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Chapter 545 Barack: It's all business! (Third update!)

Barack was busy looking at other documents. When Brian suddenly threw the documents at him, he simply brushed them aside with his hand without giving them even a second glance.

He raised his eyes again, twitched an eyebrow, and looked at Brian with a smile:
"General Brian, watch your tone."

Brian knew his attitude wasn't good, so he straightened his uniform, stood at attention in front of Barack, and gave a salute.
"Mr. President, please tell me why you are helping the Israelis in this way. Even if you are going to help them, you shouldn't be doing it this way."

"The current situation is that the whole world has seen equipment bearing our logo participating in this matter, and we are now in a very passive position."

Listening to his explanation, Barack shook his head slightly, then pointed to the sofa next to him. After Brian sat down on the sofa, the first black president of America asked with a smile, "Passive?"

"Those people aren't our soldiers, and that equipment isn't ours either. What does it have to do with us?"

"General Benjamin has already handled it according to procedure. Is it really necessary for you to question me?"

Two consecutive rhetorical questions left Brian speechless.

I thought Benjamin acted too quickly, but if he hadn't acted quickly enough and those soldiers had escaped, things would have been troublesome.

The process was too fast, and all the relevant archival information was buried. Now, whatever the president says is correct.

In other words, this matter is over.

Brian pinched the space between his eyebrows and said wearily:

“Mr. President, if there is a similar operation in the future, please let us know so that we can make a contingency plan and be prepared.”

"Also, I'd really like to know why you help the Israelis so much!"

After asking the question, Brian lowered his hand from between his eyebrows and looked intently at Barack, trying to read the answer from the other's face.

Barack also looked up and met his gaze.

Neither of them gave way, and they just stared at each other.

Just when Brian thought Barack wouldn't answer, Barack turned his gaze to the documents in front of him and said calmly, "It's all business!"

“There were some things they promised that I wanted, so I agreed to them.”

"It's all business. Just clean up the mess after the business is done, and there's no need to keep asking questions about the rest."

"Just like the things you guys caused before, I didn't ask any questions, did I?"

His words made Brian swallow all the drafts he had written on the plane. How could that be?
If no one had made things clear, there would have been more room for arguing and bickering. But now that everyone has made things clear, continuing to pester each other will only benefit no one.

Brian understood this, so he simply stopped asking and instead asked Barack to order him a coffee.

As the two drank coffee, the conversation naturally turned to what was to come in the new year.

It is now 2011.

We need to make some noise in the new year.

…………

"Come on, everyone, look at the camera!"

"Yes, everyone turn your faces around, slightly turn your faces to the side, and focus your gaze on the camera. Like that, everyone, give a smile first!"

"Don't laugh out loud, turn up the corners of your mouth, and don't show your teeth!"

"Okay, that's it! Keep that smile, I'm taking the picture!"

Shipbuilding Industry, on the deck of aircraft carrier No. 001.

The photographer arranged the poses, adjusted the exposure, and frantically pressed the shutter button, snapping photos more than a dozen times before finally raising his hand to give an "OK" sign.
"The photos are done, everyone can relax now."

Upon receiving the photographer's signal, the group that had been posing just moments before immediately spread out, arms around each other's shoulders.

"It's finally over!"

"We're going to have to work overtime again!"

"The thought of having to work overtime again makes me think that posing for photos is actually not so bad!"

"You're overthinking it. This is a break; working overtime is your real job!"

Amidst the bustling crowd, Lin Yi was just about to find a safe place to hide when Leng Yun suddenly appeared in front of him. "Come on, there's a small, impromptu meeting that we need you to attend."

"Huh?" Lin Yi looked up blankly at Leng Yun, his face numb. "President Leng, are there really that many meetings?"

"Why do I feel like I'm in meetings all the time?"

"Alright!" Leng Yun bent down, picked Lin Yi up from the ground, and dragged him towards the gangway: "At the age of twenty-five or twenty-six, it is the best time to build the motherland. Why do you only think about sleeping all day?"

