Chapter 772: Goldfish! Goldfish!

"I’ll bet! What shall we bet on?"

The golden-haired little girl did not back down; as a tech enthusiast, she was well-versed in the development of electronic computers.

Laptops with ten times the performance might exist, but they surely only existed as prototypes in laboratories and would never leak into the market. Even if there were models with a hundred times the performance, they could never be made as slim as a laptop due to strict requirements in power consumption and other factors. High precision technology development faced natural limitations in materials, and simply shrinking the processing size wouldn’t solve all the problems.

"Alright then! If you win, you can go wherever you want, and I’ll give you enough money to settle anywhere in the world and live peacefully for the rest of your life. But if you lose, heh, you have to work for me for a lifetime. How about that?"

The Dragon Knight finally wore an expression reminiscent of a creepy uncle trying to entice a little girl with goldfish.

The choice between lifelong freedom as a tech enthusiast and working endlessly in a company was a huge temptation.

Maisha Wright let out a sigh of relief and looked up and down at Lin Mo.

This guy was decent enough not to make her do anything evil.

Even though she was young, it didn’t mean she was completely oblivious to certain things.

"Okay! Let’s make this bet. When can I see that artifact with a hundred times the performance of my laptop?"

"Right now!"

"Right now?"

Maisha’s eyes widened as she examined Lin Mo again. He wore a regular pressure suit and had empty hands; there was no backpack or any container. Where could it be?

Could it be a handheld device? That would be terrifying; it couldn’t possibly be human technology — it must be alien technology!

But she was probably just deceiving herself. Maybe he would get angry and take her laptop again. Yes, that was it; she couldn’t refuse him or protest.

Darn it, she fell for it again!

With a staggering IQ of 200, the little girl’s mind raced, quickly guessing at her own assumption.

"Right now!"

Lin Mo insisted again.

Seeing the golden-haired little girl, Maisha Wright, wearing a look of disbelief as she saw through the clumsy trick, he dismissively posed for effect.

"Let us witness the moment of miracle!"

These words came from Liu Qian, a magician from Taiwan who had swept the nation. The Dragon Knight had also picked up this phrase for his opening.

The female agent, wearing a light yellow knitted scarf, smiled slightly, curious about how this man could produce a laptop out of thin air. She had never heard of a pilot’s pressure suit being used as a magic prop; there was no sign that he was hiding a laptop anywhere.

Then, Lin Mo swiftly brushed his right hand over his left, as if pulling out a Magical Scroll. A pure black rectangular object seemingly crossed space to appear in front of Maisha Wright and the female agent.

Both women, one big and one small, widened their eyes, staring intently at Lin Mo’s hands and the object that resembled a laptop.

Magic?!

He really produced it!

"Is this a laptop?"

Maisha Wright had never seen such a method before and was so astonished that she completely forgot about the laptop she held in her arms.

With a thud, the edge of her laptop lightly hit the tabletop, bringing the golden-haired little girl back to her senses.

"That’s right! It’s definitely over a hundred times more powerful than the one you have in your hands, I guarantee it!"

The design of the sleek, pure black exterior, resembling a matte finish, exudes understated luxury. The 4:3 aspect ratio indicates that it is not a household entertainment device. From the outside, it appears very slim and lightweight.

Lin Mo felt the laptop he had just conjured trembling slightly in his hands.

At first, only a shell appeared, inside of which a precise and complex internal structure was continuously evolving, quickly filling the empty casing.

The spacious living room of the officers’ dormitory was utterly quiet, so silent that one could hear a pin drop, as if even their breathing and heartbeats could be heard.

They watched in amazement as a pilot transformed into a top-tier Magician, waving his hand and magically revealing a laptop.

Where could it have come from?

"Is this a trick?"

Maisha scoffed, in disbelief. Magic wasn’t the same as science; it was just a flexible panel that could have easily been hidden in his sleeve, looking like a laptop when it was just a fake.

It was quite a waste of effort to create such a ruse.

However, before these thoughts had fully formed, an electronic voice sounded with a "beep," immediately overturning her assumptions.

Lin Mo effortlessly opened the laptop’s display, folded it back forcefully, flipping it 360 degrees, with one side being the keyboard and the other side the screen.

The display showed the operating system screen, self-checking and booting in only five seconds before truly entering the system platform.

LINUX!

And it automatically launched a perfectly functional graphical interface.

"It’s real!"

