I Have A Super USB Drive

by <unknown>

  The black sphere stood out like a sore thumb inside the blank white room, like a floating blackhole.

  "This is…"

  Musk's curiosity was slowly growing. Just as he was about to ask something, he caught a glimpse of blue light flaring past his eyes.

  The ray of blue light dissipated as abruptly as it appeared. He only caught it for a brief moment before he lost sight of it.

  "What's going on?'

  Musk was slightly startled and turned to Chen Chen beside him to ask.

  He held his breath the moment he turned to look at Chen Chen.

  What he saw was the ray of blue light shooting past the top of Chen Chen's head. What was shocking was that the top portion of Chen Chen's head seemed to have been replaced by a flash of blue light!

  Musk rubbed his eyes in disbelief when he saw this. When he had done that, he saw Chen Chen standing still in place in one piece. The image he saw just now of Chen Chen with half a head missing seemed to be his mind playing tricks on him.

  "Keep your cool, Mr. Musk."

  Chen Chen chuckled softly. He then turned around and pressed a button somewhere on the blank white sheet of the wall. The elevator door opened again as if obeying his command.

  "Let's head out."

  Chen Chen beckoned Musk to follow before taking a step into the elevator himself.

  "Didn't we just come in here?"

  Musk was getting more confused. He felt like a villager arriving at a large city for the first time. Although he felt like he was constantly kept in suspense, he did have to admit that the technology that he was looking at had exceeded the realm of his scientific knowledge.

  "What happened back there wasn't your mind playing tricks on you. What happened was that we've already left the Spire Experimental Base when you saw the blue light flashing."

  Chen Chen answered coolly. Shortly after that, they heard the elevator opening with an abrupt "ding".

  What the elevator doors revealed was not the Spire Experimental Base they were previously in, but the lobby of an office building.

  From inside the lobby, one could peek out of the windows to see the road and the busy traffic outside.

  This was… The surface!

  Musk was in utter disbelief. He promptly dashed out of the lobby of the office building and took in everything he was seeing. His ears were filled with the conversations of pedestrians muffled by the sound of bustling engines and moving cars. The sound of the city, an all-too-familiar sound that also sounded so strange and foreign to him at the same time.

  At this moment, what Musk knew of the world was completely flipped upside-down.

  …

  Musk only returned to the airport a day later, he stood outside his private jet.

  "I shall remember this experience for the rest of my life."

  Musk said as he looked at Chen Chen, his expression was a mixture of a thousand emotions.

  "My pleasure."

  Chen Chen nodded and extended his hands for a handshake. "Here's to our cooperation?"

  "Here's to our cooperation!"

  Musk answered Chen Chen's firm handshake. After that, he turned around and entered his jet with his bodyguards escorting him. He did not turn back to steal one last look at Chen Chen.

  Not seeing any other reason for him to linger around, Chen Chen entered his car as well.

  When it came to these two men, there was not the usual sense of comradery that people would expect to see.

  This was largely unsurprising since people in their positions would hardly feel any attachment for the other person just because they had been spending time together for a day or two.

  Even if there was a public display of friendship, chances were that it was just a show they put on for members of the media and the world.

  Blacklight Biotechnology's security department did a commendable job as there was not a single media member present at the scene. Even if there were, the two of them would not be bothered to put on an act.

  By the time Chen Chen's vehicle had exited the vicinity of the airport, Musk's private jet had taken off as well and headed into the boundless sky.

  Upon Musk's return, his company SpaceX would embark on an unprecedented collaboration with Blacklight Biotechnology. The announcement would quake the world down to its very core.

  There was a good reason Chen Chen would willingly let Musk go after revealing so many secrets to him.

  A stark observation was that Chen Chen had never disclosed the existence of Medpod 3000 to anyone in the Disciple Council. Apart from Chen Chen and his parents, Musk was the fourth person to ever use the fully-automated medical platform.

  The only reason for that being the case was because this man was capable enough that Chen Chen could justify this heavy investment to collaborate with him.

  With that said, Chen Chen was not going to share the technology he had instantiated from the movies anytime soon as he was not so noble in that sense. The collaboration with SpaceX was just a stepping stone for Chen Chen to make up for the foundation in aerospace which he lacked.

  As Chen Chen continued to inject capital into SpaceX, the company would eventually become Chen Chen's tool, like slowly boiling a frog in a hot pot.

  Besides, Chen Chen had not shown his full deck just yet — there was another teleportation room on top of the one they had just been in.

  One was located at the top of the Spire Experimental Base while the other was placed in the Lycra office building in Eco Science City.

  Both teleportation rooms employed a similar design with four white walls surrounding a vacant room with only a black sphere in its middle. Without having any point of reference, Musk was transported to another teleportation room without even being aware of it.

  While he was being teleported, Chen Chen left another gift inside Musk's brain…

  A modified God chip.

