Chapter 517 Remote Duel
"The head of the Miller family sure has refined tastes. The invitation is a USB drive?"
Elbert smiled.
He examined the side of the game piece in his hand, where there was an exposed USB port!
Terry was somewhat stunned!
He had seen this 52-piece Rush Hour puzzle in the leader's hands twice before, and had no idea how much time the leader needed to solve it!
But the senior elders in the family couldn't solve it without at least 2 days!
As for himself, he had studied it for 10 days before giving up in frustration!
And Elbert?
How long did this take him?
One minute, or 50 seconds?
The metal board was already heating up!
What kind of hand speed was this, what kind of mental power!
And he didn't even seem to be looking at the board - could it be a blind solve?
After a full minute of being stunned!
Terry nodded with a dazed expression, "I finally understand why Mr. Fields thinks so highly of you, and why the leader personally invited you!"
Elbert wore a smile on his face.
But inside, he breathed a slight sigh of relief. Just now, Robert's overclocked calculations would have been overwhelming if not for his enhanced human physiology!
"However, Mr. Perry, I've heard from the family elders that there's an even deeper mystery within this invitation. I hope you won't get too caught up in it!"
Terry instantly regained his aloof demeanor, along with that air of superiority that came with being a Miller family disciple.
He still didn't believe Elbert could successfully meet the leader within one month!
He clasped his hands together, "I hope to see Mr. Perry at the family estate."
Terry then left.
Elbert returned to Lab Graveyard with the game piece.
He went straight to sit at the computer!
Dennis and Willow were still standing in the corner as punishment.
Elbert inserted the USB drive into the computer, and an extremely simple program appeared on the screen.
At the top was a password input field.
Below were 7 geographical coordinates.
Robert: "This technique is pretty advanced. The invitation content is hidden in an encrypted program, and the seven coordinate locations below are the key to cracking the password."
"These seven locations are also special! They're seven major corporations worldwide!"
"Let me check the hints."
"The password uses technology similar to blockchain, hidden within these seven coordinate locations."
"And the combination of seven passwords is the network data peak values of these seven locations, rolling in real-time!"
"This Miller family leader really knows how to have fun. If you want to crack this password, you need to simultaneously breach seven advanced network firewalls!"
"I bet he's secretly monitoring these seven companies right now!"
Elbert shook his head with a smile!
The Miller family leader first used a classical method like Rush Hour to hide the USB drive.
Then inside the USB drive was another puzzle requiring top-tier hacking skills and blockchain technology!
This was truly classical wrapped in technology, restraint wrapped in a touch of madness!
Such an approach.
Indeed fit the Miller family's time-honored yet technologically advanced way of doing things!
It even made Elbert want to befriend the Miller family leader!
But the meaning of this game was clear.
Everything came from that person's arrangement!
He was deliberately pushing forward the competition between the Miller family and Elbert!
If he lost this competition.
Then Elbert would have to hand over management of his forces to the other party, essentially becoming part of Veridiania!
And the Miller family leader also carried an air of a master!
If Elbert couldn't crack his invitation, he wouldn't even get a chance to meet him!
Too bad the Miller family leader didn't know.
For Elbert, hacking into systems had long become routine!
He was even getting a bit numb to it!
Robert: "Elbert, remember? 'The Miller family's Nine Calculations' is essentially a big data algorithm. Now he's testing your big data capabilities!"
Elbert smiled slightly, "Then let's do something advanced!"
The next moment.
The seven major corporations in the password hint remained unharmed, but the surrounding telecom network control centers were suddenly hacked!
Though only for 0.1 seconds.
The networks of these seven major corporations only experienced a small lag, the screens flickered briefly, then returned to normal!
People wouldn't even notice the network had an issue.
But what they would never imagine was that in this 0.1 seconds.
All network lines suddenly closed, and in this instant, network traffic was zero!
And at the same time.
Elbert casually typed a string of zeros on the keyboard!
Immediately.
The invitation program indicated the password was correct, and the content opened!
At the same moment.
In a small town not on any map in Veridiania.
In the old Miller family residence where ritual offerings had long withered, a soft gasp was heard.
"What?"
"He solved the Rush Hour that quickly?"
"Homo sapiens level!"
"What?"
"He didn't attack the companies, but chose to shut down the network traffic instead?"
"Then my dynamic password would all become zeros!"
"Well done, Elbert, what a surprising plan!"
"Quite interesting!"
...
Back in Lab Graveyard.
Elbert looked at the words on the screen with an amused smile.
This invitation, with security classification comparable to state secrets, contained only one sentence: 'Inviting you to come.'
No time, no location, no inviter!
Elbert leaned back, slowly resting against the chair back, "Robert, how's the investigation into the Miller family going?"
"I tracked their big truck."
"And scanned the truck's appearance, finding a total of 120 identical trucks worldwide!"
"Guess what!"
Robert appeared, looking like he was keeping a secret, "These trucks actually belong to Veridiania's largest, and the world's largest logistics group - Miller Express Group!"
Elbert nodded, "Technology development requires financial support. It's not strange for the Miller family to own commercial enterprises!"
Robert shook his head, "But the courier industry is different!"
"How many people don't use courier services nowadays?"
"The user data that courier companies can access far exceeds other industries!"
"Identity information, social networks, address information, and most importantly, purchase data!"
"This can deduce human behavioral patterns!"
Elbert suddenly frowned, "Robert, are you saying..."
"Exactly!"
"The Miller family might be nurturing artificial intelligence, just like we collect human behavioral data through TO!"
Robert stroked his chin, brow furrowed.
"Whether they have AI is uncertain for now."
Elbert narrowed his eyes slightly, "But know your enemy and know yourself, and you'll never be defeated! Since the Miller family is testing me, before we meet, we should also give the Miller family a test!"
The next moment.
On Miller Express Group's official website, a customer quietly appeared.
At the same time, using the online system, he sent out three packages!
The shipping address was Lab Graveyard, and the delivery addresses were...
An iceberg on the plains of Zephyria!
A swamp in the basin of Veridiania!
A seaside cliff in Sylvanor!
Three places almost impossible for humans to reach!
But the latitude and longitude coordinates of these three places held hidden meaning!
Through advanced programming techniques, Elbert knew everything could be coded!
ASCII - American Standard Code for Information Interchange, a computer coding system based on the Latin alphabet, the most common standard for network information exchange!
And within the latitude and longitude of those three delivery addresses were several letters and symbols corresponding to ASCII!
If the Miller family had artificial intelligence, they would certainly discover the anomaly in these three orders!
The rest would depend on the Miller family leader's wisdom!
And Robert was monitoring changes in the orders.
Judging the other party's computing speed through their processing time.
12 seconds later!
Robert's voice came, "Wow, in the last 20 seconds, Miller Express simultaneously processed 23 million orders, while also doing data screening, rationality matching, and finally error correction!"
"Based on the time..."
"The computing speed of their backend servers exceeds the world's highest level by 14 times!"
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