Chapter 3149 — The Pill Cauldron
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Though Dr. Benjamin II had long anticipated this possibility, seeing it with his own eyes still left him somewhat disappointed. Previously he had clung to a faint hope—after all, whoever could invent such a thing might not necessarily be skilled in electronic circuits and encryption!
Those are two separate fields, and he did not believe anyone could master both at once. But now it seemed this person was extraordinarily capable: the microcontroller was custom-made, with no parameter data whatsoever, and cracking it would be even more difficult!
"Here's what we'll do—give me a few days. I'll go back to my laboratory and study this microcontroller, try to crack it. If I get results, I'll notify you; if I don't, I'll tell you that as well. But the path of reverse-engineering through cracking—that road is a dead end." Dr. Benjamin II frowned and said, "I must also warn you: the odds of cracking and counterfeiting are rather slim, because this microcontroller is a nonstandard, custom-made special unit—extremely hard to crack!"
"Is that so..." Hearing Dr. Benjamin II's words, Patriarch Xuanchen felt somewhat unwilling to accept it, yet there was nothing he could do. After all, Dr. Benjamin II had made it quite clear: this was not something to be forced—it was not simply a matter of wanting to counterfeit it and being able to. It contained a very high degree of technical sophistication!
Even the scientific expert from the Center, renowned for its high technology, said as much; Patriarch Xuanchen therefore abandoned the idea of seeking anyone else, for although he did not study such things himself, he had some understanding of the Center's technological level.
It was only that Patriarch Xuanchen felt rather puzzled: Wei Zhao was clearly a cultivator—how did someone like that have such a scientific expert at his side? Even Boss Bai would surely be powerless in such a matter, wouldn't he?
Dr. Benjamin II left—arriving in haste and departing in haste. However, on the very night after Dr. Benjamin II departed, Patriarch Xuanchen and Kang Jingming received a phone call from him!
"No good—give it up." A single sentence from Dr. Benjamin II sent the anticipation in Patriarch Xuanchen's and Kang Jingming's hearts plunging instantly to rock bottom.
"Dr. Benjamin II, what exactly is going on? Can it not be cracked?" Patriarch Xuanchen asked, somewhat unwilling to let it go.
"To be frank with you, after returning I conducted a detailed study of this microcontroller based on the peripheral components and circuitry on the board. This microcontroller is not a conventional one; rather, it is a conceptual microcontroller proposed in hacker circles more than a decade ago. By the technical standards of that time, the concept was merely a conjecture, impossible to realize for the time being. I never expected that years later I would see a finished product. Yet even knowing some of the original data, there is simply no way to crack it!" Dr. Benjamin II declared with absolute certainty.
"Oh? Then could you find the person who first proposed the concept for this microcontroller? Perhaps he might have a way to crack it? This thing, even if he did not manufacture it, must be connected to him somehow, no?" Patriarch Xuanchen asked tentatively after hearing this.