After the meeting, Jiang Chen learned He Qianjian’s location. However, now he had no time to pay attention to this matter. Instead, he quickly threw himself into another meeting.

This meeting was still in Yan City, but it moved from the auditorium to a small conference room that required multiple identity verifications to enter. There were no more than twenty people present, the top national figures in politics and technology having gathered together in this room.

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Jiang Chen sat at the end, next to the dean of the Academy of Sciences. The old man’s hair was already gray. When he saw Jiang Chen sitting down, he frowned slightly. It was already an exaggeration to be the speaker of the last meeting at such a young age, who would have thought that he would even participate in this meeting.

“Dean Huo.” Jiang Chen saw the old man’s confusion but did not explain. He only greeted him politely and fell silent. 

The previous meeting was more about introducing the DTW System and Changjiang, as well as the successful presentation of the tracking research results during this period. The theme of this meeting was more serious——whether the intelligence data currently found should be shared with other countries immediately or not.

The Changjiang system had currently collected much evidence that proved the DTW System to be unusual and to possibly have adverse effects on the earth or even cause a world war. However, this was not conclusive, and according to the analysis results, if Changjiang had not been developed, the unimpeded DTW System would have taken at least fifty years to collect earth’s data and launch a planetary war.

Fifty years was equivalent to most of a person’s lifespan. There were too many preparations that could be made during this period, and the issues that need to be considered were too complicated. From a utilitarian point of view, at least for those currently in power, such a long time would not have any impact on their career. Even if the domestic decision-makers unanimously decide to resist foreign enemies first, what about the people in power in other countries?

With the exposure of the DTW System, it was more likely that not only would it not lead to the unity of all countries in dealing with the outside enemies, but it would also lead to the outbreak of disputes and internal wars. China, which owned the Changjiang system, might be on top of the mountain for the time being, but it would not always be invincible. Everyone here knows the ugly consequences that ambition and greed could bring.

Even within the country, there were different voices. Today’s meeting was to unify internal opinions first. The meeting lasted for six hours, and in the end, the majority voted against the minority, and the old gentleman at the top made the decision to share this information with every country on the planet.

Jiang Chen breathed a sigh of relief when he came out of the conference room.

He had never thought that he would be able to sit in a meeting of such a standard as a participant. At that time, he thought that he could only act according to orders, and he was indeed ready to obey orders. However, from the bottom of his heart, he still preferred to see all the nations and races on earth unite and face this disaster that would come soon.

“Xiao Jiang.”

Jiang Chen stopped and faced the old gentleman who was shorter than him respectfully.

The majesty surrounding the old gentleman faded a little, and he raised his hand and patted Jiang Chen’s shoulder twice, but the gentle force seemed to weigh more than a thousand pounds.

“Do a good job.”

Jiang Chen clenched his hands lightly and said word by word: “I will do my best.”

The old gentleman nodded and left first.

“Where is He Qianjian?” Jiang Chen put on his headphones, and the voice of Changjiang came in: “The Head Military Research Institute within two kilometers away.”

Jiang Chen frowned slightly: “Can you capture DTW’s signal?”

“Yes.” Changjiang: “Is invasion necessary?”

Jiang Chen pondered for a moment: “No need, pay attention to the movements over there at all times, and alert me if there is any movement.”

*

The Changjiang Laboratory moved from the branch Military Research Institute to the main headquarters. All scientific research staff files were encrypted. Among them, the files of the head researcher Jiang Chen were the most confidential. In addition to work, his daily life was also closely protected.

“Boss, are you going home today?”

Jiang Chen packed up the things in his hands and smiled: “En, I’m going back from a bit and will come back in the evening.”

“Will Professor Shi also go back then?” Someone asked jokingly.

“Him?” Jiang Chen frowned, and then he remembered that he hadn’t seen Shi Fengyue since last night. He was so busy that he forgot about it before and didn’t ponder over his absence seriously. Now that he still hadn’t appeared yet it was indeed a little strange. “Did you see him?”

“No, Professor Shi took a call yesterday and went out, but he hasn’t been back since. He had a day off yesterday, he isn’t in the dormitory?”

Jiang Chen was in the laboratory all night last night. Hearing this, he nodded, “I’ll go back to the dormitory first.”

The dormitory was also called the resident building. It covered an extremely large area and the environment was very quiet. All the scientific researchers of the Military Research Institute and their families live here. In addition to the high-rise area, there were separate small villas and small courtyard houses.

The Changjiang project was of great importance. The twelve scientific researchers, including Jiang Chen, were assigned to the area with the highest level of confidentiality. Anyone who walked out of the neighborhood here was a scientific researcher who had made significant contributions to the country. They may be famous or anonymous, but they were definitely known to everyone in the field of scientific research.

