Rebirth 08: Rise from copycat phones

Chapter 421 Zhu Junneng's Spy Career
In a more than 30-story office building in Guangcheng Zhiyun Science and Technology Park, the 25th and 26th floors are relatively special compared to the ordinary offices on other floors.

These two floors have separate elevators, and the employees in these floors do not usually interact with employees on other floors.

Because this is a relatively special department, it is the office of Zhiyun's security department in Guangcheng area. In the past, it was actually quite calm here. After all, there are not many group executives in Guangcheng, nor many high-level core scientists, and there are not many core secret research and development projects.

The overall security pressure is relatively light, so there are not many permanent personnel in the security department of Guangcheng. Apart from the daily security of the science and technology park and the security tasks of a few special personnel, there are not many other tasks.

It is not like the headquarters park of Zhiyun Group, which has a large number of secret R&D projects, as well as a large number of group executives and core scientists.

At the same time, because it is the headquarters of the group, it attracts the attention of commercial spies from many global competitors. Therefore, the daily security tasks are very heavy, and it is also necessary to rely on local special front agencies for assistance.

Otherwise, Zhiyun Group’s own security department alone would find it difficult to fend off the various commercial spies that keep coming.

Especially in the past few years when Xu Shenxue was fighting with several large conglomerates in the United States, the security situation was very serious... At that time, the Galaxy Security under Xu Shenxue even threw rockets into other people's homes and caused car accidents for other people's heirs. The other side is not a soft persimmon, so naturally they will think about revenge.

So during those years, Zhiyun Group's security department was under tremendous pressure.

Fortunately, the security department of Zhiyun Group, with the cooperation of the personnel on the secret front, withstood this wave and ensured the safety of Xu Shenxue and other senior executives of Zhiyun Group, core scientists, and secret R&D projects.

In the end, the two sides basically reconciled... Of course, there were still some small actions, but they were not as exaggerated as before, with all kinds of assassinations and explosions.

But when thinking back to those years, many people are still frightened!

During those years, a group of spies and even killers of various kinds were dug out almost every once in a while.

At that time, Zhiyun Group's technical department even used artificial intelligence technology to develop a set of image recognition software to provide to secret agencies, using cameras in major public areas to search for marked dangerous targets.

At the same time, a large number of special equipment for counter-espionage and security fields were developed, and even anti-drone equipment was developed... At that time, drones had just appeared and were only gradually used in small-scale, low-intensity military fields, and people did not pay enough attention to them.

So at that time, there was no professional anti-drone equipment even in the military field, but Zhiyun Group made it first...specially for countering low, small and slow targets.

Since Xu Shenxue himself was an expert in drone play, he was naturally afraid that others would use drones to attack him... so he ordered anti-drone equipment to be developed early on.

Although the bulletproof vehicle that Xu Shenxue rides in daily has adopted various top technologies, it is still impossible to withstand the attack of drones... Nowadays, drones can even blow up tanks and infantry fighting vehicles, so a mere bulletproof car is nothing!

In order to guard against possible drones, Xu Shenxue not only had personnel at home and in the company, but he also asked the technical department to move anti-drone equipment directly onto cars and modified several Hailan SEVs as anti-drone vehicles.

Use technical means such as electronic jamming to counter small remote-controlled drones.

This is also the reason why every time Xu Shenxue goes out, there is always an electronic jamming vehicle in the motorcade.

After all, Xu Shenxue is actually quite afraid of death... Apart from him, there are no other super-rich people who would carry a medical emergency vehicle and a professional rescue doctor with them when they go out.

Even the heads of state of most countries do not go as far as Xu Shenxue in terms of security.

It is precisely because of such strict security, otherwise Xu Shenxue would have been shot in the head long ago... Don't really think that the American consortium is a soft persimmon, they have guns and cannons, and they dare to fight and kill.

Xu Shenxue has Galaxy Security under his command, and they also have similar organizations under their command.

They are all a small group of the top people on the earth. The resources they own and control are similar, and their methods are actually similar... There are only a few tricks in between.

Their men had tried to assassinate Xu Shenxue many times, but they had never succeeded, and they had not even been able to get close to Xu Shenxue.

So Xu Shenxue can still continue to be alive and well!

This is also the reason why the security department in Zhiyun Group is of a relatively high level and is very professional... The security departments in other companies are traditional security guards, and many even choose to outsource.

However, the security department of Zhiyun Group, in addition to hiring traditional security companies to take charge of routine security business, also has its own highly professional security personnel.

The Data Security Department is a highly professional subordinate agency of the Zhiyun Group’s Security Department.

