Over time, the unique presence in the region of Namibia, Eco Science City, was constantly seeing improvements.
Some time ago, this place was just a wasteland with hardly any villages in a hundred miles vicinity. It was a completely unexplored and undeveloped landscape.
The arrival of one man would completely transform the landscape.
At the end of 2021, the man came from the distant Mainland China and signed an agreement with the Namibian Government.
At the beginning of 2022, a biotechnology research center was constructed. Meanwhile, the groundwork for a gigantic nuclear power plant was being laid down as well.
Since then, development took off exponentially.
March of 2023, the completion of Eco Science City. May of 2023, the completion of the nuclear power station. All of the wealthiest members of the world began to congregate in this place as the Eco Science City began to come to life and overflow with vitality.
Unfortunately, the Blacklight virus outbreak also happened during the same year. The entire African Continent suffered major losses and the development of Eco Science City was hindered by the outbreak as well.
However, after weathering the pandemic chapter, the privately-owned city exploded with vibrant productivity again. Every day, hundreds of wealthy people from all across the world arrived at the Walvis Bay Airport in Namibia and poured into Eco Science City.
The current resident population of Eco Science City hovered around 50,000, with the number constantly on the rise over time.
To accommodate this, the city began to establish and hasten the development of new sections.
Some time ago, to provide for his Tara Strategic Resource business, Chen Chen had renovated the Walvis Bay Airport out of his pocket. The international airport’s airport code was upgraded from a 3C to 4E.
Airport code generally referred to the completion of its facilities such as the runway, landing strip, taxiway, parking apron, and such.
Airport codes were abbreviated as a two-part code, usually categorized into six classifications which were below 3C, 3C, 4C, 4D, 4E, and 4F.
The first part was a numerical value which represented the length of the runway, “4” represented a runway stretching over 1,800 meters in length. The latter was an alphabetical value indicating the wingspan and wheelbase of the aircraft allowed to take off and land in the airport. This value was sorted in ascending order from A to F.
A 4E-class flight zone could accommodate four-engine long-range wide-body airliners and large twin-engine airliners such as the Boeing 747, Airbus A340, Boeing 787, Boeing 777, and the Airbus A330.
Upgrading the Walvis Bay Airport from 3C to 4E was pretty much the equivalent of leaping a measly handgun to a shotgun. In one tremendous leap, it became one of the largest airports in Africa. Not only did it become a renowned transfer point in Africa, the cargo and passenger flow resulting from it had the Minister of Finance grinning from ear to ear.
As the primary investor, Blacklight Biotechnology was granted plenty of privileges such as a designated runway and inspection-free cargo permit.
Due to the pandemic, the subsidiary company of Blacklight Biotechnology – Tara Strategic Resource made a great fortune. Countless countries had to bite the bullet and trade their resource mining rights in exchange for funds to sustain them. These resources include gold, diamonds, rare earth minerals, and so on.
For many of these countries, it was a daunting task in the first place whether they wanted to mine or deliver these minerals. After the pandemic, this task was made even more challenging.
However, the subsidiary company, Tara, owned various models of transport aircraft. They also had modern equipment and sufficient capital to boot. Mining the resources did not pose a problem for them.
And so, vast amounts of minerals were shipped every day with the carriers of Tara Strategic Resource to Walvis Bay International Airport. Among these minerals, gold, silver, and diamonds were objects of least interest to Chen Chen, which he promptly auctioned off in the international market. The strategic resources and minerals, on the other hand, were delivered to the industrial park of the Eco Science City and used internally.
The industrial park continued to grow larger and the number of factories increased as well.
Soon, night had fallen again…
Eco Science City at night was just like any other international cities. The streets were bright golden with rows of street-lights and brightly lit storefronts. Off in the distance, the districts and sanatoriums outshone the stars in the night sky with their radiance.
Originally, due to Namibia’s poor industrial state, the country had the internationally-recognized most beautiful night sky. With the establishment of Eco Science City, the night sky ended being polluted by the city’s prosperity and rapid industrialization.
This led to a lot of criticism from environmentalists across the world. They rebuked Blacklight Biotechnology for polluting the pure land of Namibia.
