In the deep air, a small transport ship approached the temporary space port hovering above Ceres.

As a shuttle slowly descended, two experts in space suits were escorted from a landing station by a team of soldiers wearing exoskeleton armor.

"Welcome to Ceres. I am Yang Wu, general counsel of Pan Asia First Fleet."

"Nice to meet you."

Shake hands with the middle-aged man in front of him. Academician Wang Sicheng, with a **** white background, nodded toward the general counsel.

As an in-service professor at the Institute of Information Engineering of Jinling University, and an academician of the Pan-Asian Academy of Sciences, Academician Wang has excellent research achievements and academic status in the field of quantum computers and information security technology.

Upon learning that a quantum computer array suspected of being left by extraterrestrial civilizations was found on Ceres, the Pan-Asian Academy of Sciences immediately sent him an invitation in the hope that he would assist the Pan-Asian Fleet on behalf of the Academy of Sciences and investigate the source of this computer And figuring out what that stuff is calculating.

"It's hard to imagine ... somebody would actually build a base in such a place." After releasing his hand, Academician Wang Sicheng glanced around, and an incredible accident appeared in his eyes.

You can see the craters and scrapped machinery parts all over the ground. A big war broke out here.

Obviously, not only the size of the base itself is not small, the size of the defense facilities deployed here can not be underestimated.

Otherwise, the First Fleet will never be so fierce fire, pouring on the surface of this asteroid.

Yang Wu: "What's even harder to imagine is that there is also the largest quantum computer array suspected to be in the solar system ... Which masterpiece do you think it will be?"

Wang Sicheng: "I don't know. Many things are known only after research."

Yang Wu: "Just hypothetical."

Hearing this sentence, Professor Wang Sicheng was silent for a while and said.

"If only hypothetical, I would vote for extraterrestrial civilization."

"Extraterrestrial civilization ... reminds me of the People's Federation that fell apart more than half a century ago."

Talking, Yang Wu's eyes couldn't help but have a color of memories.

People's Federation is probably the first attempt of human civilization to seek global political union under the promotion of external pressure. Although this attempt ended in failure, it provided a lot of inspiration for the birth of regional alliances later.

If the People's Federation is compared to a community-wide destiny community, then regional alliances such as Pan-Asian Cooperation, North American Alliance, North Sea Alliance, and Iberian-French Alliance are probably small-scale fate formed on the basis of specific regions. community.

As for how the Renlian disappeared?

That's a long story.

But let him sum it up based on his own understanding. It is probably that with the collapse of Hell's Gate and the retreat of the expedition, all clues about extraterrestrial civilizations are interrupted, and the related debates gradually withdraw from people's vision over time , Back to the category of academia.

The people's federation established to fight against extraterrestrial civilizations naturally loses its significance ...

"Do you think if the computer is indeed an outpost of extraterrestrial civilizations-or something like that, could the People's Federation be re-established?"

"It's difficult," Yang Wu shook his head, "100 years ago our strongest starship was the Xiaguang. If you put it to the present, I'm afraid it's not as good as a carrier-based aircraft on the Taishan."

Wang Sicheng asked casually, "Why is it impossible to be strong?"

Looking at the crippled battlefield not far away, Yang Wu continued, "Because now, even in the face of extraterrestrial civilizations, we may not be able to fight against one another."

...

The specific location was deep in the valley, and a group of people quickly entered the base after passing through the military checkpoint.

Looking at the bullet holes left in the corridor, Academician Wang Sicheng smashed his tongue and followed Yang Wu and Li Gaoliang, the commander of the third orbital airborne brigade, to the computer room.

Looking at the crowd coming to this side, the side of the criminal standing at the door of the machine room slightly brightened his eyes, and immediately greeted him with a smile.

"Academician Wang, you are finally here!"

"you are?"

"Xingbian, Agent of the Security Bureau, is responsible for investigating this incident. This is my business card." Captain Xing skillfully took out a translucent holographic card and gently pushed it in front of him.

Academician Wang Sicheng frowned at the holographic card and hesitated for a moment before accepting it.

It's not because there is any bad opinion on the Captain, it's just because normal people are more or less uncomfortable when dealing with people of this "special agency".

"I have read about what happened here, and in order to facilitate further investigation, I need to know more about the situation."

Xingbian: "Everything we know has been written in that report. I believe you have read it. As for the other ... sorry, we know very little."

