bioinnovel Chapter 106 In the face of absolute truth, invisibility is tantamount to streaking.
Chapter 106 In the face of absolute truth, invisibility is tantamount to streaking.
The Zero Boundary Technology Command Center was filled with a smell that was a mixture of stale tea and anxiety.
Li Jianguo stood in front of the huge tactical sand table, his left hand clutching the "Power Dispatch Application Form" that Bai Che had just sent over, while his right hand pressed firmly on the red-covered top-level alarm document on the table.
The two documents are of similar thickness, but their significance is worlds apart.
With one hand, he wanted to buy the electricity usage rights for half of Luzhou; with the other hand, he had a global bounty of up to two hundred million US dollars.
"This kid..." Li Jianguo stared at the long string of kilowatt-hour figures on the application form—a number enough to make the power bureau chief's heart stop—his brows furrowing into a deep "川" shape, his lips twitching involuntarily. "His life is practically being auctioned off on the dark web, and all he's thinking about is topping up that glowing ring?"
Two hundred million US dollars.
This amount of money could buy a small army on the black market, enough to make even the most elite assassins sell out their own fathers. Even in the heavily guarded interior of China, a large reward will always attract brave men, and this time, those who have come are probably not just brave men, but bloodthirsty wolves.
"Pass the order down." Li Jianguo abruptly raised his head, his anxious gaze turning into a cold, steely resolve. "Activate Level One combat readiness. Raise the security level to 'wartime status.' Not a single fly is allowed to enter the park!"
……
Five kilometers away in the western suburbs of Luzhou.
This is an abandoned logistics transfer station. The rusty roller shutter door is half-closed, blocking out the dim light inside.
Several burly men in "City West Power Maintenance" uniforms were gathered around a dilapidated wooden table. They were skillfully and roughly dismantling several heavy engineering toolboxes, which contained not wrenches and cables, but deadly parts that reeked of gun oil.
Click.
A crisp metallic clanging sound rang out.
The leader, codenamed "Venom," is the captain of the Black Mamba mercenary group. He has a typical Eastern European face, with a hideous scar extending from the corner of his left eye to the corner of his mouth, writhing like a centipede with his movements.
He carried a newly assembled Barrett M82A1 anti-materiel sniper rifle, its body painted a matte black. He expertly pulled back the bolt, inspecting the rifling, a nonchalant contempt in his eyes.
"Boss, two hundred million US dollars, isn't this job a bit too easy?" A team member chuckled as he wiped his tactical knife. "The target is just a bookworm who does scientific research. I heard he's never even killed a chicken."
"Don't be careless." Venomous Fang sneered, but the smile at the corner of his mouth betrayed his confidence. "China is forbidden territory for mercenaries, but that's for ordinary people. For us..."
He put down his sniper rifle and picked up a black tactical vest with a strange, water-rippled sheen from the bottom of the box.
"Put this on."
Venom tossed the vest to his teammate, his tone arrogant: "This is a prototype of the 'Ghost' 3rd generation from Lockheed Martin. It uses a negative refractive index metamaterial that can perfectly absorb radar waves, shield infrared signatures, and even cancel out heartbeat sounds through sound wave collision."
He put on a vest, and his figure became momentarily blurry in the dim light.
"I've studied the security in the East; they're still stuck with human wave tactics and ordinary thermal imaging cameras." Fang checked the synchronization time of his tactical watch, a cruel green glint in his eyes. "After tonight, that so-called 'tech godfather' will be a corpse. And we'll be drinking martinis on a Hawaiian beach, laughing at their incompetence."
"action."
……
The night was as dark as ink, and the starlight was obscured by thick clouds.
Outside the Zero Boundary Technology Park, beams of searchlights crisscrossed the night sky like sharp swords.
Wearing a military overcoat, Li Jianguo personally inspected the newly deployed three-layered defense perimeter. The outermost layer was a fully covered electronic fence powered by high voltage; the middle layer consisted of special police patrols with police dogs; and the core layer comprised an entire platoon of fully armed special operations teams.
The entire park is like a wary steel hedgehog, with all its sharp quills raised.
But his unease did not lessen in the slightest.
As a veteran who had crawled out of piles of corpses, he possessed an almost beast-like intuition for danger. That chilling feeling, like thorns on his back, told him that the hunters had already entered the fray.
"Commander, everything is normal on the perimeter."
"Report: No abnormalities found in Zone 2."
Reports from various sentry posts kept coming through the headset.
Li Jianguo stood in front of the large central screen in the command hall, his eyes fixed on the high-definition surveillance footage.
In the northeast corner of the park, in the shade of a camphor tree grove.
The Black Mamba squad moved swiftly along the walls, like ghosts melting into the night. They didn't trigger any infrared alarms, and even a passing stray cat didn't notice their presence.
"Disruptor, deploy," Venomous Fang gestured.
With a flick of their fingers, the technical team member sent out several tiny drones, each the size of a mosquito, flying out silently and precisely attaching themselves to the blind spots of several key monitoring cameras.
Nourishes...
On the monitoring wall in the command center, the originally clear image suddenly showed extremely subtle noise and jitter, just like an old television set experiencing signal interference.
"What's going on?" Li Jianguo's eyes narrowed.
"It might be due to unstable voltage or aging wiring." The technician on duty checked the data. "There was only a 0.5-second fluctuation, and the image returned to normal immediately."
Li Jianguo stared at the screens, his heart skipping a beat.
wrong.
What a coincidence!
Several cameras in the blind spot were fluctuating simultaneously.
"Switch to thermal imaging radar!" Li Jianguo shouted without hesitation. "Activate the backup military-grade full-area scan! Quickly!"
