Break out of the courtyard

That night, in the master bedroom on the 5th floor of the Zhang family villa.

Zhang Heping had just appeased his first wife Tang Xin and stopped her from going to Hong Kong Island with him, but his second wife Chen Shuting came up with a new idea.

"Hubby, as the legal representative of the Peace Group, I will just host the first Peace Prize ceremony. You don't have to go."

Zhang Heping, who had just finished a threesome, was in sage mode at this time and responded calmly: "I returned to Hong Kong Island not only to show it to foreigners, but also to show it to certain people in the mainland, so that they would not think that I want to stay in the mainland for a long time and always want to control us."

Hearing this, Chen Shuting's mind flashed through the two things Huang Wenli had mentioned before: the Southern Power Grid was restricted, and the contract with the Nuclear Engineering Group had not yet been negotiated.

Judging from these two aspects, the progress of Heping Investment Shenzhen Branch is not as good as expected.

Fortunately, Zhang Heping had foresight and did not invest all the 700 billion yuan. Instead, he asked Huang Wenli to allocate funds gradually according to the progress of the project.

Thinking of Huang Wenli, Chen Shuting couldn't help gossiping: "Hubby, I heard from Wenli that she broke up with her previous boyfriend."

Zhang Heping just hummed casually and did not gossip about Huang Wenli's ex-boyfriend cheating.

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The next day was the 4th, Monday.

Although Zhang Heping did not instruct the media in Hong Kong and Macao, these TV stations, newspapers, and magazines controlled by the Heping Group still stood in unison against the Magnesium Country, bombarding the crimes of the Magnesium Navy with words!
On an international flight, 16 crew members and 297 passengers died!
Not only did the Hong Kong and Macao media launch a public opinion offensive, the media in other countries were also in an uproar, and were all demanding that Magnesium give a reasonable explanation.

However, although the news of the plane crash made headlines, to ordinary people who were not affected by the incident, it was far less real than the news of the stock market soaring as soon as it opened.

Due to the news that Hong Kong Island Telecom was preparing to invest 20 billion U.S. dollars in Peace Aerospace Company and the news that its revenue in the first half of the year exceeded 300 billion U.S. dollars, it triggered the first 1% circuit breaker suspension within less than a minute of the opening of the market.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Sumitomo Metal and other listed companies in Japan also had their share prices pushed up by the fake news about the rocket. Although the increase was slower, it was the same as Hong Kong Island Telecommunications Company. In the end, it triggered the third circuit breaker suspension with a 20% increase, and there was no chance to resume trading until the market closed.

To Zhang Heping, the turmoil outside seemed to have nothing to do with him.

The old professor standing next to the 3D printer asked Zhang Heping, "Teacher Zhang, the structure of this laser transmitter is too simple. Can the laser it emits really penetrate the missiles of the Magnesium Country?"

"You'll know after you try it later!" Zhang Heping replied casually, not taking the other party's suspicion seriously.

Even so, the four experts and professors who were watching stopped talking and just waited for the subsequent experimental results.

When Zhang Heping finished making all the spare parts in the underground base and returned to the ground with a black sphere the size of a basketball, a black Heping brand electric SUV with the rear seats removed had already parked next to the tunnel entrance.

"Heping, the computer parts and batteries have been installed on the experimental vehicle according to your requirements." While speaking, Mr. Hua stared at the black ball covered with glass in Zhang Heping's hand, "Is this the Eye of God?"

Zhang Heping hummed, walked to the electric off-road vehicle with its door wide open, took a look, and then said to the group of experts following behind him: "Let's go eat first, and come over to install it later. There are also supporting self-inspection systems and identification systems to be built, so there is no rush."

After he finished speaking, Zhang Heping put the black spherical device in his hand into the car, and asked two assistants to put the black ball's fixing frame, lines and other accessories into the car.

However, Zhang Heping was not in a hurry, but the veteran experts next to him were very anxious.

