As a mage, I just want to pursue the truth

Chapter 262 Smart Industry
The magic network that Zheng Li set up in London was selected based on the degree of compatibility of the initial batch of mages.

This group of wizards are seeds, and seeds will always spread magic for various reasons.

Whether it is due to interests, family affection, friendship or other factors, magic will spread in London.

People explore the topics of elementary magic use and social integration in such an environment.

The original seeds, due to their compatibility with the magic network, have higher spellcasting power.

But this is not set in stone.

Because the fundamental factor that determines the strength of spellcasting lies in the magic network authority you can mobilize, and the amount of authority determines how powerful your magic can be.

Others can use mind training to reduce distracting thoughts and improve their compatibility with the magic network.

This can effectively improve your spellcasting ability.

Even when the later generations reach a threshold of adaptability with the magic network and are able to obtain the magic network's consciousness implantation, since they have mastered basic magic, they may be able to learn more advanced magic.

As for the magic wand, it is an artificial intelligence carried by the biological cloud and stored in certain locations, which have a certain overlap with myths and legends.

Includes Norse mythology, Greek mythology, and myths and legends of ancient England.

Zheng Li is looking forward to the evolution of MagicNet in London.

At the same time, he was curious about when the scientists in London would be able to discover the magic network.

The plants in the magic net have been mimicked. Without genetic comparison, it is impossible to tell the difference between them and ordinary plants.

This is like modern people going to ancient times to communicate via radio. The ancient people knew something was wrong, but they were able to think of using radio waves to transmit signals, which was still difficult.

"The wand must be crucial. In my memory, the wand is the clearest point."

Lawrence recalled.

This proves that Lawrence is more compatible with the magic network than Charles.

Only when the degree of compatibility reaches a certain level will they be specifically reminded to find the magic wand.

All seeds need to meet two conditions to get the opportunity to learn magic. One is the degree of compatibility, and the other is the desire for magic.

The purpose of satisfying the latter point is to ensure that, after they have acquired the learning method, they will not give up their efforts to master magic due to a little frustration.

Then you will be willing to explore more uses of magic, as there is a lot of room for expansion of magic in the magic network system.

Herman nodded and said, "Let's assume that someone has sent you a dream. Since he can send you dreams, he can directly put the memories into your mind.

Then the key points you feel must have been carefully designed.

I agree with your guess that the wand is important.

While your memory is still clear, you need to recall whether the wizard in your dream reminded you where to find the magic wand?"

The memories of the "seeds" are implanted in their minds, and the way they obtain magic is combined with each other's memories.

These dreams were not edited in advance by artificial intelligence or Zheng Li.

Charles is an information security director, and his private identity is also a gray hat who lurks on the dark web.

Therefore, his memory is also about learning magic from dark web forums.

Charles has always been interested in fantasy movies and novels, so his dream is a wizard image that combines modern fantasy content with traditional fantasy works.

Lawrence looked through his memories carefully, and after a moment he said, "I don't have any memory."

"I think we need to rely on our memories to determine which wizard I saw in my dream."

"Then go and look for this wizard's legacy in the ancient books."

Herman: "This means we need a lot of money. Any ancient book related to magic in the auction house is too expensive for us to buy."

"Don't even think about buying it, I probably won't even look at it."

The prices of ancient books related to magic have fallen in recent years, but not by much.

Compared to before the emergence of magic, the price of ancient magic books has increased by at least ten times.

In 2024, at Julian's Auctions in Beverly Hills, California, Gandalf's wand from the Lord of the Rings movie was sold at a high price of euros.

You should know that the transaction price of this collection was about 7 yuan ten years ago.

Everyone involved knew that this was a movie prop, made from ordinary wood and resin that had been weathered.

But this does not affect their pursuit of the collection.

Later, Naata Nungurrayi's work was auctioned at Sotheby's in New York and was also sold at a high price of 500,000 euros.

You have to know that Naata Nungurrayi is just an Aboriginal born in Australia in 1932.

Because she was born in the Kumil ruins, she was widely believed to have magical powers after magic appeared, and the prices of her works were pushed up after her death.

As for why she is believed to have magical powers, it is thanks to the marketing capabilities of art auction houses.

These magic items, which are most likely fake, can be auctioned for high prices, not to mention magic books that actually have a certain history.

