Chapter 147 Wheat Planting on Webcast
It's a sunny day in Bujumbura.
Outside the Heart of the Forest plantation, some reporters waited early. They were notified yesterday that Heart of the Forest will be live-streaming the pilot planting of Super Wheat online. The reporters, who were so excited that they hadn't slept much all night, came here early.
Heart of the Forest promised them that it would open up the planting process to the media. In addition to the live broadcast channel officially opened by the heart of the forest company on the famous video website Yau Tu Turtle, these reporters have also opened their personal live channels, and will interact with netizens and viewers from various countries.
"Hey, William, you're here to stream the Catcher in the Rye too?"
These days, the journalists who first stayed in Burundi now know each other and greet each other in a friendly way. They were the first to discover this "gold mine", and they each benefited from the uproar of the news.
William received a lot of praise from the boss of the newspaper Lace, hoping to sign a labor contract with him until the following year, but William politely refused. William has reason to think that he will most likely be offered the new position he has coveted – from The Guardian, The Times, or the BBC, or even CNN. As long as he can get the first-hand information here again one step ahead of others, it will no longer be a dream, but a real reality.
Most of the reporters present shared William's thoughts. They are both competitors and help each other. They face stronger opponents – reporters who are coming from all over the world.
"yes, Stiem, who wants to miss a show like today?" William smiled and shook his fist at the other party, "It's the first time I've heard of this kind of gameplay when it comes to planting wheat on the web. What's the name of that rich Chinese man? Surname Lee? Or is it the surname Izumi? All in all, it must have been a great debut, and I can't wait to see 'The Catcher in the Rye' perform." ”
CNN's phrase "the catcher in the wheat field in Africa" completely drove other media to start calling it that. On the contrary, Li Quan's nondescript POOP-R7-Plus is not remembered by many people.
As at the last press conference, these tabloid reporters came to see the Crop Golem debut, and no one really cared about Allah's Corner Super Wheat here.
Li Quan, dressed in casual clothes, appeared in front of the reporters on time, and Pete, a professional manager, followed him as his assistant today. The confident smile on Li Quan's face made these reporters look forward to it even more, thinking that maybe there will be big news like the last time today.
"Please come with me. The live stream will start right away. ”
Li Quan personally led everyone to an open field. Several cameras have been set up around the field, and these high-definition signals will be released to the world's largest video and live streaming website, Yau Tu Turtle, where people from all over the world will witness the miracle of the birth here.
Journalists also set up long guns and short cannons. They didn't bring equipment with them at the last press conference, and they regret it, and they won't make the same mistake this time.
Seeing this, Li Quan nodded to Pete beside him. Shortly after Pete left, the reporters suddenly noticed a slight tremor on the ground.
"Is it an earthquake?" Someone said suspiciously.
Next, they all widened their eyes and stared in amazement at a large group of wheat field puppets that were "booming" towards them not far away, counting twenty of them.
They resemble an ironclad hero, shining with a silvery metallic sheen in the sunlight. These wheat field puppets marched in unison, with each loud sound of "boom, boom", one by one. Finally, all twenty wheat field golems were neatly parked next to the field, lined up in a square array.
This is like a scene in a blockbuster movie, which made these reporters stunned for a while, and then, they suddenly woke up, their faces were red with excitement, and they raised all kinds of photography and video equipment, and the shutter "clicked" non-stop, and some people began to talk excitedly to explain the scene they had just seen to the live broadcast viewers around the world.
"Let's get started." Li Quan nodded and said.
As he gave the order, the twenty wheat field puppets in the field suddenly moved again.
I saw that these wheat field puppets quickly started the sowing operation, their agile soil turning action, precise sowing of seeds, and watering without leakage, all in one go, clean and neat. The wheat field puppets arranged in a square array alternately advance in the field, staggered and orderly, they cooperate with each other, each row of movements are neatly aligned, and the cooperation of each column is extremely tacit!
The twenty crop puppets looked like a group of extremely well-trained soldiers, and their precise and neat movements stunned the reporters in the live broadcast, and even shocked the audience on the other end of the live broadcast. People never imagined that agriculture could be combined with technology to such an extent that farming could produce an indescribable beauty.