Zhang Heping was the one operating the machine all day today, and the veteran experts were watching from the side, eager to try their hand.

An old professor saw Zhang Heping looking over and said with a smile: "Teacher Zhang, you go back to eat first, we can install it here with our assistants."

Zhang Heping nodded, then called a few assistants and asked them to go to the cafeteria to prepare the meals and push them over in the cafeteria's dining cart.

Because Shenzhen Peace College has not yet enrolled students, meals in the college cafeteria are still free.

Therefore, the assistants did not worry about who should pay for the food. After asking the number of people eating, they ran to the cafeteria, fearing that they would come back late and miss the follow-up work of the Eye of God.

The experts and professors refused to leave, Mr. Hua refused to leave, and even Zhang Heping's two twin sons refused to leave. Only Zhang Heping went home alone.

The main component of the God's Eye defense system developed by Zhang Heping is the sphere that Zhang Heping made himself today.

The sphere is equipped with a small radar, a visualization lens, and a laser launcher.

If you want to use this sphere to defend against magnesium missiles and counter sniping, you need not only huge computing power, but also a corresponding database and sufficient power supply.

As for current computer hardware, we can only rely on stacking hardware to barely get enough computing power.

The same is true for power supply, where batteries need to be stacked to store more power, otherwise mobility will be lost.

Of course, it would be possible to install a diesel engine or a hybrid electric vehicle, but Zhang Heping didn't do that because he thought the noise was too loud.

I believe that after the Eye of God defense system is sold, someone will be smart enough to install a diesel engine to power it.

With so much computer hardware and batteries, the electric off-road vehicle, which was used as a makeshift vehicle, would not be able to keep its rear seats.

After Zhang Heping went home for dinner, he went out again with not only a laptop in his hand, but also his two wives and a group of children following him, all of whom were there to watch the fun.

At the entrance of the underground base tunnel, a group of experts and professors were standing, squatting or sitting on the ground, eating their meals on stainless steel plates.

Seeing Zhang Heping coming back, they all gathered around him.

An old professor with gray hair and rice in his mouth called an assistant who was looking at him curiously beside the car and asked him to go to the classroom to move tables and chairs for Zhang Heping to sit on, but Zhang Heping stopped him.

"Xiaobei, didn't you ask me what else programming can do besides websites, online games, and software?" Zhang Heping walked to the back of the car, sat cross-legged on the ground, put the laptop on his legs, and said casually:
"I actually gave you the answer when you were kids. You still remember Transformers!"

"Transformers?" Zhang Bei sat to the right of his father, looked at the display screen, and asked in confusion: "Dad, do you mean to use programming to give machines the ability to think?"

"Go and connect the line in the car." Zhang Heping said to his two twin sons who were squatting on his left, and then responded to his eldest son Zhang Bei.

"Mere machines cannot give them the ability to think. We can only rely on a huge database to make them look intelligent."

"For example, the Aegis system of the Chinese and our Eye of God defense system rely on various scenario response data that have been compiled in advance, so that the computer can quickly match the corresponding instructions and then execute the counterattack defense instructions."

"Dad, let me give you the connector!" Zhang Hu pulled over a black data cable, placed the connector in front of Zhang Heping's feet, and then squatted behind Zhang Heping.

Zhang Bei frowned and thought for a while, then asked, "Dad, if we want to make a robot with self-thinking like Transformers, what do you think we should do?"

While writing the underlying code for the Eye of God defense system, Zhang Heping said distractedly: "It is impossible to make a thinking robot by relying on advanced mechanical hardware and huge data application scenarios. At most, they can be made into slaves who respond to everything."

"Because they can't learn on their own, nor can they think and reflect, at most they can just churn out a few randomly generated sentences, making people think they have thoughts."

"If you want to create silicon-based life like Transformers, you must first have the 'spark' that can change the form of matter."

Zhang Bei frowned and said, "But there is no such thing in reality!"

