Chapter 23: Unable to Be Proven False

Name: Song Han

Gender: Male

Age: 16

ID Number: xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Address: XXXX, XX County, XX Province

Contact Number: 158xxxx4720

Chief Complaint: In 2003, there was a malicious attack targeting young school - children at an elementary school in XXX Village, XX County, XX Province. In 2004, there were cases of multiple middle - school students with the same name falling in City X. On October 12th of the same year, he was the main target of a missile attack.

Request: Apply for absolute electronic - information - free sealing of personal information to protect the safety of family members. The Security Bureau is assigned to be responsible for his personal safety defense and communication work.

Key Points of Prevention: Suspected non - biological attacks from a person who traveled through time from a hundred years later.

Evaluation by the Medical Expert Team: The evaluated person suffers from "severe persecution mania, post - traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), mental disorder, is suspected to be a hyperthymesia patient, and is a heavy enthusiast of the science - fiction movie worldviews of *The Matrix* and *Terminator*. He has an extremely high IQ.

Recommendation: Hospitalization for treatment.

Academician Zhao of the Institute of Information Industry of the Academy of Sciences commented: The target object has a large number of core vulnerabilities in the underlying information of the Western Internet, and the security level is extremely high

Recommendation: Proper resettlement is advised!

Note by Academician Li from the School of Engineering at the National Defense University: The target is suspected to have mastered technologies with a generation gap of over 20 years beyond the current information technology, which can bring immeasurable improvements to China's national defense construction and national security.

Note by Professor Wang from the field of macroscopic physics and cosmology: It is impossible to prove or disprove the information about his personal origin, and it is impossible to conduct an assessment.

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Instruction Approval: Provide proper resettlement and establish an equal, voluntary, harmonious, and sound communication and protection mechanism. Try to make the target the highest - level united front object.

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"Hey! A new friend has come. Are you a GG or an MM?"

"What does GG and MM mean?"

"It's the abbreviation for 'older brother' and 'older sister'."

"Then I should be ZZ."

"What does ZZ mean?"

"Zhong Zhong, in the middle between male and female."

"Neither male nor female?"

"It can also mean either male or female. If you're willing to chat with me, you can even think of me as an Apache attack helicopter."

"..."

"I heard that there are many programming experts in this chat room. I've had several questions that I just can't figure out, so I specially got the website address from a friend to come and ask for advice."

"What kind of problem? Send it over and let me have a look."

"It's about a memory overflow issue..."

"Ah, it's too late. I'm not chatting anymore. These aren't just one problem; it's like a never - ending stream of problems."

"Okay, thanks for your responses."

The next day, after a busy morning, Ding Shi opened the chat room. Just as he was about to have a casual chat with his peers to unwind, he noticed that new messages in the chat room were popping up non - stop.

"What a familiar ID."

Out of instinct, he scrolled through the chat history, trying to catch up on the ongoing conversation in the forum so that he could join in. However, the familiar ID made him scroll further up.

"Replying to messages instantly and chatting continuously for 13 hours? Don't you need to eat, drink, or sleep?"

As Ding Shi posted this message, the forum instantly became abuzz.

"Yeah! I didn't even notice until you mentioned it. This ID 26542 seems to have been replying instantly all the time without a break, and can chime in on any topic."

"Is that even possible? Replying instantly for 13 consecutive hours? Could this be a shared ID used in an internet café?"

"Even if it's a shared ID, it doesn't make sense! Look at our current chat response times.

From the moment a human receives an information stimulus to processing the response, typing, sending the message, and accounting for network latency, even with a large number of people, it's impossible to respond within a second! Not to mention doing it continuously for 13 hours!"

"So?"

"So, the one on the other side isn't human at all!"

"A cyber ghost?" 

Looking at the casual chat records on the forum, Ding Shi nearly spat out the tea in his mouth.

"Are you being serious, buddy? This is a dedicated chat room for Internet technology. Shouldn't it be more in line with the nature of our forum to assume it's an AI?

Moreover, no one noticed after chatting for so long. If it really is an AI, doesn't that mean it can already pass the Turing test?"

"Hey? Strange. Why has the ID above changed?"

"The time has changed too!"

"What about you guys? I couldn't have been the only one who misread, could I?"

"Collective visual hallucination?"

"User ID 26532: In this situation, I suddenly feel like quoting a saying: In the Internet age, you never know whether it's a person or a dog on the other side of the network cable."

"Haha! That's quite a brilliant quote. In this situation, I'm also suddenly inspired to compose a poem!"

"Hey! This is a chat room for Internet technology enthusiasts!"

The topic has been successfully derailed!

