Xiaoyao Zi withdrew his message quickly. Lin Xun had no doubt that if Xiaoyao Zi was any slower in removing the message a few more disciples would have congratulated Huo Qingshan with the same form of address.
He also had no doubt that many people must have seen this ‘rollover accident’ at this moment——the elders simply lived on WeChat.
After a brief embarrassment, a new message appeared in the group chat.
Xiaoyao Zi: Congratulations to brother Qingshan! 👏👏
Other elders quickly copied it, and the group became a happy scene.
Three minutes later, in order to prove the authenticity of “self-healing meridians with a good mood”, Huo Qingshan shared an article in the group describing how “Mentality determines health”. Several seniors also took out their daily collection of articles and began to discuss how to maintain one’s health.
Fairy Bihai, who is proficient in alchemy, came out to refute the claims: “Tofu and spinach can be eaten together, Taoists should not believe that food is mutually restrictive.”
Xiaoyao Zi took the lead to refute Fairy Bihai: “I prefer to believe it. You can never be too careful.”
Lin Xun smiled while looking at the chat interface, after a while he turned off his phone and sank into the system space.
There weren’t any major changes to the interface, it still had the same look and feel.
Missions were still displayed as before.
However, when he turned to look behind him, his eyes suddenly widened.
——That tree.
Lin Xun stepped forward, the roots were bright, with the letter C written next to it shining just as bright.
Further up, although the trunk and branches remained dim, some letters now appeared next to them.
The first branch on the right side of the trunk, had “C++” displayed next to it.
Lin Xun’s breathing trembled for a moment.
As he continued to look upwards, there hung other programming languages. On the first branch on the left was Python.
The second branch on the right was PHP.
The second branch on the left was Java.
Further up, nothing changed. The upper part of the tree was still blank.
——At present, the names were all mainstream high-level programming languages, which were qualitatively different from the C language.
C is a process-oriented language, while these four languages are object-oriented languages.
The biggest difference between the two lies in their modularity——the principle, if it must be presented in detail, is overly complicated, but it can be illustrated by a simple analogy:
A novelist opens a new word document and begins creating his novel. This novel is written in this word document from beginning to end.
Therefore, every time he adds to his creation, the novelist must open the document, scroll to the bottom, before he can start writing. If he realizes that there is a logical problem in any of the previous sections, or feels the need to add a new plot, he must then search from the bottom up, find the corresponding section, before he can start to modify. If the word document crashes, all contents will be lost.
——This process is very daunting, anyone in their right mind would not do it like this.
The logical process is to create a new document every time a new chapter is written. Such that if he wants to modify a specific section, he can quickly locate this in the document according to the chapter name. If the document suddenly becomes corrupted or crashes completely, only the content of one chapter will be affected.
The first method of writing is analogous to process-oriented programming, and the second is object-oriented programming.
Process-oriented programming is like a doll with welded joints, while the parts of object-oriented programming can be disassembled and can be used in other dolls. Obviously, object-oriented is more flexible, and the playability is much higher.
Moreover, because of the differences in structure, each language has its own special strengths.
Lin Xun used a crawler in C language to observe the environment and obtain information, but if he used a crawler written in Python to do this——the efficiency will be greatly increased.
All in all, object-oriented programming is a significant invention in human history.
Lin Xun felt a vague excitement.
If he could master one of these languages, he would be able to last longer when he met a Gold Core sword cultivator like Yanyang Zi, and he wouldn’t have to cut off the Internet to ensure his safety.
So, how can he learn these languages?
He tentatively pressed his finger on one of the branches.
The mechanical voice sounded: “Light up the skill tree, required spiritual power: 120, existing spiritual power: 95, spiritual power is insufficient, lighting failure.”
Lin Xun squinted his eyes.
It turns out spiritual power is the key to unlocking the languages!
Complete the missions released by the system, obtain spiritual power, and light up the skill tree.
—— Lin Xun felt a surprise bigger than when his keyboard underwent modifications. He thought that he would be able to use a more convenient language in the future, and maybe one day even light up Glax here, he was eager to try.
The eager Lin Xun came to the mission interface.
The mission interface was also updated.
After establishing his foundation, the main mission of the first stage was completed. He unrolled a new golden scroll and saw a new mission:
Mission Goal: Reach the Gold Core period
Mission Reward: clan fund +100, clan territory level +1, spiritual power +50
Mission Progress: 0/100
After receiving this mission, he looked to the other side.
To the left of the golden scroll, there was an extra blue scroll.
He opened this as well.
Daily Task: Punish evil and destroy demons
Task Goal: Kill devil seeds
Task Reward: spiritual power +5
Task time limit: 24 hours
Task Progress: 0/5
Alright, so the mission types were also updated. First, there were main missions which rewarded funds and territories, and branch missions which rewarded treasure chests. Now there were even daily tasks.
Lin Xun felt that there were so many things to do.
Although this was the case, the rewards from completing the main mission were what attracted him the most.
Past rewards proved that clan territory is the land owned by their company——Luo Shen, and clan fund is their money. 1 clan fund is equivalent to 10,000 yuan in reality.
