Great Power Technology

Kunlun Mountain, Gonger Peak, Liubi Project Underground Base.

Today is the first day that the base begins to gradually lift restrictions. Many members of the project team have begun to leave the base after review, but Ye Zhou is still here.

Although the Six-nose Mirror 003 has been operating normally for more than a month and has played its corresponding role, this does not mean that the Six-nose Project is over.

On the contrary, this project will continue to be maintained for a long time, based on the existing RSA decryption-specific quantum computer, and try to expand it to other special fields, and ultimately achieve the goal of universal quantum computing.

Therefore, Ye Zhou still needs to continue to provide relevant support for this project. For him, it is not easy to come to Kunlun Mountain once, so it is better to stay for a while.

Chen Hao also agreed with Ye Zhou's decision, but as usual, he had already applied for Ye Zhou's compulsory leave to his superiors in advance. He had to urge Ye Zhou every three or five days in the past two days to confirm the time and place of leave.

Ye Zhou couldn't say he was bored by this, he just felt...a bit verbose.

"You really don't have to rush me every day. If I figure it out, I'll tell you. Isn't it over yet? The peripheral team hasn't been evacuated yet. I have to wait until they leave before I leave, right?"

Chen Hao smiled disapprovingly and replied:

"Don't you understand this? This is a psychological strategy. I have to let you have the awareness in your heart that you need to take a vacation, so as not to delay it longer and longer."

"It's been more than a year since your last vacation. The intensity of the work is honestly unbearable for anyone."

"You have delayed the physical examination for three months. I was scolded last time for this matter."

"So don't think I'm verbose. Although these are all trivial things, as long as they are related to you, there are no trivial matters."

Ye Zhou sighed and replied:

"I know, I know...Hey, how is the progress on gene editing? I'm talking about the medical field."

"Can you give me a genetic enhancement or something? It's best if I don't need to sleep."

"...You must be poisonous. Who dares to use this unstable technology on you?"

Hearing Chen Hao's words, Ye Zhou's eyes suddenly widened.

"Does this kind of technology really exist?"

"...No, don't ask."

"Yes, yes. Can you be more rigorous than a scientific researcher?"

"Say no, even if there is, it is impossible to use it now. This is not only a scientific issue, but also an ethical issue. Even if we can modify the human body through gene editing, it will require long-term theoretical verification before it can be used. superior."

"Besides, the most easily achieved gene editing now is for the embryonic state. You are 25 years old, why are you joining in the fun?"

Ye Zhou chuckled and said with some disdain:

"You still want to bluff me with your technical level? The current gene editing technology can directly affect the genetic structure by targeting RNA. Who said it has to start from the embryonic state?"

"Forget it, I'm too lazy to tell you this. I'm just on vacation, so take it off - but I have to wait until I go to see how the six-nose mirror is doing today."

While chatting casually, the two walked towards the control room of Liubijing, but to both of them's surprise, the atmosphere in the control room today was a bit strange.

Too serious.

In fact, ever since Liubijing No. 003 completed the calculation of 1024-digit prime factors for the first time, the atmosphere of the entire project team has gradually become jubilant. Subsequently, after using this quantum computer to successfully complete the deterrent against Chou Country Afterwards, the members of the core group were just like the Chinese New Year. They wanted to kill pigs every day to celebrate. Even during the most serious data processing work, everyone had a faint smile on their faces.

But today, the smile disappeared.

"what happened?"

Ye Zhou stepped forward and asked.

Hearing his voice, Xiao Ping, who was standing at the front, turned around and replied:

"Xiaoye, you're here just in time, come and take a look."

"No. 003 is working a little abnormally today. The noise rate is extremely high. The results we usually get in two minutes take more than half an hour today."

"We retrieved the intermediate data and found that the calculation process of the quantum core was severely disturbed, and most of the noise became random."

"Have the properties of the quantum chip changed? Has the external environment changed?"

Ye Zhou asked with a frown.

Logically speaking, topological quantum computers have strong noise immunity and are almost unaffected by some traditional electromagnetic disturbances. Even if a small amount of background radiation causes disturbances, their performance will not drop too much.

But now, according to Xiao Ping, the performance of this computer has dropped by more than 90%.

This is not a random performance fluctuation. There must be some factors that interfere with the work of this computer!

"There is no change. The properties of the chip are all normal, the external environment is also stable, and the electromagnetic radiation situation is even better than what we did two days ago."

"We have ruled out almost all possibilities, but still can't find a result. We suspect that it may be some unknown particles that affect its work."

"We have just notified the Institute of High Energy Physics. They happen to have a few people still at the base. They will come over and have a look soon - but they can't help much. At most, they can only deduce it theoretically."

