Volume 1 Chapter 1 Flashing
"Can this software really turn my knockoff phone into an Apple? Are you sure there won't be any problems?" Yang Bin looked at the file he received on QQ, still half-believing and half-doubting.
"Don't worry! I guarantee it's no problem! I've helped friends brush seven or eight units, and not one has failed. But remember... you have to use a computer to brush, and it must be a 64-bit Win7 system..." Xiao Pangzi on the other end of QQ sent over a sneering expression.
"Alright, I've started!" Yang Bin opened the program sent by Xiao Pangzi through QQ and began to study it along with the attached operating instructions.
"Brush according to the manual, it's simple, if you have any questions, ask me anytime." Xiao Pangzi replied with this sentence, and soon after that, QQ went dark.
Xiao Pàngzi's real name is Xiao Wen, and he was Yang Bin's gaming partner in high school. Although they didn't attend the same university, they remained in close contact, mainly through online gaming of Starcraft, Warcraft, Dota, and other games.
In terms of computer games, having a common interest is the fundamental reason why the two can maintain contact and remain bosom buddies.
After graduating from university, Xiao Wen joined a well-known software company in the north, Jinyun Technology, as a senior programmer. Yang Bin returned to Yunfeng City, which is close to his hometown, to take the civil service examination. Although he scored excellent results in both written and oral exams, meeting all requirements, due to various reasons, he ended up working as an external staff member of Project Section 3 of Yunfeng City Investment Promotion Bureau.
After playing two games of Starcraft II, Xiao Pangzi asked Yang Bin what phone model he was using. Yang Bin told him, and then Xiao Pangzi mysteriously sent him a program, saying that it could turn his knockoff phone into an Apple phone. After flashing the phone with the program, it would be able to use most of Apple's functions, especially being able to display "Apple" when logging onto QQ on the phone.
This hanging QQ Apple thing is a very vain matter that Yang Bin doesn't care about, but adding many new functions to the mountain mobile phone makes him somewhat eager to try.
Then he let Xiao Pangzi send over the program.
The program is about 50MB in size. First, you need to install it. After installation, connect your phone's data cable to the computer's USB port. The program will automatically recognize the mobile phone model, match it and then run the flashing program.
The flashing process takes about five minutes. During this time, do not cut off the power or exit the program halfway, otherwise the phone will be bricked.
Two minutes later, watching the progress bar of the brush machine go smoothly to forty percent, Yang Bin's heart began to look forward... After brushing well, what functions will be added to the mobile phone?
But at this moment, the antivirus software on the computer suddenly popped up a large number of red high-risk alerts!
Unknown program invasion! Interception failed...
Unknown program invasion! Interception failed...
Unknown program invasion! Interception failed...
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Then...the antivirus software crashed...
"What the...?! Which program is so crappy?! It crashed all my anti-virus software?!" Yang Bin was stunned, clicking his mouse for half a day to finally clear out all the high-risk alerts. But just as he was about to send a QQ message to Xiao Huanzi asking what was going on, both his mouse and keyboard lost control at the same time.
Then...the progress bar that had originally reached 40% also returned to the initial state of 0%, motionless.
Not only that, the interface of the brushing software has also changed, becoming somewhat strange... The original text on it has turned into some golden symbols that Yang Bin doesn't recognize at all.
"What the hell is Fatso doing with an airplane? Is he out of his mind?" Yang Bin cursed silently, wondering if this might be another skin for that software made by Xiao Huazi.
Or is it... a prank?
This is not the first time Xiao Paozi has played a prank on Yang Bin. In the past, after losing to Yang Bin in an online game, he remotely hacked into Yang Bin's computer and made a naked woman suddenly pop up on his screen.
The phone is being flashed, the mouse and keyboard are out of control, Yang Bin cannot contact Xiao Pangzi to ask. This outsider can only stare at the computer screen and dare not take any measures.
Xiao Pangzi said that when flashing a phone, you can't cut off the power, turn it off, or pull out the data cable, otherwise you'll end up with a bricked phone...
His mountain stronghold, at least a thousand dollars to buy, brush into bricks is troublesome. Yang Bin's family is not a rich man, his current salary is also very low, one thousand dollars is almost half of his monthly salary.
Three minutes later, the progress bar on the computer changed from zero percent to one percent...
Yang Bin let out a sigh of relief, it seemed that the brushing machine program was still working normally. However, Xiao Pangzi's five minutes to brush to one percent had become three minutes to brush to only one percent. By analogy, after an hour, he could only brush to twenty percent, and it would take more than five hours to reach one hundred percent!
Forget it! Let it go for now. It's already past 11 o'clock. I'll deal with that damned fatty tomorrow!
After washing up, the progress of brushing had reached three percent. Yang Bin didn't bother with it anymore and lay down on the bed to sleep.
After sleeping for a while, Yang Bin suddenly remembered that his mobile phone was being flashed and might not be able to ring normally tomorrow. To avoid being late for work, Yang Bin took the small alarm clock from the head of the bed and set it to 7 o'clock, then went back to sleep again.