Song Han frowned and closed the chat - room dialog box. However, the numerous and constantly popping - up feedback pop - ups on the computer screen didn't give him any sense of accomplishment for solving problems.

This was far beyond the workload that one person could handle.

"100 talents in liberal arts fields including sociology, philosophy, literature, Buddhism, religion, science fiction, etc.

Requirement: trustworthy, aged 40 or above."

"100 liberal arts talents? Your requirements..."

"The real requirements are the next two sentences. If it weren't for those, I could find these people on my own."

"The age requirement is easy to meet. There aren't many young people in the literary field. But how do you evaluate trustworthiness? What do you need these people for?"

"Communication!"

"Yeah!"

Song Han turned the monitor in front of him around and pointed helplessly at the constantly popping - up windows on the screen. "These are incorrect communications, which will convey some wrong information. I need someone to tell it what's right and what's wrong from a human perspective!"

"It?"

The state's actions were much quicker than Song Han had imagined. The next day, Wang Wei led a stranger in front of Song Han.

"This is Director Zhou from the relevant department. The personnel you need have been assembled from the national think - tank and are ready.

It's just about the cost..."

As if afraid that Song Han might misunderstand, Director Zhou beside him explained with a smile, "Although the personnel allocation of the national think - tank is under the management of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, special funds are required for the establishment and arrangement of some scientific research projects.

After all, this is an outsourced task, and the funds need to be raised by the client."

Song Han nodded silently and asked, "How can we ensure information security?"

"The 100 think - tank members will be under the unified management of government departments at all levels during their work. They will use a dedicated internal network line and have no external connection.

However, with such a large - scale personnel arrangement, it's difficult to achieve complete information security outside the dedicated network."

"Relative security is enough. A group of people with no future won't be able to cause much trouble."

Song Han's words made Director Zhou subconsciously touch his thinning hair. He thought to himself that he was only 42 years old this year. Wasn't he still in his prime? 

"What about the funding issue?"

Wang Wei turned to look at the empty office building. After the sale of the navigation website, the original team recruited by Luo Xiang had been taken in by Baidu.

Currently, apart from Luo Xiang, who was the only remaining person in the company, Song Han seemed to be busy with something all day long without anyone knowing what it was.

"I remember you're out of money, right?"

"There'll be some soon."

Thanks to the "Economic Act" passed by the government of Country D in December 2000, which required domestic foreign - exchange futures brokers to register with the domestic futures association and be supervised by the domestic Commodity and Futures Trading Commission, online foreign - exchange margin trading embarked on the path of electronic information development.

In the world of capital, when it comes to making money and making it quickly, people are always one step ahead.

Seeing that Song Han, who was busy in front of the computer, didn't seem to mind their presence, Wang Wei and Director Zhou exchanged a look and stepped forward.

On the screen were constantly changing interfaces, which finally stopped at the foreign - exchange futures trading platform under LFL Markeeee.

Wang Wei and Director Zhou clearly had a certain level of English reading and writing ability, but they couldn't figure out Song Han's real intention.

Director Zhou looked down at Song Han and subconsciously pushed back the lock of hair that had fallen over his forehead. He joked with a smile,

"I didn't expect Mr. Song to be a financial expert."

Song Han shook his head.

"I don't understand finance."

"Then what are you doing?"

"But I know how to cheat!"

"Can you cheat in the foreign - exchange futures trading market?"

Some people, in order to get their trading orders executed a step ahead of others, specifically build the shortest - distance communication lines between the two major exchanges. They just want their trading orders to be a few milliseconds faster than others.

In any trading market, the simplest logic is to buy low and sell high. As long as my orders are always ahead of everyone else, buying at a lower price and selling at a higher price than you, I won't lose!"

"But what can a few milliseconds do? Currently, the connection between our domestic network and foreign networks has a delay of more than 6 seconds even at its fastest, right?"

"Here it goes!"

Without answering the other person's question, after setting the corresponding parameters, Song Han firmly pressed the Enter key. Visibly, the data on the computer screen began to refresh continuously like a waterfall.

Song Han confidently opened his trading account. The original remaining quota of only $120,000 quickly turned into $2,000 and then stopped changing.

The glaring number made the three people present freeze simultaneously.

Director Zhou forced a smile and wiped the non - existent cold sweat from his forehead.

"Young people really know how to have an exciting time."

Song Han accessed the background data and started to look through it. But before he could even start operating, the original quota of $2,000 began to keep rising. It finally stopped at $100,000,000 within just a dozen minutes. 

"Ones, tens, hundreds, thousands..."

Seeing this, Song Han let out a long sigh.

"No need to count. It's just a small goal."