The prices are beyond the reach of Lawrence and Herman today.

Herman raised his hand and said, "Becoming the star of a Warner Bros. fantasy movie is the fastest way to make money."

"Fame can bring you not only a layer of protection, but also the opportunity to access magical items."

"Compared to students, movie stars have a much wider range of sources for obtaining information."

“Do you know how many more opportunities I have to meet girls after I became a well-known Tik Tok influencer?”

Lawrence instantly became interested: "How much?"

Herman made a hug gesture: "Countless times!"

“Because no girls would talk to me until I had 5,000 followers on Tik Tok.”

"Later, the number was one, which is an infinite number of times zero."

"Remember two years ago, you wanted to find traces of the existence of magic, and you needed someone to go to the library to look up historical documents."

"When you are rich enough, you can put forward your ideas and there will be countless people under you to implement them for you."

“When I was very young, I knew that most things in this world can be solved with money.”

Lawrence nodded and said, "Yes, this time Warner Bros. is an opportunity."

"Getting magic is just the first step."

"From what happened in London this time, I'm definitely not the only one who has acquired magic."

"I'm definitely not the only one who knows about the existence of the magic wand. I need to have more money and influence to compete for resources."

"I will teach you while I study spellcasting myself. We can study magic with some of the things we can do right now."

Compared to the magic brain, the magic net's spellcasting is limited.

The difference between the two is like the difference between programming in Excel and VBA and programming in Python.

Excel plus VBA language can indeed process a lot of data forms, but Python can call libraries and has a much wider range of applications than VBA language. In terms of breadth and depth, VBA cannot compare with Python.

However, VBA has its advantages in some lighter scenarios.

"Mr. Li, I'm glad you can come and give me some advice on industrial VR."

Huawei’s full-process smart industrial solution has steel as its first target.

There are many high-risk jobs in the steel industry, which can make good use of industrial VR and industrial automation technologies.

In addition, fewer and fewer young people have chosen to work in factories in recent years, let alone manufacturing industries such as steel mills, which involve certain risks.

Smart industry is particularly important.

Huawei released the 2020G Smart Steel White Paper as early as 5.

At that time, the white paper proposed ten application scenarios of 5G applications + smart steel.

Subsequently, strategic cooperation agreements were signed with Liuzhou Iron and Steel, Xinsteel and other groups.

5G can only guarantee the stability of communication. Ultimately, the implementation of smart steel still needs to rely on AI technology and industrial VR.

Therefore, it was not until Huawei obtained the industrial VR license from Kechuang Biotechnology that their solutions in the steel field formed a complete closed loop.

Li Miaomiao smiled and said, "This is also the official launch of the smart factory jointly built by Huawei and Baosteel Group. I also wanted to come here to learn advanced experience."

Yes, the first stop for Huawei’s smart steel closed-loop solution is neither Liuzhou Iron & Steel nor Xingang Steel.

But it was Baosteel, which had never reached a cooperation agreement with Huawei before.

Baosteel is No.1 in the domestic steel industry and among the top three in the world.

Baosteel's strength is not only reflected in its output, but also in its per capita steel output, which ranks first in China.

Baosteel's infrastructure equipment is also the best.

I would like to add a few words here. From the initiation of the project in 1977 to the completion of the first phase of production in 1985, Baosteel spent a total of 128 billion RMB.

128 billion RMB in the s and s.

What is more important is that Baosteel spent RMB in that year. The official RMB to RMB exchange rate was 1 to 1.5, which means that Baosteel spent about RMB 85 billion that year.

Most of the 85 billion euros were used to purchase Neon's smelting equipment, engineering machinery and technology.

In 1978, China and Neon signed the "Long-term Trade Agreement between China and Neon".

During the eight years of this agreement (1978-1985), China exported approximately 5000 million tons of crude oil to Japan, with a total trade value of approximately US$200 billion.

Nearly half of the 20 billion euros was used to buy the first phase of Baosteel's project, and it also laid the foundation for Baosteel to become China's number one steel company.

(Part of the above information comes from the Shenhai local chronicle "Baosteel Chronicles". Baosteel spent 30 billion RMB in total for the first and second phases.)

"Both Huawei and Kechuang Biotechnology are top technology companies in China. Baosteel's future technological and intelligent transformation cannot be achieved without your help."

