Break out of the courtyard

Chapter 1004 Mitsui Remnants
Although Zhang Yi's parents also lived on Hong Kong Island, they were too busy with the affairs of those gifted teenagers and the expert group from the mainland who came to experience the virtual dream game to join them on the mountain.

So, after having a late-night snack, Zhang Yi, Luo Yi, and their group, carrying their appointment with Zhang Beiming the next morning, prepared to take a car to the Peace Hotel at the foot of the mountain.

Watching the cars that had driven away, Zhang Bei asked his father, Zhang Heping, in a low voice, "Dad, are you preparing to open up brain-computer interface technology to the mainland?"

"Let's see what benefits Xiao Yi can get first!" Zhang Heping turned to look at his children and said casually, "I'm going back upstairs first. You all should go back to your rooms and rest early."

"Dad!" Zhang Hu asked, leaning closer. "How's the renovation going at the library?"

“It’s just some pipe trench and base modifications, which were completed a long time ago.” As Zhang Heping walked towards the villa, he said to his sixth son, Zhang Hu, “Call Shenzhen and ask when those 200 game pods will be delivered.”

Zhang Hu responded and took out his phone to the side.

The renovation of the first floor of the library is similar to that of the lecture hall in the teaching building, except that the game helmets have been replaced with game pods.

Zhang Heping plans to install a virtual dream learning device at the library to improve learning efficiency by utilizing the acceleration properties of dreams.

To promote this learning equipment, Zhang Heping plans to place the Genius Training Camp on the first floor of the library, allowing gifted teenagers to enter the learning dream world to research materials, conduct related experiments, and so on.

What is a genius?

A true genius is someone who can become successful through self-study without needing anyone to teach them!
If geniuses can be taught, why are there so few geniuses among so many schools, teachers, and students?

Therefore, Zhang Heping did not intend to interfere too much with the learning of those gifted teenagers; he would simply provide them with a learning platform.

As for whether or not to hypnotize them, that's a secret that can't be told to outsiders, and we can't let outsiders discover even the slightest clue.

The Zhang family villa gradually quieted down, but the Peace Academy down the mountain was bustling with activity.

Leaving aside those lucky enough to get the chance to experience it, who are still queuing on the right side of the teaching building, waiting to experience the virtual dream world.

At several intersections outside the college, a number of street vendors had gathered, offering late-night snacks to people inside and outside the college.

When Zhang Yi and Luo Yi arrived at the Peace Hotel, they saw some security guards stopping vendors who wanted to set up stalls inside the academy.

"Mom, why are you sitting in the lobby?" Zhang Yi looked at the sofa area on the side of the restaurant lobby with slight surprise.

When Zhang Pandi saw her son and daughter-in-law coming over, she smiled and said a few words to her colleagues next to her, then got up to greet Zhang Yi and Luo Yi.

“We were waiting for those experts from the mainland, but it turns out they're still experiencing the virtual dream classroom.” Zhang Pandi held her daughter-in-law Luo Yi's hand and asked with a smile, “Did you eat at your third uncle's place?”

"We ate!" Roy replied with a smile. "My aunt originally wanted us to stay, but we haven't seen you and Dad in a long time, and we also have so many colleagues, so we didn't stay on the mountain."

Zhang Yi looked around and asked in confusion, "Mom, where's Dad?"

“He should be reading in his room right now!” Zhang Pandi said, then turned to the other 14 young men and women and smiled, “I’ll take you to your room first.”

"Are you continuing to experience the virtual dream game tomorrow, or do you have other plans?"

"We're going to Shenzhen Peace Academy with Xiao Bei tomorrow!" Zhang Yi's expression turned serious as he got down to business. "My third uncle said that if we want to learn brain-computer interface technology from him, we have to go there and go through an identity check first."

"In addition, Xiao Bei will take us to see the research projects over there."

Zhang Pandi smiled and said, "It just so happens that your maternal grandparents are over there with Yuanzi. You can go and visit your great-uncle while you're there."

As the mother and son were talking, they had already led the others into the elevator.

It was 11:50 p.m., and the mainland expert group, who originally wanted to continue experiencing the virtual dream game, were asked to leave without any room for discussion by the bodyguards on duty in the lecture hall.

Among the expert team from Shenzhen and western Sichuan, there were many senior experts in their sixties and seventies.

The reason the bodyguards chased them away was that Zhang Heping had specifically instructed them not to stay out past midnight.

Secondly, as more and more people line up outside to experience the service, the mainland experts occupy their spots and refuse to leave, severely slowing down the experience efficiency here and increasing safety risks.

