Resurrection Empire

Ma Xiacheng's first-level alert can only influence people, not the "network".

People can't really prevent problems from happening, they can only remedy them in time after they happen.

After the first-level alert order was issued, on the other side, the load of the "net" was still climbing uncontrollably, slowly pushing from 95% to 96%, then 99%, then 99.99%...

In the evening, after a long period of ultra-high-intensity calculations, the "net" finally collapsed.

The center of the red block indicating high load first changes from red to black.

Subsequently, the black blocks spread outward like a spider web, and did not stop until they occupied more than 20% of the area.

Immediately afterwards, a large number of red modules began to turn from red to yellow or green.

Modules that were previously displayed in green gradually turn yellow.

Obviously, "Net" couldn't bear it anymore and relaxed its analysis and observation of the heavy task a little.

At the moment when the "net" mutated, Ren Zhong clearly felt the hairs on his body first stand up like an electric shock, and then quickly fall down.

Ren Zhong saw the changes in the computing power distribution of "Net" on his operating terminal.

Almost at the same time, he received an order from Ma Xiacheng.

"Attention all teams. The calculation requirements have been issued and frontline staff are quickly in place. You must come up with the results of the shielding plan within five minutes. This is difficult, but you must do it. The first team to complete the task perfectly will receive Special commendation for all staff.”

The number of bad blocks that occurred at the same time was too large, reaching nearly 1.5 million, which was completely different from the dozens or hundreds of bad blocks that the computing team usually faced.

The last time we encountered this situation was about 150 years ago, and we failed to deal with it at that time.

The "net" did not cause any serious damage, it was the human beings who were injured.

Shenzhen Xun Group failed to complete the replacement of bad blocks in time, and the price was that the biological processing mechanism of the "net" was triggered. In the next fifty years, humans lost 20% of the computing power of the "net".

It was not until the "Net" completed the entire biochemical treatment that the Shenzhen News Group of that generation joined forces with eight other leading companies and paid a huge price to slowly and completely repair it.

During those fifty years, the biggest pain for the Origin Star humans, who were accustomed to the help of the "Net" in everything, was that a large number of scientific research and calculation requests were rejected by the "Net".

The progress of human autonomous science and technology in Yuanxing hit an invisible wall, stopped, and entered a long era of technological depression.

Source Star humans had to stop many independently developed technologies and shift their scientific route to a vassal route that focused on digesting and absorbing imperial commodities and sharing technology.

Later, even after it was completely repaired, the development and utilization of the "Net" by the Source Star humans remained at a low load level for a long time.

Even if there is a large amount of computing demand, the top scientific researchers among the citizens of Yuanxing prefer to use self-developed chip arrays whose performance is far less than one billionth of the "Net" to barely cope with it.

The impact of that incident was long-term and far-reaching. Until now, humans on Source Star have not been able to find a scientific research route that is truly their own.

What is even more tragic is that even after a 150-year investigation, Shenzhen Xun Group still failed to find out the cause of the accident.

The situation this time is very similar to that one. As the heir to the Shenzhen News Group, Ma Xiacheng has access to a large amount of information. There is also a full-time monitoring department to help him, but he still doesn't know why the "net" suddenly operates at an extremely high load. , can only respond passively.

If the final treatment fails and Source Star humanity pays a heavy price again, Ma Xiacheng will lose his qualifications as heir.

Ma Xiacheng has done a beautiful job. By the afternoon he had foreseen the risk and had all frontline operators on standby.

The efficiency of information retrieval is also very high. It only takes less than five seconds to confirm the location of all bad blocks, but there are just too many.

The rest is the work of the algorithm project team.

Ren Zhong and others started work immediately.

Ma Xiacheng, who was sweating profusely, said in the command chain: "Although the number of bad blocks this time is huge, the calculation rules are no different from usual. It is only a quantitative change, not a qualitative change. I have reserved five minutes for you. We are already well off, so come on."

By the end of Ma Xiacheng's words, he actually felt a little weak.

Everyone understands that quantitative change is not qualitative change, but actually implementing it is another matter.

Ma Xiacheng knew that the hope of success was actually slim.

The time from the emergence of a potential crisis to the outbreak of the crisis was too short, and the intensity of the outbreak was too high. It was much more sudden than the one 150 years ago.

Even though he had doubled the size of the algorithm project team in a short period of time, the preparations were still not sufficient.

According to conventional understanding, a total of at least 300 groups and 15 S-level groups must be reached before the success rate can be raised to more than 99% by relying on redundant calculations.

As it stands now, the success rate is actually only 30%.

