934: Chapter 929 The Quantum Age

A low, deep hum sounded, like the breathing of a giant beast from the deep sea.

Thousands of vacuum tubes lit up simultaneously in an instant.

It wasn't the warm orange-yellow glow.

It was a strange, faint blue light.

That was Cherenkov radiation generated by electrons colliding at high speed with phosphors in a vacuum.

This blue light illuminated everyone's faces, and it illuminated Shen Yan's bottomless eyes.

The Palladium core began to levitate and spin, and the surrounding air distorted.

That was a sign of space being folded by an intense electromagnetic field.

"Look! Look at that oscilloscope!"

Lin Dong suddenly shrieked, pointing to an instrument next to him.

On the screen, the originally chaotic waveforms suddenly turned into a perfect straight line.

That was the mark of establishing a quantum entangled state.

No delay.

No loss.

Absolute synchronization.

Xie Wenyuan knelt on the ground, staring at that straight line, tears streaming down his face.

"It's alive..."

"It's really alive..."

Shen Yan watched this scene without any expression, merely taking out his cell phone from his pocket.

The signal bars showed full strength.

But this was only the traditional 4G signal.

One day in the future, this world would no longer need base stations or fiber optic cables.

As long as they had this pair of entangled particles, communication could be achieved with zero latency, even on Mars.

And the source of all this was in his hands.

Whether it was that pile of old vacuum tubes or those monopolized rare metals.

Now, they were the key to the new world.

Shen Yan turned around and looked at the group of dumbfounded top talents behind him.

"Everyone."

"Welcome to the Quantum Age."

The blue light dissipated, and the air in the laboratory seemed to be sucked out for an instant, followed by a deathly silence.

Xie Wenyuan sat limply on the ground like a boneless mollusk, staring blankly at the perfectly straight line on the oscilloscope.

No fluctuation.

No delay whatsoever.

This line declared that the "spooky action at a distance" spoken of by Einstein had been turned into reality by a group of madmen in a basement in Jinghai.

Shen Yan put away his phone, and the time on the screen jumped forward by one second.

"Old Xie, stop crying."

Shen Yan's voice pulled everyone's souls back to reality.

"Since this thing is alive, it needs a name."

Xie Wenyuan haphazardly wiped the snot and tears from his face and climbed up from the ground, caressing the machine that was still emitting a low-frequency hum as if it were a lover.

"It doesn't need a name, it is..."

"Call it 'Deep Space'."

Shen Yan interrupted the lyrical outburst of the physics maniac.

"The 'Deep' from Shen Yan, and the 'Space' that transcends time and space."

Lin Dong pushed up his glasses from the side, his hands still trembling slightly.

"CEO Shen, once this is announced, the existing communication system will collapse. Fiber optics, base stations, undersea cables... trillions in assets will turn into scrap metal overnight."

"We will be hunted down by global telecom giants."

Shen Yan walked to the control console and looked at the monopolized core data for Palladium.

"Hunted down?"

He took out a cigarette from his pocket, didn't light it, but just twirled it between his fingers.

"When your muzzle is big enough to fit the Earth, no one dares to hunt you. They will only kneel down and beg you to fire a shot so they can die more quickly."

The system interface refreshed again in his mind.

[Intelligence Update: The world's six major telecom operators, led by US T&T, are preparing for a closed-door meeting of the '6G Alliance' to formulate new generation communication standards and block Chinese technology from going overseas.]

Blockade?

Shen Yan threw the cigarette into the trash can.

Before, it was us who wanted to go out to sea.

From now on, the sea will be right here.

...

Three days later, the top-floor conference room of Shenyan Building.

The air was filled with an anxious and uneasy smell, like the low pressure before a thunderstorm.

Zhao Changhe from Aurora Motors sat on the left, his tie loose, and the ashtray in front of him was already stuffed with cigarette butts.

Sun Lan from Huamei Biology sat on the right. Her exquisite makeup couldn't hide the dark circles under her eyes, and the Hermès bag in her hand was creased from how tightly she gripped it.

Besides the two of them, there were the leaders of three other high-tech manufacturing enterprises in Jinghai.

They had all come to beg for 'medicine'.

The Palladium and Rhodium monopolized by Shen Yan were the life-saving medicine for their companies.

The door to the conference room was pushed open.

No pleasantries, no courtesies.

Shen Yan walked in wearing a simple white shirt, followed by Chen Guangke who was holding a thick stack of documents.

"Gentlemen, sorry to keep you waiting."

Shen Yan pulled out the main chair, sat down, and swept his gaze over these tycoons who commanded the business world.

At this moment, they were as docile as a flock of lambs awaiting slaughter.

Zhao Changhe was the first to lose his patience and stood up abruptly.

"CEO Shen, let's not beat around the bush. Aurora's new model must go into mass production next month. Without Palladium for the catalytic converter, it's just scrap iron. Name your price. As long as it's not too outrageous, I, Zhao Changhe, will accept defeat."

Sun Lan also spoke up, her voice a little hoarse.

"Huamei's high-precision reagent production line has been shut down for three days. Every minute is burning money, CEO Shen. We are all enterprises in Jinghai, give us a way to survive."

Shen Yan leaned back in his chair, his fingers tapping lightly on the desk.

Tap, tap, tap.

This sound seemed to strike the heart of everyone present.

"I'm not selling."

Three words made Zhao Changhe's face instantly turn the color of pig liver.

"Shen Yan! Don't push it too far! You've hoarded so much stock, do you really intend to let it rot in your hands?"

Shen Yan raised his hand to signal Chen Guangke.

Chen Guangke grinned, revealing a mouthful of white teeth, and distributed the documents in his arms in front of everyone.

"I'm not selling the metals," Shen Yan looked at Zhao Changhe. "But I am selling services."

Zhao Changhe picked up the document and only glanced at the cover before his brow furrowed deeply.

"Shenyan Group - Industrial Interconnection Strategic Cooperation Agreement."

"What does this mean?"

"It means something very simple."

Shen Yan leaned forward, and a sense of oppression instantly enveloped the room.

"I can provide you with enough Palladium and Rhodium at market price."

"Furthermore, I can open the computing power interface of pangu Supercomputer for your R&D."

Hearing 'market price' and 'computing power,' the breathing of the tycoons present became heavier.

The temptation was too great.

"What are the conditions?" Sun Lan asked warily.

"The condition is that all of your products must embed the 'Deep Space' communication module developed by Shenyan Group."

"Moreover, all industrial data you generate must run on Shen Yan's private cloud."

Zhao Changhe slapped the document onto the table with a bang.

"That's impossible! This is equivalent to handing over the lifeblood of our enterprises to you! What is the 'Deep Space' module? We haven't even heard of it!"

"That's your problem."

Shen Yan stood up and straightened his cuffs.

"The door is right there. Those who don't sign can leave now."

"But I must remind everyone that in ten minutes, I will inject this batch of metals into a near-bankrupt auto factory and a pharmaceutical factory I am about to acquire."

"With the boost from computing power and resources, in three months, I can build a car that performs better and costs less than Aurora's. At that time, CEO Zhao might not even have the chance for bankruptcy liquidation."