410: Chapter 409 I'm willing to stake my entire reputation to fight for the Rice Mech!

Once the 12 industrial pre-selection tracks for the discussion session were announced, the entire exhibition center quickly boiled over.

Attendees off-stage began to speak up, starting intense discussions.

They seemed to have massive objections to these new quantum industry tracks pre-selected by the authorities.

Facing the agitated crowd, Chief Designer Bai Yannian smiled and responded, letting the situation ferment.

Chief Designer Bai Yannian had long anticipated this scene.

It could be said that every industrial track he announced would have some level of controversy.

However, relatively speaking, the controversy was slightly smaller for core quantum industry tracks like quantum communication, virtual worlds, artificial intelligence, interstellar logistics, and space agriculture.

A few scattered people raised objections, basically claiming their previous industrial intentions were similar.

Why were their own companies eliminated? Why didn't the authorities hold public tenders, and so on.

Everyone acknowledged the feasibility of the tracks themselves.

But for other innovative industrial tracks, the controversy was immense.

There was even large-scale questioning regarding the rationality of these tracks themselves.

The most controversial item among them was the industrial intention proposed by Dami Technology— "Large Mecha."

It could be said that 99% of the attendees present raised objections.

The reason was simple.

Because current Huaxia already possessed "mecha" with very mature technology.

That's right.

It was precisely the "Kunlun" full-coverage individual powered Exoskeleton Armor developed by Lin Mo over the past two years!

Although the Kunlun Armor was an individual combat piece of equipment, the height of its conventional models already reached 2.45 to 2.55 meters.

Higher specification Engineering Armor could even reach a height of 3.65 meters!

Although the Huaxia authorities very modestly referred to the Kunlun Armor as the "King of Land Warfare," even a first-grade elementary student now knew that...

The Kunlun Generation II Exoskeleton Armor could both ascend to space to execute space combat missions and enter the sea to execute maritime combat missions.

After being equipped with the "Xihe Device" cold nuclear fusion power engine, it didn't even need refueling for two and a half years.

If one counted the extended equipment of the armor backpack—the "Dragon Dragonfly" drone swarm—its firepower was directly comparable to an entire modernized land synthesis brigade.

It pioneered a brand-new military combat mode of "individual group combat" globally.

Wasn't such a set of super individual combat equipment that far surpassed the era a typical "mecha"?

More importantly, all the supporting technologies for the Kunlun Armor were already completely mature!

Under the leadership of Lin Mo, the Kunlun Armor had undergone several core technology iterations in less than two years.

Now, not only had the R&D progress of the "Kunlun Generation III" powered armor been officially announced, but the technology simplification process for "military-to-civilian" conversion had also been implemented.

In the past two years, it would also achieve full civilian coverage of civilian armor.

It could be said that the performance of the "Kunlun" series of individual powered Exoskeleton Armor in every aspect was already far ahead.

It was super individual combat equipment that would never be obsolete in the future era of space exploration.

Based on this background, Dami Technology actually still complained that the Kunlun Armor wasn't advanced enough and wanted to tinker with a "new type of mecha" to eliminate the "Kunlun Armor."

This was simply saying they wanted to challenge the Classic of Mountains and Seas Project, one of the four major projects of Huaxia led by Lin Mo!

On the stage, Zhou Hong, who was standing next to Lei Jun, was already laughing his head off.

"Hahahaha..."

"Lei, are you trying to laugh me to death? ..."

"And a 'large mecha' at that!"

"You don't want to make that kind of 30-to-50-meter-tall clumsy thing, do you?"

"Please!"

"Chief Designer Lin has already proven with both theory and practice that the human exoskeleton is the only correct path for human-form mechanical auxiliary equipment!"

"Do you think you are smarter than Chief Designer Lin?"

"I thought you were holding back something big, I didn't expect you to have just produced a pile of trash!"

"Stop talking, you've really made a mess of yourself on stage! Hahahaha! ..."

Zhou Hong's words were both exaggerated and crude, yet very vivid.

Others on the stage couldn't help but smile.

Lei Jun frowned slightly, suppressing his anger, and said nothing more.

A few minutes passed.

Many people had already begun raising their right hands to request to speak, intending to express their strong dissatisfaction.

Seeing this, Chief Designer Bai Yannian pressed his hands down, signaling everyone to be quiet.

"Everyone, please don't be impatient!"

Once order in the venue gradually returned, Chief Designer Bai Yannian said with a loud laugh.

"I know everyone is anxious, but please don't be."

"Currently, these 12 new quantum industry tracks have only passed the official pre-selection. Whether they are officially adopted by the authorities depends on today's discussion results!"

"According to the conference agenda, let us first invite the 12 speaking representatives to give a detailed introduction to their respective industrial intentions!"

"After that, we will conduct an open discussion!"

"Rest assured, we will definitely leave enough time for everyone to speak their minds!"

After finishing his words, Chief Designer Bai Yannian beckoned to the first speaking representative to the side and vacated the speaking position on the podium.

Next, each speaking representative would have 10 minutes to explain their company's industrial intentions in detail.

After at most 50 minutes of general discussion, a review panel composed of leaders from eight official departments, senior professors from various universities, and experts from various research institutes would vote to make a final decision.

In other words, this quantum industry conference would have to continue until late at night at the very least.

According to the order, the first to speak was Chairman Ren Zheng, the founder of Huachen Technology.

Because Huachen Technology had always been the leading company in Huaxia's communications industry, and now it had successfully broken through in quantum chip R&D and was deeply involved in the quantum supercomputer project, the controversy over Huachen Technology leading the ace track of quantum communication was the smallest in the entire venue.

Soon, after Chairman Ren Zheng finished his explanation, after less than 15 minutes of exchange and discussion, Huachen Technology was passed unanimously.

It was officially "recruited" by the Huaxia authorities to become the first private enterprise to lead Huaxia's quantum communication in the future.

Next, three speaking representatives took the stage one after another.

After experiencing twists and turns, out of the 5 speaking representatives, 4 had their industrial intentions passed, and 1 was sent back with a request to integrate the entire industry as soon as possible and refine and improve the industrial intention.

Soon, the time reached five in the afternoon.

"Next."

"Lei, from Dami Technology."

Chief Designer Bai Yannian looked at Lei Jun, who was waiting quietly to the side, and said with a smile.

"Lei, this industrial intention of yours is now highly controversial, so you better explain it well to everyone."

Lei Jun replied solemnly.

"Chief Designer Bai, don't worry, I have already communicated with you in depth many times before."

"I am confident that I can convince most of the people present, including the review panel."

Chief Designer Bai Yannian nodded.

"Go ahead."

Lei Jun strode to the center of the podium, gently turned on his headset, and faced the crowd off-stage.

After taking a deep breath, he smiled and spoke.

"Everyone!"

"There is a saying, 'Large mecha is the ultimate romance of men!'"

"Since I started school, influenced by many mecha animations, I have always had a dream!"

"That is, in my lifetime, to be able to own a large mecha of at least one hundred meters!"

As soon as Lei Jun finished speaking, mocking laughter arose.

"Later, when I successfully founded Dami Technology and my personal wealth reached the hundred-billion level!"

"Looking at the cold two hundred billion in cash on my bank card, my thinking changed!"

"It became a little bit exaggerated!"

Lei Jun paused.

When he spoke again, the volume of his voice was much louder.

"I think!"

"If every one of us, the people of Huaxia, could own a mecha of our own in the cosmic interstellar era!"

"Just like playing Formula racing!"

"A large mecha that can be freely modified, freely matched, and freely explored!"

"That would definitely be a very, very cool thing!"