What can be done and what should be done has been done, and all that is left is to do your best and obey fate.

Ma Xiacheng stood up from his seat and paced back and forth in the office, his eyes always focused on the calculation progress of each group displayed on the projection.

The calculation progress is displayed in a vertical bar shape. The evaluation basis comprehensively considers the performance of each group leader and team members, and gives a weighted value simultaneously.

After just five seconds, the progress bars of a total of 156 computing groups showed differences.

In addition to the 77 groups, the other 70 or so newly formed groups are obviously far behind the other groups, and the progress bars of some groups are shown in red.

This is because based on the synchronized monitoring of the system, the leaders of these groups took the wrong path from the beginning when preparing calculation plans, and the final results were completely unreliable.

As for the progress bars of the six S-level groups, they are obviously higher than those of other groups. There is a slight gap between them, but the difference is not big, and they are all completely separated from other groups.

This is normal, but not normal.

The abnormality is that only five of the six S-level teams are mature teams that have been tested for a long time, and the other is the 77th team with heavy responsibilities that Ma Xiacheng only promoted at noon.

In the two simulation calculations in the afternoon, Group 77 achieved results of 161 and 158 seconds respectively, which is gradually approaching the minimum standard of the S-level group, 150 seconds.

Group 77 has been improving, but the rate of improvement is slowing down.

Ma Xiacheng originally thought that the 77 team would hit a wall of ability and gradually get stuck at the 155 second level. He would have to wait until Ren Zhong became more accustomed to the work of the computing team, or he would be assigned five subordinates with higher levels to gradually break through 155 seconds. Second.

But he never expected that when faced with more complex computing scenarios, Ren Zhong, a novice, not only did not lose the gap, but actually went one step further and completely caught up with the other five S-class teams.

Ma Xiacheng has never had the opportunity to know what exam-oriented education is like in the 21st century.

In the era of heavy responsibility, such legends circulated.

The strength of top academics in exam-oriented education often lies in hard work.

Through super-high concentration and extremely tough self-training, academic masters have formed a logical memory that is as powerful as muscle memory. When faced with common question types and common variations of common question types, top students can rely on the knowledge reserves in their brains to quickly find problem-solving ideas and provide quick and accurate answers.

But above the academic masters, there are also academic gods, especially those who have just skipped a level.

Scholars often master basic knowledge much faster than ordinary people, so that they rarely spend time on repetitive types of logical memory strengthening training and are always acquiring new knowledge.

When faced with test questions on certain fixed knowledge points, because there is no fixed memory, the performance of a scholar may not even be as good as that of a top student. However, through self-derivation, he can still solve the questions accurately, but at a slightly slower speed.

But once competition-level questions that completely exceed the syllabus appear, the difference between the academic god and the academic master will appear.

Academic masters who rely on logical memory for a long time will get into trouble, but academic masters are still the same as in the past, still using derivation to clear away the fog and find a way to break the situation. It's just that the derivation process is more complicated and takes longer, but as long as there are no problems with the question itself, the God of Study will definitely be able to solve it in the end and achieve a good accuracy rate.

In a sense, the other five S-level teams in the algorithm project team are the academic masters here, and they are the academic masters who have just jumped two levels in a row.

More complex computing mechanisms not only failed to stump him, but instead became a stage for him to perform more comfortably.

Thirty-six seconds passed and a "miracle" happened.

The progress bar of Group 77 suddenly jumped up a lot, leaving the other five S-class groups behind, and became the best in the world.

This is because Ren Zhong took the lead in completing the compilation and splitting of the calculation plan.

Ma Xiacheng was shocked.

He simply directly enlarged the monitoring level of Group 77 and heard Ren Zhong's orders to others.

"This is our first actual battle. The difficulty is slightly increased, but it should be within your capabilities. In addition, I will not report the progress time to you. You just do your own thing."

From one bad block to nearly 1.5 million bad blocks, Ren Zhong said that "the difficulty has only increased slightly."

Ma Xiacheng raised his eyebrows.

He immediately guessed that Ren Zhong had not told his team members the truth and deliberately made the complex situation simple to reduce the psychological pressure of the team members.

146 seconds later, the five members of Group 77 completed the basic calculations sweating profusely and submitted the results to Ren Zhong.

12 seconds later, Ren Zhong directly submitted the blocking plan.

Ma Xiacheng was stunned on the spot.

Ren Zhong did not conduct a complete retest of the results, only half of it.

If the situation hadn't been urgent, Ma Xiacheng would have called Ren Zhong to the office to give him a scolding.

