"Is this true?" Chen Xu quickly swallowed the fish ball, stretched his body forward, and shrank back when his face was burned by the steam. He slapped the table and said excitedly: "Then we are going to open a company and become bosses during the summer vacation?!"
Before Jiang Chen could say anything, Huo Bo poured cold water on him: "As a boss, do you know how to manage a company?" He turned to Jiang Chen and frowned, "Even if you are planning to set up your team, it's still too early to start a company now. First of all, the funds and technology are unbalanced. For the time being, you can only provide the technology and funds. Shen Xu and I have nothing but want to own a certain share. Even if we are childhood friends, we can't do this."
Shen Xu calmed down from his excitement after hearing this: "Huo Bo is right..."
Jiang Chen: "Who said you don't want to pay? Each of you will have 100,000 yuan as starting capital, and I will provide the technology. In the future, one of you will manage the company while the other will negotiate external cooperation."
"In the past three years, our business has only been open to Reed and other companies that contact us for authorization after Reed phones are launched. Our job is to screen and negotiate cooperation. For actual recruitment, we only need to hire someone who can discuss projects, a receptionist, and a financial officer."
"Three hundred thousand yuan is our starting capital. You don't even have this much money, do you?"
Huo Bo's eyes calmed down, he looked at Jiang Chen deeply and said, "Yes."
Jiang Chen looked at Chen Xu, who was tapping his chopsticks excitedly, and raised his chopsticks and said, "It must be there!"
Chen Xu's family was well-off, and he didn't like to spend money recklessly. He saved almost all his pocket money and New Year's money, and now he has more than 100,000 yuan. After Huo Bo came back from his biological mother's place, he also had 30,000 yuan for living expenses. He was never a person who lived off his savings. Within a year, he taught himself to study investment and financial management, and the money in his hands had increased several times. Jiang Chen knew that it was about 150,000 yuan.
The starting capital of 100,000 per person was the amount Jiang Chen came up with after careful consideration.
In addition to ensuring that they can take out the money and maintain their daily lives after taking it out, this money can also ensure that the company can operate normally in the first year. Since they are ready to cooperate with the country, the laboratory test equipment and materials will be provided by the country, and even most of the members of the scientific research team will be selected from the country's top scientists, which saves a huge amount of expenses.
The Yangtze River is the company's main project in the future, and it will also be the most classic and long-lasting project. It will be updated but not replaced, and will become the most popular and safest home protection system in Country C and even the world. This initial investment in scientific research is huge, and the money in the hands of Shen Xu and Huo Bo is indeed a drop in the bucket, but if this money is fully borne by the state, then even if the company is not profitable in the early stage, this money can support two or three years, not to mention that Lide has working capital coming in every year, and 300,000 is enough.
Jiang Chen raised the Sprite: "Then, I wish us a happy cooperation."
Shen Xu: "Cheers to our future world-dominating Yangtze River!"
Hobo: “Cheers!”
He Qianmin: "...for my brothers' careers."
Cybersecurity Agency.
A young man wearing black-framed glasses paced back and forth in front of two desks, glancing at the door from time to time and muttering to himself.
"Nice to meet you, no, nice to meet you, no... just say hello, hello, my name is Chai Can, I am very interested in your Yangtze River System, I hope you can invite me to join your team, although I am working in the Cyber Security Bureau now, but..."
A voice interrupted: "But what?"
"But..." The young man was about to continue, but when he realized that someone was talking next to him, his body froze and he ran to an open space. After seeing the person standing where he was just now, he said with a red face, "Nothing, Deputy Director Li, do you want to talk to me about something?"
"The person you wanted to change jobs to is here." Deputy Director Li took a sip from the thermos cup, raised his chin, and motioned him to look outside: "Look, it's over there."
Chai Can walked towards the door and saw the young man surrounded by several people. His steps froze and he stood still.
Deputy Director Li knew about his problem. Because of this, he would not even stay in the main control room and had to stay alone in this small office.
