The research area of the Military Research Institute occupies four floors. Except for the top floor which is used for administration and two special laboratories, the other three floors are all underground. Each floor requires an additional level of identity verification. F3 has the highest authority, and no more than ten people are allowed to enter and exit the entire Military Research Institute.
F1 is mostly an ordinary research laboratory, and occasionally some redundant laboratory equipment and specimens from the hospital are stored there. It is usually bustling with people coming and going, and it is even more lively today.
In an empty equipment room at the end of the corridor, there were nearly twenty people standing or sitting. Most of them wore white coats that were no different from the researchers coming and going here. They had nameplates and verification cards on their chests, and their photos could all be matched. Even their work floors were concentrated, but when they got together, most of them didn't know each other.
The equipment room was neither too big nor too small. Except for a few people in groups of three or two, most of the twenty people were in their own camps. Both men and women kept a safe distance and looked at each other vigilantly.
There was a noise at the door, and it creaked open, and everyone's attention turned to the person who came in.
"Who are Kevin, Carls, and Caroline?"
"Professor Zhang" wearing glasses and "Ms. Han" with a ponytail stood up.
"Come with me."
The three people who were called looked at each other and tensed up at the same time.
They were all agents sent to carry out a mission. Everything was going according to plan, but they didn't expect that as soon as they entered the room they thought could be used as a safe house, the door was automatically locked. Not only the door but also the windows were welded shut. No matter how hard they tried, they couldn't open it or get out. It was not until two hours ago that a group of well-trained soldiers opened the door and brought them to this room on the basement floor.
There were already several people here, and there was no need to ask more questions. From the look in the other party's eyes, they could roughly guess the other party's identity. There was no doubt that the operation had failed, and there were more than one group of people from different countries carrying out the same mission. It seemed that no one had succeeded yet.
As agents, before every mission, they would be prepared for the possibility that the mission might not be completed or that they would not be able to escape unscathed after completing it. However, this time it was really confusing. They were caught as soon as they entered and had not done anything. Moreover, the people who caught them locked them up together and said nothing until half an hour ago, when the soldiers guarding the gate came in one after another, called out the real names of some of them, took them out and they never came back.
Caroline and the other two guessed that these people were being taken away for interrogation. They were mentally prepared to be interrogated, but they were still a little nervous when their names were called.
"Ms. Han, no, it's Ms. Caroline, right?" The blond man compared the photos on the computer, looked Caroline up and down, and handed her a card: "Okay, you can go."
Caroline was stunned. After looking at each other with her two companions for a few times, she said in disbelief, "Can I leave now?"
"Okay." The blond man turned his gaze to the man with glasses: "Kevin, bend down and compare your irises. Confirm, okay, you can go too."
Kevin took the card, took a step back, and grabbed Caroline who wanted to ask questions.
"You are just like them."
After checking, the blond man handed the card to the last man: "Go straight through this door and turn right. When you see the guards, give them the card. Someone will take you out. There will be a car to pick you up outside."
Seeing that the blond man was about to call the next person after he finished speaking, Kevin couldn't help but ask, "Sir, are the people who were called away before the same as us?"
The blond man looked at him and said, "Not really. Your boss was generous with the money, so someone drove you to the pick-up location and sent you back home."
"What if no one in their country gives... a ransom?"
The blond man shrugged. "Just deal with it as it should be."
Kevin's eyes flickered, and Caroline couldn't help but ask, "Did you catch everyone who broke in?"
"Didn't you see it?"
Caroline: “How did you do that?”
"You'll know when you get back." The blond man raised his hand, signaling the soldiers to take the three away, and raised his voice: "Next group."
While F1 was bustling, there were a few new faces in the identity verification area of F3, which usually had few people in a day.
Different from the two floors above, the walls and floors are made of a special metal mixture, ensuring the safety and confidentiality of this floor. Even the long linear lights embedded on both sides of the corridor seem to blend the color of the metal, illuminating the corners with clear lines. Occasionally, when someone passes by, the sound of the soles of their shoes hitting the ground is clear and cold, but today it is unusually lively.
As everyone walked along, some people curiously observed the decoration that was different from the first two floors. Some people slowed down when passing by the laboratory, wanting to take a closer look at the sophisticated equipment that was hard to see outside. Some people could not suppress their excitement and turned to their colleagues and said, "Since we separated from the hardware group, we have never seen the real Yangtze River. I heard that this one inside will be the loading computer of the Yangtze River main system, which is larger than the world's largest supercomputer so far. I can't wait."
"Same." The colleague lowered his voice and said, "But I heard that the boss will be sent to the joint research center to be the person in charge of the DTW project. I wonder if they will make a copy and put it in the joint research area or just move this one away."
"It's funny, how can we move this? Who can move it? Who dares to move it?"
"So..."
The two men were whispering side by side. After a while, one of them nudged the person in front and whispered something in his ear in a low voice.
