Investigation

Someone was looking for him?

Chen Yi froze.

Looking at the explosive livestream popularity and the more than three million viewers, he seemed to realize something.

"I understand."

"Just let them come over."

Just as expected.

They were probably from some classified project or confidential department, drawn here by the drone's moon landing.

After all, the Lunar Lander Drone's performance today had been downright terrifying.

If the drone that had charged into space a few days ago had merely been a lightweight single-soldier missile,

then today's Lunar Lander Drone was a ballistic missile.

If the confidential departments had not come to question and investigate something like this, that would have been abnormal.

Having guessed the visitors' identities and purpose, Chen Yi temporarily set the matter aside.

Before the signal relay drone ran out of fuel and fell into the ocean, he sent the command to shut down the Lunar Lander Drone's engines.

Next, the Lunar Lander Drone would automatically orbit the planet.

Once it reached periapsis, its engines would restart according to the automatic orbital procedure, accelerating to raise the drone's orbit.

After three accelerations, the drone's speed would reach 11.2 kilometers per second, while the altitude of its apoapsis would also move farther away from the planet.

At that point, the drone would start its engines for the fourth time, accelerate to change course, break free of the planet, and enter the lunar flight phase.

"Speed: 7.92 kilometers per second. Fuel remaining: 22%. Entering planetary orbit consumed 119.2 kilograms of fuel. Remaining drone mass: 95.3 kilograms."

With the engines shut down, the drone entered automatic flight mode.

Looking at the final parameters displayed on the avionics interface, Chen Yi began calculating.

"Without atmospheric resistance after entering space, fuel consumption will drop sharply.

"Calculating the three orbital-raising accelerations, one trajectory change, and the later deceleration needed to enter lunar orbit, the drone will still have 7.6% of its fuel left in the end."

"What trash. It can reach the moon, but it can't even come back.

"No wonder the description says it can visit the moon, not travel back and forth to the moon."

After doing the calculations, Chen Yi felt a little disdainful.

Although the viewers were all fired up over today's moon landing,

everyone was amazed by Yifei's technology and the feat of a drone landing on the moon.

But who was he?

The big boss of Yifei!

A man determined to enter the sea of stars and become the King of the Starry Sea.

A drone like this was simply embarrassing.

"Still, it's just as well that it can't come back this time."

Thinking about the people who would be coming for him later, Chen Yi smiled inwardly.

This Lunar Lander Drone was a product of some seriously black-box technology, created after he had dismantled and reassembled it multiple times.

After completing his virtual studies, he had only spent some time examining the physical object and learning a few of its surface-level technologies and principles.

As for the deeper technologies and principles, he had yet to master them.

If the drone could really fly back, it would be awkward if the people arriving later pointed at the Lunar Lander Drone and asked him about it.

Now that it could not return, that potential awkwardness had been resolved.

"Looks like I need to study more when I have the time.

"Virtual learning is good stuff.

"I've prepared so much study material. It would be a waste not to take it seriously."

Chen Yi muttered to himself, then turned to Xia Keke and called, "Keke, list the Lunar Lander Drone in Yifei's store. Only one unit for sale, limited edition."

"Okay." Xia Keke replied from the side, "Boss, what price should we set?"

"Three hundred million."

Chen Yi named the price.

After saying that, he ignored the livestream chat, which was still cheering and dancing wildly, and clicked to end the stream.

"My consciousness wave has broken seven million."

"Looks like today's gains were pretty good."

The system's consciousness wave interface appeared before him, and Chen Yi took a look.

[Consciousness Wave: 7005798↑]

It had surpassed the seven-million mark.

Based on Chen Yi's understanding of consciousness waves,

as the buzz around the drone's moon landing continued to ferment,

his consciousness wave would keep growing for some time.

Though it could not compare to the gains from livestreaming, breaking 7.5 million in the end would definitely not be a problem.

More than half an hour later, Chen Yi had Flower Arm Zhang load the drone's control antenna, livestreaming equipment, transmission cables, control pedals, and other items back into the vehicle.

Just then,

two cars drove into the seaside park from outside and stopped not far from Chen Yi and the others.

"Mr. Chen."

Xu Hui, the bureau chief he had met that morning, got out of the first car and hurried over. In a low voice, he said, "Could Yifei keep things a little lower-key next time it pulls something like this?

"If this happens a few more times, this old brother's body won't be able to take it."

"Brother Xu, don't call me sir. I'm a few years younger than you. Just call me Xiao Yi or Chen Yi."

Hearing the bureau chief's complaint, Chen Yi smiled.

Taking the opportunity, he changed the formal address between a leader and a subordinate into "older brother" and "younger brother," further closing the distance between them.

He understood that Xu Hui had personally come twice.

Besides Yifei being connected to the police department's major orders,

it was more because Xu Hui valued Yifei's and Chen Yi's potential, showing goodwill and signaling that he was backing him.

Otherwise, as the bureau chief of a special economic zone precinct in Penghai at just over thirty, Xu Hui was no ordinary figure.

How could he possibly act as a mere errand runner?

"Then I'll call you Brother Chen."

Xu Hui laughed, then pointed at the people getting out of the other domestic business van and introduced them. "Come, let me introduce you. This is—"

"There are other people here, so there's no need for introductions, Brother Xu. I already know who they are."

Chen Yi looked at the several crew-cut young men with upright postures and steady steps, as well as the white-haired, weathered old man in the middle who radiated the air of a learned scholar, and indicated that no introduction was necessary.

They clearly had a military background, and the old man was an Academician-level figure.

If they were formally introduced in detail, everyone present would probably have to sign a confidentiality agreement.

"President Chen, shall we go somewhere to talk?"

"There are some questions we need President Chen to cooperate with during our investigation."

The old man at the head strode over energetically, seriously extending his hand to Chen Yi.

The young men around him immediately followed.

They protected the old man at his side, their gazes vigilantly sweeping over Qin Xiaoyu, Xia Keke, and even Chen Yi and the others.

Their muscles were tense, prepared for any unexpected situation. At the first sign of trouble, they would pounce.

Flower Arm Zhang, who loved working out and tattoos, was especially muscular and had two large tattooed sleeves exposed, bore the brunt of their attention and pressure.

Two of them stared directly at him.

So frightened that he immediately raised both hands in surrender.

"No problem. Cooperating with an investigation is every citizen's duty."

Chen Yi shook the old man's hand, picked up his laptop, and followed the group toward the business van.

"Oh no, the boss has been taken away. Nothing will happen to him, right?"

Watching Chen Yi get into the business van and leave the park, Xia Keke asked aloud.

Beside her, Qin Xiaoyu also looked worried. She stared at the departing business van, almost unable to speak.

Something would happen. Something definitely would happen.

Flower Arm Zhang wiped away the cold sweat that had appeared on his forehead and spoke with a face full of envy and admiration.

He had clearly seen that the pockets of those young men were bulging.

As a worldly man, he naturally did not think they had stuffed uneaten breakfast fried dough sticks into their pockets.

Every one of them was carrying the real thing.

The fact that people like that protected the old man whenever he went out

made it obvious what kind of status that old man had.

"What could happen? Am I going to lose my job?" Xia Keke asked anxiously.

"Good news. Huge news. Yifei will probably be joining the military-industrial special supply chain."

"Holy shit, no way? That's awesome!"

Some drone distributors nearby could not help shouting.

"Landing on the moon in a livestream and becoming military special supply? That's way too awesome!"

"If the drones you sell can land on the moon too, you can become special supply as well."