The golden-haired little girl’s eyes sparkled with excitement, like a master concentrating their energy.

Lin Mo smiled slightly, passing it over, but before it could even reach the table, Maisha Wright snatched it back, folding it back to 120 degrees.

"The keyboard feels nice; it’s like a mechanical key feel. Great! But this system is quite primitive. Hmm, it’s real — it doesn’t even have ROOT access? Oh my, who is the idiot who left it unguarded? Alright, I’ll build it up myself; this is easy. Let me check the hardware system… Ah!"

Maisha Wright froze in mid-air, her expression solidifying as if she had been struck by a spell.

"How is this possible?"

Her face was nearly pressed against the screen, and she couldn’t believe the numbers displayed in the hardware parameters.

8192 cores of 128-bit processors, a long string of zeros following the memory specification, and an equally long string of zeros for the hard drive capacity…

This was not just ten times or a hundred times; it was clearly a thousand times more powerful than her original laptop!

Could it be that they used space technology to compress a mainframe computer into this form?

How was it cooled? How was it powered?

What kind of integration technology was used? It was simply unimaginable.

Maisha Wright stared at the laptop screen for a long time, speechless and motionless.

The female agent shot an angry glare at Lin Mo.

This genius girl with an IQ of 200 seemed to have lost her mind after receiving the laptop.

It was a serious act of malicious damage to national property.

Lin Mo should be held accountable.

Suddenly, the golden-haired girl screamed, as if she were going crazy, shouting, "This is not scientific!"

Her fingers flew over the keyboard, tapping at an unprecedented speed that was almost impossible to see.

With her knowledge of technology, she couldn’t explain what she was witnessing. It felt as if she had been standing proudly at the pinnacle of industrial civilization, only to suddenly realize that others could pull out something that made her feel like she was still in the Stone Age.

She was on the brink of insanity as her delicate fingers danced across the keys like the finest pianist, connecting her old laptop to this new one wirelessly while various specialized tool programs sprang up.

She was determined to break this unscientific magic; science was science and would not tolerate any deceit.

Hmph! Just because he brought out an ordinary laptop and slapped a few outrageous numbers on it, he thought he could fool her.

He was treating her, the most brilliant computer girl in the world, as an idiot—absolutely never!

She had to expose this clickbait; yes, she needed to unveil this man’s ridiculous actions layer by layer.

Damn “Dragon Knights”!

This was simply intolerable.

Maisha Wright continuously unleashed one testing program after another, consuming the computing resources of the processor and memory.

Indeed, running these tests was the ultimate way to uncover all the hidden evils; God would punish this lying thief.

She would make him feel utterly ashamed.

Maisha Wright was furious, wishing to slap him in the face, nearly going mad.

However, after releasing each program that typically consumed a lot of computing resources, they sank into the depths like stones in the sea, causing no ripples at all. The data showing resource usage displayed only a barely perceptible change—one thousandth—what an insignificant number.

The application interfaces switched rapidly like a revolving lantern, and without exception, they all functioned normally.

Adding a pi calculation, in the blink of an eye, it was extended to over ten thousand digits, and the rapidly accumulating numbers flooded the entire display, showing no signs of stopping—one hundred thousand digits, two hundred thousand digits, a million digits—just the volume of plain text data being displayed grew increasingly astonishing.

Maisha Wright’s complexion shifted slightly.

Is this real? Her hands trembled. Such terrifying technology existed in this world! Had she underestimated the level of human technological development? No, perhaps it was more about pretending to be weak while hiding strength?

Had the Chinese been too subtle?

“How is it?”

Lin Mo seemed to have anticipated this and shrugged nonchalantly, smiling at the girl who was shaken to her core and even to her soul.

Of course, it’s not scientific!

No matter what technology the gold giant dragon produced, that process could not be explained by science.

Starting with the performance of optical processors, which naturally surpassed that of electronic processors, the electronic processors faced the inherent bottlenecks of material conductivity; thus, the thousand times the performance of optical processors came effortlessly.

“It’s real!”

Maisha Wright looked at the annoying man, her initial anger dissipating like smoke.

She felt deflated; what kind of person is he? Lin Mo’s figure suddenly became mysterious in her mind.

“Ha-ha, there’s another surprise!”

Lin Mo grabbed the ultra-thin laptop in front of Maisha Wright and casually threw it out the window of the living room.

With a loud crash, the window shattered like it was made of paper, scattering in all directions.