When I opened my eyes, I found myself still in the school laboratory. I looked up at the clock on the wall and it was already two o'clock in the morning. The laboratory was still brightly lit and full of people.
I glanced at the calendar and saw that there was still a whole week left before the defense system was due. I was exhausted from working hard for several consecutive nights, and I just couldn't help but take a short nap in the laboratory.
Quincy from the same group came over and patted my shoulder gently: "Ethan, if you are too sleepy, go back early. You will be more energetic tomorrow and your thinking will be clearer."
I nodded, finally convinced that I was truly reborn.
Looking at the blinking cursor on the computer screen, I couldn't help but recall my past life. When our team submitted the defense system to the organizer of the competition with great expectations, we were told that the result was invalidated because of plagiarism. A large group of people emerged online, accusing us of plagiarizing the design of another participating team.
A key member of that team would upload the code to the open source website whenever he had an idea, and thus gained a large number of fans. I was scolded by these fans every day, and they accused me of being shameless and plagiarizing other people's design plans.
However , we know our innocence. This design is the result of the joint efforts of our entire team. How could it be so easy to collide with someone else's work, and the collision was so perfect?
But we were helpless. My sister even went out in person, as a fraud-busting blogger, to compare our code with the other party's code one by one, and the results showed that the entire project was just like a copy and paste.
Thinking of this, I quickly went to the open source website and looked for the victim's account. The account's avatar was a handsome e-sports boy, who now has tens of thousands of fans. Many people left him messages, calling him a male god. His last post was updated just 5 minutes ago.
I opened it and was immediately shocked. His latest post shared his design ideas and attached the code. His ideas and code were exactly the same as what I had just completed, without any difference.
I began to doubt whether there really is any mysterious system in this world. This boy is a sports student in the sports department of our school. His name is Leon. He is sunny and handsome. Many people have pursued him before.
One of the best job opportunities for graduates from our school is Taobao's research institute, where fresh graduates can earn tens of millions of yuan a year. The organizer of this competition is Taobao's research institute. A few days ago, he posted a flag on the school's confession wall, saying that he wanted to become a hacker in 30 days and become a master in the field of attack and defense, and his goal was to enter Taobao's research institute after graduation.
