Break out of the courtyard

Zhang Hu rode his motorcycle around the stadium twice, then hovered beside his father, Zhang Heping, watching the experts who were leaving their seats.

"Advisor Zhang, what you're doing isn't appropriate!" The person in charge of the Sanxingdui underground base ran down from the audience seats first and came to Zhang Heping.

His perceived impropriety stemmed from the levitation device on the alien spaceship at the Sanxingdui underground base, and the confidentiality agreement signed by Zhang Heping.

"What's wrong with that?" Zhang Heping smiled calmly. "I didn't use any of your related technologies!"

The head of the Sanxingdui underground base paused, looking suspiciously at the racing motorcycle; their levitation device was very large and required a small sun powered by a controlled nuclear fusion device.

The motorcycle in front of us is the kind of racing motorcycle commonly seen in motorcycle championships; it doesn't look particularly special at all.

"Advisor Zhang, did you levitate this motorcycle using your mental powers?" Some people from the Sanxingdui underground base didn't believe it.

"Dean, where is the levitation device on this vehicle? What is the levitation principle? Is it powered by fuel?" The people at the Shenzhen Peace Academy's underground base were full of curiosity. "Could we take it apart and take a look?"

"If this car can hover and fly, what's the point of having two wheels?"

Zhang Heping and the others discussed it animatedly for a while before picking up the microphone to remind everyone that the meeting was still in progress.

Seeing that Zhang Heping did not answer their questions, the experts had no choice but to suppress their curiosity and return to their seats.

The arena was empty again, and Zhang Heping waved for his sixth son to get out of the car and return to the passage.

"The motorcycle was borrowed; it was just hastily assembled with a makeshift anti-gravity levitation device added," Zhang Heping said slowly, holding the microphone.

"The military will definitely be interested in this device, so the next research and development direction will first consider military applications, and then commercial applications. Teams interested in researching this anti-gravity levitation device can submit their applications to Vice President Qian's email address after the meeting."

The experts and professors who originally had many questions to ask all turned to look at Professor Qian sitting in the first row below, and immediately understood that Professor Qian and the others must have known about this beforehand!

"The next research project will only involve two models of controlled nuclear fusion power devices!"

After Zhang Heping finished speaking, the two brothers, Zhang Long and Zhang Hu, each pushed a small cart loaded with heavy objects out of the passage.

Unlike the levitation device, Zhang Heping briefly introduced the application scenarios of these two power devices before telling everyone that if they were interested, they could send an email to Professor Qian.

"Some veteran experts may be wondering why so many young people are attending the two confidential meetings before and after the New Year?" Zhang Heping said slowly as he waited for his twin sons to return to the passage to fetch props. He then introduced Zhang Yi's brain-computer interface research team.

……

After Zhang Heping announced his research projects on antigravity, controlled nuclear fusion, brain-computer interfaces, and gravity, the previous discussions about the World Advanced Technology Research Institute were resolved that very evening.

When the students of Shenzhen Peace College returned to school to register for their studies, they were all surprised to find that the name on the long stone slab at the school gate had been changed to "World Advanced Technology Research Institute".

This change, a departure from the Peace Group's usual high-profile style, was surprisingly not reported by the media!

Even when foreign media reports on it, they mostly mock the arrogance of mainlanders and present distortions and smears.

Unbeknownst to many, the World Advanced Technology Research Institute, reorganized under the leadership of Zhang Heping, not only includes all laboratories under the Heping Group, but also encompasses all research institutions in China, aiming to fully collaborate on research and development.

Zhang Heping, as the first president of the World Advanced Technology Research Institute, spent nearly a month reviewing the relevant research projects of the institutes and research centers under his jurisdiction and gave some guidance. However, he returned to Hong Kong Island, which puzzled Hua Lao, Li Lao, and others.
It's worth noting that the Sanxingdui underground base has been renamed the 030 Research Institute and placed under the jurisdiction of the World Advanced Technology Research Institute. I don't understand why Zhang Heping would waste his time going to Hong Kong Island.

It wasn't until the Peace Group underwent a major restructuring of its subsidiaries that the outside world discovered that the Peace Group, which had been established for less than 20 years, had already developed the "bloated" problem that all multinational corporations were experiencing.

As the Peace Group underwent restructuring, it was quickly discovered that their restructuring measures were quite simple.

Clearly define two career advancement paths: management and professional.

The headquarters and provincial companies retain four levels: general manager, department manager, section chief, and staff.

The subsidiaries under its jurisdiction retain three levels: general manager, department manager or section chief, and staff.

