309: Chapter 308 Modification

There was no warning, no reason, and in a situation no one had anticipated, things just happened so suddenly.

After the United States announced its statement, within a few short hours, countries and regions other than China, as well as partner companies and enterprises, issued statements one after another.

At 8:01, the head of the United States FBI made a public statement, urging relevant departments and the United States military to ban the purchase and use of Huaneng Technology mobile phones and equipment.

At 8:30, three major European countries announced one after another that they would abandon the purchase of Huaneng Group's communication equipment.

At 8:40, Vangi Semiconductor, Samsung Semiconductor, and related United States semiconductor companies simultaneously announced that they would no longer accept Chip foundry orders from Huaneng Group, and existing orders could not be delivered on time.

At 8:55, Australia announced a ban on Huaneng Group participating in communication infrastructure, and would no longer use Huaneng Technology 5G equipment.

At 9:00, a well-known influencer in China reposted the United States ban and published a long review, the content of which went to great lengths to slander Huaneng Group's equipment and operational strategies, demanding that Huaneng Group apologize.

That wasn't the end of it; at the end of the article, this influencer also linked another company—Frontier Technology Company—and similarly demanded an apology to consumers.

For a time, Huaneng Group seemed to be pushed to the forefront of the storm.

Hanzhong City, storage center.

The turmoil outside seemed not to have affected this place; the atmosphere remained calm.

Outside the warehouse entrance, in a black business car, Li Chengcai silently lit a cigarette for himself, took a deep drag, and then exhaled a thick cloud of smoke with satisfaction, before asking the person next to him, "Is your President Wang always like this?"

Sitting beside him was a young man who smiled upon hearing this and said, "President Wang has always been like this; you'll get used to it."

Li Chengcai was speechless.

Ever since they arrived here yesterday and Wang Shuo entered this factory building, he hadn't come out once; as of today, it had already been over thirty-six hours.

If it weren't for the takeout delivered every so often, he would have suspected that Wang Shuo had kicked the bucket inside.

This was a big problem.

Anyone inside could kick the bucket, but Wang Shuo could not; if he kicked the bucket, it would be hard for him to explain to Chen Zhongxuan and Ms. Chen Xin.

Also... if Wang Shuo kicked the bucket, who would fulfill his zero egg?

He had been coveting this thing for a long time.

Li Chengcai shifted to a more comfortable position leaning against the door, but his eyes kept scanning the surroundings.

In the pitch-black night, nothing could be seen, but the monitor clearly displayed the situation for several hundred meters around.

There was no movement.

Li Chengcai relaxed a bit, watching the young man next to him intently observing the monitor, he smiled slightly, closed his eyes gently, and began to rest.

And just a few hundred meters away, on a public bench.

Two figures were quietly watching the movement at the factory.

One figure spoke up, "Hans, are you sure this is the place?"

A pure English accent.

"According to the news from The Publisher, this should be the place, Jack."

The other figure looked at the map on his phone and replied.

"Then this is going to be a bit tricky."

Jack frowned slightly: "The car in front of the door has been parked here for two days, and the people in the car have basically not left; it looks like security personnel."

"The Publisher said not to make too much noise here, otherwise, the organization won't be able to save us."

Hans said indifferently.

They had been here for three days, two of which had been spent here, but they still hadn't grasped the target's behavioral patterns—this target seemed to have no fixed daily routine, and even the meal times were not fixed.

Furthermore, what puzzled them was that even the restaurants delivering the food and the delivery personnel were not fixed.

The only comfort they had was: although these people were divided into several groups, the clothes they wore were generally consistent.

If there was really no other way, they could completely choose to disguise themselves and approach the target.

Jack touched his waist with some regret, then extinguished the thought of resorting to direct force, and said indifferently: "I understand. Let's continue to observe; the target has been here for such a long time, so a careful search should yield some results."

Gathering information on the target was also part of this mission.

Inside the factory.

The large factory had once again been rearranged by Wang Shuo.

The area at the back of the factory originally used to test the Electromagnetic Rifle had been cleared by Wang Shuo and set up with a huge metal box.

