sinovels Chapter 133 This Tenant... Confused!
Chapter 133 This Tenant... Confused!
(Jiu)
Li Lei is the kind of person who seldom watches TV. For this generation of young Americans, their main channel for obtaining information has shifted from newspapers and TV to portal websites and social networking sites.
However, because Li Lei's father runs a TV network covering New England and the Midlands in the metropolitan city, Li Lei will still watch this TV network called Atlantis News Network based on his support for his father's company. Flagship news program "Evening News" With the rise of CNN, news programs and news channels in the United States are becoming more and more "grassroots"
, There is no longer the kind of elite fan led by CBS in the past.
However, due to Li Lei's father's insistence, the Atlantis News TV Network still insists on the "elite news program"
style of.
That is, all news content is selected by the anchor and the director of the news department, with the standpoint and comments of the program producer. The word-of-mouth of such a program in this era is two extremes. Those who support it are naturally loved, and those who oppose it are naturally hated Get to the bone.
Li Lei was watching TV in the living room, while Hamada Hiroshi was looking up relevant information on the tablet, and Jason, Adam, and Kira were researching a strategy for a new game around the computer.
"According to the news that our station has just received from the Werner Observatory, the questions about whether there are aliens in our universe and whether we humans are the loneliest group in the universe have definite answers today.
The Warner Observatory provided a series of high-definition pictures to our reporter. At this moment, a spacecraft from an unknown planet has entered the solar system and passed the orbit of Neptune at around 21 o'clock Eastern Time yesterday.
According to the calculations of Dr. Peter Thomson, an astronomer at the Warner Observatory, the target of this interstellar spacecraft should be our earth, and it is expected that this interstellar spacecraft will enter the earth-moon orbit between tomorrow and the day after tomorrow.
We still don't know what attitude this spacecraft has towards the earth and humans, and Dr. Thomson said that they are working hard to contact this spacecraft.
Regarding the information about this spacecraft, we also tried to interview the U.S. Air Force and NASA, but they refused the interview with this station, saying that they have nothing to comment at present. "
When Li Lei heard the news, he immediately raised his head.
At this time, it was Will McAvoy, the ace anchor anchor of Atlantis News Network, who was broadcasting the news, and the press screen of the news was the Kryptonian spacecraft.
Although Li Lei knew that the spaceship had already entered the solar system, he did not expect that the people would capture pictures of the spaceship so quickly.
Because according to the estimation of the Red Queen at the time, the private astronomical telescope will not be able to obtain the picture until at least tomorrow.
What makes Li Lei even more puzzled is that the US government has chosen to remain silent since the situation has developed to this point.
Li Lei thought for a while, picked up the phone and dialed a number.
The phone rang a few times and then connected.
"Uncle Skinner, I just read the "Evening News". I have some news about that spaceship. I wonder if you are interested?"
Li Lei asked in the microphone.
Although the ratings of "ACN Evening News" are not as good as the evening news programs of the four major wireless TV networks at the same time, it is still a news program with a very high ratings in cable channels, and it has great credibility and influence in New England and the central region. force.
The New England region and the central region of the United States are the most economically and culturally developed regions in the United States, and at the same time, a large number of intellectuals are concentrated here.
So when the "ACN Evening News" broadcast the news of the alien spaceship entering the solar system, the phone did not stop throughout the newsroom.
Charlie Skinner, the director of the news department of Atlantis News Network, received many calls from the US government and other friendly stations, but what he did not expect was that his young club also called There is a call.
Charlie still likes his employer very much. After all, there are not many companies like his own that can provide unlimited funds and never interfere with the direction of program production.
As for his young boss, Charlie still had the impression of a somewhat reserved and shy big boy.
However, since he is a journalist, Charlie naturally knows that his young boss has rapidly risen to become the most cutting-edge pharmaceutical and medical device company in the United States and even the world in less than half a year. It is said that he is still working with Wayne Group and Star Ke Industries intends to form the world's largest satellite network service company.