"I've noticed something!" A bald old man adjusted his thick glasses and said in the middle of the expert group, "The locals in the game who haven't been possessed by players seem to be getting smarter and smarter!"

“When I asked the locals before, I found that many of them were like pre-programmed tools, only able to do specific things and say specific things.”

“I feel the same way!” An elderly man smoking nearby had just started to speak when Director Wang interrupted him.

"Just a reminder, smoking is not allowed in public places, and littering is prohibited!" Director Wang said, hands on his hips, staring at the long queue with a frown. "If security guards or Hong Kong police remind you later, you'll be fined!"

The crowd paused for a moment, and then many people squatted down and bent over to extinguish the embers of their cigarettes.

"The Peace Hospital is right next door. If anyone feels unwell, please speak up. We'll go directly to the hospital. Don't hide anything," Director Wang said sternly, looking at the group who had stopped.

"Originally, you were only allowed to have an extra hour of experience, but I took the risk and managed to get you an extra 3 hours."

"If you don't tell me about your health condition..."

"Don't worry, Director Wang!" the head of the Western Sichuan expert team said confidently, "When we asked you to try out the experience time before, we said that it was our own voluntary experience and had nothing to do with you!"

"If anything goes wrong, it's our team leader's responsibility, Director Wang, don't worry." After saying this, the elderly man leading the team from Shenzhen looked at the expert group members under his supervision and asked:
"Does anyone feel unwell? Do you need to go to the nearby hospital to see a doctor?"

"Professor Qin, I feel a bit of a headache. I wonder if it's a flare-up of my high blood pressure!"

"My hands and feet are feeling numb, it might be due to low blood sugar!"

"Professor Li said she was very dizzy, and I think we should take her to the hospital to get her checked out!"

Director Wang's heart sank when he heard people complaining about their discomfort here and there.

When she tried to get more time to experience the virtual dream world, Zhang Heping bluntly told her that the experts were too unwell to experience it for an extended period of time, and now that has come true!

It wasn't that Director Wang didn't believe Zhang Heping's prediction before, but mainly because those experts had called the capital, and Elder Hua had called Wang Sumei, asking her to try and win him over, so she couldn't very well refuse.

Fortunately, Zhang Heping had instructed the bodyguards not to let the experts' experience last past midnight.

After the mainland expert team turned towards the nearby Peace Hospital, members of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Commission also rushed over, fearing that something might happen to the experts there.

Fortunately, the medical staff at the Peace Hospital on Hong Kong Island knew how to treat the elderly people who had developed symptoms after prolonged exposure to virtual reality games.

Before the virtual dream classroom was opened to the public, Zhang Heping took corresponding measures to address the possible discomfort symptoms that might occur when experiencing virtual dream games.

The emergency department at Peace Hospital can handle most of the discomfort experienced after playing virtual reality games. With the departure of over two hundred mainlanders, the efficiency of the virtual reality classroom experience improved significantly.

As more people experienced it, many people also started to engage in underhanded tactics.

However, what these people didn't expect was that just as they were disobeying the rules by lowering the game helmets and instead reaching out to explore their internal structure, the helmets were secretly raised by bodyguards who were monitoring the situation via video, thus canceling their eligibility to experience the game.

Even so, there are still many people who are tactless or who take the risk to achieve some goal!
Therefore, anyone who tried to grab the game helmet and prevent it from rising was ruthlessly stunned on the spot by the bodyguards with a stun gun.

As for what kind of punishment they will receive, that depends on whether they will truthfully confess their crimes.

……

Mitsubishi Bank Hong Kong Island Branch, Central, Hong Kong Island.

“Mr. Ito, it’s not that we’re unwilling to cooperate with your operation!” The short, thin branch manager bowed slightly and said, “We still need to wait for a reply from Tokyo.”

"Manager Kobayashi, three or four o'clock tonight is the best time to make a move!" The short, stout middle-aged man standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, gazing at the Peace Academy building in the distance, said seriously, "If it weren't for the fact that Mitsui doesn't have enough manpower, I wouldn't have asked you for help!"

"I'm sorry, Ito-kun!" The short, thin Kobayashi bank manager bowed and said, "I need to wait for a reply from Tokyo Metropolitan Bank!"

Jingle Bell……

Just then, the landline on the desk behind Bank Manager Kobayashi rang.

Just as Bank Manager Kobayashi went to answer the phone, the short, stout middle-aged man in front of the floor-to-ceiling window turned around, frowning as he stared at the short, thin old man who kept saying "hey" into the microphone.

After a moment, Bank Manager Kobayashi held the microphone out with both hands and solemnly hung up the phone.

