Xiaomi Heavy Industry, its first entrepreneurial venture!

Chapter 499 I'll show you something good!
Suzhou.

As we entered mid to late October, the local temperature dropped significantly. When people went out, the feeling of being in a steamer after the temperature dropped disappeared, leaving only the gentle and graceful atmosphere of the Jiangnan region during the plum rain season.

Guo Song appeared in Suzhou at such a refined time.

Looking at the drizzling rain, he didn't contact Lin Yi immediately. Instead, he had the driver take him to northern Suzhou, where he looked across the Yangtze River at the factory under construction.

He stared for a long time, until even his secretary began to wonder if he was ill, before he finally turned his gaze away from the shipyard and softly said to his assistant:
"Go to Xiaomi Heavy Industry!"

The people nearby didn't ask any questions, but simply told them to get in the car, and then drove to Xiaomi Heavy Industry.

…………

“Grandpa, why didn’t you call before you came? If you had called, I would have driven over to pick you up, and you wouldn’t have had to go through all that trouble.”

In the reception room on the top floor of Xiaomi Heavy Industry Communications Company, Lin Yi placed a cup of red tea in front of Guo Song, then sat down opposite Guo Song.

The tea was a deep reddish-brown color. Guo Song took a sip and found it quite delicious, with a hint of sweetness.

He took another sip, put down the teacup, sat up straight, and looked at Lin Yi with gentle eyes:

"I'm actually here on a mission. Originally, it should have been my subordinates who contacted you, but since I haven't been to Suzhou much, I thought I'd come alone with two secretaries."

"Before we talk about formal work, I need you to look at something."

Under Lin Yi's curious gaze, Guo Song opened his briefcase, took out a small transparent box, and then, under everyone's watchful eyes, placed his phone on the table, looking at Lin Yi with a leisurely air.

Inside the box was a CD, but it had no label on it, so I didn't know what it was for.

Lin Yi stared at the box for a long time, then pointed to himself with his right hand:
"Is this really meant for me?"

"This isn't some top-secret document, is it? After I read it, you suddenly say I know some secrets and then try to silence me!"

Across from him, Guo Song glanced at Lin Yi sideways after hearing this reply, "The most important thing for you right now is to delete all those messy novels on your phone."

"Those things are absolutely inhuman!"

"This disc contains a video, and the video takes place in Benghazi, eastern Libya."

"Take a look first, then we'll talk."

Benghazi, eastern Libya?

After recalling the location of the city in his mind, Lin Yi left the meeting room, took a laptop from his office, returned to the meeting room, opened the small box, took out the CD, and put it into the laptop's CD drive.

With a soft creak, the CD drive started spinning. After confirming that it was finished, he leisurely opened the folder on his laptop, copied the videos inside to his desktop, and double-clicked them.

At the beginning of the video on the disc, there was no picture, only frantic shaking and a series of noisy curses. Lin Yi could make out the Arabic content, so he found it very strange.

After the insults subsided, the darkness vanished and the light arrived. The dark scene suddenly unfolded, revealing a chaotic and war-torn landscape before Lin Yi's eyes.

The person filming the video should be a professional photographer, but he was on the battlefield, where bullets don't discriminate, so this professional photographer also became very unprofessional.

The camera was shaky, and amidst the frantic gunfire, there were occasional shouts and curses from teammates.
"Don't go there!"

"are you a pig?"

You're blocking my view!

Don't stand behind me!

Don't stand in front of me!

"Get off!"

After the initial scolding subsided, the footage finally stabilized, and the photographer crouched at a second-floor window, quietly watching outside with his lens.

In the open space outside, a dozen pickup trucks were parked behind the house, and in the trucks, a dozen men dressed in traditional Arab robes were using remote controls to operate something.

The camera used for filming was very high-end; even from a distance, the details of the remote control were captured perfectly.

Upon closer inspection of the remote control's details, Lin Yi realized that it was a drone remote control produced by his own company.

So, those people were operating drones?

With this idea in mind, he zoomed in on the screen and adjusted the playback speed to 0.75x.

