First Collaboration

"Alright, I'll bring people over to you in about two hours."

"No problem, I usually don't go out at night."

"See you in a bit."

After hanging up the phone, Mo Jingchun saved the strange phone number to his contacts, adding a note "A". Then, he skillfully tucked his phone into his jeans pocket.

Unfortunately, Mo Jingchun didn't know that the phone numbers dialed from Lieutenant Colonel Zhang Aijun were randomly generated from a pool of numbers. Next time, it wouldn't be this number.

Returning to the Apartment Building, Mo Jingchun gently placed his sister Candy, who was still sleeping, on the bed. He covered her with the blanket and closed the window that had been opened for ventilation at noon.

Only then did Mo Jingchun take the Teething Stick, which the little one had been gnawing on all day, and soak it in a basin filled with boiling water.

After cooking the meal, Mo Jingchun woke the little one up again.

In the Millet Porridge, Mo Jingchun added a little bit of sugar, making it slightly sweet.

Sitting in Mo Jingchun's arms, Candy's small hand held onto Mo Jingchun's left arm, which was holding the bowl, as she ate the Millet Porridge that Mo Jingchun fed her with a small spoon, bite by bite.

Her tiny pink tongue would occasionally stick out to lick the corners of her mouth.

After feeding the little one until she was full, Mo Jingchun finally had time to eat and fill his own stomach. This time of day was also when the little one's small eyes would look at him longingly, even though Mo Jingchun always fed Candy first before eating. This still couldn't change the temptation of the food's aroma for her.

After eating, Mo Jingchun didn't even clean up the dishes and chopsticks before giving Candy a bath.

From the bathroom with the bath heater on, came sounds of splashing water and bursts of laughter.

Wrapped in a bath towel and soaking in the water, Candy was incredibly comfortable. This was the happiest time the little one had enjoyed every two days since the weather turned cold.

Unless no more water was added, she wouldn't be willing to leave the comfortable little bathtub until the water temperature in the tub cooled down.

After dealing with the day's affairs, it was already past eight in the evening. Mo Jingchun had been sitting in the living room holding his sister Candy, waiting for Zhang Aijun for over half an hour.

They had said they would arrive in two hours, but it was almost three hours now.

Just as Mo Jingchun was wondering why Zhang Aijun hadn't arrived yet, there was a knock on the door.

Knock, knock, knock~

"Coming, coming."

Walking to the door, Mo Jingchun looked through the peephole and confirmed that it was indeed Lieutenant Colonel Zhang Aijun standing outside before opening the door.

After opening the door, Mo Jingchun realized that Lieutenant Colonel Zhang Aijun hadn't come alone. There were three of them, and the other two were soldiers Mo Jingchun had never seen before.

The thought just flashed through Mo Jingchun's mind; he didn't speculate further.

"Please come in."

Before Mo Jingchun could close the door, the last soldier walked in and casually closed the door behind him.

Zhang Aijun placed the password box he was holding on the table. After entering the correct password, the password box opened.

Inside the password box lay 16 sheets of A4 Paper.

Zhang Aijun didn't immediately pick up the documents to hand to Mo Jingchun. Instead, he took a Confidentiality Agreement from the comrade behind him and placed it in front of Mo Jingchun.

"Because it involves Confidential information, please sign a Confidentiality Agreement before reviewing the Confidential information."

Mo Jingchun held the confidential agreement in his hand and read it. To summarize it in one sentence, as long as the information wasn't leaked, there would be no problem. If the information was leaked, the consequences would range from being provided with food and lodging to... well, let's just say it wouldn't be pleasant.

Seeing Mo Jingchun sign the confidential agreement, Zhang Aijun took out the documents from the password box and handed them to Mo Jingchun. At the same time, he said, "Academician Chen asked me to give these to you. Academician Chen said that if there's anything you don't understand, you can contact him using the encrypted phone."

"Phone communication? Is Academician Chen not home?" Mo Jingchun raised an eyebrow. It did seem like he hadn't heard any movement from the opposite side today.

Zhang Aijun's expression didn't change much. He just shook his head and said, "I don't know. Even if I did, I wouldn't tell you."

Mo Jingchun, holding the baby, shrugged and didn't say anything. He just sat on the sofa, holding Candy on his lap with one hand while reviewing the documents with his right hand.

About twenty minutes later, Mo Jingchun muttered to himself, "Satellites, huh?"

Zhang Aijun and the other two, standing straight, didn't answer Mo Jingchun's question.

Putting down the documents, Mo Jingchun closed his eyes and began to think, organizing and optimizing his ideas. Later, Mo Jingchun simply started drawing diagrams on paper. Next to the diagrams, he also wrote down formulas that Zhang Aijun couldn't understand.

Even though he didn't understand them, Zhang Aijun quietly wrote down each complex and difficult-to-remember formula. As for how many he would remember after leaving this door, Zhang Aijun couldn't say for sure.

These formulas weren't text. If they were text, Zhang Aijun could truly remember every single word without missing any.

"I need an hour and a half. You wait in the living room. I'll go to the bedroom to get my laptop."

Mo Jingchun had originally thought about modifying the code in the bedroom, but after thinking about it carefully, Zhang Aijun would definitely not agree.

As for modifying the code in the living room, whether Zhang Aijun would write down the code, to be honest, Mo Jingchun wasn't really afraid.

Even if he saw it, putting aside whether he could remember it, even if he did, it would be useless.

Without the functions in the custom library, what he wrote down would only be some English words that looked logical, and some variable names that were hard to figure out.

Mo Jingchun let the little one stay in his warm jacket. Under the watchful eyes of Lieutenant Colonel Zhang Aijun and the other two, he boldly began to delete unnecessary redundant code and made various parameter adjustments to the remaining code.

There was a rapid clatter of keyboard typing in the living room, while Candy, inside Mo Jingchun's jacket, clutched Mo Jingchun's clothes with one hand and put the other hand to her mouth, sucking her thumb.

Her two little feet were stepping back and forth on Mo Jingchun's thigh.

An hour and a half later, the little one was already asleep on Mo Jingchun's chest, still sucking her finger. Mo Jingchun had also completed the optimization of the Attitude Balance Algorithm based on the parameter data placed on the table.

To be honest, Mo Jingchun really didn't expect that for their first collaboration, the Attitude Balance Algorithm would be used on a rocket launching a satellite.

Weren't the officials afraid that a slight data error would cause the satellite launch to fail? Not to mention the loss of money, there would also be a significant loss of time.

After re-encrypting and packaging the optimized Attitude Balance Algorithm, Mo Jingchun twisted his neck and stretched.

"Alright, Lieutenant Colonel Zhang Aijun, did you bring a USB drive? I can't send it by email, can I? If the email is intercepted and leaked, I won't be responsible."

"Yes." Zhang Aijun took out a deep black USB drive from somewhere and handed it to Mo Jingchun.

"Alright, you can use it when you take it back. If there are any problems that need to be adjusted, you can contact me again to modify it."

After Zhang Aijun and his group left, Mo Jingchun didn't rush to turn off the computer. Instead, he opened the security software he had developed.

PS: Thanks to the generous rewards from Dream Weaver, Ou Huang, and Flying Snow All Over the Sky. Also, I went to the hospital today, so I came back a bit late, and the update time was a little delayed.