Rebirth 08: Rise from copycat phones

Chapter 420 Spies in action!
In a building on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, a large number of people are busy working in a busy office.

Liszt was one of them. He was eating a hamburger he bought on the way to work with one hand, while skillfully sliding the mouse with the other.

While eating breakfast and reading the reports collected from various places, he suddenly stopped eating his hamburger.

With a puzzled look on his face, he put down the half-eaten burger, then freed his left hand and started working on the keyboard.

After he read the report in detail, a look of confusion appeared on his face, and he immediately began to search for other reports.

The more he checked, the more cautious his expression became.

At this time, the colleague next to him saw him like this and immediately pulled the wheelchair over and asked: "What's wrong, you don't want to eat breakfast?"

Liszt said, "I feel something is wrong. Come and take a look at this report and these two!"

The colleague took a quick look and said, "Zhiyun's surveillance report? Let me take a look!"

A colleague looked at it and said, "There's nothing strange about it. It's quite normal. Is it because of the increase in R&D expenditure? Their R&D expenditure is increasing every year. It's not hard to guess where this part of the R&D expenditure has gone. It's likely that it went to military projects!"

Liszt said: "Look at the report of the scientist monitoring team. This month, at least fifteen W13 and W14 scientists were transferred from their Shenzhen headquarters to the Guangcheng base. This exceeds the normal personnel transfer. According to our average monitoring data in previous years, it is impossible to have so many personnel transfers."

"Their W13 and W14 level scientists are all core scientists. It is impossible for them to be mobilized on such a large scale for no reason."

A colleague said, "The turnover of personnel is normal. Scientists at the W13 and W14 levels are transferred to the Guangcheng base. Although the number of people is a bit large, Guangcheng is also one of their core R&D bases. The turnover of senior scientists between this base and their headquarters base is very frequent. Last year, we monitored the turnover of at least more than people, and this is the part we know about. There must be more that we have not monitored."

"It's possible that this is just the time we discovered their previous secret dispatch route."

Liszt said: "Take another look at this part of the report."

The colleague clicked on another part of the report, glanced at it and said to himself: "The security of Guangcheng Zhiyun R&D Base has suddenly increased?"

Liszt said: "It's not just a simple increase in security measures. Look at their security unit. In addition to the regular security personnel, there are also these people and their vehicles. Do you see, do the uniforms and vehicles of these operatives look familiar?"

When the colleague saw this, his expression suddenly became serious: "The Data Security Section under the Security Department of Zhiyun Group Headquarters, their car is an omnidirectional radio blocking car."

"They have carried out a large-scale data blockade here, and a full-frequency radio jamming blockade."

"What happened at Zhiyun Guangcheng Base? To the point that they needed to mobilize the Data Security Department to carry out such thorough data protection?"

Liszt said: "Now you know why I care about this!"

Then Liszt pulled out another set of photos: "I just felt strange when I saw this, so I searched for a recent whereabouts report of Zhiyun Group's executives. The whereabouts of other executives of Zhiyun Group were normal, but Xu Shenxue's whereabouts were abnormal."

"This is part of the report we collected from the Internet. These are photos and videos taken and uploaded by local netizens. Is this convoy familiar to you?"

The colleague said that he only took one look at the photo and made a judgment: "There are eleven vehicles, all of which are sea blue bulletproof vehicles. In the middle are three typical sea blue SLC Zhiyun bulletproof customized versions, with license plate numbers ending in 01, 02, and 03. They are Xu Shenxue's regular vehicles at the Shenzhen headquarters. There are also these special security vehicles, medical vehicles, and electronic jammers. This fleet belongs to Xu Shenxue."

"Among all the senior executives of Zhiyun Group, he is the only one who is equipped with special vehicles such as medical emergency vehicles and electronic reconnaissance/jamming vehicles for travel."

Liszt said: "Look at the time of this set of photos and videos... Did you notice that the time was the same day as when Zhiyun Guangcheng Base suddenly increased security measures? In addition, Xu Shenxue's motorcade appeared on the Shenzhen-Guangzhou Expressway in the evening of the same day. According to our analysis of Xu Shenxue's whereabouts, he has never traveled across cities in the evening!"

"According to the information we have tracked and collected, most of his inspection trips took place in the morning. Although there were some departures in the afternoon, they were all made on special planes."

"But he never took a motorcade to travel across the city in the evening, never!"

"There's a problem here!"

The colleague touched his chin's mustache and said, "One thing happening could be a coincidence, two things happening at the same time could also be a coincidence, but these three things happening together suddenly is not normal!"

"So, maybe something big happened in Zhiyun Guangcheng Base, so much so that they needed to implement a high-level data blockade, and it was so serious that Xu Shenxue went to Guangcheng to deal with it personally?"

Liszt: "I don't know either, but my intuition tells me that this is not normal. There must be something wrong here!"