The operator was startled by his shout and frantically entered commands.
The massive main screen instantly switched to a dark green radar scanning interface. Huge beams swept across the entire park model like ripples on water.
"Is anyone there?!" Li Jianguo braced his hands on the control panel, his knuckles turning white.
"No...nothing." The operator's voice trembled slightly. "The radar shows...nothing. Only our own people's identification signals."
The screen was empty.
Only the green dots of those few patrol members were moving slowly.
Li Jianguo felt a chill run from the soles of his feet straight to the top of his head.
He trusted his intuition, but the high-tech equipment before him told him: it was safe outside. This cognitive dissonance made him feel the cruelty of the times for the first time.
If the other side really possesses the technology to deceive military radar... then aren't they just a bunch of blind people waiting to be slaughtered?
"Damn it..." Li Jianguo slammed his fist on the table. "Is this what they call a generational gap?!"
Just as the entire command hall was gripped by a suffocating sense of panic.
drop.
A crisp, pleasant notification sound abruptly broke the silence.
On the far right of the main control panel, a black screen that had been in standby mode and even had a "Do not touch during testing" label on it suddenly lit up without warning.
There is no complicated graphical interface, and no fancy progress bar.
There was only a pitch-black background, like an abyss, and lines of crimson code that were jumping wildly.
The code flowed at an astonishing speed, as if some ancient life was awakening.
[System: Fuxi (FUXI) - Basic Intelligent Defense Module - Activated]
[Status: Passive Sniffing -> Active Hunting]
[Alert: A data hole with non-natural logic has been detected.]
The moment those words appeared, a huge red pop-up window filled the center of the screen.
"What...what is this?" Li Jianguo was stunned.
Before he could react, the image on the screen changed. It was no longer the green ripples of the radar, but a 3D model of the entire park outlined in minimalist lines.
In this complex line drawing, five strange, distorted points suddenly appeared in the shadowy northeast corner, which was originally "empty".
That's neither thermal imaging nor optical imaging.
Those were clusters of marked "data black holes".
[Analysis: As long as mass exists, it will disturb the air; as long as temperature exists, entropy will increase. So-called perfect invisibility, at the data level, is simply the biggest artificial noise.]
A line of sarcastic comments in Bai Che's style scrolled down the screen.
Immediately afterwards, the red lines converged rapidly, and the five twisted points were quickly analyzed and reconstructed.
Just two seconds.
Five humanoid silhouettes, each wearing tactical vests and wielding heavy weapons, were clearly outlined with highlighted red lines. Even the hideous scar on the leader's face was almost perfectly predicted by some algorithm.
"We've got you."
Li Jianguo shuddered, grabbing the encrypted communicator on the table. His voice was hoarse with excitement: "Bai Gong! Bai Gong! This is Li Jianguo! The Fuxi system has issued an alarm! Five targets are infiltrating Zone Two! They have radar-blocking equipment! You must get into the underground safe house immediately! Repeat, get into the safe house immediately!"
Nourishes...
The communication was established.
But instead of the panic Li Jianguo had expected, what came was a rhythmic metallic clanging sound, and Bai Che's nonchalant, even somewhat lazy voice.
"Uncle Li, stop shouting, I'm not deaf."
In the underground laboratory, Bai Che was adjusting the reactor's ignition threshold while glancing at the red humanoid silhouette displayed on the split screen next to him.
"I see. It seems these mice have built-in shielding devices? Great, perfect for testing Fuxi's sense of smell."
Bai Che yawned, his tone as flat as if he were talking about a few cockroaches that had wandered into the kitchen. "The so-called 'ghost' system is nothing more than using negative refractive index materials to guide light waves around. But at the level of gravitational waves and microscopic particle disturbances, they are like running naked in the dark with a flashlight."
"White-collar workers! Those are world-class mercenaries! They have anti-materiel weapons!" Li Jianguo was so anxious that his veins bulged.
"Stay calm."
Bai Che casually tapped a few times on a floating virtual keyboard. "I'm handing command over to Fuxi. Uncle Li, you just need to watch the screen and shout 'Fire!' I'm busy, this fire-lighting ceremony is quite mentally taxing, bye."
Beep, beep, beep.
Communication was ruthlessly cut off.
Li Jianguo stood frozen in place for a full three seconds, holding the microphone.
But he quickly came to his senses and turned to look at the dark screen.
At this moment, the Black Mamba squad had already reached the shadows of the second line of defense.
Venomous Fang lay prone in the grass, observing the unsuspecting patrol team ten meters ahead through the scope of his night vision goggles, a cruel smile curving his lips.
"These idiots are still looking to the left."
His finger slowly touched the cold trigger, his breathing slowed, and he prepared to reap the first wave of lives.
"This is the so-called forbidden land of the East? What a joke."
He sneered inwardly.
But what he didn't know was...
In the command center right above his head, Li Jianguo was staring intently at the Fuxi System screen.
On that device, every subtle movement of the venomous fang, every breathing frequency, and even the angle at which the muzzle was raised, were converted into a precise real-time data stream.
Those five red coordinates were as glaring as fresh blood.
The initial panic and helplessness vanished instantly as the data fluctuated. In their place came the absolute ruthlessness of a hunter in complete control.
Li Jianguo took a deep breath, gripped the walkie-talkie tightly, and his eyes became fiercer than ever before.
The technological gap does indeed exist.
However, we were not the ones being crushed.
"Attention all units." Li Jianguo's deep, thunderous voice echoed throughout the command center. "Coordinate input data link... Three, two, one..."
"see a visitor out."