It only takes 20 machines to start the sowing operation in just one hour on a large open field. Since then, the care and nursing work has also begun to be carried out in an orderly manner.
High-efficiency seeding, completely intelligent operation, automatic operation throughout the process, no rest around the clock! What a perfect machine.
In the following live broadcast process, these 20 wheat field puppets demonstrated to the world what high-tech agriculture is, completely subverting people's cognition.
The overall number of viewers on the official live broadcast channel and the reporter's personal channel has gradually increased from only a few hundred at the beginning, to a few thousand, and so far, it has exceeded one million people watching the live broadcast......
"An epoch-making great invention!" Early the next morning, the British "Daily Telegraph" published an article, mocking the BBC's short-sightedness with the original words of the BBC before. This sentence once became the hottest news phrase of the week.
As more and more people pay attention to the live broadcast on the turtle, the results of the live broadcast of the day are known to more people. More and more people are asking whether this is true or not.
Soon, some large media outlets reported on the live broadcast positively. The media changed their stance and praised the crop puppet in positive terms.
CNN didn't mention that it was they who had been the one who had been slammed by the media out against Heart of the Forest, and on its website it posted with their iconic headline: "There is no doubt that this machine will change the agricultural environment for humans." It's efficient, accurate, eco-friendly, beautiful, and maybe even cheap. All the most beautiful and gorgeous words can no longer describe its excellence! ”
Reuters commented that the live broadcast was: "It is very likely to be one of the turning points in human history." ”
Agence France-Presse quoted journalist William as saying: "When I first saw it launched, I was overwhelmed by its gorgeous appearance and superior technological expression. I can assure you without fear that if you see it with your own eyes, as I did, you will believe that a new era has come ahead of schedule! ”
The response from other media outlets has also been swift, and the comments have been invariably positive.
Germany's Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung described the live video show in three words: "Ingenious, irrefutable, conclusively evidenced." ”
CCTV reported in detail on this new scientific and technological achievement in the morning news, calling Africa a "land of miracles".
South Korea's Chosun Ilbo insisted: "There is no doubt that the person who invented this genius machine is a Korean!" ”
If there is praise, there will naturally be noise.
As "catcher in the crop" quickly rose to the top of Google's search charts and became a household name, it didn't take long for humanitarians to worry: "We can't help but ask, could this robot be used for military purposes?" ”
The Crop Golem's efficiency, resolute execution of commands, precise movement and fairly mature programming during the live broadcast have all made it clear that it has extremely high military potential.
Proponents of this view have called for Heart of the Forest to disclose the core technology of the Wheat Golem as soon as possible, preferably by a major power to ensure the safety of the world's people.
Privately, more countries are paying more attention to the kind of batteries that the crop puppets are equipped with.
The official parameters given by Heart of the Forest are either wrong or ...... They dare not imagine.
What puzzles countries is how this high-tech battery can appear in a country like Burundi, and how this technology can be applied to agriculture first, curious about which laboratory this technology comes from, and whether it really exists?
Most of the experts in these countries still prefer that the Heart of the Forest company made a fuss when it released the data, and that the charge was 5 minutes and the call was ...... Oh no, the data of 2000 hours is actually fallacious.
In the days that followed, robot enthusiasts from all over the world spontaneously traveled to Burundi to get a close-up look at the catcher in the crop field. Airports in neighbouring Tanzania were overwhelmed and had to restrict the entry of foreigners. But that doesn't stop people around the world from becoming more and more enthusiastic about the crop puppets.
On the website of the turtle, the number of viewers of the official live channel of the heart of the forest has remained above 10 million for a long time. People from all over the world want to know more about this advanced robot, which is said to be able to change the status quo of agriculture and even extend to other areas of life.
Soon after, however, an even more alarming fact was observed.
In the live broadcast, the wheat in that plantation grows fast, which is really ...... A little too fast?
