The black business car slowly stopped in front of a three-story building next to a university.
There is a company sign hanging at the door of the small building - Xingcheng Huichuang High-tech Co., Ltd.
"Hello, is there anything I can help you with?"
Xia Xu took Pan Long into the lobby on the first floor of the building. A girl who seemed to be the company's receptionist came up to them after hesitating for a moment.
"Is your boss here? I want to discuss a small business with him."
Xia Xu, who was looking at the layout of the hall, looked at the girl and handed her his business card.
"Xinghai Venture Capital..."
The girl at the front desk glanced at the business card and immediately said, "Okay, Mr. Xia, right? Please take a seat first. I will report to the boss right away."
As she spoke, she enthusiastically led Xia Xu and the other person to sit down in the reception area nearby, and then she made a cup of tea, and then trotted upstairs.
This is a small start-up company that just moved out of the university's start-up base, so everything is not so formal and there seem to be very few employees.
"Brother Xu, are you really the company's boss?"
Pan Long sat next to Xia Xu a little stiffly. After the girl at the front desk trotted away, he came over in surprise and whispered.
"I've already said that I have money ability."
Xia Xu smiled, and in stark contrast to Pan Long, he looked at the furnishings in the hall calmly.
Let's not talk about his character or anything like that. He runs a venture capital company. Most of these small start-up companies would probably be pleasantly surprised to learn that the boss of a venture capital company is visiting them. It would not be his turn to be nervous and restrained.
This is the natural confidence that money and power bring to people. If you have money in your pocket, you have no taboos. But if you have no money in your pocket, you won’t even have the courage to step into a restaurant with luxurious decoration.
After responding to Pan Long, Xia Xu did not sit there stupidly, but stood up and walked around the hall.
The furnishings in the lobby on this floor are actually more like an exhibition hall. Except for the front desk and the reception area, most places are glass display cabinets or small black booths circled by red isolation tape.
As for the exhibits on the booth, they were naturally the things they were most familiar with in the past two days, drones.
There are all kinds of models, big and small, and one of them is even close to one meter long, which is somewhat beyond the scope of conventional civilian drones.
"Should we buy drones as well? Or should we consult them about how to deal with it?"
It is not difficult to see the business scope of this company from the displays in these cabinets. Pan Long also understood the purpose of Xia Xu's visit at this time. He stood up and followed him to stop beside him.
"That's about right. This company is developing the technology I need."
Xia Xu nodded slightly.
It is not easy to deal with Duan Zhiyi's armed drone, but it is not difficult either.
Brain control technology is essentially just analyzing brain waves and converting conscious thoughts into actual control instructions. Ultimately, the operation and transmission of instructions are still achieved by modern communication technology.
If a drone wants to be remotely controlled, it must be accompanied by control signals, data transmission signals that capture information such as video images, and satellite navigation signals such as GPS.
So if you want to destroy a drone, you just need to interfere with and block its signal.
No matter how flexible and fast a drone is, or how powerful its firepower is, it is just a piece of scrap metal without anyone to control it. Even highly intelligent automatic drones usually require navigation signals to calculate their own spatial coordinates.
Of course, this is just simple to say, just like the simple and straightforward production process of making a nuclear bomb can be found on the Internet. In fact, the real realization is accompanied by extremely complex technical principles.
Signal shielding is not like what many people think, that is, turning on a shield to wipe out all the surrounding electromagnetic wave signals. At least, neither Aquamarine nor Earth can do that now.
The essence of so-called signal shielding is actually just interference, which interferes with and blocks electromagnetic signals by generating similar frequency bands.
To use a more vivid metaphor, it is like when you are talking to someone and another person suddenly joins in and shouts at the top of his voice so that both of you can't hear clearly or even hear what the other person is saying.
Or you can simply keep chatting with the person you want to talk to to distract him/her so that he/she doesn't notice your voice request. This is the common signal blocking principle nowadays.
But as I said, it is easier said than done, and all aspects involved are very complicated.
If you want to interfere with mobile phone signals, you only need to interfere with the signal exchange with the base station. The frequency band is also fixed, so it is relatively simple. You can buy a jammer for a few hundred yuan.
But it is troublesome to deal with drones. Not to mention the communication technology, power alone is a problem.
After all, drones usually fly high, dozens or hundreds of meters are common, and signal interference in a small range of ten or twenty meters will not be effective. No matter how loud you shout, if your voice is too small and too far away, no one will hear you.
In addition, Duan Zhiyi's drones are equipped with thermal weapons to kill people, so they naturally will not follow the rules and may not follow the regulations on the communication frequency band.
And interference technology must be accompanied by corresponding anti-interference technology. Compared with signal interference, which has a relatively fixed principle, anti-interference technology is much more diverse, and targeted responses are also required to be effective.
Therefore, it is very complicated to use interference technology to deal with Duan Zhiyi's drone, and it can only be done by official research institutions or private institutions in the corresponding fields.
What's more, Duan Zhiyi himself is a technological R&D-type villain BOSS. He may suffer a loss at the beginning when encountering such a situation, but it will inevitably evolve into a remote battle of communication technology in the future.
In this case, it is obviously impossible to rely on Pan Long, the mutant protagonist, to complete the task, so the plot of "The Thrower" is likely to not feature this kind of communication electronic warfare, but rather a drama of superpowers versus black technology.
But since Xia Xu has participated in it, naturally he will not and there is no need for him to take such a silly approach.
Communications and electronic warfare are difficult for Pan Long, but simple for him—all he needs is money.
Civilian drones are not very popular on Earth, and even less so on Planet Aquamarine. Naturally, there are even fewer civilian organizations researching drone interference.
But few does not mean none. Xia Xu asked Meng Bochao to find Huichuang Hi-Tech overnight. It mainly researches various types of civilian drones and secondarily studies drone jammers.
They sell both spears and shields, selling them to both the enemy and us. This is a clear example of the arms company's tactics.
"Hello, Mr. Xia. I am the boss of Hui Chuang, Zhou Xiaodong."
A moment later, the girl at the front desk led a thin young man wearing gold-rimmed glasses downstairs.
The receptionist at a distance pointed out Xia Xu to the young man, who then quickened his pace and came forward with an excited look on his face.
After all, Xia Xu handed over the business card of Xinghai Venture Capital.
Unless he is an individual whose goal from the beginning to the end is not simply to make money or has a strong desire for control, most startups cannot resist the temptation of their investors.
Ambitious ones need funds to quickly expand the size of their company, while those without ambition can use it to directly cash in their shares. Whether it is to make a fortune and get away with it or to start a new business, it is a good deal.
It's all about making money anyway, so it's still money no matter how you make it. It's not shameful.
"Hello, Mr. Zhou."
Xia Xu stood up and greeted Zhou Xiaodong, and was enthusiastically gestured to sit down. It wasn't very explicit, but the respectful and flattering intention was obvious.