The group's finance department first organizes its subsidiaries to conduct self-inspections and corrections in the first half of the year, while the internal control department and risk control department conduct covert reviews; in the second half of the year, the finance department, internal control department, and risk control department will be stationed in medium- and high-risk companies to conduct on-site audits and reviews.

Peace Group's internal control and risk control departments are quite well-known in the industry!
If Barings Bank, which was driven to bankruptcy by a futures manager in February, had the same internal control and risk management systems as Peace Group and HSBC, it wouldn't have been driven to bankruptcy by a branch manager.

It's worth noting that Barings Bank is one of the oldest commercial banks in the United Kingdom, established 103 years earlier than HSBC!
In business matters, Zhang Heping usually just points out the direction, and then he doesn't need to worry about it; he can leave everything to his concubine, Chen Shuting.

The main reason he stayed on Hong Kong Island was because a wave of spring flu had broken out there, which was highly contagious, especially to infants and young children. Zhang Heping was worried that this was retaliation from the Japanese.

In response, Zhang Heping did not allow his eighth son, Zhang Hao, to return to Hong Kong Island for his studies, but instead kept him in Shenzhen.

While Zhang Heping was researching this wave of influenza virus at the Heping Big Health Medical Research Institute, some theological talents from Europe and America actually came to him and even tried to recruit him as a believer, which was really speechless.

By the time he confirmed that this wave of influenza virus was not very harmful and would not have any long-term effects, it had already quietly entered April. Many research projects in China had entered the application and experimental stage, and many new research project applications had been submitted.

In addition, the senior high school students are not far from the college entrance examination. The World Institute of Advanced Technology is involved in the first undergraduate admissions after the name change. Zhang Heping needs to go back and discuss and study the relevant majors and courses, because these majors will affect the subsequent master's and doctoral training.

Seeing that Omega was not bringing any technology in exchange for a learning opportunity in brain-computer interface technology, Zhang Heping simply replaced the library of the Hong Kong Island Peace College with a learning-type regenerative brain server.

The virtual learning dream corresponding to this regenerative brain server has no warehouses, factories, or laboratories; it only has a dream library and a bunch of books on ideology, politics, economics, literature, and computers, and it does not have accelerated perception.

The question is that this is only for trial use and needs further improvement.

The replaced regenerative brain server was returned by Zhang Heping to the library computer room within the World Advanced Technology Research Institute.

As for the Korean War game in the Virtual Dream Classroom, it will remain there for game enthusiasts to experience repeatedly.

As Zhang Heping returned to Shenzhen and devoted himself to guiding research projects in the underground base laboratory, the foreigners once again lost contact with him.

The list of winners of the 7th World Internet Peace Prize at the World Internet Forum seems to be a testament to Zhang Heping's continued existence, changing from time to time.

……

World Advanced Technology Research Institute, Underground Base Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Laboratory.

In a corner of the laboratory, there was an empty square fighting area.

At that moment, two 1.5-meter-tall robots were fighting fiercely in the combat zone, sparks flying everywhere.

The crowd that had gathered to watch the spectacle split into two factions.

One faction uses mental manipulation techniques, such as tying red ropes around robots. The robot in the arena that is tied with red ropes is their robot, and it is currently being controlled by Zhang Heping.

Another school of thought is the mind-control school, which uses blue ropes to bind robots. Old Six, Zhao Jianguo, is currently controlling the robot bound by the blue ropes. The mental manipulation school is further divided into three main categories.

The first method, which is Zhang Heping's current control method, involves using mental energy to remotely connect to the regenerated brain in the robot's head and then engaging in combat.

This method of control consumes a lot of mental energy. Zhang Bei, Zhang Long, and Zhang Hu could only maintain it for more than ten minutes and were unable to perform complex movements.

The second method uses a golden thread to connect and transmit mental energy, thereby reducing the mental exertion of the controller. Everything else is the same as the first method.

The third control method is somewhat like playing a game controller, and the robot's brain is replaced by a chip.

The specific operation involves installing a miniature controller, wireless device, and miniature battery inside the gold-rimmed glasses, and then controlling the miniature controller with mental power, similar to a control handle, except that it is not done with the hand.

The mind manipulation school of thought used by Zhao Jianguo is much simpler.

The operator wears a brainwave converter on their head, which converts brainwaves into digital signals and transmits them to the head chip of the Blue Rope Robot, which then moves according to the operator's thoughts.

Two operators stood motionless at opposite ends of the fighting area, while two robots, one red and one blue, fought fiercely in the arena.

Snapped!
A sound like an eggshell breaking rang out, and the Red Team robot's head was shattered once again, its regenerative brain reduced to a pulp.

