14: Chapter 14: AI Developed in a Scrap Yard, the Soldier King's Neighbors Are All Stunned!

In the studio.

Su Che tossed the draft paper filled with formulas to the side and stretched.

"Big brother, you've been drawing for ages, what exactly are you doing?"

His cousin, Su Hao, leaned over, looking at the paper with curiosity.

"Drawing a brain for a machine."

Su Che picked up a pair of tweezers and a piece of enameled wire thinner than a strand of hair, and began to perform point-to-point wiring on a motherboard salvaged from an old mobile phone.

His movements were fast and steady; the soldering iron in his hand was like an embroidery needle, precisely connecting fine "nerves" onto solder points smaller than a grain of rice.

Su Hao looked at the increasingly complex circuits on the motherboard, which now resembled a spider web, and his eyes glazed over.

"Big brother, this looks like a spider web, what are you doing?"

"Opening its mind."

Su Che didn't even look up, blowing on a point he had just soldered.

"Teaching it to recognize characters on its own."

"Learn to recognize characters on its own?" Su Hao was even more confused. "Machines can learn things on their own? Then why do we need to go to school?"

"You don't know jack."

Su Che couldn't be bothered to explain, focusing on the work at hand.

He needed to forcibly connect these CPUs and memory chips from different mobile phones in parallel using point-to-point wiring to form a crude "computing array."

Although the computing power was garbage, it had the advantage of quantity.

It was enough to run a rudimentary Artificial Intelligence for identifying incorrect questions.

Just as he was working enthusiastically, the phone in his pocket vibrated.

He took it out and saw it was a WeChat message from Lin Waner.

[Student Su Che, thank you for the internet thing last time; the children were very happy that day.]

[And they keep talking about wanting to see it again before winter break. Can you help the children again?]

Su Che read the message and replied instantly: [Small matter, I'll go sort it out for the children once I finish what I'm working on.]

Then he tossed the phone aside.

He glanced at the crystal shard on the table that already had cracks in it, pondering.

This "Taishang Laojun" router was a one-time use item and not a long-term solution.

The children in the village school were almost all left-behind children; their winter break was quite late, but there weren't many days left.

Moreover, the internet problem in the village hadn't been truly solved.

But the system seemed to focus on the technological invention itself, so the task could be considered complete.

And there was that mysterious text message from last time...

To get all these things sorted out, the junk he had on hand was far from enough.

The urgent priority was to get this incorrect question printer finished first and earn some skill points.

He buried himself in work, continuing from noon until evening.

When he soldered the final point-to-point wire, it was completely dark outside.

A "monster" filled with steampunk style, composed of three mobile phone motherboards, a printer carriage, a scanner platform, and countless wires, finally took shape on his workbench.

"Big brother, is this it?" Su Hao yawned repeatedly as he watched.

"You'll know once we try it."

Su Che removed an intact rear camera from another broken phone, fixed it onto a crude stand with hot melt glue, and aimed the lens at the desktop.

He casually pulled a math workbook out of Su Hao's schoolbag, opened it, and laid it flat under the camera.

On the workbook, there was a question marked with a big red cross.

[A car travels at a speed of 60 km/h and takes 3 hours to travel from Place A to Place B. How many kilometers apart are Place A and Place B?]

[Solution: 60 ÷ 3 = 20 (km)]

Su Che's eyelids twitched uncontrollably.

This damn... is truly a talent.

He adjusted his breathing and connected a power cord to the motherboard of this "monster."

Then, he flipped the switch.

...

In the small building next door, inside the monitoring room.

They had been watching all afternoon and only understood one thing.

Su Che seemed to really be using a pile of junk to build something they couldn't understand.

"It's powered on!" the technician shouted.

On the screen, several LED indicator lights salvaged from old motherboards on the "monster" flickered chaotically.

A three-inch color screen salvaged from an MP4 player, connected to the device, also lit up.

At first, there was static on the screen.

Then, a line of green, geek-style characters popped up.

[AI Core V0.1 Booting...]

[Memory Check... OK]

[CPU Array... OK]

[Image Sensor... OK]

"Holy crap!" the technical soldier jumped straight up from his chair. "He... he actually lit it up!"

Captain Li Jun was shocked once again.

He wasn't a technical person, but he understood those few English words.

AI Core... Booting...

This kid really cobbled together an Artificial Intelligence using a pile of junk!

Just when everyone thought the screen would display the image of the workbook captured by the camera.

The image on that crude screen flashed abruptly.

The image of the workbook did not appear.

A line of green characters appeared, making the atmosphere in the entire monitoring room tense.

[3 optical surveillance devices detected, coordinates marked. Initiate countermeasures?]