It was a week later when Su Xiu received a call from Shi Qiang.
During this time, Su Xiu used the Abominable Intelligence to change his loan records to a repaid status.
Incidentally, by relying on the Abominable Intelligence's calculations regarding the sophon, Su Xiu verified his previous view that the sophon's monitoring allocated different monitoring resources to different levels of humans.
“The level I am currently at is the lowest, E-level, and under normal circumstances, the sophon wouldn't care about my life or death at all.”
“However, as the threat level increases, for example, if I get accepted into graduate school at this university, or win a physics award internationally, then it will undoubtedly attract more attention from the sophon.”
“So, in the future, I must try my best to lay low and avoid attracting the sophon's attention… But if that’s the case, how will I obtain Warp lottery points?”
“It seems I still need to balance both, trying not to raise the sophon's threat level while still stirring human emotions.”
Watching the news report on TV about “Han University Students Outsmarting Criminals and Rescuing Hostages,” Su Xiu slurped his instant noodles while silently opening his panel.
【Su Fei: Human】
【Occupation: Psyker】
【Psionic Level: Manifestation One】
【Skill: Ling Neng · Premonition】
【Equipment: Abominable Intelligence】
【Remaining Warp Salvage Attempts: 3】
Despite the popularity of smartphones—don't ask why there were smartphones in 2005; it's already incredible that complete VR virtual reality technology existed in this era, which can only mean that the Three-Body timeline's Earth technology is about 10 years ahead of reality.
Su Xiu looked at the balance in his bank card.
Thirty-three thousand six hundred and fifty yuan.
After buying a train ticket to Yanjing for the next day, only thirty-three thousand four hundred and twelve yuan remained in his card.
After tax, the reward for his heroic act was roughly eighty thousand yuan. Following the Abominable Intelligence's advice, Su Xiu spent almost half of it on parts to manually DIY a server.
However, it was worth it.
“Dark Crusade! Initiate!”
Looking at the game icon on his computer's homepage, Su Xiu took a deep breath.
The Abominable Intelligence's programming ability was unquestionable; in a few minutes, it had created a well-made mini-game according to Su Xiu's requirements.
After dragging the mouse to control the spaceship for daily fixed exploration and collection missions, Su Xiu nodded in satisfaction.
“Upload for review.”
“After the estimated upload review, the probability of the Abominable Intelligence being discovered by the sophon increases by 5.9%, with the current discovery probability being 3.7%.”
“Continue upload.”
“Yes, sir.”
Even with humanity's current technological level, the Abominable Intelligence had no good way to counter sophon surveillance, but roughly estimating the sophon's computing power and calculating the danger level was no problem for the Abominable Intelligence.
And, most importantly,
Looking at his remaining three lottery attempts,
Even if the Abominable Intelligence was truly discovered by the sophon, it wouldn't be a significant loss for Su Xiu.
The Abominable Intelligence could achieve timely self-destruction, and as long as Su Xiu's threat level with the sophon didn't increase, the probability of exposure would be extremely low.
Moreover, Su Xiu didn't think a pay-to-win mini-game would pose any threat to the sophon.
“The train ticket is for 9 AM tomorrow. Set an alarm, don't be late.”
Su Xiu turned off the bedside lamp in his bedroom. He closed his eyes and began to actively absorb the Warp energy, which grew increasingly dense as time passed… Outside, the rain pattered.
Yang Zhen sat in his office and, as usual, opened his work interface.
“Forget it, I’ll order takeout later.”
Watching the rain outside grow heavier, Yang Zhen shook his head.
Although the company cafeteria was just downstairs in the next building, Yang Zhen had no intention of running back and forth in the rain.
After all, a worker's body is very fragile. If he saved the money for one takeout meal but got sick from the rain, he might not be able to work for days or even half a month. Not to mention the docked salary, just the perfect attendance bonus alone would be enough for dozens of takeout meals.
“Huh… Dark Crusade? Offering both mobile and PC services? Is this a new game from a big studio recently?”
Scrolling down the webpage, looking at the newly updated games awaiting review on domestic Android platforms, and seeing the black hexagram icon on the app, Yang Zhen clicked on it with a slight curiosity.
“Terra Studio? Registered three days ago… Is this an individual developer?”
Upon seeing this, Yang Zhen's originally somewhat excited heart calmed down. He didn't have too many expectations for this game.
Although a large number of games are updated daily in the Android game sector, most of them are poorly made. Generally, only games produced by a few famous domestic big studios can be called masterpieces and are worth playing… Of course, some big studios have been making questionable decisions recently, which has led to domestic players being very cautious before deciding to try a game.
However, who made this his job?
Yang Zhen shook his head, then clicked to download, but was already prepared for disappointment.
The installation package was not large, only about 200MB, and it showed as downloaded in a few seconds.
During this process, Yang Zhen hadn't even finished reading the game's description.
【In the game, players need to take on the role of an insurgent leader. Under the leadership of the Second Warmaster Abaddon, in the name of the Four Gods, launch a decisive strike against the corrupt, tyrannical, and ignorant Imperium, liberating humanity from the hands of the False Emperor…】
“Oh? Set in the galaxy… That’s not very common, is it?”
Seeing the introduction in the description, Yang Zhen's interest was somewhat piqued.
He didn't finish reading the description and directly clicked on the Android emulator on his desktop to start the game.
The next second, as the screen went black,
“Holy cow! Holy cow! Holy cow!”
Looking at the exquisite dynamic overhead view of the galaxy before him, Yang Zhen, who had just taken a sip of milk tea, couldn't help but curse out loud.
The stars shifted, and as the perspective advanced, every planet drifting in the starry sky appeared so lifelike. Thousands of warships engaged in battle in space, firing lasers and cannons, and some weapons Yang Zhen didn't understand. Every detail on the warship decks was incredibly intricate; Yang Zhen could even see tiny bullet holes on the warship armor and the ripples splashed when shells hit the warship shields.
“This CG quality! Awesome!”
Unbeknownst to Yang Zhen, several colleagues who had just picked up their takeout were standing behind him. When they saw the incredibly beautiful space battle scenes flashing on Yang Zhen's computer, they all exclaimed in admiration.
“Oh! When did you guys order takeout?”
“That's not important, fast forward, fast forward… I'm already eager to try it out.”
“Yeah! Hurry up and start, Old Yang! Is this another new game from a big studio?”
Standing behind Yang Zhen were young people who had just been recruited by the company this year from nearby universities. Without exception, they were all game enthusiasts, just like Yang Zhen.
“No, it's an individual development team that just registered and I haven't heard of,” Yang Zhen shook his head, his eyes fixed on the game's start screen after the CG ended, and replied.
He had a premonition that the exquisite CG was by no means the peak of this game.