Following.

Early in the morning, Su Hao and the apprentice woke up early, and after breakfast, they left separately, and finally met at a coin-operated phone booth near Chinatown.

Now that the phone number of the staff of the metallurgical department of Sepotin Technology has been locked, the apprentice must of course try to contact him.

Although it is now morning and there should not be much demand for telephones, Los Angeles, as the second largest city in the United States with a large population, has a small queue in front of the phone booth early in the morning.

Although they were anxious, the two of them still didn't dare to be rude, first, they had already experienced a world, accumulated some adventure experience, and knew that making destructive moves was likely to lead to a rebound of the current nightmare world power to suppress the contractors' outrageous moves, and secondly, as a member of the Scorpion Tail Society, their identities were embarrassing, and if they caused something casually, it would attract those strips, police detectives, and even the Special Weapons and Tactics team under the Special Operations Bureau. That is, SWAT), this kind of power is not something that Su Hao and the apprentice can compete with.

Finally, when a beautiful lady in front of her finished calling and walked out of the phone booth, Su Hao and the apprentice hurriedly filled the position and closed the glass door. The apprentice picked up the phone, and Su Hao began to pick up the yellow pages address book placed inside.

This Yellow Pages address book is a public facility that is available in every phone booth, a very thick one, which can be indexed alphabetically and can be used to call companies and individuals in the territorial jurisdiction, of course, government utility telephones, and emergency telephone numbers.

The apprentice looked at Su Hao and asked, "Have you encountered someone following you?" ”

Su Hao shook his head and asked rhetorically, "What about you?" ”

"Me didn't either, it seems that the boss still trusts us."

After confirming that no one was following, the apprentice dialed that phone number.

After a ticking sound, an unusually irritable voice came from the earpiece:

"Hello, this is Josh. Smith, who's disturbing the rest below? ”

Josh. Smith?

It's good that the apprentice won't have to waste his tongue trying to trick his name.

After learning the other party's name, Su Hao immediately began to look up Josh according to the alphabetical index. The name Smith.

Soon, Su Hao quickly flipped through the surname Smith and locked the name Josh.

In the Yellow Pages address book, not only the phone number and name are simply registered, but also some simple information about the owner of the number, such as home address, affiliation, etc.

Similarly, in Los Angeles, of course, there is more than one Josh. Smith, excluding Josh, who is a police officer by profession and Josh, who is a freelancer, Su Hao finally locked this genuine Josh. Smith.

Josh. Josh Smith works for Sepotin Technologies, Inc., and his home address is in an apartment in District 13. As for which apartment to live in, the department and the job position, the address book is not detailed to this extent, but according to the information that has been obtained, this Josh. Smith was at least a researcher in the Department of Metallurgy.

Looking up Josh in Suho. At the same time as Smith's message, there was no reply from the earpiece, and then an ugly voice came: "Hey? Where did the bastard come from? Why don't you speak? ”

The apprentice lowered his voice, turned on the talent [Matrix Child], and did a reverse scan on the side of the earpiece, and the result was not abnormal, which proved that the call should not have been monitored, at least not at the line level.

The apprentice said lightly, "Hello, Mr. Josh, I want to meet you... I have what you desperately need to help you turn your defeat into victory. ”

As soon as the apprentice said this, the earpiece suddenly fell silent, and only the sound of heavy breathing was converted into an electromagnetic pulse through the emitter. Smith's mixed emotions were transmitted together.

After a few seconds, a voice came from the microphone: "Turning defeat into victory? I don't understand what you mean. ”

The apprentice smiled slightly, and said in a calm voice a sentence that seemed to be unrelated, but full of weight:

"Can your metallurgical department tolerate a guy who is not better than you, a department that is not more important than you, but can rely on luck to go to the American stage, enjoy the spotlight of the world, and make history?"

Quiescence.

Absolute silence.

This time, through the earpiece, the apprentice couldn't even hear the other party's breathing.

It can be seen that the impact of the apprentice's words is so great, and even brought such an abnormal reaction to the other party, and even the breath is temporarily held for it!

