Xiaomi Heavy Industry, its first entrepreneurial venture!

Chapter 232 It Exploded! The Literal Meaning! (First Update!)

While speaking, Lin Yi did not avoid Saler and the other man, so after Lin Yi hung up the phone, the two men immediately came over, their faces filled with curiosity and a hint of calculation.

After waiting a while, and seeing that Lin Yi didn't take the initiative to boast, Salle asked directly:
What are you planning to send?

"You'll find out then!" Lin Yi put a finger to his lips, gesturing for silence. Once the two people in front of him had shut their mouths, he added, feigning profundity:
"Anyway, it's something that can crash the stock market."

"Once the stock price drops, everyone can buy the dip again. This time, you'll need to hold it for the long term."

After speaking in a deliberately mysterious manner, Lin Yi checked the time; it was past 5 a.m.

He walked to the window and opened it.

The spring night's rain had stopped, and a gentle breeze caressed my face, carrying a faint, earthy smell. The smell wasn't pleasant, but it was precisely this scent that made those who smelled it feel refreshed and invigorated.

The eastern sky was faintly tinged with the pale light of dawn.

Its daybreak.

Lin Yi took another deep breath and turned to look at Sal and the other two:
"I'm going to have breakfast, so I won't be able to join you."

Lin Yi nodded apologetically to the two of them, then turned and walked towards Ji Shuangshuang:

"gone!"

Ji Shuangshuang waved the laptop in her hand: "Wait for me at the door, I'll put the laptop back in the office!"

As she spoke, she grabbed her laptop and quickly walked out of the room.

After everyone left, Salle immediately approached, his face cold, and rolled his eyes as he asked:

"We've invested so much money in you, can't you even treat us to breakfast?"

"And I even brought fermented grape juice with me!"

Listening to his complaints, Lin Yi spread out his right hand and began to count on his fingers how he would have breakfast:

"I want to eat xiaolongbao later. Xiaolongbao is made with pork!"

"Lard cake, fried in lard!"

"Noodles with minced pork sauce!"

"Small pastries, with lard inside."

Sure enough, with each breakfast Lin Yi mentioned, Saler's face darkened further, until finally, he was as black as the bottom of a pot.

At this time.

Rashid leaned closer and said, "Just lie to him!"

"Suzhou is a very large city. Even if you don't eat pork, you can still eat a lot."

"For example, mutton rice noodles, beef rice noodles, goose rice noodles, duck blood rice noodles, and many more."

"There is another famous dish called West Lake Vinegar Fish, which is absolutely unique in the world."

Rashid became more and more excited as he spoke, but Lin Yi saw something strange in his excitement.

My stomach growled.

The three of them looked at each other, then went out the door together.

On the other side, the telecommunications company's office building.

Cao Bin sat in front of the computer, watching the video frame by frame, while also reviewing the subtitles frame by frame.

Subtitles in Chinese, English, and French.

He finished watching the video, and sunlight streamed in through the window, falling behind him.

Stretch.

He dragged the two videos to Twitter and Facebook, and onto the two spokesperson accounts.

After waiting for about 10 minutes, the video was uploaded. I dragged the mouse, changed the video title, and clicked publish.

The buffer circle spun for a few seconds, then displayed a message indicating successful publication.

After successfully publishing, he switched to two different accounts and watched the video from both accounts' perspectives.

After watching, I turned off the computer and went to sleep.

…………

University of Pennsylvania, Energy Laboratory.

Jonas took off his protective suit and focused all his attention on the black metal block in front of him.

It was a dark, ugly lump, but he and his students didn't mind at all.

Because the black metal block in front of them was the electrode material they made step by step, following the instructions in Xiaomi Heavy Industry's video.

At this point, all that remains is pulverization.

If you crush this stuff into an extremely fine powder, you can mix it with a conductive agent, stuff it into a battery box, and you've made a battery.

It's very crude, but if it succeeds, it means that their laboratory can also replicate this technology.

Thinking about this, Jonas was not excited, but rather felt a sense of helplessness.

A sense of helplessness at the naiveté of Xiaomi Heavy Industry.

Science knows no borders, but scientists do have borders, and so does capital.

