In the city of Kolmanskop, Namibia.
Chen Chen locked the door of the luxurious suite, clasped his hands against the bridge of his nose, and quietly stared at the computer screen.
At this time, three days had passed since the Elfi Power Plant incident.
In these three days, Chen Chen and the others quickly left the Rainbow Nation and returned to Namibia. Before the Namibian officials noticed, they had arrived at this small mining town called Kolmanskop.
About ten kilometers north of this city was the famous city of Lüderitz, Namibia.
After learning that Anthony and the Namibian officials still had not come to a conclusion, Chen Chen temporarily stayed in this town.
In the past few days, with Dlamini's help, Chen Chen had plundered 120 million kilowatts of electricity in Cape Town. According to the USB drive's instantiation ratio, about a hundred kilograms of material could be instantiated.
No, it should not be called "instantiation" anymore.
Chen Chen pondered. He had long deduced that the USB drive did not convert energy into matter out of thin air. Instead, it bore the energy to open a channel and connect the two worlds.
Therefore, it was more appropriate to use words like "exchange" or "ingest".
Erm...
Since that was the case, what should he 'absorb' next?
Chen Chen's eyes faintly glowed.
Since he could not use technological props for the time being, Chen Chen had recently contacted the head office and asked Little X to send the design of the company's second product, the "simultaneous translator", to Xia Yin so that she could prepare to launch this device.
Ever since signing a sky-high 4 billion contract with Facebook, the name of Blacklight Biotechnology was known by countless industry insiders and the company was also exposed to the teeth of the storm.
Moreover, once the simultaneous translator appeared on the market, it would immediately affect the interests of several industries. It was like a shocking tsunami. The near-death counterattack of those profit-oriented industries was something that even Chen Chen could not guarantee that he could lead the company to retreat unscathed.
As for whether Xia Yin could protect this new product and persevere in this tsunami-like wave, it was up to her.
Simply put, this was Chen Chen's test for Xia Yin.
If Xia Yin could survive, Chen Chen was prepared to give her full authority to manage all the public affairs of the head office. In the future, the position of CEO of Blacklight Biotechnology Group in Mainland China was inevitable.
However, if Xia Yin could not protect this technology, there would be no future. Chen Chen's friendship with her would be over and they would only be strangers in the future.
As for the benefits brought about by this technology, Chen Chen did not really care. It was a good opportunity for him to move from the light to the shadows and truly lay low.
However, as Chen Chen's influence grew and he began to encroach on the interests of others, the hidden dangers of inadequate personal safety were completely exposed.
Just like the assassination attempt by the Rainbow Nation.
In truth, he had no choice but to take the risk. After all, if Chen Chen had not used himself to attract the sniper, it would have been difficult to find out who the mole was.
If they couldn't find the mole, then even if they escaped this time, there would be another attack.
After all, how could one guard against thieves for a thousand days?
Therefore, the item options that he needed to exchange next should be based on personal safety.
Of course, the German military strategist Clausewitz once said a famous military maxim in "The War Debate", "Offense is the best defense". The Mainland also had this old adage, "Long defense will lead to loss".
In other words, pure defense was not advisable. Taking the initiative was the most important strategy.
Therefore, for Chen Chen, the best defense was the enhancement of his own strength. The best source of his strength was naturally superpowers.
With this in mind, Chen Chen began to download three movies on the computer.
"Chronicle", "My Super Ex-Girlfriend", "Psychokinesis".
The latter two were the two movies that Chen Chen found after Chronicle that relied on external forces to obtain superpowers. After all, the crystal in Chronicle was too huge. It would be better if he could settle for the next best thing.
However, as far as Chen Chen knew, My Super Ex-girlfriend was not a sci-fi film in essence, but a romantic comedy.
The female protagonist in the film had touched a meteor that fell from the sky when she was young, so she obtained extraordinary abilities. She could fly, have infinite strength, and move at the speed of sound, almost comparable to Superman.