The reward for reaching Qi refining period was an additional unit to their clan territory, which was the extra room vacated that day. The reward for reaching foundation establishment period was an increase of 50 units to their clan fund. Which he received when Huo Qingshan immediately awarded him 500,000 yuan.
Another obvious thing was that rewards were not issued without reason, and conformed to the logic of real life——could the power of the system affect the real world?
Lin Xun didn’t know.
Leaving the system space, he returned to reality.
The phone screen lighted up and there was a new text message.
Luo setup a filter for incoming messages, and blocked all loan offers, real estate offers, and Taobao ads. Call charge notifications, banking news, and government announcements such as “sweeping gangsters” and “protecting the environment” were accepted without notification.
Therefore, Lin Xun hardly received text reminders.
With the filter in place, there was only one possibility as to the sender of this reminder. The message could only have come from Dong Jun.
As expected, it was a very straightforward message.
“Tomorrow, 4pm at Galaxy.”
Lin Xun calculated tomorrow’s itinerary for the nth time.
Then he replied: Okay \^o^/
After replying, Lin Xun opened his suitcase and fell into deep thought.
In the end, he decided to take a picture, sent it to Zhao Jiagou, and asked how he should pair his clothes for tomorrow.
He was scheduled to go back to the capital early the next morning.
Xiaoyao Zi secured a big truck. They loaded the Jade Coffin with the Chixiao Dragon Sword into the carriage and locked it.
——The man in charge of driving the truck was Yufeng Zhenjun, who was well-known for his sword-flying skills. According to anecdotes, he flew willfully over the Bohai Sea and was mistakenly identified as an aircraft by military radar, which almost provoked a war between two countries.
Similarly, Yufeng Zhenjun’s driving skills were also superb. Everyone felt at ease with the thought that he was the one driving the cargo. Huo Qingshan was the most familiar with the capital and has a profound cultivation base and was naturally designated as co-pilot.
As a result, Lin Xun could only go back alone.
There were no delays during his flight back and his plane landed at 1 pm.
Lin Xun was picked up by their second-hand Jetta as soon as he landed. It arrived at the airport parking lot on time according to the autopilot instructions.
Then, at 3pm, he had already arrived at Galaxy.
This was different from Lin Xun’s expectations——after all, there were many unpredictable factors in the real world, so he allotted plenty of time for travel in anticipation of these factors. Who would have thought there would be no traffic jam today.
He sat in the car, looking at the Galaxy building, and felt a little lost.
His phone rang.
Lin Xun answered the call.
Dong Jun’s voice sounded deep and nice: “Have you set out?”
Lin Xun: “…I seem to have arrived earlier than expected.”
Dong Jun seemed to smile, and let out a light breath, but Lin Xun didn’t hear clearly.
Lin Xun was a little depressed: “I’ll go to the café opposite to sit for a while.”
“Get off.”
These two words from Dong Jun stunned Lin Xun.
After a while, he just listened as Dong Jun continued: “I’m on the eleventh floor.”
Lin Xun ended the call and got off the car obediently.
The sky was overcast and the wind was strong, but the talented Zhao Jiagou foresaw this.
The clothes he arranged for Lin Xun was a hooded black jacket just thick enough for the weather. It was one size larger than his usual size, with a graffiti pattern and some messy letters printed on the jacket.
Zhao Jiagou pulled this ensemble out of thin air last night, saying, “Suanfa, I can already imagine how you would look in those clothes——like an orphaned genius hacker who just hacked the federation’s intelligence system, with an air of naive melancholy, feeling lonely with nowhere else to go while looking up at the sky.”
Lin Xun sent him a meme in response.
It was clear that Jiagou’s perceptual cells had recently piled up with nowhere to vent, and he took this opportunity to unleash his poetic side.
Lin Xun zipped his jacket to the very top, looked at his reflection in the car window, and felt like he was a truant.
He reached the eleventh floor, in front of him was a long corridor, void of any personnel and several closed meeting room doors.
He took out his mobile phone and was about to check with Dong Jun again when the door closest to him opened and a person walked out.
——A person whom Lin Xun did not expect to see.
Lions’ boss – Chen Xi. This man stepped out of the room, wearing a suit and leather shoes, his straight back spelled elite, and success written all over his body.
It’s easy to understand, he was successful in his career, and he was proud of his success, which was different from Lin Xun.
Lin Xun looked at him, of course, he also saw Lin Xun.
He walked towards Lin Xun.
——Lin Xun thought in his heart: when he refused Lions’ invitation, he had a feud with this person. In the past two years, Luo Shen hadn’t received any investment. Perhaps Chen Xi laughed at him in secret; he just didn’t know how many times.
Chen Xi raised his eyebrows and asked, “Why are you here?”
Lin Xun lowered his eyes, his tone was flat: “I’m here to look for someone.”
Chen Xi: “Are you still working on that project?”
Lin Xun: “Yeah.”
Chen Xi smiled and shook his head, seeming to feel sorry for him: “All right.”
Lin Xun didn’t really want to talk to him, so he just made a perfunctory response, and wanted to move on.
Chen Xi didn’t let him go. After adjusting his tie, he lifted his chin towards Lin Xun: “Do you recognize the way? Who are you looking for? I’ll take you there.”