Chapter 1034: with translation of chapter title

Marvel Universe.

"Life is so miraculous, even breeding worms can appear inside computers...... How on earth do these things survive?"

Tony narrowed his eyes, unconsciously leaning back onto the sofa, surveyed the dense mass of worms constantly writhing and twisting in the sky curtain, his disgust evident.

Without further ado, the fact that Lady Black Tower herself would personally come down to clean up such disgusting stuff already earns his admiration.

"Speaking of which, if worm swarms can even be born inside computer programs, then every electronic device in my building—my armor, my system, my coffee maker—could possibly sprout worms...... if the Breeding Star God is still alive."

"When even inorganic life can turn into worms, discussing this topic is already meaningless. However, Tony, there's an idea that needs correcting you——" Dr. Banner stretched out a finger, emphasizing, "With our current computer floating-point operation count, we fundamentally can't attract computational worms; to the worms, our computing power is roughly on par with that of primitive tribes."

"What does 'several myriad gai' even mean?" Steve asked curiously, "Is 'gai' a unit? I've never heard of it before; the biggest unit I know is 'trillion'."

"Alright, let me give you an analogy." Tony stretched out a hand, spreading his fingers, "Captain, do you know roughly what level the Earth's most advanced supercomputer is at—those that cover several basketball courts in area and consume enough electricity to power a small city?"

Steve shook his head.

"A hundred billion billion floating-point operations per second." Tony said, "A hundred billion billion, that's 1 followed by 18 zeros. Sounds like a lot, right?"

He paused for a moment, then raised a finger.

"How much is ten thousand gai? Gai is 10^20. Ten thousand gai is 10^24—1 followed by 24 zeros."

He looked at the captain's expression, knowing this number already exceeded his intuitive comprehension.

"Although it looks like only a six-zero difference, it's actually an insurmountable heavenly moat; even pouring all of Earth's resources into boosting computing power would hardly achieve it."

Tony walked to the floor-to-ceiling window, gazing at New York's skyline: "... letting such a computer run every second, consuming resources...... heh, indeed only the Interstellar Peace Company would be willing to burn money on this. No, the word 'burn' completely fails to capture how efficiently they spend money; it should be said that merely to maintain the daily operation of that pointy-hatted lady's computer, the company evaporates resources measured in 'planets'...... even 'star systems' each second."

—— => This line is just a separator "——". Should we translate? It's a dash line. Probably keep as "——". But we need to output 【16】 with translation. Since it's just a dash, we can output "——". Keep same.

""Help! The worm's bodily fluids splattered onto my mirror surface!""

""Black Tower wore a look of disgust, having no intention to help: 'Just take care of your own affairs, wipe it off with your hand?''"

""The mirror chuckled awkwardly twice: 'Ha, ha! You're really humorous......'"

Having dealt with the worms troubling the computational zone, only the final communication zone remained. Black Tower and Mirror came here, discovering the area filled with her dolls.

""What... what is this? Lady Black Tower, I didn't expect to find your dolls here as well.""

""Black Tower explained: 'The communication zone, as the name suggests, is the sector responsible for building a communication bridge between the space station and the machine head. By concentrating the energy of the 【Wisdom】 path at one point and then firing a 'bond' toward the Star God—equivalent to tapping someone's shoulder from behind, their reaction is sure to be a glance back at you.'"

""This job is no simple task, not to mention the tedious preparations; a single glance from the machine head, if slightly careless, could destroy the entire space station.""

""Mirror let out an 'Oh' as if realizing: 'So letting the whole space station enter silence is a protective measure to prevent equipment overload or even scrapping?'"

""Black Tower nodded satisfied: 'Your comprehension is pretty high, Mirror.'"

""'Immersed in it, immersed in it—although I have neither eyes nor ears, ha!' The fourth mirror surveyed the surroundings, 'This sector... seems fairly normal? These dolls are also operating, I see no malfunction...'"

""That's not easy to say.""

""Lady Black Tower, behind you——""

Upon hearing that, Black Tower turned around and discovered a Black Tower doll had silently come up behind her.

""... Huh? What does she intend to do?""

Black Tower stepped forward to examine closely: 'Let me see, this doll... should be #2757.'

""How... how did you recognize it?!""

""Shh, don't interrupt, I'm checking the doll's condition. #2757... 'Personality Mapping Module'... is turned off. Strange, this parameter should default to on, right? 'Unreasonable Module'... also turned off? That's even more unreasonable—I just checked them all a few days ago, making sure every doll had it enabled...""

""The fourth mirror couldn't help but complain: 'No, why even have such a default module?!'"

""'Indiscriminate Attack Module...' Black Tower's pupils dilated slightly: '... it's been activated.'"

—— => same as line 16.

Dragon Clan.

""It's surprising someone would specially install an 'Unreasonable Module' on their own doll..." Saké Mai commented with a tsk, "The module itself is quite unreasonable, but thinking that the installer is Black Tower makes it seem reasonable."

So now someone has secretly infiltrated Black Tower's space station and, without anyone noticing, tampered with the parameters of her dolls. Su Enxi put a chip in her mouth, crunching "crack crack", "To pull such a stunt in front of an emissary shows the opponent not only has guts but also skill."

The key is the opponent's purpose: causing trouble at the gate of the audience with the God of Wisdom, making it hard not to suspect they are a force opposing the Genius Club.

Opposing the Genius Club? How many lives do they have to dare act this recklessly?

If not, then the biggest possibility for infiltrating the audience device is to steal its core data—in other words, someone also wants to audience with the God of Wisdom, but lacking the Genius Club's technology, after stealing the tech they plan to build their own audience device.

"……Have you been watching too much Detective Conan lately? Or perhaps you've read some hardcore mystery novels?" Su Enxi rubbed her forehead, "So who do you think the opponent is?"

Of course it's the Erudite Society. Jiu De Mai Yi said matter-of-factly, "Those scholars probably dream of meeting the Venerable Erudite; they've done plenty of crazy things, so it's no surprise they'd think of taking a risky approach to attack the Black Tower."