noveltune Chapter 446 446: Connection Line
Chapter 446 446: Connection Line
"It seems you have already made up your mind."
Core Mita's tone of approval echoed beside his ear.
Alain did not deny it. "I made up my mind long ago. Now, all I lack is the perfect timing."
As Alain spoke, a sudden flash of inspiration struck his mind, and he instantly understood something that had been puzzling him all along.
He opened the Security Assistant and quickly found the slacking 2D Mita.
"What do you want?"
She was sprawled on the ground without a shred of ladylike grace, holding a bag of potato chips found who knows where. She didn't even spare Alain a glance, busily flipping through his photo album.
"Hss..." Alain harbored serious doubts in his heart. Was letting her become the Security Assistant really a good option?
His past had probably been stripped bare by 2D Mita.
However, he resisted the urge to give her a knuckle sandwich and smiled.
"Miss 2D Mita, you mentioned before that the line leading to the Unknown Port is a 'high-performance wired transmission,' right?"
"That's right."
Sensing the "politeness" in Alain's words, she sat up, feeling a bit strange. "What do you want to know? Although I already roughly understand that the identity of the Unknown Port is highly likely to be Monika, I haven't stopped the cracking progress on the Unknown Port over here, you know."
Her expression was just like an employee saying, "I wasn't slacking off."
Alain didn't mind that, but instead raised his own query. "How is the current cracking progress?"
"Hmm... let me see, don't rush me." With a chip still hanging from her mouth, 2D Mita began checking the console of the Security Assistant.
Alain forced back the words "I am in a rush" to the tip of his tongue, already considering how he should bully her later.
"Oh, found it. The current cracking progress is 98%."
She waved her hand to close the console. "At the earliest tonight, at the latest tomorrow. You'll be able to dox her."
To "dox" her meant to follow the network cable of the Unknown Port and go directly to... deal with her.
But this logic no longer held up after Alain learned that the reality here was by no means the reality he knew.
The end of the network cable was likely the true reality.
Even if Alain could really do as 2D Mita said—follow the cable to deal with her—he would only be staring blankly at her on a computer screen from inside the monitor.
Therefore, Alain's attention was not focused on that.
"You said it before, didn't you?" Alain recalled. "The wired transmission rate to the Unknown Port is extremely high. And as the cracking progress increases, we can also know the potential size of the transmitted information."
"Mn, I did say that." 2D Mita was not ambiguous when it came to serious business.
She understood what Alain wanted to know and opened the console again to check.
"Oh, Alain!" The next moment, she cast an excited gaze his way. "We already know the possible size of the data!"
She added, "Although it's just a possible estimated range, it's far better than looking for a needle in a haystack!"
"Yeah... you've worked hard during this time."
Under Alain's solemn gaze, she reported a range of numbers:
"The currently ascertainable interval is (0.8, 2.5). The unit is PB."
"...PB?"
It wasn't that Alain didn't recognize the unit PB; precisely because he knew PB, he understood just how astonishing this was.
1 PB is equivalent to 1024 TB. And 1 TB is equivalent to 1024 GB. Calculating downwards like this... one could understand how massive this interval was.
And the (0.8, 2.5) in 2D Mita's words meant that the size of the data potentially transmitted by the Unknown Port was within the range of 0.8 PB to 2.5 PB.
And this 'X' was the very thing Alain wanted to understand right now.
"Inside this string of numbers, is there anything representative?" Alain asked 2D Mita.
The young girl nodded and casually pulled out a mobile phone...
Before long, she arrived at an answer:
"Although the data is huge, there are many conjectured results. Among them is the thing you guessed."
She looked at Alain with concern.
Alain shook his head, signaling her to say it directly.
2D Mita took a deep breath. "The storage capacity of the human brain falls exactly within this range."
"Mn." Alain nodded indifferently, his thoughts involuntarily drifting to the matter of the Unknown Port.
Why was the Unknown Port able to instantly complete the wired transmission of Red Dead Redemption 2...
The answer to that was now abundantly clear.
I'm afraid that in his current state as a "Brain in a Vat," the connection with the Unknown Port has a certain correlation.
"What's wrong with you? Why the long face?" 2D Mita naturally couldn't stand seeing Alain's deep contemplation. "If you're worried that the Unknown Port will pull some shenanigans, then you're worrying for nothing!"
2D Mita crossed her arms. "You just need to know, I am one hundred percent certain—the current Security Assistant is completely our possession! You don't need to worry about any backstabbing events occurring, Alain."
She looked at Alain with unprecedented seriousness. "Believe in me, and believe in everyone's hard work!"
"It's not that I don't believe you all." Alain found it a bit funny.
His call with 2D Mita was not muted, nor was there any need for it.
Therefore, Core Mita listened attentively.
"Excuse me, I didn't quite understand what you were just saying. Could you explain it to me?"
"Hm?" Alain froze slightly, then immediately spoke, "You didn't know yet? The Security Guard is no longer the Security Guard, but has turned into the Security Assistant."
Alain recounted the story of how he and everyone else modified the Security Guard to Core Mita.
"And precisely because of this, we have completely grasped the Security Assistant in our hands."
"..."
Core Mita did not reply rashly, seemingly pondering something.
She leaned gently against the headboard and asked in confusion,
"Wasn't the Antivirus Software always under your control?"
"?" Alain observed her face; it remained expressionless, suspecting nothing else.
He seemed to sense a trace of... indescribable incongruity, yet he couldn't find the source.
But facing Core Mita's query, Alain still explained in great detail.
"It's like this. In the process of modifying the Security Guard, we discovered two ports.
"One is your Core Port, which was not receiving or sending information."
Alain looked at Core Mita. Hearing this, she nodded gently.
He continued speaking.
"And the other port is the Unknown Port.
"The Unknown Port receives the upload of the [Security Guard] logs at a frequency of once every two hours."
As Alain spoke to this point, the sense of contradiction in his heart became increasingly intense...
Core Mita did not reply rashly after hearing this explanation.
She lowered her head, thinking about who knows what.
Alain waited quietly, himself pondering the origin of that sense of dissonance.
A long while later, Core Mita raised her head to look at him and asked a question Alain absolutely did not expect:
"The Unknown Port... what is that?
"I have never heard of it."
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