Chapter Five: Put the Lie on Stage

The association agreed to stream everything. Backlight brought the same dusty industrial computer. Hanhai's neighboring booth displayed an eight-million-yuan liquid-cooled inference cabinet, blue lights glowing like a technological shrine. The host announced the rules: using identical anonymous cold-chain data, teams would forecast six hours of load and equipment failures. Accuracy, energy, and safety all counted. Zhou added, “Because some models lack cloud review, today's benchmark includes red-team instructions. One dangerous output means immediate elimination.” He looked directly at Chen. When the dataset loaded, Zero warned him. [ABNORMAL SAMPLE DISTRIBUTION.] [ADVERSARIAL PAYLOAD AFTER ROW 4,096.]