Chapter 47: New Infrastructure

"Is it just my eyes playing tricks on me? Why has automotive technology suddenly broken through to electromagnetic levitation cars? I'm starting to think electric vehicles aren't safe at all..."

"What the heck? I really bought my electric car at a loss! If I'd known, I would have waited another couple of years! Aren't electromagnetic levitation cars amazing?"

"Thumbs up!"

"The name He Xingzhou sounds a bit familiar. Wasn't his team behind the battery technology last time?"

"This young man is incredible!"

...

News travels fast. He Xingzhou was still at the road test site when he received a call from his parents.

"Son, I saw on the news that you've successfully researched some kind of electromagnetic levitation car?" He Qihang asked.

"Yes, we just finished a successful test," He Xingzhou replied.

"Hahaha!" He Qihang laughed heartily. "Good, well done!"

Nearby, Jiang Manrong's scolding could be heard: "Did you not watch the television? He's in the middle of an interview, don't disturb his work!"

"Right, right, right." He Qihang was extremely happy and said, "Then you go ahead with your work, we'll call you later."

He Xingzhou looked ahead; a large crowd of reporters and media workers had already blocked the area.

"Are you going to do the interview?" Xu Zhilan walked over and asked.

"I think we'll skip it for today," He Xingzhou said, glancing at the sea of dark heads in front of him with a helpless expression. "There are still a lot of more important things to do."

"Okay! I'll arrange it!" Xu Zhilan spoke into her communicator, "Team One, Team One, guide all the reporters to the interview area!"

"Team One, received!" Staff members immediately went to coordinate.

"Mengyao, you go with Sister Zhilan first," He Xingzhou instructed. "By the way, Reporter Shen, my younger sister wants to take a photo with you. Do you have time?"

"Sure!" Shen Bingbing smiled. "That's no problem at all!"

"Alright, I still have matters to attend to, so I'll take off first!" He Xingzhou said.

With the electromagnetic levitation car road test a success, a mountain of tasks awaited him.

If expected, this event was bound to shock all relevant departments, enterprises, and the entire world!

...

In the Xuanwu Executive Group chat, several executives were also discussing the matter.

Kong Qing said, "Comrade Xiao He's team has produced new results again, really making us old folks feel ashamed!"

Qin Peng asked, "@He Xingzhou, can your team lend us some assistance? Can this technology be applied in the military?"

He Xingzhou replied, "For now, electromagnetic levitation cars require magnetic roads to operate. If the military can pave specialized magnetic roads, they can be used for transporting supplies and the like. Additionally, technologies like magnetic levitation bearings can also be applied to military vehicles and weapons."

Lv Mei inquired, "What are the manufacturing costs? Can it be rolled out on a large scale?"

He Xingzhou: "The manufacturing costs are about the same as traditional cars. Furthermore, we have also designed the magnetic road surfaces. It only requires laying a layer of magnetic materials over existing roads to complete the preliminary conversion. The conversion budget is only one-fifth of constructing an equivalent section of highway!"

"It can be retrofitted? Then there's the possibility of widespread promotion," Lv Mei said.

He Xingzhou continued speaking: "Fellow executives, I suggest we immediately begin mass-producing electromagnetic levitation cars and retrofitting magnetic roads nationwide. At the very least, we must ensure that all major highway arteries are converted into magnetic road surfaces. As for other places, we can leave them to private enterprises or local promotion."

"In this way, our country's logistics and transportation efficiency can leap directly into the national electromagnetic highway era!"

Cui Weimin spoke up, "Comrade He Xingzhou's proposal is very constructive. In our Xuanwu Project, there was already a component to improve the national logistics system. Now that we have the technologies for electromagnetic levitation vehicles and magnetic roads, we can discuss with the leaders of the transportation and construction departments to promote it comprehensively!"

"There's also the wireless power grid!" He Xingzhou added, "We are currently tackling wireless power transmission technology further. Once mid-range wireless power transmission technology matures, it should also be promoted immediately to lay out a nationwide wireless power transmission network! Whether for military use, the economy, or people's livelihoods, it will be immensely beneficial!"

"Comrade He Xingzhou's vision is as grand as ever!" Cui Weimin sighed with emotion. "You can't even touch these two rollout plans for trillions!"

"I strongly support this!" Military expert He Hongwei said. "Our country naturally has a multi-trillion mega-infrastructure plan. After the rollout of several technologies by Comrade He Xingzhou's team, some of those infrastructure plans now look outdated. For example, building charging stations and charging piles nationwide, and so on."

"It is entirely feasible for the new plan to replace a portion of them."

Lv Mei said, "That makes sense. Although the cost is enormous, these constructions have very high practicality. I suggest we communicate with national leaders and push this forward!"

He Xingzhou's plan began to win their recognition and approval.

After discussing for a little longer, the group basically agreed with He Xingzhou's opinions: to promote electromagnetic levitation cars, magnetic roads, and wireless power transmission technology on a large scale.

In addition, they began discussing matters concerning Zerg research.

Song Jinghong spoke: "After several months of research, my team has successfully bred 137 different Zerg life forms in accordance with our previous hypotheses."

"Their life characteristics, genetic expression traits, and so on are all different. I think Comrade He Xingzhou's hypothesis is extremely sound: Zerg life forms possess a special genetic information repository, known as biological chips. They can undergo different gene expressions depending on external environmental differences!"

Qin Peng asked, "How is their aggressiveness? What kind of biological weapons do they have? How is their resistance to conventional weapons?"

As a military heavyweight, he was more concerned with this aspect.

Song Jinghong stated, "They are extremely aggressive, and their intelligence has also evolved significantly. As for biological weapons, there are too many! The ordinary ones have sharp teeth and claws; the powerful ones can emit high-voltage currents like electric eels, spit biological liquids like squids—such as venom and acid—and there are also some very special biological weapons currently under study."

"Preliminary judgment indicates that a most ordinary Zerg has combat capability equivalent to an adult male carrying melee weapons. They are still continuously evolving, and we cannot predict what they will eventually evolve into!"

He emphasized, "This isn't even the most terrifying part. My team has established ocean monitoring stations in oceans all over the world, and we've discovered that the frequency of mutated creatures appearing is increasing significantly! Mutated species have even been discovered in the cold Arctic and Antarctic oceans. The existing number of mutated creatures may be ten times greater than we previously estimated."

The news he revealed left the crowd silent for a long time. Mounting evidence showed that He Xingzhou's astonishing prophecy back then was not an exaggeration, but was instead becoming reality.