Scientists who revitalized the country (6): GPS and little dinosaurs

He originally came here to help solve engineering calculation problems, but unexpectedly he solved the material problems first. 

To express his gratitude, the minister invited Si Qi to have a meal in the canteen of the Engineering Department.

There was only the last piece of bamboo shoot tip left on the plate. Si Qi and the minister stretched out their chopsticks at the same time, and Si Qi retracted his hand silently.

“You’ve also seen it, they´re lagging behind in terms of strength and are getting frustrated!”

The minister picked up the tips of the bamboo shoots and put them in Si Qi’s bowl, “Four years ago, country E had a confrontation with our fleet on our national border. The situation was so tense that it was no surprise that a conflict suddenly broke out. I happened to be on those fleets and witnessed the situation with my own eyes…”

The minister said in a melancholy tone: “Due to the backward positioning and navigation system, several of our country’s missiles were all shot blank! The ship was lost at sea for several months! Do you know how we spent those months? There was a lack of food, water, and electricity. We stayed in that steamer-like steel cage for several months, as hungry as a bunch of mummies! But that’s nothing. The key is the shame and anger that can’t even touch the enemy, and the powerless feeling of being teased and played by them, which is the most tortured thing. “

Seeing Si Qi put down his bowl and chopsticks, listening to him carefully, the minister said seriously: “GPS communication! After I got off the ship four years ago, I vowed to develop our own GPS satellite positioning, and no one would turn off our satellite navigation unscrupulously again! Now that the project has advanced more than half, only the core calculation part is left unsolved. We need your help.”

Si Qi nodded and said, “No problem, that’s what I’m here for.”

In order to fulfill the wish left by the original owner, and in order to return the results of his hard work to his country.

If it weren’t for Qian Lu’s intervention, this should have been something owed by China.

“As long as you have this awareness, it took E country seven years to develop positioning and navigation. We will try to complete this project within three years! We will definitely not lose to them!”

While speaking, the minister habitually rubbed the watch strap on his wrist, with an excited look on his face.

Si Qi noticed this and asked doubtfully: “This seems to be a brand from country E?”

But looking at the minister, he seemed to cherish it very much.

The minister followed his gaze, his expression changed slightly, and he sighed and said: “I bought this when I was studying in E Country decades ago… Back then, a man from E country pointed at my nose in front of me! He said that I am a second-class citizen and don’t deserve to wear such a good watch! It made me so angry that I spent all the money I had on buying it, just to remind myself  to never forget the feeling I had at that time!”

After Si Qi heard this, he thought for a moment and said, “Are you sure that person was not hired by the store?”

Minister:? ? ?

Chu Lian, who was invited to eat with him, choked and kept coughing while covering his mouth: “Cough cough cough…”

The minister was dumbfounded, and finally came to his senses after a while, “Even if you think of this possibility, don’t say it to my face…otherwise, what will the pain I’ve suffered for these decades be? “

Si Qi showed a rare smile and said to the minister: “You are wrong. It is precisely because it is painful that it needs to end as soon as possible.”

The minister was stunned.

After a moment, he figured out what Si Qi meant by his words.

Si Qi did it on purpose… to help him break free from the curse of this watch, to free him from the shackles of decades.

Whenever he saw this watch in the future, the humiliation of that year would resurface in his heart, and he would subconsciously think of Si Qi’s words, “IAre you sure that person was not hired by the store?” and then burst into laughter.

He accepted the boy’s favor, but he still didn’t want to forget the hatred. Just as he was about to say something to Si Qi, Si Qi stood up and said to the minister in a calm tone: “It won’t take three years, at most a week.”

The minister looked at him in surprise.

At this moment, he still didn’t know the meaning of Si Qi’s words, nor did he know what kind of miracle he would witness next.

Only a week later, the news that China suddenly developed a new generation of GPS satellite positioning system quickly spread throughout the academic world. The accuracy of its system was hundreds of times higher than the technology currently used around the world, and its efficiency had also been greatly improved. It could be described as an epoch-making masterpiece. Such achievements quickly attracted the attention of many people.

