198: Chapter 198 100,000 Resumes! Heimdall, Get to Work Overtime!

Beijing Capital International Airport.

A pure white private jet slid silently into the tarmac. There were no water cannons, no red carpet, and not even a single reporter carrying cameras and lenses to be seen.

Lin Zhou carried a simple duffel bag, looking like an ordinary businessman on a business trip, walked down the gangway, and got into a Hongqi sedan that had been waiting for a long time.

As soon as the car door closed, Qin Yue in the backseat handed over a tablet. The expression on her face was quite something—she looked like she wanted to laugh and cry at the same time.

"Lord, welcome back to Beijing. This is the backend for our National Research Institute's recruitment email. You... had better prepare yourself mentally."

Lin Zhou took the tablet and scanned the screen.

The next second, he felt his temples throbbing.

In the center of the screen, a huge, blood-red number struck him like a heavy hammer.

103,427. The number of unread emails!

"One hundred... thousand?" Lin Zhou's voice drifted a little. "How many days has it been?"

"From the time your last livestream ended until now, it hasn't even been a month." Qin Yue rubbed her temples, looking completely hopeless.

"Ever since you announced the global recruitment of scientific talent, our mailbox has exploded! It's become a wishing well for disgruntled scientists all over the world! And this is even after we filtered it once with keywords; the original number of emails was more than three times this amount!"

She swiped her finger across the screen, and rows of tags popped up.

"Look, in here, there are tenured professors from Ivy League schools whose research projects were cut by the board of directors and are now unemployed."

"There are chief engineers from old European laboratories whose companies were acquired, and when the new boss wanted to lay people off, they were on the first list."

"Even more are top talents who, because of all sorts of chaotic conflicts and turmoil, had their laboratories bombed, couldn't continue their research, and are even struggling to put food on the table!"

Qin Yue's tone became increasingly excited: "Lord! Any one of these people, if you picked them out, would be a treasure that major international institutions would fight tooth and nail for! Now, they're throwing their resumes at us like they're worthless, piling them up like snowflakes!"

Lin Zhou leaned back in the spacious seat and closed his eyes.

This really was a sweet trouble.

One hundred thousand resumes meant one hundred thousand top-tier brains behind them!

As long as he could filter the right people out of this, the foundation of the Cyber Freedom Republic's National Research Institute would be firmly established!

But the problem was, how to filter them?

This was over one hundred thousand emails, for God's sake! If he let Qin Yue's team look at them one by one, they wouldn't finish by next year! They'd work themselves to death!

"Get Jack."

Lin Zhou opened his eyes, his tone calm.

"Jack?" Qin Yue was stunned for a moment. "Isn't he in charge of intelligence and security? Let him look at resumes?"

"Have you forgotten the 'heimdall' system we're using?" Lin Zhou's mouth twitched. "This kind of pure manual labor is perfect for an AI. Besides, it can strip these people's backgrounds completely clean. Anyone bragging in their resume or with dirty secrets can be ferreted out as soon as the AI runs through them. It will save us a massive amount of time."

...

Beijing Suburbs, temporary headquarters.

In a highly classified conference room codenamed "Abyss," the atmosphere was heavy.

Lin Zhou sat at the head of the table, Jack sat beside him, and opposite them were Wang Changlong and his top-tier technical team.

"My request is very simple." Lin Zhou placed the tablet on the table. "I want you to immediately write a new module for 'heimdall.' Within three days, I want you to go through these one hundred thousand-plus resumes for me."

"At the same time, the AI should automatically conduct background checks on everyone and delete those applicants who falsified their resumes or pose security risks!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the technical team opposite him was in an uproar.

The technical team leader beside Wang Changlong, Li Xiang, a tech genius in his early thirties, stood up on the spot.

"Lord! Three days? One hundred thousand resumes? This... this workload is too huge!" He almost shouted. "Every resume is unstructured data—educational background, published papers, project experience... it's all a mess! To have an AI understand it, let alone evaluate it, requires an extremely complex algorithmic model! Three days is simply impossible!"

"I know it's hard." Lin Zhou tapped his knuckles lightly on the table, making a dull sound. "But I don't have time to waste with you. The first phase of the research institute in the desert is already built, and equipment is being moved in. I need the first batch of scientists to move in within a month!"

He turned to look at Jack beside him. "What do you think?"

Jack rolled his wheelchair silently to the huge electronic screen and placed his hands on the keyboard.

"It can be done."

His voice was not loud, but it was like a calming pill, instantly silencing the noisy room.

"'heimdall's' core is an adaptive logic engine, and what it excels at most is processing and correlating this chaotic information. We don't need it to 'evaluate' who is better; that's human work, it's too subjective."

"We just need to set sufficiently precise 'tags' for it."

Before he had even finished speaking, his hands had already turned into a blur!

On the screen, countless lines of code scrolled by like a waterfall, dazzling Wang Changlong and his technical elite!

"Step one, keyword matching! Fields of expertise: Biology, Environmental Engineering, Materials Science, Water Conservancy Engineering, Artificial Intelligence! These are our priority directions; everything else goes into the backup library!"

"Step two, resume analysis! Filter out authors who have published papers in top journals like 'Nature,' 'Science,' and 'Cell'! Filter out applicants who have led national key laboratory projects or served as chief scientists at internationally renowned companies! Those whose resumes aren't strong enough also go into the backup library!"

"Step three, cross-verification! Use 'heimdall's' intelligence database to verify key information in the resumes, such as graduation institutions, workplaces, and project achievements! If a single piece of information doesn't match, kick them out immediately!"

A series of instructions flowed like clouds and water, so fast it was breathtaking!

Finally, Jack's fingers hovered over the keyboard, and the code on the screen froze instantly.

He turned back and looked at Lin Zhou calmly.

"Finally, set a hidden condition: filter out those... applicants who are currently at a low point in their lives and are desperate for a chance to turn things around. The bankrupt, the laid-off, those whose projects were cut, even those who are being hunted... once we give these people a chance, their loyalty will be the highest."

The corners of Lin Zhou's mouth finally curled into a satisfied arc.

He who knows me is Jack!

"Do exactly as you said!" Lin Zhou slammed the table and stood up!

"I grant you the highest authority! Use all the computing power of the data center however you like! I don't care if you pull all-nighters or work yourselves to the bone; in three days, I want a shortlist of at least five hundred people delivered to my desk!"

"Yes, Lord!"

Jack and Wang Changlong replied in unison!

In the conference room, the remaining technical staff looked at each other. The immense pressure made them almost unable to breathe, but immediately after, an indescribable fanaticism and excitement surged from the bottom of everyone's hearts!