Originally, Charlie planned to arrange an exclusive interview with Sloan Shabis, the anchor of "ACN Financial News" at [-]:[-] p.m., but unexpectedly, he was declined.
But when he called today to tell him the latest news about the mysterious spaceship, Charlie really felt that Li Lei was joking.
"Mr. Li, do you know what you just said?"
Charlie said very discreetly, "I'm the director of news at the Atlantis News Network now, not your Uncle Skinner.
Do you think that any information I disclosed may be tested by other media and even judicial departments in the future. If there are any inaccuracies, not only the credibility of Atlantis News Network will be affected, but you are more likely to be censored by the public. And public opinion as a liar. "
"Uncle Skinner, you seem to have forgotten that I am a practicing lawyer?"
Li Lei replied with a smile, "I do have very important news for you, if you don't believe it, you can choose not to report it.
Uncle Skinner, I remember you had my Facetime account, right?
We chat on the computer, and I will transfer the corresponding information to you by the way. "
After Li Lei finished speaking, he hung up the phone, then returned to his room and turned on the computer.
After he logged into the Facetime account, he saw Charlie Skinner eagerly sending a video connection request.
Li Lei passed the request, and he found that besides him, Skinner also had Will and the former and current executive producers of "ACN Nightly News" Don Keefer and Mackenzie McHale.
"Our space exploration technology company under the World Satellite Communications Corporation launched two deep space exploration satellites into the geo-moon synchronous orbit more than a month ago. Observations with the space telescope, we actually discovered this spacecraft as early as a month ago.
We notified the U.S. military and the U.S. government of this information as soon as possible, but they did not make any further notifications other than keeping us secret temporarily.
Since the U.S. government and the military have no further instructions, our researchers started the study of the alien spaceship.
After our research, we found that this spacecraft is very similar to the wreckage of a spacecraft discovered by the United States five years ago.
After the wreckage of the spaceship went missing, Superman began appearing in Metropolis.
According to the researchers who studied the wreckage of these spacecraft at the time, the 'S' mark on Superman's chest appeared in many places in the spacecraft, so they speculated that this spacecraft was closely related to Superman's life experience.
But since Superman couldn't be interviewed, this speculation is just speculation.
In addition to Superman's 'S' markings, there are other markings inside the ship, one of which matches the markings on the outside of this ship.
This means that this spaceship is somehow related to Superman, and we even assume they are from the same planet, and the S-marked Superman and this similarly 5-marked spaceship may be two different large families on this planet.
Uncle Skinner, the earth is lucky to have a superman, but what if it has a group of supermen?
Moreover, according to the speculation of the researchers who studied the wreckage of the spacecraft at that time, the planetary environment where the spacecraft was located was very different from that of the earth.
Since our earth is not suitable for them to survive, what is the purpose of their coming? "
While talking, Li Lei transmitted various pictures, videos and research reports.
Skinner was chatting with Li Lei, while Will and the others were looking at the information.
Through the voice transmitted through the microphone, Li Lei could hear the voice of exclamation over there.
"Mr. Li, can you guarantee that these pictures and materials of yours are real?"
MacKenzie, the current executive producer of "ACN Evening News", leaned in front of the camera and asked very seriously, "If these materials are true, we can publish a special report tomorrow."
"Of course I can guarantee the authenticity of these materials.
Even most of the information can be retrieved in public databases, it's just that no one has linked them together. "
Li Lei replied, "The government shouldn't continue to hide this matter. If the other party comes with bad intentions, the public will be easily hurt even more if they don't know.
And you don't have to worry about the "Secrecy Act". These research materials do not come from government administrative agencies, and the researchers do not have the status of civil servants, so the "Secrecy Act" is not binding on us.
This is my guarantee to you as a professional legal practitioner. "
With Li Lei's guarantee and Li Lei's source of these materials, the entire "ACN Evening News" program team left. They were going to sort out these materials and work hard for tomorrow's special topic.