Although it seems to have nothing to do with personnel safety, protecting data is more important for high-tech companies like Zhiyun Group, especially since Zhiyun Group has a large number of secret research and development projects.

In order to avoid the leakage of confidential data, Zhiyun Group has set up a data security department to specialize in data security.

However, this department is basically based at the headquarters. Although some people are sent from other subsidiaries, the number is not large.

However, the Zhiyun Guangcheng Science and Technology Park now gathers a large number of professional and technical personnel in the data security department.

More than half of the offices on the 25th floor of the security department were occupied by data security personnel who were urgently transferred from the headquarters.

In one of the offices, the staff were processing a lot of information on the computer monitor. Suddenly, a piece of information marked in red was pinned to the top of the system.

When the employee saw this, he immediately clicked on it and saw a large amount of data.

The staff member just took a quick glance at the data and frowned slightly.

Then I looked at the personal information displayed in the report. He was an administrative office staff member of the former Institute of Artificial Intelligence Materials. However, after the MMK34 project, the Institute of Artificial Intelligence Materials carried out a large-scale personnel replacement, and the employee was transferred to other nearby institutes.

Then he called the team leader: "Team leader, there is a situation here!"

The team leader came over and took a look: "The keyword data is abnormal, and it has been connected to the same external IP for many consecutive days, and it is not an external public website IP."

"Show me his recent big data!"

The employee immediately operated the system and pulled out a detailed big data report on the employee.

The team leader looked at it carefully, and then said, "There is a problem. He shouldn't be so curious... He has asked the Materials Institute too many times in the past few days, far exceeding the curiosity of a normal employee. The keyword was triggered 23 times yesterday and 36 times today!"

"His movements were clearly abnormal. He deviated from the normal path several times in two days and often wandered around the Materials Institute!"

"This is not the attitude an employee who has signed a confidentiality agreement should have. Forward the situation to the Investigation Department and let them conduct a detailed inspection!"

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The security department's search and investigation section quickly received the relevant information, and after a careful investigation, they quickly determined that there was something wrong with the former administrative employee of the materials institute.

"We found that he had an extra account, and external funds were transferred into the account. The source of the funds has not been found yet, but if nothing unexpected happens, he must have been dragged into this account by those people outside in the past few days. He is another person who was deceived by greed for small amounts of money!"

"Contact the judicial department and hand over the relevant evidence. They will handle the rest."

The team leader did not look relaxed after saying this, but muttered to himself: "This is the fifth one, it seems that our actions have attracted their attention, which is why they are concentrating their attention!"
Thinking of this, he walked into an office and reported the situation to the operations manager.

The operations director, however, didn't take it seriously: "This is normal. Our operation is quite large, and the confidentiality measures have been suddenly increased so much. It would be strange if there was no reaction from outside!"

"Not only have we found a lot of people, but other departments have also found some. At the same time, the secret front agencies have also reported that many suspicious targets have entered the country recently, and they have arrested several suspicious persons."

"We don't need to guess, we know these people are basically coming here for us!"

"But there is no need to feel any pressure. The current situation is not as bad as in previous years. Just do your job well and keep the front line of data security!"

Having said that, the operations manager was actually a little worried.

It was the past. At that time, both sides were infiltrating each other and trying to cause sabotage, not simply spying on some kind of information.

But now, their mission is not to prevent the destruction of these, but to keep the MMK34 project confidential... Even though he is an operations director in the Data Security Department under the Security Department, his confidentiality clearance is not enough to let him know what the MMK34 project is... He only knows this code name.

But his intuition told him that the MMK34 project must be a very large project of great importance.

Otherwise, the group headquarters would not have transferred half of the elite forces of the security department to Guangcheng... You know, there are so many secret projects in Zhiyun Group, and the security tasks of senior executives and core scientists are also very heavy.

The security department also has limited manpower, and on a daily basis most of the force is used to protect these secret projects and core personnel.

But now, a large number of personnel were transferred from various projects at once, and half of the elite security forces of the entire group were transferred to Guangcheng, just to protect the MMK34 project.

This in itself is a very abnormal thing.

Under such circumstances, he could guess the importance of the MMK34 project. Those people outside were not fools, so how could they not guess it?

This suggests that something big might happen, and the other side will definitely come to spy... and if the loss of manpower is too great after the spying, the other side will definitely know that there must be a big secret here, and will then increase resources to continue spying.

The subsequent security work will probably be even more arduous!

In fact, it was almost as he guessed. On the other side of the Pacific Ocean, Lister, who was in charge of the project, received reports of missing persons from frontline personnel one after another. What was more crucial was that many frontline personnel suddenly lost contact before they could even find any useful information.

