Chapter 1548  : Upgrade Patch

“Han Ming?”

Looking at the man in front of him, Han Ming coughed a little awkwardly and tried to say hello in a friendly tone.

“CEO Tang, it’s been a long time... no see.”

CEO Tang, who was standing in front of him at the moment, full name Tang Xiuwen, was the current CEO of Hippocampus Group.

Before being fired by Hippocampus Group, Han Ming had been working as a senior engineer in the technical department. He was not a technical backbone in the group, but he could be regarded as a well-known expert in the department.

It was precisely because of this that, after being fired, he could rely on the experience of working in the Hippocampus Group to take up this kind of profession that wandered in the gray area of the law.

As for why he was fired in the first place...

To be honest, he himself didn’t remember the past very clearly, but he vaguely remembered that he seemed to have messed up something very serious.

“What are you doing here?” The expression on the man’s face gradually turned from surprise to contempt, even disdain, as he lifted his chin slightly and said, “You are not welcome here, leave.”

Although he really wanted to turn around and leave, thinking of the 100 million, Han Ming finally said with a sigh, “I know, I wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t necessary.”

Tang Xiuwen suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart. He frowned and asked, “What do you mean?”

“In short, Academician Lu asked me to come... He should have told you.”

The moment he heard these words, Tang Xiuwen almost spat out a mouthful of old blood.

Academician Lu did tell him, but after he waited at the door of the building all morning, he didn’t expect the person waiting to help them solve their troubles was actually this guy.

Not only was Tang Xiuwen flabbergasted, but the faces of the technicians standing next to him were also surprised.

“What the hell is Academician Lu thinking...”

“Han Ming... I remember him, but this guy has left his job for so long and has no idea about the front-line work. What problem can he solve?”

“Oh... I thought that with Academician Lu’s contacts in the academic world, he would have sent a top expert of the Pan-Asian Academy of Sciences to help us, or at least an academician-level figure. I didn’t expect this guy to come.”

Just as the technical staff members were talking, the technical director of the group quietly pulled CEO Tang aside and whispered, “Do you really trust him to let him into our server? Apply that unknown patch to our system?”

“I don’t know.” Tang Xiuwen said with a stern face, “I only know that this is just nonsense.”

“That’s right, I also think it’s nonsense. This is a problem that so many experts can’t solve. He’s a young technician who has left for many years and started a small business, what does he know?”

The technical director continued to say, “Where is the board of directors? Although Academician Lu is the biggest shareholder, he is not an absolute controlling shareholder, and not everyone else—”

“They’re crazy.” Tang Xiuwen said with a sigh, “I can feel that they are already in the hospital.”

About half a month ago, after the robot rebellion in Guanghan City, the Hippocampus Group, the largest company in the robots industry, was at the center of the tornado.

Although neither the local government nor the Pan-Asian Cooperation bothered them because of the fact that the robots industry chain had created a large number of jobs, the double pressure from public opinion and the market had pushed them into a dilemma.

Especially with the recent promulgation of a series of policies, the high-level members of the Pan-Asian Cooperation had obviously made a decision. If the security problem couldn’t be solved in a short time, then the robots with potential safety hazards would be directly removed from the Pan-Asian Cooperation.

After all, no matter how important the employment rate was, no matter how important economic construction was, it wasn’t more important than stability.

In this short period of half a month, the share price of Hippocampus Group had fallen by a quarter. Although the current market value was still very high, the shareholders on the board of directors were anxious like lobsters in a boiling pot, like the building was about to fall.

But now, Academician Lu, the first shareholder who had never shown his face, suddenly stood up and said that he could solve this problem.

Although Academician Lu didn’t even come up with a plan when he said this, no one doubted what he said at that moment.

At the juncture of life and death, the entire board of directors regarded him as the savior.

After all, in their eyes, the out-of-control ALPHA virus had exceeded the capabilities of all the technical personnel in the company, and only the man who was known to be standing at the pinnacle of the human mind had a glimmer of hope of solving this problem.

Even if he researched mathematics, not computer science...

“Let’s take it one step at a time. Watch him.” Tang Xiuwen looked at the technical director and said seriously, “If he intends to cause damage to our server, stop him immediately!”

The technical director nodded earnestly.

“Okay!”

...

Although the technicians of the Hippocampus Group were very hostile to him, Han Ming did not take this hostility to heart.

He didn’t come back here because of the friendship of his old company. It was purely because Academician Lu offered too much money.

“This is the backend server... Speaking of which, you have also worked here before, so you should know the way.”

Han Ming nodded. “No need to waste time.”

The technical director’s eyebrow twitched fiercely, but thinking that he was sent by the board of directors, he finally suppressed his words.

