264: Chapter 263 The Man Who Created Miracles

Jiuzhaigou, located in the northwest of Sichuan Province, is a famous tourist hotspot.

Therefore, this place could not be Jiuzhaigou.

After Zheng Yi's introduction, Wang Shuo roughly understood the location of this place.

The location of the 237 Missile Base was still more than 100 kilometers in a straight line southwest of Jiuzhaigou, still within the borders of Sichuan Province.

"The straight-line distance from Huanglong Airport to here is 70 kilometers. If you insist on traveling by land, it's not impossible, but the journey will increase by at least 300 kilometers."

Wang Shuo was speechless.

He finally understood why Zheng Yi kept flying around in the sky. If he had really listened to himself and set off by car, he figured they would probably still be racing along the road right now.

Taking a car wasn't impossible, but it was just too far.

And this was already the shortest straight-line distance; there were almost no other large civilian airports nearby that could accommodate fixed-wing aircraft to shorten the distance.

As for military airports...

"Young man, what are you thinking? Do you want to face a military tribunal?"

Looking at it this way, the piece of junk he had spoken of seemed to have some value; at the very least, it was quite good at saving time.

It's just that the user experience and the price were severely mismatched.

It was equivalent to buying a tractor for 90 million.

To be honest, Wang Shuo felt that apart from being able to fly, the helicopter's overall experience was not even as good as a tractor.

It was just too backward...

At this moment, Wang Shuo missed the aircraft of the Humanoid Race immensely.

On the helicopter ride back, Wang Shuo wore noise-canceling earmuffs and closed his eyes to rest, enduring a splitting headache. In an environment where communication basically relied on shouting, he really had no mood to converse with Zheng Yi.

An hour later, the helicopter landed at Huanglong Airport.

Zheng Yi led Wang Shuo toward the private jet that had been refueled and was waiting on the side.

While passing by a civilian airliner that was boarding, Wang Shuo keenly noticed a male passenger spit in their direction. Judging by the lip movements, he was likely cursing: "Pah, you damn rich second-generation brat."

Tsk tsk, brother, that kind of anti-wealth sentiment is not good.

Wang Shuo muttered to himself, then boarded the plane with a clear conscience.

"Sister Zheng, where are we going now?"

...

Donghai City.

Lin Junfeng looked at young man in front of him and asked with some surprise: "You said... you want to watch the zero egg production line?"

young man nodded slightly.

Beside him, a zero egg was hovering; the eyes on the display screen were exceptionally lively, and its two propellers were emitting a "buzzing" sound.

Lin Junfeng was used to hearing it and didn't find it noisy.

"Sorry, you said your name is..."

"He Chenguang."

young man answered politely.

"Mr. He." Lin Junfeng gathered his thoughts for a moment and said: "I'm very sorry, Mr. He. The zero egg is currently our company's top priority. The production line is currently confidential and not open to the public."

"Is that so?"

He Chenguang didn't seem disappointed. He looked at Lin Junfeng and said: "But as far as I understand, all of the zero egg's current technology is concentrated on the Artificial Intelligence software system. While the hardware part has a high level of integration and a clever design, it doesn't seem to have too many parts that should be confidential, right?"

Lin Junfeng twitched the corner of his mouth.

Where did this naive kid come from? Not to mention that the zero egg had some design secrets, even if it didn't, it wasn't something just anyone could come and see.

Not to mention that the material of the zero egg's shell was one of the materials that Wang Shuo strictly required to be kept confidential.

Even they themselves couldn't enter or exit the production workshop at will.

"Sorry, Mr. He, I really cannot let you in."

Lin Junfeng said with much regret: "If you have any other requests, we will try our best to satisfy them, but I'm afraid I cannot agree to this one."

He Chenguang frowned and looked at the zero egg beside him.

"xiao he, what should we do now?"

"Master, you can discuss this with the person in charge of Frontier Technology."

"That's a good idea."

He Chenguang nodded and cast his gaze toward Lin Junfeng: "General Manager Lin, why don't you ask for Wang Shuo's opinion?"

Lin Junfeng frowned slightly and re-examined young man in front of him.

Then he nodded slightly and waved his hand.

A zero egg flew over from the distance and stopped beside Lin Junfeng.

"Help me contact Wang Shuo. I need to know if we can let an outsider visit the zero egg production line."

"Command confirmed, reply received."

The zero egg beside Lin Junfeng seemed to lack personalized settings; its voice had not been anthropomorphized but remained a raw, semi-mechanical sound.

"Lin Junfeng, you have level five authorization and can decide whether to open the production line for outsider visits. Please note that according to the group's system requirements, you need to confirm the following aspects: the visitor's identity, the purpose of the visit, whether the content of the visit involves confidential information, and whether the content of the visit will harm the group's interests."

"If you still need to contact the highest authority for confirmation, system zero version 2.13 will speak with you."

Lin Junfeng was thoughtful and said calmly: "No."

"Understood, your command has been processed, and the relevant information will be uploaded to the main server for backup."

After finishing the response, the zero egg flew back to where it came from, landed gently on the charging dock, and turned off its screen.

"Mr. He, you heard it too. I am now allowing you to visit the zero egg production line, but this does not include the confidential parts. Can you understand?"

