70: Chapter 70 Don't know how to use a quantum computer? I'll just write a "one-click start" solution!
Lin Weiguo's body had already been transferred to the highest-level isolation ward, and that flexible membrane had been sealed away by Su Che in a specially made lead box.
The shadow of high-dimensional prying loomed over everyone's hearts.
A clever housewife cannot cook without rice; with insufficient exchange points, Su Che couldn't do anything right now.
Su Che, Lieutenant General Peng, and Dean Liu and their party had no choice but to leave the "Nuwa" No. 1 Laboratory first.
By the time Su Che returned to the Expert Apartment, Lin Waner was already asleep.
Su Che took off his clothes and climbed onto the bed on tiptoe.
He hadn't done anything, just tossed and turned all night; he needed to catch up on sleep first!
...
The next morning.
"No! It's completely incomprehensible!"
In the "Pangu" No. 3 Laboratory, Academician Qian Zhenhua slammed his fist onto the console, his bloodshot eyes fixed on the stream of quantum state data on the screen, composed of constantly superimposing and changing "0"s and "1"s.
"This thing, it's 'is' and 'isn't' at the same time! How is one supposed to write a program for this?!"
Behind him, hundreds of the brightest minds in the Dragon Kingdom were completely wilted at this moment.
They surrounded that epoch-making Pangu Quantum Computer like a group of primitive people surrounding a J20 fighter jet.
They knew it was awesome.
But they couldn't even find the door to the cockpit.
"We tried to write a simple 'output' command, but it output all possibilities from 'A' to 'Z', plus Russian, French, and a bunch of garbled text."
An academician in charge of software engineering pointed to another screen, his expression even more miserable than constipation.
"This isn't programming at all; this is rolling dice with God!"
Lieutenant General Peng and President Liu Qinghua stood to the side, watching this group of national treasures being driven mad, feeling their heads spin.
They had obtained the Dragon-Slaying Saber, only to find there was no instruction manual.
This was very awkward.
When Su Che walked in, this was the scene he saw.
He was a bit speechless.
These old predecessors had solid theoretical knowledge, one better than the other, so why were they so stubborn when it came to practical application?
"Academician Qian."
Su Che walked over.
"Chief Engineer Su!"
Academician Qian Zhenhua looked as if he had seen a savior and grabbed his arm.
"This... this Pangu, we can't control it!"
"It doesn't follow logic!"
"Who said it doesn't follow logic?" Su Che pointed to the screen. "Its logic is the superposition of all logic. If you insist on using 'black-and-white' thinking to command a 'colorful black', it's no wonder it's driving you crazy."
Academician Qian Zhenhua's old face flushed, and he muttered, "Then... what should we do?"
Su Che looked at the eager yet bewildered expressions on the faces of these top scientists, and a thought suddenly occurred to him.
Giving a man a fish is not as good as teaching him how to fish.
He couldn't possibly teach them hand-in-hand every time he built something, right?
Just then, the dear system appeared again.
[Ding! Detected that the Dragon Kingdom's top research team is facing a "quantum illiteracy" dilemma. A new livelihood demand has been triggered, and a side quest has been released!]
[Quest Name: Technological Equality, Starting with Eradicating "Quantum Illiteracy"!]
[Quest Content: A nation's heavy equipment cannot become the toy of a few! Please develop a visual operating system for the Pangu Quantum Computer that ordinary researchers can quickly get started with. Simplify complex quantum programming into intuitive "drag-and-drop module" operations, making quantum computing power a universal tool for promoting the Dragon Kingdom's technological development!]
[Quest Reward: 800 skill points, unlocks [Quantum Lithography Control Technology] primary exchange permission, requires 300 exchange points.]
[Current host has accumulated skill points: 2500 points. Do you want to exchange?]
Here it comes!
Just when he was sleepy, someone brought a pillow.
Su Che looked at the quest panel, his heart blooming with joy.
800 minus 300 skill points leaves 500 points, more than the remaining percentage of previous quests.
After finishing this quest, he would have just enough to exchange for the 3000 points needed for the "Stealth Shield" core technology.
"This damn system, every time it calculates the points so precisely, as if it's all planned out. There's definitely something fishy..."
Su Che complained internally, but outwardly he calmly cleared his throat.
"There is, of course, a way."
Amidst everyone's expectant gazes, he didn't sit down at the console.
Instead, he walked to a blank tactical board and picked up a pen.
"The reason you find it difficult is because you are still using 'language' to communicate with it."
"Now, let's change the method."
"We'll use 'drawing'."
Drawing?
Everyone was stunned.
Su Che drew a simple square on the tactical board.
"This, we call it a 'Quantum Bit Module'. You can treat it as a variable."
He drew a circle.
"This is called a 'Logic Gate Module'. Whatever operation you want the variable to perform, you drag it behind the variable and connect it with a line."
"Just like... connecting water pipes."
Su Che drew a thick connecting line between the square and the circle.
The entire Pangu No. 3 Laboratory was dead silent.
Hundreds of the Dragon Kingdom's top scientists looked at the childish, kindergarten-style doodle on the tactical board, collectively frozen.
This is it?
This is your solution?
