Perhaps it's because people in STEM fields are like this?
Xie Linlin realized that whether they are male or female STEM students, when this group gets busy, they don't distinguish between genders; they really can't hear a word from others.
"Okay, let's pause for a moment, I have something to talk to you about."
Xie Linlin waited for a long time, but even though she had arrived, Paopao was still typing on the keyboard, busy with something.
The black background on the other party's screen, along with the constantly flying and surging white and green characters, made Xie Linlin's eyes sting after just one glance; she almost went blind.
As expected, hackers' stuff is not something ordinary people can see.
Xie Linlin rubbed her stinging eyes and thought to herself.
But Bubble remained silent, continuing to busy herself with her work.
Xie Linlin was furious with Paopao's attitude of becoming completely oblivious to everything else once he started working. Even when there was something very important, Paopao would pretend not to hear her, making Xie Linlin wonder more than once if Paopao had donkey hair stuffed in his ears.
"If you pretend you didn't hear me, I'm cutting off the power!"
Xie Linlin gritted her teeth and said, word by word.
The volume wasn't much louder than before, and strictly speaking, it was even quieter, but the other party still heard it this time.
"What? What are you trying to say?"
Upon hearing this, Bubble reluctantly turned his head away, but his response speed was comparable to the speed of light.
If the response speed of the previous PCs was comparable to that of the bulky computers of twenty years ago, then the current Bubble PC is at least a 4090.
"So you can hear me? So... the way you pretended not to hear before was all an act?"
Xie Linlin has more freckles on her forehead.
"That's not true... How could that be?"
Bubble chuckled, then looked at Xie Linlin seriously and asked, "What do you want to talk to me about?"
"It's not a big deal... I just want to know where our plan is at right now, or rather, where we should start."
Xie Linlin stretched her shoulders, which were still a little sore. She complained irritably, "I've been helping you move these past two days. I haven't done any work at all... and you've treated me like a beast of burden. My shoulders are still hurting."
As the daughter of the Xie family, Xie Linlin was born with a silver spoon in her mouth and grew up as a pampered young lady.
Even though Xie's father has fallen from grace and the Xie family is leaderless, Xie Linlin needs to take the lead, but this busyness is more business-related and has nothing to do with actual work.
Only someone like Paopao is truly exceptional; they treat her like a beast of burden.
"Sorry, sorry, I do have a lot of stuff."
Bubble clasped her hands together and waved them up and down at Xie Linlin to express her apology. Then she said, "As for the plan... our primary task right now is to find that mysterious woman."
"I modified this laptop. Its computing power is roughly equivalent to that of a small server. But even so, obtaining information from that one photo has already exhausted its computing power. To find that mysterious woman... we need even more powerful computing power, which is why I brought all my equipment here."
"With the help of the data center, the computing power is increased a thousandfold, and that's what I'm busy with."
"Now there are some clues. You've seen that photo, do you know who she is?"
Bubble stood up, walked to the cabinet in front of her, took out two clean black ceramic cups, placed them under the coffee machine, poured herself a cup of hot coffee, and then tilted her head towards Xie Linlin, her eyes asking.
"I don't need it. Drinking coffee late at night... I'm afraid only you have that kind of quirk."
Xie Linlin waved her hand, declining Bubble's offer. After a brief recollection, she shook her head and said, "I don't know who this woman is, or even her name. But before my father got sick, he took out the photo you found from the safe and told me seriously that if I took over the Xie family in the future, I would have to fulfill whatever request the woman in the photo made."
"Even if this request means the destruction of the entire Xie family, we cannot hesitate in the slightest; we must grant her request."
"I initially thought my dad was joking with me, but after I got to know this mysterious woman, Gemini, and learned the real reason for the Zhao family's downfall... that idea began to waver. Now that I think about it, what my dad said might actually be true. There are indeed many highly skilled people in this world that I don't know about."
Do you know who that woman is?
Xie Linlin let out a long sigh of relief.
It was a small accident that she was able to see the photo.
At the time, Xie Linlin was in junior high school and going through a rebellious phase, always doing the opposite of what her parents said.
The Xie family mansion has a separate underground warehouse on the lowest level.
The building is constructed entirely to bank vault standards and is located approximately three underground levels. It is designed to withstand earthquakes, tsunamis, and even nuclear explosions.
With such a high level of security, it's clear that something extraordinary is inside.
With this in mind, Xie Linlin decided to explore the underground warehouse on her own one weekend.
After all, his father would never let him into such a place. If he hadn't discovered it by chance, he probably would never have known that there was such a place under their family's land.
What teenager doesn't have curiosity?
Coincidentally, Xie Linlin had just read a lot of fantasy novels at that time, such as the one in her basement that had a door connecting to another world, or the one with a cute pink pony inside.
These fantasies became the best motivation for Xie Linlin to decide to go on the adventure.
She knew her father would leave for the company promptly after 3 p.m., so that afternoon, Xie Linlin leaned against the window, watched her father leave, and then went into the basement without looking back.
That heavily guarded underground warehouse.
Xie Linlin had done a lot of research before the operation, such as how to steal the key, and how a place with such tight security couldn't possibly be left unlocked, right?
It's actually quite exciting to think about...
But this idea was shattered when she arrived at the entrance to the underground warehouse and saw the half-open door.
—Simply because it wasn't locked at all.
The door was ajar; Xie Linlin only needed to push it gently to walk in.
Although the door was a high-security combination lock door, it wasn't locked for some reason. Xie Linlin didn't think much of it, figuring that given her father's careless nature, he probably forgot.
So she pushed open the door and went inside.
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