Reinforcement Panel: Tech Wars

Chapter 85 Cluster Salvage
"Two days ago, fishermen in our city salvaged a cylindrical object during fishing operations. After identification by relevant experts, this object was found to be the latest sonar monitoring buoy produced by Chouyingfang."

"The purpose is to spy on the activities of key military vessels in the waters around us."

"The City of Vancouver has decided to award the fishermen the Coastal Safety Civil Defense Representative Medal and a reward of $7."

During dinner, Wei Jiang sat next to his father, thinking about setting up the laboratory.

The news broadcast on TV caught his attention, and he was very familiar with the photo of the sonar detector that appeared in the news.

Wei Jiang has seen too many of these things recently.

It is normal for some fishermen to salvage detectors. With such a high density of deployment and facing a large number of fishing boats operating at sea, it is certain that some detectors will be accidentally salvaged.

"Zhang Gang is a bit slow."

"The fishermen have received their bonuses, but what progress have the military made?"

The data was sent to Zhang Gang two days ago. Apart from the sightings of manta rays and coast guard ships a few times along the coast, Wei Jiang did not see any other movements.

"According to a notification from our superiors, external forces have deployed a large number of monitoring equipment in the waters around us."

"The authorities have decided to issue a reward notice from now on. Any citizen who salvages such detection equipment and hands it over for inspection will be given an appropriate reward by the security department."

"National defense is closely related to everyone's life. I hope that the majority of fishery practitioners will have the courage to assume national defense obligations and assist law enforcement agencies in establishing a maritime defense line."

"7 yuan is a lot."

"Even if a fishing boat catches just one at a time, it can make a lot of money."

Father Wei Yonghe sat aside and sighed that it was not easy for him to earn 7 yuan by running an auto repair shop in the past.

Wei Jiang smiled and explained:
"The 7 yuan reward is definitely a special case. You probably won't get that much in the future, but it's definitely worth it."

"Some sonar detectors are very cheap, costing around 2,000 yuan. The official reward for such a thing should not be too high."

Wei Yonghe understood and said "oh", then looked at Wei Jiang in confusion.

"You guys usually pay attention to these things?"

Of course he was concerned. This matter was caused by him. How could Wei Jiang not know about it?

“I’ve seen it online before.”

I had to fool my father into thinking the answer was right. I couldn't tell him the real answer, otherwise he would worry himself to death.

"Mobilizing the fishermen should be the official response plan."

'It seems to have been the same before.'

Wei Jiang searched curiously on the Internet and soon found a forum where fishery personnel gathered. The content reported in the news had long been posted at the top of the forum by the forum administrators.

This forum is mainly for information exchange among fishery practitioners, and climate change, tidal changes and fishery policies are also released regularly.

Click to open the pinned post, which lists the information in more detail than the news report.

There is even a summary of the models of the Ugly Eagle sonar detectors that have been mastered and a distribution map of the recent activity areas of the Ugly Eagle military aircraft.

"This must be an official move."

"The map of the area where the Ugly Eagle military aircraft is active. Only the official authorities have this information."

After Wei Jiang read the comments, he found that the fishermen's reactions were quite enthusiastic.

After turning a few pages, most people have decided to lock the target waters of the operation near the area where the Ugly Eagle military aircraft are active.

There are 1567 comments. With so many comments in half a day, there must be more people who have read the post.

Wei Jiang could probably imagine the spectacular sight of thousands of ships setting out to sea tomorrow, each vying to cross the river with great momentum.

Under the dark sea, two circles of blue light lit up and quickly became brighter.

Water gushed out from the blue light to the rear, stirring up the seawater near the seabed sediments and making it turbid.

The blue light flashed, and a giant creature was swimming. The blue light stuck to the tail of the giant and rose with it.

The blue light became brighter and brighter, until the long black tail dragged by the giant creature could just be seen. The blue light followed the giant creature, cutting through the sea and rushing into the darkness.

Inside the room, Wei Jiang sat on the carpet with his back against the mattress. Except for the detection target displayed in the upper right corner of the mobile phone screen, the rest of it was dark.

