"You… you have more?"
Yin Zhiyuan was stunned for a while before he reacted.
Xu Meng nodded, about to speak, but was stopped in time by the female researcher from the Special Operations Team—
"Wait a moment."
"Let's talk somewhere else."
"Professor Liu, is there a convenient place to talk here?"
"Of course." The person in charge nodded and led them away.
Behind them, the people from the Special Operations Team had already begun to instruct everyone present on matters of confidentiality.
—Even though everyone was thinking that, given Xu Meng's personality, he might even make this new thing public and have it used in the gaming field.
But that was a matter for the future; the current confidentiality work still had to be cooperated with.
…
The Special Operations Team carefully checked the room to ensure there were no listening devices.
They were extremely efficient, obviously very experienced.
After the inspection, they personally guarded the door, leaving only Xu Meng, Yin Zhiyuan, and the female researcher named Wu Shuang in the room.
"So… the new idea you mentioned, the technology that allows people to dream together, is it the same as the holographic display device?" Yin Zhiyuan asked impatiently.
While asking, he was shouting 'outrageous' in his heart.
When others say they have an idea, it's just a simple idea.
From idea to concept, then to designing experiments, step-by-step practice, verification, and adjustment, it's only with extremely good luck that results are achieved.
But this guy Xu Meng, if he has an idea yesterday, he can experiment today and get results within the week!
It's really outrageous to the extreme!
Xu Meng couldn't understand his complicated mood and simply nodded decisively, saying, "That's right, I already have a concrete idea."
"You… why did you suddenly want to do this?" Wu Shuang, who rarely interrupted, suddenly asked, "Is it also because of games?"
"Of course." Xu Meng said matter-of-factly.
"The Illusion Landscape Gaming Kit is good, but after all, the movement space is limited. This hardware limitation can easily limit the development of the game."
"In addition, the Illusion Landscape Gaming Kit is not comprehensive enough, and it cannot provide very good support for vertical movements—when players climb or jump from a high place, there is only visual feedback, but the body's sensation is disconnected, which greatly affects immersion."
"There are also the sensations of the head, the smell of objects, the taste of food… etc., etc., all are blind spots."
"The Dream Machine is to fill all these gaps."
"Oh, [Dream Machine] is the name I gave to this device."
From the moment Xu Meng met her, Wu Shuang had always presented a calm, composed, professional, and efficient image, but she suddenly sighed deeply, shedding that professional demeanor.
She helplessly rubbed her forehead and smiled wryly, "So you didn't consider at all that this thing could also utilize people's sleeping time? To some extent, it indirectly doubles the lifespan of human beings?"
"Ah?" Xu Meng was stunned.
"Okay, it seems you really didn't consider it…" Wu Shuang sighed again.
But she quickly composed herself and asked seriously, "Would you mind talking to us about the specific technical ideas?"
"I don't mind, but…" Xu Meng looked at Yin Zhiyuan.
Wu Shuang interjected, "Don't worry, the holographic display technology is your achievement, no one will restrict you from using it. I can guarantee this on behalf of the government. If the military has different opinions, the government will help you communicate and resolve them."
At this moment, Wu Shuang's aura was compelling.
Yin Zhiyuan wasn't so assertive.
He was just a small technical officer in the Ningzhou Garrison, and his rank was far below Wu Shuang's, not to mention the department Wu Shuang represented.
He was only qualified to sit in this room and participate in this conversation because of his identity as "Xu Meng's contact person."
Hearing Wu Shuang say this, he could only smile wryly and say, "The military isn't unreasonable."
"The support for you will not be less, rest assured."
He assured Xu Meng.
Xu Meng then nodded and introduced the general idea of the Dream Machine to the two of them—
Dreamwalking Agent and Brainwave Signal Collector work together to allow dreamers to achieve the same frequency and enter the same dream.
"So that's why you said before that you still need talents in pharmaceuticals, neurology, and brain science?"
"Dreamwalking Agent… a sleeping pill without side effects? Are you confident?" Wu Shuang couldn't help but ask.
Xu Meng was about to answer, but she suddenly waved her hand and said, "No, no, no, you don't need to guarantee anything."
"Scientific research is inherently full of uncertainties, success and failure are common."
"Just let go and do it."
"Just say what you need, I'll write a report later. If there are no accidents, you can get the highest level of support."
Xu Meng had 100% confidence in making the product.