So, this company is still too young, so I'll teach them a lesson.

After stretching his stiff neck, Jonas waved to the two students:

"Collins, Fleck, I'm going to take a break. You two are in charge of smashing this big guy to pieces!"

"The videos they posted contain very detailed standards; follow those standards!"

After giving instructions to the students, Teacher Tang left the laboratory and went into the next room.

I poured myself a glass of warm water, drank it, set my alarm for two hours, then lay down on the sofa, closed my eyes, and fell asleep instantly.

Two hours later, the alarm rang on time. Jonas opened his eyes abruptly, his mind briefly reeling before restarting.

After successfully restarting, he finally remembered what he was doing.

He drank another glass of water before heading to the laboratory next door.

In the adjacent lab, Collins and Fleck had already crushed the large piece of black metal and were sifting through the coarser particles for secondary crushing.

Upon seeing the teacher enter, Collins quickly greeted him.

Jonas waved his hand and walked toward the black powder in the glass container next to him.

He checked the particle size with his finger, nodded in satisfaction, and then began to mix the conductive agent.

They fused the conductive agent and powder together, and then eagerly stuffed the fusion into the battery box.

After carefully filling it, I couldn't wait to put the cap back on.

After saying all this, Jonas stretched and waved to the students next to him:

"Pack everything up and tidy up the surrounding area a bit!"

"Hmm... Fleck, go get the camera. We need to record this historic moment."

After listening to his teacher, Fleck turned and ran out the door to get the camera from the next room.

After getting the camera, it took Fleck a while to set it up.

After confirming the angle several times, Jonas stood between the newly installed battery and camera, chest puffed out, left hand behind his back, right hand covering his mouth, coughed lightly twice, and then said in a broadcasting voice:
"Ladies and gentlemen, today you will witness the first and perhaps only technology sharing since the Cold War."

"We have completed the relevant experiments and resumed classes here, following the procedures of Xiaomi Heavy Industry."

"During the past few days of experiments, we have been testing every step, and the data from each step have perfectly matched."

"Now is the time for everyone to witness a miracle."

After speaking, Jonas bent down in front of the camera, then slowly turned around and raised his hands to point to the battery behind him.

It was a battery about 30 centimeters long, 20 centimeters high, and about 20 centimeters wide. The relevant wiring was already prepared next to the battery; it only needed a command to start charging.

After Jonas finished performing on camera, he was about to have the students start charging when, in the next second, the lab door was suddenly kicked open from the outside.

With a loud thud as the door slammed shut, a panicked shout followed:

"Don't charge it! It'll explode!"

The sound of the door collapsing startled Jonas, but it also made him turn around and look at the door.

At the door, Odysseus, dressed in an elegant black suit, was still in the position of banging on the door. When he saw the people in the laboratory and that they hadn't started charging yet, he couldn't help but let out a long sigh of relief.

Once he caught his breath, he immediately rushed to Fleck's side, pushed Fleck aside, and stood guard in front of the switch.

Odysseus's sudden arrival and his abrupt movements gave Jonas quite a fright.

After a brief moment of stunned silence, the well-informed professor realized that something was wrong.

There are big problems.

Otherwise, Odysseus wouldn't have suddenly appeared.

He closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and asked his guess:
Is there a problem with the experimental procedure?

Nearby, Odysseus, finally catching his breath, heard the question, nodded, and replied as quickly as possible:

"Just now, around 6 o'clock local time in China, Xiaomi Heavy Industry released a new video."

"In that video, someone also followed their steps to replicate it step by step until the end."

"The battery exploded the moment it was powered on!"

"Judging from the reaction in the video, the power was quite significant."

These words left Jonas speechless for a moment. He stared wide-eyed in bewilderment for a long time before slowly turning his head and asking:

"Then how were the batteries they provided made?"

This question made Odysseus smile wryly. He shook his head, instructed Fleck to turn off the power switch used for testing, and then went to Jonas's side.
"I don't know."

"I'll call you right away after I finish watching this video."

"But no matter how I try to call you, your phone is always switched off."

"The phones of the students I called were also switched off."

"So I drove here myself."

"I haven't thought about that yet."