While the two were discussing, a blond middle-aged man came up behind them. After hearing what Liszt said, he asked, "What's the problem?"

Liszt immediately said to the middle-aged man behind him: "Team leader, I found a special situation, please take a look!"

The team leader also leaned over the computer and started reading. After reading it, he pondered for a moment and then said, "There is a secret here. Mobilize resources to investigate. I want to know what happened in this Zhiyun Guangcheng base."

Soon, Lister and his colleagues began to get busy, and various instructions were passed to various places through secret channels, especially Shenzhen and Guangzhou.

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In an office building in Guangcheng Zhiyun Technology Park, Zhu Junneng, like other colleagues, stood up from their workstations one after another, tidied up their desks and prepared to go off work.

I felt a little sore all over as I walked towards the elevator... A colleague next to me said, "The project is too rushed. We've been working overtime for a month straight. We can't take it anymore!"

"Look at my messy hair. I haven't had a haircut in two months. My girlfriend is disgusted by my messy hair!"

The colleague became more and more angry: "But I work overtime until 8 or 9 every day, and I only have one day off on weekends. How can I have time to get a haircut? I can't do this job!"

Zhu Junneng laughed and said, "I am busy, but it is hard work to make money!"

My colleague said, "I didn't say much because the salary was good, otherwise I would have quit long ago!"

"Alas, I worked so hard in school, following my teacher like a slave every day. I thought that after studying in a good school and getting a master's degree, I would be able to find an easier job, but I didn't expect that I would be even busier at work than when I was studying!"

"I can't stand working overtime like this every day!"

At this time, Zhu Junneng suddenly lowered his voice and said, "Keep your voice down, the supervisor is behind us!"

After hearing this, the colleague immediately shut up, turned around, smiled and said to the supervisor who was walking behind him: "Manager Wang, thank you for working overtime with us!"

Manager Wang walked forward with a smile: "We are all working overtime to catch up with the project. Don't worry, after this month, our project will be almost done. I will arrange for everyone to take turns to rest!"

As he said that, he glanced at Zhu Junneng again: "Xiao Zhu, you have done well this month, keep it up!"

Zhu Junneng also showed an honest smile and said: "I will continue to work hard!"

After the group took the elevator to the underground parking lot, the colleague got in the car and left first, while Manager Wang and Zhu Junneng continued to go to their respective parking spaces.

At this time, Manager Wang suddenly said, "You will be working for two years in one month. I will help you apply for a new rating and see if you can be promoted to the next level."

"Of course, I can't guarantee whether you can be promoted or not. I can only help you submit the application. After all, whether it will be decided in the future depends on the human resources department. But if you work hard, I have high hopes for you. Even if you fail this time, there will definitely be no problem next year."

After hearing this, Zhu Junneng smiled and said, "Thank you, boss. I will work harder and won't let you down!"

Afterwards, Manager Wang also got into his BMW and left.

Zhu Junneng walked about ten meters further, arrived at his parking space, got into his newly purchased Hailan MEV and prepared to leave.

He is quite satisfied with the car. Although the landing price of 360,000 after subsidies is a bit expensive, the company provides additional car purchase subsidies for its employees to buy Hailan cars from sister companies. The subsidies range from 20,000 to 50,000 for different models.

Therefore, he actually had to spend 20,000 yuan less to buy the car, and could get it for 340,000 yuan. At the same time, he could also enjoy the interest-free car loan provided by the internal staff.

After getting in the car and starting it, he woke up the in-car voice assistant "Xiao Hai", and then started the point-to-point assisted driving mode in the assisted driving function, and used the assisted driving function to navigate directly from the company to the parking space in the underground parking lot downstairs at home.

The voice assistant said: "Xiao Hai reminds you that this system is an intelligent assisted driving system and does not have a fully autonomous driving function. Please be sure to observe the road conditions and take over the vehicle at any time. Please do not leave the driving seat or sleep during the assisted driving process. Please stay focused."

Zhu Junneng ignored the voice reminder of the car system... Every time the assisted driving is turned on, there will be such a voice reminder. It is not annoying, but Zhu Junneng gets annoyed after hearing it too many times.

The Hailan Automobile's in-vehicle assisted driving system began to control the vehicle to leave the parking space and then drove towards the exit of the underground parking lot.

At this time, Zhu Junneng occasionally looked at the road and took out his mobile phone to look at it... He took advantage of the fact that he was still in the factory to relax a little. Otherwise, there would be cameras everywhere on the road outside. If he was caught playing with his mobile phone, he would be fined and penalized.

After he opened an APP he often used, he found a message alert. When he opened it and saw the nickname of the sender, he frowned slightly.

After clicking on it, he saw that the other party had only sent a few simple greetings. However, after seeing these greetings, Zhu Junneng murmured, "Damn it, if I had known I shouldn't have contacted these people, they are still haunting me now!"

