The cooperation between Musk and Chen Chen was quickly announced on the official websites of both parties.
The content of the cooperation was not hidden either. All the details were clearly stated in the announcement — Blacklight Biotechnology was prepared to invest in SpaceX to launch five geosynchronous orbit communication satellites within a year to open up Blacklight Biotechnology's exclusive global communication technology. This was to protect their own technology from being leaked.
At the same time, Blacklight Biotechnology would build a space launch base in an area south of the Eco Science City. The estimated investment was ten billion US dollars and the specific aerospace technology would be purchased from SpaceX.
Because this space launch base was geographically close to the equator, it could be said to be the best choice for launching geosynchronous orbit satellites.
At the same time when this news was released, the entire science and technology community was in an uproar. For a time, topics related to this news appeared on major forums around the world:
"What? Blacklight Biotechnology is involved in the military and aerospace industry? They're also going to cooperate with SpaceX to launch satellites? This is simply a dream... "
"Launching satellites to establish an independent communication system, will the Earth Federation Aerospace Regulatory Agency agree?"
"If they can agree to something as outrageous as the Starlink Project, what are these five geosynchronous orbit satellites? As long as the money is in place, it's enough. Blacklight Biotechnology is the company that has the least shortage of money. "
"Is Namibia being shorted? The military and aerospace industries are all given to a foreign company, this government is already a puppet, isn't it? "
"You're right. I'm a citizen of Namibia. I hate this company very much. It's causing our government to lose its autonomy and independence. They've bribed all the officials in the Parliament. They even privately buy felons. It's simply …"
"Huh, what about the previous poster's reply? Why is it suddenly gone? "
...
Let's not talk about the kind and malicious discussions for now. At this time, in an open space south of the Eco Science City, two vast construction sites were circled. Hundreds of trucks and excavators arrived one after another and started the construction in full swing.
As for the construction teams, except for a very few local employees who held unimportant positions, most of them were Blacklight Biotechnology's own construction team.
This was a newly formed construction team. The construction team consisted of white, black, and yellow people. This construction team was a construction company registered by Blacklight Biotechnology in Namibia at the end of last year — Tara Infrastructure Company, a subsidiary of Tara Strategic Resources.
Under the uncanny workmanship of this group of workers, the brand-new military industrial park at the space launch base changed almost every day, and the number of buildings below the horizon increased day by day.
Every time Blacklight Biotechnology made a big move, the international deepwater port and international airport of Walvis Bay would become extremely busy. At this time, countless construction materials and all kinds of machinery were imported.
For the sake of convenience, two four-lane asphalt roads with a length of more than 50 kilometers were paved overnight a few days ago.
In short, the astonishing efficiency of Blacklight Biotechnology caused the Namibian government to widen their eyes. This was a speed that they could only be envied by the infrastructure maniac.
During this period of construction, tons of germanium metal were secretly transported into the industrial park of the Eco Science City.
In the depths of the industrial park, the second Gantz server machine was finally built.
This Gantz server was far larger than the first one. Its mass was ten times that of the first one, weighing more than a hundred tons. Its diameter was also three meters and its height was more than thirty meters. It was like a giant metal tower.
At this time, in the depths of the industrial park, Chen Chen looked at the giant tower and the Black Knights coming and going on the iron frame next to the giant tower with a solemn expression.
This giant tower was slowly built and assembled by this group of Black Knight engineers.
"According to the calculations, the signal coverage of the Gantz server machine is increasing exponentially."
At this time, Little X's voice came. "The previous ten-ton Gantz server machine only had a signal range of two hundred kilometers, which means it could only cover the area of Switzerland at most.
"Now, the signal range of the new Gantz server machine has exceeded two thousand kilometers, which is enough to cover half of Africa. This means that as long as the new Gantz server machine is within the range of the new Gantz server machine, point-to-point transmission can be conducted between two black spheres."
"It's still not enough."
