The Yunshen Building is eighty-five stories tall and more than 400 meters high. On the top of the building is an elegant garden filled with flowers, plants and trees.
It's a crisp autumn day with clear air, but it's very windy and cold. Meng Fei tightened his collar, took out a lighter from his pocket, and struggled to light a cigarette.
"You actually still smoke. Since I had a wife and children, I have stopped smoking. It doesn't matter to me, but I can't harm others."
Meng Fei suddenly felt that what he said made sense, and abruptly put out the cigarette he had just lit.
How can someone still smoke when he almost has a girlfriend?
He decided to quit smoking.
Below is a sweeping view of the city that looks like a sea of stars. The cruise ship Linlang, which Meng Fei originally thought was huge, now looks like a model boat.
Yunshen Building is the tallest building in this area. But several nearby buildings are also catching up. Among them, the Shanshan Building on the east side is relatively close. There is only a height difference of about ten meters from here to the top of the Shanshan Building.
This gave him an unrealistic impulse, as if he could jump from the top of this building to the top of that building with just one leap.
But in fact there is at least thirty meters between the two buildings. It's impossible to jump over.
This mountain and Yunshen are actually sister buildings on the same base, directly connected by an aerial corridor at high altitude. No need to jump, you can walk.
"You actually have a wife and children?" Meng Fei suddenly asked.
Ouyang Cong was startled, then smiled calmly: "Actually, I don't. But sometimes I think I do. How did you find out?"
Meng Fei said unceremoniously: "You can even mistake who you are. Sure enough, you are just a copy."
The muscles on Ouyang Cong's face trembled, showing an unnatural expression, as if two identities had been switched.
Then he laughed rather stiffly.
"Yes. I would like to know how you know."
"Because of the encrypted file, I took a look at the access time and last visitor on the company's version system."
Meng Fei fulfilled his wish and told him the origin of the matter.
"But the visitor is yourself."
When Ouyang Cong spoke, the muscles on his face kept twitching strangely, as if he was not used to controlling this body.
"It's just the 'Meng Fei' you copied with your superpower."
Meng Fei immediately refuted him, saying that he was undoubtedly the real one, and everything else was just a copy.
"The replica Meng Fei had neither a USB flash drive nor a mobile phone on him, but he left in a hurry.
"Then how did he copy that file?
"I guess you may have sent the files over the Internet. There will definitely be records of things downloaded from the company's version control system and sent over the Internet.
"So I checked all the company's external access records during that period. I found nothing. There were no access logs from the internal network to the external network at that time."
"Haha," Ouyang Cong forced a smile with his weird face that kept twitching.
"You are very smart. But since I can copy your body, I also have your fingerprints.
"In the future, I can log in with my fingerprint to download that file at any time. Why do I have to copy it then?"
"You must copy it away." Meng Fei asserted, "As for the reason, I guess you know that the copy is going to die soon."
Ouyang Cong's face instantly became shocked.
Meng Fei ignored his astonishment and looked at the colorful city downstairs that was changing like a magic carpet, and continued:
"If the copy may die at any time. You don't have a mobile phone or any carrier to copy. And you haven't sent the file over the Internet, then you can only...
"Download the file and save it in the safest place. You can pick it up later.
"That's the company's version control service, in your private directory!
"That place has double encryption, one for the company and one for you personally. No one can find it except you."
"Then how could you find out?"
"I searched the private directories on everyone's version control system in our company. I found it under your directory.
“So I knew it was you.
"I'm right."
Meng Fei's encrypted file appeared in Ouyang Cong's private directory, which in itself was conclusive evidence.
Ouyang Cong's expression relaxed and became less stiff, but his loose and sagging skin made him look a little too old.
"You left a backdoor in the company's version control system? Even if this matter is used as evidence, you have committed a felony, which is enough for you to go to jail."
Today, when Meng Fei fixed Liu Gang's bug without using the source code, he suspected that Meng Fei could access other people's code through the version control system.
Now that his private directory has been thoroughly investigated, he is naturally more convinced of this.
Because in his opinion, even with all the computing power controlled by humans, it would take at least several years to crack the double encryption of their company's version control system.
It was impossible for Meng Fei to do it in just one afternoon.
Meng Fei was silent and noncommittal. He can't shout that I have a system, so I can crack it without a backdoor.
He is not afraid of going to jail for this matter. Because there really is no backdoor left by him in the system.
But there are holes in the system. What system can be without loopholes? Just because Ouyang Cong and the others couldn't find it doesn't mean that his strongest BUG system couldn't find it.
Finding loopholes is his daily job. He found a loophole and accidentally browsed the personal directory of his immediate boss.
He has written the vulnerability analysis report. He also set the time. At twelve o'clock tonight, a ding-dong sound will be sent out automatically.
Perfect, no jail time.
"Meng Fei, as an old friend, I have one last piece of advice for you.
"Give me the key to that file. Don't get involved in my business.
“That thing is of no use to you, you have nothing to lose by telling me.
"You are valued by Luo An at Mantis Software and have a bright future. Don't waste this opportunity.
"From now on, you and I will never see each other again, and you won't be involved in any trouble again."
Meng Fei looked suspiciously at his suggestion. This so-called "old friend" is only based on the memory that originally belonged to Ouyang Cong that he devoured after copying Ouyang Cong's body.
The real Ouyang Cong must be dead and completely disappeared.
If we tell the truth, we have no idea what kind of monster this "Ouyang Cong" is, and we don't even know where his true identity is.
"You cut off the power and smashed the camera, not only to make it easier to do things, but also because you didn't want anyone to bump into or be caught by the camera. Two Meng Fei appeared in the same building.
"Your plan is just to kill me and then live in my place, so that the file and the key will naturally be yours.
"Originally, after you killed me, you didn't even need to destroy the body to eliminate traces. Because my body would disappear in five hours.
"My memory has also been swallowed by you. From now on, you become Meng Fei, and everything about Meng Fei is yours, including the document you want.
"But while waiting for Meng Fei's body to disappear, you found the computer on the desk. You found Meng Fei's login password in the swallowed memory.
"According to Meng Fei's memory, you found a lot of useful information in the computer, but the only thing missing is the encrypted file...
"You remember that file was saved on the company's version server. It was just deleted when it was downloaded to the laptop.
"At this time, you really couldn't control your eagerness to get this file, so you decided to get up and go to the company to download the file.
"Before leaving, you felt that it was too dangerous to store this information in a notebook and might be leaked. So you destroyed all the files in the notebook.
“But halfway through, you realize you miscalculated.
"You just realized that Meng Fei, who was obviously killed by you, is not dead!"
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