"Not going?" Deputy Director Li said, "How can you change jobs if you don't talk to people?"
Chai Can and Deputy Director Li have been together for a while, so they are familiar with each other. They are not so nervous when talking from a distance. He said, "I couldn't speak during the interview, but you let me in, didn't you?"
Deputy Director Li: "Isn't that because you are capable?"
Chai Can looked at him without saying a word, but Deputy Director Li suddenly understood what he meant.
"I chose you because I have a keen eye for talent. I have eaten more salt than you have eaten rice. I can tell at a glance who has talent and who doesn't. Did you see the boy who just passed by? He is at least three or five years younger than you. If you don't say anything, he can grow a pair of X-ray eyes and see what talent you have in your belly?"
"Then, then let me participate in the information war later..."
Deputy Director Li spread his hands and said, "There's really nothing we can do about this today. Did you see those people who came this morning? Although they are from our Security Bureau, they are all non-staff members. Their positions are nominally Security Directors, but in fact they are external aids that only come out when there is a major crisis. Moreover, their hacking skills are unmatched in China or even in the world. So, all those who participated in the information war today were assigned by the higher-ups, and I can't get in."
Chai Can lowered his eyes sadly. Deputy Director Li said no more and walked out. Halfway through, he turned back and picked up the thermos cup that had just fallen. He glanced at Chai Can, paused, and said, "You can watch the information war. Do you want to go with me?"
When asking this question, Deputy Director Li was prepared to be rejected, but he did not expect Chai Can to follow him without hesitation.
"Are you really going?"
"go."
Deputy Director Li looked at Chai Can, who was two steps away from him, sighed, and waved his hand: "Okay, follow me."
The two of them just stepped into the competition computer room one after the other - the computer room is divided into two floors. The second floor is the entrance. There is only a corridor surrounded by silver metal, through which you can see downstairs. Downstairs is the sub-control room, which has 25 computers arranged symmetrically, with a mainframe in the middle, forming a semicircular shape as a whole.
What can be seen upstairs and downstairs are three two-story high parallel large screens. In the center of the three large screens is a bright and mysterious galaxy, while the other two screens are flashing spots of light. The information war has not yet begun, but both sides are already on high alert.
The entire sub-main control room is divided into two distinct lineups. On both sides are more than 20 of the world's top computers, and sitting in front of these computers are the country's top network security engineers and hackers; in the middle is only a teenager, who is even wearing a high school uniform. The white short-sleeved shirt and dark blue trousers do not make him look immature. On the contrary, his open and generous temperament makes him look very calm.
Deputy Director Li stopped and looked at the boy, nodded slightly in his heart, and walked to the woman with long curly hair. "Xiao Yang, how is it?"
Director Yang lowered his voice and said, "There are still two minutes left. It will start soon."
Deputy Director Li looked at the young man in the middle of the field and asked, "Who do you think will win?"
At the last meeting, Deputy Director Li had something to do, so he sent Director Yang directly. Unexpectedly, Director Yang brought along the socially anxious Chai Can. When he learned about this, he just hoped that Chai Can could get through the meeting safely. Unexpectedly, after the meeting, Xiao Yang, who was usually his most reliable subordinate, told him that the bureau might hold an information security competition. Chai Can was even more out of character. He usually wouldn't say a word to him for ten days, but that day he actually asked him twice whether the competition would be held.
The abnormal behavior of the two people attracted the attention of Deputy Director Li. He originally just wanted to find out from his old friend what achievements the young man named Jiang Chen had made. Who knew that before the news from his old friend came, the document issued by the higher-ups arrived first.
It was clearly written in black and white that he was to host this information security competition, and a list of contestants who were not from the Cybersecurity Bureau was also attached. They were all well-known hackers, each one more powerful than the other.
——Even A, who had been missing for many years, came.
Deputy Director Li was a little confused. When the hackers from Country J and Country K were fighting each other and some took advantage of the situation to harass Country C's security network and even tried to break into the country's confidential information database, A was not sent out. Why was A invited out for such a competition?