Zhang Heping did not explain directly, but said to his sixth son: "Xiaohu, do you think there is such a thing as fire?"

16-year-old Zhang Hu said casually: "If we just want to change the form of matter, we can try to change it even without fire. But, Dad, do you know what form of material structure the Transformers turned into after being irradiated by fire?" "I don't know!" Zhang Heping laughed and said, "But we can reverse it step by step, for example, reverse it from the thinking aspect."

"Do you know how many brain cells there are in a human brain? And how many GB of storage capacity does one brain cell have?"

While Zhang Heping was chatting with his sons, the experts and professors around them finished their meals and gradually gathered around.

"Teacher Zhang, can brain cells really be combined with chips to make a biological computer?" A young male assistant at the side couldn't help but interject.

"Why not?" Zhang Heping said with a smile: "We humans are so small, and the universe is so vast. As long as we don't limit human thinking, imagination, and spirit of exploration, I think nothing is impossible."

The fifth son Zhang Long asked excitedly: "Dad, if we develop a biological computer, can we realize virtual reality games?"

Zhang Heping smiled and replied: "Is it possible that we need to develop a quantum computer first?"

Zhang Heping was talking and laughing here, and the guard next to him followed Mr. Hua's instructions, brought the electrical wires and turned on the lights.

However, Zhang Heping did not give them the chance to turn on the lights. He compiled the underlying logic code of the Eye of God defense system before the sky darkened.

"Three chips, five graphics cards, and 3 memory sticks failed. What's going on at Zhuhai Computer Industrial Park?" Zhang Heping closed his laptop, frowned, and looked at Mr. Hua.
"Mr. Hua, we can't export this kind of pass rate. It will kill people!"

Before Mr. Hua could speak, Chen Shuting, who was holding her youngest son, complained, "Recently, many customers have complained about the high failure rate of our Peace computers, which has greatly affected our brand image!"

Mr. Hua had heard about the problem with the Heping computer before, but due to Tingmei Trading Company's after-sales policy of replacing the problematic computers with new ones for free, the problem did not become a big deal.

The key point is that Tingmei Trading Company passed all the after-sales losses from free replacements on to Zhuhai Computer Industrial Park. That’s why Mr. Hua didn’t ask about it, thinking that Zhuhai Computer Industrial Park would strengthen product qualification inspections because of those losses.

Mr. Hua said solemnly: "I will find their person in charge later and ask him to send the parts over overnight for replacement, and then..."

"Let's disperse the purchases!" Zhang Heping gave the notebook to his eldest son Zhang Bei, and walked towards the villa with Mr. Hua, whispering about the purchase of parts for the Eye of God defense system. They didn't want Zhuhai Computer Industrial Park to dominate the market anymore.

The next day, the morning of the 5th.

The assistants who had been busy in the underground base laboratory all night excitedly carried missiles of various sizes and placed them next to the electric off-road vehicle with a black ball installed on the top.

When Zhang Heping and Hua Lao came over, there were already quite a few people gathered here, discussing the power and parameters of each missile.

"Mr. Hua, it's fine if the experts from the Aerospace Group don't want to join us, but it's a bit of an eyesore to see them living here and eating and drinking for free all day long!" Zhang Heping said in a low voice.

"I don't need to tell you about the story of buying horse bones for a huge sum of money!" Mr. Hua said with a smile: "I have asked privately, and more than half of them want to come here to get a high salary, but the Aerospace Corporation did not approve it."

"Okay! Then let them continue to visit. Anyway, you are responsible for confidentiality." Zhang Heping, with his hands behind his back, walked slowly with Mr. Hua next to him, looking like an old cadre.

Seeing the experts and professors in front of him looking over, Zhang Heping whispered again, "The air-breathing detonation engine should have been made, but the wind tunnel in our underground base has not been built yet. How about you find someone to go to the southwest and borrow the wind tunnel there?"

