Rebirth of Hong Kong Island, leading the technology war

Chapter 458: The Strength of the Intelligence Department of the Lighthouse Nation
Howard, who has always been confident, is now a little unsure.

Howard said: "It's just a first impression, it's hard to tell."

"That's true."

In fact, Morik and Howard did not need to come to any conclusion about Hu Jiangshan. They just needed to make sure to shoot as much as possible and collect as much relevant information as possible.

Hu Jiangshan invited everyone to the lounge of the dock command center.

The welcome ceremony here is not shabby at all. On the contrary, the decoration here has a warm and high-end feeling. It is spacious and grand enough that even one or two hundred people can dine here.

The lounge is a multi-functional hall not only for leisure but also for dining, and is divided into different areas.

There are scattered seating areas, booth areas, equipment areas, wraparound dining tables, and even special open spaces for activities such as singing, dancing and other performances.

Plus, the scenery here is also quite amazing. As long as you look out from the large windows, you will see the stunning sea view.

Tenglong Island also put a lot of effort into this reception, and the arrangements were well organized and meticulous.

Moreover, the welcome ceremony was not long, only about ten minutes, and the main theme was a relaxed and comfortable atmosphere.

Everyone at Myen Technology was very satisfied and always had smiles on their faces.

Especially Ali, he had a very good first impression of Tenglong Island.

You have to know that Ali, as a national treasure-level scientist of the UAE, often attends various activities. He has no good feelings for lengthy ceremonies and sometimes even hates them. Tenglong Island's arrangement is exactly what he wants, and he couldn't help but give a thumbs up.

At this time, several people from the Lighthouse Country were using cameras to collect information here, exchanging glances and chatting from time to time.

Howard said, "Morik, I have to admit, I like it here."

Morik knew Howard was the most amusing, and it was impossible for him to say such a thing.

"Howard, let's just do our own thing and stop thinking about those things."

"That's right, but it doesn't affect anything. I can do two things at once. By the way, do you think those technical experts are watching? Are they being lazy?"

"Do you think they are all like you?"

At the same time, on the other side of the ocean, in the suburbs of Los Angeles, California.

Los Angeles is a very famous city on Blue Star. Some people may not know Washington, but it is very rare to know Los Angeles.

There are many mid- to high-end villa areas in the suburbs of the Lighthouse Country, and this place is no exception.

However, compared with other places, this villa area has fewer houses and is somewhat sparse, so each house occupies a large area.

But this place doesn't look like a top wealthy area, and the cars parked next to the houses are mostly affordable models.

The house with the number 43 looks very ordinary, but people with good observation skills can notice something unusual, such as the large number of surveillance cameras nearby, some of which are open and some are hidden, and they cannot be found without careful observation.

More importantly, the cars parked on the roadside near the house are almost all of the same model, a certain Chevrolet SUV model, and they are all black.

Anyone who has been following the news about the Lighthouse Country will know that this type of car is used by the official departments of the Lighthouse Country.

In fact, this house is the property of the Lighthouse Country Space Agency, and is specially provided as a place for relevant aerospace experts to hold seminars and symposiums.

Of course, there's nothing wrong with having a party here if necessary.

The house is obviously in use now and someone is working in it.

There are now three people in total, namely Tom Polk, Belk Hunter, and Oldham Logie.

They are all very powerful aerospace experts in the Lighthouse Country. They usually work for the National Space Administration and sometimes serve as consultants for commercial aerospace companies such as SpaceX and Blue Origin.

At this time, the three of them were drinking coffee and chatting, looking at the big screen from time to time.

The screen displays three parts of the scene, all in one building, and it is the same building.

The camera footage moved from time to time, probably focusing on three different people.

Tom ate a French fry, glanced at the screen, and said, "The facilities on Tamron Island look great. We can see them through the screen, but they will be even better if we see them in person."

Belk shrugged. "Tom, that's not necessarily true. This is a filter. Maybe the actual scene is not as good as what we see."