The topic is not just a program, and it is necessary to bring out some explosive materials that do not affect the integrity of the topic and put them in other news programs of the Atlantis News Network to warm up.
But these things are not within the scope of Li Lei's concern. After all, he has no experience in producing TV programs and operating TV channels.
On the contrary, Skinner sighed and said, "Li, I really thank you this time.
But you..."
"Uncle Skinner, I know what you mean."
The "Watergate Incident" of the year
The "Deep Throat" that made the "New York Times" but also broke the news
brought great pressure.
Fortunately, the United States was still in the progressive era at that time, so most officials and judges still abide by the "freedom of the press"
and their professional ethics.
During the Watergate investigation, special prosecutor Archibald Cox asked Nixon, then President of the United States, to hand over evidence but was rejected. At the same time, President Nixon announced the removal of Cox from the post of special prosecutor in order to protect himself.
But then U.S. Attorney General Elliot Richardson refused to implement President Nixon's executive order, so Richardson was first dismissed by President Nixon.
Former Deputy Attorney General William Rockshaws, who succeeded Richardson as Attorney General, also refused to implement Nixon's executive order, and he was also fired.
In the end, Nixon had to appoint the third assistant secretary of the Department of Justice to sign the dismissal order.
But to this day, American judges no longer regard "freedom of the press" as
It is regarded as the golden rule.
Skinner was concerned about Li Lei's safety after two journalists were sentenced to prison by a judge for refusing to reveal their sources.
Because several sources of the information provided by Li Lei clearly point to Li Lei, even if Atlantis News Network chooses to remain silent or refuses to testify, it cannot protect Li Lei.
"Don't worry, I dare to hand over the information to you for reporting, and I have a perfect countermeasure here.
I now want you guys to do a classic news feature. "
After chatting with Skinner, Li Lei returned to the living room.
Jason and Adam have been driven back to the bedroom by Hiro Hamada to sleep, while Kira and Hiro Hamada are chatting about the idea of writing an auxiliary program for mecha combat.
Li Lei's and Jason's armors were fine, they basically played an auxiliary role; but Hamada Hiroshi's own armor was in the mecha route.
Especially after seeing Iron Man's steel suit, Hamada Hiroshi has always wanted to improve his armor.
After obtaining related design ideas about Gundam from Kira this time, Hiroshi Hamada planned to make a Gundam mecha.
Of course, in Li Lei's system store, there are Free Strike Gundam and other Gundam models that can be exchanged, but the price is ridiculously high.
However, the system mall has an advantage, that is, the system parameters of the products are provided to you in great detail for free, as long as you have the ability to imitate them, then the system mall doesn't care.
However, Li Lei originally planned to fuse Gundam and Transformers together, but according to the results of the red queen's deduction, it was impossible.
Because the Transformer has no way to ensure the safety of the passengers when he is in the vehicle state during the transformation process, so when the Transformer transforms, the passengers must leave the inside of the Transformer.
Although the fusion plan failed, Li Lei had the idea of transforming Kit into a Transformer.
Kit is also a supercar with artificial intelligence, and it itself has a certain deformation state, although it only changes from several vehicle states.
At the same time, Kit's artificial intelligence level is much higher than that of Black Tiger, and Kit is loaded with a combat system, so he has independent combat capabilities, which Black Tiger does not have.
So Li Lei also joined their discussion, and they finally decided to build a mecha belonging to Hiroshi Hamada according to the appearance of Strike Freedom Gundam.
Strike Freedom Gundam is the most popular Gundam model in the past, and it also has very strong combat and mobility capabilities.
Of course, the most important thing is that this Gundam is the most familiar to Kira, so it can naturally get Kira's greatest assistance.
And Kit's transformation goal is the Scud, which is also a supercar after deformation, so it is most consistent with Kit in terms of structure.
Secondly, Scud's air-to-air combat capability is the strongest among the Autobots, which is what Li Lei needs.