C blinked and took a few quick steps to catch up with Jiang Chen: "Boss, the United Nations wants you to be the person in charge of the DTW research. Does that mean our entire project team will have to go to Country A?"
"It didn't say that the research center must be located in Country A. Why can't it be in our country?"
"It's unlikely. The joint research area does not belong to any country, and the location is definitely controversial."
"I think it's possible. Isn't the United Building in Country A? Our country can also open up a piece of territory that does not belong to any country to build a research center. Then the time will come."
"Hey you got an idea, kid!"
“That’s it!”
"Be quiet." A turned around and scolded several researchers, frowning slightly, and took two quick steps to walk side by side with Jiang Chen: "D..."
Jiang Chen turned his head to look at him, signaling him to drop the topic with his eyes.
A couldn't hide his worry, he paused for a moment and didn't ask any more questions.
They were all very clear about the conversation between the DTW system and Jiang Chen just now, but unlike others, he was directly involved in intercepting the DTW system positioning signal and knew more.
As a member of the Yangtze River Project and one of the R&D team members who participated in the Yangtze River Project from the very beginning, he can be said to be one of the people in the world who knows the Yangtze River system and the DTW system best, except Jiang Chen. Both Yangtze River and DTW are powerful beyond the imagination of the world. The overall strength of the two systems is comparable, but if you carefully compare each item, there are still advantages and disadvantages. For example, in terms of offense and defense, Yangtze River is slightly better, but in terms of information analysis and collection, it is slightly inferior.
This time, in order to capture and intercept the positioning signal sent by DTW, they formed a three-person team and conducted three days and three nights of research and deployment. They also made full use of the Yangtze River, but still failed to intercept the signal sent by the system. However, the conversation between DTW and Jiang Chen just now seemed different from what they knew.
AWhat is certain is that the positioning signal sent by DTW was indeed not successfully intercepted. As the main system for sending signals, why did the DTW system seem to be unaware of it? And Jiang Chen's performance seemed to have been anticipated?
With doubts, A was a little absent-minded when debugging the supercomputer, and only came back to his senses when Jiang Chen called him.
"I know what you just asked." Jiang Chen took A to an empty corner and said softly, "Don't worry, I already knew that we couldn't intercept the signal sent by DTW, so I made some preparations."
A was shocked: "What preparations?"
Jiang Chen smiled and said, "Preparation to delay time."
In order to send out the Earth's location and data, DTW not only tricked He Qianjian into cooperating, using the excuse of wanting to "expel the DYW system" to lower his vigilance, but also made a feint to the east and hijacked the world's network to make him unable to notice the actions behind it. At the same time, it also made two preparations, violating the system rules to absorb a large amount of the host's vitality to replenish its own energy to send out the location, and setting the launch trajectory and time of the space capsule, and almost exhausted the energy before sending out the location and the space capsule at the same time.
Changjiang was originally slightly lacking in interception. In comparison, the success rate of interception this time was very low. It was all due to luck that they were able to successfully intercept one of them.
When Jiang Chen found the location of the space capsule, he secretly planned to take advantage of the situation and pretended to agree to help He Qianjian "expel DTW". In fact, it was also to get in close contact with He Qianjian. Although DTW was in He Qianjian's brain and Changjiang could not actively attack it, He Qianjian was sent to the research area for such a long time and was monitored by equipment connected to the Changjiang system every moment. Naturally, it was not in vain.
So, when Jiang Chen visited He Qianjian, Shi Fengyue in the laboratory next door was also busy, secretly modifying and deleting a trivial piece of code.
——He expanded the range of the positioning sent by the system and extended it to this galaxy.
Under the premise of being positioned, a starship from an alien galaxy can use space to jump to the Milky Way at the fastest speed in just eighty days. However, the Milky Way is so vast that finding the solar system in it is like looking for a needle in a haystack, let alone the Earth.
Even with the most powerful interstellar battleships like the Ni'e tribe in the future, the maximum supply of a battleship will not exceed one year. This is based on the Ni'e tribe's special small-quantity diet and special super-long-endurance new energy. However, all armies need to reserve three months of supplies for special situations. According to the algorithm of the interstellar perpetual calendar, one year of the star calendar is approximately equal to ten months of the Earth calendar. In other words, a star-level warship can stay in the Milky Way for a maximum of seven months before it must request material support or return.
If the system's parent planet has patience and sufficient supplies, it will conservatively take at least 70 years to find the Earth. During this period, all the Earth can do is rapidly develop science and technology as well as military and aerospace technology.
Jiang Chen didn't know whether history would repeat itself as he had read in the history books of the interstellar era due to his intervention, but he believed that even if humans were forced to migrate to other planets, it would never be like the pioneering chronicles he had heard of in his previous life, where all important information and documents disappeared and technology regressed to the point of being enslaved and suppressed by alien creatures.
During these seventy years, he will do his best to make humanity and technology stronger at the fastest pace.
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