Great Power Technology

"Damn it, why is the weather in China so hot in June?"

"This is Chengdu, the basin terrain, of course it should be hot..."

"What nonsense are you talking about? Look at the weather forecast on your phone. The temperature in Chengdu today is higher than the Sahara Desert!"

"...Okay, that's my problem. Damn it, why is it so hot?"

Piedlov and Jess, who had just stepped out of the airport, were almost brought back to their senses by the heat wave that hit their faces. 30 hours ago, they were still blowing the humid and cold sea breeze from Northern Europe. 30 hours later, they felt as if Into the furnace.

"Why hasn't our driver come yet? Didn't we agree that someone would come to pick us up? If I wait a few more minutes, I feel like I'm going to be roasted from the inside out!"

Piedlov angrily took out half a cigar from his pocket and lit it. Jess glared at him dissatisfied and said:

"Watch your image! We are here to negotiate. If you continue to behave as rudely as you are now, then you should not participate in the next negotiations!"

"Why? We have what they want, and they have what we want. This is just an exchange, it's not that complicated..."

Piedrov spit out the smoke from his mouth indifferently, and then continued:

"Besides, wasn't our previous cooperation very smooth? The Natural Sect's European headquarters was knocked down, and they also got the list of whatever pastoral organization they wanted. Shouldn't they treat us as friends?"

The two of them were the operatives of the Hermes Organization in Europe. A few months ago, they planned a series of liquidation operations against the Natural Sect and achieved shocking results.

"friend?"

Jess raised the corners of his mouth with some irony, and then continued:

"You have to remember that the Chinese will not regard an uncontrolled organization like ours as a friend. They only believe in their own power."

"The reason why we were able to cooperate before was because our goals happened to be consistent with theirs."

"In the future, if we have differences of opinion, they will not hesitate to abandon us and even use strong methods to suppress us - they are much scarier than those ugly countrymen."

"But in terms of execution ability, no one can compare with them. As long as they want to do something, there is nothing they can't do."

Hearing Jace's words, Piedlov finally nodded in agreement. After taking a long puff of his cigar, he burned out most of the remaining cigar on the trash can on the roadside, and then said:

"Well, they don't think of us as friends, and luckily we don't think of them as friends either."

"Speaking of which, do you think our negotiations can be successful this time? Judging from the news from Mingsen, the technology we want has almost reached a strategic level."

"I always feel that exchanging this kind of technology with them is as ridiculous as asking the ugly country for atomic bomb technology during World War II."

"It's indeed ridiculous, but I think they will agree - after all, what we have in hand is no worse than the so-called 'atomic bomb'."

"I highly doubt that."

Piedlov shook his head and said.

"Of course you will be suspicious. You have never thought about anything with your head. I really don't know how you obtained your bachelor's degree. Did you threaten your instructor with a gun?"

Piedrov laughed and replied:

"You're half right."

"I did use a gun, but it was not a threat."

"What's the meaning?"

Jace's brow furrowed.

Piedlov cleared his throat and said:

"Well, the principal of my school at that time was a divorced and single lady..."

"Okay, you don't need to say any more, I'm not interested in listening."

Jace noticed Piedrov's eagerness to try, and decisively stopped his showoff before he continued to speak.

The two of them stood in the hot air and waited for twenty minutes. Just when they were about to lose their patience, an ordinary-looking commercial vehicle finally stopped in front of them. Jess carefully checked the license plate number. After that, they pulled Piedlov into the car, and there was already someone waiting for them in the car.

This man was really Chen Hao, and the person sitting next to him was a senior intelligence officer from a certain department of the military.

After a brief introduction, Chen Hao said:

"Nice to meet you, Mr. Piedlov and Mr. Jess. How are you? Are you frightened by the weather in Chengdu?"

"Yes, yes, please help me lower the temperature of the air conditioner. I feel like I'm about to catch fire."

Piedrov said carelessly, but in an instant, he remembered Jace's warning just now, so he took back his stretched out hand and sat upright on the back of the chair.

"No problem at all."

Chen Hao smiled and adjusted the air volume of the air conditioner. Piedlov on the opposite side was obviously relieved. After taking a big sip of the water handed by Chen Hao, he looked at Jace beside him, who also nodded with understanding. nod.

"Mr. Chen Hao, this is not the first time that you and I have met. You also know the purpose of our visit this time, so I think we should just get into the topic directly?"

"No problem - your style is very similar to ours, very pragmatic, which I appreciate very much."

"We have no choice but to be pragmatic... After all, there is not much time left for mankind. So let me put it bluntly, what we need is the neural electrical signal compilation algorithm in AVS technology, and the related database files."

"This part of the content will be used in the neural mapping project at Birmingham National Laboratory, and the purpose of this project is to simulate human neural network activities through computers, and ultimately replicate the complete human mind one to one."

"To put it simply, it's consciousness uploading."

"Where are you now?"

Chen Hao was not surprised by the concept he said. The latter was surprised that he could understand this technology in such a short period of time. However, when he saw the headphones Chen Hao was wearing, Jace had a feeling of enlightenment.

Although there were only two people sitting in front of him, there were far more than two people actually negotiating with him.

After considering his words for a moment, he answered:

"We have just achieved a breakthrough from zero to one, and neural mapping technology has been proven to be feasible, but currently we have encountered a computing power bottleneck and need more powerful and sophisticated algorithms to support it."

Chen Hao nodded slightly and continued to ask:

"What is your purpose? I mean, what are you trying to do with mind uploading?"

In fact, in the previous discussion, Chen Hao had already obtained speculations about the other party's purpose from Ye Zhou and a kind of professional. The most mainstream one was that there might be some hidden secret within the Hermes organization. They want to use consciousness uploading technology to store human consciousness into computer systems, thereby reducing the energy consumption demands of individual humans and avoiding the energy depletion crisis caused by the invasion of adjacent dimensions.

But out of caution, he still wanted to get a clear answer from the other party's negotiators.

As he expected, the reasons given by Jace were exactly the same as his previous judgment. After hearing this, Chen Hao sighed slightly.

In fact, this so-called cooperation negotiation has ended here.

China will never allow any escape faction to exist, let alone any cooperation with them.

Jess keenly noticed Chen Hao's expression, so he said bluntly:

"Mr. Chen Hao, and Mr. real decision-maker, I know you don't agree with our route to solve the problem, but it doesn't matter. This is just a difference in direction. Our ultimate goal is the same."

"From our point of view, when mankind is facing such a major crisis, we just need to explore in some different directions, and consciousness uploading is one of them."

"You can think that we are wrong, and we will not force your agreement, but you should listen to our terms of exchange."

"I think this exchange may change your views."

"Even if we are not recognized, such conditions should be enough to achieve a positive result in this negotiation."

"What is it?"

Chen Hao asked calmly.

Jace cleared his throat and replied:

"You know, the US military is about to apply the latest quantum encryption technology. Under this technology, the information deterrence you have achieved with RSA decryption technology will be completely invalid."

"In contrast, in terms of conventional military strength, there is still a considerable gap between China and the U.S. military. If such deterrence disappears, the U.S. military will enter a stage of retaliatory rebound and expansion, which is extremely detrimental to China."

"So, our condition is that we will help you achieve a new deterrence against the ugly country. The duration of this deterrence will be about 18 months."

Chen Hao nodded slightly and continued to ask:

"What are you going to do?"

"It's very simple, we will disable all the nuclear weapons they have."