This was even more so for Psychokinesis. This was the new work of the director of Train to Busan in Korea. The protagonist drank an alien liquid while drinking spring water. From then on, he obtained superpowers comparable to those in Chronicle.
However, unlike Chronicle, his superpowers here were not enhanced step by step, nor did he pay any price. Even the logic of the plot was quite lacking.
Even Douban, an American platform that liked to "balance" domestic movies, did not give this Oppa movie a favorable rating, only giving it a low score of 5.6.
Therefore, Chen Chen did not have too much hope.
Sure enough, after the three movies were downloaded, Chen Chen first tried Psychokinesis and heard a long-awaited "dong" sound.
Obviously, the USB drive thought that the logic of this movie was seriously lacking and mercilessly rejected Chen Chen's request.
After that, Chen Chen tried My Super Ex-Girlfriend...
"Dong!"
Hmm, the worldview was too lame. The USB drive rejected it again.
At this point, the USB drive finally resolved one of Chen Chen's doubts.
Chen Chen once imagined that if he invested in a movie, for example, setting up a kind of meteorite the size of a fingernail in the movie that would grant people superpowers upon contact. Would it be easy for him to obtain all kinds of superpowers he needed in this way?
Now, without even trying, the USB drive told Chen Chen the answer to this question —
In his dreams.
After deleting these two movies, Chen Chen turned his head and looked at the last remaining movie.
"Chronicle."
A complicated look flashed in Chen Chen's eyes. This was the ability he had always wanted, but as he learned more about it, Chen Chen became a little hesitant.
After Chronicle was released in 2012, it earned a box office of 100 million with 10 million US dollars. It was an unprecedented success and was well known by the netizens.
Then, because the second movie was delayed, it was criticized by the netizens.
After that, the plot of the second movie began to circulate on the Internet.
One of the theories first appeared in 2012, saying that there was an alien life form in the crystal in the cave and that the three protagonists had died that night. Everything after that was just clones.
Another theory appeared in 2016, saying that Andrew (the protagonist of the movie) did not die. Although he was pierced by a stone spear, he was eventually saved by the government and began to study his body.
However, after Chen Chen investigated online, he found that the original words of the screenwriter, Max Landis, in an interview were:
"I like Andrew very much. I understand what he did and how he felt, but the apocalyptic destruction he caused is also unforgivable. That's why I let him die in the end. But in Chronicle 2, I let him walk out of hell again. "
Moreover, in July of 2013, because the script of the second movie he wrote was too dark, he was kicked out of the crew by the producers and completely lost his chance with Chronicle 2.
Obviously, the first plot that circulated on the Internet conflicted with the screenwriter, Max Landis' interview.
Not only that, but Chen Chen also found it hard to believe that the script of a movie had been leaked before filming had even begun.
As for the online rumors that the second movie had already been filmed, Chen Chen had also checked them. They were all rumors. The second movie project had been indefinitely shelved by the production company.
Still, after seeing these rumors, Chen Chen was still a little hesitant.
What if the rumors were true?
Chen Chen was not afraid of falling into a trap because as cautious as he was, it was impossible for him to extract the crystalline and directly irradiate it. He had to make preparations first —
For example, create a laboratory, use heavy lead glass to isolate the radiation, and then slowly study the material composition and characteristics of the crystal.
Before ensuring that the crystal would not cause irreversible damage to the human body, Chen Chen would not accept the crystal's irradiation.
Moreover, if there was an alien life form inside the crystal as the rumors said, naturally, it could not be extracted from the USB drive.
Chen Chen clicked on [Chronicle.Mp4] on the screen and pressed [Ctrl + C].
At this time, the energy in the USB drive was still not enough to extract the crystalline. The reason Chen Chen downloaded it together was because he wanted to see if the movie could be stored in the USB drive.
If Chronicle could not be stored, then naturally, everything would be over. Chen Chen would not consider things like superpowers in the future.
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