Odheim laughed. "Belk is right, but that can't be called a filter. It should be called a distortion of the picture signal. The actual scene may be very old, but it looks brand new here."

"But this is just a facility at the dock, and it has not officially entered the launch site yet," Belk said.

Tom raised his eyebrows and continued eating his fries: "It's really nothing to see. By the way, is there anyone else coming today?"

Odheim glanced at Tom and said, "Yes, there are several big names coming, and each of them can beat us."

Tom had a noncommittal expression. There were not many aerospace experts in Lighthouse who were more powerful, more experienced and more famous than them, and most of them were those old faces.

At the same time, a Tesla MODELS was driving at high speed on the highway.

It is said that the infrastructure of the Beacon Country is very poor, but California is an exception, especially within Los Angeles, the roads are still quite flat and of high quality. This is one of the reasons why there are more Los Angeles supercars in the Beacon Country than in other places.

Another reason is that the office workers in Los Angeles are all IT practitioners. They are either programmers or managers of high-tech companies. Their incomes are generally very high and they are basically from the upper-middle class of society.

Moreover, Californians have a high awareness of environmental protection and like to buy electric cars. Tesla electric car sales are far ahead in this area.

Of course, people who can drive Tesla MODELX are also considered rich. After all, this car costs more than 200,000 Dengta yuan to buy, which is more than one million Chinese yuan.

However, the driver of this car is no ordinary person, it is Aaron Malak.

This is a superstar who is known as the light of mankind, the leader of Blue Star technology, and the pioneer of civilization.

Malak is used to driving himself. He likes the feeling of driving at high speed and having everything under his control.

Of course, this does not affect Tesla's efforts to vigorously develop autonomous driving technology. Malak can be used, but it cannot be absent.

Sitting next to Malak at this time was another great man, Roland McKinney.

At SpaceX, Taylor is the most powerful technical expert and has led many large projects.

Roland was in second place and was also very authoritative.

A year ago, Roland worked for the National Space Agency of the Lighthouse Country and was a senior expert there. Later, he was "recruited" by Malak himself.

It is said to be dug, but in fact it was sent by the National Space Administration.

Anyone in the industry knows that the reason why SpaceX's technical capabilities are so strong is that it has inherited a large amount of reserve technology and personnel from the space agency.

But if we attribute all the success of SpaceX to these technologies and personnel, it would be an underestimation of Malak.

Aaron Malak is indeed a very capable person and he is also very idealistic. He is even paranoid in his pursuit of his ideals.

SpaceX's reusable rocket, Bald Eagle 9, is not just cool, it is also quite difficult to develop. The technology is indeed a reserve technology of the Lighthouse Country Space Agency, but it has not yet been fully developed.

Malak risked everything to develop recyclable technology, launching experimental rockets one by one into space and exploding like firecrackers. Malak nearly went bankrupt, living and eating at the company and not even changing his T-shirt, but he succeeded in the end.

The Blue Planet's only reusable rocket, the Bald Eagle 9, made SpaceX famous overnight and helped it overcome the crisis.

I have to say, most people can't do Malak's job.

Malak's claim to colonize Mars is not a joke. The idea is indeed very strong, but unfortunately, with SpaceX's capabilities, it is impossible to do so in the foreseeable future.

This time, Malak and Roland are going to a relatively secret place, and they are going to do something related to aerospace technology.

Originally, the Chief Technology Officer Taylor was supposed to come with Malak, but Taylor had something urgent to do and was on a business trip.

Taylor is a very busy man in SpaceX. He has to go out to attend events almost every week, even busier than Malak.

As mentioned earlier, Taylor had previously visited China and attended a space-related forum meeting.

At this time, the electric car was driving very fast. Roland was a little frightened and wanted to remind Malak to drive slower several times, but he held back.

The other person is your boss, so you still have to show enough respect to him.

And everyone said that Malak was a good driver and he often went to the race track. Although he was an amateur, at least there was no need to worry about him taking off.

Roland said, "Sir, we should be there soon, right?"

Malak glanced at the screen of his phone on the stand, which was now using Google's navigation system, and replied, "Yes, we're almost there. It will be there in ten minutes at most."

