Chapter 769: The Little Girl’s Wealth

Don’t let the unassuming insulating properties of Coin Gold fool you; in fact, most non-metallic materials can easily possess such attributes. However, this very property allows the gold giant dragon to effortlessly deepen the creation of electronic components without any external assistance.

The gold giant dragon can visibly evolve at incredible speed, forming processor chips of various sizes that reflect a strange gleam. These chips, which could only be exposed in a laboratory’s high vacuum and high purity environment, are not hindered by such conditions for the gold giant dragon. Its inherent non-metallic exclusivity and ability to assimilate metal enable it to disregard dust in the air, regardless of whether it contains metallic elements or not, making little difference to the gold giant dragon.

From the size of a watch to that of a brick, then expanding to the size of a microwave, the structure became increasingly complex and larger. The intricate evolution process dazzled onlookers, but Lin Mo understood that this accumulation from the ground up represented a technological civilization that humanity needed centuries of industrial foundation to develop.

Even if humanity on this planet faced extinction, civilization could be rediscovered through this dragon. If the gold giant dragon were to be dissected at this moment, one would certainly see clear and intricate circuit designs and component shapes wherever it was opened. This creature had deeply imprinted the electronics technology of this world into its very bones.

Dragon kin, indeed, excel at accumulating wisdom and wealth, combined with their formidable combat capabilities, creating a remarkably stable survival model of civilization. If only dragon kin were as adept at utilizing their resources as humans, they might well become the eternal rulers of the entire cosmos.

The precise stacking at the nanometer level was an extremely heavy and complex task. Even though Coin Gold had already evolved various electronic components, piecing these together into a coherent, conflict-free system was no simple feat. Moreover, the items it made had no reference on this planet, but comprised an entirely new and extremely powerful supercomputer processing system. Lin Mo could even see that the communication lines inside were composed of crystallized metallic filaments, achieving an exceptionally pure light green glow, suggesting similarities with a photonic computer system.

While civilians might still be in an era of electronic computers, the military was at least forty years ahead. Back in the 1980s, China’s military industry departments had already completed their first design and matured the concept of integrated optical circuits.

Nearly twenty minutes later, a massive cube appeared on Lin Mo’s desk, occupying almost half of its surface, measuring close to seventy centimeters on each side, comparable to a drum-style washing machine in size.

No one would dare place a washing machine weighing nearly 160 pounds on their study desk, causing Lin Mo’s long desk to creak under the strain. Yet, the slightly deformed desk put itself back into shape as the gold giant dragon realized its evolutionary size was too heavy and automatically levitated itself using Void Magnetism.

Its surface was adorned with various dots, lines, geometric shapes, and signals flashing in different colors, showcasing a completely different modern industrial technological style from magical runes. This appearance resembled the gold giant dragon’s original "Fire Seed" component modules used for storing various electronic components.

With a beep, the device powered on, performing self-checks that took over thirty minutes, endlessly refining its systems. While this seemed slow, if converted to actual manual labor, it would be unfathomable—only a gold giant dragon with supreme control over its own body could manage such a process.

After nearly an hour, the gold giant dragon completed the evolution of the product, releasing several connection lines from the surface of the "Fire Seed." It forcefully connected to the visible interfaces of Lin Mo’s notebook, which was merely the size of a sheet of six open standard paper (39cm×36cm), delivering a swift, comprehensive insertion.

Beep!

The laptop automatically entered the startup program, evidently struggling to cope with the massive intrusion.

The little girl wasn’t someone skilled enough to leave herself a backdoor for her meal ticket. Trying to decypher this might cause irreversible damage and loss, making the proper protocols fraught with difficulties. The gold giant dragon peeled away layers to expose its delicate core, resorting to the most primitive and aggressive means to breach the defenses.

By bypassing the notebook’s basic operating rules and tackling the data aspect, it managed to circumvent the security encryption measures with ease. The dragon’s control over weak electromagnetic fields made reading the data on the hard drive much simpler.

As anticipated between one human and one dragon, the obtained data was merely a series of encrypted packets. This wasn’t a step towards success just yet; it still required special algorithms and keys to unlock the little girl’s true secrets—what the gold giant dragon got was merely a backup.