When many foreign scholars heard the news, their first reaction was to ridicule China for talking nonsense and bragging without being reliable. How long had they been working on this project? How could they have completed it so quickly, and even done it better than the superpowered E County? One could tell they were lying at first glance.

However, a month later, China updated all satellite systems and published the results and registered patents on the international platform, and everyone was welcome to come, buy and use them.

Everyone was dumbfounded when they saw the obvious facts in front of them.

How come it becomes true if you keep bragging?

After reading the specific data, people from all countries were impressed by this new technology. After looking at the quotations, they found that the rental prices were not unacceptable.

They must buy it, otherwise their technology in this area would never be better than others and they would be at a disadvantage in international competition.

And they only needed to spend hundreds of millions of dollars every year to get the right to use this research, which was  countless times cheaper than doing research alone. No matter how they thought about it, buying it was more cost-effective.

So after China opened the access, many countries rushed to purchase the right to use this patent and replaced it on their own satellites.

The technological leadership in such cutting-edge fields had made China stand out in the international arena and had visibly improved its status a lot. Many neutral countries reported this news impartially, which aroused the amazement of many foreign people. They suddenly discovered that China, which was originally very ordinary, seemed to have unknowingly moved to the forefront, and its development momentum was getting stronger, more powerful and prosperous.

E Country was furious about this incident. They were once the leaders in this field. They slapped the table in public and scolded China for their ulterior motives, claiming that only their country’s positioning system was the safest and most reliable.

But no one paid any attention to him.

Everyone had seen what E country had done in recent years. Everyone knew who had ulterior motives and who was calling for the thief to be caught.

Seeing E country jumping up and down like crazy, obviously furious but unable to do anything to China, the people of China felt really indescribably refreshed.

Others saw in the news that the calculation part of this system was written by Si Qi himself. They happily showed off this to netizens in E country, saying such talents look down on you and are more optimistic about our own country! Those things you said about E country being the strongest are just bullshit! No one believes it at all!

The intelligence department of E country learned the news and was so angry that it exploded. It was conceivable that a certain culprit in E country was going to be unlucky again.

But that man’s bad days had just begun.

Mathematics is a panacea, and many scientific and technological fields can only be developed based on mathematics. From GPS positioning and navigation to material analysis program calculations. Regardless of the field, everything that is studied will have something to do with mathematics in the end.

Many academicians and chief engineers who were deeply troubled by their projects at hand thought of giving it a try after encountering bottlenecks, and applied to their superiors for Si Qi to assist.

Accompanied by Chu Lian, Si Qi signed a lot of confidentiality agreements, went to many places that the outside world had never heard of, and met many great people who were anonymous and whose names had never been revealed.

These people had worked hard all their lives and spent decades laying a deep foundation in various fields, and now they had reached the stage of bearing fruits.

Si Qi was lucky enough to participate in this stage of work and witnessed the birth of many achievements with his own eyes.

Therefore, in the next more than a year, following the GPS satellite positioning system, China’s cutting-edge scientific and technological projects had made rapid progress, with good news one after another.

One after another, world-shaking achievements emerge in a blowout style, attracting more and more attention from around the world.

——The sleeping dragon finally woke up, and they were about to catch up with us. Many people had such a premonition.

This was the product of hard work and a deserved reward for the many people who had worked hard for decades.

Not only did the citizens feel the rapid evolution of their motherland in person, but they also had more and more smiles on their faces. The country had also become more and more confident in speaking, gradually showing its strong and inviolable side.

On New Year’s Eve, China’s manned spacecraft was successfully launched. At the moment when the bright national flag was inserted into the soil of the moon, the whole world saw the power of China and realized that this was no longer a country that could be manipulated at will.

Chinese people should stand up long ago.

After Si Qi watched the New Year greetings sent back by the astronauts on the news, he turned off the TV, stood up and stretched.

China in this world had a tradition called “staying up late on New Year’s Eve”, which meant lighting up the lights at home on New Year’s Eve and getting together as a family to welcome the New Year. 