But Wu Shuang didn't let him speak, clearing him of responsibility from the beginning. This delicate and thoughtful way of doing things made Xu Meng feel a little goodwill towards her.
Wu Shuang acted immediately, leaving to call her superiors and report the situation.
Yin Zhiyuan also left in a hurry to contact his superiors.
Xu Meng stayed in the room alone, thinking about the production of the holographic display device.
This thing was aimed at replacing VR glasses. Once it went into production, VR glasses sales would definitely be greatly affected, and a reduction in production would be inevitable.
This was very simple, just notify Zhang Da Shao.
But the mass industrial preparation of holographic display devices, the new substance with the code name X that was essential, was not something that Zhang Da Shao or Yuanyang Group could handle.
Xu Meng quickly realized: it was time to build his own factory.
X substance was essentially a consumable, a bit like the ink cartridges of a printer. Users who purchased holographic display devices would need to purchase it continuously.
The demand from military, commercial, and civilian use was stacked together, and the demand for production capacity was almost astronomical.
And the manufacturing of this thing was very troublesome, and workers without sufficient education could hardly undertake this work.
—At least they had to be college students.
This also meant that once this factory was built, it would need at least 30,000 to 50,000 engineering professionals in the initial stage to ensure efficient and safe production.
If there were enough players purchasing and the game time was long enough, the manpower required might be more than ten times that number.
"500,000 college students…"
Even if the second phase wasn't so tight and the professional requirements could be relaxed through training, Xu Meng was still shocked by the numbers he estimated.
Dream Building, including Neural Roaming, hadn't even reached 10,000 people!
Most of them were game experience hall employees distributed in various provinces across the country.
Removing these, there were only 500 people.
—At this time, the layoff storm in the gaming industry at home and abroad had just begun, and Dream Building hadn't yet conducted a "big sweep."
Wu Shuang had just finished making the call and heard Xu Meng say "500,000 college students" as soon as she came back, and asked him curiously what he was talking about.
Xu Meng then talked about the idea of the factory.
Wu Shuang's eyes lit up on the spot, and she almost took out her phone to report again.
She held Xu Meng's hand and said solemnly, "Feel free to do it!"
"The government will provide you with all the necessary support!"
"Whether it's the production and launch of holographic display devices or the research and development of the Dream Machine."
"Is it okay to sell it abroad?" Xu Meng asked, taking advantage of the situation.
"No problem! As long as you want, just do it!"
Wu Shuang agreed readily.
Xu Meng had already guaranteed that the medium synthesis method and the holographic image translation algorithm would not be exposed, and the technology would not be leaked.
Then the only thing they had to do was to do a good job of keeping the medium synthesis factory and Dream Building Game Company confidential.
While speaking, Yin Zhiyuan also returned to the room and brought back a reply that was completely consistent with Wu Shuang's—
"Feel free to do it, just say what support you need."
"In the future, when you develop new technologies, don't forget the military."
The only requirement was to upgrade the security of Dream Building.
And this was originally something the Special Operations Team was already doing. Now, it was just a matter of replacing another group of people and maximizing the "confidentiality" measures on the basis of "safety."
Finally, they also discussed with Xu Meng to check the background of all Dream Building employees and conduct regular national defense security education for employees—especially anti-espionage education.
Xu Meng had long been mentally prepared for this and nodded in agreement.
In order to express his apology to the employees, he decided to give more confidentiality fees when signing the confidentiality agreement.
And this was the reason why Chen Peng was pressed down on the spot.
Using the means of national security anti-espionage to investigate a game company's commercial spies was completely overkill.
Even in their eyes, Chen Peng was not worthy of the title "spy."
At most, he was a "scout."
But in this "general investigation," even the smallest problems had to be brought out and examined carefully to determine the threat level.
Chen Peng was not the only one who was caught.
In addition to him, two were caught from the Frost and Snow Project team, three from the War of Kings Project team, and one from Neural Roaming.
Even in the local game experience hall in Ningzhou, one was caught.
Three of them came from game companies, and two came from hardware companies.
The one caught in Neural Roaming was the most outrageous—he was a pure workaholic who worked 14 hours a day.
Upon closer inspection, he was actually hired by overseas spies!
Xu Meng flew to three provinces with the Special Task Force, arranged the relevant experiments for drug manufacturing and brainwave signal acquisition with extremely high efficiency, and the first thing he saw after returning to Ningzhou was this result.
Xu Meng was completely stunned.
Is this a team-building exercise at my place? ?
