Having rested for the night, the woman awoke the next day and imdiately sat up, quickly checking her surroundings. Satisfied that nothing had been added or taken away, she looked over to where Zheng Yichen was. Sitting on his motorcycle, Zheng Yichen was staring at the mobile phone in his hand.
Uh, what kind of antique phone is that?
This was the black-haired woman’s first impression upon seeing the mobile phone in Zheng Yichen’s hand. She stood up to inspect Zheng Yichen’s motorcycle more closely. She had not paid much attention while fleeing the day before, but now, upon closer scrutiny, she discovered that Zheng Yichen’s motorcycle also seed to be an antique?
To say so might seem a bit rude, but in terms of style, it just didn’t fit with the tis. The computer mounted on it was sowhat outdated too, roughly akin to the style from thirty years ago.
The operating system was one she had never seen before, "May I try out your bike?"
The black-haired woman could hardly resist her curiosity. There was a certain joy in tampering with antiques. In this world, outdated devices were quickly discarded, let alone those from around thirty years ago.
"This bike has intelligent recognition."
"That’s not—cough—I’m just curious about the system on the motorcycle’s computer, not about riding it," the woman quickly denied, shaking her head.
"Alright then, later, you can see if you can upgrade my computer system."
"..." The woman might have thought Zheng Yichen was so sort of hermit. After getting his consent, she began to operate the motorcycle’s computer. Aside from an initial period of adjustnt, she quickly beca accustod to the operating system.
It was a completely different system from what she knew, almost as if it had been developed independently to avoid the influence of the current era’s vast network—quite seamless, with a moderately effective firewall. For reference, it could offer so convenience in certain types of invasions.
She greedily morized and learned the computer knowledge that didn’t even use a projection operating system, converting it into a form she was more adept with.
By the ti she ca back to herself, it was already noon. She touched her stomach and pulled a small pill from a small bag she was carrying and popped it into her mouth, frowning slightly before exhaling.
Then she was lured by a delicious aroma and saw the cup of noodles in Zheng Yichen’s hand. The woman showed a conflicted expression—the food she had just eaten seed a bit hasty.
"How’s it going? If you’ve broken my bike, that’s a matter of life and death."
Looking at Zheng Yichen, who was slurping his noodles, the woman’s mouth twitched slightly, "Of course it’s not broken. I’ve just never seen this computer system before, so it took quite so ti to understand."
"So, you understand it now?"
"Almost... It’s hard to optimize since what I know is sowhat different from what’s in this computer. Optimization will take so ti," the woman explained, and she wasn’t lying. In fact, the simplest form of optimization would be to install a new system that she was familiar with on the computer.
She had observed that the computer’s compatibility was quite good. However, installing a new system would also be complicated since the new system had to be compatible with the motorcycle’s features, which would be a substantial undertaking.
She could force in a different system, an approach that might work in a pinch without considering the consequences, but Zheng Yichen did not seem to be an ordinary man. She felt it was better not to do so, "The firewall on this computer is very solid already. Unless it encounters soone like or if you deliberately open a specific port, it won’t be invaded in the short term."
"Even if it is invaded, I can solve all the problems."
As she spoke, her confidence was evident.
"Alright then, do you want so food, and then we can set off?"
"..." The woman looked at the new cup of noodles Zheng Yichen took out with a conflicted expression. The noodles were in their initial state, resembling a disc; all one had to do was tear the packaging, and the cup would automatically unfurl, quite convenient. But she wasn’t hungry anymore.
The thing she had consud earlier was a type of compressed food, very popular in the wilderness; it was that kind of stuff that turned survival in the wild into a form of tourism. After all, given the tiny size of those pellets, one could carry a whole lot of them in a small packet, leaving only the issue of water.
"I’m not hungry anymore." The woman’s throat moved as she spoke. Although the effects of those little pellets were strong, their taste was diocre at best, and cup noodles were different—they actually slled delicious once prepared!
"That’s too bad." Zheng Yichen put away the compressed cup noodles, and the woman, glancing at the opened motorcycle, noticed there were quite a few types of firearms inside, although their style was different from what she knew.
"Who... who exactly are you?" After hesitating for a mont, she couldn’t help but ask again.
"? Honestly speaking, you could say I’m sothing like a savior," Zheng Yichen said half-jokingly. In a way, his statent wasn’t wrong—the world being consud by Great World didn’t an its end; it rely implied that the native foundation of this world was forcefully overtaken.
Many creatures of this world could still survive, while many others could not. After all, when a world’s foundation is dismantled, the resulting turmoil amounts to a catastrophe for the indigenous world.
By then, it truly becos a scenario where only the strong can survive.
"And what about jokingly?"
"A person saving the world, in a sense."
"You’d get sent to a ntal hospital talking like that," the woman said, sowhat speechless as she looked at Zheng Yichen. His words seed utterly insane to her.
"Just take it as a joke then. If you’re not hungry, let’s get going," Zheng Yichen gestured for the woman to make way as he was ready to start riding the motorcycle and pick up speed.
Because she was worried about revealing her location, the woman didn’t use location tracking, but seeing the positioning system on the old-model phone Zheng Yichen took out, her expression crumbled: "You... you were worried before that I might be tracked, and now you’re connecting to the network??"
She used her device online because it was encrypted, but Zheng Yichen’s old-model phone... wasn’t that asking for trouble?
The world is vast, but finding her wouldn’t be difficult; they were already in the middle of nowhere, and suddenly having such a signal in the wilderness, those tracking her would definitely co to investigate.
"It’s offline," Zheng Yichen waved his mobile phone.
"How can you get positioning while offline?"
"Mysticism."
"..." The woman didn’t understand what Zheng Yichen ant but was greatly shocked; she repeatedly checked the status of Zheng Yichen’s phone and even hacked into it to confirm that his phone indeed wasn’t connected to the internet.
Zheng Yichen glanced at her: "Why do you like hacking into other people’s electronic devices so much?"
"This is outrageous. How can it be like this?" The woman was as if her worldview was being challenged: "Did so new technology co out or sothing?"
She didn’t believe Zheng Yichen’s talk of mysticism—it was far too mysterious. Initially, she was a bit skeptical, but after Zheng Yichen, following that offline map, found a town, she beca even more speechless. Before finding the town, she could still convince herself that the offline map on Zheng Yichen’s phone was a bluff.
But now, after accurately finding the corresponding location, she really started to doubt her life. However, what she thought more about was that perhaps Zheng Yichen’s phone was a hidden, more advanced gadget that was actually connected to the internet but disguised as being offline...
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