66: Chapter 66 Materials for Creating a God? I Just Want to Save My Grandpa!
"Creating a god?" Su Che froze for a moment.
This woman was talking nonsense.
"Can you get them?" he asked directly, not bothering to beat around the bush.
On the other end of the line, Jiang Yingxue fell silent again.
After a full dozen seconds, an irrepressible, almost neurotic chuckle came through the receiver.
"Hehe... Mr. Su, you really are... different from everyone else."
Her voice returned to that composed, business-like tone, yet there was an added trace of something indescribable.
"I can give you the items."
"Consider it my second investment in the future."
"However, Mr. Su, I must warn you." Jiang Yingxue's tone was unprecedentedly serious.
"These items do not belong to this era. They will bring trouble you cannot foresee."
"Specify a location, and I will have people deliver them within twenty-four hours."
Having said that, she hung up the phone directly.
Su Che held the phone and frowned.
Trouble?
Could it be more troublesome than watching my grandfather wither away day by day?
He put away his phone, and without the slightest hesitation, turned and walked out of the Pangu Quantum Computer No. 3 Laboratory.
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Military Science Commission, temporary war room.
Lieutenant General Peng and Dean Liu Qianghua were flushed with excitement as they reviewed the performance reports of the Quantum Computer sent back from the Pangu Quantum Computer No. 3 Laboratory.
"Old Liu, this kid is a monster! An absolute monster!"
Lieutenant General Peng slammed his hand on the table.
"With this Quantum Computer, the overall development progress of our 'Southern Gate' project can be advanced by at least twenty years!"
"More than twenty years!" Dean Liu adjusted his glasses, his aged eyes full of light.
"This is a leap from the abacus to the computer! Engineer Su... he single-handedly carried our entire Dragon Country into the next technological era!"
Just then, the door to the conference room was pushed open.
Su Che walked in.
"Lieutenant General Peng, Dean Liu."
"Engineer Su!" The two stood up immediately, their enthusiasm so high they looked like they wanted to salute him on the spot.
"I need a new laboratory, focused on biology and materials, with the highest security clearance," Su Che said, getting straight to the point.
"Additionally, I need the nation's top neurosurgery and life science teams on standby at all times."
Upon hearing this, Dean Liu's eyes brightened even further.
"No problem! Engineer Su, are you... starting to research the interaction between 'Kunlun' matter and biological organisms? We should have done this long ago..."
"No," Su Che interrupted him.
"I want to build a Brain-Computer Interface system."
"I need to go in personally and see exactly what is happening inside my grandfather's brain."
"And then, cure him."
Lieutenant General Peng and Dean Liu exchanged a glance, their faces instantly filled with ecstasy.
That's right! How did they not think of that!
With the technology Su Che possessed, there was definitely hope for saving his grandfather!
"Good!" Lieutenant General Peng slapped his thigh hard. "I will coordinate it immediately! The best medical resources in the entire military are at your disposal!"
"However..." Su Che paused. "The materials needed to build this system... are a bit special."
He walked to the tactical board, picked up a pen, and quickly wrote down several terms.
"Flexible bio-electrodes..."
"Nano-scale bio-conductive gel..."
"High-precision single-cell neural signal acquisition array..."
With each term he wrote, Dean Liu's face turned a shade paler.
When Su Che finished writing the last word and put down the pen.
Dean Liu's body had already begun to tremble slightly. He stared fixedly at the terms on the tactical board, as if he had seen something most terrifying.
Although Lieutenant General Peng didn't understand them, he was also unsettled by the atmosphere.
"Old Liu, what is wrong with you?"
Dean Liu did not answer him; he merely looked up and stared at Su Che with the eyes of someone looking at a madman.
"Su... Engineer Su..."
His voice was extremely dry.
"These things... if I recall correctly, when combined together, and paired with the Brain-Computer Interface you mentioned..."
"You are not 'analyzing' a medical condition."
"You are... trying to rewrite the underlying code of life!"
"What do you mean?" Lieutenant General Peng frowned deeply.
"It means Pandora's Box!" There was a trace of fear in Dean Liu's tone that he himself hadn't noticed.
"General! He is going to open that box!"
In the conference room, there was a deathly silence.
The air seemed to have frozen.
Su Che looked at the two frightened old men, his face calm.
"I don't care about any box."
"I only know that my grandfather is dying."
"I want to save him, it's that simple."
His voice was not loud, but it struck like a heavy hammer against the hearts of Lieutenant General Peng and Dean Liu.
Lieutenant General Peng's expression was uncertain.
He looked at Su Che's clear and stubborn eyes, then looked at the pale-faced Dean Liu beside him.
After a long while.
He suddenly slammed his fist on the table with a loud "bang"!
"To hell with Pandora!"
Lieutenant General Peng's eyes were bloodshot, but his voice was as firm as iron.
"Su Changshan dedicated his life to the country; he is a hero of the Dragon Country! Now that a hero is in trouble, and his only grandson has a way to save him, what right do we have to stop him?!"
He grabbed Dean Liu by the collar and growled.
"Old Liu! You tell me, what is the worst-case scenario?!"
Dean Liu was startled by his roar, his lips trembling.
"The worst... the worst-case scenario is that we completely break the boundary between life and death, and the existing ethics, morals, and order of human society will collapse overnight..."
He took a breath, his eyes flashing with a crazy light.
"The best-case scenario... we save Su Changshan and, furthermore, master the key to eternal life."
Lieutenant General Peng let him go and straightened his military uniform.
"Then we'll bet on the best!"
He turned around, faced Su Che, stood at attention, and gave a standard military salute.
"Chief Engineer Su, the country is your strongest support!"
"Go ahead and do it!"
...
Late at night.
In the western suburbs of the capital, a non-public biomedical laboratory codenamed "Nuwa."
Its security level was even higher than that of the Pangu Quantum Computer.
Su Che stood before the observation window of the main laboratory, watching the various cutting-edge equipment inside, which was spotless.
A dull roar of engines approached from the distance.
Over a dozen black, unmarked heavy cold-chain transport trucks silently drove into the base.
A group of staff members wearing full silver-white protective suits, their faces obscured, lifted one cryogenic hibernation pod after another, which shimmered with a cold, ghostly blue light, from the trucks.
The middle-aged man wearing gold-rimmed glasses appeared before Su Che once again.
He handed over an encrypted military tablet.
"Mr. Su, everything you asked for is here."
"President Jiang asked me to pass on a message to you."
He paused, his tone becoming somewhat strange.
"She said, welcome to... the realm of the gods."
Su Che took the tablet and ignored him.
On the tablet, there was only one encrypted video file.
He tapped it open.
Jiang Yingxue's stunning face appeared on the screen.
She seemed to have just finished a shower, wearing a silk bathrobe, her hair draped wetly over her shoulders. The background was a luxury suite overlooking the entire city's night view.
"Su Che."
For the first time, she did not address him as "Mr. Su."
"The materials you requested come from a place you cannot imagine."
"Using them will make you a thorn in the side of certain entities. Those entities are far more terrifying than the Eagle Sauce."
"If you succeed..."
She smiled at the camera, a smile capable of driving any man crazy, enchanting all living things.
"Remember who helped you push open this door to the throne of gods."
The video ended there.
Su Che turned off the tablet with an expressionless face.
Cryptic nonsense.
He turned around and looked at the cryogenic hibernation pods being successively moved into the laboratory.
His eyes became incredibly intense.
The materials are all here.
It is time to give my grandfather, and this world, a little technological shock!