If Wu Shuang hadn't stopped him, he would have gone to those companies to cause trouble.
Wu Shuang advised him like this: "You focus on your main work, and leave these small matters to us."
Only then did Xu Meng stop.
Then he thought about it, Chen Peng hadn't done anything bad since coming to Zhumeng.
He had also toured the country, so even if he didn't have any merit, he had worked hard.
So he asked, "I knew about Chen Peng's situation before, and I was thinking of keeping him in the company to deal with the nails that other companies planted."
"Now that you're helping, that department is no longer needed."
"How about, can you see if you can take him in?"
He thought this was just a small matter.
But the leader of the National Security Bureau in charge of this "fact-finding mission" refused without hesitation: "The National Security Bureau will never accept someone with such a bad record."
Xu Meng thought about it, it didn't seem quite appropriate, so he started thinking about how to arrange Chen Peng.
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— He couldn't stay in the original development team.
Future development work, whether it's new projects or old projects, will involve holographic image display technology.
Chen Peng has experience as a commercial spy, even if he has reformed, he is no longer qualified to be exposed to this kind of work.
This is not Xu Meng being harsh, but the requirements of the National Security Bureau's confidentiality work.
To persuade Xu Meng, the person in charge of the National Security Bureau painstakingly recounted a bunch of lessons learned.
Xu Meng listened to the advice of professionals.
… …
Finally, after being carefully interrogated in a small dark room, Chen Peng regained his freedom with lingering fear and met Xu Meng.
This was the second time he had come to Xu Meng's office.
The last time he came was before he set off to visit the veterans of the Anti-Japanese War.
He didn't expect that the second time he came, he would be kicked out—Chen Peng thought.
But Xu Meng said: "Because of some reasons…"
He hesitated for a moment, and gave up being euphemistic: "Forget it, let me just say it directly."
"Because the new technology involves state secrets, you can't stay in the development department anymore. Now you can choose to transfer to two places: one is to go to the game experience hall, and the other is to go to the competition department to help with the work of the 'War of Kings' global competition."
"The former is relatively easy, and the latter will be more hard work."
"Of course, if you still want to continue doing development, and want to leave Zhumeng to go to another company, that's fine too, no one will make things difficult for you."
"New technology?" Chen Peng subconsciously asked.
Then he immediately reacted: "No, no, no, you don't need to tell me this!"
But Xu Meng just shook his head and pointed to the ground under his feet.
Chen Peng looked down.
A familiar little local dog was squatting on the ground wagging its tail at him.
"Dou Dou?!"
Chen Peng's pupils shrank violently, completely unable to believe his eyes.
He rubbed his eyes hard with the back of his hand.
But Dou Dou was still squatting there, sticking out its tongue and wagging its tail at him.
He squatted down in disbelief and reached out to touch the little local dog—he naturally touched nothing.
Xu Meng shook his head and threw him a pair of haptic gloves.
Chen Peng hurriedly caught them in his hands, but didn't put them on immediately.
He looked at the haptic gloves in his hand and Dou Dou at his feet, and then looked at Xu Meng's expression, and slowly understood what Xu Meng meant.
"So…this is the new technology?" His words were full of disbelief.
"Aren't you going to pet it? Its tail is almost wagging like an electric fan."
Only then did Chen Peng hurriedly put on the haptic gloves and reached out to touch the little local dog.
The little guy rubbed against his hand, expressing his excitement all over.
Chen Peng really wanted to ask clearly what was going on.
But he had just been interrogated by the National Security Bureau in a small dark room, and if the boss hadn't helped him speak, he didn't know how it would have ended.
This caused him to still be afraid, and he didn't dare to ask any more questions.
He touched Dou Dou's smooth fur and quickly made a decision—
I'm not leaving!
"I'll go to the competition department."
"Thank you for your care, boss."
So Chen Peng's destination was decided like this.
… …
… …
After Chen Peng left, Xiao Meng popped out again, swaying to the French window and continuing to admire the scenery of Jing Lake outside the window.
The most valuable things in holographic display equipment are the medium and the algorithm.
Xu Meng and Xiao Meng have worked together to solve the algorithm, and now that the medium is also ready, Xu Meng naturally used it first.
Although the medium can only be synthesized in the laboratory at present, and the cost is very high, Xu Meng couldn't wait to carry out holographic transformation of the office.
This is not only to facilitate Xiao Meng's activities, but also greatly helps work.
—With Xiao Meng helping to do the transfer, Xu Meng can completely use this system to replace the display.