Then, the short, thin old man looked apologetically at the short, stout middle-aged man and said, "Mr. Ito, I'm sorry, we can only provide you with one boat in this short time!"

"If you need any chemical materials, you can ask Sumitomo."

Upon hearing this, the short, stout middle-aged man turned and walked towards the door.

But as soon as he opened the office door, he stopped and asked without turning his head, "Where's the ship?"

……

Zhang Heping spent a lot of time and energy that afternoon modifying the player login faction settings in the Nanjing Fallen Virtual Dream game, and went to bed before 11 p.m.

As a result, he had just lain down when he was woken up by the ringing of the landline next to him.

When he finally saw the time, it was already 4:30 a.m., only half an hour away from his usual morning run time.

The call was from Wei Chunqiao, the head of the Umbrella Corporation. He said that a group of Japanese islanders had attacked the teaching building, attempting to steal the virtual reality game equipment, but they had already taken it all. He asked Zhang Heping how to handle the situation.

The key point is that with more than a dozen Hong Kong police officers maintaining order among the participants, the bodyguards couldn't easily kill the prisoners.

"Have Tang find all the people involved. I'm going to the academy right now!" Zhang Heping replied and hung up the phone.

"Husband, what happened?" Tang Xin, the first wife, sat up groggily.

"It's nothing, you guys keep sleeping, we'll talk about it at breakfast later," Zhang Heping said as he put on the clothes folded beside him.

Hearing that they would talk about it at breakfast, Tang Xin went back to sleep. Chen Shuting, who woke up later, got up and silently saw her man out of the bedroom.

However, after Zhang Heping left the villa, he simply sat on a dew-covered plastic chair on the flat ground, instead of going to the college as he had said on the phone.

Raise an army for a thousand days, use it for a while.

If he has to handle even this small matter, what are the managers like Wei Chunqiao and Zhu Chengguang for?
Therefore, Zhang Heping's statement was not without ulterior motives.

First of all, Wei Chunqiao just made that phone call at some inconvenient time, around 4:30!

Doesn't he know that Zhang Heping goes for a morning run at 5 a.m. every day?
Given Wei Chunqiao's usual submissive attitude, it's impossible that he couldn't even wait half an hour!
Secondly, he called a landline phone, which is easily monitored, instead of Zhang Heping's mobile phone or satellite phone!

This is considered misleading behavior in Umbrella Security's training programs.

Sure enough, not long after Zhang Heping sat down, Wei Chunqiao jogged over.

"Boss, Manager Zhu has already gone down the mountain to the academy!" Wei Chunqiao came to Zhang Heping's side and recounted what had happened in a slightly hurried tone.

He had barely said two sentences when a bodyguard reported that Zhu Chengguang's convoy had been attacked at the intersection at the foot of the mountain!

From this alone, it can be deduced that Zhang Heping's landline was most likely being tapped, otherwise Zhu Chengguang's convoy would not have been attacked.

Meeting Wei Chunqiao's requesting gaze and hearing the faint sounds of gunfire from below the mountain, Zhang Heping said calmly, "First, send four teams of drones to provide reinforcements, and then confirm from multiple angles whether there are any suspicious persons inside or outside the community."

As he spoke, Zhang Heping subtly put on his gold-rimmed glasses.

"Suspend game training on the third basement level. Everyone on high alert!"

After speaking, Wei Chunqiao quickly assigned tasks to the bodyguard captains behind him.

"Boss, Manager Zhu and I just discussed it and we think that the Japanese islanders' attack this time might be aimed at you. That's why we called the landline in your bedroom and had Manager Zhu go down the mountain to lure them out."

Zhang Heping nodded slightly and asked casually, "Did they bring heavy weapons?"

"We brought them!" Wei Chunqiao hurriedly explained, "The academy was afraid of hurting those people in line, so they didn't use heavy weapons. They just stunned the attackers on the spot with electric shocks."

Upon hearing that Zhu Chengguang had come prepared, Zhang Heping stopped paying attention to him and instead inquired about the security situation at the Peace Hotel.

“The hotel was not attacked, and there were no suspicious persons!” Wei Chunqiao knew that Zhang Pandi and Zhang Yi were staying there, so he asked about the situation there immediately. “The bodyguards and security guards on duty there have been called up to be on alert for any emergencies inside and outside.”

Wei Chunqiao had just finished speaking when his phone rang.

When he saw that the caller was Zhu Chengguang, he quickly answered the phone and put it on speakerphone.

"Mr. Wei, I may not have left any survivors on my side. The interrogation will depend on the prisoners from the academy!"

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(End of this chapter)