Legend of the Cyber Heroes
Chapter 390 - 34 Back Door

Chapter 390: Chapter 34 Back Door

The psychological self-check program is an application that uses countless questions to bypass an individual’s consciousness and directly query a person’s brain, allowing the brain to respond to these questions. Then, based on these responses, all answers are plotted as a curve in high-dimensional space. The similarity between two curves taken at different times is compared to assess a person’s psychological state.

The most common use of this technology is to determine if a person is still "themselves" after practicing Inner Strength.

Restoring enzymes can erase not just skills and memory. Personality and thought patterns can be washed away as well.

Therefore, for Internal Martial Artists, having an objective standard to confirm that they are still "themselves" is very important.

This has made the psychological self-check program an essential need.

Besides that, ordinary people can also use this device to check the health of their minds.

It’s safe to say that this is a very popular app.

And this is precisely the "weapon" of the Turing Lineage.

Little Brother truly hadn’t expected his secret to be uncovered so easily. He wanted to execute a self-deletion. But at that moment, a surge of Inner Strength entered and jammed his self-deletion process.

"Who are you... exactly... why would you..."

The Eighth Martial God calmly said, "Don’t try to delete yourself, let’s talk properly. I’ve been preparing for this moment since the second you walked through the door."

"That being said, how much of your power can you utilize with a brain that lacks the Soth Divine Realm?"

If the full strength of a Turing disciple is lesser than an antique from eighty years ago, then the Eighth Martial God’s death would seem somewhat in vain.

Little Brother fell silent for a moment, "Anyway, it’s not my full strength."

"Most people probably wouldn’t imagine that the psychological self-check program they’re using is actually a specialized Trojan horse," Xiang Shan sighed. "This thing bypasses the Self-Consciousness and takes over the ports used to input information into a Prosthetic Body’s brain."

"Of course, it has to be this way. If it weren’t, ’self-checking’ would be pointless."

"But here lies the problem. During the installation and authorization, some psychological self-check programs will tamper with the actual information and stealthily extract a few illegal permissions, allowing them to inject specific types of stimuli into the brain."

"However, I’m particularly curious about one thing. If this ’specific type of stimulus’ is a computational request for Inner Strength, then the brain circuits that have become instinctive will automatically execute outside of consciousness. In other words, only when you send packets to the brains of Internal Strength Masters will those brains respond with meaningful Inner Strength data packets."

In the Old Era, there was a special type of DDOS attack. The attacker would set up several hosts with fake addresses, sending packets to multiple servers. The servers, due to their preset programs, would respond to that address. Thus, a difficult-to-trace DDOS attack was completed.

In fact, the Eighth Martial God’s technique of "controlling an enemy’s brain to use Inner Strength" operates on a similar principle. For the well-tempered Divine Realm of Soth, solving computational problems is an instinct, akin to the way servers generally send back packets when sent one. When these computational problems are sent to the brains of Internal Strength Masters, their brains will automatically resolve them.

The stronger the opponent’s Inner Strength, the more extraordinary the Eighth Martial God’s Cultivation Technique becomes.

But "Little Brother" was not like that.

Hiroshi Matsushima lacked the Soth Divine Realm. His brain would not instinctively perform Boolean computations.

If it were according to the Eighth Martial God’s Cultivation Technique, then Hiroshi Matsushima wouldn’t possibly be able to exhibit the power of Inner Strength.

The "gangsters" controlled by Eighth were all trained to a considerable level of Inner Strength.

Someone like Hiroshi Matsushima, a strong External Strength martial artist without Inner Strength, was also an "unqualified host" in the Eighth Martial God’s system.

Over these eighty years, the Turing Lineage clearly held a completely different understanding of Inner Strength.

Little Brother’s tone was somewhat jumbled, "How did you manage to... how did you know?"

This was almost their greatest secret.

"Three hundred years ago, I suppose..." Xiang Shan said: "Almost exactly three hundred years ago, there was an Internal Strength Master... back then, he would be called a Great Hacker. There was a Great Hacker who told me that for those novice hackers who were not so skilled, it made more sense to follow in the footsteps of a Great Hacker than to reinvent the wheel."

The vulnerabilities disclosed by a master, or the scripts and viruses written by them, could serve as an interface for a novice’s second invasion. These Great Hackers were better at finding flaws in or smashing through walls.

If a novice hacker actually managed to reverse-engineer a master’s Trojan horse, then all the Trojans possessed by that master would become your property.

"I searched frantically online for traces of Zhu Xinyu. I was determined to find any trace of Zhu Xinyu," said Xiang Shan. "I felt that if she were still alive, she would continue to resist... I was sure she’d leave traces on the internet. But I didn’t expect to find the weak spot here. However, on second thought, it makes sense. If not here, the very act of ’bypassing subjective consciousness to input information’ is heavily restricted."

The main model of the Eighth Martial God’s memory contains Zhu Xinyu’s memories related to Xiang Shan. This part of the memory includes Zhu Xinyu’s general concepts, views, and ideas about technology. The Eighth Martial God’s Xiang Shan shares an almost identical perspective with Zhu Xinyu on the Path of Inner Strength.

In other words, he felt a "strangely familiar sense" towards Zhu Xinyu’s works.

It was as if he had written those things himself at some point.

So, Xiang Shan recognized them.

"Five Stops of the Mind Contemplation, Twelve-layered Tower View... At least a third of the psychological self-check programs I could find online inherited that familiar structure. It seems most people haven’t realized the actual purpose of this thing. I suspect your master developed a highly influential psychological self-check program, and other unaware Internal Strength Masters continued to use its core design."

Most of the psychological self-check programs’ cores are similar, with the differences mostly residing in the question banks. The question banks are usually what’s customized for individuals or specific scenarios.

Aside from those who are extremely insecure or those who like to reinvent the wheel, most developers will reuse tested and proven code.

That means...

"When needed, can you call upon so many resources?"

"Senior, you jest," Little Brother changed his address, "That’s impossible. The main users of this device are still those Internal Strength Masters. Such people won’t always be online, so these resources aren’t so easily stolen. Plus, this was just an early idea from over a decade ago."

"Then what are your current thoughts?"