Chen Chen shook his head. "The diameter of the Earth is 12742 kilometers. This means that if we want to freely control the black spheres around the world, we'll need at least two Gantz server machines with a signal range of ten thousand kilometers, which is two Gantz server machines weighing five hundred tons."
"Yes."
Little X replied, "When the Gantz server machine machine's signal covers the entire Earth, we can evenly distribute the black spheres in hundreds of locations around the world. No matter where we want to go, we can quickly arrive with the black spheres. If the Gantz satellite is also launched at that time, we'll be more flexible."
"I'm looking forward to that day."
Chen Chen nodded.
As Little X said, as long as there was a signal coverage of the Gantz server machine, point-to-point transmission could be conducted between two black spheres. If the Gantz satellite was used as a relay station, this kind of transmission could even be done with a single black sphere.
The original Gantz novel expressed this situation — even if there were no black spheres nearby, the Gantz satellite could still collect the accidental deaths in the city and forcibly pull them into the black sphere room. Then, after they received their mission, they could be transported again to the streets of the city. It was a marvelous feat.
If Chen Chen could achieve this step one day, it meant that the entire human civilization could no longer stop him.
Of course, before everything was realized, this was nothing more than a beautiful fantasy. At this time, looking at the brand-new and huge Gantz server machine in front of him, Chen Chen suddenly said, "X, after X-112 drilled into the first server machine, did anything change?"
"No, whether in terms of the loopholes or loyalty, there's no change."
Little X replied, "I send a test question to X-112 every day, which contains the backdoor command program I set up for it. It must answer all of them correctly to pass the test. If its source code is changed, it won't be able to answer some of the questions correctly."
Chen Chen nodded. "Then, can X-112 exert the true power of the Gantz server machine?"
"After all, X-112 is my avatar. Whether it's the degree of intelligence, creativity, or adaptability close to that of a human, it's not even half as good as me."
Little X said, "Also, the larger the Gantz server machine is built, the stronger its computing power will be. This means that the computing power of the smallest Gantz server machine isn't that great. It's only equivalent to a few hundred times the computing speed of the Milky Way supercomputer. Although it sounds exaggerated, this number isn't much, so X-112 can't exert the true power of the Gantz server machine.
"In that case, X, get ready to convert your source code into the E language and enter this new Gantz server machine."
As if he had made up his mind, Chen Chen suddenly made a decision. "In the future, as long as a larger Gantz server machine is built, you'll automatically enter the latest server machine."
"Understood!"
Little X's voice suddenly became a little excited. Indeed, with Little X's increasingly bloated body and increasingly perfect intelligence, the computer array in Eco Science City could no longer satisfy her needs.
She desperately needed a new home and now, the Gantz server machine was the best choice.
Soon, following Little X's own orders, the Black Knights in the industrial park gathered one after another. At the same time, they also brought a variety of equipment. Among them, the most conspicuous was the computer array where Little X's own source code was located.
This computer array had a total of thirty parallel cabinets, consisting of ten thousand nodes. Each node had three Intel Xeon E 52692 processors, a total of thirty thousand computing cores. Equipped with a liquid nitrogen cooling system, the computing speed could reach a quadrillion times per second.
This computer array was previously ordered from IBM by Chen Chen for hundreds of millions of dollars. Although it could not compare to some national supercomputers, it was enough to serve as Little X's former home.
Just like programming, the system in this computer array was Little X. At this time, Little X was constantly converting herself into the E language so that she could be compatible with the Gantz server machine program, thus achieving the goal of entering the server machine.
The Black Knights were not idle either. They were connecting an even more complicated instrument to the computer array. From afar, it looked like a heavy machine gun. It was about two meters tall but had a shocking length of four meters.
Just like a laser cannon, at this time, a large number of cables and parts were exposed. This complicated but crude instrument constantly rumbled as it operated.
Most people would not be able to recognize what this was, but Chen Chen knew that it was a photon switch.
As the Gantz server machine itself did not have any slots, to transmit data, the photon switch was the only way.
