Chapter 75 Master Level Ability
The lights came on and the voice of the artificial intelligence said, "Welcome, stranger."
Li Ming took a look inside, but did not go in immediately. He took a few photos around the spacecraft and then submitted them to the Black Hole Network for an estimate.
Only then did he realize that Uncle Lame had sent him a message a few hours ago.
"Kid, I stole something. Silver Ash City is conducting a city-wide search. However, the city guards have all been transferred away, so we're shorthanded. Where can I find you now?"
Okay! Li Ming breathed a sigh of relief and quickly replied: "I'll send you a location. Come find me here. Remember to bring your things with you."
Uncle Que replied with an OK expression, obviously waiting for news from Li Ming.
With a heavy heart, Li Ming began to explore the spaceship, only to find that he could not go anywhere except the public area, as all the cabins were locked.
"Sorry, strange visitor, your permissions are limited to public areas." The artificial intelligence apologized for his inquiry. The spaceship card can open the spaceship, and that's all.
"Only those authorized by the captain or with the highest authority can access other cabins."
"The captain is dead..." Li Ming was speechless. He opened the control page and found the small intelligent computer he had obtained before. After taking control, a large amount of information about hackers suddenly flooded into his mind.
A large number of characters continued to surge, permission mechanisms, firewalls... Soon, he became a mature hacker.
"This kind of low-level artificial intelligence AI can be cracked by overloading the basic digital logic to perform a DoS attack, but I don't have the tools at hand."
He frowned and activated [Computing Power Support] again, raising his hacking skills to advanced levels. His mind was in turmoil, and the overwhelming amount of information made Li Ming dizzy.
"Huh..." Li Ming rubbed his temples and took out the simple smart terminal he had bought before and carried with him. He took it apart and reassembled it in no time.
"Using it as a carrier, the Y332 chip, although its graphics processing is not very good, has a decent core frequency, but it needs to break through the power consumption barrier..."
He pondered for a moment, then added, "As a public visitor, the electrical appliances I carry have special voltage requirements. I request that you increase the voltage you provide by 25%."
“No problem,” the AI responded, saying this was within the purview of public visitors.
"As a public visitor, I have a job to do using a public computer. Please open the data transfer port."
"no problem."
Li Ming connected the smart terminal to the data transmission port and then plugged it into the adjusted voltage socket. Li Ming quickly started the operation.
"Warning! Warning!" The lights in the room flickered, and the artificial intelligence began to shout, sometimes fast and sometimes slow.
In just a minute or two, sparks began to pop from the smart terminal in Li Ming's hand.
At the same time, all the lights on the spacecraft went out, and then suddenly brightened up again. The voice of the artificial intelligence had calmed down: "Hello, Captain."
Li Ming was not surprised at all. If he hadn't had the right tools, this low-level artificial intelligence could have solved the problem much faster.
"Open all the cabins, retrieve the navigation logs, and the recent surveillance," he ordered.
"As you wish."
drip-drip-drip-
All the hatches were opened at the same time, and Li Ming explored them one by one to see if there were any good things left behind.
About half an hour later, Li Ming moved everything he could find to the public area.
There are quite a few weapons, and even more guns and ammunition, but not many of them are useful, and most of them are garbage.
But if he absorbed it, it could also provide him with nearly a thousand points of metal energy.
Li Ming absorbed the metal energy while checking the navigation log.
"These guys have cleared out at least hundreds of targets..."
"This general contacted them shortly after the assassination. He must be a high-ranking official..."
Unconsciously, time passed. Li Ming's eyes suddenly flashed, and then relaxed.
"Your spaceship looks good. Where did you get it? Did you just buy it second-hand?" The lame man walked in from the cabin, looking around as he walked, marveling at it.
The rectangular object on the back was covered with a black cloth.
"I didn't buy this, I picked it up." Li Ming said casually.
"Picked it up?" The lame man laughed, "Then you are really lucky."
He glanced casually, but his expression suddenly froze, his pupils dilated, and then he quickly walked over to the pile of debris and picked up a piece of black clothing. His hands trembled in disbelief, "This... this... this is the symbol of "Jin."
Li Ming turned his head and saw a red flame on the clothes.
“It seems so.”
"As if?" The lame man looked horrified. "What's your reaction? This is Jhin's ship! How did you pick it up..."
"Wait..." The lame man suddenly came to his senses and looked at the spaceship card on the table. An incredible idea emerged in his mind.