After being pulled a couple of steps, Lin Yi slapped Leng Yun's hand away, straightened his collar, and followed closely behind her.
Can you reveal what kind of meeting it is?

"Something happened in Iraq yesterday, it's very bad. When the news reached China, the higher-ups asked us to discuss it, to come up with a whole set of countermeasures." Leng Yun's voice came from the front, leaving Lin Yi completely confused.

Because Leng Yun used very subtle words.

There's been a problem in Iraq, and it's quite serious.

If it were a war, Leng Yun wouldn't use such a description; if it were American soldiers causing trouble over there, he wouldn't use such a description either.

The word "bad" is only used to describe things that are directly related to one's own interests.

He thought and thought, but he still couldn't figure out why what happened in Iraq would have any connection to his interests here.

Moreover, would I even be able to participate in such a meeting?

This……

"This should be an internal meeting. It wouldn't be appropriate for me to attend, would it?" Lin Yi caught up with Leng Yun and carefully asked, expressing his concerns.

Leng Yun stopped and turned around: "There are places that need your technical guidance, so it's quite suitable for you to get involved."

"Huh?" With a question in his mind, Lin Yi followed Leng Yun down the aircraft carrier and into the office building at the dock.

The shipbuilding industry arranged a separate conference room for us. Upon entering, we found several people already seated inside, all of whom were from the General Staff Department.

Guo Song and the others were not present.

Leng Yun walked to his seat, dialed the phone on the table, and waited for a reply before addressing the people present:

"The meeting is in session!"

"Let me explain the situation!"

"last night……"

“其实是我们这边时间，今天的早上6:00~7:00左右，伊拉克当地时间凌晨零点到1点。”

"A terrorist attack occurred on 13th Street, 32nd Block, Sadr City, north of Baghdad."

"This street, about 500 meters long, is where the Japanese Chamber of Commerce in Iraq is located. It is home to many Japanese businessmen and is known locally as Japan Street."

"Between midnight and 1:00 AM local time last night in Iraq, several water trucks with clear American army markings, filled with gasoline, drove through this street and sprayed the gasoline on the houses along the street. Then, several vehicles carrying machine guns blocked both ends of the street." "As the Japanese on this street were preparing to escape, these vehicles with machine guns began to fire and set the street on fire."

"According to official Iraqi statistics and reports, this terrorist attack resulted in more than 200 casualties, but the exact number has not been announced."

"According to photos released by Iraqi officials and photos taken by our correspondents in Iraq, that street was burned to the ground."

"The estimated economic losses are as high as hundreds of millions of US dollars!"

"Upon receiving this news, the leaders made some inquiries and found that the police officers in the country were unable to deal with it effectively, so this task fell to us."

"In recent years, international conflicts have intensified, and more and more countries have chosen to shift their focus away from these conflicts. Under these circumstances, terrorist attacks have also been increasing day by day."

"The purpose of our meeting today is to discuss and develop a preliminary emergency plan to deal with these kinds of events."

"First, come up with an emergency plan, and then gradually supplement and adjust it."

"Let's begin our discussion now!"

After Leng Yun finished explaining the whole story, just when Lin Yi thought the discussion was about to begin, Leng Yun suddenly called on his name:

"You have a lot of contact with people in the Middle East, why don't you tell us about it?"

In short, everyone else present turned their attention to you. Lin Yi leaned forward and asked, "Huh? What did you say?"

"Even if you're going to say something, you need to give me a perspective, a point of entry!"

Listening to his story, Leng Yun realized that what she had said earlier had been too broad. She wrote something in her notebook for a while, then put away the pen and tossed the notebook to Lin Yi.

"According to my reasoning!"

On the two palm-sized notebooks, there was an extra line of text.

[Before such an incident occurs, how can we use existing science and technology to prevent it without disrupting normal production and work?]

Looking at this message, Lin Yi picked up his pen and quickly wrote a few lines below.

[1. Real-name registration for mobile phone numbers is mandatory. Mobile phone numbers that have not been registered within the specified time will be forcibly cancelled, especially for government personnel! Anyone who lends their ID card to others to register a mobile phone number for money will be detained first and then fined!]

