Zhuang Li’s background is indeed very important, but he cannot think about his past freely now because there is a surveillance camera embedded in his brain.
In the conference room, he found out his identity based on the work badge on his chest, and then hacked into the company network and found the resume of "Zhuang Li".
This was not enough, he searched the name "Zhuang Li" on the entire Internet and obtained some further information, such as in which hospital "Zhuang Li" was born, his parents' names, where he lived, where he attended kindergarten, elementary school, junior high school, high school, and university, his grades in each school year, any rewards or punishments he received, etc.
He read the text so quickly that the information flashed across the screen like light and shadow. Not only did Xuan Ming, who was sitting next to him, not see it clearly, even the 7480 that was parasitic in his brain did not have time to read it.
He also searched the floor plan of the Haiming Group to find out which floor "Zhuang Li"'s office was on.
At this moment, he was taking the elevator to the 17th floor. He walked without stopping into the administrative office on the left side of the corridor and sat down at the only vacant desk.
His attitude was so casual that no one could tell he had never worked a day here.
He tapped the mouse, and the computer screen flickered to life, a page lit with a deep blue light, requiring a password. He casually pressed the keyboard again, and the deep blue page transformed into a black programming interface. He entered a few commands, and the password was unlocked.
At this time, Zhuang Li did not rush to check the files or messages left by "Zhuang Li". Instead, he asked in his mind: "System, you can detect my thoughts anytime and anywhere, right?"
7480 sneered, "My bioelectricity is synchronized with your stream of consciousness. Whatever you're thinking, I can't escape your monitoring."
"Ha~" 7480 quickly reacted and said triumphantly, "Are you scared? You humans have the filthiest hearts. You're afraid of others snooping! Come on, let me see what you're thinking. You're so treacherous at such a young age. You're definitely not a good person!"
7480 attempts to bring out the host's dark side and find its weaknesses.
"Just watch if you want." Zhuang Li took off his suit jacket, untied his tie, leaned back in his chair, closed his narrow eyes, and lost himself in memories.
7480 rubbed his hands together excitedly. "What's the most painful thing you've ever experienced? What are you most afraid of? Do you remember your most embarrassing moment? Have you ever been so angry that you lost your mind?"
It used language to guide the host's memory step by step, trying to make the other party fall into the quagmire of negative emotions. But soon, its joyful voice was replaced by screams: "Ahhhhh! What is this! Host, stop it!"
No clear and coherent picture emerged in Zhuang Li's mind. Instead, it was like an atomic bomb explosion, with countless fragments shooting out in an instant.
These fragments contained numbers, strange symbols, profound laws, and chaotic flashes of light and shadow. Like countless arrows or meteorites, they hurled themselves at 7480 with swift and ferocious force.
Even with the 7480's impressive computing power, it couldn't handle so much meaningless information all at once. This would severely disrupt its core processing, significantly slowing its ability to process useful information.
It hurriedly dodged these arrows and meteorites, following the turbulent stream of consciousness and hiding deep in its host's mind. Even though the whizzing sound of fragments of consciousness frequently came from outside, it did not dare to emerge to peek.
Yet, Zhuang Li quietly picked up the most precious pieces from this vast sea of debris. One piece was engraved with his homeland, another with his childhood, and another with the moment he stepped through the star gate into another dimension.
Yes, he was Zhuang Li, from another dimension. Before entering the Star Gate, he too had considered the question of life and death. A higher-dimensional being entering a lower-dimensional space would only be crushed, losing some of its abilities; but a lower-dimensional being entering a higher-dimensional space would be fatally crushed.
He calculated that his chance of survival after entering the star gate was less than one percent, and this one percent survival rate was based on the assumption that human consciousness was a four-dimensional product.
If he was lucky enough to enter the four-dimensional space, his body would be dispersed into particles, but his consciousness would be preserved. As for how long it could be preserved, he had no way of calculating it.