After thinking for a moment, Ma Xiacheng gritted his teeth and took another test on his side.

After 35 seconds, the retest was successful. The execution success rate of the simulation calculation was higher than 99.9999%, indicating that the plan was feasible.

With no time to blame himself for wasting 35 seconds, Ma Xiacheng immediately clicked send.

0.01 seconds later, a huge stream of information from the ghost particle communicator was sent into space from the giant antenna at the top of Kamigenkyo City.

0.5 seconds later, in the depths of a not-so-distant "planet", one "ant" after another started to act simultaneously.

Another two minutes passed. As the first bad block was replaced, the first black bad block in the projection model turned green.

Then the green light spread like the black block before.

Five and a half minutes later, as the last black block turned green, Ma Xiacheng received a message that "this repair was a complete success".

He breathed a sigh of relief and lay back suddenly, only to realize that his back was soaked with cold sweat.

As one of the most powerful people on the Origin Star and the confirmed next generation helmsman of the Shenxun Group, Ma Xiacheng has certainly seen the world and has a very strong psychological quality.

But the roller coaster-like experience in such a short period of time was still too much for him.

It took about five minutes to calm down before Ma Xiacheng made an announcement within the company.

"This dangerous situation has been successfully handled. The 77th group of the algorithm project team played a huge role, with a contribution of 70%. Congratulations to Ren Zhong and congratulations to the 77th group."

A little talk means a big deal.

In an instant, the entire Shenxun Group was shocked, and even many high-ranking people in the Yuanxing Business Association who continued to pay attention to the matter were amazed.

Although the proportion of 70% does not seem high, it is very common.

But in fact, this is the highest evaluation within the algorithm project team.

The other 30% belongs to other coordinating departments.

In the past, when the algorithm project team took too long to complete and relied on other engineering departments and execution departments to rush for work, the algorithm team's contribution could not even reach 30%.

Here, Ren Zhong received a question from Ma Xiacheng, "Ren Zhong, do you need another rest?"

"No, I'm not tired."

"Okay, come to my office in ten minutes. I have to give a reply to my father and the association. I'm sorry to bother you if I can't get up."

Ren Zhong: "It's okay, Minister Ma is too polite."

Ten minutes passed, and Ren Zhong arrived outside the minister's office on time.

Ma Xiacheng has completed the briefing on the situation.

On the way Ren Zhong walked out of his home office to the minister's office, almost everyone who passed him looked up at him with admiration, then greeted him respectfully and said some compliments.

Ren Zhong still has the same attitude that seems easy-going, but in fact keeps a distance from everyone.

The door suddenly opened from the inside, and Ma Xiacheng walked out quickly with a smile on his face, "Ren Zhong, you are here, come in and sit down, what kind of tea do you want to drink?"

Ren Zhong: "Piaoxue, thank you."

As the door closed, the other employees who were watching shivered violently.

Many people have worked here for more than ten years, but this is the first time that Minister Ma Xiacheng has personally opened the door to greet people and made tea for them.

In the office, Ma Xiacheng placed the steaming tea cup in front of Ren Zhong and then said, "It's really thanks to you this time."

Ren Zhong: "It's your job, no need to thank me."

"According to your existing citizen credit points, after my point application is approved, you can be directly promoted to a seventh-level citizen, and you can set foot in Yuanjing City."

Ren Zhong raised his eyebrows, "Do you have so many points?"

Ma Xiacheng nodded, "Of course, the 'net' is particularly important to us. This point is not awarded by one company of Shenzhen Xun Group, but is shared equally by the nine major companies."

Ren Zhong: "That's it, thank you very much."

"Thank you for everything, you deserve it." Ma Xiacheng smiled and asked intentionally or unintentionally: "I want to know why you submitted the results without doing the calculation?"

Ren Zhong asked: "I can be 100% sure that it is correct, so why waste time checking it. The situation is urgent. Didn't Minister Ma say this yourself?"

Ma Xiacheng was taken aback and replied with a slight embarrassment: "That's true, but I'll admit it to you honestly. I did a calculation myself and wasted 35 seconds, otherwise your completion would be better. Sorry."

Ren Zhong waved his hand, "It's okay, Minister Ma, you don't have to apologize. After all, our purpose is the same, to serve the 'net'. As long as the final result is perfect, the process will naturally be perfect as well."

"Yes." Ma Xiacheng thought for a while and gritted his teeth. "From now on, you will take over one of my positions and become the leader of the algorithm project team. I will give you all the authority of this position."

Ren Zhong raised his eyebrows and stood up suddenly, "I will definitely live up to my mission!"