Chen Chen could not help but find humor in it.
For the people living in modern cities, a clear night sky illuminated with stars was a subject of marvel for them. However, they never even considered that below such perfect starry skies were a collection of underdeveloped villages with their villagers drifting the lines between life and death every day.
If the African villagers had a say in the matter, would they rather have their daily needs fulfilled or the underdeveloped villages with next to zero medical accommodations?
The answer was clear.
At this moment, Chen Chen sat in front of a set of french windows in a newly-constructed building.
This was the new Blacklight Biotechnology office building. With a total investment of 500 million U.S. dollars, it was a 62-stories building standing 230 meters tall with a space of 150,000 square meters.
In the early stages of its construction, Chen Chen had already planned to use this office building as the African headquarter of Blacklight Biotechnology. It also doubled as a landmark building in Eco Science City.
From a distance, the building was shaped like a diamond-shaped spire, it was even clearly visible from the Walvis Bay International Airport.
Chen Chen sat on an authentic black leather revolving chair. His right hand held a glass with translucent liquid bubbling inside it.
Taking gentle sips of Sprite from the glass, Chen Chen took in the well-illuminated night view of the city, basking in the long-awaited tranquility of the night.
Small wonder that countless people wanted to ascend to the top. The higher one stood, the more beautiful the view was, it was a tale as old as time.
“Sir Godfather.”
It was then when Little X’s voice suddenly invaded the silence. “Sir Godfather, the bionic technology in the industrial park has fallen into a state of bottleneck recently.”
“Tell me, what sort of bottleneck?” Chen Chen asked without so much as turning around.
“It’s about 3D holographic technology.”
Little X answered, “My processing speed is more than enough to handle all of the calculations behind the bionic projects, but while our research team was combining the bionic technologies from the movies Alita: Battle Angel, Ghost in the Shell, Terminator, Elysium, and I, Robot, they realized that they needed a 3D holographic technology to be developed in conjunction with the bionic technology. Without it, it’s impossible to simulate some of the backend calculations.”
“I remember there should be details on 3D holographic imaging technology in the data returned from Elysium.”
Chen Chen frownedp. “Is it not possible to replicate the device?”
“Sorry, to replicate the 3D hologram technology from Elysium, we’ll need a superchip less than 1 nanometer. There’s also a large technological gap at play so there’s not much we can do about it.”
Little X answered.
Chen Chen’s expression turned to one which suggested he was in deep thought.
“I only know two movies with extremely developed holographic technology.”
Chen Chen only continued after another pause. “The environmental holographic simulator from Prometheus and the holographic projection in Pokémon Detective Pikachu. If we can obtain the technology from these two universes, will it be possible to substitute them for the 3D holographic technology?”
“Definitely.”
Little X answered, “With a lot more to spare too.”
“Perfect, I’ll head to the nuclear power plan right away.”
At the end of his sentence, Chen Chen suddenly took a deep breath. He pushed himself up from his chair and approached the french window.
Unlike other french windows, the french window in the chairman’s office could be opened.
When Chen Chen made a slight waving gesture without touching the windows at all, the window suddenly opened on its own!
Chen Chen’s ears were immediately filled with the roar of the strong gusts of chilling wind coming from the outside which made him squint.
Some time ago, Chen Chen had absorbed more than 500 crystallines in one go. Ever since that day, Chen Chen realized that his Field was improving at a tremendous rate, even several folds at a time.
At first, he could only affect substances weighing in the range of ten grams, which soon went up to hundreds of grams. Now, Chen Chen’s Field could affect substances weighing up to several hundred kilograms.
Just as suspected, the potency of Field increased exponentially the more crystalline was absorbed.
Chen Chen heard the wind howling in his ears. Watching the dazzling night view outside, he was suddenly taken by an urge.
Seemingly having thought of something, Chen Chen suddenly took two steps forward and stepped on the edge of the window stretching down to the floor. He even had half his foot hovering outside the window.
Instead of looking down, Chen Chen stretched his arms out like a bird with its wings spread out. At the same time, he made himself take a deep breath, his body began to faintly tremble with excitement.
“Behold, this is the Genesis of my superpowers!”