When his laboratory is built, it will also be holographically transformed.
When in Shencheng, Wu Shuang invited him to live in Xiajing, and even Zhumeng could be moved to Xiajing as a whole.
Xu Meng himself didn't care where he was.
But considering that a large number of Zhumeng's old employees were from Ningzhou, he rejected the proposal.
So Wu Shuang implemented plan B—
Building a high-end laboratory in Ningzhou for Xu Meng, so that he can quickly put his new ideas into practice and seize every inspiration.
At this moment, while multiple pharmaceutical laboratories, brain science research institutes, and neurology research institutes are conducting experiments according to the plans given by Xu Meng, experimental equipment from all over the country and all over the world are converging towards Xu Meng's laboratory.
Holographic transformation is the last step.
By then, it is estimated that the factory will be built and start industrial preparation of the medium.
Thinking of this, he made a phone call to Zhang Dashao.
"Yo! Mr. Busy Xu remembered me?" Zhang Yang's voice rang on the other end of the phone.
"What nonsense are you talking about?" Xu Meng retorted mercilessly, "Isn't it you, Zhang Dashao, who is busy inheriting the family business and can't bother with me? I asked you to play games, but you don't have time."
"Is that what you call playing games with me? Letting me team up with you, two people fighting 1 million people? ? ?"
"I'd be crazy to agree!"
"What are you talking about! I killed thousands of people without anyone to cooperate with me. If someone cooperates with me, I might win. If I lose, it's all your fault."
"You f***ing…" Zhang Yang's auspicious words blurted out.
But before he could unleash his flowery tongue, the sound of someone calling him rang from the other end of the phone.
"Wait a minute!" Zhang Yang shouted to the person over there, and then turned back to ask Xu Meng, "If you have anything to say, say it quickly. I'm not like you, a slacker who plays games during work hours. I'm busy."
"Oh, pay attention to controlling the production capacity of VR glasses. The future will be three months sooner, and five months later, and a replacement product will be launched."
"No, it's not a complete replacement, there should still be sales, but it will definitely be far lower than now."
"New product? ? ?" Zhang Yang was surprised, "What new product? You've come up with something new again? Is it only a few months? Are you a beast?"
Xu Meng smiled slightly: "Do you believe that I only need one sentence now, and someone will fly to your house and press your head to sign a confidentiality agreement?"
"? ? ?" Zhang Yang stopped talking nonsense.
He realized that Xu Meng seemed to be serious.
"So…you really came up with something new?"
"Yes, but I can't send it to you first this time, you can't use it even if I give it to you."
The holographic image display function needs to be made first, and then displayed.
Xu Meng can use it directly, all thanks to Xiao Meng working silently in the invisible place…
"Let's talk about that later." Zhang Yang quickly changed his tone, "This new thing of yours, does it just happen to lack a reliable, powerful, and first-class service factory to help you make it?"
"Don't say it, it really is!" Xu Meng was very supportive, "Will you please help me with it then?"
"Okay! Don't worry, leave it to me, absolutely!" Zhang Yang said, patting his chest.
After a moment of pause, the two people burst out laughing at the same time.
After finishing the crosstalk, Zhang Yang said again: "With the current amount of VR glasses, even if we want to reduce production, we can't reduce it too much for the time being, otherwise your after-sales service will not be easy to do."
—In the early days, the neuro-roaming personnel were not complete, and the after-sales service of the equipment was handled by Zhang Yang.
Now he hasn't completely withdrawn, and he knows more about many things than Xu Meng.
Zhang Yang told Xu Meng: "Especially in the past few days, the damage and warranty of VR glasses have been particularly high, and many cities are under great pressure for after-sales service."
"Damage? In the past few days?" Xu Meng was surprised, "Why?"
"Why?" Zhang Yang was even more surprised than Xu Meng, "Don't you know?"
"Know what? Stop farting and tell me quickly."
"You really are a busy person…" Zhang Yang complained again before saying the reason.
"The first external game has been launched on the Zhumeng game platform, such a big thing, the boss is actually unaware of it."
"External game?" Xu Meng was stunned.
After quickly searching his mind, he finally reacted—
While he was busy with holographic display equipment and dream machines, 'Damn! I'm Surrounded by Evil Ghosts' has already been released!
Not only was it released, but it also caused a large number of VR glasses to be damaged!
What's the situation?
Can the evil ghosts in this game run out and attack reality?
