Yang Bolin's personal experiment provided a relatively direct validation of the rabbits' basic telecommunication array.

As a result, he immediately returned to Ziqiong City and signed a letter of intent with Ma Ning online.

The preconditions for this letter of intent were that the medium array subsequently delivered by the rabbits could achieve a transmission range of no less than 1,500 miles, and the quality must meet standards before proceeding to the next stage of the transaction.

Under this condition, the parties agreed:

The Taoshu Commerce Association would transport a medium-sized teleportation array to Ziqiong City within eight Damo Days, and would be responsible for assembly and maintenance work.

The mode of transport would still be via the Chixian City-Linyuan City transit station, taking a flying ship to Ziqiong City, with the return trip being the same.

The cost of the flying ship would be borne by the Purple Treasure Pavilion. The cost of over 2,000 Spirit Stones was almost negligible in a transaction of this scale, so Yang Bolin generously covered it all.

Once the array was debugged and the results were verified to meet expectations, the Purple Treasure Pavilion would provide the following materials to the Taoshu Commerce Association:

One, no less than two samples of core flesh and blood from Tier Four Demon Beasts—the real core area, not some entrails for fun.

Two, the core floating array technique for one of Purple Treasure Pavilion's three flying ships, "Gao Lan," along with its user manual.

Three, three hundred thousand Spirit Stones in cash.

Actually, the third point was a pleasant surprise. The rabbits initially only considered the first two items as the 'payment.'

However, Ma Ning casually mentioned, thinking it wouldn't hurt to ask, "Is the price missing something?"

Who would have thought Yang Bolin accepted this reasoning and proposed a cash supplement of three hundred thousand Spirit Stones.

With such goodwill from the other party, the rabbits naturally could only accept it with tears of gratitude.

Actually, saying Yang Bolin suffered a loss would not necessarily be correct, nor is he a fool.

Because he, or Ziqiong City, simply doesn't have the ability to analyze and replicate the array—did you think that no one in the Yang Family tried over the past few hundred years?

So for Yang Bolin, the floating array technique is just a single array, not a technology that can be mass-produced or interfaced with.

Therefore, its price in the Damo Realm is just that.

Once the Purple Treasure Pavilion possesses a remote communication capability, the theoretical gains are far more than just one array.

This means they can access information on over 70% of the Southern Region at low cost and high frequency anytime—don't forget, there are several transfer stations like Linyuan City, which are practically owned by Purple Treasure Pavilion, in the Southern Region.

They could even make massive gains by establishing simple agents for public telephones if they have a bit of creativity.

So it's not that Yang Bolin is a fool, but that the value of an object is different in two worlds.

Just like when Mr. Mou exchanged canned goods with the Bear for a few airplanes.

Mr. Mou certainly profited heavily, but the Bear didn't lose anything, and perhaps even gained more politically.

In all transactions with the rabbits, besides misjudging the value concept of the goods, Yang Bolin executed every step very precisely and cautiously.

In summary.

The signing of the agreement marked the end of the most difficult haggling stage of the entire transaction; what's left is the delivery issue.

Honestly speaking, it's currently very difficult in the local area to find an active antenna array with a transmission distance of 750 kilometers.

There's no way around it, it's too short and thin like a toothpick, not aligned with the times.

The antenna arrays currently in use are at least reaching 6000 kilometers, and the Celestial Eye-level national treasure could pierce the heart of the flower—uh, referring to the heart of the NGC2237 Rosette Nebula, don't take it the wrong way.

Therefore, for these old relics from a previous generation, the rabbits have to slowly search through retired warehouses.

Luckily, the rabbits' disposal cycle for wartime materials is fourteen years, so if they look hard enough, they might still find a few of these previous generation antenna arrays.

The delivery time of eight Damo Days is equivalent to nearly a month in Huaxia time, so relatively speaking, there's ample time, and theoretically, not much should go wrong.

Meanwhile, the research team for the floating array technique has also entered the preparation and organization phase, with various equipment and personnel being allocated.

Obtaining the floating array technique is just a small step in the entire phase of antigravity technology.

