Chapter 154: Want to Stir Things Up?

People from Tang Country have always talked about leapfrogging in many industries, but it seems they have never succeeded. How come they’ve succeeded in chips this time?

In fact, there are even more astonishing aspects regarding the two companies—Wisdom Technology’s chips have successfully achieved mass production, indicating that the yield rate of silicon carbide chips meets standards.

It means that the Tang Country has taken the lead in third-generation semiconductor technology!

Although other manufacturers have tested the performance of Wisdom Technology’s chips, their own product lines are extensive, and it’s not as simple as just swapping them out. If they want to introduce new test products, they face restrictions from the two major monopolies.

Thus, they could only observe for now. At this moment, what’s most needed is for someone to break the stalemate.

Clearly, Dream Technology is very suitable as it is a company that has been fully sanctioned by the United States, and its upstream component manufacturers have long been entirely Tang Country enterprises, completely unaffected by the restrictions of the two monopolies.

Du Qiu originally planned for Dream Technology to be responsible for producing the new chip production line equipment, but the current situation is no longer suitable.

He has once again utilized the company established by his high-fidelity intelligent robots. This company was established by Du Qiu over a year ago under a certain identity.

Timing-wise, it’s more appropriate to hand it over to the high-fidelity robots, letting this company be responsible for the production of the new chip production line equipment.

When Du Qiu initially established this company, he casually acquired a precision equipment company in the United States and had that company produce some equipment.

Then, he used a trading company in Babylon for transit, reselling these devices to the Tanga Federation for the initial industrial park construction.

However, such critical equipment naturally couldn’t be produced in the United States, as that would be waiting to be choked by the United States, wouldn’t it?

Therefore, after the high-fidelity robots took over this company, they relocated the entire company to Shencheng in Tang Country.

As a result, a new precision equipment company now has a corresponding history, which makes it plausible for a company established just a few months ago to be capable of completing the production of all the equipment of the chip production line.

Of course, the most critical component is the chip circuit printer, which is the most important equipment in the entire production line.

This is equivalent to the photolithography machine in current chip production.

Such an inconspicuous company quietly settled in Shencheng and quietly provided Wisdom Technology with the chip production line.

Initially, everyone thought that Wisdom Technology itself completed the chip production and did not notice this company. By the time they started paying attention, Du Qiu had already made a royal return.

Before leaving, Liu Yaofeng enjoyed a session of shooting at the base’s range and then reluctantly left the base to return to Dar es Salaam city.

After Liu Yaofeng boarded the evening flight back to Tang Country, Du Qiu immediately contacted Ning Shuangshuang through the communication software.

This time, Du Qiu sent a video connection request.

Previously, to avoid exposing his location, Du Qiu never dared to video call with Ning Shuangshuang.

After all, he couldn’t be sure whether there would be other people around Ning Shuangshuang or if she might record the video call.

In the end, Ning Shuangshuang is personnel from the national security department, and sometimes she has no choice.

Du Qiu didn’t want to put their relationship in such a tormenting situation, so he simply avoided video calls.

In this way, even if there were intelligence analysts, they wouldn’t have any footage to analyze anything.

Du Qiu would rather believe some amazing rumors regarding these intelligence analysts; perhaps they really had the ability to deduce hidden content from faint clues.

The video call rang for a while, but no one answered.

Du Qiu patiently redialed, considering that Ning Shuangshuang was a very busy person and might not be able to answer his video request immediately.

However, after waiting for a considerable time, Ning Shuangshuang still did not answer, which greatly surprised Du Qiu.

Could it be that Ning Shuangshuang was currently on a mission, making it inconvenient for her to answer?

After a moment of thought, Du Qiu directly called Star Ocean, “Help me check what Ning Shuangshuang is currently doing?”

“Okay, sir.”

After the new base was built, a far more colossal supercomputer was established here.

Named Starlight II supercomputer, its computing power is ten times that of Starlight supercomputer, and the storage capacity is thousands of times more.