For this reason, he brewed a cup of bitter gourd early this morning. Others used it to clear away heat and detoxify, but he used it to refresh himself. He wanted to see what this young man was capable of, as he actually alarmed the people above him.
The screen in the middle began to count down, 10, 9, 8...
Chai Can stood at a distance from everyone else, staring at the Milky Way on the big screen almost obsessively, counting down along with the numbers on the screen.
"C."
There was a sound coming from under his feet. Chai Can was startled. He looked down and saw a young man with dyed yellow hair and cold white skin sitting cross-legged on the side. He hooked his finger at him and said, "Sit and watch."
Chai Can froze and took two steps back in an instant, trying to avoid it.
There was a hint of teasing in the young man's eyes. The countdown on the big screen ended before he opened his mouth. A calm male voice with a slight electric sound rang out: "Dylan, I'm ready."
The young man turned his head in surprise and looked up at the large screen in the middle. The rotating planet had occupied one-sixth of the entire screen. Its light was neither dazzling nor dim, but it seemed like one of the billions of planets quietly moving in the universe, full of vitality and real.
Not only the young people, but everyone was attracted by the voice that was no different from a real person and looked up at the big screen.
Only Chai Can stood frozen in place, his head moving stiffly with a crackling sound until he faced the young man in the center, and his mouth opened.
No one noticed his expression because the game was about to start.
Jiang Chen stood beside the computer and said in a warm voice: "Changjiang, activate the first-level defense. All you have to do is defend. Don't allow anyone or any data to break through our safety net."
"Okay, Dylan."
The planet in the center of the big screen turned from dotted lines to solid lines. If you look closely, you will see that the planet is composed of hundreds of billions of solid and dotted lines. In fact, each line is a long string of codes. The lines condense and blur, and move around the center of the sphere. Countless lines change, exchange, extend and shrink. Some lines go from solid to blur and then disappear, and some lines quietly enter the matrix of the sphere. Occasionally, white light flashes, but is swallowed up and dissolved by the lines.
If an outsider looks at it, he can only see a planet made up of countless lines rotating and changing, but this space is home to a group of people who are most knowledgeable about network security technology.
Not long after the game started, they figured out the clue by combining the codes flying rapidly on the left and right screens and the light spots that bloomed and disappeared on the planet in the middle: the red spots were viruses, the white spots were Trojans, and the aqua-blue wandering virtual light was looking for loopholes... But no matter what they were, these spots were blocked by the seemingly fragile dotted lines and were destroyed before they could even penetrate.
The big screen seemed to be showing a wonderful astronomical movie, with bright spots of light flickering and disappearing, meteors and nebulae, as beautiful as a painting.
But everyone present was shocked and horrified by the reality represented by this picture. More than 20 of the country's top network security engineers attacked a computer at the same time, but it was like air touching the water, unable to create a ripple. Not to mention implanting a Trojan virus or attacking a certain node, even the outermost firewall could not resist.
Deputy Director Li and Director Yang looked at each other and saw solemnity and shock in each other's eyes.
Director Yang lowered his voice very low, as if he was afraid of affecting the people in the room: "Should we report it?"
Deputy Director Li shook his head, pointed slightly upward, and then pointed in the direction of the computer room. Director Yang looked over subconsciously, was slightly stunned, and then came to his senses and said in disbelief: "Who is here?"
"I also received the news this morning." Deputy Director Li whispered in her ear, "I just came back from a visit to Country A and came here directly."
"Has this matter alarmed even that person?"
"It's hard to say..." Deputy Director Li looked at the small planet that was still rotating in an orderly manner and said without blinking, "Mr. Xiang is here too."
Director Yang nodded in understanding and looked at the young man in the center.
There is no shortage of opportunities and connections. I'm afraid the person in front of me is about to soar to success.
The planets on the big screen rotated faster and faster, and the intersection of solid and dotted lines became more solid. At the same time, the planets gradually shrank and slowly sank into the galaxy.
