123: Chapter 123 Infrastructure Frenzy

Yang Lin's chest heaved violently, and the muscles on his face twitched uncontrollably.

Lin Yuan's words washed over his mind repeatedly, every syllable striking him with such force that his scalp tingled.

"To be king?"

For most of his life, he had followed countless projects, always thinking about how to catch up, how to keep pace, and how to attempt to surpass others within the frameworks they had established.

Yet, this young man before him had never, from the very beginning, even considered placing a piece on someone else's chessboard.

What he wanted was to flip the board over entirely and become the king who sets the rules himself!

This thought was boundlessly arrogant, yet it made one's blood boil in a maddeningly exhilarating way.

"Good."

Yang Lin clenched his fists tightly, squeezing the word out through his teeth, his eyes ignited with an unprecedented, blazing fighting spirit.

Throughout his decades-long scientific research career, he had grown accustomed to looking up to the standards set by the giants The Other Side of the Ocean.

With every technological iteration, Xia Kingdom was forced to follow along and copy, not even daring to change the punctuation or function libraries of the underlying code at will.

But now, the opportunity to change the entire global landscape was right before his eyes.

He had to give it everything!

Subsequently, the documents on the screen were opened one by one.

The brand-new Chinese programming framework was revealed to everyone without reservation.

Yang Lin slumped into the chair in front of the computer, his hands even trembling slightly as he flipped through the technical documentation page by page.

The members of the task force gathered behind him were all holding their breath, staring intensely at the dense Chinese code architecture specifications on the large screen.

At first, everyone felt an instinctive sense of discomfort.

After all, having spent decades working with English programming, suddenly switching to pure Chinese made their muscle memory resist.

Yet, the further they read, the faster that sense of discomfort faded. It was terrifyingly fast!

There were no obscure English reserved words, no tedious, hair-pulling syntax nesting.

Now, one could use simple, minimalist Chinese commands directly. The unfolding of the logical chain perfectly matched the natural thinking habits of the people of this country.

Yang Lin's hand on the mouse became increasingly steady, and the frequency with which he scrolled the wheel gradually increased.

"This… this is just too smooth." Behind him, a senior researcher couldn't help but blurt out.

"Without that damned translation delay, whatever the mind thinks, the code logic follows."

"I even feel like if you just give me a computer, I could write along this logic right now!"

The researcher's voice trembled visibly; he grabbed at the air with both hands, forcibly suppressing the urge to reach for a keyboard.

Yang Lin did not turn around, but he nodded heavily. He knew this feeling all too well.

For the people of Xia Kingdom learning to program, the first hurdle is always the language. Translating thoughts into English, and then translating English into machine code—there is a thick barrier in between.

And now, the system Lin Yuan had brought out had smashed that barrier with a single blow. It was truly worthy of being called Chinese programming, best suited to the bloodline of the people of Xia Kingdom!

The speed of comprehension soared exponentially.

Lin Yuan stood to the side, taking in the sight of these top-tier researchers, who were devouring the information with a hunger that bordered on unseemly.

When encountering specific core architectural difficulties, he would casually offer a few words of guidance, unhurriedly. Often, just a few sentences would cause them to have an epiphany, plunging them into an even deeper state of frenzied learning.

On the other hand, just as Yang Lin and his team were immersed in the gateway to this new world, the same storm was unfolding in the core buildings of various technology parks, just dozens of kilometers away from the Xia Academy of Sciences.

Inside a top-floor, physically isolated confidential conference room, dozens of the company's top software architects, hardware development engineers, and underlying logic analysts had been urgently summoned.

The technical lead in charge took a deep breath and connected the hard drive to the internal, physically isolated server array, following a tedious fingerprint and dynamic password authorization decryption procedure.

"Whoosh—" A massive data tree diagram unfolded on the screen. Several senior architects in front of the console quickly leaned in, their gazes sweeping across it like radar.

In the previously quiet conference room, several irrepressible gasps of shock broke out instantly.

"This…" A gray-haired chief architect pointed at the screen, his fingers trembling slightly. "Is this… a full-Chinese programming system?"

Before coming to the meeting, they had heard rumors that Lin Yuan had produced a domestic microkernel operating system. But no one had expected that this system, from its underlying architecture to its top-level applications, was entirely in Chinese. A thorough, through-and-through Chinese operating system.

The architects looked at each other, seeing the shock in each other's eyes.

The technical lead scrolled with the mouse and continued to open an instruction manual document. Soon, a few lines of bold Chinese characters came into view. The technical lead's finger suddenly froze there.

"Compatible with application-layer code from existing English systems?" Everyone's breathing stopped completely at that moment. To completely abandon English programming and yet still be compatible with existing old applications?

"Don't just stare at it, hurry, find a device and perform a live test!" The technical lead turned his head abruptly and roared at the test team leader beside him.

The test team leader didn't say a word; he immediately pulled the latest prototype from the metal cabinet nearby and connected it directly to the console with a data cable. The system installation package was quickly written to the prototype's motherboard. The progress bar on the screen advanced rapidly, and in less than five minutes, with a "ding," the flashing was complete.

The conference room was so quiet you could hear a pin drop, with dozens of pairs of eyes locked onto the prototype's screen. Soon, the screen lit up. A minimalist UI interface with distinct Chinese aesthetics was presented before everyone's eyes.

The engineer stepped forward, his fingers swiping rapidly across the screen, and opened an application developed based on the Android architecture. Previously, when this software ran on their flagship models, it would take several seconds from the click to the actual opening.

Now. The second his finger touched the icon, "Whoosh—" the software interface popped open instantly.

Seeing this, the dozens of top technical personnel in the conference room looked at each other.

"What are you still standing there for?" The technical lead's chest heaved. "Hurry up and absorb this knowledge, fully roll out terminal adaptation work based on the Hidden Dragon System, and we must rush to develop the new generation of flagship phones equipped with the Hidden Dragon System!"

Meanwhile, at the headquarters of the three major telecommunications operators in Xia Kingdom, the lights in the top-floor conference rooms stayed on all night. The underlying data for the Fifth-generation Communication base stations, brought back from the Xia Academy of Sciences, had been dismantled and distributed overnight.

An electronic map was projected onto the wall, covering the core areas of all major first-tier cities across the country.

"Select the sites!" "First, lock down the core business districts and industrial parks in first-tier cities and above!" A senior group executive picked up a high-brightness laser pointer and fiercely drew several glaring red circles on the map, his voice hoarse but filled with boundless excitement.

"According to the antenna array layout plan on the hard drive, utilize every existing base station tower for me! Upgrade the ones that can be upgraded immediately, and build new ones overnight where necessary!"

"Survey teams, leave now and nail down the locations." "Engineering teams, prepare materials immediately; all special cables and antenna array components must go through the express channel."

"Regardless of the cost, mobilize all available resources. Within half a month, I want to see the first batch of base station skeletons standing on this land!"

Orders were issued layer by layer. Hundreds of construction teams, carrying blueprints, began on-site surveys and modifications at various predetermined locations. A massive Fifth-generation Communication network was quietly spreading across this ancient land.

This super-operation, involving massive amounts of capital and materials, was something Xia Kingdom never intended to, nor could it, conceal from the beginning. This in itself was an open conspiracy declared to the whole world!

Thus, only a few hours later, this infrastructure frenzy, capable of triggering a global earthquake, turned into countless encrypted red alerts, violently slamming into major intelligence agencies The Other Side of the Ocean through satellite monitoring and intelligence networks.