Chapter 54

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"Brother Jie, listen to me as I calculate it for you!" Xiao Wu stuck out her little tongue and extended her slender fingers, carefully calculating: "Separating Xiao Liù from your body consumed 4.5% of the energy; monitoring all the city's phone calls and pagers consumed 0.1% of the energy overnight; wirelessly connecting to Xiao Liù and directing him to set up bank accounts, websites, and develop programs for you consumed 0.5% of the energy overnight."

"If it weren't for extracting kinetic energy from your body, Xiao Wu might not have been able to start up and meet Brother Jie normally." Xiao Wu's serious expression made Yang Jie feel both amused and exasperated.

"Separating Xiao Liù consumed a lot of energy, but why did you also monitor all the city's phone calls and pagers?"

"Brother Jie, it's a good thing I monitored all the city's phone calls last night. Otherwise, how would I have intercepted the calls between Liao Guojin and Guo Xin? Listen to these call recordings." Xiao Wu played the calls Liao Guojin and Guo Xin made last night for Yang Jie. After Yang Jie finished listening, Xiao Wu also told him about the calls she made to Yang Hua through Xiao Liù.

Seeing Xiao Wu's smug expression, Yang Jie laughed and scolded, "Aren't you afraid of arousing Yang Hua's suspicion? If he really found the phone and didn't find anyone, how would you explain your call to him?"

Xiao Wu, hearing Yang Jie's question, giggled and said, "I'm monitoring all the city's phone calls. When Yang Hua's team traced the phone location, I knew about it at the same time. Do you think they could catch me?"

When the criminal investigation team called the postal and telecommunications department to request assistance in tracing the phone number, Xiao Wu also overheard it. She also overheard the feedback from the postal and telecommunications department to the criminal investigation team, so there was no way they could catch her.

"Setting up bank accounts and websites for you consumed 0.5% of the energy. What's that about?" Yang Jie immediately asked, thinking about the bank accounts Xiao Wu said she opened for him and the energy consumption.

"Don't be angry! I did all this for you. Last night, I opened some anonymous accounts for you at world-renowned banks like UBS and created over a dozen websites with different functionalities and developed some network applications that can run at the current internet speed. I even earned you over a million dollars." Xiao Wu did all this without Yang Jie's consent, which is a characteristic of an intelligent system with some autonomy.

Xiao Wu knew that everything she did would benefit Yang Jie, so she did it. If the system had more available energy, one night would have been enough for Xiao Wu to achieve much more on the internet.

Listening to Xiao Wu, Yang Jie felt somewhat amused and bewildered. In just one night, Xiao Wu not only opened several anonymous accounts for him at major banks worldwide but also created over a dozen websites and developed some applications. What was even more unbelievable was that she earned over a million dollars in just one night.

The value of the US dollar was relatively high at that time, with an exchange rate of about 8.35 RMB to 1 USD. Xiao Wu earning over a million dollars in one night was equivalent to earning over ten million RMB in one night. For Yang Jie, who was not very familiar with making money through the internet, it felt like he was listening to a fairy tale.

Seeing that Yang Jie didn't believe her, Xiao Wu began to educate him about the internet, including how she earned the million dollars last night. China and the United States have a time difference, so it was daytime in the US when it was night in China. Last night, after Xiao Wu sent the emails to Microsoft, it immediately caught their attention.

For a system that hadn't been officially released, finding over a dozen vulnerabilities out of the blue was a big deal. Microsoft couldn't figure out how the system had been leaked, and after testing by their engineers, they confirmed that the vulnerabilities were real.

To ensure the release of the 95 system was not affected, to quickly patch these vulnerabilities, and to prevent these hackers from causing trouble for Microsoft, Microsoft paid $10,000 per vulnerability, totaling $1.6 million, to the bank accounts provided in the email.

After confirming the funds had been received, Xiao Wu promptly sent the vulnerability patch code to Microsoft, completing the transaction.

Yang Jie didn't know that providing system or program vulnerability patches to earn rewards was a common practice in the IT industry, so he found it hard to understand why Microsoft, a well-known company, would be willing to pay so much money for the patch codes of a dozen vulnerabilities.

However, regardless of whether Yang Jie understood it or not, Xiao Wu had indeed earned him that much money.

Xiao Wu and Xiao Liù could connect wirelessly. Xiao Wu directly projected a web page in front of Yang Jie's eyes, logged into the UBS website, and checked Yang Jie's account. The balance of $1.6 million made Yang Jie's eyes widen in surprise.

Surfing the internet didn't require a computer; Xiao Wu could directly project a computer desktop and various applications in Yang Jie's eyes. Yang Jie was already somewhat numb to Xiao Wu's abilities.

The hunger pangs grew stronger. Thinking that Xiao Wu had never told him how much alcohol or food could replenish energy, Yang Jie asked, "How much alcohol and food can replenish how much energy? You need to give me a standard, or I won't know what to do in the future!"

"Converting biological and kinetic energy into data is quite complex. Drinking a 56-degree 500ml bottle of liquor can provide one-thousandth of the system's energy. A normal meal, if fully converted into energy, can provide one-ten-thousandth of the system's energy.

The system needs one-thousandth of the energy to run normally for a day. If it needs to perform various tasks, it requires more energy.

If Brother Jie can provide enough energy, Xiao Wu can control all the internet-connected computers globally, monitor all wired and wireless communications, and handle tasks far beyond your imagination." Xiao Wu's words were full of诱惑力, but due to the lack of energy, she couldn't fully utilize her true capabilities.

"Alright! The energy solution will be developed eventually, and then there won't be a lack of energy! Show me the energy income and expenditure statement for the past period. After I see it, I'll have a better understanding!" Yang Jie studied economics and management and was very sensitive to numbers. The amount of energy Xiao Wu could use represented how much she could accomplish.

If he understood the energy income and expenditure well, Yang Jie could achieve the maximum benefit with the minimum cost, which is a basic quality of an economics and management graduate.

Hearing that Yang Jie wanted to see the energy income and expenditure statement, Xiao Wu waved her hand in the air, and a semi-transparent energy income and expenditure statement appeared in Yang Jie's field of vision, detailing all the energy replenishment and consumption over the past period.

The statement was very visual, allowing Yang Jie to understand the specific income and expenditure at a glance.

"In the future, directly display the total system energy as a percentage or per thousand in my field of vision. This way, I'll know how much energy you have left and how much you can do, avoiding the situation where the energy becomes negative and I don't know what's happening." After Yang Jie finished speaking, Xiao Wu nodded quickly.

"Brother Jie, what kind of energy bar do you like?" Xiao Wu said, and her hands opened in the air, revealing dozens of different energy bars, including diamond-shaped crystals, ice columns, electric meters, and water globes, among others.

Yang Jie glanced over and was quickly attracted to the diamond-shaped crystal energy bar in Xiao Wu's hand