Although this gadget can be plug-and-play once acquired, there is only one unit after all, and it's extremely limited.

Even if you install it on the fishery patrol vessel Liaoning, it might only let it fly into the sky, and that's about it—the practical significance is essentially zero.

Goods that can't be mass-produced are trash.jpg.

Therefore, this array must be decrypted further to unleash its full value.

Wouldn't the sight of five hundred Type-59 tanks flying be more impressive than a floating fishery patrol?

And the analysis cycle for the floating array is bound not to be short, unless the rabbits resurrected fifty Einsteins, otherwise, this cycle is bound to be measured in years.

However, the project has already been named in typical Huaxia romantic fashion:

Chasing the Moon!

Before the Chasing the Moon project, the rabbits had established six project groups:

The Dawn of the Life Experiment Base Construction Project

Military Base Construction Project Qingtian

Cultural Export Plan Cangjie

Spirit Awakening Pill Decrypting Plan Suiren

Demon Beast Crystal Analysis Project Xuanyi

Pineal Gland Analysis Project Fuyao.

As for the "Taihe" of Taihe Building, it is an action code rather than a project plan and is not included.

Among them, the Suiren Project Group successfully completed its task and disbanded, with Liu Xiangqian leading the original team to form the Fuyao Project Team.

As for the other projects, they have also seen significant progress one after another.

Currently, the fastest progressing project is the military base project "Qingtian," with a completion rate already breaking 30%, and combat capability perfectly meeting previous expectations.

It is estimated that after a while, Chubby Girl and Master Eight will be soaring across the skies of the Damo Realm.

The Chasing the Moon project is the seventh long-term project birthed by the Fire Camp and, barring any surprises, will also be the last integrated project in the short term.

That is to say, from now on, no more new projects will be initiated unless significant unforeseen events occur; other research tasks will be categorized under these integrated projects.

Strangely enough, the number seven holds significant meaning in traditional Huaxia culture.

In ancient times, during the Spring Festival, commonly known as "New Year," from the first to the seventh day of the lunar new year, different festival meanings were assigned.

According to Dong Xun's "Customs Inquiry," from the 1st to the 7th day of the new year are Chicken Day, Dog Day, Pig Day, Sheep Day, Cow Day, Horse Day, and Human Day.

This means that the 7th day of the first lunar month, January 7th, is designated as "Human Day" by the ancients.

From the name, you can see how special this day is.

The seventh day of the seventh lunar month is the "Qixi Festival."

People also have the seven emotions and six desires—derived from "The Book of Rites · Yun of Rites," originally recorded as: "Joy, anger, sorrow, fear, love, evil, desire, the seven are learned without teaching."

Moreover, it is also recorded in the "Three Character Classic": "Said joy and anger, said sorrow and fear, love evil desire, the seven emotions fully."

Additionally, Huaxia's colors have "seven colors," music has "seven tones," poetry includes seven-character, seven-quatrain, and seven-lyric poems, and the human body has "seven orifices."

Even when a person dies, there's a head-seven ceremony.

Oh right, and there's that clearXXX's Seven Sauce.

Therefore, the number 'seven' holds a very significant position in Huaxia culture.

Some ancient people even believed that seven is a cycle.

After the number seven, it's either birth or death.

The command center has infused strong and beautiful expectations into these seven projects:

Countless years ago, Huaxia ancestors upheld the heavens and the rushing waters beneath their feet were endless, chasing dawn in the darkness.

The flame of Suiren will never extinguish, and the characters Cangjie created shall never vanish.

Five thousand years later, this nation is still young, but it has already become that beam of dawn!

Today, the east wind rises, and it shall ascend thousands of miles, overlooking the earth from the Celestial Palace.

The stars and the sea, the endless cosmos, that is our voyage!

(End of Volume One)

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Note:

I actually wanted to divide the volumes earlier, but only decided today.

Next, the start of Volume Two will commence, the chapter numbers won't reset as many friends follow the book by the chapter count, but the storyline of the whole book will enter the next stage.

This plot is very crucial, so there's more groundwork laid, the seven project groups were seeded when I was thirty-some chapters in, and now it's finally wrapping up.

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