Jing Mingqiu ran to the bed and quickly took out his satellite phone, preparing to contact the principal.
Just as he was inputting the phone number, the incoming call ring suddenly sounded, the caller ID being a string of asterisks.
"Hello, who is it?"
"Mingqiu, it's me," the Supreme Leader's kind voice came through. "I have a small matter to discuss with you. Are you free now?"
Jing Mingqiu scratched his head. "I guess so. I'm in my dorm right now. Is this matter highly classified? Should I kick them out first?"
"No need for that," the Supreme Leader waved his hand. "They will know about this sooner or later. However, before we discuss this, I'd like to ask you a question."
"Mingqiu, do you understand medicine?"
Jing Mingqiu reviewed what he had learned before and quickly flipped through the system.
"If you mean traditional medicine, I'm not really sure. I only know how to maintain and upgrade carbon-based biological organisms."
"Carbon-based organisms?" The Supreme Leader was stunned for a moment, then realized that humans were indeed carbon-based organisms. He chuckled dryly, "That's quite a humorous way to put it. Mingqiu, it's good that you understand medicine."
"Weren't you planning to have someone else release your prescription for you..."
The Supreme Leader simply explained the entire situation and added, "We're planning to arrange a meeting between you two. What do you think? If you don't find it suitable, we can discuss other options."
"No problem."
Jing Mingqiu was also very interested in the person who would release the prescription on his behalf, and readily agreed.
Before hanging up, the Supreme Leader added, "Your exam paper was excellent. If you encounter any trouble while building your research team, don't hesitate to ask. I'll help if I can."
"There is indeed a small problem," Jing Mingqiu said with a slightly embarrassed expression. "Too many people took the exam, over a thousand papers, and I can't possibly grade them all myself."
"Also, because the questions were a bit difficult, even though I have the answer key, the people around me can't understand them either."
"I'd like to find some professors from relevant fields to help. Following the college entrance exam format, we can divide the papers and have them grade the questions they are proficient in, and then add up the scores. This is not a very difficult request." The Supreme Leader agreed after a brief consideration.
"Director Zhou Yangguang will contact you next. He is the overall head of the college entrance exam grading team and is very familiar with the entire process."
Just a few minutes after Jing Mingqiu hung up with the Supreme Leader, Zhou Yangguang called, very enthusiastically.
After a quick communication, Zhou Yangguang asked Jing Mingqiu for the answer key to the exam, and then patted his chest, agreeing to take on the task.
"Phew!"
Jing Mingqiu put down the mouse, stretched, pulled Mo Ruixue into his arms, and kissed her lightly. "The trouble is solved. Let's go out and have some fun together."
"Go out and have fun with what?" Mo Ruixue pouted her small lips discontentedly and shoved her phone in front of Jing Mingqiu. "A Qiu, look quickly, they're all over the internet, cursing you madly!"
Jing Mingqiu took the phone and scrolled quickly, a hint of anger flashing in his eyes.
It turned out that someone had posted the exam paper Jing Mingqiu created online. Perhaps because the questions, which even academicians found difficult, were too hard, many netizens directly dismissed it as Jing Mingqiu's fabrication and began to curse him.
Calling him a fame-seeker was putting it lightly; they directly called him a big liar and told him to go die, with many such comments.
Jing Rou also saw the comments online, and quietly leaned over, hugging Jing Mingqiu's arm, looking at him with concern.
"Mingqiu, they're all talking nonsense. I believe you!"
Tang Bei directly logged into his account, preparing to argue with those people.
Being cursed like this, Jing Mingqiu was actually quite unhappy. However, seeing how much everyone cared about him, he didn't want them to worry, so he deliberately put on a relaxed demeanor.
"It's fine," Jing Mingqiu shrugged. "Mount Everest doesn't care if someone says it's short, because no matter what they say, it's still the highest peak in the world."
"Let them curse if they want to. It won't cost me anything. Rou Rou, what are we having for dinner? I'm hungry."
Seeing that Jing Mingqiu was not affected by the cyberbullying, everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Jing Rou looked at Jing Mingqiu affectionately. "I haven't cooked yet. A Qiu, what do you want to eat?"
"Sweet and sour pork ribs, coke chicken wings, and something lighter, how about boiled fish?"
Jing Rou nodded gently. "No problem, but we don't have many ingredients at home. Let's go to the supermarket to buy them first."
When Jing Mingqiu was sick, Jing Rou bought a small house next to the school to make it convenient for her to cook for him.
As the group was about to head out to buy groceries, the principal called.
He told Jing Mingqiu that the online news was mainly being driven by foreign trolls deliberately stirring up trouble, and that he was already handling it, asking Jing Mingqiu not to take it to heart.
"It's those foreign scum," Jing Mingqiu's suppressed anger flared up. "I thought it was just that the questions were too difficult and ordinary people misunderstood them!"
"Since you are not benevolent, don't blame me for being unrighteous. Xue'er, accompany Rou Rou to buy groceries. Second, third, and fourth, bring out all the computer accessories from under my bed. I want to show them what the power of technology is!"
Due to the system level being stuck, Jing Mingqiu couldn't fully upgrade his computer, so he had to take another approach, using sheer brute force with components to forcibly increase the computer's performance.
Although by using high-precision chips, he could forcibly upgrade a home computer to the level of a supercomputer, it could only last for half an hour.
However, that was enough!
What Jing Mingqiu could modify was not just the computer hardware.
Four custom mechanical keyboards, two placed on the desk, and two placed below.
Jing Mingqiu, relying on the super-strong control of his body as an eighth-level technician, coupled with the extremely tough flexibility enhanced by gene agents, used both his hands and feet to operate four keyboards simultaneously. With the help of the system's software, he began to launch widespread attacks online.
Viruses? Trojans? Stealing secrets?
Jing Mingqiu would not engage in such illegal activities.
He was merely doing a small deed, an act of justice to combat illegal behavior.
Jing Mingqiu tore off the disguises of those accounts, exposing their real addresses to everyone.
Online, netizens who were madly attacking Jing Mingqiu along with the foreign trolls soon discovered that something was wrong.
"Alas, he said he's a graduate student at Tsinghua University, but why is his IP address in the United States?"
"This one is also wrong. He claimed to be Jing Mingqiu's classmate, but his IP address is in the capital. I clearly remember Jing Mingqiu being at Dongyang University of Technology!"
"And this one, he said he was persecuted and fled to the United Kingdom, but his IP address is clearly within the country..."
One or two might be a coincidence, but as the real addresses of more and more trolls were exposed, netizens finally realized that they had been fooled and manipulated.
Just as the netizens' anger was rising, about to backfire on the foreign trolls, the principal made his move...