Soon, more than a dozen drones flew out of the pickup truck and headed to different locations. The photographer tracked one of them, which flew for several hundred meters and landed on top of several people with black ribbons tied to their arms.

Through the photographer's lens, these people with black ribbons tied to their arms saw the drone above their heads, raised their hands, and chattered away for a while.

Perhaps realizing they couldn't hear them, they quickly pointed to the house in front of them.

One of the team members even suddenly raised his gun and opened fire on the window of the house in front of him.

The bullet shattered the glass.

Then, very abruptly, without any warning, the drone that had been hovering above them crashed into the shattered glass and entered the house through the gap in the glass.

The house exploded as soon as I crawled inside.

Amid the thick smoke from the explosion, two bodies could be seen blown out of the window.

After the explosion, the person wearing the black ribbon picked up a gun and ran to the window. Instead of going inside, he pulled out a grenade and threw it through the window.

Another explosion rang out, and only then did these people pick up their guns and crawl in through the window.

The photographer turned the camera around, shifting it to another direction, and continued shooting such scenes.

The entire video was an hour and a half long, the same length as a standard movie. Lin Yi didn't fast-forward; instead, he played it at 0.75x speed.

After the video finished playing, nearly two hours had passed. He turned to look at Guo Song beside him:

"Old man, what's wrong?"

Guo Song picked up the teapot in front of him and poured hot water into his cup. The black tea in the cup had already faded in color, and he had lost count of how many times he had brewed it.

Picking up the cup of tea, whose color had faded, Guo Song explained unhurriedly:

"The person who filmed this video is a rebel in eastern Libya."

"When they attacked Benghazi, they had an additional weapon in their hands—drones."

"It's obvious that this thing came out from here. Then, the video was passed to Saudi Arabia by the rebels in eastern Libya, and Saudi Arabia then sent these videos to our missile system maintenance personnel deployed in Saudi Arabia."

"In the end, the video ended up in our hands."

"We just received it too, and after seeing it, everyone felt that the unmanned combat system is indeed quite impressive."

"Then, I wanted to find you, the culprit, and ask for your opinion."

"I happened to be coming here, so I took this job."

"So, do you want to say something?"

After hearing the whole story, Lin Yi rolled his eyes. "What do you want to hear?"

"For example, unmanned combat systems!" Guo Song said these words to Lin Yi without any hesitation.

After he finished speaking, Lin Yi quickly got up, locked the guest room door from the inside, and drew the curtains before returning to Guo Song.
"Are you out of your mind? Is this something to discuss?"

"Yes!" Guo Song answered with absolute certainty, a statement that left Lin Yi puzzled. He picked up his teacup, swallowed a sip, and then asked Guo Song:
"Tell me the results of your discussion."

“Okay!” Guo Song nodded, and under Lin Yi’s gaze, he opened his briefcase, took out a document from it, placed it on the table, and gently pushed it in front of Lin Yi.

The document's cover was blank, making it look like a document casually printed on A4 paper.

After hesitating for a moment, Lin Yi reached out and grabbed the document.

As the book was opened, Guo Song's explanation began to play.

"We've actually been discussing unmanned combat systems for a long time."

"However, we don't know what the future will look like, so we can only draw inspiration from science fiction."

"Make various assumptions."

"Along with our assumptions, we discovered a serious problem: there is a gap between our assumptions and actual developments."

"If this gap widens too much, then our hypothesis will become a new kind of science fiction."

"If our assumptions are too conservative, then our work will become hindsight."

"What we need to do is to get as close to the facts as possible."

"During this period, we also had in-depth discussions with many comrades in the industrial sector."

"We had just finished discussing it a few days ago and were preparing to come up with a suitable plan when we ran into your press conference in Yanjing."

"We also got a few of those phones, especially the Redmi 1."

“We had professionals disassemble it completely, and then we put each part on the table one by one.”

“Each part looks insignificant; in the eyes of professionals, those parts are better off not existing.”

"But those parts, when put together, become a smartphone that, by today's standards, has a fairly high level of technology."