Lin Junfeng said to He Chenguang.

"I understand, thank you, General Manager Lin." He Chenguang nodded slightly, then pointed to the zero egg not far away and asked: "There is one more thing I would like to ask you, General Manager Lin. Does your company... always work like this?"

"Are you talking about zero?"

Lin Junfeng, who was leading the way, turned his head slightly upon hearing this, looked in the direction He Chenguang was pointing, and said with a smile: "Our zero egg is different from the retail version. During work hours, they are controlled by the main system zero, so it is more convenient to negotiate matters through it."

"Of course, it can also help you calculate data, analyze situations, provide suggestions, report work, convey instructions, view data, and so on. Once it is perfected, there should be other functions."

He Chenguang's pupils constricted.

"This system has not been fully developed yet?"

"Mm." Lin Junfeng didn't think much of it and explained: "Wang Shuo has been quite busy recently, so only half of this system has been made. The rest is still under development, but it should be soon. I heard that once zero's authorization reaches level three or above, it can independently modify some code, so it shouldn't be difficult to leave the rest to zero."

"Independently modify code..."

He Chenguang muttered to himself, turning his head to glance at the zero egg following beside him.

This thing... can it actually modify its own code?

It needs authorization?

He Chenguang suppressed his astonishment and followed Lin Junfeng step by step to a factory building with its doors tightly shut.

He Chenguang keenly noticed that this door seemed to have been newly replaced; its brand-new luster stood in stark contrast to the mottled walls around it.

Lin Junfeng came to the side of the gate. Just as He Chenguang was wondering what he was doing, the gate suddenly opened to both sides.

Looking at the factory building revealing its empty interior space, He Chenguang couldn't help but feel a bit dazed.

Seeming to sense He Chenguang's confusion, Lin Junfeng pointed to a small hole on the wall in front of him and said with a smile: "Wang Shuo is a person with very high standards. Under his requirements, this factory building has upgraded its access control. There are only two requirements for entry: zero egg authorization and the person themselves. The personal part is identified through a camera, and the accuracy rate is very high."

"Later, Wang Shuo will send someone to connect the system to the main system. If zero is in charge, entering won't be so troublesome. It can completely achieve 'person arrives, door opens' without needing special identification."

Looking at He Chenguang, who was standing there in a daze, Lin Junfeng reached out and said: "Mr. He, please come in."

He Chenguang finally snapped out of his daze and entered the factory with the zero egg.

"This factory building was also renovated according to Wang Shuo's requirements, using all the best equipment in the country, and designed under Wang Shuo's personal supervision."

He Chenguang looked around carefully.

The factory was no different from an ordinary factory; He Chenguang had even seen ones with more advanced facilities than this.

But the things inside made He Chenguang feel a bit confused.

On the ceiling, on the ground, there were sliding rails everywhere, crisscrossing.

Mechanical arms of various sizes were installed on these rails, moving rapidly.

On both sides of the conveyor belt, fixed mechanical arms of various models were working hard; their movements were not uniform, but they were full of rhythm.

It was just like lifeless workers.

Besides these, there were some small carts with wheeled chassis weaving between the various mechanical arms, using small hooks on their bodies to transport baskets of raw materials to fixed positions, and then returning to the discharge port.

Throughout the entire factory, there was no sign of any humans.

"Mr. He, what you see now is the zero egg production line. There are eight such production lines in this factory. Since they are all controlled by zero, they are not arranged in a completely regular way; some of their equipment is even shared."

"For example, this one."

Lin Junfeng pointed to a sliding rail mechanical arm.

"It is both the equipment for production line number one and also the equipment for production line number eight. It runs between both, so it is quite busy."

Before he had finished speaking, He Chenguang saw this mechanical arm move rapidly along the sliding rail, grab a basket of components from a material box nearby, go straight to another production line, pour the components into another storage box, and then quickly replace the original mechanical arm's position and start assembling at high speed.

"The entire production line is completely unmanned, operating 24 hours a day without interruption. Once each zero egg is assigned a number by zero, it is handed over to the production line for manufacturing. The production cycle can be precisely controlled to the second."

"So our pre-orders online are actually pre-ordering a zero egg number, right? When each zero egg reaches our hands, it's actually determined from the very beginning, right?"

"Yes and no."

Lin Junfeng shook his head slightly.

"Letting every user get the product as quickly as possible is our consistent pursuit, so we have been increasing and optimizing the production lines. Currently, the production cycle of the zero egg has been shortened to one minute. As we continue to increase the production lines, this time will continue to shorten in the future."

He Chenguang's gaze was complex.

Seeing the production line had already verified some of his conjectures.

But regarding the zero egg, he had even more doubts.

Is the zero egg's hardware advanced?

Just as he said before, perhaps the integration level is high and the design is very reasonable, but it does not exceed the current scope of technology.

Is the equipment in this factory advanced?

It uses equipment and devices that are currently available on the market.

But these two very simple things composed the advanced zero egg and the unmanned, intelligent production line.

Where is the problem?

In zero?

No, the problem is with that man.

That man who created the miracle of zero like a god.

"General Manager Lin."

He Chenguang was silent for a long while, then said: "I have a presumptuous request."

"I would like to request a meeting with Wang Shuo."