Free Web NovelChapter 150: Chapter 128: Uncrowned King of the Black Continent, C Corporation
Chu Bamboo walked to the silver-white wall, his fingers lightly stroking its surface. He pondered the similarities and differences between his two lives.
’Batteries? Both lives had them! Scratch that. Wireless charging? Scratch that too. Music? Same thing, both lives had it, scratch that... So, was it the research papers? That can’t be it. I definitely published papers in my last life!’
’Other than that... huh?!’
A realization struck Chu Bamboo like a bolt of lightning, and his expression turned grim. ’It’s the diary.’
He understood now. The biggest difference between the two timelines was perhaps the plan he’d made before he went to sleep—to keep a daily diary and send it to his future self.
Moreover, the diary was never even entered into the Nuwa system in the end.
And just one day after his death, Lin Xia, the suspected trustee, had also died.
’So, was I too careless? Did the enemy get a look at my diary?’ Chu Bamboo murmured inwardly. To him, this seemed like the most likely possibility... but he couldn’t be completely sure.
After all, Chu Bamboo knew without thinking that his other self would have definitely guarded the diary with extreme care!
The difficulty for a hostile force to get their hands on the diary was probably no less than the difficulty of assassinating him!
’Forget it. I’ll go back and test things out slowly,’ Chu Bamboo sighed inwardly after pacing in circles for a few moments.
’If it’s true, this is big trouble. I can’t keep a handwritten daily record... but I can’t just type it into a computer, can I? The risk would be even greater!’
’But if I don’t record anything, the future... hits a dead end again!’
’Or should I keep recording, but prepare for the worst-case scenario where the enemy targets me, my friends, and my family?’
’Alternatively, I could use the script from my dreams to record it... Ugh! But that just feels weird. And if I really use the dream script, it’ll be a hassle to enter it into the system, since the database definitely wouldn’t have data on dream script... Or maybe, I could enter it into Nuwa by taking a picture, and in the future, I could just look at the photo to read it?’
Chu Bamboo pinched the bridge of his nose and finally decided to test it out.
’Anyway, if it really causes some negative butterfly effect, I’ll just change things again in the past. One flap of a butterfly’s wings, and we can pretend nothing happened... It shouldn’t be a big deal.’
Having sorted out a potential solution, Chu Bamboo finally let out a sigh of relief. He then stared blankly at the silver-white wall before him, his emotions a complex mix.
’If I wasn’t in the Divine Continent, but instead became the uncrowned king of many regions in the Black Continent, as the records say, and established a cyberpunk society... that would mean I’d have my own real armed forces in those regions! The kind that could start a war.’
Chu Bamboo pressed his lips together tightly.
This was clearly a completely different matter from the small-time security organization he’d set up back in the Divine Continent! The reason was obviously policy restrictions!
The Divine Continent and the White-headed Eagle were, after all, fundamentally different! Although the Divine Continent had protected Chu Bamboo, once C Mechanical Company developed to a certain point, it also became his biggest cage...
’It’s possible the Celestial Net Group had the highest market cap when it went public because it was actually following a path similar to C Mechanical Company... But since Celestial Net Company is a homegrown company of the White-headed Eagle, it was one of their own! It was protected by public opinion... As for me, I was treated as utterly irredeemable and dragged out for the whole world to condemn.’
Chu Bamboo’s eyes flickered. If he really had the kind of power that could start a war...
Chu Bamboo’s thoughts churned, but he eventually shook his head. His gaze focused as his fingers gently swiped across the light screen in front of him.
He saw the comments, one by one, in the comments section of the "Hardcore Badasses" series.
All he could say was, no wonder Big Rat had put up so many disclaimers in the video! The comments section could practically be described as an all-out warzone.
"How can Chu Bamboo even compare to Zhao Shao? The Father of Artificial Intelligence, who almost single-handedly created the golden age of AI! Do you have any idea how significant AI is? Do you even get how fucking awesome Z is?!"
"Bullshit! You think the White-headed Eagle doesn’t have AI? This just proves that Chu Bamboo really has a talent for it! The timeframe when the Celestial Net Group developed Celestial Net is pretty much the same as when Zhao Shao developed Z! I strongly suspect that Chu Bamboo is the one who brought information about artificial intelligence to the West!"
Chu Bamboo’s movements paused as he silently stared at the comment’s timestamp. Year ’41, March 17th! ’Hmm... was the video also published around that year?’
Big Rat’s video was actually posted in ’41? The late date surprised Chu Bamboo somewhat, but he didn’t dwell on it. After all, Big Rat had already mentioned artificial intelligence in the video... and AI itself could signify a specific point in time.
Looking closely, Chu Bamboo mulled over the meaning of the comments, lost in thought. ’This time, it seems that after Z and Celestial Net appeared... they coexisted peacefully for a while?’
Chu Bamboo couldn’t make heads or tails of it. Otherwise, shouldn’t the internet have been disconnected by this time?
Thinking it over, Chu Bamboo’s eye suddenly twitched. ’Oh, crap. It couldn’t be because I died really early this time, right? Is that why Z and Celestial Net didn’t immediately start the AI war script?’
If that was really the case, wouldn’t that make him a jinx?
Was it because he was in the Divine Continent that Zhao Shao was dragged down by him and died so damn early?!
’No, no, no, it might be because of my situation! That might have put the country on alert... and led them to increase protection for Zhao Shao? Maybe there are other reasons too? For example, in the West, maybe I joined the Golden Dawn Organization early on! By exerting influence from within the Golden Dawn Organization, I could have interfered with their decisions to strike, which would have also protected Zhao Shao to a certain extent?’