It's only been a few days, and people who follow the live broadcast have found that the wheat that was sown just a few days ago has not only broken the ground and sprouted, but has grown to more than a foot tall. If it weren't for witnessing the live broadcast channel 24 hours a day, everyone would have to wonder if the live broadcast was real.
"Not so fast, right? Although I don't know much about agriculture...... However, it was only a week, and even if it could grow so tall, it would not be wheat. I doubt it. Someone left a message on the turtle.
Then someone said: "My uncle is an American farmer, and I often visit his house during the summer vacation. As far as I know, wheat can't grow that fast, but it happened. I swear with all my bitcoins, those are really wheat. Absolutely true! But what does this mean? ”
Only then did people vaguely realize that the data released by the Heart of the Forest Company at that press conference was likely to be true!
That super wheat, which yields more than 100 times more than the existing wheat, really exists!
This discovery immediately made the whole world boil......
Most of the people are skeptical, and some media even bluntly suspect that the Heart of the Forest Company is fraudulent, fabricating lies from beginning to end, and this live broadcast is an outright scam. And some media published articles slamming the Heart of the Forest company as the biggest liar of all time, a shameful counterfeiter, deceiving the world!
There was no need for Li Quan to come out and explain, and immediately a group of people posted a video on the turtle to refute this statement.
It is the tabloid reporters who have already tasted the sweetness. They have carefully compiled and posted the real videos they have taken these days on the Internet, accompanied by pictures and text, proving the authenticity of the live broadcast from all aspects.
In addition, someone also accompanied the official Super Micro data released by Heart of the Forest. Through comparison, the conclusion is that, as shown in the video, the actual growth rate of these wheat grown in African plantations is in line with the theoretical growth value officially announced by Heart of the Forest!
As soon as this news came out, it not only directly slapped those media in the face, which was hot, but also completely detonated the enthusiasm of netizens all over the world who paid attention to this matter.
Super wheat varieties that promise to solve world hunger are actually real!
Things quickly continued to ferment.
The media was shocked, and then flocked to it. National institutes have also submitted requests to the Government of Burundi for visits through diplomatic channels. After receiving Li Quan's concurring reply, these countries sprang into action and sent a group of experts to Burundi in a hurry.
On the Internet, the live broadcast continues every day. The number of people watching the live broadcast around the world has gradually reached 30 million, with an average daily view of more than 100 million. By this time, more attention had shifted from crop puppets to superwheat.
After several days of observation, the growth rate of Superwheat was further confirmed.
In just 10 days, Superwheat went from sowing seeds, to germination, to growing into plants, completing the growth process that would normally take a few months for wheat.
Conclusive!
The growth rate of Super Microwheat is terrifying!
As a result, I don't know how many people's jaws were shocked on the spot.
In fact, Li Quan is already quite low-key. He didn't set the speed of the wheat seeds to the maximum because he was afraid of scaring others. If he wanted to, he could make the Supermicrophone ripen in an hour, which was not a difficult task.
But even so, when the evidence was further confirmed by the visiting agricultural experts from various countries, the report shocked the countries and the plantation in Burundi became the world's attention.
Nowadays, the tone of the major media has completely changed. There was no more opposition, replaced by unanimous praise.
CNN reported in prime time: "The advent of the super microphone may change the world situation, and mankind will hope to completely rid of hunger for the first time, and the positive impact is predictable......"
The BBC also commented on a major program: "...... There is no doubt that this is an epoch-making scientific and technological achievement. There is no pejorative meaning here. The emergence of super wheat is the luck of all mankind! ”
CCTV explained the problem of world hunger in detail to the domestic people through a popular science program: "...... With the increase in violent conflict and the impact of climate warming, the number of hungry people in the world continued to increase in 2016, reaching 815 million for the first time, accounting for 11% of the global population, which is 38 million more than in 2015...... Hunger is the fuse that drives war, and the history of mankind can be regarded as a history of hunger, from slash-and-burn farming to modern farming, only when human beings truly get rid of the problem of hunger can they truly move towards the ...... of civilization."
The major media are still like this, and the people of all countries are celebrating the achievement of Super Microphone, calling it the biggest scientific and technological breakthrough of mankind in this century, which will directly promote the process of human history......