There's a ghost on this boat! Help!!!

It was easy to go from frugality to luxury, but hard to go from luxury back to frugality.

He had tried simply setting up a 3D scanner and letting it automatically scan, generate data, and produce a 3D model. That was far better than making Shen Le climb up and down with a ruler and Lead Weight, taking measurements—

If there was even the slightest chance to slack off, Shen Le did not want to suffer that hardship or endure that misery.

The problem was that the Leica total-station scanner he had spent a hefty 800,000 on could be planted there and scan, scan, scan—yet produce nothing.

Perhaps it was like recording video on his phone: spiritual energy interfered with it, causing errors in the scan?

Come to think of it, could the Special Affairs Bureau's scanners resist interference? Was that resistance the result of a complete overhaul, or did they merely add some component, like a polarizing filter in front of the lens?

Shen Le did not know, nor did he want to know. He simply called Gu Yulin:

"Does the Special Affairs Bureau have this thing?"

"Leica's—no." Rapid clacking sounds came from the other end of the call. Gu Yulin was clearly frantically looking up information, perhaps even asking others. "But we have domestic ones. Do you want a domestic model?"

"Huh? There are domestic ones?"

Shen Le practically wanted to drill through his phone screen and crawl out the other side. There were domestically made total-station 3D scanners now?

Since when?

Were they any good?

After all, from the time he entered university until he graduated, everything they used had been imported equipment. Leica total stations—

800,000 each, made in Germany;

Trimble total stations, made in the United States;

Topcon total stations, made in Japan...

What?

Domestic