Super technology leader

Internationally, the Moon Grand Prix was gaining momentum, overshadowing the earlier news of the Long March 9 and the Tianxia Project's planned moon landing within two years, which had faded into obscurity.

It couldn't be helped. Despite the impressive claims, people only saw the engines, with no sign of the other components. Moreover, international public opinion was controlled by others, making it impossible to compete.

Now, with the Moon Grand Prix offering a substantial $50 million prize, the promotion was naturally more enthusiastic!

For the general public, money was a tangible incentive.

Coupled with a constant stream of announcements from the American Aerospace Agency—registration numbers surpassing one hundred, then one thousand, major companies officially entering the competition, and significant rocket sponsorships for smaller teams—

the relentless barrage of news, pushed directly onto the homepages of various global information platforms, made it unavoidable.

Ordinary people enjoyed the spectacle, taking pride in their country's participation. However, the information departments and higher-ups of those countries were less pleased.

Their national information platforms were dominated by American news, showcasing advanced technology and promoting an increasingly positive image of America. Meanwhile, their own policy announcements went unnoticed. This was unacceptable…

Especially in Western countries, heavily influenced by America, lacking large-scale internet companies and completely independent online social information platforms, they were entirely reliant on American systems.

Previously, this arrangement was acceptable when everyone was on the same team, benefiting mutually.

However, in recent years, America's increasingly 'America First' policies, targeting and sanctioning even allies while demanding money, coupled with their control over the means of communication, created a frustrating situation.

Yet, they had to endure it because, in the eyes of outsiders, they were seen as America's allies.

Unless, they severed ties.

But severing ties would undoubtedly lead to even more severe backlash.

A dilemma.

Amidst the global turmoil and the burgeoning aerospace and technology sectors, the animation industry, separated by several layers, remained relatively quiet.

Thanks to this cross-industry involvement, Tang Chao could steal a moment of leisure.

Since deciding to participate in the Moon Grand Prix, Tang Chao realized how busy Chen Jing was daily. However, whenever he told Chen Jing that he was becoming busy because of it, she would just roll her eyes at him.

"What you're doing doesn't count as busy! Stop whining."

Hey, looking down on me? Then I'll give you more to do.

So, Tang Chao delegated team personnel management, finding temporary workspaces, and negotiating with manufacturers to Chen Jing, while he focused solely on the technology.

But since the technical personnel weren't even fully assembled yet, there was no need to worry about the technical aspects, so he slipped away.

He slipped away to Five-Colored Stone Cultural Media to discuss the animated series.

In his words: "This animation is very important. It's one of the company's initial promotional strategies, and as the company's boss, I need to personally oversee it."

Inside the offices of Five-Colored Stone Animation Studios.

"Slurp~"

Tang Chao leisurely took a sip of tea and said to Lin Qixian and Dong Chen, who were reviewing the settings, "How is it? Adding these settings immediately elevates the comic's quality, right?"

"High, extremely high!"

Dong Chen excitedly flipped through the settings, Tang Chao's surprise was simply too great.

His comic story wasn't particularly outstanding; the plot was somewhat clichéd. However, because he hadn't initially aimed for fame or fortune, he meticulously refined the work.

Although the story was old-fashioned, it was smooth and free of major logical flaws. Moreover, the initial settings balanced technological realism and sci-fi aesthetics, resulting in a relatively positive reception.

Later, with Lin Qixian's involvement, who excelled at scriptwriting and storyboarding, the comic's storytelling improved, and the various storyboard treatments were brilliant, increasing the comic's popularity.

This time, Tang Chao enlisted engineers from Canxing to make the sci-fi settings in the comic more realistic, causing Dong Chen and Lin Qixian to pore over them, as if their settings could actually be built.

"Old Tang, the engineer you found is really amazing. It's like it's real, looks very impressive."

Hearing Lin Qixian's praise, Tang Chao, who was drinking tea, became unhappy. He put down his teacup and said, "What do you mean 'like it's real' and 'looks impressive'? It is real."

"Real?"

Dong Chen asked with interest, "According to these settings, can real things be built?"

"Of course, otherwise why would I hire top mechanical engineers to do this? If the technology is there, these things can be built."

Tang Chao glanced at him, then pointed at the screen and said, "Take your 'Black Iron' exoskeleton as an example. In reality, the structure of a mechanical exoskeleton is basically like that. As long as the technology is there, it can be built."

"If you replace the lithium battery in reality with the 'Source Energy Battery' from the comic, and replace the computer processing core with the 'Neuron Intelligent Core', the current mechanical exoskeleton can achieve actual combat. But the Earth's technology hasn't developed to that point yet."

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"It's like building a nuclear bomb. There are even nuclear bomb manufacturing technology files in my group, I don't know who uploaded them. But the group members can look at them, but without the processing capabilities, it's useless to look."

Dong Chen and Lin Qixian understood the logic, but there are not many works that put so much effort into the settings now. Not to mention animation, even in the film and television field, which ones that set up so rigorously are not large productions with hundreds of millions of investments.

Their animation investment is indeed not small, but the money to hire experts to design mechanical props is not cheap, and the more realistic, the more expensive.

The design of the mechanical exoskeleton is okay, you can find a lot of it online, but the design of the mecha is against the rules.

Tang Chao's design drawings not only marked various material models, electronic component models, data specific to nanometers, internal mechanical structure, firepower distribution, fire control calculation, engine power, UI interface design, etc., all of them were readily available.

With such detailed designs, how much would it cost?

Although many key components are settings from the comic, they thought about it, if the fictional key components were replaced with real ones, the design and manufacturing plan of this mecha would also be completely feasible.

At most, it would be useless to build, not even a target.

Due to the limitations of Earth's technological level, it can only be used as a film and television physical effects prop.

Fortunately, they are making an animated series, and Tang Chao is responsible for all the mechanical settings, without deducting money from the 50 million RMB.

If they were filming a science fiction movie, Tang Chao would have to spend a lot of money to really build some mechanical exoskeletons and mechas.

Yes, fortunately this is not a movie, otherwise they would not be sitting here looking at the settings, but sitting in the cockpit of the mecha and running wildly on the ground.

When looking at settings or science fiction film and television dramas, everyone can talk eloquently about the mecha equipment inside, whether it is a target or simply can't move.

But if you really put a mecha... no, let's not talk about a real mecha, even a mecha model with a cockpit next to it, he would have to sit in it.

After all, which boy doesn't want a mecha.

After getting the mechanical design sorted out, Tang Chao told them to quickly integrate it into the comic, then solve all the messy things, and get the trailer out first, he couldn't wait.

After finishing this, he returned to his residence and went to Canxing again. After all, after the personnel are found, he will be busy with the Moon Grand Prix, so he must recharge.

He, as the project's chief technology officer, can't show weakness.