Mr. Hua looked at Zhang Heping suspiciously, "You didn't use a wind tunnel to test the Peace 1 rocket, so why do you need one this time?"

"I personally led the team to build the rocket, and I have full confidence in it." Zhang Heping said confidently, and then changed the subject, "However, the air-breathing detonation engine was built by the people below according to the blueprint. I want to give them more trial and error opportunities. Can you help them borrow a wind tunnel to verify it?"

Mr. Hua wanted to say something else, but was stopped by Zhang Heping's next words.

Zhang Heping said, "Mach 6, self-developed supersonic fighter," and walked quickly to the modified car.

"Have the appearance parameters of those imitated magnesium missiles been reviewed?" Zhang Heping casually asked the experts, professors and assistants around him.

A tall male assistant said excitedly, "Teacher Zhang, we just checked it again, and the error is within the standard range you gave."

Zhang Heping nodded slightly and pointed at the tall man who had just spoken. "Come here. I'll teach you how to use the Eye of God defense system to identify those missiles."

When the tall assistant heard this, the smile on his face widened. He hurried over and sat in the co-pilot seat as Zhang Heping requested.

Zhang Heping stood outside the car and asked other assistants to hang up the fake missiles, which only had the outer shell but no inner substance, with transparent fishing lines.

Then, he stood outside the passenger door and taught the tall assistant how to identify a missile on the two large tablets on the center console.

Tablets are easier to make than smartphones because of their large size.

However, these two tablet computers are among the few experimental products of the precision instrument factory. They were not included in the mass production plan and no news was released to the public, so as not to affect the shipment of computers on the market and thus affect the popularization of computers and the Internet.

After the plane crash on No. 3, Zhang Heping changed his mind and decided that he had to make things difficult for the magnesium guy in order to make his mind clear.

Because the Eye of God defense system is to be sold abroad, and it also has the mission of collecting parameters of other foreign missiles.

Therefore, Zhang Heping made the missile identification mechanism very simple.

After the tall assistant independently identified the two missiles, Zhang Heping walked aside and asked Mr. Hua about the approval of the missile test.

"The higher-ups neither agreed nor refused." Mr. Hua said after careful consideration: "I guess someone is afraid of affecting our relationship with the Magnesium Country and doesn't want to sell this defense system. How about you build a few yourself and try?"

Zhang Heping looked Hua Lao up and down and said jokingly, "You guys don't want those missile designs of the Magnesium Country, do you?"

"If you want it, you can exchange it with real missiles. One missile for a magnesium missile design. I don't have time to build missiles right now."

Mr. Hua laughed and said, "You can test-fire two missiles on this car at most. Can you replace the other missile designs with other things?"

"Have you forgotten?" Zhang Heping pointed in the direction of Nanshan and said, "Hong Kong Island will also be tested for foreigners to see. When the time comes, you will need to arrange a place for the test."

"Of course, if I go to Hong Kong Island this time and happen to encounter the madman from Magnesium and send me a few missiles, then I won't have to bother you, old man."

"Impossible!" Mr. Hua shook his head. "With your Pigeon Eye air defense system, the Magnesium missiles have no chance of entering the Hong Kong Island area."

Zhang Heping nodded, "Besides missiles, the only option is long-range sniping!"

Mr. Hua smiled and said, "A bullet and a magnesium missile design!"

Zhang Heping joked, "Forget it, I'll have my assistants go to the underground base and make their own guns and bullets!"

The old man and the young man looked at the fake missiles that were constantly being replaced in front of them, and while chatting and laughing, they decided on the afternoon's testing work.

By the way, the subsequent production of the Eye of God defense system has also been preliminarily decided.

Among them, the Peace Optical Card Factory provides solid-state hard drives, the Precision Instrument Factory provides tablet computers, the Monitoring Equipment Factory provides visual lenses, and other accessories are arranged by Mr. Hua himself... (End of this chapter)