Chapter 525

"Just in case, Student Zhu Yun, I'm only saying just in case, if you have been influenced by a great deal of negative information from the dark web, or if the dark web has taken notice of you and implicated our school's servers in a dark web attack, the consequences would be very serious."

"If I were to state it more severely, suppose, I say suppose, that you have absorbed a great deal of negative information on the dark web, been subconsciously brainwashed, and become a puppet of the dark web, it would directly threaten the security of our school and even the nation."

"Therefore, Student Zhu Yun, you must gain a profound understanding of your actions last night and conduct a self-criticism!"

After the advisor finished speaking, he looked at Zhu Yun,

and the two cyber-police officers at that moment also fixed their gaze on Zhu Yun.

Zhu Yun was momentarily flustered,

but upon careful reflection, she realized she had truly done nothing last night.

She had truly just gone to the dark web to search for Google's source code, hoping to study Google's overall programming structure and system to inspire her own creation of ixie,

yet Zhu Yun never expected

that after staying up all night last night without finding the source code,

the next morning,

the cyber-police officers and the advisor would actually find her and demand she make a self-criticism on the spot.

I clearly did nothing at all...

Zhu Yun felt deeply wronged,

stubbornly keeping her mouth shut and saying not a word.

Seeing this, the advisor sighed,

glanced at the cyber-police officer beside him,

and then helplessly said, "Zhu Yun, if you truly had the ability, you wouldn't need to do these useless things at all."

"Although your programming ability is indeed better than other students in the class, to be honest, compared to Student Li Xun, you are still far behind."

"To be honest, I personally feel there was no need for you to register for this programming competition, because female programming will always be inferior to male programming."

"Due to gender and personality reasons, women's logical thinking is inherently weak, and this is a major taboo in programming. Let me put it this way: over the decades of internet development, everyone who has created milestone changes has been a man."

"So, Zhu Yun, it is not that the teacher is deliberately belittling you; it is indeed determined by innate conditions."

"Listen to your teacher, do a proper self-criticism, give the two police officers a promise, and let this matter be dropped, alright?"

"I..."

Being directly belittled by her own department's advisor,

Zhu Yun didn't know what to say for a moment.

As a female,

she herself already knew the many weaknesses women have when learning programming,

and it was precisely because she truly loved programming

that she gradually overcame these weaknesses and studied extensively and diligently, eventually gaining admission to the Computer Science Department of Qingbei University.

But now,

a few words from the advisor

had almost completely erased all of Zhu Yun's efforts over the past ten-plus years,

using only the stereotypical reason that women's logical thinking is inherently poor,

directly stamping Zhu Yun with a label of destined failure,

which Zhu Yun could not accept.

After a moment of silence,

Zhu Yun bypassed the advisor

and then looked directly at the two cyber-police officers beside her, asking aloud, "Uncle Police, I am very sorry; I apologize for my action of bypassing the firewall and privately accessing the dark web last night."

"However, I will absolutely not make a self-criticism, nor will I possibly accept the so-called prejudice that women are destined to fail from birth."

"Therefore, you can handle my actions according to the law; I will bear all responsibilities and consequences!"

Zhu Yun's words left both the cyber-police officers and the advisor quite surprised.

The advisor looked at Zhu Yun in astonishment: "Zhu Yun, what do you mean by that?"

"It means nothing. Uncle Police, please punish me; I accept all consequences."

"This..."

With Zhu Yun saying this,

the two cyber-police officers actually found themselves in a difficult position.

In fact,

for them,

the matter of bypassing the firewall to access the foreign internet and then using foreign servers to infiltrate the dark web happens every day.

As long as there is no ulterior motive or impure intent,

they generally just notify the local police station to educate the person and that is enough.

Those who use hidden methods, employing multiple servers to conceal their real IP addresses,

are often simply shelved because the investigation methods are too cumbersome, and most cases eventually end up with nothing done.

The reason they came to find Zhu Yun and Zhu Yun's advisor today

was first because Zhu Yun is a student of Qingbei University and should not do such things,

and second because they were worried this would expose Qingbei University's servers and invite attacks from the dark web.

So,

they were actually just here to give a warning to Qingbei University and Zhu Yun; it did not reach the point of requiring a self-criticism or a written report.

Instead, it was the advisor beside them who said that children nowadays have extremely poor security awareness, prompting them to cooperate in putting on a show.

But the current situation is,

Zhu Yun has already realized her mistake and apologized,

yet her advisor seems intent on continuing to pursue the matter,

so the standoff has become somewhat deadlocked.

However,

the two cyber-police officers have other matters to attend to,

they cannot possibly spend the entire day at Tsinghua and Peking University over this.

Thus,

after a moment of consideration,

an older police officer cleared his throat,

then said: "Student Zhu Yun, given that this is your first offense and no negative impact has been caused, this time we will only issue you a verbal warning; no other penalties will be imposed."

"What?"

Upon hearing this, the advisor turned to look at the officers, his eyes carrying a hint of reproach: "What? Officers, didn't we already agree on this just now? How could you suddenly..."

"Teacher."

Zhu Yun stood up,

looking directly at her advisor,

her expression extremely calm,

"Teacher, perhaps asking me to write a self-criticism or something similar is for my own good. But I do not accept such kindness from you."

"Furthermore, I also know that at our school, it is not just Li Xun and I; you have also registered for the World Programming Competition, correct?"

"In that case, we will soon meet in the preliminary group stage."

"Teacher, if I can defeat your work in the preliminary group stage, please take back what you just said!"

"Teacher, do you dare to accept my challenge?"