  Based on the original plot of Gantz, the ones selected by the black sphere all had a chip implanted in their brain. Whenever they leave the vicinity of the battlefield designated by the black sphere, the chip in their brain would emit a shrieking alarm.

  If the alarm could not dissuade these perpetrators, it would self-destruct and blow apart the brain of its host as punishment…

  This was the black sphere technology. When transporting people, it could also implant foreign objects into the person without disrupting the body structure of the person.

  This was how Chen Chen had caught Musk off guard.

  The modified God chip was placed in Musk's occipital cortex while the artificial AI inside it continuously collected Musk's brainwave. In the event that Musk plotted something against Blacklight Biotechnology or God's Forbidden Zone, Little X would be immediately notified.

  In severe cases, the God chip may take over Musk's body or self-destruct to prevent the secrets of God's Forbidden Zone from being exposed.

  This was the card Chen Chen had kept up his sleeve.

  With that said, Chen Chen would not do any of the above if Musk kept up his part of the deal. If the existence of the chip was discovered, then there would never be an end to the conflict between Chen Chen and Musk.

  Chapter 357: Hyper Boosted Little X |

  The collaboration between Musk and Chen Chen was quickly announced on the official sites of the two participants.

  The subsequent were laid bare as well, all detailed in the respective announcements — Blacklight Biotechnology was ready to invest in SpaceX to deploy five geosynchronous orbit communication satellites. This was to develop the independent global communication technology of Blacklight Biotechnology to protect their technology from being breached.

  Also, Blacklight Biotechnology would construct a spaceport in an area south of Eco Science City. The investment was expected to total up to tens of billions of U.S. dollars while the space aviation technology would be purchased from SpaceX as well.

  Due to the proximity of the spaceport to the equator, it was the most ideal location for deploying geosynchronou
s orbit satellites.

  This announcement sent the entire science and technology community into an uproar. For some time after the announcement, many such topics had circulated online forums all over the world:

  "What? Blacklight Biotechnology is getting involved in the military industry and aerospace? They're even collaborating with SpaceX to deploy satellites? This is a dream collaboration…"

  "Deploying satellites to develop their independent communication systems, is the Earth Federal Space Regulatory Agency okay with this?"

  "If they can approve something as ridiculous as the Starlink Project, what's five geosynchronous orbit satellites to them? The only factor to consider is money and Blacklight Biotechnology has never been a company that's short on money."

  "Is Namibia getting ripped off? Both their military industry and aerospace industry endeavors are given to a foreign company, isn't this government a puppet by now?"

  "The commenter above is right. I'm a Namibian and I can't tell you how much I hate this company. They stripped our government of its autonomy and independence and bought out the entire Congress. They are even secretly buying maximum security felons, this is just…"

  "Hm? Why was the comment above deleted suddenly?"

  …

  The ongoing discussions of the forums could be discussed later. At the present, two vast construction sites had just been sectioned out on an empty plot of area south of Eco Science City. Hundreds of trucks and excavators arrived and began the vast construction project.

  The majority of the construction workers were the construction team dispatched by Blacklight Biotechnology themselves. Only a small portion of them were the local workers.

  This was a newly established construction force composed of people of all skin colors. They were the members of the construction company newly registered by Blacklight Biotechnology in Namibia at the end of the previous year — Tara Infrastructure, a subsidiary company of Tara Strategic Resources.

  With the supreme efficiency displayed by this workforce, the construction of the spaceport was making tremendous progress with every passing day.

  Each time Blacklight Biotechnology embarked on one of their ambitious endeavors, the international deepwater port and the airport of Walvis Bay would become swarmed with incessant activity. At this time, countless construction materials and all sorts of machinery were being shipped in.

  For the sake of convenience, two stretches of four-lane asphalt roads more than 50 kilometers long were paved overnight just a few nights ago.

  All this was to say that Blacklight Biotechnology's terrific efficiency had awed the Namibian government. Such construction efficiency was something they could only ever dream of.

  Under the guise of the busy construction project, tons of germanium metal were also secretly imported into the industrial park of Eco Science City.

  Deep inside the industrial park, the second Gantz server machine was finally constructed as well.

  This Gantz server machine was far larger than the first Gantz server machine. It weighed more than a hundred tons, which was easily ten times more than its predecessor. Its diameter spanned up to three meters and stood above thirty meters. It was like a giant metal tower.

  At this time, deep inside the industrial park, Chen Chen silently gazed at the giant monument and the Black Knights coming and going around the scaffolding next to the monument. His expression was heavy.

  This monument was erected by the Black Knight engineers bit by bit.

  "According to the data calculations, the signal coverage of the Gantz server machine has increased exponentially."

  Then came Little X's voice. "The signal breadth of the previous 10-ton Gantz server is only 200 kilometers in diameter, which means that it can only cover the entirety of a country like ​​Switzerland at most.

  "And now, the new Gantz server machine boasts signal range exceeding 2,000 kilometers, enough to cover half of the African Continent. This means that two black spheres can conduct point-to-point transfer as long as both of them are in the signal coverage range of the new Gantz server machine."

