Top Student at Their Peak

Qiao Yu began to feel amazed, he really had too little experience! He even felt like a frog in a well, the world is indeed a place where all sorts of bizarre things can happen.

Things that even the most brilliant screenwriter couldn't imagine, actually can take place in this real world.

For example, ten or twenty years ago, an ordinary person who had just been laid off happened to pass by a company that was moving, so he walked in with a box of personal items, and just walked away with three inconspicuous mechanical hard drives.

Then this person took them to a second-hand dealer to sell, only to find out the data couldn't be read normally. So he sold them as scrap at ten bucks a piece to a second-hand merchant.

The shop owner, who was a bit knowledgeable, realized that the hard drives were encrypted, and then posted on a professional forum for help.

Unexpectedly, someone on the forum actually managed to help decrypt the hard drives for him. Then, they discovered encrypted files inside the drives. After managing to read them, they turned out to be classified research data concerning a highly advanced control system at the time...

After detecting this data, an investigation was immediately launched, from the top management unit, to the company undertaking the research tasks, to the thief, and then to the recycling computer merchant and forum expert, all of them were arrested...

A small case involving an amount of thirty bucks, ended up with over thirty people sent to step on sewing machines. The involved company was not only fined but also had its qualifications revoked, with estimated losses in the billions.

According to Teacher Wen, everyone involved felt so wronged after the incident, especially those who were sentenced to twenty years, feeling like modern-day Dou E's.

But after reviewing the case, everyone was at a loss for words. Because if handled according to normal standards, this wouldn't have happened.

If the second-hand merchant or the forum expert had a sense of reverence, none of this would have blown up like this.

So the instigator of the whole incident— the guy who impulsively walked into the company and took three hard drives due to being laid off, ended up with the lightest sentence in the case, even then it was still three years.

Coincidentally, it took about three years from the initiation of the case investigation to the final verdict, so a few days after the sentencing, the guy was released...

There are many similar cases. This isn't even the weirdest. In any case, Qiao Yu's interactions with Teacher Wen these days have been quite pleasant.

Qiao Yu really enjoys the feeling of learning something strange every day. Most importantly, the cases introduced by Teacher Wen have given him a deeper understanding of the operational rules of this world.

At least it's not up to him to do as he pleases. There's too much monitoring. The good news is, for now, with Chief Engineer Yu and his mentor providing guidance, he's not in a position where he would be exposed to data that could really get him into trouble.

But coincidentally, both sides feel it's a good thing for him to indeed come in contact with such knowledge to develop a sense of reverence.

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During Teacher Wen's course, a month of 2026 had already passed, and the winter break had arrived.

Although for Qiao Yu, life wasn't much different from when there was no break.

No, he was actually busier than during the semester. Because now he really had to attend classes every day. Two classes every day, each lasting a full two hours.

On the afternoon of February 2nd, after finishing a two-hour lecture as usual, Teacher Wen said, "I've got good news for you, you can take a day off tomorrow."

This rather surprised Qiao Yu, as he didn't really feel very tired from attending classes daily.

Although Chief Engineer Yu had sent over some data, everything was already on track, as he had made contact with the Institute of Computing.

He provided functions for processing the data, and the personnel on the other side were responsible for processing them using the method he provided.

So far, as agreed previously, it's all non-sensitive data that can be found through public channels.

For instance, the orbital parameters of the Moon and the Earth, celestial gravitation, tidal forces, gravitational environment, communication and positioning, and so on.

The other side hopes to use the analysis of this data to provide something for the validation of many proposals.

Such as the optimal launch window for lunar transfer orbit, perturbation analysis of the Earth-Moon and Sun gravity orbit, optimal fuel allocation for multiple orbit corrections, even landing site selection, and so on...

As everyone knows, both the Earth and the Moon are dynamic celestial bodies, and their relative positions are constantly changing.

So to achieve manned lunar landings, precise orbital insertion and transfer windows are required, not just sending a spacecraft as in sci-fi movies and landing it on the Moon.

Of course, the lunar mission project would definitely have its own models, and now having Qiao Yu process this data is probably for some comparison work.

Anyway, the current work is actually free. Before finishing the confidentiality course, it's essentially volunteer work. So Qiao Yu feels no pressure at all.

After finishing Teacher Wen's class every day, he even has time to read a few articles about affine Weyl groups.

He has no other choice, Director Tian pesters him to keep these things in mind, while the work on Old Xue's side has always been ongoing, Qiao Yu feels there's no need to rush.

So he can only prepare some groundwork on his own. In the meantime, he has also supplemented his knowledge about algebraic groups, Lie algebra representations, and quantum field theory.