After taking a few deep breaths, Zhu Junneng put down his phone and closed his eyes slightly!
The Hailan MEV, a mid-size SUV that was only launched on the market by Hailan Automobile this summer, used its assisted driving system to take it out of the factory, onto the highway and into the traffic flow.

If it were in many small cities at this time, there would probably not be many vehicles on the road, but this is Guangcheng, and nearby is Zhiyun Technology Park, and there are also other technology parks nearby, gathering a lot of high-tech companies. Therefore, even though it is already past nine o'clock, there are still many vehicles on the road here.

Among the many vehicles, you can see quite a few sea-blue cars with blue or green license plates... Occasionally you can see a sea-blue car driving on the road, and if you look closely you will find that the driver inside is not driving at all, but the intelligent assisted driving system controls the vehicle to move forward in the urban area with complex road conditions.

This is the biggest core technology and advantage that Hailan Automobile relies on for survival and global expansion: the intelligent assisted driving system.

It is not the ordinary assisted driving boasted by other car companies, but the assisted driving that can realize automatic driving in complex urban road conditions.

It’s just that due to legal obstacles, HaiLan Automobile has never claimed that its intelligent assisted driving system is at the L4 level. It used to be at the L2++ level, but this year it started to say it is at the L3 level.

However, many owners of Hailan cars basically ignore this point, and many people will turn on the intelligent assisted driving function throughout the driving process.

After all, most car owners who buy Hailan cars basically come for Hailan cars' intelligent assisted driving!
Otherwise, there would be no need to sell Hailan cars. There are a lot of electric cars in China that cost tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of yuan. The BYD ones are pretty good. They are cheap and do not require refueling, so they save a lot of money. They are the best choice for many online car-hailing drivers.

Even in terms of battery life, before the official launch of semi-solid-state batteries this year, Hailan Automobile, which used lithium iron phosphate batteries, could not compare with Tesla, which uses ternary lithium batteries, in terms of battery life... The energy density difference between the two batteries is about 30%.

However, Hailan Automobile has relied on the black technology of intelligent assisted driving to achieve annual sales of hundreds of thousands or even millions of vehicles worldwide.

This year, Hailan Automobile launched a semi-solid-state battery, which surpassed Tesla in terms of battery life while taking a step further in battery safety.

At the same time, the mid-size SUV model Hailan MEV was launched, and Hailan SLMC also launched a cheaper youth version. These have led to a surge in Hailan automobile sales this year.

Li Jun was able to purchase this Hailan MEV, but he took two months to pick up the car after placing the order. This shows how popular this Hailan MEV is now.

The Hailan MEV drove along the highway and soon arrived at an underground parking lot in a residential area. The vehicle stopped at the elevator door and Li Junneng got out with his bag.

Then the Hailan MEV vehicle started automatically again, backed into the fixed parking space and locked the car!
At this time, Li Junneng watched the car parked, then turned around and entered the elevator.

After the elevator went up to the 26th floor, Li Junneng got out of the elevator, took out the key and entered the house which had just been sold last year.

The house is nice, a three-bedroom apartment of 120 square meters. Standing in the living room and through the glass window on the balcony, you can see the bustling night view of the city below.

This house is worth three million, and the down payment alone is one million.

Even though Li Junneng's job income is not bad, as a person who has just graduated for two or three years, he is still unable to afford such expensive housing prices on his own.

He told his colleagues that this was money given by his parents.

But in fact, it was not the case. His parents just opened a grocery store in a small town, and the business was very slow and the income was extremely limited.

In fact, a large part of the money he used to buy the house came from a very mysterious person!

A person who made him regret contacting her, but he fell deeper and deeper into her!
Last year, he had been working in Zhiyun Guangcheng Base for a year. Coincidentally, he had a girlfriend at that time. His girlfriend was good in all aspects and was very satisfied with him, but she had only one requirement: she wanted to have a home in Guangcheng!
Li Junneng also felt that his income was okay at the time. He earned more than 400,000 yuan before tax in his first year working at Zhiyun, and after deducting various expenses, he was able to save about 300,000 yuan.

He originally planned to save for two or three years and then buy a small house to settle down.

But his girlfriend kept urging him, saying that her family was forcing her to go home for a blind date, and then saying that she was getting old and should get married.

But he only had 300,000 yuan in savings at the time, and his family could not provide him with any support. When he went to look for houses with 300,000 yuan, he could only look at small houses or houses in poor locations.

But my girlfriend was not satisfied. She felt that the small house in the city had many disadvantages, while the cheaper ones in the suburbs were too far away.

Li Junneng, your income is not low, how can you treat us so unfairly? For example, you can live in a big house in the city...good conditions, convenient for work, and a big house will be comfortable to live in.

Nonsense, how could he not know that big houses in the city center are good?