With the goal, the rest of the transformation work is actually not that difficult.
Whether it is Transformers or Gundam, design drawings are the most important.
Although the system mall does not directly provide design drawings, but there are so many appearance drawings, coupled with very reliable parameters, Red Queen can reverse engineer the corresponding design drawings based on these data.
After the deduction of the design drawings by the red queen, it was confirmed that it was feasible, so the design drawings were finalized.
Although both Gundams and Transformers require powerful fire support, as long as Li Lei can build Gundams and Transformers, the prices of related items will plummet.
After Li Lei bought the corresponding firepower, he could hand it over to Stark Industries or Wayne Group for R&D and production.
Even if the two are unwilling to produce, Li Lei can afford to buy directly from the system mall.
But the premise of all this is that Li Lei can create Transformers and Gundams.
Li Lei and Hamada Hiroshi were in charge of making the parts of the Gundam. Fortunately, the machine assistants specially designed for industrial production were of great use this time.
As long as there are design drawings and component drawings, robot assistants can almost complete the production without human operation.
But the only thing that bothered Li Lei was that in order to help Hamada Hiroshi build this set of mechs, Li Lei exchanged a large amount of mandela metal and vibration gold from the system mall.
Although these two substances exist on the earth, due to their rarity on the earth, the prices in the mall are not so friendly.
The bones of the whole set of Gundam mechas are made of mandrake metal, which ensures the sturdiness of the Gundam; while the shell of the mechas is made of vibrating gold, which can absorb the attack power of the outside world and ensure the safety of the mechas.
Of course, the painting of the entire mecha also absorbed the phase armor of the original Gundam, so Hamada Hiroshi's Gundam has two sets of extremely strong armor.
While Li Lei and Hamada Hiroshi were cooperating with industrial assistants to make the Gundam fuselage, Kira also wrote a whole set of Gundam auxiliary operation programs with the assistance of Red Queen.
Gundam is not a robot that uses brainwave synchronization like EVA. Most of its operations are performed using human hands and feet.
So in order for Gundam to be used better, it is natural to need an artificial intelligence system to assist in the operation.
Otherwise, just letting Gundam take a few steps is enough to make the driver crash.
Gundam's maintenance warehouse and launch silo are all under the open space in Li Lei's backyard.
When it needs to be launched, the open space will be opened, and then the Gundam can be pushed from the maintenance station to the platform of the silo.
Then, the Gundam pilot can operate the Gundam to fight.
Although the cover of the silo is made of very common metal, Li Lei's landlord privileges ensure that no weapon or attack method can break through the cover.
Looking at the Gundam that everyone spent two days and one night making, Hamada Hiroshi was still very happy.
However, after seeing the finished product, Jason and Li Lei were also very jealous.
Hamada Hiroshi named this mecha "Ninja"
However, its main combat weapons are the positron guns in its hands and the electromagnetic gun on its chest.
In addition, there are some conventional weapons.
Of course, since the ninja belongs to the Gundam series, he can also use the external weapons of the Gundam, so Li Lei also exchanged a lot of weapons and put them in the maintenance warehouse for the ninja to choose.
The cockpit of the ninja is located on the chest. Due to the lightweight design of the mecha, the entire cockpit can only accommodate one person.
Fortunately, Hamada Hiroshi's body shape as an Asian is not very exaggerated, otherwise this cockpit would be really impossible to sit in.
Ninja's driving mainly relies on voice commands, assisted by the driver's hands.
"See, Kit, you have to trust me and Xiaohong's hands-on ability."
Li Lei watched Hamada Hiroshi driving the ninja and making several fighting moves.
Under the assisted operation of artificial intelligence, the whole set of movements is very smooth and smooth, as if a real person is performing.
However, compared to the smooth production of Gundam, Kit's plan to transform into a Transformer was strongly opposed by Kit himself.
