156: Chapter 156 The Foundation of the Luan Bird, the AI Guide of the Mirror World!
4:20 PM.
Jiuquan Launch Base command tower.
On the large screen, the view was locked onto low Earth orbit at an altitude of 400 kilometers.
Five hundred silver-gray space infrastructure robots had fully dispersed.
The plasma thrusters on their backs continuously spewed short bursts of blue flame, carving precise trajectories into the pitch-black vacuum.
Mechanical arms extended, gripping the special sintered rock substrate tightly.
High-energy laser welding torches flashed frequently in silence.
Without gravitational interference or air resistance, two thousand tons of substrate were forcibly assembled into a massive circular foundation frame in a short amount of time.
This was the base for the 100,000-ton-class luan bird Dry Dock.
Lieutenant General Peng Zhenbang pressed his hands against the edge of the console. The metal surface creaked under the pressure.
"This speed," Lieutenant General Peng Zhenbang stared at the screen, "is equivalent to a year's worth of work for a ground construction crew in just one day."
Su Che reached out and tapped the terminal twice, pulling up the subsequent logistics schedule.
"Two thousand tons is just the foundation," Su Che pushed the schedule in front of Lieutenant General Peng Zhenbang. "The final assembly of the 100,000-ton-class mothership requires at least 200,000 tons of structural components and special materials. The luan bird verification ship's cargo hold can carry five thousand tons at a time."
Lieutenant General Peng Zhenbang looked down at the schedule.
"Two sorties a day," Su Che said. "I need to fill the main structure of the Dry Dock and all in-orbit 3D printing equipment with the highest efficiency and speed."
Lieutenant General Peng Zhenbang stood straight and gave a standard military salute.
"Jiuquan Launch Base and Wenchang Launch Base will cooperate around the clock, and the Military Science Commission will give the green light for material allocation."
Su Che locked the terminal and picked up the coat hanging on the back of his chair.
"I'll leave this to you," Su Che said, walking toward the door. "I'm heading back to the capital to keep an eye on the Mirror World."
7:10 PM.
A heavy military transport aircraft landed at a military airfield in the western suburbs of the capital.
Su Che walked down the gangway; a bulletproof Hongqi SUV was already parked by the runway.
Qin Lan opened the car door, and Su Che sat in the back seat.
Jiang Yingxue was sitting beside him, holding a tactical tablet.
The car door closed, and the SUV quickly drove out of the airport.
"The people on Wall Street are getting anxious."
She handed over the tablet. "The Oasis Consortium held a crisis meeting this afternoon. They managed to get two hundred pairs of Star Sea Glasses through the black market and sent them directly to the top reverse engineering laboratory in Silicon Valley."
Su Che took the tablet without looking at the screen and tossed it onto the empty seat beside him.
"What did they find after taking them apart?" Su Che asked.
"They found a bunch of Yiwu trinkets."
Jiang Yingxue leaned back against the seat. "The chief hardware engineer in Silicon Valley has gone mad. They used electron microscopes to scan our Bluetooth communication boards and microcontrollers. The conclusion is that the hardware cost does not exceed fifty cents, and there is no silicon-based technology that surpasses the current era."
Su Che watched the streetscape receding outside the window.
"They want to crack the Mirror World data compression algorithm inside the microcontroller," Jiang Yingxue continued. "They plugged in a reader and forced power to override the access."
"It burned out, didn't it?" Su Che's voice was steady.
"It burned," Jiang Yingxue nodded. "The anti-cracking mechanism was triggered, and the logic gates inside the microcontroller overloaded instantly. Not even a scrap of code remained in those two hundred pairs of glasses."
"Silicon Valley is blocking the news externally, but internally, it's already in chaos. They can't understand how a cheap chip that didn't even require a lithography machine could handle holographic rendering data."
Su Che withdrew his gaze.
The core of dimensional reduction strikes has never been about using more expensive hardware to crush the opponent.
It is about using higher-dimensional algorithms to turn the opponent's hardware barriers into a pile of scrap metal.
The compression algorithm compiled by the Yiren AI Core is something those people in Silicon Valley, who write code with traditional binary thinking, wouldn't understand even if they looked at it for ten thousand years.
Alien civilization voyage timer, Day 6.
9:00 AM.
Pangu Laboratory, Level B2.
The air in the hall was heavy with the scent of strong black coffee. For the past few days, Liu Huaqiang and his team had been working continuously, with very little sleep every day.
On the main screen, the three-dimensional wireframe map of the Earth was highly luminous, and the progress bar had steadily reached 40%.
Su Che walked into the hall and pulled out a chair to sit down in front of the main console.
Lin Waner pushed a food cart over and placed a bowl of lean meat porridge and two boiled eggs on the table.
Su Che picked up an egg, cracked it against the corner of the table, and peeled off the shell.
With nothing better to do, he checked the virtual ecosystem independent point pool in his mind.
[Current virtual ecosystem independent point pool is continuously rising, total: 45,000 points.]
Su Che took a bite of the egg.
45,000 points.