We are racking our brains here, trying to understand the underlying logic of quantum superposition and entanglement, and you want us to... play connect-the-dots?
An old academician in software engineering adjusted his glasses, feeling his worldview had suffered an unprecedented impact.
"Chief... Chief Engineer Su, if I understand correctly, you mean... encapsulating quantum algorithms into graphical modules?"
"Yes." Su Che nodded, feeling that these people had finally caught on.
"Can programming be completed by dragging and dropping with a mouse?"
"Yes."
"This... isn't this the kind of 'fun programming' software we gave to children twenty years ago?!"
The old academician's voice changed pitch.
Using things taught to children to control the nation's heavy equipment?
This is simply rewriting the manual for an aerospace engine as a nursery rhyme!
Insulting! This is the greatest insult to science!
Su Che couldn't be bothered to explain to them.
He walked straight to the console that no one dared to touch and sat down.
He placed his hands on the keyboard.
"Watch."
After saying these two words, his fingers moved.
No code, no commands.
On the screen, a graphical interface with a minimalist blue-and-white style was created from scratch, literally "drawn" by him!
Cute little icons representing "Quantum Bit", "Logic Gate", "Measurement", and "Entanglement" appeared in the toolbar on the left side of the interface like bamboo shoots after rain.
His speed was incredibly fast.
The group of old scientists couldn't even follow his operations; they could only see countless windows and modules flashing, combining, and forming on the screen.
The doubt and disdain originally on their faces were being replaced by shock and horror at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Is this a speed a human hand can type?
It's as if he shoved the entire development team into the CPU to run!
In less than half an hour.
Su Che stopped his hands.
On the screen, an operating system that could be called a work of art, named [Pangu OS · Enlightenment Edition V1.0], lay quietly.
The interface was clean and the logic was clear.
Anyone with junior high school physics knowledge could understand it.
"Academician Qian, you come."
Su Che stood up from the chair and said to Academician Qian Zhenhua, who was still in a daze.
"I... I come?" Academician Qian Zhenhua pointed at himself, a bit incredulous.
"Use this to redo that 'output' command you just did."
Academician Qian Zhenhua hesitated and sat down at the console.
Looking at the cartoonish icons on the screen, he felt his lifelong scientific faith had been subverted.
With trembling hands, he grasped the mouse.
Under Su Che's guidance.
Clumsily, he dragged a "Quantum Bit" square out of the toolbar.
He dragged out a "Hadamard Gate" (a type of basic logic gate) circle.
Then he dragged out a "Measurement" eye icon.
Then, like an elementary school student who had just learned to use a computer, he drew two crooked lines with the mouse and connected them together.
After doing all this, he swallowed nervously and looked up at Su Che.
"Click the green 'Run' button in the top right corner." Su Che's voice was very calm.
Academician Qian Zhenhua took a deep breath and pressed it.
The next second.
With a soft "beep".
On the output screen next to it, there was no longer that pile of frustrating garbled text.
There was only a simple, perfect "0" and "1", each accounting for 50% probability, jumping randomly at high speed.
It worked!
The most basic quantum state superposition had been perfectly realized using the "building blocks" method!
"My god..."
An academician behind Academician Qian Zhenhua covered his mouth and let out an irrepressible exclamation.
The entire laboratory was boiling over again!
"I understand! I understand!" The old academician of software engineering slapped his thigh excitedly. "He isn't insulting science; he is... creating a miracle!"
"He solidified the most complex quantum logic using the most underlying graphical protocol! We don't need to understand the process; we only need to call the result!"
"This isn't for kids to play with! This is... this is dimensionality reduction!"
All the scientists' eyes on Su Che changed completely.
It was a kind of awe, like mortals looking up at the gods.
Academician Qian Zhenhua stared blankly at the jumping "0" and "1" on the screen, then looked at the childish "building blocks" he had just dragged out.
He suddenly felt that the knowledge system he had been proud of for decades was like a joke.
He stood up, walked to Su Che, and said nothing.
He just bowed deeply once more.
Meanwhile, in Su Che's mind.
[Ding! Side quest: Technological Equality, Starting with Eradicating "Quantum Illiteracy", completed!]
[Quest Reward: 800 skill points, received.]
[Current host has accumulated skill points: 3000 points.]
Enough!
Su Che looked at that string of numbers, and the heavy stone in his heart finally landed.
He ignored the group of old predecessors who had fallen into a frenzy and started scrambling to "play with blocks".
He directly opened the system panel in his consciousness.
Found the [Full-band Metamaterial Stealth Structure] technology flickering with golden light.
Exchange!
[Ding! Consumed 3000 skill points, exchanged for the full set of [Full-band Metamaterial Stealth Structure] technology!]
[Current host has accumulated skill points: 0 points.]
A massive stream of technical information instantly flooded into his mind.
Electromagnetic metamaterial phase control, optical radar dual-domain stealth coupling, active stealth signal generation...
Su Che's eyes grew brighter and brighter.
He turned around, pushed through the crowd, and said directly to Lieutenant General Peng.
"General, the operating system was just an appetizer."
"Now, I'm going to start forging the 'shield'."
"Get me graphene composite film and liquid metal substrate, as much as you have, I want it all!"