On the outside of the metal box, a few English letters could be vaguely seen.

At this moment, the box was wide open, and five or six metal robotic arms surrounded the box, extending their front ends into the interior, moving constantly and emitting sparks from time to time.

Wang Shuo was sitting on the sofa, wearing a pair of VR glasses, holding a controller in his hand, looking as if he were immersed in it, with a very serious expression.

Suddenly, Wang Shuo spoke loudly: "Zero, stop, this part cannot be moved!"

The robotic arms suddenly paused.

"Disengage the automatic process; leave the lens installation to me."

Wang Shuo commanded.

"Understood, sir. Switched to manual operation."

Wang Shuo slightly turned the controller, and one of the robotic arms began to move slowly.

These robotic arms were already the version after two rounds of Wang Shuo's "magic modifications."

Because the drive joints had been replaced with the same ones used in the six-legged robot, their precision and operating speed had been greatly improved.

Coupled with multiple depth cameras installed at the ends, they could present the image in the VR glasses in 360 degrees without any blind spots, giving Wang Shuo a first-person experience.

By the third version, Wang Shuo prepared to add some new technology, striving to make the performance of these robotic arms off the charts.

"Zero, auxiliary mode, display reference position in real-time."

Wang Shuo said in a deep voice.

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw phantom images appearing on the display interface in front of him; he carefully moved the robotic arm, carefully aligning the lens gripped by the robotic arm with the phantom image.

This was already a crucial step; the installation of the lens determined whether the entire machine could successfully achieve its design purpose.

If there was any carelessness, the entire machine might be ruined because of it.

And in the short term, he had no way to obtain another complete Lithography Machine from other channels, even if it were just a second-hand one with outdated performance.

That's right, the metal box in front of him was the essential equipment for manufacturing Chips—the Lithography Machine.

It was just that the performance of this Lithography Machine was not very excellent; the precision was only 128nm, belonging to the veteran-level products.

If it weren't for this, Professor Zeng would not have agreed to move this equipment here.

The equipment was in hand, but what if the performance didn't meet the requirements? Upgrade!

Thus, Wang Shuo had been doing this for the past few days.

Ever since he started designing zero egg, he had the intention of manufacturing Chips.

Therefore, the plan for the Super Chip production line and production equipment had been listed in advance and constantly improved through Zero, as were the equipment blueprints.

Originally, he planned to have Chen Zhongxuan build a brand-new machine from scratch, but obviously, after Vangi Semiconductor issued its announcement, it was clearly too late to build a brand-new machine, so he could only make a last-minute effort to modify an existing machine.

Unfortunately, this machine had a huge gap with the machine he had imagined, especially the machine structure; through his disassembly, the optical path of this thing had only undergone five concentrated treatments, and the lenses involved in processing the light were all products from several years ago, with light transmittance seriously failing to meet standards.

Fortunately: the person this machine encountered was Wang Shuo.

There was nothing that a person who had inherited the top-tier technology from another universe could not solve.

A month ago, Wang Shuo had already taken precautions and arranged for Lin Junfeng to produce the latest new material: colorless, transparent, easy to process, and with sufficient hardness.

The most critical thing was that after a series of treatments, the light transmittance of this new material was far higher than that of common products currently on the market.

The next thing was very simple: manufacture the new material and perform precision processing according to Wang Shuo's design.

For this, Wang Shuo even specially ordered a special light source through Zheng Yi.

As for why he had to find Zheng Yi... ahem, everyone understands the reason.

Three days ago, the blueprints, raw materials, and missing replacement parts were all ready, and the modification operation officially began.

Since the principle of the Super Chip had not been fundamentally overturned, the workload of the modification was not large.

What Wang Shuo did was simply to completely redesign the internal structure of the original Lithography Machine, changing the original five-treatment single-path optical path into two light paths with fifteen-time beam focusing; changing the original general light source to a more powerful Weapon-grade light source; upgrading the original 128nm precision directly to 14nm; and changing the design that could only etch ordinary transistors into a brand-new 3D crystal Chip.

The last point was the essence of the Super Chip.