His throat rolled, and he asked cautiously: "You, have you, surrendered?"
"Huh?" Li Ming was stunned. He didn't expect the lame man to ask such a question. He said speechlessly, "Do my bones look that soft?"
"I killed all those people. I took their spaceship card and came to take a look." He said it lightly, but the lame man was stunned.
Killed...those people?
Did he hear it right?
He knew very well what level these guys were at. If someone hadn't tipped him off last time, he would have set up many traps and called in people for help.
Even so, the killing was extremely brutal and they barely managed to survive.
In the end, Li Ming was killed so easily?
A myriad of emotions welled up in his heart, and words came to his lips, but he didn't know how to say them, so he just stood there in a daze.
"By the way, do you know who the chief is?" Li Ming asked.
"Chief?" The lame man shuddered, then calmed down and said, "He should be the leader of the organization called 'Jins'."
He looked at the cabin screen, where the logbook data and surveillance footage were playing rapidly, and hesitated, "Do you still have the highest authority here?"
"What else?" Li Ming shrugged. The lame man wanted to say something but stopped. Suddenly, he felt a layer of black mist covering Li Ming, making it almost impossible for him to see clearly.
"Uncle Lame!"
The lame man suddenly came to his senses and found that Li Ming had walked up to him without him noticing. There was a puzzled look on his face: "What's wrong with you? I called you two or three times."
"Put that thing on your back and let me see it." Li Ming pointed.
"Oh oh." The lame man seemed a little at a loss. With a bang, the object fell to the ground. Then he asked, "What do you want this thing for? Isn't it just a testing device?"
Li Ming didn't say anything, touched it, and breathed a sigh of relief, which meant that nothing had changed.
Seeing that he didn't say anything, the lame man didn't ask any more questions. He said calmly, "The news of this team's death can't be concealed for too long. You are the only target on Silver Ash Star. You must be the biggest suspect."
"Let's get out of here as soon as possible. I have a way. We can sneak to Kasakuk first, and then go from Kasakuk to Sand Dust Star."
"The only inter-civilizational star gate is on the Capital Planet. We definitely can't get there. We can only sail slowly. In three to five years, we should be able to reach the nearest civilization, Insus..."
"Then find a way to get an identity and hide for a while."
"Uncle Lame, I'm tired of listening to all this." Li Ming shook his head and interrupted, "I'm not ready to leave yet."
"You're not leaving?" The lame man glared. "Don't think you can defeat Jhin just by killing them. You've been behaving well, but now that you've revealed your uniqueness, they won't let you go."
“How do you play!”
"Of course I can't beat him. What about Professor Wu?" Li Ming asked.
The lame man was stunned, "Professor Wu..."
"If we really follow your advice, we'll waste at least five or six years, and won't even get any resources."
"Although Professor Wu's reputation is weak right now, a lean camel is still bigger than a horse. It's no problem for him to simply protect you." The lame man nodded, but then frowned: "But what right does he have to protect you?"
"Guess." Li Ming smiled, but the lame man suppressed his smile and glared at him fiercely.
"I'm already in my forties or fifties, and I've enjoyed everything I should have. If you want to have fun, then go ahead and have fun. The worst that can happen is we'll die together."
The lame man muttered and picked up a pipe from the pile of debris on the ground.
"Hey, this old thing is not common." He looked at it, then rinsed the muzzle with water, lit the remaining tobacco in it, found a corner and sat down to smoke.
Li Mingze walked into a hatch holding the detector, closed the door, put his palms together, and 20,000 points of metal energy were lost.
Li Ming put it into the control column and tried to activate its ability.
The control bar suddenly became blurred, as if it was temporarily locked.
He also keenly felt that something seemed to have changed in his body. Strands of indescribable energy continuously flowed out and seeped into every part of his body.
"Wait a moment, I should have what's called purification potential."
Li Ming was thinking about it, and when he came out, he saw the lame man sitting by the cabin, still smoking.
He walked straight to the operating table and took out the high-end USB flash drive he had found on Chen Songnan.
The slender cylindrical bottom has an interface.
Pulling a data cable from the console, he plugged it in. A window popped up on the virtual screen before him—"Unable to retrieve data!"
Li Ming had expected that it could not be identified. Quantum encryption is an extremely simple and crude encryption method. The randomly arranged passwords are almost endless, and only the quantum key entangled with them can decrypt them.
"What is this?" The lame man was curious and came over to take a look.