The waters where the manta ray sat on the bottom are located along the coast of Dongdashangdu. This area of ​​water is a shipping channel, and large shipping vessels are often seen passing by on the sea.

The detection signal displayed on the phone screen was a little different tonight. Wei Jiang saw a lot of small boat signals appearing. With curiosity, Wei Jiang controlled the manta ray to float up, and a trawler appeared in the manta ray's field of vision.

Under the gaze of the manta ray, Wei Jiang noticed that these fishing boats were sailing at full speed towards the open sea, dragging their fishing nets.

The manta ray sonar detection signal showed that no schools of fish were detected ahead.

This means that the fishing boat’s target should not be the school of fish. Thinking of the news he had seen before, Wei Jiang suddenly realized.

"These fishermen are too impatient. They ran out in the middle of the night?"

On the detection signal map, a dozen fishing boats were lined up in a row heading in the same direction.

"It's still a group action. After hearing that there is a reward, these guys are really motivated."

Watching the fleet gradually moving away, Wei Jiang controlled the manta ray to dive southward for safety reasons.

We have to avoid these people. Fishing boats are casting nets on a large scale. If the water is not deep enough, the manta rays may encounter the fishing nets underwater. Wei Jiang does not want to see this happen.

According to the mileage statistics of the Manta Ray Control App, Manta Ray has completed 63% of its new missions.

"Work harder!"

Wei Jiang encouraged himself and dived for a long time, searching for any possible sonar detection equipment. This work was a great test of Wei Jiang's patience.

Especially when diving at night, the view ahead is pitch black, and Wei Jiang would feel sleepy if he stared at the phone for too long.

The ever-growing numbers in the app are the only motivation that drives Wei Jiang to continue persevering.

When sailing at a depth of 100 meters below the sea surface, the number of detection signals displayed on the minimap has increased significantly compared to before.

Wei Jiang was not sure whether these ship signals were all fishing boats, but on average, small ship signals would appear above the manta ray every half hour.

"It's most likely a fishing boat going out to sea for salvage."

"The enthusiasm of the fishermen is really too much for Ugly Eagle to handle."

"If we fish like this every day, no matter how much Ugly Eagle throws, it won't be enough."

Thinking of the clusters of fishing boats on the sea, this scene full of vitality and competition, Wei Jiang couldn't help but start to worry about the bonus pool prepared by the government.

"If you do this every day, the bonus alone will be a huge sum of money."

Siming Automobile and Motorcycle Parts Factory, the company's original slightly simple laboratory is now completely different.

A large number of brand-new equipment were placed throughout the laboratory. Under Wei Jiang's command, researchers from Siming Company gathered in groups of two or three to conduct the final inspection and debugging of all the equipment.

After more than a month, they have become very familiar with the young man standing behind them.

The boss’s wife’s nephew, the company’s newly appointed vice president.

After working with Wei Jiang for a long time, this group of people were impressed by Wei Jiang's strong technical skills, and his previous image of a rich second-generation was finally eliminated.

These people had never come into contact with these devices before, and they were very cautious when using them for the first time for fear of human errors.

As the chief director of the laboratory, Wei Jiang taught these people step by step how to operate the equipment, which to some extent was helping them to improve.

"Vice President Wei, there is no problem with the debugging of the high-energy arc furnace. It can work normally."

A middle-aged man wearing glasses and a laboratory dust-proof suit walked up to Wei Jiang and reported.

"Very good, assist others to complete the debugging of all equipment as soon as possible."

"Ok."

Looking at the other person's back as he left, this person was previously the head of Siming Company's laboratory, but now he needs to obey Wei Jiang's command.

When Wei Jiang first came to the laboratory, the two sides had a verbal conflict.

After several friendly technical exchanges, the other party quickly recognized the facts and willingly gave up the position of laboratory director.

"The equipment is ready."

"The raw materials are all here."

Thinking about the design drawings that were just finalized last night and feeling his heartbeat burning in his chest, Wei Jiang knew that the new equipment manufacturing work he had been looking forward to was about to begin.

"My mecha suit!"

(End of this chapter)