A faint smirk appeared in the corner of Chen Chen’s lips as he tipped himself over the sixty-second floor of the building!
“Rumm…”
The only thing Chen Chen could hear was the ruthless howling of the wind. His shirt flapped endlessly as they braced the incoming momentum. The strong pull of gravity gave Chen Chen an adrenaline rush but still, he kept his arms outstretched while he stared at the ground slowly pulling closer toward him.
One second, two seconds, three seconds…
Eight seconds, nine seconds, ten seconds…
Something unprecedented happened. Although Chen Chen was falling at a dangerously fast speed, it appeared that the pull of gravity did not speed up his fall. Conversely, he seemed to have rejected the principle of gravitational acceleration and only fell at a constant speed of over ten meters per second.
After fifteen seconds, when Chen Chen touched the ground, his tumbling body landed bizarrely. With the sure and steady claps of his feet touching the ground, Chen Chen landed abruptly —
Somehow, he was able to jump down unscathed from a two hundred meters tall building without any form of equipment assistance!
Fortunately, this happened in the ripe hours of midnight where nobody could witness this reality-defying scene.
Surely, this was the effect of Field.
Under regular circumstances and going by the laws of physics, a person could not lift himself or herself up regardless of the person’s strength. This was because the human body was the fulcrum point of the arm.
However, the invisible force, Field, did not require a fulcrum to support itself. With enough strength, Chen Chen could negate the downward momentum using Field. He may even be able to break free of the force of gravity and spread his wings in the air…
It was only after pulling off the ridiculous stunt when Chen Chen made a call to Cheng Cao. Shortly after, Cheng Cao sprinted out of the office building where he immediately spotted Chen Chen standing by the entrance.
“Boss, you…”
Cheng Cao was bewildered by what he was seeing. He had been waiting on the ground floor for Chen Chen all this time, and yet, he was now seeing Chen Chen seemingly spawn out of thin air outside the building. What could be the explanation behind this?
Chen Chen waved his hands without giving an explanation. “Cao, bring me to the nuclear power plant.”
“… Okay.”
Keeping these questions to himself, Cheng Cao quickly went to the parking lot and drove the car over. After Chen Chen entered the car, they went to the nuclear power plant.
The USB drive had accumulated yet another great deal of power in this timeframe. However, Chen Chen had to allocate one half of it to maintain operations in Eco Science City. As a result, the USB drive had considerably lesser accumulated power than it did previously.
This was also part of the reason Chen Chen wanted to prioritize researching nuclear fusion. As Eco Science City continued to grow in scale, the energy that could be allocated for the nuclear fusion power station would also go down proportionally. This was unless Chen Chen decided to halt the development of Eco Science City, which would be an incredibly foolish decision.
Sooner or later, Chen Chen would need more power generation on a grander scale to support the operation of the USB drive.
It did not take long before Chen Chen arrived at the Blacklight nuclear power plant again.
When he entered the substation main control room, he saw the dazzling glow on the USB drive like the stars in the galaxy. Countless densely-arranged spots of light could be seen riddled across its surface.
Chen Chen unplugged the USB drive. Outside the main control room, Chen Chen ordered the Black Knights to assume their formations and set up heavy guard around a designated safe area.
The reason for doing so was because Chen Chen was not going to extract any other common items from the USB. This time, he intended to activate the second form of the USB drive.
This was because in the movie Prometheus, there was this device shaped like a semi-transparent glass cylinder. It was a product pioneered by the Weyland Corporation when they expanded into the luxury goods market.
The full name of the product was “Environmental Holographic Simulator”. The device simulated a habitable environment based on the user’s preference and state of mind. It could also receive broadcasted holographic signals from all over the world.
It was mainly introduced in the movie character – Theron’s room.
However, instantiating this device alone was not going to cut it as it was rather telling that it was just a terminal. Just like the automated medical platform Medpod 3000, hidden parts such as the main terminal must be required to properly utilize it.
This was also the case with the holographic imaging technology as shown in Pokémon Detective Pikachu.
The holographic technology in Pikachu proved to be even more astounding than the one in Prometheus. The way Chen Chen saw it, this technology was capable of muddying the borders between reality and illusion, achieving a brain in a jar effect!