164: Chapter 164 Mechanical Crawler Robot

Chen Zhongxuan was extremely furious, but his anger did not drown out his reason.

The recording provided by Wang Shuo only further proved his suspicions, while also giving him the opportunity to take the initiative—nothing more.

It was not of much help to the dilemma the group was currently facing.

Under these circumstances, anger seemed somewhat superfluous.

Moreover, he knew Chen Yuqiong's character all too well: cold-hearted and selfish, valuing his own interests above all else. If pushed too hard, no one knew what he might do.

Furthermore, it seemed that Chen Yuqiong alone could not have accomplished certain things.

If the two of them had truly formed an alliance of interests...

Chen Zhongxuan's expression darkened slightly, as if he had thought of something.

He pressed the communicator at his side.

"Secretary Chen, come in for a moment."

Before long, a bespectacled man walked into the office.

"President Chen, you called for me?"

"Yes." Chen Zhongxuan's voice was steady. "Two things."

"First, send a reply to Maple Assets, agreeing to their request to postpone the negotiations."

"Second, issue a statement."

Chen Zhongxuan paused, seemingly in thought, then continued, "The content should be regarding the internal investigation within the Chen Group. State that preliminary results have been reached and that a detailed announcement of the specific situation will be made at the Frontier Technology Co., Ltd. product launch on December 15th."

"Understood." Secretary Chen noted it down.

"President Chen, if you have no other instructions, I will go handle this."

Chen Zhongxuan nodded slightly.

Once Secretary Chen left, Chen Zhongxuan looked at the message Wang Shuo had just sent and chuckled.

The message read: "Uncle Chen, don't forget to pay the reward for finding the USB drive."

"Brat, I'll just consider this doing you a favor. I went to such great lengths to drive traffic for you; I hope what you release won't be disappointing."

Chen Zhongxuan thought silently.

No, the more shocking, the better.

...

On the other side, having happily finished sending the message to Chen Zhongxuan, Wang Shuo looked up and realized the car had already entered the Software Park and stopped at the company entrance.

"President Wang, we have arrived." The driver in front turned back and smiled; it was Cheng Ye.

"Thanks." Wang Shuo thanked him and opened the car door to step out.

Following Wang Shuo's exit, two people got out of the car behind him; they were the police officers sent by Zheng Yi to protect him. These were the same two officers who had accompanied Wang Shuo to the shooting range this time.

Until Ning Hao was found, Chen Xin had strictly required the Cheng Brothers to follow Wang Shuo closely.

The four police officers, split into two groups, were also inseparable from him under Zheng Yi's orders.

So... our Young Master Wang Shuo now walked with quite a style...

With Cheng Ye domineeringly clearing the path in front, Cheng He closely protecting him from behind, and two plainclothes officers following three or four steps away, their vigilant gazes scanning the surroundings at all times.

It was the spitting image of a playboy out for an outing.

It was no wonder Lin Junfeng had mistaken Wang Shuo for a rich second-generation heir at first sight.

Watching the four of them already lined up in formation, Wang Shuo, speechless, wiped away some non-existent sweat from his forehead.

He had said it many times, but the four of them each had their own reasons and were completely uncontrollable, so Wang Shuo could only let them be.

Fortunately, his security consultant would be in place soon.

His own Security Company would also be established soon.

He... would soon be able to use his own security guards—guards who took his pay and listened to his orders.

Walking into the company entrance, the first floor was deserted.

Xu Kexin had gradually adapted to her accounting work over the past few days; she was probably on the second floor in the finance office dealing with her pile of account books and didn't have time to stay at the front desk.

It seemed he would have to find time to hire a receptionist.

Liu Yemei was also not there, which was normal and not worth Wang Shuo's attention.

In fact, it was not even certain if Liu Yemei was in Hanzhong City at the moment, as some of the tasks Wang Shuo had entrusted to her could not be handled with just a phone call.

He went straight to the third floor.

Han Xiaoxin was still nowhere to be seen. If not for the fact that Zero reported Han Xiaoxin's basic status every day, Wang Shuo would have thought Han Xiaoxin had kicked the bucket.

Since he was alive, he wouldn't worry about him for now.

"Welcome back, sir. During your absence, some interesting things have happened. Would you like me to present them to you?"

Yo, not bad. This greeting is creative. However... "No need," Wang Shuo said indifferently.

Just kidding, he was racing against time to make money right now; who had time to listen to interesting things?

Besides, what would an artificial idiot like you know about what's interesting? Hopefully, they aren't all just cold jokes.

"Oh, right." Wang Shuo suddenly remembered something: "How is Xu Kexin doing these past two days?"

"Xu Kexin has entered her work state, sir. Work progress is good."

"That's good." Wang Shuo nodded. "How is the communication test proceeding?"

"Still in progress, sir." Zero responded quickly and gently: "The detailed content of the communication test has been generated into text. Would you like to view it, sir?"

"No need."

Wang Shuo had no interest in viewing these things for the time being and just calmly instructed: "Upgrade the test. Gradually deepen the anthropomorphic environment and try to cater to the test subject's personality and emotional changes. If the test subject suggests you are an AI or has similar suspicions, the test fails; you are authorized to reveal your identity and apologize."

"Command confirmed, sir."

"Very good." Wang Shuo sat in front of the computer and ordered: "Help me retrieve Project Document No. 4, and at the same time, retrieve the CAD design drafts for No. 3, No. 5, No. 6, No. 11, and No. 17."

Before his voice had even faded, a new window had already opened on the computer screen in front of Wang Shuo.

At the very top was Project Document No. 4.

Wang Shuo looked at it carefully.

"Project Proposal Document No. 4."

"Designed for use when manual labor is insufficient. It adopts six-legged mechanical crawler robots to replace manual labor, specifically divided into five categories: comprehensive, transport, logistics, 3D printing, and welding."

"Comprehensive six-legged mechanical crawler robot: A specialized engineering robot with strong versatility but poor professional specialization. The six-legged design ensures flexibility and is not restricted by terrain; various interfaces and tools allow it to handle any job, but this also determines that it cannot master any single one."

"Transport-type eight-legged mechanical crawler robot: A mechanical crawler dedicated to transport that can be linked in groups and scheduled collectively; using new types of metal and the latest designed eight mechanical legs, it can support any weight."

"Logistics-type four-legged mechanical crawler robot: Designed and developed specifically for other damaged mechanical robots, its rich array of repair tools can adapt to any situation. They can even use other parts to assemble a new mechanical crawler on-site. It is the primary production tool for mechanical crawlers."

"3D printing-type mechanical crawler robot..."

Looking at this copy, Wang Shuo felt slightly awkward. Who on earth wrote this copy that read like an advertisement?

Oh... it was generated by Zero, that artificial idiot itself. Well... that's understandable.

He could just use it directly when selling these things in the future.

This type of mechanical crawler was simplified and improved by Wang Shuo based on the underlying automated mechanical tools of the Humanoid Race. The technology was mature, the performance stable, and most importantly... the structure was simple.

For things like this, the simpler the structure, the easier the maintenance and the lower the cost.

The only problem was that the level of intelligence would not be very high, because their originally small bodies couldn't fit a very smart brain.

But with Zero around, none of this was a problem.