Seeing this Captain Xing didn't look like he was lying to himself, Academician Wang didn't say anything, nodded toward the students who came here with him, and walked into the computer room.

"Inconceivable ..." Looking around the computer room, Academician Wang who was shocked by the scene in front of him was a little lost, but soon he calmed down and told his students, "Ready to intercept the data, let's see What is it doing? "

"Good teacher."

The student nodded, walked forward with a suitcase, and unlocked the combination lock in front of one of the cases.

Then he took out a round metal button from it, put it on the case, and fumbled around the case like a stethoscope for a while.

It was not until the successful access icon lit on the electronic screen in his suitcase that he stopped the movement, left the metal button in place, and then operated the laptop-like suitcase stand up.

"Data access was successful ... the computing resource utilization rate reached 87%, and the program that this supercomputer is running is indeed not simple."

Looking at his students, Academician Wang frowned and said, "Can you call the programs running on the computer?"

"I try ... No," a dignified look appeared on the face, and the student continued in a difficult tone. "This supercomputing program encrypts the program and cannot read it unless you have administrator rights."

"I'll try."

Asked his students to stand aside, Academician Wang stepped forward, tapped his fingers on the mechanical keyboard that was too old for this era, and entered a dazzling line of codes.

However, this quantum computer array occupying the entire underground space, as if he had not seen it at all, completely ignored his series of operations, and still kept his secret inside the box strictly guarded.

Seeing that Academician Wang stopped the movements on his hands, Captain Xing couldn't wait to ask the question.

"How's it going? Is there any progress?"

"No," shook his head, and Academician Wang said solemnly, "This supercomputing security system is very strong. At least I haven't seen any obvious loopholes ... At present, if I want to crack the secrets, only One way. "

Yang Wu frowned, thinking for a moment and said.

"any solution?"

"Security key," Academician Wang pointed his chin at the laptop in his hand, and continued toward the flashing dialog box. "In simple terms, it is the administrator password. Unless we know the password, it is impossible to pass it. Hack in other ways. "

"What about brute-force cracking?" Yang Wu frowned, "Looking at the length of the password ... if the exhaustive method is used, shouldn't the amount of engineering be great?"

"After three incorrect entries, the interface will be closed for three years. If you are patient, the amount of engineering will not be very large." After glancing at Yang Wu, Academician Wang Sicheng continued, "And we don't even know now whether the password is a number or Letters ... or, symbols you don't understand. "

The computer room fell silent for a while.

The investigation appears to be on the verge of falling back.

"If it doesn't work ... we can physically destroy this supercomputing center," Li Gaoliang tried to propose, "whatever it is planning, as long as it becomes a pile of broken copper--"

"In that case, its secret will go to **** with it," said Li Gaoliang, and Yang Wu continued. "This may be related to the origin of the alpha virus and the biggest clue we have so far about the alpha virus." , And at the same time it is likely to be our only hope of solving this trouble. "

Academician Wang saw Yang Wu and said seriously, "The key now is to find the password ... do you have any relevant clues from other places? For example, the space station near Ceres."

Li Gaoliang and Yang Wu looked at each other and shook their heads in unison.

Although some clues were also found on that space station, most of them are of the kind that are useless.

Just then, Captain Xing, who was standing aside, suddenly said.

"That means ... this password can be tried three times?"

"It should be," Academician Wang nodded his head, "but I don't recommend that you try anything randomly."

Xingbian: "Isn't it a random test ... Can I use your laptop?"

Looking at Captain Captain, Academician Wang's face showed a surprised expression.

"Do you know the password?"

"I don't know," Xingbian said with a bitter smile. "But here I happen to have a password, although I don't know if it's used here."

When Yang Wu moved, he seemed to think something, and said immediately.

"Is that the formula? Have you solved it?"

The sentence nodded.

"Accurately, Academician Lu unlocked."

Walking to the side of the laptop, Xingbian knocked down on the keyboard the line previously given to him by Luzhou, and then hit the Enter button.

Seeing this, everyone couldn't help holding their breath involuntarily. In particular, Academician Wang and his students were nervous and almost raised their hearts to their throats.

There are only three opportunities.

If it fails, it can only wait three years.

Fortunately, what they were worried about didn't happen. The light blue cursor flickered slightly on the computer, just like the key that opened the door to the new world, and the screen was full of code in a flash.

Looking at everything in front of him, Academician Wang's pupils contracted instantly, and then a ecstasy appeared on his face.

Succeeded!

The password is correct!

It's just amazing!