Chapter 4 Team Management Learned from Bees

Before the whiteboard, Li Jiajun was like he'd been injected with chicken blood, the marker in his hand turning into an afterimage.

In the livestream room, those few viewers who had stayed since the start, along with the whale donor with the ID "A White Cloth on the Head," all stared blankly at the screen.

They witnessed a Streamer, in less than ten minutes, transform from a joking goofball into a "technical expert" they couldn't understand at all.

"Streamer... no, Main Streamer, has he really gone crazy or is he faking it?"

"I don't understand, but I'm greatly shocked! What on earth is he drawing? It looks scarier than what my university advanced math teacher draws."

"Although I don't know what it is, it feels really impressive... You guys think, could it really be a script?"

Li Jiajun was completely immersed in his own world, turning a deaf ear to the discussions in the bullet chat.

The principle of "Quad-rotor Redundant Power" he realized from dragonflies opened a brand new door for him. The drone structure under his pen possessed stability and flight efficiency far exceeding the toys of this era. Four independent rotor systems served as backups for each other; even if one set was damaged during flight, the other three could instantly take over, performing attitude compensation through complex algorithms to ensure the drone wouldn't "crash" on the spot.

'Perfect! This is simply an industrial work of art!' He was extremely satisfied with his design.

Finally, he drew the last stroke. A blueprint for a sophisticated single drone with eight propellers was fully presented on the whiteboard.

He let out a long sigh of relief, patted the ink stains on his hands, turned around, and faced the camera with a proud expression.

"family, how is it? The single-unit efficiency problem is solved! With this design, let alone wind and rain, even if it gets hit by a bird mid-flight, it can stay steady for you!"

He was about to accept the Netizens' worship when his eyes inadvertently swept over the bullet chat message sent earlier by "A White Cloth on the Head."

"High efficiency, large numbers..."

The smile on Li Jiajun's face slowly froze.

High efficiency was solved.

But what about "large numbers"?

A picture surfaced in his mind: hundreds or thousands of these high-efficiency drones he designed flying wildly in the sky, like a swarm of headless flies, colliding with each other and then crashing down with a clatter.

That wouldn't be "large numbers"; that would be a "large-scale air disaster scene."

'To make so many drones act as a whole, without interfering with each other, and with unified scheduling...'

A new technical challenge, like a mountain, weighed down on him again.

Li Jiajun's brow furrowed unconsciously, and the pride from just now vanished instantly. He fell into deep thought again.

The viewers in the livestream room saw the change in his expression and were amused.

"Haha, the Main Streamer was so cocky just now, why is he suddenly constipated?"

"I guess he thought of the next problem. Look at how conflicted he looks."

"Let me guess, did he think about how to sell this thing? If you ask me, just put it on the Little Yellow Car, 9.9 yuan with free shipping, and I'll place an order immediately to support you."

Seeing the bullet chat, Li Jiajun habitually wanted to find some inspiration from these "useless" Netizens, though he didn't hold much hope.

"Cough, family, I've run into a new problem. Single-unit efficiency is solved, but how do I get hundreds or thousands of them to fly together, be obedient, and not crash? Any brilliant ideas?"

Before the Netizens could start typing, he shook his head and said, "Forget it, it feels like asking for nothing. This problem might be a bit beyond the Netizens' scope. They can't even understand what I'm drawing. Expecting Netizens to solve coordination algorithm problems is like expecting a sow to climb a tree."

"Holy crap!!!"

"Here it comes again! Here it comes again! The Main Streamer's official roasting is late but it's here!"

"I was just about to type 'use Bluetooth connection' and you give me this? Where are your manners?!"

"Brothers, I can't take it anymore, this Streamer is too annoying! We admit we're useless, but can you not say it out loud!"

Li Jiajun again pretended not to see the "boiling public resentment" in the bullet chat. He scratched his hair irritably and looked out the window again.

Just then, he saw a huge beehive under the eaves in the corner of the workshop. A swarm of bees was finishing their day's work, flying back to the hive in an orderly manner. Despite their large numbers, their flight paths weren't messy at all; some entered from the left, some from the right, some hovered at the entrance waiting—the whole process was as efficient as a well-trained army.

'These bees... how do they manage not to crash into each other?'

His brain started running at high speed again.

'There's no Commander among them, and no traffic lights, but the whole group shows a high degree of organization and discipline... This means their way of collaboration isn't centralized, but... distributed!'

This thought flashed through his mind like lightning!

"Ding!"

[You watched bees returning to their hive and fell into deep thought...]

The next second, Li Jiajun felt his comprehension maxed out again, as if he possessed a God's-eye view that could see through the laws of all things!

All the secrets about that swarm of bees were deconstructed, reorganized, and sublimated in his mind!

Pheromone transmission, distance perception between individuals, autonomous path planning based on environmental feedback, decentralized network topology... Countless more terrifying and complex knowledge points emerged and collided in his mind, finally forming a complete and elegant set of algorithm theories!

"I understand! It's 'Swarm'!"

Li Jiajun jumped up from his spot again in excitement, his eyes bursting with an amazing light.

[You watched bees returning to their hive and realized the 'Swarm Collaborative Combat Algorithm'!]

He turned and rushed back to the whiteboard, grabbed the marker, and without even looking at the blueprint he'd drawn before, he started frantically adding new modules to it.

If the previous design drawing was just incomprehensible to the audience, now, this drawing was starting to make them feel like their intelligence was being insulted.

Countless dense nodes, intricate network connection lines, and a series of algorithmic formulas that ordinary people had never even seen were added by him. The originally somewhat concise industrial design drawing instantly turned into an "Interstellar Topology Map" full of sci-fi and mystery.

In the livestream room, everyone was stunned into silence by this scene that could be called a "miracle."

They watched a difficult problem be "realized" again by the Streamer in just a few minutes, using a method they completely couldn't understand.

Just then, the ID "A White Cloth on the Head," which had been silent, finally sent a second bullet chat, breaking the eerie silence.

"Can this network... achieve decentralized coordination? How is its anti-interference capability?"