Li Xiangdong took out the most advanced Super Smart Brain from the Ring to serve as the host running Xiaoqiang, with a Portable Smart Brain acting as its avatar. This way, no matter which corner of the Blue Planet Li Xiangdong went to in the future, he could mobilize the Super Smart Brain to assist with his work.
Taking the first opportunity that arose, Li Xiangdong gave Little Sister an upgraded Portable Smart Brain. Li Yin simply couldn't put the Portable Smart Brain down. Operating it with one hand, she chattered away with endless questions, and before long, she was using it even more proficiently than Li Xiangdong.
"Bro, you majored in computer science, and you're the one who provided the smart brain. Can't you install common apps like WeChat, Taobao, and Alipay on it? Otherwise, it's way too inconvenient."
Little Sister's request to run everyday smartphone software like WeChat, Taobao, and Alipay on the smart brain was easily resolved with Xiaoqiang's help in rewriting the application software.
However, after only a few days, Little Sister came looking for him again with a new demand.
"Bro, the Portable Smart Brain is convenient and all, but unfortunately it can only be used in private. I've already received my enrollment notice; school starts on April 20th. Can't you modify the smart brain so it looks just like an ordinary mobile phone? That way I can use it in public."
"That can certainly be done, but it might take a little while. Producing a mobile phone requires considering technical capabilities, involving quite a few issues with venue, materials, and so on. Still, Bro promises you, I guarantee I'll build you one within this semester."
Li Xiangdong had the confidence to say this because, through his study and exploration over this period, he had discovered that the Ring contained an industrial manufacturing center intended for industrialized production, complete with production lines capable of manufacturing a wide variety of products. Among them were production lines that could produce electronic products like the Portable Smart Brain.
As long as he made slight adjustments to the software supporting the production lines for the smart brain and redesigned the exterior of the Portable Smart Brain, he could produce a product that looked similar to a Blue Planet mobile phone.
Moreover, these production lines all utilized 3D printing technology. As long as the complete design blueprints and production process were inputted into the host system, and all the raw materials needed to manufacture a mobile phone were prepared, a complete mobile phone could be produced. Of course, the manual emphasized that it was also possible to provide just a single material and produce other materials through particle modification methods. Naturally, the energy consumed by such production would be extremely massive, which was unfavorable for mass production; thus, finding the required materials as requested was far more economical.
This was because the working principle of these production lines was actually the legendary nanobot technology. A nanometer is a unit of length, with one nanometer being approximately 0.000001 millimeters. Nanobots were microscopic artificial tools whose length could only be measured in nanometers. Utilizing these nanobot tools under specific conditions, molecular-level and atomic-level substances could be manipulated, thereby achieving microscopic modifications to matter. Of course, a single nanobot was insignificant, but if hundreds of millions of trillions of nanobots worked on the same task simultaneously, the efficiency would be astonishing.
Li Xiangdong remembered watching a sci-fi movie from Lighthouse Country themed around "nanobots" many years ago. In the movie, nanobots were used as a weapon, released into a city by terrorists; the nanobots used the metal materials of the city's buildings to breed and replicate, destroying a bustling metropolis in less than ten minutes.
Li Xiangdong actually had concerns about the nanobots getting out of control, but after in-depth study, he found that this was just worry for nothing. The nanobots themselves were not living species, but merely extremely tiny mechanical tools. Once removed from a specific environment, lacking energy as a power source and a smart brain to command them, no amount of nanobots would be anything more than waste finer than dust.
Compared to the Blue Planet's high-energy-consumption, low-efficiency 3D printing technology that could only produce a small number of personalized products, the nanometer-scale production lines based on 3D printing technology inside the Ring had an energy efficiency that completely exceeded imagination. According to what he learned, for an ordinary production line, if raw materials, energy, and space were sufficient, theoretically there was no upper limit to the number of activated nanobots. It could operate 24 hours a day without stopping, and mass-producing items like wrist-watch-style portable smart brains—at a rate of one hundred thousand to a million a day—was simply not a problem.
Li Xiangdong remembered browsing the internet before and learning that the most advanced Foxconn Apple assembly line on the Blue Planet could assemble 9,000 units working 10 hours a day. Comparing the two, the difference was like heaven and earth.
The vast majority of high-tech manufacturing technology patents in the Blue Planet world were held by Western countries, especially the Western leader, Lighthouse Country. In recent years, Hua Nation's manufacturing had advanced by leaps and bounds, showing a strong momentum to catch up and surpass Lighthouse Country. In order to forever remain the lighthouse guiding Blue Planet humanity, Lighthouse Country began rolling out a series of policies to suppress, sanction, and even blockade Hua Nation's high-tech manufacturing industry.
This smart brain design and production concept based on quantum technology belonged to an entirely different system from Blue Planet technology; there was simply no need to fear Lighthouse Country's technological blockades and patent monopolies. It was just that once Li Xiangdong rolled out the brand-new smart brain manufacturing technology, there really was no need to guess who would be blockading whom.
Every time he thought of this, Li Xiangdong would laugh out loud with joy. Even if he were to lose the Ring at this moment, Li Xiangdong had the confidence, relying on the knowledge he had mastered, to usher in a brand-new era of Blue Planet computing.
All Li Xiangdong needed to do was gradually introduce new theories and new quantum computer design concepts, and popularize this technology by producing a new generation of quantum smartphones.
Ever since Little Sister Li Yin took the Primary Genetic Potion, her learning ability had also greatly improved. Under Li Xiangdong's guidance, she had long since self-studied all the high school curriculum. If it weren't for the step-by-step requirements of attending academic exams and elective exams, Li Xiangdong would have wanted his younger sister to take the college entrance examination this year to avoid wasting time in high school.
However, taking the college entrance examination a year early at that time wouldn't be a problem at all.
Seeing that Little Sister now had ideas about making a mobile phone, Li Xiangdong had a flash of inspiration and said, "Relying on just me alone to design a mobile phone is far too slow. If you participate as well, who knows, we might be able to speed up the progress."
"Really, Bro! Can I participate in mobile phone design too?!"
"Why not? From the phone's functions to its appearance, as long as you're willing, Bro welcomes you to join. However, before that, you need to have a certain reservoir of knowledge."
Seizing this opportunity, Li Xiangdong took out the organized basic textbooks, software tools for electronic product design and manufacturing, and the complete set of quantum computer materials for Little Sister to study. He also promised that as soon as Little Sister designed a mobile phone, he would immediately have it produced for her.
Under her brother's coaxing, Li Yin happily accepted all the materials, prepared to delve into computer technology, and even brashly boasted that she would definitely design the most advanced mobile phone in Blue Planet history and sweep Lighthouse Country's fruit phones into the dustbin of history.
Calculating the time, a full month had passed since she drank the Primary Genetic Potion. Li Xiangdong felt that he had fully adapted to his evolved physique in every aspect, and coupled with his practice of the Swallowing Heaven Formula, his control over his strength had reached the realm of effortless mastery; he was now completely ready to use the Intermediate Genetic Potion.