This situation itself is abnormal!
Although Zhiyun’s security force is strong, it is not so powerful under normal circumstances... They must have mobilized a large amount of manpower and material resources to carry out security work.

"What are they hiding?"

Liszt looked at the many reports on the computer, and then focused on the institution "Zhiyun Artificial Intelligence Materials Research Institute". Although the front-line personnel suffered heavy losses, they still reported some information, among the many true and false, complicated information.

It can be basically confirmed that Zhiyun Group has significantly increased the security level in Guangcheng Zhiyun Technology Park.

At the same time, many reports also mentioned a building and the only institution in the building: Zhiyun Artificial Intelligence Materials Research Institute.

With doubts, Lister took the report to his supervisor and reported it.

The supervisor looked through the report and said, "There is no doubt that the problem lies in this artificial intelligence materials research institute!"

"But, what are they hiding? Are they using this building to conduct some secret research?"

"Or have they discovered something new? But what is worth them paying such a high price to protect?"

"This security level is no less than their protection of the core algorithm of artificial intelligence. The security of the entire Materials Research Institute is almost on par with their Artificial Intelligence Research Institute!"

"Did they discover some new material? Some new process? Or did they discover aliens?"

The supervisor looked at it and muttered to himself for a long time: "Make this project the top priority and increase the resources invested. I want to know what they are hiding!"

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At the same time, Zhu Junneng returned home exhausted!

He had been in a lot of pain over the past few days. On the one hand, he was busy with work, and on the other hand, those foreigners were urging him every day.

And tonight, before he returned home, he received new instructions from them, asking him to explore the Artificial Intelligence Materials Research Institute and investigate all abnormal situations in the institute.

After receiving this instruction, he didn't even want to reply to the other party!
In fact, in the past few days, he also discovered that there seemed to be something happening at the Artificial Intelligence Materials Research Institute. The previous building had no walls, and employees from other departments could even visit there.

But some time ago, the Artificial Intelligence Materials Research Institute said it was going to carry out renovations and even built a construction wall. Employees from other departments were prohibited from entering, and security guards were also stationed at the entrance of the wall.

At the same time, he also heard that many project teams in the Artificial Intelligence Materials Research Institute were moved to a building next door...but this building was also surrounded by a construction wall and was designated as the office building of the Artificial Intelligence Materials Research Institute.

He is not stupid. Combined with the sudden changes in the Artificial Intelligence Materials Research Institute and the foreigner's daily urging to gather information in recent days.

Reason told him that something might have happened in this artificial intelligence materials research institute, which attracted the attention of these foreigners.

However, he did not get even one step closer to the Artificial Intelligence Materials Research Institute... because it was too dangerous.

He is different from ordinary people. As a technician, he is very clear about how powerful his company's technology is.

He never even uses his personal cell phone in the company, and his personal cell phone doesn't even connect to the company's WIFI.

And there are cameras everywhere in the company!

As a technician, he knew very well that if there were any important secrets in the Artificial Intelligence Materials Research Institute, as long as he got close to the Materials Research Institute a few more times, he would be immediately captured by the cameras everywhere and then marked by the system.

You are an employee of other projects that have little interaction with the Artificial Intelligence Materials Research Institute at work. Why are you wandering around the Institute of Materials when you have nothing to do?

Don't try to use excuses like taking a walk or strolling.

Don't expect to use other methods to hide the eyes of those professional security personnel...if he arouses their vigilance, his life will be over.

The best way is to stay away, don’t ask… Don’t talk to yourself even at home, especially don’t mention the words ‘Artificial Intelligence Materials Research Institute’!

Because the mobile phones and computers issued by the company are all company equipment... The company has openly installed security software in the mobile phones and computers. Of course, the purpose of this security software is to prevent the company information on these devices from being leaked... At the same time, it also clearly stated that this software will not collect employees' personal privacy and has passed some security certification.

However, anyone who believes it is a fool... Every software has a few backdoors, let alone security protection software used within the company.

This kind of security software is of course fine for ordinary employees, and there is no need to worry about their personal privacy being collected... Zhiyun is a large company with hundreds of thousands of employees. How can the security department have the leisure to collect the so-called personal privacy of ordinary employees!

But for someone like him, the equipment issued by the company is a time bomb, and it is a bomb that cannot be defused...

It’s okay to curse Xu Shenxue at home, but if you talk about some company secrets, you never know before the security personnel from the company’s security department will come to your door.

As a technician, he is well aware of how powerful the company's technology is in areas such as artificial intelligence and big data.