"Of course, we have to cut that chip open first."

"It was precisely because we saw this that we discovered that our so-called solution had deviated from the plan."

"After discussion, I decided to come."

"I came to you to offer some initial thoughts and to discuss a clearer point."

Just as Guo Song finished speaking, Lin Yi finished reading the document.

He closed the file and, instead of placing it on the table, put it on his lap.

With his hands pressed down, he stared straight at Guo Song:

"Strictly speaking, there are only four points."

"They are occupied and unoccupied."

"Striving for breakthroughs and having enough resources."

"Wait a minute!" Seeing that Lin Yi was about to continue, Guo Song quickly stopped him. He took out a voice recorder from his briefcase, turned it on, placed it between the two of them, and then raised his hand to signal:

"continue!"

Under Guo Song's gaze, Lin Yi opened the document on his knee, found a page, pressed his finger on some of the content, then flipped the page, revealing the text to Guo Song:
"You've also discussed here how unmanned equipment should be used to open up the situation when war breaks out."

“I see that you discussed small drones and also mentioned hypersonic drones here.”

"Actually, only hypersonic drones should be found here, but in addition to hypersonic drones, there should also be unmanned ships on the surface of the sea and unmanned boats underwater."

"In addition, specialized anti-drone equipment is also required."

"Rotor drones should not be in this scene."

"Tackling key problems" refers to highly demanding unmanned equipment such as hypersonic drones, unmanned early warning aircraft, reconnaissance and strike drones, unmanned ground tanks, unmanned infantry fighting vehicles, robotic dogs, and swarm drones.

"This type of equipment has high requirements and requires additional resources for scientific research. In use, the function of this equipment is to knock down the opponent's toughest bones."

"It's sufficient; it's a small drone."

"The requirements for this thing are not high. If our supply chain companies have the right to produce it, they can produce 40,000 to 50,000 small drones a day that are only capable of being used."

"If you attach 100 grams of explosives to this thing, it's a small airplane bomb."

"If it were replaced with a two-stroke engine, the daily output would be more than 1000, but this thing can hold tens of kilograms of explosives, so it's considered a small missile."

"This thing is cheap. Once the unmanned equipment used for tackling key problems has gained an advantage, then this kind of sufficient level of equipment should be put into action to sweep the field."

"There are people, but in certain areas and special scenarios, there is still a need for cooperation between people and unmanned equipment."

"Unmanned systems represent the future of technological development. With the crazy increase in chip computing power, we will inevitably have AI similar to Skynet in Terminator."

"But it's not that scary."

"With the help of AI, we can control the aforementioned unmanned equipment at a large scale, both for attack and for basic purposes."

"This is the inevitable trend of the future!"

"Don't look at me with that patriotic expression. To get AI data to the level of Skynet, the computing power and data required are beyond what all the countries on this planet could provide, let alone the data."

"Because at least 90% of the information on the internet is junk data, feeding it to AI will kill it."

"We'll have to waste time cleaning up the data then."

Hearing this, Guo Song gave an awkward laugh, touched his nose, and said with a smile:

"You just mentioned unmanned infantry fighting vehicles and hypersonic drones."

"And you just said that even if all the countries in the world put together their computing power, they still wouldn't be able to reach the level of Skynet's AI."

"What you're saying is contradictory!"

"There's no conflict!" Lin Yi blinked and leaned forward.
"Actually, it's still a matter of having enough."

"The first problem to solve for unmanned infantry fighting vehicles is power, followed by various identification methods, such as using cameras to capture the target, and then using data links to control weapons and tools that are identified as enemy targets."

"What we need is not a completely independent robot, but a car that frantically makes choices between if and or."

"It's a car!"

"Once we confirm this, we'll find that what we need isn't complicated."

"It can even be done by combining current mobile phone chips."

"However, there are quite a few mobile phone chips that need to be combined together."

"But it doesn't matter, it's a vehicle, an infantry fighting vehicle weighing over ten tons."

"As long as the power supply problem is solved, there will be plenty of space to put these things."

(End of this chapter)