Ye Zhou nodded slightly and replied:

"If it is an unknown particle disturbance... that shouldn't be the case. 003's core cabin shielding system is so strong and has not been turned on since it started working. How could something suddenly go wrong?"

Hearing his words, Xiao Ping sighed.

"This is also our doubt... Quantum computing is still too mysterious to us. Maybe many times, we can't figure out its real cause."

Ye Zhou hummed noncommittally. After a moment of pause, he suddenly said:

"How about trying to restart?"

"...I've already restarted it, but it still doesn't work."

"Then there is really no other way. If it doesn't work, replace the quantum core, but it will definitely be too late today. Mr. Xiao, do you think this is an accident or a man-made incident?"

Xiao Ping was silent for a moment with a serious expression, and then solemnly said:

"I think it is very likely that it was an accident. The reason is very simple. If our enemies have this level of technology and can directly interfere with the quantum computing process, it means that their quantum physics level is at least decades ahead of us. There’s no reason for us to be stuck with a dedicated computer.”

"Is it possible that they just happen to master a certain aspect?"

"impossible."

Xiao Ping shook his head firmly and continued:

"This thing is not some martial arts secret book. It can't be used by just picking out a claw from the middle. Even if we build a special computer, we have thoroughly understood its relevant theories from beginning to end."

"Interference is a more difficult thing than calculation, especially when our environmental shielding is as extreme as it gets."

"If there is any interference, it can only be quantum-on-quantum."

"But to achieve this level of control, no one in the world can do it, let alone Ugly Country."

Having said this, everyone present felt a little more relaxed.

Now it has become a fact that the performance of No. 003 has been degraded due to large-scale interference, but as long as the source of this interference does not come from the enemy, the problem is under control.

After thinking for a moment, Ye Zhou said:

"Export the noise disturbance data, look at the time-sharing noise distribution, and try to fit it with the changes in the monitoring data to see which time period and under which conditions the interference is the strongest."

"It has been done, and the fitting results are not optimistic. Again, the disturbance is almost completely random..."

"almost??"

Ye Zhou instantly captured the key words in his words.

"Yes, it's almost random, but there are also certain patterns. For example, there are several combinations of disturbance wave peaks that appear repeatedly."

"Has there been any change in the corresponding monitoring data?"

"No, everything is normal, that's why I say it's not optimistic."

Hearing this, Ye Zhou sighed helplessly.

He knew in his heart that this so-called "regularity" could not actually be used as a reference for any analysis, because you don't know whether it is a real pattern or just a small pseudo-loop that appears in a random process.

At this time, several experts from the Institute of High Energy Physics had entered the control room. Ye Zhou raised his head and took a look. The girl named Lin Ling he met before was actually there.

Both of them recognized each other, but they only nodded and did not exchange any further greetings.

At this time, the disturbance wave chart had been sent to Ye Zhou. He looked at the high and low curves above, and his eyes suddenly locked on the so-called "regular" wave.

It is true that similar fluctuations have been repeated several times, but the interval before each repetition is different, and the intensity of the interference fluctuations is also different.

This is most likely just a coincidence.

Ye Zhou was thinking this, but a thought suddenly came to his mind.

What if this is binary data?

The "Decision Maker" talent is now in effect.

He pulled out a thread from this tangled mess.

Ye Zhou immediately began to mark 0-1 numbers on the wave chart according to the peaks and troughs. However, after the marking was completed, he asked relevant cryptography experts to repeat the deduction many times and found that this did not constitute meaningful information.

Ye Zhou frowned and thought for a moment, then changed to use high perturbation and low perturbation to represent 1-0 respectively. This time, in a very short period of time, the cryptography experts waiting aside came to a conclusion.

"Ye Gong...this disturbance seems to be really meaningful."

"If it is compiled according to ASCII code...the parts of this string of numbers that we said were regular can really form words."

"What word??"

Ye Zhou's heart jumped suddenly, and then the other party handed over the results recorded on the paper.

Ye Zhou's eyes scanned the line of letters on the paper, and after a half-second pause, he froze in place.

The muscles all over his body were tense, and his blood was carrying a huge amount of adrenaline rushing through his veins. There were beads of sweat on his back, and his heartbeat was so fast that even the "Courage" talent could not suppress it.

After half a minute, under the gaze of the onlookers, Ye Zhou slowly turned around and looked at the group of high-energy physics researchers who were still discussing.

There was unspeakable confusion and shock in his eyes, and the people he looked at were still unaware of the current situation.

Ye Zhou raised his hand and looked at the paper in his hand again.

There are only 10 letters on it.

"nihaoyihao".