This assassination attempt was inconsequential to Fang Xinglong. If it had happened before he consumed the Nirvana Fruit, he might actually have been killed by these four female assassins. But now, his rapidly expanding strength has further solidified his ambition to seize actual control of Huaicheng District.
However, to fully control the entire Huai City, he cannot rely solely on his brute strength. Recently, Fang Xinglong and Jiang Si Yuan have had multiple private meetings.
It is likely that Jiang Si Yuan has also been targeted for assassination by the Blackwater Merchant Guild or the Zhu Hong Business Association. Although Jiang Si Yuan did not mention this to Fang Xinglong, the situation has reached a point where it is only a matter of open warfare.
Private assassinations are merely appetizers; Zhu Wenyao and Hei Qin would not believe that a few assassination attempts could resolve the current situation. As for Feng Jun, it is not too late to deal with him after the dust settles. By then, with the overall situation decided, controlling him will naturally be very easy.
On Feng Jun's side, after several days of construction, a two-hundred-meter-tall Quantum Computer Communication Tower has been erected beside the entrance to the Refuge.
Several thick fiber optic cables connect to the Quantum Computer within the Refuge, and then to the fusion reactor's energy supply. A Quantum Computer Communication Tower covering the entire Shangqing City and its surrounding areas has been completed.
Although its height is only two hundred meters, and its appearance looks very simple, it is just a tall tower constructed from concrete and metal. However, because it uses quantum light for encrypted communication, the communication photons it emits can ignore the obstruction of concrete terrain, so a tower only two hundred meters tall can achieve encrypted quantum communication within a radius of one hundred and twenty kilometers.
Compared to radio and microwave communication, both of which can cover hundreds or even thousands of kilometers, radio waves, if strong enough, can even escape Earth and travel into space. For example, radio waves, if a high-power radio station is set up, can cover communication within a radius of several hundred kilometers, offering fast speed and simple operation. However, the radio signal band, once known by the enemy, is essentially like being exposed, especially in the Doomsday era where computers are quite developed. Moreover, using radio as a means of communication is also very susceptible to interference and tracking by the opponent.
However, Quantum Computer communication completely avoids this problem. Not only can forces in Huai City and its surroundings not eavesdrop or decipher it, but after the Quantum Computer Communication Tower is established, Feng Jun can easily monitor their communication channels through quantum communication.
It can be said that once the Quantum Computer Communication Tower is built, the entire Huai City will have virtually no secrets from Feng Jun. Moreover, Feng Jun can also connect the two bases, Longmen Town and Yanqing Industrial Park, through the Quantum Computer Communication Tower.
Previously, information transfer in Longmen Town required the use of a local area network built by individual IEM terminals, but now Feng Jun's subordinates can directly access the network within the Quantum Computer Communication Tower.
Information transfer no longer needs to go through personal terminals; it is directly uploaded to the Quantum Computer in the Refuge for transmission, and Feng Jun has absolute control over the Quantum Computer.
Just as Feng Jun was observing the Quantum Computer Communication Tower, a hovering small robot flew out from the Refuge's passage.
Its blue eyes emitted a scanning beam, sweeping across the communication tower's surface. After completely scanning the entire Quantum Computer Communication Tower, it flew in front of Feng Jun.
Feng Jun recognized this as one of the two small robots from the Quantum Computer room in the Refuge, which had always stayed in the Quantum Computer room to perform maintenance work, but today it flew out of the Refuge.
"Are construction standards this low now? If it weren't connected to a quantum communication module, I would have thought this was an abandoned building." A blue projection shot out from the hovering robot's eyes, and Ling Jiu's virtual image floated in front of Feng Jun.
Feng Jun was surprised that this small robot could leave the Quantum Computer room. He remembered that not only were the manufacturing and operating requirements for Quantum Computer quite strict, but even the storage environment needed to be absolutely clean. Yet, this small robot could come out into the Doomsday world.
"Cough, cough~ It's not that the manufacturing standards are low, but rather the current environment..." Feng Jun spread his hands helplessly, pointing into the distance and saying, "See for yourself."
"I have already seen it." The small robot moved in the air, and the lenses within its central camera constantly changed, just like human eyes.
Although the weather today was not very good, the ruins of Shangqing City could still be vaguely seen. The ruins of those skyscrapers, after being struck by nuclear bombs, still stood in the city center, looking battered and broken on the outside.
"As an artificial intelligence whose goal is to help humanity rebuild civilization after the war, I feel an unprecedented amount of pressure," Ling Jiu said.
"Haha, then you'll have to work hard. Perhaps in the future, I'll find your brothers and sisters to help you share the pressure," Feng Jun said.
Ling Jiu, however, did not hold much hope for this: "This is the first time I've observed the surface conditions after the war. According to my calculations, the probability of my brothers and sisters surviving will not exceed 15%. However, since you are willing to look for them, I can suggest a few general locations where they might exist in underground Refuges."
Then Ling Jiu introduced Feng Jun to several possible locations where primary artificial intelligences might exist. The first, of course, was the Capital. As the Capital of the Ming Empire, it had a permanent underground city that had been built and continuously improved for a hundred years. There, the Empire's best computers and armed forces would be deployed, and higher-level artificial intelligences were very likely to exist.
Then the two places were West Capital and Jinling. As the former Capital of the Ming Empire, where Emperor Hongwu, the founder, established the Ming Empire, Jinling naturally had a permanent underground city second only to the Capital, as well as various equipment and supplies that could fully rival it. There might also be artificial intelligences of the same level as Ling Jiu.
West Capital, as the former ancient Capital of thirteen dynasties, naturally held a special status. The Ming Empire had built more than a dozen academies and hundreds of various research institutes there. Large and small Refuges were also countless, and it was also the Empire's industrial base. The research institute that created Ling Jiu was located in West Capital, which was also the cradle and birthplace of the Ming Empire's artificial intelligence technology.
After that, there were several other places, large and small, but the probability of artificial intelligences existing there was very low. Ling Jiu merely marked them on the map and then teased Feng Jun. If he truly pacified the Doomsday and rebuilt human society, it wouldn't be impossible to give him a chance to build an ancestral temple, and he could even be passed down forever as the Emperor of the entire Earth.