Although the 50 million pairs of glasses only provided individual AR overlay functions, this experience of bringing science fiction movies into reality still provided a certain amount of emotional value to netizens.
This emotional value thing needs to be constantly injected with new things to maintain; otherwise, it will be difficult for skill points to continue rising.
[Ding! Detected that the Mirror World is about to go fully online, main branch task triggered!]
[Task Name: Tour Guide of the New World!]
[Task Content: Global netizens are about to flood into the one-to-one replicated digital Earth; the massive virtual space requires intelligent guidance. Please develop a civilian Yiren AI assistant terminal and equip every user with an exclusive AI butler!]
[Task Reward: 18,000 skill points, unlock redemption permissions for civilian intelligent voice interaction technology, lightweight cognitive algorithm technology, and daily scene autonomous adaptation technology. Requires consumption of virtual ecosystem independent points: 8,000 points.]
[Current independent point balance is sufficient. Do you want to redeem?]
Su Che swallowed the food in his mouth.
"Redeem."
[Ding! 8,000 independent points consumed, core technology unlocked.]
[System Prompt: Supporting auxiliary plans include: civilian intelligent assistant algorithm library (1,000 points), terminal interaction interface design (500 points), low-power computing module plan (500 points). Total points: 2,000.]
"Redeem all."
[Ding! 2,000 independent points consumed.]
Massive algorithm logic and interface design diagrams flooded into his conscious space.
Su Che picked up the porridge bowl and took a big gulp.
This was not the military version of Yiren AI; the military version was responsible for simulating interstellar warfare and coordinating the 100,000-ton-class mothership.
This was a civilian branch that had been stripped down countless times and was extremely lightweight.
It didn't need to know how to create antimatter; it only needed to know what kind of coffee the user wanted to drink or which virtual block in the Mirror World the user wanted to stroll through.
Su Che put down the bowl and pulled the keyboard over.
He created a new code repository on the terminal, placed his hands on the keyboard, and the sound of typing rang out densely.
Liu Huaqiang walked over with an empty paper cup and stood behind Su Che, glancing at the screen.
"Chief Engineer Su, what is this?" Liu Huaqiang adjusted his glasses. "It looks like the underlying logic of Yiren AI, but the parameters have been stripped down to almost nothing."
"Writing a butler for the Star Sea Glasses," Su Che's fingers didn't stop. "After the Mirror World goes fully online, 50 million global users will flood into a virtual space as large as the Earth at the same time. Without a guide, they will get lost in the data."
Liu Huaqiang watched the code take shape rapidly. "Fifty million AI butlers running concurrently?" Liu Huaqiang asked. "Can the computing power of the Pangu Quantum Computer handle it?"
"It doesn't need to be handled entirely by the Pangu Quantum Computer."
Su Che pulled up the low-power computing module plan. "The microcontroller in the Star Sea Glasses is responsible for processing voice recognition and basic logic. When encountering complex problems, it will send the data packets to the civilian sub-server of Yiren AI via the network—edge computing combined with cloud collaboration."
Liu Huaqiang didn't say anything more and turned back to his own workstation.
Time passed hour by hour.
3:00 PM.
Su Che hit the final Enter key, and the code repository compilation was complete.
An installation package named "Star Sea Assistant" was generated on the desktop, with a size of less than ten megabytes.
"Jiang Yingxue." Su Che picked up the communicator.
Jiang Yingxue walked over from the break area.
"Send this installation package to the Huaxing Electronics server," Su Che pointed at the screen. "Set a scheduled task. Two days from now, the second the underlying engine goes fully online, push it silently to the background of all activated glasses globally."
Jiang Yingxue took out a USB drive, plugged it into the terminal, and copied the file. "The Oasis Consortium isn't giving up."
She pulled out the USB drive. "They announced that the Oasis-X headset has dropped to $99, and they published a long article in the Wall Street Journal accusing our glasses of having serious data security risks, calling on governments and Western countries to issue bans."
"Bans? They are still living in a dream! The entire West has surrendered; do you see any country paying attention to them?"
Su Che picked up his water cup. "Not to mention the government level, when their people discover that they can own a seaside villa in the virtual world for $9.90, and have an AI butler smarter than a real person to chat with, guess what they will think?"
Jiang Yingxue put the USB drive into her pocket.
"I'll go arrange the push channel right now."
11:00 PM.
The Pangu Laboratory Level B2 was quiet, with only the roar of the server fans remaining.
On the main screen, the three-dimensional wireframe map of the Earth had already filled 60% of the area.
Su Che stood up and picked up the coat hanging on the back of his chair.
The Dry Dock in space was being assembled piece by piece, and the Mirror World underground was being written line by line.
The guests in the sky were still on their way.
Su Che walked out of the hall.
Calculating the time and progress, after the scan was complete, he would test it for another day.
Three days later, the gates of the Mirror World would be completely pushed open, and the computing power and emotions of the entire Earth would become the sharpest blades in his hands.
The hegemony of Silicon Valley didn't even have the qualifications to be a stepping stone.