The next day, at two in the afternoon.
After packing up the equipment needed for the livestream, Chen Yi took Qin Xiaoyu and Xia Keke to the seaside park.
"Xiaoyu, how is the raw material procurement I sent you yesterday, along with the subsequent processing and manufacturing of the model aircraft engine, coming along?"
"All the raw materials will be delivered to our factory by five this afternoon. I've already made arrangements with them. Once Brother Yi gets there and sends over the blueprints, they can begin processing and production immediately."
Qin Xiaoyu answered confidently without even needing to consult her work notes.
"After the livestream, I'll head to the processing plant."
After saying that, Chen Yi turned to Xia Keke. "Keke, once the livestream is over, put our turbojet engine up for sale right away."
At Yi Yi Flying Store,
Qin Xiaoyu was mainly responsible for assisting Chen Yi and handling various offline matters, contacting suppliers, processing plants, shipping couriers, and so on.
Xia Keke was in charge of operating the online store, customer service, and related work.
Besides that, Chen Yi also had a small workshop factory responsible for producing simple model aircraft parts.
As for accounting, Qin Xiaoyu handled small amounts, while Chen Yi handled large sums.
Chen Yi left the company's financial reconciliation and settlements to a third-party firm.
"No problem. The engine descriptions and trending search terms are all ready. Once we get some photos and screenshots in later, it'll be listed across the entire internet in three minutes."
Xia Keke asked curiously, "But Boss, is our turbojet model aircraft really that powerful? Can it fly fifty thousand meters into the sky?"
Beside her, Qin Xiaoyu also looked over curiously.
Although they knew Chen Yi would not promote something he was not confident about,
a model aircraft flying directly to an altitude of fifty thousand meters was beyond imagination, even with a turbojet engine.
"You'll find out soon enough."
Chen Yi checked the park's location, turned the steering wheel, and smoothly parked by the roadside.
"Hello, President Chen. We're Hurricane Photography's tracking team."
The moment Chen Yi and the others got out of the car, three young people stepped out of a BYD Song parked nearby and greeted them enthusiastically.
"Hello."
Chen Yi shook hands with each of them, then pointed toward the platform around the corner where they had conducted the test flight the night before. "We'll be livestreaming from that platform ahead. Where will you set up your equipment?"
"To ensure stable signal transmission, we'll find two positions nearby."
"During filming, what do you need us to do?"
"When President Chen needs to turn the drone or make it climb or descend, just give us a signal beforehand. We can handle the rest."
The bespectacled young man leading the group explained what assistance they needed.
"That won't be a problem. Sorry to trouble you all later. Let's calibrate the equipment and connect the signals first."
Chen Yi took his laptop from the car, opened the trunk, and gestured for Qin Xiaoyu and the others to help move the equipment.
"Brother Yi, what are the people from Hurricane Photography here for?"
Qin Xiaoyu carried down an antenna and looked curiously at the Hurricane team.
"They'll track and film the model aircraft, helping with our livestream."
Chen Yi explained, "The model aircraft will be flying into the stratosphere and ozone layer later. Our own filming equipment and technology can no longer track it."
At that moment, Hurricane's three team members also removed several large cases from their trunk, taking out lenses, barrels, tripods, gyroscopes, control motors, and more.
Under the three men's hands, these components were quickly assembled into two thick, long space photography telescopes that looked like Italian heavy artillery.
With two photography telescopes tracking from two camera positions, if one lost track, the other could follow up in time.
After assembling the telescopes, the Hurricane team began configuring the gateway routers.
A few minutes later, the space photography telescope feeds successfully connected to Chen Yi's computer and were set up as external livestream cameras.
"President Chen, we're ready."
After repeatedly confirming that there were no problems with the signal or filming, Hurricane's team leader gave Chen Yi an OK gesture.
"Good."
Chen Yi opened the panel that doubled as a case and stand, then activated the avionics system's self-check.
A few seconds later, all modules completed their self-checks.
The model aircraft drone successfully connected to the avionics flight-control platform.
"Keke."
After waiting for a while, the time reached three in the afternoon.
Chen Yi instructed Xia Keke, "Open the livestream!"
"Yes, Boss!"
Xia Keke opened the livestreams on all major platforms.
"It's here! It's here!"
"I'm here to watch the uploader talk bullshit!"