He didn't know the detailed technical details, but he didn't want to try!

And now, those foreigners wanted him to spy on the Artificial Intelligence Materials Research Institute... This was beyond his tolerance.

If he really did that, he would have to go and operate the sewing machine himself without these foreigners threatening him... Do they really think the company's security department is just a decoration?

So he has been dragging his feet for the past two days, but now, the other party is getting more and more anxious, threatening to expose him if he can't get any more information!

Damn it, this is too much!
However, Zhu Junneng knew better than anyone that he must not go to the Artificial Intelligence Materials Research Institute, nor could he ask about related situations... and at the same time he had to deal with those damn foreigners.

This made Zhu Junneng very upset.

After returning home and lying on the sofa for a long time, Zhu Junneng suddenly thought of a possibility, then stood up and walked around the living room.

After thinking for more than ten minutes, Zhu Junneng took out a newly bought mobile phone and started to look up various information.

They are all information on various cutting-edge technologies, such as room-temperature superconducting materials, nuclear fusion, space elevators, and other miscellaneous black technologies.

After consulting various materials, he set his sights on the space elevator!
Then he carefully searched and inquired about various situations of the space elevator, and finally focused his attention on various materials.

After doing various search queries on various potential materials, he finally set his sights on carbon nanotubes.

According to the conjectures of today's scientific community, if we want to build a sci-fi device like a space elevator in the future, we will need ultra-light and ultra-strong materials.

Carbon nanotubes are one of the more ideal materials.

Although this material was discovered accidentally in 1991, single-layer carbon nanotubes were later developed. In the past two years, a domestic technical team has found technical methods to control single-layer carbon nanotubes.

However, current carbon nanotube materials are still far from large-scale application, and as for being used as construction materials for things like space elevators, that is even more distant.

However, Zhu Junneng took into account the many advances made by his company in various black technology fields and felt that it was possible for his company to develop this kind of carbon nanotube material... For Zhiyun Group, engaging in black technology is the norm.

Only major scientific research results of this level, which already have the possibility of commercial application, can attract this level of attention from the security department of the group headquarters... Otherwise, there is no way to explain the high-level security at the Artificial Intelligence Materials Research Institute.

Zhu Junneng looked at the introduction of this material while his mind was turning rapidly, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that it made sense.

Those foreigners wanted some important secrets, so he "made" one for them...to save them from threatening him every day.

At the same time, it will not trigger the investigation of the group's security department and can protect itself.

Perfect!

Who knows, maybe they can even defraud more funds from those foreigners.

He didn't want to take the risk of exploring the secrets of the Artificial Intelligence Materials Research Institute, and those foreigners were pressing too hard... At the same time, he also believed in the security capabilities of the group headquarters and was likely to be able to keep the secret.

Therefore, if he made up a secret, those foreigners would only be suspicious.

As long as Zhiyun Group does not disclose what is going on in its Artificial Intelligence Materials Research Institute, his secret will not be leaked!
Even if the company announces an artificial intelligence materials research institute in the future, he can completely say that what was announced was just a cover, and the real carbon nanotube project had long been moved away!

Thinking of this, Zhu Junneng smiled.

Afterwards, Zhu Junneng collected a large amount of information on carbon nanotubes, and began to think over and over again to develop a detailed plan!
I definitely can't just tell those damn foreigners that I 'discovered' the material of carbon nanotubes. I have to guide them step by step!

This not only demonstrates your own value, but also prevents them from being forced to take risks every day!
I can provide top-secret information about 'carbon nanotube' materials that can be used for commercial purposes and may even be used to build space elevators. The other party must respect me and coax me a little!

Soon, he had a detailed plan in his mind.

Then he took out a laptop that he only used to communicate with those foreigners and started editing the document, which also included photos of the Artificial Intelligence Materials Research Institute.

Of course, this report did not mention any carbon nanotube materials. Instead, it said that he had begun to pay attention to the Artificial Intelligence Materials Research Institute and began to try to contact the insiders in the institute. With time, he would be able to establish a good relationship with them and then gather relevant information.

He discovered that he wasn't very good at being a spy, but he actually had a talent for making up spy stories...

After this report is sent!

It didn’t take long before I got a reply from the other party, who said: You are doing very well. Keep up the good work. Increase investment and attract internal personnel of the institute. Just tell me how much funding you need!
After seeing this reply, Zhu Junneng looked at the word "funding" and couldn't help but fall into deep thought. How much funding would be reasonable to win over the internal staff of an artificial intelligence materials research institute?

(End of this chapter)