Kit said that it is enough for him to be a supercar with combat capabilities, and he does not want to be a Transformer like Autobots.
For an unambitious artificial intelligence like Kiter, Li Lei can only let him observe the mighty and domineering ninja, so as to stimulate his inner ambition.
But a salted fish is a salted fish, even if it is thrown into the Pacific Ocean, it cannot become a tiger shark.
"Ray, don't try to persuade me, I still decided to be a supercar.
Maybe someday being a pickup truck is also an option to consider.
But the kind of Transformers you mentioned, I don't think so. "
Kit decided to go back to his garage and stop watching.
"Kit, the production of Transformers is a plan we have decided, if you don't want to participate, then we have to design and produce other cars as prototypes.
This is not difficult for us. "
Li Lei suddenly said seriously, "But have you ever considered a question?
Originally, when there was a black tiger, you basically had no work.
Now that we have ninjas again, you're even more marginalized.
Once we have new Transformers, we'll just have to scrap you.
Kit, we've been together for a while, and I don't want us to abandon our former partners along the way. "
"A partner?"
Kit was a little dazed.
As an item exchanged in the system mall, Kit didn't know how he spent his days in the mall and the days before.
It felt like it was passing by so slowly and quickly, with nothing worth remembering.
Until he was redeemed by this young Asian boy in front of him, and like every boy who saw his first car, he happily looked at himself over and over again, and then connected his handlebar He touched it dozens of times.
Kit suddenly felt that it would be really interesting if the days to come were like this.
In fact, life with Asian boys was really fun and full of adventure.
Although there will be danger of one kind or another every time, the boy will try his best to protect himself from harm.
Now the boy has come so far ahead, if he doesn't keep up, he will have to give up.
Although he can ask the boy not to abandon him, Kit feels that if he can't help even a little as a friend, then what kind of friend is he?
When everyone becomes strangers to each other, perhaps one day, this partner will suddenly disappear.
"Partner!"
Kit seemed to understand something, "I only have one question, can I choose the paint job myself?
The painting you made for the ninja is really ugly, plus the painting of the black tiger, I can't accept your taste at all.
If you allow me to choose the livery myself, I agree to be transformed into a Transformer by you. "
Hearing Kit's sudden change, Li Lei still couldn't believe it.
But after seeing Kit's positive headlights, Li Lei began to modify Kit. At the same time, Kit was also discussing the final paint color with the red queen.
Then Li Lei saw a color scheme that made him horrified. Kit chose the very dazzling Chinese red as the main color, and then slightly matched it with gold and silver. It looked really "festive"
, very "magnificent"
Especially Kit also remarked, "must be shiny"
Li Lei suddenly wondered if Kit's name came from "Tekee"
The inversion omitted?
With such an exaggerated color, he felt that he would never have the guts to open the door.
Although other people said that this color scheme is coquettish and cool enough, Li Lei still hesitated.
But since Kit agreed, Li Lei had no choice but to paint it according to this color scheme.
There is an essential difference between the Transformers transformed by Kit and the real Transformers, because Transformers are silicon-based life forms, and they are real life forms.
But Kit is actually just a car-shaped robot with artificial intelligence that can transform and fight. Not only is it not a real life body, it doesn't even have personality rights.
But even so, Kit rebuilt with vibration gold and Mandela metal is much more powerful than ordinary robots.
In particular, Kira said that he specially reserved a combat learning function for Kit. Kit can not only learn in future battles, but also accept new combat methods through direct input from the outside world.
But when Li Lei and others were celebrating the success of Kit's transformation, the sound of the doorbell attracted everyone to the door.
Through the camera outside the door, Li Lei discovered that it was actually someone from the FBI and the Gotham Police Department.
Li Lei had no choice but to open the door after asking them to show his work certificates and arrest warrant.
However, Li Lei also took advantage of the time difference between opening the door and immediately called his lawyer. At the same time, he also contacted Bruce Wayne, hoping that he would release him on bail.