Having a complete backup was advantageous. The dragon began to reverse-engineer the security mechanism. Maisha Wright had never imagined someone would brutally crack her creation by starting from the fundamental code. However, the least efficient method turned out to be the simplest, effectively equaling the “advanced” or “high-level” techniques.

As for computational resources, the gold giant dragon currently lacked for nothing. Its processing capabilities ranked just behind the supercomputer center within the base, with incredibly dense and complex structures overwhelmed even smaller machines.

Moreover, dragon kin never seemed to run out of time. The odds were different than hitting a lottery—one wouldn’t have to wait for a million people each to win before it was your turn. The eternal node always awaited the faintest chance.

Initially estimated at twenty-four hours for the decryption, by the time Lin Mo finished his sound sleep and returned from breakfast, the gold giant dragon had already found the key to the decryption, having only been fourteen hours since it had started.

The enormous “Fire Seed” appeared to transform into a huge dragon the size of a lion, continuously releasing heat in waves, thanks to its substantial use of integrated optical paths.

The gold giant dragon was not a light elemental creature. By utilizing electric-light and light-electric conversion technologies, it transformed its generated electric power into lasers to activate each ultra-precision module of the integrated optical path system. The energy efficiency was extraordinarily high.

If it relied purely on electronic circuits for operations, it would need tremendous volume to ensure proper heat dissipation; otherwise, the effects of electronic migration would exhaust the gold giant dragon. The heat emitted could instantly turn Lin Mo’s dormitory into an oven—more precisely called a cremation furnace for a dragon knight. By the time the base realized something was amiss, they’d find Major Lin Mo reduced to ashes, and the gold giant dragon would face destruction by the furious Chinese military.

“Decryption successful!”

The voice of the gold giant dragon carried no hint of joy, only weariness.

The photon processor handled the computations, but it was the gold giant dragon that supplied the energy. If a light elemental or lightning elemental creature had been in charge, it would have been easier, but none could evolve a computing system with such performance as Coin Gold.

Instinctually magnetic, the dragon could achieve magnetic-electric conversions, but efficiency would always wane. Sustaining such extensive power for prolonged periods consumed quite a bit of Coin Gold.

Once the task was completed, the "Fire Seed" cube immediately morphed back into the giant dragon form, easily transitioning to restoration, requiring merely a blink and pivoting towards its food supply in the corner.

Various alloy blocks rapidly diminished as Coin Gold swiped Morin’s card, restocking its food; this skill was one of the primary survival techniques Coin Gold had mastered in this world.

Dragons could not be registered, claim military status, get identification cards, or even acquire bank cards. Not even the departments accepted the photos needed for ID. This world had only human rights, not dragon rights. Thus, regardless of how lively Coin Gold was in this world, it still had to stick close to Lin Mo for meals.

Chunks of alloy disappeared into Coin Gold’s maw, diligently consuming while also reporting back to Lin Mo.

“The hard drive only contains a portion of commonly used tools; the main special program packages are on the network server. The notebook just leaves behind a few faint traces, like server addresses and keys, so we can only count this as a thirty percent harvest. There are indeed a lot of good items inside that I can utilize. This little human girl is a genius.”

Items useful to the gold giant dragon imply that a significant portion would also benefit Lin Mo. One human and one dragon are closely interconnected, sharing the burdens and fates, and the resources acquired often result in mutual sharing.

The genius a dragon considers someone must be extraordinarily exceptional. Lin Mo wouldn’t waste the potential value of this little captive all at once; he aimed to nurture her carefully to work for him. With another set of hands, there would be even greater opportunities for development, truly unleashing the full value of a genius.

Lin Mo paused for a moment before saying, “I’ll figure out how to obtain the remaining program packages. For now, compile a resource list of what we’ve acquired!"

“No problem!”

In the blink of an eye, Coin Gold consumed a third of its stock and finally withheld its appetite, aware that this depleted supply still needed to be conserved.

Next time, when they accompanied Lin Mo outside, there would surely be another chance to enjoy a gourmet meal; such opportunities would come.

At that moment, the tactical tablet left on the bedside rang. Lin Mo picked it up and smiled.

“Speak of the devil; it looks like we’ve got leads on the little girl’s wealth.”