Baosteel's senior executives were very humble.

"This smart steel project is just a pilot project. If the results are good, we will promote it to all Baosteel factories in the future."

Baosteel's smart factory this time was a grand event. Not only executives from Kechuang Bio, Huawei and Baosteel attended the ribbon-cutting ceremony, but also senior leaders from Shenhai attended.

"The completion and commissioning of smart steel at Baosteel's Baoshan base will be another landmark event after the realization of China's Industry 2025.

We need to earnestly study and implement the spirit of China's Industry 2035, continuously deepen technological innovation in wider areas, deeper levels and higher levels, and bravely stand at the forefront of the new tide of the times.

Shenhai has always been entrusted with the task of building a test field for high-level smart industry. Benchmarking against international advanced enterprises and regions and relying on Shenhai's many enterprises, it has carried out greater industrial innovation tests to promote the breakthrough and improvement of smart industry.

Strengthen Shenhai's role in focusing on basic scientific research and key core technology research for the whole country, seizing strategic frontier areas, deepening international innovation collaboration, comprehensively promoting urban digital transformation, and accelerating the cultivation of world-class innovative industrial clusters."

After the official remarks were made, the off-stage remarks were noticeably less official.

The leaders of Shenhai once again expressed to Li Miaomiao that they hope Kechuang Biotechnology can move from Gusu to Shenhai.

Huawei’s headquarters is in Pengcheng, and Shenhai believes that its advantages are not obvious enough compared with Pengcheng.

However, Shenhai has always regarded Gusu as its own back garden. In terms of urban coordination, Gusu and Shenhai are indeed closer than Jinling.

"We hope to build Shenhai into a talent hub that is oriented towards the world and the future. At the same time, Shenhai has been deepening the reform of talent mechanism and system and policy innovation in recent years.

We have been working on gathering strategic scientists, but have not yet found suitable technology leaders and first-class innovation and entrepreneurship teams.

If Ke Chuang Bio is willing to move its headquarters to Shenhai, wouldn’t it have a leading figure in science and technology?

Chairman Zheng Li of your company can be said to be one of the top scientists in China, and also a top talent in both academia and industry.

We are eager to recruit talents.

As long as the headquarters of Kechuang Bio is willing to relocate, Shenhai will provide them with both people and land.

There is still a lot of land left in Zhangjiang Park in Pudong, which can be given to Kechuang Biotechnology. We can even convert some commercial land into residential land for Kechuang Biotechnology to solve the housing problem of high-end talents, which is also something we can discuss. "

"If Huawei is willing to move its headquarters to Shenhai, we in Shenhai would also welcome it and offer similar conditions."

From Shenhai's perspective, Kechuang Bio is not just a company, but also a leader in the entire brain-computer VR industry chain.

In Suzhou's high-tech park, countless entrepreneurial companies are emerging around brain-computer VR.

They want to seize this strategic development opportunity as much as possible.

Li Miaomiao was used to this kind of scene. She smiled and said, "You should also know Zheng Li's character from the media."

"He is an absolute homebody who usually doesn't move if he can."

"I really want to come to Shenhai. After all, Shenhai is an international metropolis."

This is purely a polite remark.

Whenever Li Miaomiao encountered such a situation, she would use Zheng Li as a shield.

Anyway, with the cooperation between Zheng Li and the Chinese government, it doesn't matter if they block this kind of gun.

Li Miaomiao continued: "We are also eager to recruit talents from Shenhai."

“Shenhai has a lot more research talents in both universities and biomedicine than Gusu.”

Suzhou has only one 211 university, while Shenhai has four 985 universities, so there is a big difference in the number of R&D talents.

However, due to the existence of Kechuang Biotechnology in recent years, many college graduates in the field of biomedicine in Shenhai have gone to Gusu.

"We have been seriously considering setting up a new R&D center in Shenhai. After I go back and have internal discussions, we will move forward with this matter."

Even with giants like Kechuang Bio, Gusu cannot compare with Shenhai in the biopharmaceutical industry.

Shenhai’s Zhangjiang biomedicine industry started as early as the 1990s.

It is unlikely to catch up by relying solely on scientific and technological innovations.

What's more, so far, Ke Chuang Bio's biopharmaceutical industry has relied entirely on an endorphin to conquer the world.

(End of this chapter)