"Quantum encrypted USB flash drive." Li Ming explained casually, his hands moving across the virtual keyboard like phantoms, and a large number of data windows kept popping up and disappearing.
"Quantum encryption?" The lame man was quite surprised. "Isn't this something simple?"
“Drip-Drip-”
A red warning window appeared on the virtual screen. Li Ming frowned slightly, "Can't unlock it?"
"You want to decipher it?" The lame man was even more surprised. He coughed twice, and white smoke came out of his mouth and nose. "You know quantum entanglement, it's a constantly changing encryption method. Only quantum keys can match it."
"Without a team and server-side coordination, it's simply a pipe dream to unlock it."
Li Ming naturally understood.
"Advanced hacker is not enough." Li Ming pondered and hesitated for a moment, and finally decided to upgrade the small intelligent computer.
This thing definitely cannot be handed over to Qin Xiao directly.
Four thousand points of metal energy were consumed immediately, and the small intelligent computer underwent a transformation. The metal shell became more refined, and all the physical buttons disappeared. Instead of becoming larger, it shrank to the size of a watch.
【Small Intelligent Brain--D: A more professional computing power support tool.
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Control Effect: Hacking Techniques--Advanced
Control Ability - Computing Power Blessing: Temporarily improve hacking skills to master level. 】
"Master level?"
Li Ming raised his eyebrows. A master hacker?
He felt a familiar dizziness, and then he activated the [Computing Power Blessing]. In an instant, an indescribable feeling came over him, and a large amount of information was instilled into his mind.
It seemed as if he had been sitting in front of the intelligent computer for decades. His daily task was to operate the intelligent computer day after day, and he could easily come up with all kinds of relevant knowledge.
"Huh... What a powerful master." Li Ming shook his head to relieve the pain, but suddenly froze again, his eyes filled with shock. A line of words appeared on the bright blue screen that only he could see -
[Hacking skills have been upgraded to Master level, and the ability has been gained - Personal Terminal. Do you want to consume the [Small Intelligent Brain] to permanently solidify this ability?]
After a certain technology is upgraded to the master level, it can be derived into an ability term, and by consuming the control object, this ability can be permanently solidified in the body.
Li Ming suddenly realized that a master craftsman who had been immersed in a certain field for many years always had his own unique skills, but his unique skills were a little bit against the norm.
[Personal Terminal: Temporarily transforms itself into a server terminal at the same level]
"Logically speaking, only when you reach C-level will your skill level be equivalent to that of a master. This temporary improvement is like taking a shortcut," Li Ming pondered.
To upgrade to C level, the metal energy consumed will be in the tens of thousands.
Solidification must be done, otherwise there is basically no hope of cracking it. The server terminal is completely different from the ordinary terminal.
But after solidification, the small intelligent brain disappeared, and the master hacker's blessing was naturally gone.
"What's wrong?" Seeing Li Ming standing there motionless, the lame man thought he was frustrated with his cracking, so he comforted him, "Don't lose heart. Quantum encryption is a notorious problem. Many bounty hunters are afraid of encountering it."
"Every profession has its specialties. Your ability to crack this ship's AI is impressive. Many hacking experts hired by bounty hunting teams are only at this level."
Li Ming glanced at him and sat back at the operating table.
He came up with a solution. He first used the help of a master hacker to write a cracking program. After it was solidified, he could directly start the cracking program.
"drop-"
A few hours later, Li Ming breathed a sigh of relief, pressed the last button, and the cracking program started.
His fingers touched the operating table, and then, a special connection was established between the two. His body seemed to be performing high-frequency physical activities, quickly becoming hot and steaming, leaving the lame man stunned.
During this period, Li Ming took several breaks. It was not until dawn that a large number of windows popped up on the virtual screen in front of him, all of which were densely packed with files.
The lame man next to him, who had been smoking calmly, now had his eyes almost popping out of his head, his face practically glued to the virtual screen. He said in disbelief, "You really solved it?"
"What else? Did it come to its senses on its own?" Li Ming was exhausted physically and mentally, but he still had the heart to joke and opened the files one by one.
"No...let me take it slow." The lame man felt dizzy. When he learned that Li Ming was already an E-level life form, he was not that surprised.
Because, that is still something that can be done by "human beings", but what about now?
After all, I have been working as a bounty hunter for many years and have some understanding of hackers.
The hacker's own skills are one aspect, and the equipment is another, and the latter is even more critical than the former.
It is really outrageous that the artificial intelligence of such a small spaceship can crack quantum encryption.
(End of this chapter)
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