Elder Hua's eyes were red too.
Both men's lips were trembling.
Li Guozhong was right.
He truly was a pillar of the nation who served the country and its people!
Elder Wang and Elder Hua curiously looked through what Xu Fan had written.
Their eyes lit up from time to time.
Clearly, they were already engrossed.
Watching Elder Wang and Elder Hua, whose eyes had been blinded by knowledge, Tong Yao could not help sighing inwardly.
They had originally come to determine whether Xu Fan had a team behind him, but now look.
They had all been conquered.
It looked like it was still up to her, the genius girl, to step in.
Tong Yao walked up to Xu Fan with confident strides.
"Hello, Xu Fan. I'm an expert in computer programming, exoskeleton armor central control systems, and electronic warfare for the Southern Military Region. My name is Tong Yao."
"Hello!"
The two smiled and shook hands.
"Xu Fan, I'd like to ask you something. What programming language did you use to write the central control system for the Crimson Sky No. 1 mech?"
A sly gleam flashed through Tong Yao's eyes as she finished.
As everyone knew, in learning, breadth brought muddled knowledge, while focus brought mastery.
Since Xu Fan was so amazing at physics, programming absolutely had to be his weak point!
As long as he could not answer, the fact that he had a team working for him would give itself away.
"The central control system? I didn't use any programming language!" Xu Fan said truthfully.
"Huh?" Tong Yao froze.
How could he possibly make a central control system without writing programs in a programming language!
"Well... let me put it this way!"
Xu Fan paused briefly, then patiently explained,
"So-called programming means abstracting real-world problems into data processing and achieving objectives through logical expressions."
"But my central control system follows an entirely different set of logic!"
"It builds on physical control, deeply integrating artificial intelligence to perform humanlike operations and thereby achieve its objectives."
"You should understand when I put it that way, right?"
Tong Yao went blank.
She did not understand!
She had placed in the top three at the International Hacker Competition at eighteen, yet she had absolutely no idea what the hell Xu Fan was talking about.
It just sounded really impressive.
No, she could not keep this conversation going.
If they kept talking, people would start looking down on her!
Tong Yao's eyes shifted.
"I understand that... oh, right, could I borrow your phone for a look?"
There was something wrong with Xu Fan's phone, and Tong Yao had already suffered deeply because of it.
Now was the perfect time to use it as an opening to expose the fact that Xu Fan had a team.
"Sure."
Xu Fan thought this girl, Tong Yao, seemed a little strange.
He took out his phone and handed it over.
The moment Tong Yao held Xu Fan's phone, she was dumbfounded.
So light!
It looked no different from an ordinary phone, but it weighed only a third as much.
Puzzled, Tong Yao opened the phone.
She found the device information section.
One glance instantly left her utterly stunned.
[System version: Mystic Heaven 1.0] [Device name: The Handsome Guy Who Loves Reading] [Storage space: T] [Battery capacity: nano-neutrino power generation, no battery required] [Processor: Crimson Sky 001] [Processor computing power: 100T/millisecond] [Effective signal range: solar system] [Rear camera: 1 billion pixels] [Waterproof rating: IP1000]
Fuck???
Why is it different from mine!
Tong Yao's already large eyes widened even further.
Her eyelashes fluttered like two little fans.
She scratched her head frantically.
Impossible!
Absolutely impossible!
This has to be fake!!
I won't even get started on the absurdly huge storage space.
What do you mean, neutrino power generation with no battery required?
You can get online anywhere in the solar system, and the phone would still work if you fished it out of the deep sea-is that reasonable?
Tell me, is that reasonable?
Even novels wouldn't dare write this!
Even the phone's processor has surpassed the core computing power of the research base's Tianhe-2!
If this is real.
From now on, we could just use your phone for computer analysis, testing, and calculating results.
Tong Yao's breathing quickened, her small, pert chest rising and falling unevenly.
Her little heart pounded rapidly, thump-thump.
She gasped for breath, trying hard to ease the shock inside her.
Only after a long while.
Did Tong Yao finally ask,
"Xu Fan, did you modify this phone yourself too?"
Seeing Tong Yao suddenly ask this after being silent for so long, Xu Fan instantly grew wary.
This girl isn't trying to freeload and get me to modify her phone for her, is she?
So he said directly,
"Yeah, but modifying phones is a lot of trouble."
"Mm-hmm, it really is!"
Tong Yao nodded vigorously, not doubting what Xu Fan had said.
At this point, she could think of only one final, highly technical question.
If Xu Fan could answer that too, she would really have nothing left.
She said solemnly,
"Could you explain how this Mystic Heaven 1.0 system works?"
"Well... all right."
Xu Fan thought, Why does this girl have so many questions?
He said casually,
"This is much simpler than Crimson Sky No. 1's central control system. Its core lies in the efficient use of hardware resources..."
After a torrent of highly technical jargon.
Tong Yao completely shut down.
"Heh-heh, I understand. I really understand what you're saying..."
With a couple of foolish chuckles, she handed the phone back to Xu Fan.
She never wanted to talk to Xu Fan again.
This man had pinned her to the ground and rubbed her face in it in her own area of expertise.
She could not even get a word in!
The facts proved that Xu Fan was the true computer genius, while she only deserved to be called a computer scrub.
Utter defeat!
She conceded with heart and soul, ready to kneel and sing "Conquest"!
Was this guy even human?
He had stunned Elder Wang and Elder Hua with physics.
He had utterly crushed her in computing too.
He was too much of a freak.
By then, Elder Wang and Elder Hua had carefully secured Xu Fan's handwritten notes.
Seeing that Tong Yao and Xu Fan had finished talking, Elder Wang came over too.
"Young Xu, what were you two talking about?"
"Nothing much. Tong Yao asked a few questions, and I answered them."
Tong Yao had once been a genius in the Huaqing Youth Class and had always thought highly of herself. Why would she lower herself to seek advice from someone else?
Elder Wang's curiosity was piqued.
"Questions about what?"
"The central control system," Xu Fan said truthfully.
Elder Wang drew a sharp breath, his expression jolting.
He thought he had misheard.
Wasn't the central control system Tong Yao's area of expertise!
Everyone looked at Tong Yao.
By then, the girl had buried her head in her clothes, too ashamed to face anyone.
Elder Wang could only marvel.
He had made a computer genius shut down in just two or three minutes?
Incredible! Just how profound was his computing expertise!
After a sigh, Elder Wang continued,
"Young Xu, if you developed and built all of this, where did you build it?"
"In the disused warehouse I rented. My intelligent machining tool is still sitting there."
Xu Fan did not mention the Ultra-Deep Technology Workbench, simply giving it a more down-to-earth name.
"Then who helped you test-fly the mech after you built it?"
Elder Wang immediately followed up with this question.
Beside him, Elder Hua frantically gave him a thumbs-up again. It was simply a stroke of genius.
Physics and mechanics, chemistry and materials, computer technology-you're proficient in every one of them.
But what about test flights!
Surely you couldn't have done those yourself?
As long as we get the test pilot's name out of you, we can follow the vine to the melon and expose your team!
"The test pilot was me too, of course!"
Xu Fan said earnestly,
"I was running out of time then, so I just took it for a quick spin."
"What?"
Elder Hua abruptly stepped forward and seized Xu Fan's arm, his face full of disbelief.
"You even handled the test flying yourself?"