Roland asked, "What are we going to do? A meeting of the aerospace department?"

Malak smiled, "If this was a meeting, we would have gone straight to the space agency. We want to see something interesting this time."

"…something interesting?"

"To put it simply, intelligence personnel infiltrated an island that has a spaceflight facility."

Roland was stunned. He never thought he would be involved in such a thing.

"What did we do in the past? Help the intelligence department?"

Malak waved his hand. "We are just consultants, and I am also curious about what the facility looks like now."

"Where is that facility?"

"China Island."

"Understood, sir."

Roland did understand that when it came to matters involving China, all official departments of the Lighthouse Country were very nervous and usually looked as if they were facing a formidable enemy.

At this moment, Roland glanced at the current speed and was frightened to death. It turned out that the speed was close to 200 miles per hour.

Wow, no wonder it felt like the cars around me were driving so slowly, they passed by in a flash.

Malak is really not afraid of dying. He has so many girlfriends and so many children.

Even if the MODELS car is really strong, it can't withstand the impact at this speed.

Fortunately, this speed only lasted for a short while and the speed finally dropped. Although it was still very fast, it was at least close to normal levels.

At this time, Malak said: "We have to speed up, otherwise we will miss the show."

Roland had no choice but to bite the bullet and say, "It's all right, sir. We don't need to worry too much."

Because Malak drove so fast, it only took him five or six minutes to reach his destination.

That’s right, it’s that heavily guarded villa.

Malak and Roland parked the car and walked in with a swagger.

In addition to Malak and Roland, there were other people who arrived, but the others were all from the intelligence department.

Malak had seen them before, but couldn't remember their names. He didn't care what these intelligence officers were called, as it had nothing to do with him.

But Malak was too famous, a superstar figure, almost everyone knew him, and people would greet and chat with Malak from time to time.

One of them was a very impressive person. He was the deputy director of the intelligence department, named Kane Thomas.

Like many intelligence agents, Thomas was not very eye-catching, he was short and fat, and had a Mediterranean hairstyle, but his eyes were very bright and cunning.

Thomas said, "Mr. Malak, I didn't expect you to come here. It seems that Tenglong Island is more important than we thought."

Malak shrugged. "Yes, the contents there might be of interest to you."

"It seems Mr. Malak knows a lot."

Malak didn't comment, but judging by Thomas's expression, he seemed to think it was no big deal, just a routine matter.

"What does the intelligence service know about Tenglong Island?"

Thomas smiled slightly: "A lot. Mr. Malak may not know that Tenglong Island used to be the property of Mr. Gus, and later it was sold to the Hu family."

In fact, Malak knew about this, but seeing that the other party was so interested, he didn't say anything. Malak still has some emotional intelligence.

Thomas then added: "We believe that there are indeed some sensitive facilities on Tenglong Island that can be used for rocket launches."

Malak asked, "Are rocket launch facilities sensitive?"

"Of course, if we can launch rockets, then we can launch some other things, and that's Hong Kong Island, which can directly threaten our front-line bases."

Thomas actually said it very bluntly. If a rocket launch pad can send rockets into space, then it can also send other things into space. After all, rockets can carry not only satellites and spacecraft, but also mushroom eggs.

Therefore, the intelligence agencies of the Lighthouse Country have always been paying close attention to the construction of space launch sites on Blue Planet, which are potential threats.

Malak said, "So if this spaceport is really good, what are you going to do with it?"

Thomas smiled slightly: "That's easy, we can make the launch site unable to operate normally."

"Mr. Thomas is overthinking it. As far as I know, it is a very advanced rocket launch site, and it must have very complete safety measures."

"You know, we have the most powerful hacker team in the entire Blue Planet. It won't be too difficult to paralyze a civilian facility."

Malak remained noncommittal. Maybe the intelligence agencies really had this ability, or maybe they were just bragging.

At this time, the transmitted image changed.

The informant from Tenglong Island got on the electric commuter vehicle and started moving.

(End of this chapter)