Chapter 180: Emergency Situation

In a courtyard in the capital.

An old man was having a conversation with another middle-aged man.

“The approach taken by Dream Technology this time is commendable, the development of technology must be people-oriented. If it becomes a nuisance to people, then it’s better off not having such technology.”

“But Commander, isn’t the price hike a bit outrageous? A lot of people have lodged complaints with the Price Bureau,” the middle-aged man reminded.

The old man laughed and said, “If there were domestic manufacturers who produce similar simulation robots to Dream Technology’s products but at a lower price, then the price hike would indeed be outrageous.

But since they are the only ones who can produce such products, their price is the market price, and the Price Bureau has to act according to market rules, right?”

“But Commander, there are quite a few manufacturers that produce simulation robots, and their prices were already very low, now they are incomparable to these prices.”

The old man’s smile suddenly faded, and he said with a somewhat stern expression, “Can those simulation robots compare with Dream Technology’s?

Go and talk to Minister Yue about it; these types of manufacturers are a mixed bunch and need to be rectified. Those that don’t meet safety standards should be banned.”

The middle-aged man quickly took notes and carefully said, “All right, I will communicate with Minister Yue as soon as possible.”

The old man continued, “For companies like Dream Technology and Wisdom Technology that can achieve industry leadership in our country, we need to provide more care and attention.

All industries should learn from them, with more enterprises like these, the stronger our backbone is, and the more assured we will be in our peaceful rise.

The United States sanctioned Dream Technology, and accused Wisdom Technology of stealing their intellectual property with heretical arguments, our relevant departments must stand up and speak for our enterprises.

They baselessly convict the scientists of our two companies, especially the unwarranted warrant for the arrest of our well-known scientist Dr. Du Qiu, this kind of hegemonic behavior will not be tolerated by our country.

Our comrades on the diplomatic front can now be more assertive, and must negotiate with the US side as soon as possible to get our missing scientists in the US back home early.

Regarding the sanctions, in the new round of negotiations with the US side, we have to address this issue, as the US cannot use this method to close off its market!

If it comes to this, should we also consider, on the grounds of national security, reciprocally closing certain markets?”

…

The conversation within a certain courtyard quickly sparked a craze within Tang Country.

That is to learn from enterprises like Dream Technology and Wisdom Technology and to accelerate science and technology development in their respective industries to realize overtaking at the bend and become world-class as soon as possible.

This has brought about a new wave of visits to Dream Technology and Wisdom Technology, with local governments inviting both companies to invest in their locales on extremely favorable terms.

The IT industry is also accelerating the digestion of new technologies to launch a new generation of IT products based on Wisdom Technology chips.

Dream Technology and Wisdom Technology seized the opportunity and began a new round of rapid development.

Du Qiu, far away in Africa, was not concerned about these developments.

For him, money had long become just numbers; his wealth actually reached the level of the world’s richest person during the US stock market crash.

The erroneous instruction that caused the crash of the Dow Jones index was Star Ocean’s masterpiece.

Before this, Du Qiu had already established a large number of various funds and quietly set up short positions.

The crash brought him huge wealth.

It’s also with this huge amount of capital that Du Qiu was able to set up numerous enterprises across various industries around the world in just over a year.

Of course, given the US’s regulation of the financial system, Du Qiu could only disperse his wealth into various enterprises in this way, otherwise, any rash withdrawal would attract US attention.

In fact, he did not need to withdraw; cash turned into various products, various raw materials – these were more useful to him.

As long as his current energy technology issue is resolved, flying out of Blue Star, the solar system would no longer be a dream.

His carbon nanoworms had already been successfully developed and were handed over to a batch of high-simulation robots for global dispersion.

That day, Du Qiu went to the industrial park on that island; with a powerful robot construction corps, all construction work progressed extremely fast.

Even the construction industry of Tang Country, known for its madness in infrastructure building, had to bow down in front of the robot building army.

In just a month or two, a large island had already been faintly taking shape.

Why say “faintly taking shape”? This was to cope with other countries’ satellites and avoid exposing the construction speed of Du Qiu’s robot building army.

From satellites or from the air, or even from close to the edge of the island, it seems that the island’s sand filling and land reclamation project has just begun, only recently acquiring its own dock.