Every time Si Qi came to a new world and inherited the body of the original owner, he would retain the character and habits of the original owner to ensure that people around him would not notice the change.

So he turned on the lights in the house, went to the bathroom and took a shower, preparing to get through the year before going to bed.

Chu Lian, who was guarding outside Si Qi’s house before getting off work, sat in the car and looked at the lights in the house. A colleague used a communication device to say to him: “We are here to protect him. It’s hard to celebrate the New Year. You should go home and rest early. “

Chu Lian shook his head and said, “Mr. Si is still working.”

When his colleague heard this, he sighed: “It’s already the Chinese New Year, but Mr. Si is still working so hard… Sometimes I really feel sorry for him. He is so young and has given so much to our country, but there is no one around him during the Chinese New Year.”

Chu Lian thought for a while and said, “I remember that Mr. Si always has fresh ingredients stored in his refrigerator?”

The colleague replied: “Yes, there are dedicated people taking care of this…what’s wrong?”

Chu Lian: “I’m going to cook him a New Year’s Eve dinner. At least he won’t be alone on this New Year’s Day.”

The colleague said with envy: “That’s great. I also want to celebrate the New Year with Mr. Si.”

Chu Lian curled up his lips and said with pride, “This is my privilege.” Then he got out of the car, walked to the house and knocked on the door.

After waiting patiently for a while, Si Qi did not respond.

This was not the first time. Every time Si Qi was studying something in the study, he would be unable to hear anything going on around him.

At that time, Chu Lian needed to go over and remind Si Qi that it was time to rest and eat. Otherwise, He really didn’t know that this young man who forgot time as soon as he started working could torment himself.

He opened the door with the key, glanced at the study, and found that Si Qi was not there.

He heard the sound of water drops falling from the bathroom again, it was no wonder that Si Qi didn’t hear him knocking on the door.

Turning around and going to the kitchen, he found the ingredients from the refrigerator and recalled some of Si Qi’s favorite dishes. Chu Lian was busy in the kitchen with familiarity.

Half an hour later, Chu Lian put the hot meal on the table. He glanced worriedly at the bathroom, which had been quiet since just now, and thought that something might have happened to Si Qi.

Until a splash of water suddenly came from inside, Chu Lian breathed a sigh of relief and took out the pudding he had made before from the refrigerator – this was a little-known hobby of the cold-looking Si Qi, he actually liked to eat sweets.

In the bathroom, Si Qi casually wiped the water droplets from his hair with a towel. Since it was rare to have a break during the New Year, he relaxed a little too much and almost fell asleep in the bathtub.

He soaked for too long and his head felt dizzy. With his cheeks lightly powdered, he put on his favorite little dinosaur one-piece pajamas and staggered out of the bathroom.

While lowering his head to wipe his hair, he hummed casually and lazily.

“I am a little golden dragon~little golden dragon~I have a little tail, so small!!!”

Suddenly seeing a person’s feet appearing in front of him, Si Qi jumped up like a cat whose tail was stepped on, raised his head and bumped into Chu Lian who was standing at the dining table face to face.

Chu Lian stood there in confusion, and the apron in his hand fell to the ground at some point. He kept this expression and watched the whole process after Si Qi came out of the bathroom. At this moment, his eyes were full of shock and he was almost speechless.

Chu Lian subconsciously recalled Si Qi’s usual appearance –  a cold expression that remains unchanged for thousands of years, the cold voice like a summer wind chime, the simple and reserved white shirt always buttoned to the highest button, and the trousers wrapped around the slender straight legs, with a little elegance and ascetic restraint in the rigor.

He looked at the red face of the young man in front of him, which was full of panic, and his watery eyes like black gemstones were wide and round. Wearing a pair of plush green little dinosaur pajamas, there was a layer of relaxation and laziness lingering around his body that had not completely faded away after bathing. Combined with the set of soft, fluffy and childlike pajamas, he looked indescribably childish and cute…

Chu Lian’s head was buzzing and he couldn’t say a word.