But he never expected that he would enter not a higher-dimensional space, but a parallel space-time belonging to the same dimension. However, before arriving, his body dissipated in the turbulence of space-time, leaving only his consciousness to survive by chance.
In this parallel time and space, Zhuang Li also exists. He and Zhuang Li have different lives and personalities, but they are made up of the same atoms, like two sides of a coin, firmly bound together based on the quantum entanglement effect.
Perhaps the term "past life and present life" can better explain Zhuang Li's current situation.
After confirming his condition, he opened his eyes and shook his head in surprise. At the same time, the information fragments that suddenly exploded in his mind like a nuclear bomb also dissipated in an instant.
7480 immediately emerged from his stream of consciousness and asked angrily, "Host, what did you just do?"
"I was just trying to see if the buffer overflow could cause any harm to you." Zhuang Li curled a strand of hair on his forehead with his slender fingertips, smiling mischievously like a child.
But 7480 felt that his destructive power was even more terrifying than that of a naughty child.
Buffer overflow is a common hacker attack method. Hackers often input an overly long data into the storage space of the target computer.
When an oversized data item enters a buffer, the excess portion will be written to other buffers, which may contain data, pointers to the next instruction, or output from other programs. These contents will be overwritten or destroyed, causing the system to crash.
If the situation is serious, it may cause the system to crash, restart, or even be invaded and taken over.
Just now, the fragments that exploded in Zhuang Li's mind were super-long data. If the system hadn't dodged them and collided head-on with them, the consequences would be...
Thinking of the scene of itself being maimed, 7480 broke out in a cold sweat. It had never expected that it would be attacked by the most common hacking methods of a lower world.
No, this is not common at all, because no one in the world has such a huge brain area, and no one can remember such a huge amount of information, except Zhuang Li.
While dodging just now, 7480 took a quick look and found that those information fragments contained knowledge from many fields such as mathematics, chemistry, physics, medicine, biology, information engineering, architecture, etc., and they were not just superficial knowledge, but at a specialized level.
In other words, Zhuang Li's knowledge reserves are as vast as the universe.
What kind of monster was he? A humanoid computer? 7480 was shaking with anger, ready to jump up and down and curse, but he just laughed instead.
"Host, you're being too clever for your own good! You've given me a brilliant idea!" 7480 said excitedly. "You can attack me with super-long data, and I can do the same to you! I can yell inside your head and keep you awake for a moment."
"Do you think you'd get sick, faint, or become weak if you couldn't sleep for a week?"
"Hahaha, you're done! I know how to deal with you! Let me see what the scariest noises in the world are."
7480 quickly consulted his database and pulled out the sounds of nails scratching a blackboard, a baby crying, a microphone humming, and a demon roaring...
"I let you show off, I let you provoke me, I'll see if I can't kill you this time!" 7480 began to play these sounds in turn.
For a moment, Zhuang Lijing's brain turned into an erupting volcano, and every one of his brain cells was buried at the bottom of the volcano, being roasted by the lava.
He didn't sit firmly and almost fell off the swivel chair.
Then, an intense pain quickly climbed up his temples to his scalp, as if a huge claw was crushing his head, or as if a hacksaw was pulling back and forth in his brain, trying to split him in half.
This indescribable pain could make anyone in the world collapse, but Zhuang Li just shook his body a few times and endured it.
"System," he said, closing his eyes, holding his forehead, and panting, "Your counterattack was beautiful, greatly increasing the fun of this game."
He covered his burning temples and grinned, "The war has already begun. I will soon organize an attack. Let's wait and see."
"This system is waiting for you, come on, come on! Lululu!" The system jumped back and forth on the edge of death.
Zhuang Li took a few deep breaths, then opened his laptop with trembling fingertips and slowly organized the meeting minutes.
He tried to relieve his severe headache by working.