The phrase apprentice may seem unclear, but it actually has a deep meaning.

Under the umbrella of Seputin Technology Co., Ltd., in addition to those administrative, financial, commercial and other daily operation departments, there are also several project departments under its jurisdiction.

Among them, the four heaviest divisions are made by Moss. Dyson's Electronics Engineering Department.

Ministry of Metallurgy.

Department of Biochemical Engineering.

Ministry of Machinery.

The Metallurgical Department is responsible for the research and development of various materials, such as the tantalum steel alloy that makes up the Terminator's exoskeleton scaffold.

The Department of Biochemical Engineering is mainly engaged in biochemical research projects, among which human cell tissue culture has been the focus of their research in recent years.

The Ministry of Machinery worked closely with the Ministry of Metallurgy to tackle new concepts proposed by European scientists: power mechanical exoskeletons, frictionless bearings, light metal honeycomb armor, etc.

And Moss. The electronic engineering department, led by Dyson, is the top priority of all project departments, which is mainly responsible for reverse engineering research based on the wreckage of a CPU chip, and designing a new generation of chips, neural network processors.

With the performance support brought by this powerful chip, the project of the artificial intelligence defense system codenamed [Skynet] has finally been able to operate normally, and has been continuously improved and evolved. The project was supported by the U.S. military, so the Department of Electronics Engineering received more and more resources, even reaching 90% of the company's total expenses at one point.

Since the electronic engineering department is favored, then correspondingly, the metallurgical department, the mechanical department and the biochemical engineering department are more and more marginalized, and even once faced the risk of temporary dismantling of the department.

In the face of such a dilemma, the Ministry of Metallurgy, which has lofty ideals, is naturally unwilling to give in.

Therefore, in order to prove their worth, they must speed up the research and development of new materials, especially tantalum steel alloy, which has super strength and toughness, which is very suitable for the needs of the military to design new military equipment. Only by tackling such a project, so that the military can see the hope of research and development, can it gain the attention of its superiors and pour more resources.

And the [tantalum steel alloy exoskeleton robotic arm (right arm)] that they have in mind is the key to turning defeat into victory! With this material sample, the speed of development will naturally increase geometrically!

Although it is not clear what the specific situation in the Sepotin Company is, the apprentice has also been in contact with his counterparts in the United States as a scientific researcher in his previous life, so he naturally knows the way here, and he uses his own experience to extrapolate to the Sepertin Technology Company, and the difference should not be too big.

So when the apprentice uttered that seemingly irrelevant, but weighty sentence, Josh. Naturally, Smith will not give up such an opportunity!

"You have what I want?" Josh asked.

The apprentice smiled and said, "Dear Mr. Josh, I am very sincere, but I don't want to give important things to a guy who doesn't have a strong presence and is not trustworthy...... If you mess with someone you shouldn't mess with, then... It's a pity! ”

The implication of the apprentice is that if you are just a small employee and want to provoke the military to fish, then he will not hesitate to destroy the robotic arm.

After being stunned for a long time on the earpiece, Josh said lightly:

"It seems that you don't know me, I'm the project director of the Ministry of Metallurgy, and I also hate those guys in the military, these lazy people even want to hand over the plane to that artificial intelligence system to pilot, I am already disappointed in the country's defense!"

When the apprentice heard this, he followed his train of thought and took the opportunity to echo him:

"Yes, like you, I only believe in reliable armor forged from sturdy metal and highly skilled and determined professional soldiers, and those delicate intelligent systems will all crash in less than a second in the face of saturated firepower that obscures the sky!"

Josh was overjoyed, as if he had found a soulmate, and immediately chatted with his fellow apprentice, a small part of the content was boasting about the performance and development prospects of the project he was tackling, and most of the rest was complaining about the company's top management and the military, and frantically belittling Moss. The Skynet system designed by Dyson.

Eventually, after Su Hao stuffed a dozen coins in a row to continue the extended call, the apprentice finally agreed with Josh to meet at 7 p.m. tonight at the Alasta Cafe on Fifteenth Street.