When they were assigned here at first, everyone was excited for a long time. Every day when they came back from going out, they were always eager to meet their idols. However, most of the scientists living here lived in isolation, either spending their days in the laboratory or staying at home without going out. This area was full of people, but when going in and out, except for fellow labmates, one could hardly see anyone on the road.

Jiang Chen walked along the road and didn’t meet many people until he opened the small wooden door of the courtyard where he lived.

“Shi Fengyue——”

“Shi Fengyue…”

“Shi Fengyue?”

After searching every room, Jiang Chen still didn’t see Shi Fengyue. He was about to go to the backyard to search when his cell phone rang.

“Chen Chen, have you set off? Your mothers have cooked a lot of your favorite dishes for you. Qian Min, Qian Yu and Ran Ran are all waiting at the door. If you don’t come back, all of them will become resentful statues.”

“I…” Jiang Chen walked to the terrace, looked around the backyard, and pursed his lower lip: “I’m sorry, I may be a little late. You guys should eat first…”

“You’re not done with your work yet? Mom understands, then you go back to working. Don’t be anxious, work is important.”

Jiang Chen turned around and went downstairs, humming softly: “I’m sorry, I have to make you wait for me again.”

“What nonsense are you talking about? We all know how important your current job is, and your younger siblings understand this very well yoo, so don’t say that. You can work with peace of mind and no need to rush, you know?”

“Okay——” Jiang Chen paused, “Shi Fengyue!”

The man standing by the sofa turned around and raised his eyebrows: “Why are you back?”

“Mom, I have something to do, so I’ll hang up first.”

Jiang Chen took three steps at a time and went downstairs, “Where have you been? You didn’t answer the phone.”

Shi Fengyue smiled, “It’s just one night, did you miss me?”

Jiang Chen laughed, then frowned: “You don’t look good, what’s wrong?”

“It’s nothing.” Shi Fengyue pressed his brow with his fingers and pulled a smile: “I had a nightmare.”

“Nightmare?” Jiang Chen looked into his eyes: “What’s going on? Can’t you tell me?”

Shi Fengyue raised his hand and put it on his head: “It’s really a nightmare. I didn’t lie to you. Didn’t you say you were going home today? Why are you still dawdling?”

Knowing that he would get nothing out of this question, Jiang Chen suppressed his worries: “Are you also going back?”

“With you leaving, I have to stay.” Shi Fengyue shook his head: “You haven’t gone home for more than three months. Just sleep at home for one night. Don’t worry about here. I’ll let you know if anything happens.”

“It’s been three months…”

Jiang Chen was in a daze when he heard the time.

It had been three months since the meeting at the Military Research Institute. For the first month, he and his entire team were in an isolated state. No one could contact them, and they could not contact outsiders either until it was ensured that there was no information about Changjiang that could be leaked. Only then were they tightly protected in the Military Research Institute.

This month, the entire team had been working hard to develop Changjiang and dig deeper into the loopholes of DTW. Now they have finally made some small gains. If nothing unexpected happens, after this United Nations General Assembly, DTW and Changjiang would officially enter the sights of a certain part of the world. If everything went according to plan, it would then enter the sights of people all over the world.

Before that, he and the entire team must achieve perfection to ensure that Changjiang could 100% prevent the DTW System from sending information to its creators, and rewrite its core data as much as possible while retaining all of DTW’s data and technology, making it serve mankind from now on, with the interests of the earth as the first priority. But if this fails, it must be destroyed.

“Go back and have a good rest for a day.” Shi Fengyue gently rubbed Jiang Chen’s head, leaned forward slightly, and met his eyes: “I’ll be here.”

Jiang Chen smiled, held his chin, pecked his lips gently, and let go: “Thank you for your hard work, Professor Shi.”

Shi Fengyue slid his palm down and pressed hard on the back of Jiang Chen’s neck, closing the distance he had just opened: “Can I get a reward for working so hard?”

Jiang Chen’s lips curled up slightly: “What do you want?”

“It’s very simple.” Shi Fengyue came closer and touched the tip of his nose, “Just change one word of the sentence just now and repeat it again.”

“Which word?” After Jiang Chen asked, knowingly, and as if feeling like that was not enough, his smile also deepened: “After you change it, teach me how to say it.”

Shi Fengyue’s eyes darkened, the tips of their noses nudged intimately against the other. But just when their lips were about to touch, a piercing alarm sounded suddenly.

