Translator: Dj2203
Editor: Dj2203
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Two months later, Zhuang Li walked into a laboratory, followed by a group of scientists.
The laboratory was already packed with people, including China’s top leader, managers from various departments, and several military generals. They weren’t chatting and laughing with wine glasses in hand, nor were they gathering together to exchange ideas. Instead, they sat around a white round table, waiting solemnly.
Zhuang Li’s arrival attracted everyone’s attention.
Facing so many important figures, Zhuang Li remained completely calm. He walked directly to the control panel and slowly said, “Let’s begin testing the software’s performance now. This data was provided by you, right?”
As soon as he finished speaking, a light screen appeared on the white round table, displaying a table densely filled with various data.
This data was provided by the military, and only the bigwigs understood what it meant.
Zhuang Li and his team only need to input this data into the newly developed software to simulate the real world.
“Yes, the data is correct.” A military officer took out a table and carefully compared it with the table on the screen.
“Then I’ll begin.” Zhuang Li clicked the start button, and the parameters transformed into blue dots that appeared on the light screen. They first flickered and darted about, then converged into lines that formed buildings. More and more buildings appeared, gradually expanding into a city.
Not long after, the city center began to sink, collapsing a skyscraper built on top of it, and the collapse of the building also crushed several smaller buildings around it.
A few minutes later, the city center sank even deeper, causing more than a dozen buildings to collapse.
The countless blue lines that made up the city instantly turned red, indicating that the city was extremely dangerous and no longer habitable. The lines that formed the foundation kept flashing, suggesting that the depletion of groundwater was the culprit behind the city’s collapse.
Zhuang Li didn’t know where the city was. He simply used the software’s computing power to construct the city based on data provided from above, such as the geological structure, total groundwater volume, climate conditions, number of buildings, layout, and floor height.
He looked at the assembled leaders, awaiting their evaluation.
The highest-ranking general stared at the screen for a while before saying in a deep voice, “I have a video I’d like to show Mr. Zhuang.” He then handed over a chip.
Zhuang Li put the chip into the computer to read it and then adjusted the lines on the light screen to the state before the city collapsed.
Thus, this linear city completely overlapped with a 3D city stored in the chip, with every building perfectly embedded together, none of which were present in the linear version but not in the 3D version.
The sheer power of this software’s computing capabilities was self-evident.
But this was just the beginning.
The 3D version of the city also began to sink, just like the line version. Suddenly, the skyscrapers standing in the city center collapsed without warning, crushing several surrounding buildings.
The same thing happened in the Line City video, which was playing simultaneously.
The linear skyscraper and the 3D version of the skyscraper collapsed at the same angle, in the same way, and at the same speed, and even the surrounding buildings were crushed in the same way.
What followed was a larger-scale sinkhole and the collapse of more buildings, with the 3D version showing a striking similarity and synchronicity to the line art version.
Ordinary people would never realize what this meant, but everyone standing in this laboratory showed a shocked expression.
“Mr. Zhuang, the 3D projection you are seeing now is not an animation, but a real scene captured by satellite. This city was a secret military base we built in the Wolong Mountains, which collapsed ten years ago. Your software simulated a real event, and what we provided you was only some data from that time.”
A general spoke with a somber voice: “If we had possessed the software you developed ten years ago, perhaps our designers wouldn’t have made such a fatal mistake when designing and building this base. In other words, you constructed a real-world city using only the data we provided and demonstrated its development and demise without the slightest error. The software’s performance is outstanding! It far exceeded our expectations!”
The general handed over several forms and pleaded, “Here are a few more sets of data; could you continue the simulation?”
Zhuang Li took the form and quickly entered the information. As a result, buildings of different shapes appeared on the light screen, but the final result was always collapse, either due to geological disasters or design flaws.
Following the buildings, the light screen displayed weapons and equipment such as cruisers, submarines, and aircraft carriers, all of which sank. The software also highlighted the design flaws that led to the accident with red lines.
The general was not surprised by the result and took out photos of the real buildings and warships, distributing them to the senior officials.
The scene in the photos was exactly the same as the software simulation; all the buildings collapsed in the same way, and the warship sank during its sea trials.
In other words, this software only required inputting various parameters, such as floor height, net height, load-bearing capacity, displacement, tonnage, etc., to fully restore the appearance of a building or warship and predict its development after it was put into use.
This software, which perfectly replicated reality and predicted the future, far exceeded the expectations of the experts. It was no exaggeration to say that it was a time machine in another sense.
If all the parameters of a city were input and the data was updated every few days, this software could be used as a major disaster early warning system; it could also be used as a central control system for building new types of cities.
Its powerful computing capabilities could handle almost any task, such as weather forecasting, financial analysis, medical testing, weapons manufacturing, and industrial design. Compared to MATLAB, it was practically omnipotent.
While everyone was still in shock, Zhuang Li casually said, “Actually, I collected detailed parameters of this city online and made a simulation. You can take a look.”
He pressed the start button, and a panoramic view of City B appeared on the screen in the form of lines, with the time flow being 24 hours to one minute.
Two minutes later, a hotel in Dongcheng District collapsed without warning. A red arrow marked the location of the hotel and a sharp warning sound was emitted.
Everyone’s attention was drawn to it.
The national leader decisively said, “Immediately send people to investigate this hotel!”
Half an hour later, the head of the inspection team called, his voice tinged with relief: “Chairman, we just checked, and the construction team knocked down the load-bearing columns of this hotel, and added three more floors of guest rooms, far exceeding the foundation’s bearing capacity. When we arrived, the walls were already cracked, and the situation was extremely dangerous! We have already taken the hotel manager into custody, and all the guests in the building have been moved to a safe place. The surrounding streets have been cordoned off.”
“Okay, I understand.” The leader hung up the phone, took a deep breath, then raised his hand and clapped vigorously, saying with absolute certainty, “Mr. Zhuang, do you know that China will change because of you?”
Zhuang Li nodded and said calmly, “My next plan is to completely cure cancer and certain incurable diseases caused by gene mutations. You can look forward to that day; it won’t be too far away.”
National leader: “!!!”
The thunderous applause paused for a moment, only to become even more enthusiastic the next second.
7480, dumbfounded: He won by lying down? How did Si Ming win by lying down again? Did he use all his luck to meet his host by chance? This gigolo, I spit on him!
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