Deputy Director Li was thinking about what kind of new defense method this was, and suddenly stopped swearing. He looked in the direction of the sound, and saw a tall and strong man standing up from a camera position on the left. He kicked the mouse and walked towards the young man in the middle with a menacing look.
“Hey, hey, hey!” Deputy Director Li immediately went downstairs and took big steps to stop the man. He wanted to call the man’s name, but because he was a non-staff member, he had no idea what his name was. He could only run wildly while holding the thermos cup, trying to intimidate and persuade him with words: “Comrade! Hitting people is against the law! Calm down! Don’t…”
His voice stopped at the same time as his footsteps, and he almost failed to brake.
The burly man, who was nearly 1.9 meters tall, looked at the almost petite boy in front of him with a flattering look on his face, forcing a smile through his fat face: "Student Jiang Chen, is that your name? The firewall of your system is amazing! Did you develop it yourself? Or do you actually have a team? Is your team still short of people? If so, how about adding me? It doesn't matter if you are not short of people, let's have a good discussion, I really want to discuss this with you..."
Deputy Director Li was stunned, and then he realized that he suddenly felt very angry for some reason!
The people from their security bureau haven't even entered yet! He's already rushing to show off here! Sure enough, those who haven't been admitted to the party and have no organization are even more cunning!
"Isn't our game over yet?" Deputy Director Li interrupted the big man, holding a thermos cup under his armpit, and said in the most authoritative tone: "Bribing your opponent before the game is over is extremely incorrect. Why don't you return to your seat?"
The burly man looked at Deputy Director Li and raised his hand little by little.
Deputy Director Li was startled and was about to make a strategic retreat when he saw the big man scratching the back of his head and said in a naive tone, "The computer has been hacked, what else is there to compete?"
The other people standing on the second floor watching the game were all stunned. Before, their whole attention was attracted by the screen in the middle, and they were just startled by the big man's actions. For a while, they didn't even look at the screens on both sides. When they heard the big man's words, they woke up as if from a dream and looked to both sides.
At the same time, a familiar male voice sounded in the secondary control room: "Dylan, all attempted intruders have been eliminated. No viruses or trojans remain. Do you need to adjust the security level? Please instruct me."
"Adjust to hibernation level firewall."
"The firewall has been adjusted to hibernation level."
The conversation was like a conversation between two real people. Someone murmured, "Artificial intelligence..."
Some people could not hide their dissatisfaction and asked directly: "What is a dormant level firewall? I remember you said to turn on the level 1 firewall just now. Is the highest level firewall in your system level 1?"
Jiang Chen paused and smiled, "The highest level is level three."
As soon as the words were spoken, the whole place fell silent.
The highest level is level three. Even with so many hackers attacking together, they can't break through the defense system at all. How could it be only level one? If it is adjusted to level three, how strong will it be? Is there anyone in this world, or even an organization, who can hack into the firewall of the system in front of us?
No one asked, but everyone was thinking about the same question. Some were shocked, some had bright eyes, and some were dismissive...
Jiang Chen had expected all the performances of everyone in front of him. He waited quietly for them to come to their senses and move on to the next game.
"Start preparing for the next game!" A yellow-haired young man on the second floor drew everyone's attention back. He looked at his watch and said, "It will start in ten minutes!"
After the young man finished speaking, he was about to sit down again when he saw his colleague next to him with blank eyes, wondering what he was thinking.
"C?" The young man approached and patted him: "Chai Can?"
Chai Can suddenly came back to his senses, leaned over the railing, and looked at the boy downstairs without blinking. He suddenly turned around and ran away because of something he thought of. The young man frowned and said, "You're just hit, but you have such a big reaction?"
Before he could finish his puzzlement, Chai Can took out a laptop from somewhere and did something with his fingers flying so fast that the young man could only see the Enter key.
Almost at the same time when Chai Can pressed Enter, the voice they remembered so well came from downstairs again: "Dylan, message from Wingnet, from C, do you want to open it?"
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