2. Install more cameras and establish a facial recognition system as soon as possible for focused monitoring of key populations!

3. All public places, including shopping malls, train stations, schools, airports, and docks, must be equipped with security screening systems, and a series of related security inspection regulations must be introduced.

After writing these few lines, Lin Yi returned the notebook to Leng Yun.

Reaching out to take the notebook, Leng Yun read through its contents, nodded in satisfaction, and fixed her gaze on Lin Yi:
"Tell me about your first point. Why did you put mandatory real-name registration as the first point?"

Lin Yi placed his hands on the table, spread them out, and explained in a serious tone:
"From a communications perspective, to carry out a terrorist attack, you must plan it in advance."

"Planning is only the first step; the important thing is implementation."

“If they want to cause trouble on our territory, they definitely won’t come together; they will definitely enter separately.”

"Then, once inside, we'll need to make contact."

“Without a registered name, you can call any number you want, and they'll change the number every time they call. It will be very troublesome to trace them.”

"But if real-name registration is implemented completely, then we can trace back the information based on the signals received by the signal base station."

"There are only two possible results: if the number belongs to the person in question, we can arrest them directly, and we can also investigate other people based on their social networks."

"This ID number belongs to someone else who found it, stole it, or borrowed it."

"Whether it's stolen or found, as long as it's confirmed that the original owner of the ID card has no connection with this person, we can still continue to investigate based on the information."

"But if it was borrowed, then give the person who borrowed the ID card a good talking-to."

"Let him know that he shouldn't lend his ID card to others!"

“This will be very troublesome to implement and will encounter a lot of resistance, so I put it as the first point.”

"The second monitoring requirement requires the introduction of a facial recognition system, as well as the use of mobile phone numbers."

"Because we can determine a person's activity trajectory by accessing data from the operator's base station via their mobile phone."

"Targets that may pose a problem should be closely monitored, and if anything is found to be amiss, they should be taken into immediate control!"

"Thirdly, if an unarmed terrorist appears in the above situations, as long as the people in those situations have the guts, dealing with the attacker shouldn't be a big problem!"

"However, the most important issue in all of this is the issue of making choices."

"Because it will inevitably cause some inconvenience in daily life."

The explanation from a communications perspective was eye-opening for those present, but soon, someone nearby raised a question:

"Director Lin, everything you just said is based on the premise that this person is using modern communication equipment."

"What if he doesn't use communication devices?"

"That's not true!" Lin Yi shook his head, denying the man's statement as soon as he finished speaking.

“It’s impossible for him not to use communication equipment. If he doesn’t use communication equipment, then someone is covering for him and helping him use the communication equipment.”

"And he's the kind of person that most people would never expect."

"That's why we need a real-name registration system even more!"

After his explanation, the person who had raised the question slowly lowered their head, their brows furrowed deeply. After a long while, they nodded in agreement.

"you're right."

“These kinds of attacks are all planned. If you just rely on your feet and shouting, you won’t make a difference. You have to keep in touch at all times to execute them better.”

"As you said, Mr. Lin, we should directly enforce real-name registration and then divide the areas into high-risk and low-risk areas."

"Once the segmentation is complete, the keywords can be extracted."

"Once we extract the keywords, we can send people out."

"Even if we miss our target, it's better than an attack happening and then having to discuss our regrets in the office!"

After finishing Lin Yi's sentence, the man looked at Leng Yun beside him:

"President Leng, I think this approach is feasible!"

After he finished speaking, others followed suit and added:
"General Manager Lin's suggestion from a communications perspective is indeed very good. I think we should compile the relevant plan as soon as possible and submit it to higher authorities."

"The real-name registration system for mobile phone numbers can be put on hold a little later. I think it's more important to install security check equipment in public places to directly block all possibilities at the entrance."

"Actually, I think we could also send the armed police to these public places for routine patrols. They're just sitting there all day with nothing to do, so they're building up their physique."

"What are you saying! There are still armed police officers here!"

(End of this chapter)