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Chapter 429 — Reporting Matters · Oct 11, 2026

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403 Chapter 403 — Ginger’s Invitation 2026-10-11
404 Chapter 404 — The Nearly Completed Tiger Language Translator 2026-10-11
405 Chapter 405 — First Impressions of Mumbai 2026-10-11
406 Chapter 406 — Kingo 2026-10-11
407 Chapter 407 — The Eternals 2026-10-11
408 Chapter 408 — The Purpose of the Meeting? 2026-10-11
409 Chapter 409 — Insights from Brainwave Research 2026-10-11
410 Chapter 410 — Kingo’s Request 2026-10-11
411 Chapter 411 — Henry’s Requirement 2026-10-11
412 Chapter 412 — Indian Cuisine 2026-10-11
413 Chapter 413 — The Secret of the Eternals 2026-10-11
414 Chapter 414 — A Research Bottleneck 2026-10-11
415 Chapter 415 — Australia 2026-10-11
416 Chapter 416 — The Place of Seclusion 2026-10-11
417 Chapter 417 — Two Generals of the Eternals 2026-10-11
418 Chapter 418 — Diagnosis 2026-10-11
419 Chapter 419 — The Solution 2026-10-11
420 Chapter 420 — Sound-Absorbing Steel 2026-10-11
421 Chapter 421 — Vibranium Jewelry 2026-10-11
422 Chapter 422 — ’Rich and Naive, Easy Target!’ 2026-10-11
423 Chapter 423 — The Audition Invitation 2026-10-11
424 Chapter 424 — Progress on the Secret Research 2026-10-11
425 Chapter 425 — An Upgrade in Treatment 2026-10-11
426 Chapter 426 — An Unexpected Invitation 2026-10-11
427 Chapter 427 — The Mystikos Sect 2026-10-11
428 Chapter 428 — A Cannibal’s Patron 2026-10-11
429 Chapter 429 — Reporting Matters 2026-10-11
430 Chapter 430 — The Mysterious Banquet 2026-10-11
431 Chapter 431 — Gitano Dragoneiti 2026-10-11
432 Chapter 432 — The Real Game Begins 2026-10-11
433 Chapter 433 — Temptation 2026-10-11
434 Chapter 434 — The Impatient Fool 2026-10-11
435 Chapter 435 — Parting on Bad Terms 2026-10-11
436 Chapter 436 — Uneasy Days 2026-10-11
437 Chapter 437 — The Threat Emerges 2026-10-11
438 Chapter 438 — Happy Birthday 2026-10-11
439 Chapter 439 — A Problem Pressing Close 2026-10-11
440 Chapter 440 — Visiting Château du Jonchet 2026-10-11
441 Chapter 441 — Making the Request 2026-10-11
442 Chapter 442 — The Recommended Candidate 2026-10-11
443 Chapter 443 — A Private Morning Concert 2026-10-11
444 Chapter 444 — The Black-and-White Witch 2026-10-11
445 Chapter 445 — Terms of Alliance 2026-10-11
446 Chapter 446 — A Dangerous Alliance 2026-10-11
447 Chapter 447 — Givenchy’s Legacy 2026-10-11
448 Chapter 448 — Three Busy WomenNo 2026-10-11
449 Chapter 449 — Katie Earns Her Keep 2026-10-11
450 Chapter 450 — Fitting 2026-10-11

Chapter 429: Chapter 429 — Reporting Matters

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Even with all twenty rental editing suites running at full capacity, they used less than one-third of the theoretical computing power of the supercomputer ”Hollywood Kid.”

Of the remaining processing capacity, about half was allocated to the old film digital restoration team, while the rest went to the R&D department.

However, Stark Pictures’ R&D team still lacked the ability to fully utilize the remaining computing power. Their usage required submitting requests and scheduling time slots.

In reality, those requests were almost always approved. The scheduling system mainly served to notify others what tasks would be running and how long they might take.

But the ones who truly consumed the machine’s power were still Henry and Tony Stark.

And what they ran on it were mostly private projects.

Although Tony Stark spent most of his time in New York on the East Coast, he could still remotely control the supercomputer’s virtual machines over the network.

Back in July 1995, Tatu Ylönen of the Helsinki University of Technology in Finland released a new encrypted communication protocol:

Secure Shell Protocol (SSH).

This protocol replaced insecure systems like Telnet, FTP, and rsh, quickly becoming the preferred remote access method for server users.

Because SSH used a lightweight text-based interface, even dial-up connections allowed Tony Stark on the East Coast to smoothly operate the supercomputer located on the West Coast.

At that time, SSH was still open-source software, so the version used by Hollywood Kid had been jointly modified and improved by Henry and Tony Stark.

Originally, the two communicated through a separate email server.

Later, they switched to leaving messages on a hidden bulletin board inside a private Docker container.

In other words, as computing technology improved, both their security systems and firewalls were constantly being upgraded.