  "It's still not enough."

  Chen Chen shook his head. "The diameter of Earth is 12,743 kilometers. This means that if we want to gain global control of the black sphere, we'll need at least two Gantz server machines with a signal range exceeding 10,000 kilometers. That makes two 500 tons Gantz server machines."

  "Yes."

  Little X answered, "After the Gantz server machine signal coverage covers the globe, we can start equally distributing the black sphere across several hundred locations. That way, we can go to wherever we want instantaneously with the distributed black spheres. If the Gantz satellites have been deployed by then, it will be another boost to our maneuverability."

  "I look forward to that day."

  Chen Chen nodded.

  Just as Little X described, the black sphere could be used to conduct point-to-point transfer as long as they were both under the signal coverage of the Gantz server machine. With the Gantz satellites acting as relay stations, this process could even be performed with just a singular black sphere.

  This was the story of the original Gantz — even if there were no black sphere nearby, the Gantz satellite could still gather the dead inside the city and forcefully pull them into the black sphere room. After they had accepted the mission, they could be brought back onto the streets of the city. The technology was absolutely fascinating and marvelous.

  If Chen Chen could advance to this stage one day, the entire human civilization combined would not be able to stop him.

  Of course, this was nothing more than a daydream before it was properly executed. As he took in the sight of the brand new gigantic Gantz server machine, Chen Chen suddenly spoke, "X. Did X-112 experience any changes back when it entered the first server machine?"

  "None, i didn't detect any changes in its loyalty meter nor did I find any changes in the initial exploitable loophole we left behind in its sequence."

  Little X answered, "I routinely send a query to X-112 every day which consists of the back-end programming sequence which I configured myself. A passing mark is only awarded by answering all questions correctly. If its source code was altered, there's no way it can answer all the questions correctly."

  Chen Chen nodded. "Then can X-112 unleash the full potential of the Gantz server machine?"

  "At the end of the day, X-112 is just a copy of myself. Therefore, its qualities such as intelligence or any humanoid creativity and resilience are less than half of mine."

  Little X began to explain, "Also, the processing power of the Gantz server machine increases along with its size. The processing power of the original smallest Gantz server machine isn't that significant even though its computational capabilities are already several hundred times that of the Tianhe supercomputer. This might sound astronomical but it pales in comparison to the latest Gantz server machine. I can say that X-112 will not be able to fully unleash the potential of the larger Gantz server machine."

  "In that case, X, get ready to convert your source code into E Language and inject it into the new Gantz server machine."

  As if he had made up his mind, Chen Chen suddenly announced, "From now on, whenever we create larger Gantz server machines, I want you to inject your source code into the new server machines."

  "Noted!"

  There was a hint of excitement when Little X answered. As Little X continued to grow and develop more sophisticated artificial intelligence, the computing array in Eco Science City could no longer satisfy her.

  She was in urgent need of a new home and the Gantz server machine was the perfect location.

  Shortly after that, the Black Knights in the industrial park began to gather following Little X's orders. When they arrived, they brought all kinds of devices and equipment. The most notable one being the array processor where the source code of Little X was hosted in.

  This array processor came with 30 side-by-side slots. Each composed of 10,000 n
odes and each one of these nodes contained three Intel Xeon E52692 processors, which made for a total of 30,000 computing cores. It was equipped with a liquid nitrogen cooling system and could conduct up to a quadrillion calculations per second.

  This was the array processor Chen Chen had ordered at IBM that cost him hundreds of millions of dollars. Although it was not as good as some international grade supercomputers, it was more than enough to serve as Little X's body.

  Just like programming sequences, the array of processors in this system was what made up Little X. At the moment, Little X was continuously converting herself into E Language so that she could integrate herself into the Gantz server machine program.

  The Black Knights were not slacking off either as they began connecting the array processor with another more sophisticated-looking device. From a distance, it looked like a heavy machine gun. It was roughly two meters tall and reached an astonishing length of four meters.

  It looked like a laser cannon with a large number of cables and parts exposed on its exterior. The simple yet intricate machine continuously produced a mechanical roar as it operated.

  Most ordinary people would have difficulty recognizing what this device was, but Chen Chen knew that this was a photonic quantum switch.

  Since the Gantz server machine itself did not have any built-in slots, a photonic quantum switch was needed to transmit data.

  While this was going on, Chen Chen was silently watching. Since he had conducted experiments on X-112 in the past, he was very experienced and familiar with this process and was not particularly worried.

  After Little X had finished converting her 1EB code, it was time for the data transmission…

  Columns of red patterns on the Gantz server machine began to glow and fade consecutively like deep red neon signs on the street. The mysterious and alien E Language began to light up one after another, bleeding an occult red.

  "Initializing program…"

  The signals in the Gantz server machine were translated into regular verbal messages through the photonic quantum switch as they were played through the speakers.