Lin Family Precision

Brooklyn is located southeast of Manhattan and east of the New York Bay. If the Hulk had turned left while in the river at that time, he could have landed in Brooklyn.

This borough covers an area of 251 square kilometers and has a permanent population of 2.5 million (2.648 million in 2020), of which 250,000 are of Chinese descent (information from Baidu is outdated).

Additionally, there are 850,000 Black people, 1.07 million White people, and 500,000 Hispanic and Latino people!

Due to its complex population composition, Brooklyn has always been a high-crime area with constant conflicts between ethnic groups. Hell's Kitchen is nothing compared to Brooklyn; it's like a little brother.

Discrimination against Asians, which is widely followed domestically, also frequently occurs in Brooklyn. However, Black people generally live in the northeast of Brooklyn, while people of Chinese descent mostly live in the south, with little overlap.

There is more interaction between Japanese and Korean people and Black people. Korean-American vigilante groups have even made domestic news.

Furthermore, some rumor claims that every American owns a car, but in reality, 57% of Brooklyn residents do not own a car. For all of New York City, this figure is 55%. They primarily rely on public transportation and subways for travel, but the service is not always perfect.

Brooklyn is separated from central New York City by the East River, so the two boroughs are connected by only two bridges: the Manhattan Bridge and the Brooklyn Bridge.

New York City has considered changing this situation and has long planned to build a subway connecting Brooklyn and Manhattan, but after many years of planning, construction has yet to begin.

Bai Jing followed the man in the black suit to the side. Seeing them get into a Cadillac, Bai Jing didn't want to keep flying in the sky. After all, flying in the sky on a winter day felt like being a fool.

So, he simply sat on the roof of the car.

Then, he saw a van drive over. Several people in uniform placed a pair of assassin corpses, wrapped in black bags, into the vehicle.

The car started and headed south along Ninth Avenue.

"Are we going to Brooklyn?" Bai Jing spread out a map, looking at the long distance, and felt it would be a long journey. He casually opened a book and continued reading.

The cold wind blowing towards him was directly swallowed. This time, he didn't swallow it directly into his eyes but instead caused molecules to collide at high speed in front of him, generating heat of nearly 18°C before swallowing it into his body.

Since the temperature wasn't very high, it didn't produce any rays or light.

He saw the section about gravitational waves.

Imagine placing a ball in water and spinning it. The ball will drag the surrounding water, creating ripples.

Similarly, when a black hole spins, the spatial distortion caused by its mass will also create ripples in space.

Here, the ball is compared to a black hole, and the water is compared to space. The rippling of the water is analogous to gravitational waves.

If there were beings living on the surface of the water, their scientists studying physical phenomena would be astonished to find that a person who was originally 2 centimeters away suddenly moved to 3 centimeters away.

They could then infer from this phenomenon that a massive object was distorting the world from a great distance.

This is why gravitational waves can prove the existence of black holes. While a gravitational wave detector sounds complicated, it's essentially a distance detector used to detect whether the distance between two fixed points changes.

If the distance is stretched or shortened, it means a gravitational wave has passed.

"If I could master this, perhaps I could master 'Shrink the ground into an inch'?" Bai Jing mused for a second before letting the thought go.

Generating gravitational waves requires the movement of a black hole, which causes it to lose energy. If it loses too much energy, the black hole will evaporate or even explode.

He was too weak financially right now to afford such a waste.

The car drove to the end of Ninth Avenue, then turned onto Eighth Avenue, Seventh Avenue, and finally onto the Brooklyn Bridge.

On the bridge, Bai Jing could see the back of the head of the Statue of Liberty, a landmark of New York City, to his right.

He only glanced at it; what was so great about that rotten statue.

The car continued forward, entering Brooklyn.

Like Manhattan, Brooklyn's streets are laid out in a grid of horizontal and vertical lines, and the streets are named numerically, just like in Manhattan.

After descending the Brooklyn Bridge, the car turned onto Interstate 278, a road that connects Brooklyn to New Jersey.

Then, the car turned right again halfway through and finally stopped next to a massive building.

Why was it massive? Because the parking lot in front of the building alone could hold about 1,200 various vehicles.

The gatekeeper saw the car approaching from a distance and immediately opened the gate. The two cars drove in, one after the other, and then split off in different directions after entering the main gate.

