You promised to build cars, so why did you go into the military industry?

Sure enough, upon opening the firewall logs, Su Qing discovered a large number of duplicate IPs and high-frequency requests.

It can be confirmed that their official website was indeed subjected to a DDoS attack.

Now that we've identified the problem, it's much easier to solve.

Under Su Qing's remote command, the colleagues on the night shift completed the server maintenance and added some rules to restrict the firewall.

When Li Ran received the news that the official website had been restored, he was browsing the trending topics. The two trending topics marked as "hot" on his screen were quite amusing.

"United Industries' official website is down! It's gone viral!"

Who is United Industries?

Subsequently, Li Ran informed Guo Shuyan to organize a lottery event as compensation for the unexpected incident.

As for the prizes?

A new Lingyun SU7 is definitely in the works.

In addition, there are many "Sunshine Award" winners who will receive a 5-day trip to Sichuan and Chongqing, and will also have the opportunity to visit the United Industries manufacturing plant along the way.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, workers at a manufacturing plant in Texas were just getting off work.

But Elon M. had no intention of taking a break. On the contrary, even after a day of work, he still felt energetic and full of drive.

The engineers, who were preparing to go home for a break, were stopped, and everyone held an impromptu meeting right there in the factory to further discuss the launch details of the Falcon 9 V1.1 at the end of the month.

As the first controlled reentry attempt, this mission holds special commemorative significance.

Even though Elon himself did not have high expectations for the successful recovery of the rocket.

But the thought of opening the curtain on reusable rockets with my own hands fills me with excitement and nervousness.

"I think our rocket should fire at least twice during its return journey to slow down, and at an altitude of 1000 meters above the ground, the speed should be kept below 45 meters per second..."

"Don't worry, Elon, that's how we designed it."

The engineers were not in a good mood when their workday was interrupted, but out of respect for their boss, they patiently comforted Elon M, who was clearly nervous.

"Oh, yes, I know, that's exactly what we did." Elon M nodded. "By the way, is there enough fuel left for recycling and ignition? Should we recalculate it?"

"I've calculated it seven times!" an Asian man said with a helpless expression. "Elon, you need to trust me, even if that trust is based on skin color."

"Wow, sorry Bruce, I was just too nervous." Elon M sighed. "By the way, I heard there are rocket manufacturers like ours across the ocean?"

"Dear Elon, I am Korean, and my country is an independent and sovereign nation. You cannot confuse them!" Bruce Park said solemnly. "That company is nothing but a puppet; they have CNSA behind them. Furthermore, we successfully achieved an orbital launch in 2008, a full five years ahead of them!"

"I've always thought of them as one place," a pale-skinned engineer shrugged upon hearing this, then looked at the person next to him and asked, "Are there any sovereign states with troops stationed there?"

"Can a sovereign state be used to station troops?" the engineer asked rhetorically.

"Hahahaha..." Everyone burst into laughter.

Bruce Park ignored Elon M's laughter and glared at El John.

"Enough, El." Seeing the situation was about to spiral out of control, Elon M's smile vanished, and he quickly reprimanded El John, "Bruce, are you saying we're five years ahead of them?"

"Yes," Bruce Park replied in a muffled voice.

Elon M nodded:

"Alright guys, there's not much time left until September 29th. Stay alert, or your credit cards will be in trouble if the Cassiope satellite doesn't get into orbit by then."

Li Ran was unaware of SpaceX's upcoming first controlled rocket reentry attempt.

At this moment, he was in the laboratory, viewing a report that Guo Shuyan had just submitted on an internal tablet.

"As of 8:00 AM today, the total number of orders for the Lingyun SU7 has exceeded 20,000 units," Li Ran read out subconsciously. "Of these, pure electric models account for 70%."

After putting down the tablet, Li Ran turned to Wang Bing and said:

"Impressive! If you hadn't strongly recommended the all-electric model, we might have had to cut our first-day orders in half."

"At this stage, I actually do not recommend developing long-range pure electric vehicles because, due to objective infrastructure reasons, the energy replenishment efficiency of electric vehicles is too low."

Wang Bing stared at the computer screen without turning her head.

"However, the solar photovoltaic panels developed by Gao Jingming for auxiliary energy replenishment have effectively dispelled the range anxiety of potential consumers who are in the wait-and-see stage."

Moreover, most car owners can tolerate charging times of up to 10 hours without using gasoline, so an additional, relatively efficient, and free way to recharge their vehicles is a good reason for them to convince themselves to buy one.

Moreover, fast charging stations will become widespread in highway service areas within the next year, alleviating range anxiety for long-distance driving...

"Qinghe, come here and tell me, what are the differences in the design of these two places?"

"Mr. Li, please step aside..." Xu Qinghe stood awkwardly in front of Li Ran, "I can't pass..."

Seeing this, Li Ran stood up and gave up his seat, pushed Xu Qinghe onto the seat and then stood next to him with his hands on his hips.

Before long, Xu Qinghe became so engrossed in looking at the picture that he entered a state of complete absorption.

At Wang Bing's prompting, Li Ran reluctantly turned and left. He decided to go and chat with Lin Yu to see if there was any progress in the analysis of the Lingyun SU7 space video from a while ago.

After all, they've already sent a rocket into space, so the main mission, "Exploring the Universe," should at least have made some progress, even if it's just one in a billion.

As he walked down the street, a firework suddenly exploded in Li Ran's mind, followed by the system notification that Li Ran had been longing for.

Main Quest: Exploring the Universe

[Your progress in exploring the universe has achieved a breakthrough, a remarkable moment. Perhaps in the future, your people will revere you as 'great pioneers.']

[Mission Reward: Over-Limit Talent Recruitment (1/1)]

Li Ran stopped in his tracks, ignoring the blazing sun, closed his eyes, and summoned the system.

[Extra-Limited Talent Recruitment]

Ignore the constraints of space and time and immerse yourself in the fun of talent recruitment. Please note that recruitment may fail, so please be careful with your words and actions.

After reading the introduction, Li Ran opened his eyes somewhat blankly.

VR or AR?

Is it some kind of recruitment like the tavern in World of Warcraft?

Surely they didn't create people out of thin air?

If we can't resolve the identity issues and everyone ends up as unregistered residents, that would be incredibly exciting.

After calming down and regaining his composure, Li Ran knocked on Lin Yu's laboratory door.

Lin Yu, who was organizing documents, saw Li Ran enter and gave him a look that said, "You've got the perfect timing."

"You've come at the perfect time. Let me show you something I just discovered."

"What's so fun about it? Did you discover Area 51?"

"Bullshit! Look here, Utah in the US is full of potholes, big and small!"

Lin Yu pulled up and enlarged a processed image.

It wasn't until the image was almost distorted that Li Ran realized that the 'mountains' and 'shadows' formed by the undulating mountains on the desolate ground in the no-man's-land were not only numerous but also very abnormal.

"Why does this shadow seem a bit..."

"Neat and regular," Lin Yu continued. "See those perfectly regular shadows? They're all man-made holes. Especially this one, it's so round, like it was drawn with a compass."

Lin Yu guided him step by step:

"Think again, what's most abundant in this place?"

"Um?"

"502." Lin Yu shrugged.