She had a dark mask on her face, which puzzled Yin Ta who opened the door.
"Hello, are you He Mo?"
"Yin Ta, it's me."
Yin Ta's voice sounded a little frightened: "He Mo, what happened to your face?"
"I put on a facial mask."
"A very strange device."
Ye Ming listened to the conversation and laughed happily.
For so long, he had never seen He Mo using any skin care products. Even when she was a guest host at the Fusion Center, she simply put on lipstick and was done.
It seems that someone said yesterday that she is a 25-year-old girl, which really stimulated this girl who is about to cross the 25-year-old threshold.
Because she was wearing a facial mask, He Mo's voice was a little different from usual. She glanced at the time, thought about it, then pulled off the mask and threw it into the trash can: "It's too uncomfortable."
Ye Ming laughed.
"...Have you seen the news about five trillion yuan?" He Mo walked into the sink in the next room and asked while washing his face.
"I saw it."
"Any ideas?"
Ye Ming turned his chair and looked at the door of the cubicle, curiously asking: "Are you representing an organization or an individual?"
"Don't you always think of me as a spy planted next to you or something like that?" He Mo casually pulled out a piece of tissue paper and wiped his face, then walked out of the room with a look of displeasure on his face: "I'm just a handyman, by the way.
The current loudspeaker has no secret mission, nor is it here to monitor you."
Ye Ming smiled again: "So frank?"
"Nonsense! I was still counting on you to graduate." At this point, He Mo became resentful: "Old Niu is going too far, let me be your student."
"Isn't it good to be my student?"
"Um... I always feel a little weird." Looking at Ye Ming's young face, He Mo shook his head, pulled a chair and sat aside: "The US's five trillion plan must be aimed at us."
Ye Ming nodded: "This is inevitable. Lao Niu called me just now."
"..."
"Anyway, let's see, five trillion..." A smile appeared on Ye Ming's lips, and then he sighed: "There are still strategists in the West."
In fact, if you just watch the news, you won’t say anything useful.
It only said that a huge amount of five trillion US dollars would be invested there to comprehensively support the five major fields of new energy, new aerospace power, new computer architecture, artificial intelligence and semiconductors.
Specifically, where does the money come from, how to invest, how many installments to invest in, and who pays the final bill...
Everything is still unknown.
Actually... none of these are important.
What's important is that China's first breakthroughs in artificial intelligence and controllable nuclear fusion in the past two years have clearly made the West feel a sense of urgency.
No, it's not even a sense of urgency.
But a sense of impending death!
Whether it's to win over allies or to tighten our belts.
Or maybe he went crazy before death and turned on the money printing press to make smoke...
If they don't take action, they will die.
The kind that is visible to the naked eye.
These few years, or the next five years, will be the decisive time.
"That?" He Mo blinked.
"It's nothing, let's not panic." Ye Ming said as he glanced at the capped data center outside the window and the tall scaffolding of the new campus across the street.
"Anyway, time is with us."
*
*
Two days later, plateau, west side of Lewan Valley.
Manu from Bangalore is controlling a drone to roam over the river valley.
Because it is located on a plateau, it is very difficult for the drone to fly. It requires large-pitch propellers, and it also consumes a lot of power.
Fortunately, the camp here is important, and the higher-ups also spent a lot of money to acquire a batch of "domestic" drones.
But as an engineering college student, Manu knew at a glance that this so-called domestic... was actually modified from DJI Mavic 2 Magic.
I have been using DJI before, but I don’t know what the reason behind it was, and they said it was no longer allowed to be used.
This is so...
However, I have to say that this drone, which can take off at a height of 6,000 meters, is still very reliable, but the battery is a bit weak.
The drone flies over the river valley.
Through the monitoring screen, Manu overlooked the river valley, which gave him a grand feeling of seeing all the small mountains at a glance.
The boss's voice came from behind: "Manu, stop it."
"As commanded."
Manu was still unfinished and was preparing to return with one click when he suddenly saw several cars driving into his sight on the surveillance screen.
He was startled for a moment, then controlled the drone to hover, and then zoomed in on the camera.
"Captain, look, they have a car coming!"
The captain had already turned around and left, but upon hearing this, he immediately stepped over to Manu's side.
On the surveillance screen, several heavily armed soldiers got out of the car first, followed by photographers carrying cameras and a few civilian-looking young people stepping out of their positions.
Manu and the captain looked at each other, their eyes full of confusion.
Patrols are carried out every day, but they are only patrols. How could there be so many tricks?
"This is probably some kind of movie." Manu guessed.
"Hmm." The captain's face sank: "How much power do you still have?"
"The battery is still enough."
"Then take a look."
While the two were talking, several other soldiers also approached.
Being on the plateau, there was very little fun to be had, but there was something strange to see, and it quickly attracted a group of people to watch.
"And women?"
"They found the drone."
"So what if you find out? Do you dare to shoot or what? Throw stones?"
There was a burst of laughter from the crowd.
But then, everyone was stunned.
"what is that?!"
"robot?"
"impossible!"
"Why is it impossible? It's a robot!"
"Pull in!"
As the lens is stretched to its limit, the picture becomes uncontrollably shaken.
But this time, everyone saw it clearly.
From a car, five mechanical bodies painted in black and white got out.
After getting off the bus, these robots stood in a row consciously. One of them took a flag, walked to the river valley, and began its daily patrol.
Everyone looked at each other.
"This is? Mechanical warrior?"
"Can it also be used on the plateau?"
"Look more!"
"Wait a minute, the mechanical warrior is looking at our plane."
"Come closer!"
As the drone approached again, the picture gradually became clearer. But then, a cold, emotionless female voice sounded at close range amidst the whistling wind.
"Hello, this is Aita. You have entered our airspace. You are required to make a return gesture and leave within thirty seconds, otherwise you will be captured."
"The countdown begins, 30."
"29."
"28."
A bilingual warning sounds off-screen.
Manu was in a hurry, raising the drone and controlling the camera at the same time.
In the picture, a dark drone seemed to be hovering in front of it like the god of death.
From its loudspeaker, a life-like countdown warning was coming.
"Countdown for 10 seconds, prepare to capture."
"Run!" The captain was excited and immediately pressed a button to return.
…
On the east side of the river valley, everyone laughed as they watched the graceful DJI on the opposite side flee in panic in the drone surveillance footage.
Qi and Mo took a breath of oxygen, their faces full of pride.