Bai Jing glanced at the sign at the entrance. It read "Wood Family Precision Instruments."

Well, "Wood" translated literally means trees or forest, so this could probably also be translated as Lin Family Precision Instruments.

The cargo van separated from the Cadillac after entering the company grounds, heading to an unknown destination. The Cadillac casually found a parking spot, and the man in the black suit got out of the car.

He adjusted his clothes and then entered the company.

Bai Jing followed him.

"Manager Jack!" someone at the entrance greeted him. The man in the black suit smiled and responded.

Upon entering the company, they first went to a locker room to change into work uniforms. These were white outfits with hoods and masks, completely covering the body.

Bai Jing, with his limited knowledge, didn't realize this was a dust suit specifically for high-grade clean rooms.

Bai Jing watched silently, not changing. He didn't emit waste gases externally, nor was he afraid of radiation. Therefore, he didn't need such protective clothing.

Besides, he didn't see any oxygen tanks on the protective suits, which meant they could breathe normally here!

Then, he followed Manager Jack through a long corridor.

Finally, the gate opened!

Bzzzz...

The sounds of various machinery instantly flooded his mind!

Bai Jing stared blankly at the hundreds of neat, clean, and quiet white machine tools arranged in the factory.

"Are all of these... five-axis linkage CNC machine tools?"

Younger folks might not understand, but if the bottleneck in 2020 was lithography machines, then before 2008, the bottleneck was five-axis linkage machine tools.

This type of equipment is essential for processing high-precision, cutting-edge instruments. Machine tool systems like these have a pivotal impact on a nation's aviation, aerospace, military, scientific research, precision machinery, and high-precision medical equipment industries.

While China does have this type of equipment now, its greater significance lies in breaking the COCOM ban. In practical applications, domestic machine tools are several orders of magnitude behind those from Europe, America, and Japan in terms of processing precision, efficiency, and product quality.

Of course, this is a process from nothing to something, and from something to excellence; it cannot be rushed.

Bai Jing never expected this place to actually be a processing plant, and with such advanced machine tools!

Approaching one of the machine tools, Bai Jing saw a complex metal part displayed on the monitor, and the part was gradually taking shape on the machine.

"Huh?" Bai Jing suddenly noticed the company name at the bottom right of the blueprint: STARK!

"This is an order from the Stark Group!" Bai Jing looked curiously for a moment, memorizing the shape of the part. He didn't know what it was, but he could ask Banner when he got back! Seeing Manager Jack about to run off, Bai Jing quickly followed.

After passing through two more processing workshops, Jack entered another door, and the entire scene changed drastically!

This wasn't a workshop, but a huge indoor training ground. Over two hundred white-clad, muscular men were sparring and training on the field.

Muscles clashed, sweat poured.

The air was thick with tension.

Beside it was another locker room. Jack changed out of his heavy work clothes and into a white suit. He then followed the walkway along the edge of the training ground and entered an office.

In the office, a beautiful, blonde, blue-eyed girl sat at the reception desk. She stood up immediately upon seeing Jack and greeted him before sitting back down.

"This place is huge!" Bai Jing exclaimed, looking around speechlessly. He followed Jack, passing rows of desks and office workers, eventually arriving in a moderately sized office.

Inside, a fat old white man sat behind a brown desk. He turned around with difficulty, huffing and puffing. Seeing Jack alone, his face immediately darkened. "Mission failed?"

"Yes!" Jack's expression remained unchanged as he handed over a memory card and placed it on the desk. "This is what happened at the time!"

The old white man glanced at Jack and reached out to take the card, but his hand grasped nothing.

"Huh?" the old white man looked up. "Where's the card?"

"I gave it to you!" Jack said.

"You didn't give it to me. Look, there's nothing on the desk!"

"I clearly put it on the desk!" Jack said, looking at the desk.

On the desk were a computer monitor, several stacks of documents, an ashtray, a keyboard, a pen holder, and a stress ball. There was very little clutter!

Even though the memory card was small, it should have been quite noticeable on top of everything! "Did it fall on the floor?" Jack quickly bent down.

Seeing this, the old white man also lowered his head to search, but after a long time, they found nothing.

"Maybe it's in your clothes!" someone else said.

"Right, right, clothes!" The old white man quickly shook his clothes. Jack was about to follow suit when he suddenly felt something was wrong.

I... I don't think I said anything just now!