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The next morning, when I woke up, the computer screen showed that the brushing was completed. The keyboard and mouse also returned to normal, but the phone screen still displayed the words "program updating".
Other buttons on the phone have no response, even the power button is out of order.
No choice, Yang Bin used his computer to leave a message on Xiao Pangzi's QQ, roughly telling him about last night's brushing experience, and scolding him a few times before shutting down the computer and washing up.
The time before going to work in the morning is always tight, Yang Bin bought breakfast and ate it, went to the balcony to feed the dog and covered his nose to clean up the dog's feces on the ground, and it was already 8:10.
"This is your breakfast and lunch! If you finish it all in one go, I'll throw you down from the building!" Yang Bin threatened the little mongrel dog with a bulging belly.
The little dog looked at Yang Bin with a puzzled expression, then swallowed half of the oil cake in one mouthful.
"Damn it!" Yang Bin cursed and rushed out of the door.
Yang Bin's workplace is only two stops away from his current rental place. Yang Bin usually runs there, firstly to keep fit and secondly to save money.
It's just two stops away, so it would take about a minute to run there. Yang Bin wasn't too worried about being late. Running is different from taking the bus, as you can't control your time when taking the bus, especially during rush hour in the morning. But with running, you don't have to worry about that, everything is under your own control, and it's hard to be late even if you want to.
The traffic on the road was extremely congested, and those commuters were like sardines in a can, being forcibly stuffed into one bus after another, staring with dead fish eyes at Yang Bin who was freely running along the side of the street.
All private car owners on their way to work are cursing with both hands on the steering wheel.
Today Yang Bin ran relatively fast, and it only took seven minutes to get to the station. At this speed, he can make it to work on time at 8:24.
Yang Bin is an external staff member of the Investment Promotion Bureau of Yunfeng City, in other words, a temporary worker in a government department that is very popular nowadays. He does the hard work of internal personnel, but receives the low salary of external personnel. When he achieves results, it's credited to the internal personnel, and if something goes wrong, naturally, people like him take the blame.
According to what Director Sun of the Project Department said when I first joined the company, if an external employee like Yang Bin works hard and achieves results, it is possible for him to be converted to an internal employee.
Yang Bin's parents, who were teaching in a township middle school, had entrusted an acquaintance to help. The student, whom Yang's mother had taught and supported over a decade ago, was now working at the municipal cultural bureau and claimed he had connections that could get Yang Bin transferred into the formal system through backdoor means. As a result, Yang Bin's parents had handed over tens of thousands of yuan in "gratuities" to this student.
It will be clear in two days, which is next Monday.
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A large storefront on the street is being renovated, possibly to rush the progress, and started work early in the morning. Several workers are using ropes to lift a very heavy and complex iron frame made of many angle irons and channel steels from the ground, and passersby retreated after seeing it.
There was originally a decoration worker guarding the street to remind passersby not to approach the door, but there were not enough people upstairs, and the worker unknowingly climbed up to help.
Yang Bin walked around the construction site and stopped at the side of the street, starting to pant, while habitually looking towards the huge billboard across the street...
Female singer Tang Ying's concert at Yunfeng Sports Center.
Yes, just tonight.
Tang Ying is the real beauty in Yang Bin's heart, a beautiful woman of the jade girl type, her face is too nice to look at, and Yang Bin can't help but look at it a hundred times.
When Yang Bin was with his ex-girlfriend Zhou Xiao Yi, he couldn't stare at Tang Ying's billboard on the street like this, it would make Zhou Xiao Yi very angry. But now no one is controlling him anymore.
Just as Yang Bin had satisfied his eyes and was about to take off running again, his phone suddenly rang...
Isn't it already broken? How can it still be ringing?
"Awesome! Your phone has become a brick? Isn't that great? I told you it's no big deal, right? Try hanging up QQ and see if it shows the Apple logo!" Fatso Xiao Wen called out, munching on something while talking on the phone. Yang Bin could almost imagine his chubby mouth moving non-stop as food scraps kept falling from his lips.
"You bastard! You told me it would only take five minutes, but I've been brushing all night! And you even set up a bunch of unknown programs to trick me!" Yang Bin scolded Xiao Pangzi angrily.
"Haha, what are you talking about? The brushing is slow... probably a problem with your knockoff phone's NAND flash memory, there must be some bad sectors. Anyway, as long as it can boot up normally, that's all that matters. I won't argue with you anymore, I'm in a hurry to get to work!" Xiao Pangzi hung up the phone after confirming that Yang Bin's phone was fine.
Yang Bin then took another careful look at his own phone.
Yes, it's indeed normal now, and there are many more applications inside, but somehow, it doesn't look like Apple's operating system.
Seems... more avant-garde and complex than Apple's operating system?
Yang Bin casually opened the camera function on his phone, or maybe it wasn't the camera function, anyway it was a camera icon... and picked up his phone to try it out at a distance. Soon Yang Bin felt that something was not quite right somewhere.