The key is that I can’t afford it!
This matter made Li Junneng very anxious at the time, and he didn't even dare to tell his parents.

At this time, a female netizen with whom he had a good chat before found him!

Previously, this female netizen claimed to be his junior from the same school and said that she was very curious about his work at Zhiyun. She also said that she was about to graduate and wanted to participate in Zhiyun's campus recruitment, and asked if he could take some photos of the buildings and offices to satisfy her curiosity.

So he took some photos for her, and they talked more and more, and she took some photos of him.

Later she made more requests, wanted to see more things, and offered to pay for it.

At this time, Li Junneng actually realized that something was wrong... But the things the other party asked for were not confidential, they were all daily things, so he thought it should not be a big problem, and it would be nice to get some pocket money. It would be a waste not to make money from commercial espionage, and using some insignificant things to siphon the other party's funds was still a good thing.

So step by step, we began to communicate.

Later, the female netizen asked for more and more things, involving a lot of confidential content!
Li Junneng knew that this violated the confidentiality agreement, but the money the other party gave was getting more and more!
At first it was a few thousand yuan at a time, and then it was tens of thousands of yuan at a time.

During the time when he was planning to buy a house, the other party asked him to send information about a key project... He thought about refusing at the time. After all, if he was caught doing this, it would definitely be a crime and would leak commercial secrets.

But the other party offered too much money and directly asked for three hundred thousand!

In addition, the other party kept persuading him, saying that the money was his and the business secrets belonged to the capitalists.

They also said that this was just ordinary business competition, not espionage, and no one would care.

Li Junneng naturally did not believe the other party's lies. Instead, he directly looked up many laws and felt that if he really did it, it would at most be a leak of commercial secrets, but no organization would take the initiative to manage it. As long as he was careful and not caught by the company, then there would be no big problem.

Even if he is arrested too many times, at most he will be charged with leaking commercial secrets and sentenced to a few years in prison.

The most important thing is that the female netizen also threatened him, saying: You don’t want your company to know that you sold out company secrets, right?
In addition, Li Junneng was almost driven crazy by his girlfriend at the time, so he took the order on a whim and sent the other party a large amount of confidential information of the project team.

Originally, he thought that after this deal was completed, he got the money and bought the house, and the matter would be over.

But the other party was relentless and kept coming to him again and again... The most disgusting thing was that the money was not that high anymore. For the same important secret, he only gave a few tens of thousands of yuan, sometimes only a few thousand or ten thousand.

This made him regret it very much... What was even more disgusting was that he used the money he made from selling company secrets last year, plus his own savings of more than 300,000 yuan, to pay the down payment for a three-bedroom apartment that his girlfriend liked.

But he found out that his girlfriend was cheating on him!
He was so angry that he even thought about hitting his ex-girlfriend, but in the end he didn't have the courage...they could only break up.

In this way, Li Junneng fell deeper and deeper in the past year.

He wanted to break free, but found that he couldn't, the other party had him in his grasp.

When he returned home today and looked at the message sent by this former female netizen, he didn't want to respond to her, but in the end he followed her instructions and used a dedicated software to log into an email account on an overseas website.

Then I saw the task details sent by the other party in the email.

However, this time, he felt a little strange when looking at the details of the mission. In the past, the other party had asked him to transfer various internal company information and some confidential project team information, especially some secret information in the field of artificial intelligence. The mission objectives were relatively clear.

But this time, the other party did not give any details of a certain project or some information, but only asked him to report some abnormal situations in Guangcheng Zhiyun Technology Park recently, especially the sudden abnormal security situation.

He also explained that this matter was very important and that he must collect valuable information. If he was perfunctory, it would lead to serious consequences!

After reading the mission briefing, Li Jun couldn't help cursing: "Damn you foreigners, you threaten me every day. Sooner or later, I will perish with you."

"At most I'll be in jail for a few years, why would I be afraid of you?"

He stood up from the sofa in anger and almost dropped his laptop.

However, after his anger, he collapsed on the sofa again, his face full of helplessness!
Looking up at the house again, there was unconcealable confusion in his eyes.

This house cost him one million as a down payment, and he still had a heavy mortgage. The house that his ex-girlfriend once said could give her a sense of security, but it didn't give him the slightest sense of security... Instead, it was more like a demon from hell, swallowing up his entire life with its bloody mouth.

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Li Junneng didn't know that he was not the only one who received a similar task.

In fact, that night, at least dozens of people received similar tasks through different channels. These people were employees of Zhiyun Guangcheng Science and Technology Park or employees of cooperative enterprises stationed locally, as well as some people nearby.

The tasks they received were different, and the information they collected was also different, but they all pointed to one place in the end: Zhiyun Guangcheng Technology.

They all point to the same thing: unusual security changes in Zhiyun Guangcheng Science and Technology Park!
(End of this chapter)