At this time, Chen Chen silently observed everything. Since he had done experiments on X-112, he was very familiar with this now and did not hesitate at all.
After Little X completed the conversion of its 1EB code, the data transmission began...
At this time, on the Gantz server tower, groups of red patterns were bright and dark, like a magnificent neon lamp. The entire body was dark red, and the complex and mysterious E language on it lit up one after another, emitting a horrifying scarlet color.
"Program initialization in progress..."
Through the photon switch, the information of the Gantz server machine was also converted by the computer into the form of voice, which was transmitted through the sound equipment next to it.
All this lasted for the entire night. Chen Chen also stood guard in front of the machine for the entire night. When the next day's dawn rose, Chen Chen took a deep breath and slowly straightened his back.
This was because he saw that the constantly operating photon switch had officially stopped the data transmission. The strange red light on the huge Gantz server machine in front of him had also temporarily disappeared.
This meant that the conversion had ended.
In the next second, the Gantz server machine suddenly began to flash scarlet again. The light was transmitted through the photon switch to the previous computer array. After that, the voice of Little X came from the sound system again. "Sir Godfather, I've successfully entered the Gantz server machine."
"How does it feel?"
"It feels very good."
Little X replied, her tone full of excitement. "My computing power has exceeded hundreds of millions of times what it used to be. It seems that many calculations that I didn't dare to calculate before now I can get the answer at a glance. In the past, because the network was too large, there was no way to take into account information that could not be investigated. Now, I can easily obtain and analyze information, and get the answer I want in a ten-thousandth of a second!
"If this trend continues, our enemies will no longer have a place to hide on the entire network. Even if they hide themselves like the former White Embers, it will be useless!"
Hearing this, Chen Chen suddenly had an idea. He thought for a moment. "So, now, can you detect the doubt that I once deduced?"
"The doubt that you once had?"
Little X immediately reacted. "You mean the speculation about the Earth Federation?"
"Yes."
Chen Chen nodded. The doubt that he mentioned referred to when faced with a crisis that was enough to topple human civilization, there were two preemptive actions to actively avoid and resolve the crisis. This included the Blacklight virus incident and the "three no statues" incident that did not listen, see, and speak.
This meant that the Earth Federation seemed to have some kind of preventive mechanism to predict the crisis in advance. It was just that at that time, Little X tried her best to investigate, but unfortunately, her ability was limited and she could not find anything at all.
"I can give it a try."
Little X was silent for a moment as if she was estimating the energy consumed to investigate this matter, then she said, "But I need all the power generated by the Blacklight Nuclear Power Plant and the two nuclear fusion reactors in the Spire Experimental Base!"
"That much?"
Chen Chen was shocked. "What are you planning to do?"
"I plan to write a new program with the advantages of the E language and use it to carry out a 'guess' assignment, to guess what kind of trump card the Earth Federation has."
Little X replied.
"You can guess this too?" Chen Chen was taken aback.
"I say it's a guess, but to put it bluntly, it's a kind of prediction!"
Little X let out a chuckle that sounded like a silver bell and explained, "To put it bluntly, it's just a prediction of the future, but this kind of prediction is different from the prediction of a fortune teller. After digitizing all the possibilities of the world, it's brought into the world model for calculation and an answer.
"The reason for this is that human thoughts, certain things that happen, and every decision that humans make are, in fact, predestined. Humans always think that they are in control of their thoughts, but in fact, their thoughts are all the result of a series of electrochemical reactions. It is no different from a program. Different external factors will influence human thoughts, and different memories will also affect everyone's decisions …"
"Moreover, since it can calculate the future of one person, it can also calculate the future of a group of people. As long as I collect the information of everyone in the world, personality, way of doing things, resume, and so on, at the same time, at the same time, the interaction of weather, environment, and surrounding things, I can calculate the possible development and changes of a social group over a period of time...
"With my current computing ability, I can convert all the current data into numbers and then simulate their operation according to the laws of reality. The final result is the so-called future!
"I call this program... The Prophet System!"
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