Star Ocean has been transferred to the new base via the network, and a new artificial intelligence named Star Cloud has been replicated in the original Starlight supercomputer.

Star Cloud will become the strong technical support for the research and development centers of Dream Technology in Magic City and the research center of Dream Technology in Germany.

With Star Cloud, the research personnel at these two locations will be able to perform better.

Star Cloud has become the specialized assisting intelligence for technological research, while Star Ocean has fully become the core technical, intelligence, and operational support for Du Qiu’s entire tech empire.

With strong hardware support, Star Ocean can now easily create a virtual testing environment to allow Du Qiu to simulate weapon combat in a lifelike manner.

For example, the battle scene between the Sirius tank and the T90S tank that was shown to Liu Yaofeng and the others could be made so realistic thanks to the strong hardware support.

Additionally, Du Qiu has built a batch of unmanned intelligent weapons, all of which are controlled by Star Ocean through the latest satellite communication system.

Of course, there’s also a vast amount of buildings and industrial robots, where Star Ocean handles and controls some complex situations.

“Sir, Ms. Ning entered the underground training ground of the Magic City security department half an hour ago, which I can’t monitor.”

“Training at this time? But why didn’t she bring her phone?”

Du Qiu was extremely surprised and suddenly realized that it was now 8 p.m. during daylight saving time here, which should be midnight in Tang Country.

At midnight, why would Ning Shuangshuang be training?

Something’s wrong!

Du Qiu’s heart skipped a beat and immediately said, “Star Ocean, tell me what Ning Shuangshuang has done and what happened in the past 24 hours.”

Star Ocean immediately replied, “Sir, Ms. Ning lingered outside the Dream Technology company at around five o’clock in the afternoon local time, and then she directly went to Ning Yuzhe’s house.

The covert agent at Ning Yuzhe’s house sent back footage that the two had a quarrel, it seems Ms. Ning’s mother has encountered a problem, and Ms. Ning wanted to go to the rescue herself, but Ning Yuzhe advised her to remain calm.”

Covert agents are a type of tiny surveillance device developed by Du Qiu that resembles beetles, capable of autonomous short-distance flight and can hide in the target’s vicinity to assist Star Ocean in monitoring areas without cameras.

In addition to beetle-shaped, there are also fly-shaped agents. Du Qiu dispatched high-fidelity robots to place these covert agents in many locations needing surveillance, enhancing Star Ocean’s monitoring capabilities.

“What? Shuangshuang’s mother had an accident? What exactly happened?” Du Qiu was shocked.

Previously, he learned from Ning Shuangshuang that her mother was working with a medical team aiding Africa, but he didn’t ask which country in Africa at the time.

“Sir, Ms. Ning’s mother is Zheng Hailan, she leads a medical team in South Sudan and was supposed to rotate back to the country by the end of this year.”

“What I want to know is, what exactly happened to her?” Du Qiu was getting anxious.

Star Ocean’s voice remained unchanged, “Zheng Hailan’s medical team lost contact in the Bole region, near the Boama National Park.

It’s reported that a week ago the medical team left the capital Zhuba for Bole, where they found some potentially contagious diseases.

According to the phone call from Ms. Ning’s father, the medical team was abducted by an illegal armed group at noon today, and currently, no armed group has claimed responsibility for the incident.

The Tang Country peacekeeping forces stationed in South Sudan have dispatched a squad to the site of the incident, but due to continuous heavy rains and difficult roads, there has been no feedback yet.”

Du Qiu immediately said, “Send out the First Flight Squadron right away and allocate a satellite for dedicated surveillance and photography of the area within a 150-kilometer radius around Bole.

Since the roads in South Sudan are impassable and the peacekeeping forces haven’t reached there, the armed group couldn’t have gotten out of this range.”

“Yes, sir. The operation begins immediately!”

Du Qiu, looking at his phone, saw that Ning Shuangshuang still hadn’t responded to him. He quickly left his residence to rush to the command center building.

Finally, I have completed the added chapter, phew……