After finishing his call with Zhen'er, Xiang Kun noticed that Old Xia had already nodded off on his bed.
He helped Old Xia out of his coat, lifted his legs onto the bed, untied his hair, and covered him with a quilt. Then, Xiang Kun sat in front of his computer and began to review the recent changes in Alice's state.
Although he had made some estimations during his time in Burma and even earlier about Alice's growth, he knew that Alice's changes and growth had accelerated at an unprecedented rate after he had freed her on the internet. This much was evident from the speed and results of her recent tasks.
However, he was still quite surprised when he began to communicate with Alice and understood her exact changes.
In completing his tasks, Alice had "simply" taken control of tens of thousands of devices and established her unique "parasitic" distributed storage and computing system, which could subtly use the computing resources of the controlled hardware.
