Did the world end today?

Chapter 370 The non-existent person

The next day.

Lin Xu and his group boarded a plane and flew to Yuxi, then transferred to ground transportation and headed straight for Huaning County.

According to Lin Xu's plan, they intended to go to the county high school where Qin Shizhong had studied.

After that, Lin Xu had several questions that needed to be clarified.

First, it is necessary to determine whether Qin Shizhong's parents and family relationship were indeed, as Yu Shiliang described, a high-pressure environment.

Secondly, we need to determine when his change began, or whether he was faking it from the beginning.

Secondly, Lin Xu needed to find out the specific details of Qin Shizhong's "parents' deaths" incident. He needed to determine whether this whole affair was just a carefully orchestrated drama or was influenced by higher-dimensional information.

Finally, he needed to sort out Qin Shizhong's entire life trajectory to determine whether his entry into the higher-dimensional channel was a coincidence or an inevitable arrangement.

Once these questions are clarified, his relationship with the "Border Ghost" will likely become clear.

By then, even if the truth cannot be revealed directly, it will be much easier to negotiate further with Qin Shizhong and obtain more information from him.

The plan was quite comprehensive, and Lin Xu felt much more relaxed upon arriving in the new place.

He looked out the car window and saw that, like all cities in China, this city, famous for its "tobacco," was undergoing unprecedented and tremendous changes.

The most typical feature is the comprehensive upgrade of the power system.

Many wind power stations have been abandoned. Along the way, Lin Xu saw many wind turbine blades being blasted, dismantled, and dismantled on the spot.

Meanwhile, the original crisscrossing power transmission networks were replaced by several thin cables.

"Room temperature superconducting circuit".

Qin Feng, who was following the team, began to introduce:

"Now, most of the ultra-high voltage power grids in the country have been replaced by superconducting power transmission networks, but at this stage, room temperature superconducting materials still have certain limitations."

"Basically, the Qinling Mountains and the Huai River line is the dividing line where large-scale deployment is possible."

"The further south you go, the higher the cost of ensuring the superconducting transmission line becomes."

"It's not impossible to force it, but since the Akubieri technology has been proven and the materials are iterated very quickly, the coordination team decided to wait a while before carrying out a full iteration."

"The reason why Yunnan was able to make preparations in advance is because the climate conditions are relatively stable and extreme low temperature weather has occurred relatively rarely in history."

"If it were in another province at the same latitude, it probably wouldn't work."

"clear."

Lin Xu nodded first, then jokingly asked:

"I remember you were an intelligence agent for the National Security Bureau. Now you've become an infrastructure expert, haven't you?"

"The Hammer Expert".

Qin Feng waved his hand and said:

"This is just the basic quality of an intelligence officer."

"I may not understand the underlying principles like you do, and I may know what it is but not why it is, but I cannot be completely ignorant of these new things."

"Otherwise, if you ask me about the progress, am I supposed to tell you to go directly to the coordination team?"

"Then I'm really not qualified to be the 'chief steward'?"

"Makes sense."

Lin Xu gave Qin Feng a thumbs up.

It has to be said that he has extremely high standards for himself.

You can't tell how much effort he's put into something unless you're discussing specific topics.

As the car drove forward and left the city, several EVTOLs that Lin Xu had seen in the bracelet world appeared above everyone's heads.

This greatly surprised him—after all, in the world of fitness trackers, this kind of thing wouldn't become widespread for at least another ten years.

The EVOTL aircraft currently flying in the air are quite mature in terms of speed, attitude, and even functionality.

"Low-altitude economy".

Qin Feng noticed Lin Xu's gaze and explained, "Currently, most mature EVTOL systems are still officially operated, but next year, EVTOL licenses will be fully liberalized."

"At that time, the way people travel in this world will undergo a huge change."

"Humanity's land-based era may very well be coming to an end."

"Not that early."

Hearing his words, Jiang Xingye shook his head and said:

"The low-altitude economy only solves the problem of personal transportation. To truly break away from the land-based era, we need mature gravity control technology."

"According to the roadmap, the application of macroscopic gravity manipulation should not be available until 2028, which means it will take another two years."

"By then, when we can use anti-gravity technology for large-scale freight transport, humanity's land-based era will truly be over."

"However, it's somewhat ironic that the development of Acubier technology is faster than that of gravity manipulation technology."

"So it's very likely that we'll start interstellar colonization first, and then we'll get rid of land."

"it's the same."

Lin Xu waved his hand and said:
"In the higher-dimensional era, the development of technology is no longer about who comes first."

"But why can't we just take the EVTOL or fly there by helicopter?"

"If you wanted to fly last month, you really could have."

Qin Feng replied:
"But now, with Qin Shizhong as an unstable factor, we really don't dare to take any risks."

"If he could actually change some mathematical concepts and you happen to be in the air, that would be a bit too dangerous."

"On the ground, at least many things are still under control."

"For example, even if he changed '1' to '9', and we welded the accelerator shut, we still couldn't drive the car to 900 miles per hour, right?"

"Now that you mention it, we should add a speed limiter to the car to restrict the safe maximum speed."

As Lin Xu finished speaking, Qin Feng replied in a serious tone:
"add."

"The overall speed limit is 90 km/h, and the speed limit on some sections is 40 km/h."

"The control system is directly connected to the core network through a quantum communication network, and at the quantum level, it is absolutely impossible to modify it."

"What? This upgraded BeiDou system... I wonder if it'll be used in the trucking industry in the future?"

"That's hard to say."

Qin Feng shrugged.

"Whether the trucking industry will even exist in the future is a question."

The group chatted idly along the way, getting closer and closer to their destination.

During the journey, Qin Feng made two phone calls to arrange security measures at the destination in advance.

Everything seemed to be going incredibly well.

But just as Qin Feng dialed his third number, his expression suddenly changed.

After saying "okay" several times, Qin Feng hung up the phone.

Then, he spoke to Lin Xu:

"There's a minor problem—but on the other hand, it's not exactly a minor problem."

"It seems we've found part of the answer ahead of time."