On the other side, Chen Nian was sitting in his office, talking on the phone with Li Xiang, and watching the farce with interest.
"So that video was really not released by you for fishing? How did the video leak out? Have you found out?"
Li Xiang's voice on the other end of the phone was a little hoarse. He coughed twice before answering:
"We really didn't release it, it was just a sneak shot that leaked out."
"The specific details of how it leaked out. I heard that the intelligence team is still investigating. It will probably take some time to get the results."
"However, to be honest, once a large-scale ship project like this is on the slipway, there is basically no possibility of keeping it secret."
"People take pictures of our 001, and we take pictures of their Nimitz and Ford. It's the same for everyone."
"Even now, while I'm on the phone with you, I can assure you that there are at least twenty cameras filming the deck of No. 001."
"I really want to put an end to such candid photos, unless half of the city is cleared."
"So whether it leaks out or not, it's actually not that important. After all, it's just a video. Key technical information cannot be identified by relying on videos."
"If you want to take pictures, let them take them. The intelligence department's focus is still on internal confidentiality. This kind of long-distance candid filming is really irrelevant."
"Understood."
Chen Nian nodded.
In fact, even if his identity as a military industry practitioner in his previous life was removed, he didn't have much hope in keeping the No. 001 transformation process strictly confidential.
After all, in his previous life, he was one of those military fans who spent all day reading all kinds of espionage information and looking at all kinds of leaked photos online.
As Li wanted to say, it is impossible to completely eliminate it because the cost required is too great.
Limiting it within a certain range is the most economical and reasonable way to deal with it.
So, he continued to ask:
"That means that the public prosecutor was slapped in the face this time, is it really because they are stupid?"
"That's not true."
Hearing Chen Nian's words, Li Xiang couldn't help but laugh.
"To put it bluntly, it's because our development speed in the past two years has been too abnormal."
"Think about it for yourself, if photos of test aircraft of the J-20 and H-20 projects are also leaked, without knowing the specific shooting location, how many people will believe that those are aircraft we built ourselves?"
"In a word, technical confidence has not yet been established."
"Although in the past two years, at your request, our technology popularization activities have been in full swing, the problem is that many deep-rooted prejudices cannot be changed so easily."
"This is especially true for those public intellectuals who have relatively low levels of knowledge and are not very smart."
"They don't care about logic or evidence. Anyway, they have only one purpose, which is to flatter the West and belittle China."
"It was a coincidence this time. I hit the iron plate."
"Look at Feng Wei's latest blog. It's so funny. It feels like he's mentally a little out of sorts."
Chen Nian quickly refreshed the web page. After seeing Feng Wei's latest blog, he couldn't help but laugh.
Just like what Li wanted to say, this public intellectual had completely broken his defense.
He published several articles in succession, but none of them directly responded to this own incident.
The first article contains a lot of inexplicable content about "independent thinking", while the second article is all about how humans can rise from the ocean and how they can use wisdom to become the overlord at the top of the biological chain.
Judging from this meaning, he seemed to be urging himself to continue to think independently.
However, from the third chapter onwards, he turns to religion.
The four elements are empty again, and it is pure and peaceful. It seems that there is really no way to do it.
However, he was also tough-talking. This was already the case, but he still didn't issue an apology.
After watching it for a while, Chen Nian felt that it was not very interesting, so he turned to ask Li Xiang about his follow-up plans.
"So now that it has been exposed this time, do you plan to announce the news directly?"
"Or should we continue to hide it and keep it tacitly known to everyone?"
Li Xiang, who was on the opposite side, was silent for a moment and then answered:
"My personal opinion is to simply expose it. Anyway, the function of the exoskeleton has been verified, and it cannot be limited to the Deep Blue 16 project. Even if you want to, you can't hide it."
"However, for the specific plan, we still need to communicate with the job transfer intelligence team of the Deep Blue 16 project team to see what their opinions are."
"I understand, go ahead and communicate. This is not my job. I don't care about it - just let it go."
"Well, I'll take care of it, don't worry."
The two chatted for a few more words, and then Chen Nian hung up the phone.
Looking at the web page that had not yet been closed, Chen Nian suddenly felt a little emotional.
In fact, this video was obviously shot in Dalian, but it was said to be in an island country. It is not difficult to verify the authenticity.
Not to mention the Chinese characters that netizens can see at a glance, the clothes of the workers in the picture and the distinctive safety helmets they wear on their heads are all elements unique to China.
But it is such a piece of content that can be said to be full of loopholes. Why do so many people choose to believe Feng Wei’s article without verifying it or thinking about it, and even forward it everywhere in vain? What about convincing more people?
Probably as Li wanted to say, there is a fixed mindset in the minds of these people.
As long as it is good, advanced, and civilized, it is foreign.
Anything that is bad, backward, or barbaric belongs to China.
The video itself is nothing, but Feng Wei’s comments can be said to have hit the pain points of these people.
They are not willing to question the authenticity at all, and must first passionately support and retweet it.
Chen Nian had seen too many such things in his previous life.
The most typical jokes include "High-speed rail radiates across the country", "Huawei's 2000km delay jitters by 1 millisecond", "The daughters of three university scholars and experts did not get into Tsinghua", "All centenarians were born in the Republic of China, which shows that the Republic of China Good medical conditions” and so on.
If you call these people bad, they don't look bad, but more like stupid.
But you say they are just stupid, but they do have bad intentions.
At that time, these people were given an apt name on the Internet, called "Tulu Sect Public Intellectuals," which referred to those intellectuals whose cognitive level could not keep up with the development of the times and whose brainwashing methods were too backward.
This title is obviously sarcastic, but in Chen Nian's view, at this point in time in 2007, the living environment of the Tomb Sect was far from as bad as it was 10 years later.
If it hadn't been for the real impact this time, the rhythm would have really picked up.
It seems that Li Xiang's job is not as easy as he said.
Fighting against these mentally ill people every day, how big does your heart have to be to not get so angry that you get sick?
Thinking of this, Chen Nian sighed softly.
If you can't help them, you can only make up for it in the technical field.
Most of the technical problems with No. 001 have been solved, so let’s find a way to save up 055D.
Wen Xingdong and the others were promised before that they would build electromagnetic guns, and they happened to have enough source points on hand, so just spend them.
(End of chapter)