Just then, a woman with delicate makeup and a slender figure came over, placed a stack of documents on his desk, and said with a smile, "Zhuang Li, please help me with these documents. I need them to be handed over to the team leader before five o'clock."
Zhuang Li looked up at the man, a few drops of sweat running down his pale cheeks.
7480 shouted amidst the clamor, "Don't be fooled by her sweet smile. She actually has zero affection for you. Do you want to know what she thinks of you? A toad wanting to eat swan flesh. Hahahaha, in her heart, you are just a toad..."
Zhuang Li looked away and said in an annoyed tone: "I'm busy!"
"Oh, please help me, I have my period and my stomach hurts." The woman covered her stomach with her hands and made a painful expression.
She is very beautiful, and her slightly frowned look is very adorable.
But Zhuang Li remained calm. He brushed aside the documents and sarcastically said, "We're all getting paid the same for doing the same job. You're pushing your work onto me. Why don't you just give me the salary too?"
The woman blushed and bit her lip, unable to respond for a long time. Seeing everyone's strange looks, she had no choice but to hold the folder tightly and run away in shame.
7480 laughed and said, "Her favorability towards you is -10 now, hahahaha..."
Zhuang Li was indifferent to this.
Not long after the woman left, a man ran in from the office next door, shouting, "Manager Zhuang, please make copies of all these documents for me and send them to the Budget Department on the 19th floor. Hurry, Minister Lin is waiting!"
Zhuang Li's expression became even more annoyed: "Go by yourself!"
"Hey, what's wrong with you today? Did you take the wrong medicine? Hurry up, there's no time! I'll treat you to a meal after you're done." The man reached out to pull Zhuang Li.
7480 continued to prick his heart: "Host, this person's favorability towards you is also 0."
Zhuang Li raised the cactus on the table to block the man's hand, his tone extremely unhappy: "There is no logical connection between 'you treat me to a meal' and 'I help you with the work'. The work is yours. Whether you treat me to a meal or not, you have to finish it. Do you understand?"
The man was a man who valued his reputation. Seeing Zhuang Li's resolute attitude and the fact that everyone around him had noticed this, he could only point his finger at him and say something harsh: "Okay, I'll do it myself. If anyone in the company spreads any bad things about you in the future, don't blame me!"
The man walked away aggressively, stomping on the floor.
7480 immediately reported: "Host, his favorability towards you has reached -99, hehe."
Zhuang Li frowned as he continued to organize the meeting minutes, his shirt slowly soaked with cold sweat.
A little later, the head of the administration department walked in. Seeing the messy office, he habitually shouted, "Why is there so much toner on the floor? Who did this? Zhuang Li, Zhuang Li, find a mop!"
Zhuang Li raised his sweaty head and said in an extremely annoyed tone: "Get lost!"
The minister was stunned for a moment, then immediately lost his temper: "Hey, what did you just say? You actually told me to get out? What's wrong with you, young man? It's bad enough that you don't respect your seniors, but you can't even handle such a small matter? I asked you to do this as an opportunity to train you, why don't you know what's good for you?"
Zhuang Li stood by the clattering printer and sneered, "You're so old, you need more training than I do. Do it yourself. I need to go to the top floor to submit the documents."
He picked up the hot, freshly printed meeting minutes and left, leaving the minister and his colleagues stunned.
7480 gloated, "Host, my detection function was correct. Your emotional intelligence is indeed very low. Do you know what your director said about you? A useless piece of shit. Hahaha, he actually used to describe you as shit! Do you know how much he likes you? -38! And your colleagues, their likes for you are all below 10. That means there's not a single person in the company who likes you! You're such a failure!"
Zhuang Li sneered inwardly, "System, those who judge their own worth based on the opinions of others are eternal losers. I don't need others to like me. I know exactly how valuable I am."
7480: Ugh!
Zhuang Li continued, "System, your favorability detection function is useless to me."
7480: MMP, let’s see how long you can be so arrogant!
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