"Looking back now, there must have been a very crucial factor in all the experimental steps and the paper."

"This is the factor that determines whether the final material is a battery or an unstable bomb."

At this point, Odysseus smiled and spread his hands:
"But how could someone else possibly give you such a crucial factor?"

"So just a couple of days ago we were thinking, are the people at Xiaomi Heavy Industry too naive?"

Looking back now, we were just too naive!

"I wonder how many labs that are envious of this technology will be blown up."

Upon hearing Odysseus's words, Jonas's eyes widened, and he slapped his thigh and ran outside:

"Damn it, the stocks I bought!"

Seeing his hurried and flustered manner, Odysseus quickly followed, and it took him a while to catch up with Jonas. He then hurriedly asked him:
"You went to buy stocks?"

"Bought for $50!"

"Then don't go! Consider it tuition!"

"You make it sound so easy! That's $50, and you're going to give it to me?"

"I can give it to you!"

"Really?" Jonas slammed on the brakes, stopping in front of Odysseus. He stared at the scrutinizing figure for a moment, then pressed on with the question:
"Where did you get the money?"

When asked about the source of his money, Odysseus appeared quite proud, whistled at the man before him, and replied, "I made it from stocks! I bought over a million worth of Chilean chemical and mining stocks!"

I shook him off this morning!

"This stock price surge has been too sharp; it's obvious that there are major players behind it, pushing it up."

"I thought they would run away last week, but I didn't expect them to run away today."

"So Jonas, you still need to practice."

These words, each one like a sharp blade, pierced Jonas's heart.

He clutched his head with both hands, knelt down with a thud, then raised his head and roared at the sky.

Amid his roar, a telephone rang urgently.

It was Odysseus on the phone.

He answered the phone, and his assistant Evelyn's voice came through:

"Mr. Odysseus, we have just received news that several laboratories replicating Xiaomi Heavy Industry materials have been destroyed."

"Their people called and said that Xiaomi Heavy Industry's paper had to be retracted."

"And they must pay compensation!"

Odysseus rolled his eyes at the conversation on the phone. After listening, he coughed lightly and replied to Evelyn in a very low voice:

"Ignore them. If they're the ones who dig the pit and jump in, they're just stupid."

"By the way, I remember your brother likes to buy stocks. I suggest you go home and check on him as soon as possible, so he doesn't jump off the building."

After hanging up the phone, he turned to look at Jonas, who was kneeling on the ground:

"Evelyn's news has caused many labs to explode, literally!"

Jonas slowly raised his head, and two streams of tears slid down his cheeks:
"The stock market exploded!"

“It’s alright, it won’t explode. The market is closed now. Let’s drag that thing outside and see if it explodes.” Odysseus waved his hand, reached out to help Jonas up, and walked back to the laboratory.

Half an hour later, they moved everything outdoors and took precautions. Teacher Qiao, like a condemned prisoner on his way to execution, pressed the power switch hard.

The power was turned on, and after waiting for a while, there was no explosion.

Odysseus was somewhat discouraged and was about to have the power switched off when...

The battery in the pit exploded.

Before the explosion, a plume of white smoke appeared in the crater, followed by a loud bang.

After the explosion, the burning, vibrant metal shot into the air under pressure, blooming into a dazzling firework on the ground.

Gazing at the dazzling "fireworks," Odysseus scratched his chin with his hand:
"It's quite beautiful!"

Unlike his nonchalant demeanor, Jonas knelt down once again: "My money!"

The "fireworks" quickly ended, and Odysseus reached out and pulled Jonas: "Let's go! Let's go eat!"

"After dinner, we'll drive to New York to watch people jump off buildings."

Meanwhile, in New York's Manhattan Financial District.

The buildings here are very tall; if you jump from them, there is absolutely no chance of survival.

One Tower in Manhattan's Financial District.

Hancock had finished packing his work documents and was about to go home to rest when a colleague rushed past him.

He looked like he was rushing to eat, or perhaps he was rushing to a date with his girlfriend.

This colleague ran over, then ran back, grabbed Hancock, and ran:

"Hurry up, I heard someone is going to jump off the roof, let's go see."

(End of this chapter)