Coro Island, near the Future People's Building, located in the northeast corner of Coro Island, a high-tech park representing Xin's most cutting-edge technology had gradually formed.
It was also the most heavily guarded place on Coro Island. The entrance and walls were guarded by soldiers in kinetic skeletons and patrolled with Hummingbird drones. The access control didn't use ID cards; it only used iris recognition for authentication. The security level here was second only to Jiang Chen's private mansion at the northernmost tip of Coro Island and slightly higher than the Xin Presidential Palace in the city center.
But even so, walking in the science and technology park didn't make you feel the pressure of being in a military zone. Other than the patrols outside the wall, Hummingbird drones were usually lurking in the "drone hive" on standby. Only when the alarm was triggered would they swarm to the source of the alarm.
The obedient ones would automatically get down, the disobedient ones would be shot down with rubber bullets, and those with weapons …
Would be turned into sieves.
In the science and technology park, there were no so-called military zones or restricted areas. And some special places couldn't be entered without sufficient authority.
For example, the nanomaterial laboratory located two hundred meters away from the building. The construction of this egg-shaped building had started two months ago and had been put into use a week ago. The main research project was nanomaterial led by graphene.
The level of authority here was second only to the CEO offices of Future Group's subsidiaries. Other than the researchers working here, the number of employees in the entire Future Group could be counted on one hand.
The entire laboratory cost 140 million US Dollar and was currently the most expensive laboratory in Future Group.
Although it burned money, compared to other laboratories researching nanomaterial worldwide, the 140 million US Dollar investment was considered "cheap". A lot of experimental equipment easily burned millions of dollars, and the cost of construction and maintenance were astonishingly high.
The reason why Future Group's laboratory was cheap was because of the industrial-grade 3D printer that Jiang Chen brought. A lot of cutting-edge experimental equipment could be produced by themselves. There was also the graphene cutting machine bought from Zhao Chenwu a long time ago, as well as the technical information related to graphene production applications. These things all provided a lot of help for the experiment.
The scientists standing here may not be the top scholars in the world in the same field, but the technology they were exposed to was undoubtedly the strongest in the 21st century.
Since they were standing on Jiang Chen's shoulders.
…
When Jiang Chen arrived at the lab, the lab director in a white coat was standing with other staff around a rock-mountain-sized experimental equipment, nervously conducting experiments on nanomaterials. Some of them were responsible for adjusting the parameters, some were responsible for recording the data, and some were responsible for evaluating the phenomenon … There were a total of eleven researchers, and none of them were redundant.
The director of the laboratory was called Lu Yuan. He was a 47-year-old male, and he used to be an academician of materials physics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. This old man, who was nearing fifty years old, had a head full of black hair. His ramrod straight body looked very robust, and he did not look old at all. He looked like a man in his thirties.
It was not easy to invite him to be the director of the laboratory. Even though Chinese researchers didn't have a high income, at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, especially in materials science, which was related to national defense, their treatment wouldn't be low. According to Lu Yuan, including bonuses and social security, he would earn at least one or two million a year …
But Jiang Chen's annual salary was ten million.
Reality proved that as long as the hoe was used well, there was no wall that couldn't be dug out. But what really attracted the old professor to Xin with his best students was Jiang Chen's promise of a "non-bureaucratic and free research environment" and "state-of-the-art research equipment," as well as the most tempting "Future Group's technical data."
Of course, a confidentiality agreement was necessary. Since he came to Xin, Jiang Chen wouldn't let him go.
Jiang Chen quietly stood in the hallway outside the lab and watched the researchers fiddle with the experimental equipment through the window. When the experiment was over, he opened the door and walked in.
"How's the situation?"
"Very ideal." Lu Yuan patted the experimental data in his arms and exclaimed, "I finally understand how terrifying Future Group's research capabilities are."
"Can I interpret this as boasting?" Jiang Chen said in a joking tone.
What he meant was, aren't you guys the "research capabilities" of Future Group?
Lu Yuan laughed and handed the experimental data to his assistant. He ordered him to summarize the experimental data before he looked at Jiang Chen again.
"To be honest, I feel pity."
"Pity?" Jiang Chen asked.
"That's right." Lu Yuan nodded and sighed. "Putting aside those gimmicks, we used chemical vapor deposition to successfully create the first 15-inch single-layer graphene in the country and successfully produced a 7-inch graphene touch screen. But such a high-strength graphene cable, I never thought I would see it in my lifetime … With it, the space elevator that only appears in novels and movies wouldn't be difficult. "
Inside the instrument cover in the center of the lab, a hair-thin graphene tube was connected between two metal columns, and this "strand of hair" was the lab. Just now, they tested the strength of this graphene tube in different pressure and gas environments, and the results were very gratifying.
"The space elevator is our next strategy. I can tell you in advance." Jiang Chen smiled.
"If the Chinese Academy of Sciences could also have such a lab, even without the technical data. In at most ten years, this "strand of hair" would be born in Hua … "Lu Yuan sighed and then shook his head.
It was meaningless to talk about this now. As the price of entering the lab, he already signed a confidentiality agreement with Future Group and couldn't leave Xin for ten years.
Jiang Chen only pouted at Lu Yuan's exclamation.
Of course, 50% of the experimental equipment came from the middle of the 22nd century. More importantly, the technical data came from the 22nd century!
Of course, Jiang Chen only thought about it in his mind and didn't say it out loud. As to the source of the technical data, he only explained that it was obtained through commercial means or other channels and refused to provide a more detailed explanation.
"So, what's there to feel pity about?" Jiang Chen laughed.
"Unfortunately, it was Future Group that solved this problem, not the Chinese Academy of Sciences." Lu Yuan looked at Jiang Chen and said slowly, "To be honest, the council discussed your problem. But no one expected that in addition to artificial intelligence and virtual reality, you have so many capabilities. "
Jiang Chen smiled and didn't respond to this question. Instead, he asked, "Then do you think that without such a broad stage, Future Group would still be Future Group?"
Lu Yuan couldn't help but ask, "Are you not willing to contribute to your hometown?"
"Of course," Jiang Chen said frankly. However, before Lu Yuan was about to continue, Jiang Chen changed the topic and dispelled Lu Yuan's unrealistic idea. "But I won't teach you everything."
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