“The activity of the DWT System has skyrocketed, and the fluctuation of He Qianjian’s health rate has decreased, 76%, 75%, 72%…”

Jiang Chen and Shi Fengyue looked at each other and ran outside at the same time.

“I’ll drive.” Shi Fengyue took out the car keys, “Wait for me at the door.”

“Got it.”

As Jiang Chen got into the car, He Qianjian’s ward was also in a flurry of activity at this time.

“Why did he suddenly fall into a coma?”

The doctors and nurses pushed the hospital bed to the operating room in an orderly manner. The man wearing glasses walked the fastest and asked questions as he walked.

“We don’t know. There was nothing abnormal when we checked him in the morning. Just when we were about to conduct daily inquiries, he…”

The young man behind the instrument suddenly shouted: “Doctor, look!”

The man wearing glasses paused and caught something with his peripheral vision. He turned around and walked quickly to the instrument. He slowly frowned, showing a look of shock and confusion: “…This is?”

“The DTW System wants to kill H0001!”

H0001 was the current codename of He Qianjian. For the sake of confidentiality, the core test personnel and several leaders above who have access to He Qianjian all referred to him with this name.

“Contact Professor Zhou quickly and inform the person in charge of the Changjiang Project!”

The man walked in a hurry and ordered as he walked: “Zhao Yang, you’re responsible for recording all the conversations between DTW and H0001. No word is allowed to be omitted. The conversation records should be saved in the previous format. Zhang He, please contact the maintenance team to reduce the error rate of the decoding system as much as possible…”

Zhang He looked calm: “It is now 0.62%, the lowest error rate in the world. It also has the support of the Changjiang System. It is impossible for us to lower it further.”

“That’s why I said to contact the Changjiang project team. Their people will definitely be able to do it.” The man frowned and said: “DTW has been very vigilant since knowing that we can decode their conversations. Even the analysis team can’t fully analyze its specific meaning. But at that time, it did not even think about harming H0001. There is definitely a reason for the sudden change now, and we must find out.”

“Understood.” Zhang He looked at the data and turned around: “I’m going to see the Changjiang project team.”

Doctors and researchers in white coats pushed He Qianjian into the encrypted laboratory. Doors opened and closed one after another. The young assistant’s expression was still dazed as if he had not recovered from the shock: “H0001’s situation just now, could it be that he is already brain dead…”

The man with glasses didn’t answer and walked out quickly.

At this time, Jiang Chen ran in and almost bumped into him. The two stopped in their tracks at the same time, but they didn’t recognize each other.

Since the last meeting, Jiang Chen had been staying within a strictly protected area and because he had Changjiang monitoring everything in real time he had not come to see He Qianjian in person, so naturally he had not met with the researchers here.

So he apologized in a low voice and passed by the man. Shi Fengyue strode forward with his long legs. When he saw the man with glasses, he stopped and said, “Professor Zhang.”

Zhang He nodded as a greeting, and when they were about to cross paths, Shi Fengyue called out: “Jiang Chen, take the No. 2 elevator.”

Zhang He quickly turned his head: “Jiang Chen? The person in charge of the Changjiang Project?” He looked at this young man who seemed to be about the same age as his son, and there was a moment of astonishment on his face.

At just past his forties, the fact that he was able to occupy a place at the Main Military Research Institute, Zhang He was already a representative of talent and ability. It should be said that the people who could appear here were all geniuses in various research fields, cultivated and supported by the country.

For example, the young assistant who followed Zhang He grew up as a child prodigy. He entered university at the age of 12, graduated from graduate school at the age of 16 and was included in the national key scientific research talent training program. And by 18 he was able to independently host projects. In the same year he had published papers in internationally recognized magazines, and had represented the country in international youth group scientific research competitions. Last year, he entered the Main Military Research Institute and became his assistant. It could be seen that he was an absolute elite among his peers.

But a genius like this could only start from the ground up as an assistant. Compared with the achievements and status of the young man with a clear smile in front of him, it could be said that there was a huge difference.

Zhang He had always cherished talents and treated his assistant like his own son. He would not be biased or disdainful of young researchers. But when he saw Jiang Chen clearly, his heart, which had been calm for a long time, still jumped. There was no other reason for it, he simply b could not help but sigh in his heart that there was always a sky beyond the sky.

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“Are you the person in charge of the Changjiang Project?”

Jiang Chen paused and glanced at Shi Fengyue before nodding: “Hello.” Recalling what Shi Fengyue called him just now, he politely added: “Professor Zhang.”

Zhang He nodded, turned around and walked towards Jiang Chen. The elevator door also happened to open at this time. He walked in and began to briefly describe the situation of H0001.

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