"A turbojet model aircraft flying fifty thousand meters straight into the sky? Just hearing that sounds exciting!"
"Here for the drama. Can't wait to see how the streamer explains this lie away!"
The moment the livestream started, comments began popping up one after another.
These were fans and viewers who had seen Chen Yi's announcement and waited in advance. As the livestream began, more and more online viewers flooded into the room.
Watching the rapidly climbing popularity, Chen Yi had a thought, and the system's consciousness wave value appeared before his eyes.
Consciousness Waves: 278↑
Just as expected.
The consciousness waves collected by the system were, in essence, the observer effect of intelligent life.
The collapse of quantum wave functions proved that life's observation possessed unimaginable power.
Wheeler's delayed-choice quantum experiment further showed that the observation of life possessed mighty power that transcended space and time.
The more intelligent lifeforms observed, and the more stirred their emotional consciousness became, the more consciousness waves the system harvested.
Having understood the source of the consciousness waves, Chen Yi continued his livestream.
"Welcome to Yi Yi Flying Store's livestream. Today, we won't be playing with ducted-fan model aircraft, nor will we be performing model aircraft flight stunts.
"We'll only test one thing.
"That is, whether a turbojet model aircraft can actually enter space!"
As he spoke, Chen Yi gestured for the camera to turn and focus on the model aircraft drone resting on the stand.
"Hiss."
"Oh my god, there's actually such an ugly model aircraft in this world!"
"The funeral paper airplane my grandpa made looked a thousand times better than this?!"
The instant the camera focused on the model aircraft drone, the comments fell silent for a moment before exploding all at once.
Qin Xiaoyu and Xia Keke, who had spent the entire morning preparing for the livestream and were seeing the new model aircraft for the first time, as well as Hurricane's filming team waiting for instructions nearby,
all stared blankly at the model aircraft drone. Its true appearance had been revealed—its exterior uneven and pitted, its fuselage covered in distorted marks. Just looking at it made them physically uncomfortable.
This model aircraft was so ugly that it had broken through the heavens.
Calling it hellish aesthetics would not be an exaggeration.
"Though it's a little ugly.
"Today, we're not testing whether it looks good. We're testing whether it's powerful.
"For a real turbojet model aircraft, beauty doesn't matter. What matters is whether the engine is strong and whether the jet thrust is fierce.
"And I can say without any hesitation that this drone's engine is absolutely the strongest on Earth—no, the strongest in the Solar System."
Ignoring everyone's reactions, Chen Yi panned the camera around the model aircraft in a full three-hundred-and-sixty-degree shot.
"Damn, it's so ugly. It reminds me of the first time I saw Colonel Cat kissing Penis Cat."
"These black marks look like they're rotating."
"Attention-seeking nonsense. Making the drone deliberately this ugly? That ancient Sister Feng routine stopped working ages ago."
"The fuselage looks like ordinary steel alloy, not even titanium alloy. If this thing can reach fifty thousand meters, I'll livestream myself eating five bowls of shit."
Looking at the drone being filmed from every angle without a blind spot, the viewers could no longer hold back. Some haters even began celebrating wildly.
"Brother who said he'd eat five bowls of shit, we don't encourage freeloading around here."
"No more nonsense. The test flight begins now. Whether it really is that powerful or not, everyone can see for yourselves!"
Watching the consciousness waves climb rapidly, Chen Yi opened his custom avionics software and split the livestream feed into two sections.
One connected to the external camera.
The other shared the avionics software interface.
Everything was ready.
The model aircraft engine ignited.
Chen Yi opened the throttle.
A brilliant blue exhaust flame burst forth.
The engine's powerful thrust launched the model aircraft drone vertically from the stand.
The model aircraft drone shot hundreds of meters into the sky, and the external camera switched to Hurricane's space photography telescope.
After confirming that Hurricane's tracking footage was operating normally, Chen Yi called out, "Take off!"
Boom!!!
The throttle and fuel valve were pushed to maximum.
The sky exploded with a thunderous boom, and fierce winds swept across heaven and earth.
The model aircraft drone seemed to blur for a moment on camera.
White vapor appeared out of nowhere around the model aircraft drone.
The next moment, the entire model aircraft drone shot into the sky like an arrow, leaving behind only a slowly dispersing sonic boom cloud.
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