was extremely tired at this moment, even a little blurry, while the other part of his consciousness was still operating tirelessly.

He didn't deliberately control the other consciousness, letting it become extremely tired and then fall into a deep "sleep". The other consciousness remained awake, continuing to operate the computer through the brainwave control device - radio waves - robot mode, studying the information collected from the internet.

At this moment, Han Yang himself sighed: "It's actually this amazing. My body is completely unaffected, sleeping when it should, while my consciousness can keep running."

Before dawn the next day, Han Yang's other consciousness naturally woke up, and his body was also awakened. He moved his body and felt it carefully, feeling that all the previous fatigue had been swept away, and his physical condition was so good that he could immediately go out and run ten kilometers.

Under these circumstances, Han Yang studied game data for a full three days. After that, he gritted his teeth and bought a higher-level account that allowed him to experience the full game content. He then played for a few more days and understood all the game content.

At this moment, Han Yang could even say that in terms of game operation and technique alone, few players of this game could compare to him. No matter how precise or fast your operation is, can it be faster than a computer?

Although there are no game hacks now, I am a human hack! Even more intelligent than a regular hack!

After researching the shops that undertake power leveling services, Han Yang summarized the general pricing rules for various different game services.

The cold storage manager job Han Yang had found before required nine and a half hours of work per day, for 2000 yuan per month, averaging about seven yuan per hour.

This salary was barely enough to support himself.

Porters doing physical labor at construction sites, logistics centers, and other places earned about 12 yuan per hour.

In the online game power leveling industry, for power leveling that requires no technical skill and is purely time-consuming, Han Yang calculated that the hourly wage was about six yuan, even lower than his salary as a cold storage manager.

Those with higher technical skill could earn eight or nine yuan, and even up to about 15 yuan.

But an hourly wage of 15 yuan was not something ordinary people could get; it required being a seasoned player with extremely skilled game operation.

Anything higher was considered custom work, which had no industry reference price and required negotiation.

Han Yang thought for a moment, directly registered a shop that undertook game power leveling services, and heavily launched his first product.

The task of hunting 1000 Yellow Sand Monsters on Yellow Sea Planet, priced at only 20 yuan!

This task would take a skilled veteran player five hours to complete. This meant that for this task, Han Yang's hourly wage was only four yuan!

Compared to the market price of six yuan, it was a full one-third lower!

This price could be considered quite favorable. Given that online shopping websites are relatively strictly managed and there is basically no need to worry about being scammed, someone immediately placed an order shortly after the product was released.

Han Yang directly controlled the robot to contact the customer, successfully logged into the game, and immediately used the robot to control the game character to fly to Yellow Sea Planet and start fighting monsters.

Han Yang himself sat comfortably in a chair, flipping through his phone, searching for more information and knowledge. At the same time, his mind was still contemplating future development plans, while also operating the robot to control the computer. He was multitasking without any pressure.

Five hours flew by quickly. The monster-slaying mission was successfully completed. The client confirmed receipt very readily and even gave a good review.

"Looking forward to your next visit~"

Han Yang offered a friendly greeting.

Looking at the 20 yuan lying in his account, Han Yang was filled with excitement.

"I need to buy a few more computers as soon as possible."

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