Because Zhang Heping lost, although the onlookers laughed and joked, no one dared to cheer.

"The vibration was too great, and the regenerated brain experienced dizziness similar to a concussion!" Zhang Heping described his test experience, then untied the red rope from his left arm.

Zhang Hu frowned and said, "If you ask me, chip robots are still the easiest to control!"

Zhang Bei said from the side, "I'm having someone make jamming equipment. Once the jamming equipment is delivered, the Blue Team's chip robots won't be as effective."

"We've added an anti-interference protection module!" a young researcher wearing a blue rope said with a smile. "Professor Zhang, should we urge your interference equipment to improve?"

After Zhao Jianguo removed the external brainwave converter, he followed Zhang Heping out of the laboratory with a smile.

It wasn't until the two got into the back of the jeep and drove deep into the underground base that Zhao Jianguo, sitting on the right, asked, "Why didn't you let Xiao Bei, Xiao Long, and Xiao Hu participate in the development of military drone equipment?"

“There’s no need for them to design drones according to my requirements.” Zhang Heping leaned back in his chair, closed his eyes, and said, “Their designs actually have some merits.”

“Indeed!” Zhao Jianguo laughed. “With their chip robots, I can at least beat you, hehe!”

The two spoke quietly for a while, and then the car came to a steady stop in front of a laboratory with a large steel door tightly closed.

As Zhang Heping completed his identity verification, the door trembled slightly and opened to the left and right.

Immediately afterwards, a series of clanging, banging, and clattering sounds rang out.

Stepping through the gate and lifting the sound-absorbing blanket blocking the door, one sees a large laboratory filled with shirtless young men in black vests and trousers, punching and kicking, performing the same movements as the life-size robots assigned to them, thus improving their teamwork.

"Assemble!" Zhao Jianguo gave the order as soon as he entered.

After Zhao Jianguo refused to go to the Capital Smart City Management Center, he agreed to Zhang Heping's suggestion to come and train the wireless robot team during his off-get off work hours.

"stand at attention!"

"Right face... All aligned!"

"Look ahead!"

Zhang Heping gave Zhao Jianguo a look, then stepped aside, looking at the neatly lined-up young men on the left and the neatly lined-up black robots on the right.

"At ease!" Zhao Jianguo shouted as he approached the wireless robot control team. "Set your watches! 18:38:55 PM!"

"Task 1: Finish eating before 18:50 PM!"

"Task 2: I want to see you standing at the academy gate with your equipment before 19 PM!"

"Task 3, I'll assign it later!"

"Disband!"

The soldiers gave no reply and quietly dispersed.

Then, they quickly put on black short-sleeved T-shirts, replaced the batteries in the wireless robots that were the same height as each of them, and then folded the robots and put them into a large black bag.

Then they quickly grabbed four spare batteries and inserted them into the left and right sides of the bag.

Finally, they put on an exoskeleton support system, carried large black bags, grabbed military biscuits and water bottles, and quickly ran out of the laboratory.

After all the young men had left, Zhang Heping chuckled as he slung his equipment bag over his shoulder, took his military biscuits and water bottle, and waited until Zhao Jianguo had changed his clothes and put on his equipment before they went out together.

Seeing that no one was around, Zhao Jianguo complained to Zhang Heping, "Damn it! I've gained weight, and this outfit is making me feel suffocated!"

"You brought this on yourself!" Zhang Heping mocked mercilessly. "I told you to choose a size up, but you insisted on choosing a small one. You even said you could lose weight in two weeks, and it's been almost two months now."

"If all else fails, try some slimming tea. Don't push yourself!"

"Hehe!" Zhao Jianguo loosened his belt a little with a grin. "There haven't been many field training missions before. This month, I'll start taking them hiking, and next month we'll do some field training. I guarantee they'll lose weight!"

Zhang Heping said seriously, "If the training is too tiring, don't come over to train your mental strength at night!"

"We'll see when the time comes!" Zhao Jianguo said, tearing open a military biscuit and inviting Zhang Heping to eat it.

It took 21 minutes to get from the underground base to the college gate.

There definitely wouldn't be enough time to walk there.

So, Zhang Heping and Zhao Jianguo ate a couple of bites of biscuits to fill their stomachs, then put the biscuits in their bags, drank a sip of water, and started running just like the group of young men in front of them.

Zhang Heping did not use an exoskeleton support. Zhao Jianguo knew that his physical strength was no match for Zhang Heping's, so he never considered not using this kind of energy-saving exoskeleton support.

This is also why Zhao Jianguo, even in his forties, could still keep up with that group of young men in their twenties... (End of Chapter)