Chapter 67

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Li Ruxiang finally remembered why she had come to find Zero. Seeing the other party's message, she directly sent the answer she had previously compiled, then typed: "This is the answer to the question you posted on the Linhai University Computer Forum. I wrote it myself. Don't you find it incredible?"

Chen Mo was stunned when he saw the program the other party had sent. After reading it, he hesitated and said: "The similarity between this program and the one I modified is over 99%! Could this woman have copied my answer?"

Chen Mo immediately typed: "I have to say, your programming skills are really impressive. You managed to modify the program I wrote."

Li Ruxiang immediately rebutted: "I told you, I wrote this program myself, I didn't copy yours! When I saw your answer, I thought you were copying me!"

Chen Mo was taken aback. Faced with such an incredible situation, his mind couldn't process it. This wasn't just a miracle; it was unprecedented!

The program used so many characters, with countless possible arrangements, and had such a unique structure. If neither side had copied the other, how could this be explained? Could it be a coincidence to this extent?

After a long while, Chen Mo typed: "I want to verify whether such a coincidence can really happen in the world. Are you willing to accept my verification?"

Li Ruxiang typed without hesitation: "No problem. You can take any program, and we'll each modify it separately, then publish our results."

Chen Mo typed: "Alright, I'll still take a segment of code from the WIN98 system, and we'll each modify it."

Soon, Chen Mo posted the original program, and the two began to modify it.

After completing the modification, Chen Mo sent a message: "I'm done. What about you?"

As soon as his message was sent, Li Ruxiang sent an identical message, with no more than a second's delay between them.

The content of the two messages was exactly the same. If it weren't for the short time, Chen Mo would have thought the other party had copied his message and sent it again.

Both were stunned for a moment, then they simultaneously sent messages: "Let's compare the modified programs."

This time, the messages they sent were still identical. On both ends of the computer, a man and a woman whispered to themselves: "The messages are the same... What a coincidence..."

Then they both typed simultaneously: "Alright, let's publish our programs at the same time."

The messages were identical again. If an outsider saw this, they would definitely think these two were playing a game of mimicking each other.

Both smiled and simultaneously sent their modified programs. The structure of the two programs was exactly the same! The characters used were almost identical! The order of the characters was almost the same!

After comparing the programs, they found that the similarity between the two programs was the same as before, reaching over 99%!

Faced with such a verification result, neither of them could say a word. This was a real test, and there was no possibility of cheating!

After a long while, Chen Mo typed: "This isn't a miracle, it's unprecedented! I never thought such a coincidence could exist in the world. Q, who taught you programming?"

Li Ruxiang was a bit excited. Loneliness had always accompanied her, and apart from her family, she had never felt such a sense of closeness with anyone else.

Although Li Ruxiang had met a group of friends online, none of them could match the level of默契 (mòqì,默契 means默契 in Chinese, which can be translated as 'rapport' or 'harmony') she had with Zero.

People like Li Ruxiang often crave recognition. For example, if a short person stands among tall people, no matter how excellent they are, they will always have a knot in their heart. Although the Red Guest Alliance gave Li Ruxiang a sense of recognition to some extent, compared to Zero, this sense of recognition was weaker. No one in the Red Guest Alliance could modify a program with over 99% similarity to Li Ruxiang's!

Seeing Zero's message, Li Ruxiang suppressed her excitement and typed: "I basically learned programming on my own. What about you?"

Chen Mo was also very happy. Meeting such a unique person was incredible and made him feel close. Seeing Q's message, Chen Mo immediately replied: "What a coincidence, I basically learned programming on my own too."

Li Ruxiang happily typed: "I think it should be like this, because no one in the world can teach such programming techniques!"

Chen Mo couldn't help but type in amazement: "Yes, our skills can't be taught by others. Mastering such programming techniques requires a special opportunity and unique ideas."

Li Ruxiang smiled and typed: "I want to verify it again. If you don't mind, can I set the question this time?"

Chen Mo happily replied: "No problem, go ahead and set the question."

Soon, Li Ruxiang set the question, and the two conducted the second verification.

Five minutes later, the result came out. Just like the previous two times, the similarity between the two modified programs was still over 99%!

After that, the two stopped verifying and happily discussed programming techniques.

Since their programming thinking was extremely similar, they naturally hit it off and became more and more excited as they talked.

It wasn't until dawn that Chen Mo had to stop. He looked at the rising sun outside the window and couldn't help but laugh: "The world is truly amazing, to let me meet such a kindred spirit. But we can't chat anymore; my beautiful apprentice will be coming for class soon."

Chen Mo finished speaking and typed: "You must be tired after chatting all night. Get some rest, and we can continue discussing later."

Li Ruxiang had never been as happy as she was last night. Seeing Zero's message, she typed with some reluctance: "Alright, get some rest. We'll chat again tonight."

Chen Mo, remembering that he had a class with his beautiful master, replied: "Alright, I'm usually free after 9 PM. See you tonight."

After they said goodbye, Chen Mo stood up, stretched, and went to the bathroom to freshen up. After eating some noodles to fill his stomach, Tian Tian, dressed in a black long dress, arrived.

The first thing Tian Tian said to Chen Mo was: "Xiao Mo, was the Zero who appeared on the Linhai University Computer Forum last night you?"

Chen Mo, whose identity as Zero was in the hacker realm, naturally wouldn't let Tian Tian know he was Zero. Hearing this, he smiled and said: "Sister Tian, you're overthinking it. How could I be that good?"