After all, whenever the two of them got bored, they would run stress tests or edge-case experiments on each other’s code, poke at one another’s systems, and then upgrade the defenses again.

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However, the message board was primarily used by Henry.

He used it to submit work reports and summarize West Coast intelligence.

Tony Stark rarely left messages or replies.

So Henry never knew whether that billionaire actually read any of it.

Normally, Henry submitted a weekly report.

Anything that wasn’t in the newspapers—or differed from what the media reported—would be included.

How to analyze or use that intelligence was Tony Stark’s responsibility.

Today wasn’t the usual reporting day.

Henry had come to the Hollywood Kid service center specifically to report the information he had just learned about vampires.

Although the invitation was addressed to him, the real target was clearly the owner of Stark Industries.

If this wasn’t reported early, things might spiral out of control later.

Because this wasn’t a scheduled report, Henry had no idea how long it would take for Tony Stark to read it.

Or whether these reports simply vanished into the void after being posted.

Honestly, that wasn’t Henry’s problem.

As an employee, doing the job well enough to justify his salary was sufficient.

Even if Stark Industries doubled its fortune, Henry wouldn’t get a share of it.

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Organizing the report took only a few microseconds.

The real delay came from typing it out.

After all, keyboards had physical speed limits.

If Henry had written it by hand, it wouldn’t have taken even a minute.

After sending the report, Henry followed his usual habit.

He quietly slipped into Tony Stark’s virtual machine to see what the genius billionaire had been working on lately.

No surprise there.

Artificial intelligence.

Tony Stark had begun studying AI years earlier.

His MIT graduation project—the robotic arm Dum-Dum—primarily demonstrated achievements in mechanical engineering, but it already contained early AI elements.

After earning:

a PhD in Engineering Physics at MIT,

and a PhD in Aeronautical Engineering at Caltech,

Tony Stark had recently returned to MIT to pursue a third doctorate—Artificial Intelligence.

However, Stark’s current AI research differed greatly from the data-driven machine learning models that would become popular in the future.

His system relied instead on:

large numbers of automated procedures,

image tracking,

and fuzzy logic decision-making.

In simple terms, this type of AI couldn’t truly learn.

It simply kept adding more and more exception cases into its decision tree, creating the illusion of an all-purpose intelligence.

That was why the robotic arm Dum-Dum often behaved strangely.

Those odd actions were usually the result of misjudged environmental conditions.

Stark’s current AI work on the Hollywood Kid supercomputer focused primarily on interactive responses—in other words, conversation.

His research questions included:

How to recognize voice input

Convert speech into text

Extract actionable commands from the text

Execute those commands

Provide appropriate responses if execution failed

Another challenge was determining which voices should trigger responses and which should not.

Different speakers might require different logic paths.

All of these were part of Stark’s research.

Perhaps this was the prototype of his future AI butler:

JARVIS.

The only problem?

He was running these AI experiments on a supercomputer designed mainly for graphics processing.

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Henry started writing a program that could allow the GPU to share computational workloads with the CPU, improving overall performance.

He planned to install it in his own virtual machine.

Whether Tony Stark noticed the hint or not wasn’t Henry’s concern.

At that moment, a notification sound interrupted his thoughts.

The secret message board had a reply.

Henry immediately dropped the half-finished program and jumped into the message board server.

Sure enough—

There was a new message.

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Philanthropic Billionaire:

So vampires contacted you, but the real target is me.

You’re sure about that?

West Coast Wage Slave:

Intel from the Continental. Reliability is high.

Young Playboy Spreading Love Everywhere:

But from what you described, they targeted you first and are trying to drag me in.

Can’t you just block this on your side?

West Coast Wage Slave:

They’re vampires.

If they don’t achieve their real objective, do you think they’ll give up—or create more trouble?

Either way this will reach you sooner or later. I’m just informing you in advance so you don’t complain later.

Young Playboy:

Fuck! You changed my ID again!

Stop doing childish things!

West Coast Idiot:

Oh, you can see that?

I thought I only changed how the name displays on my end. Sorry.

Playboy With Insufficient ”Essence” Left to Spread Love:

How did you even get in here? I encrypted my user data!

Playboy:

Fuck! You changed it again!

West Coast Donkey:

Your encryption is garbage.

Did you forget this host is a supercomputer?

Brute-force cracking doesn’t take long.

Furious Professor Tony:

You’re stealing computing resources again!

Fine, whatever.

But do you actually believe vampires exist?

West Coast Pig:

If refusing to believe would make them disappear, I’d happily deny it.

Unfortunately reality doesn’t bend to my beliefs, so debating that question is pointless.

Great Professor Tony:

I originally thought those creatures were just mutants with certain abilities.

But mutant powers rarely repeat themselves.

If what you’re saying is true, then groups of vampires and werewolves wouldn’t be surprising.

So tell me—

Do you believe in magic?

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