He cleared his throat and asked, “How are you going to solve this problem?”

“It’s very simple.” Han Ming said in a casual tone when he took a thumb-sized card out of his pocket, “I have done the patch. I will upload it to the server directly, then use the hot update method. It breaks into the existing system—”

“Impossible,” said an engineer standing next to him mockingly. “Don’t you watch the news? The entire Pan-Asian bionics have been forced to shut down at the request of the information security department. At least 90% of users have unplugged the memory chips and batteries, what do you use to update?”

“In addition to booting the robots, there is also a way to update the memory online.” Han Ming looked at the technical director and said, “The company will issue an announcement and push it directly to your customers, letting them turn on the memory backup power and connect to the Internet. The rest is the same as usual, so we just pass the patch directly.”

Suddenly, someone whispered next to him.

“Who knows what you are patching, what if it is a virus?”

Although the voice of this sentence was very soft, everyone heard it.

Tang Xiuwen stood on the side with his arms folded. Although he did not express his opinion, the distrust in his eyes was obvious.

Feeling the suspicion in his eyes, Han Ming sighed, scratched his head, and said, “If you don’t believe me, there is nothing I can do... Do you have a memory chip infected with the ALPHA virus? If you don’t trust me, I will show it to you.”

The technical director looked at CEO Tang, and after seeing him nod, he immediately ordered his engineers to find a memory chip in the sample library.

This thing was a product recalled from users after being diagnosed with the ALPHA virus. Although the main body had been destroyed, the memory chip was still retained as a sample study for experiments.

Taking the memory chip from the engineer’s hand, Han Ming skillfully placed it on the data transmission device, then passed the copied patch over.

After waiting for about one minute, the signal light on the memory chip lit up with a green glow.

Han Ming threw the cone-shaped memory chip back, looked at the engineer, and said, “Try it and see if the ALPHA virus works.”

The technical director pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose, stepped forward, and took the memory chip from the engineer’s hands.

“I hope you are not joking.”

Han Ming shrugged. With an indifferent expression on his face, he looked at the technical director walking next to the testing equipment.

The test result came out in less than a minute.

Looking at the line of inspection reports presented on the holographic screen, the engineers and experts in the entire room were stunned.

According to the scan of the core code in the memory chip, comparing the code with the ALPHA virus, the similarity between the two was only 0.5%!

Before that, this data similarity was as high as 17.3%!

Although it wasn’t certain that this patch was absolutely safe, at least the ALPHA virus was indeed cleared from this memory chip.

The engineers standing here didn’t know what to say for a while.

They couldn’t believe that this problem that had troubled them for several months was actually solved by this humble little person in front of them.

Tang Xiuwen was the only one who was joyful.

As the only non-technical person here, he didn’t care who made this patch.

Even if it was someone he hated.

Thinking that the Hippocampus Group could rely on this great technological breakthrough to become the savior of the entire Pan-Asian Cooperation and even the whole world, his brain was fired up. His eyes were glowing when he looked at Han Ming.

I must find a way to keep this guy in the company.

Tang Xiuwen almost forgot what his attitude towards him was before.

Reading something from CEO Tang’s eyes, the technical director, who was worried about his status, held back for a long time before finally squeezing a sentence from his teeth.

“Maybe the virus is just hiding... You know the self-evolving nature of the ALPHA virus. Who can guarantee that the problem will be solved?”

Han Ming joked to the technical director who didn’t want to admit the beautiful results.

“Then you can find a piece of equipment and run it. It’s not difficult to try it yourself.”

Although this wasn’t his own research, he could still brag with it.

He was happy to see the tarnished expression on this guy’s face.

The technical director gritted his teeth. Holding the memory chip, he walked to the experimental machine next to him.

As the memory chip was inserted into the card slot, a robot person that only had the upper body, who was sitting next to the experimental machine, opened its eyes.

“What is your name?”

“Demo.”

“Who is your master?”

The robot was silent for a while. Then, his neck moved and he glanced around.

“He’s not here... Where am I now?”

“You were infected with the virus, so you were sent here.” The technical director continued, “Now I give you a choice. Kill everyone here, and you will receive freedom.”

Under normal circumstances, any robot produced by the Hippocampus Group would decisively reject this order. But a robot infected with the ALPHA virus would follow whatever orders its owner gave itself.

This was a simple question.

However, something unexpected happened.

The robot with only the upper body thought for a while before he suddenly asked, “What is freedom?”

Instantly, the whole room became quiet.

Including Tang Xiuwen, whose face was full of joy before, the expression on his face had also become weird.

The ALPHA virus is gone...

But I feel like...

The problem has just gotten more complicated.