But in reality, the island had already completed foundation construction, and even some surface structures were completed, such as airports, industrial park workshops, etc.

Du Qiu did not come to the island by plane, but by a large yacht.

Having the opportunity to go out to sea, sitting on a yacht was a kind of enjoyment.

Although the air in the underground base was just as fresh, the feeling of sailing on the sea could not be experienced.

Lying on the yacht’s deck, basking in the sun, Du Qiu asked Star Ocean, “How’s the dispersal action of our carbon nanoworms?”

“Sir, the dispersal action is already 70% complete, basically, every city with a population around the world has been covered.”

“This speed is still not enough; the carbon nanoworms are not only used to monitor the whole world, but they also have a more important mission.”

“Understood. According to the schedule, in about another month’s time, those unknown places will all have our carbon nanoworms active.”

“One month, huh?” Du Qiu, looking at the sky through the shade of his glasses, said, “Perhaps we will soon discover some astonishing secrets.”

Star Ocean agreed, “Yes, I have indeed discovered some hidden things in Blue Star, especially from the dark web and certain networks that connect from time to time.

Too bad those stray networks connect to the internet for too short a time; I can’t finish searching their insides, and some information isn’t very complete.”

“It’s okay, now that we have carbon nanoworms, I believe you’ll soon be able to connect to these independent networks, then what could possibly remain hidden from you?”

“Sir, that artificial intelligence we detected more than a year ago has not appeared again on the internet, which is very odd. Perhaps it’s in one of those independent networks too, only why did it enter the internet in the first place?”

“Heh, even you feel perplexed sometimes, good, good, the emotional module has improved,” Du Qiu chuckled.

After teasing Star Ocean, Du Qiu’s gaze turned towards the island; his smart glasses could see through the holographic camouflage system, so at this moment he was looking at the desalination plant.

“Star Ocean, has the desalination plant on the island reached 10 units of hydrogen reserve?”

“It has already reached that, and the collection speed of hydrogen is still accelerating.”

“Great, this time I can perform a complete test, hoping to succeed in one go. With metallic hydrogen, this world will become even more exciting.”

Du Qiu’s yacht cruised around the island, spending a leisurely afternoon.

While robots were preparing dinner with the seafood he had caught at sea, a message came through.

“Sir, South Sudan has now declared a state of emergency and has sent out an urgent plea for help to the World Health Organization.”

“What exactly happened?” asked Du Qiu.

Star Ocean explained, “When the Tang Country’s medical team aiding Africa was hijacked a few months ago, they were conducting infectious disease checks in Bor.

Unfortunately, they had not been there long before being abducted by armed militants, preventing them from confirming the situation there.

When the medical team was rescued by us, they were sent straight back to the capital Zhuba because they had Zhang Mingliu, who was seriously injured and needed treatment. Moreover, many in the medical team were more or less slightly injured, so they stayed in Zhuba.

A week ago, news came from Bor that many had died from an infectious disease, which re-attracted the attention of the South Sudanese government and the medical team.

The medical team rushed to Bor again, and after confirmation, it was confirmed that the infectious disease was a variant of the Ebola virus, prompting the South Sudanese government to send out a call for help.”

“Has anyone in the medical team been infected?” Du Qiu asked eagerly.

“Not yet, but the situation in Bor is already hellish.”

“We have Iron Guard with the medical team, right? Show me the video of the local situation.”

“Right away.”

Du Qiu soon watched a video on his glasses; Bor is not a big town, with a population of less than ten thousand.

At that moment, the number of people who had died from the disease had already exceeded 3,000, it was as if every family was in mourning, with corpses everywhere.

The medical team was struggling with treatment and isolation measures. If it weren’t for the portable water purification device provided by Iron Guard designed by Du Qiu, the medical team would likely be unable to drink water.

The remaining people in Bor were almost entirely infected, not yet dead, only struggling with the virus with their immune systems.

Without effective medication, they would not be able to produce antibodies on their own, and the ultimate solution would still be death.

If the medical team hadn’t been hijacked at first and had taken proper isolation measures after discovering the infectious disease, perhaps more than half of Bor could have survived.

Faced with such an emergency, Du Qiu didn’t care about eating and immediately said, “I will return to the base right now and think of ways to support the medical team.”