Chapter 291 COLOSSUS

Angler Tech continued attracting the media's attention after the announcement of their project. As the company promised to integrate AI in its internet portal and search engine. They wanted to explore the power of AI and deliver new offers, making its operation more efficient.

On the outside, it was a very big and bold step. However, behind the scenes, Jiang Yue knew it was precisely the aspect of AI program that she had planned. Jiang Yue couldn't help but sneer inwardly. The drone project that she had planned also included the ability to quickly wring insights from data. It would highlight the drone's ability to automatically identify patterns and anomalies from the data generated by sensors and the drone itself.

If Jiang Yue's guess was right, then the person, who had stolen the data with the malware, had already given it to Angler Tech: making the latter declare it ahead of time.

If Jiang Yue declared a similar project now, then Angler Tech would immediately make it seem like Jiang Yue was the one, who had copied their idea and not the other way around.

Of course, Jiang Yue would not let this happened. Whoever run Angler Tech had assumed that Jiang Yue would eventually follow their announcement and let everyone know of her plans. But who would have known that she would maintain absolute silence, to the point of being scary?

What they did not know was that Jiang Yue had never planned on integrating her design on the web, instead, she planned to use that in a drone to monitor someone: to monitor Li Qiang's movements.

No one else was aware of that, except the people close to her, and Long Die, who had helped her perfect her design with Bai'Li and Wang Minghua.

Since Long Die started working for Jiang Yue, she had exhibited extreme talents and skills when it came to coding and engineering.

It made Jiang Yue ecstatic. Long Die was a genius and on top of that, the woman's experience in computer engineering was something that Jiang Yue hadn't even seen from her mentor.

Aside from that, Long Die was not hard to get along with. She was shy and self-conscious as a person. But as an employee, the woman was just like a machine. Jiang Yue had never seen anyone like Long Die before.

Jiang Yue even gladly accepted that in some aspects of the mechanical side of AI programming she was not that capable as Long Die.

It was an understatement to just say that she was excellent. For Jiang Yue, Long Die was her secret weapon.

However, she needed to test her loyalty first. After all, corporate spying was something that could have easily toppled companies. Besides, she also couldn't compromise that device. It was her ultimate key to know if Wang Ruo was indeed with Li Qiang.

"Basically, this drone will have both face and voice recognition," Bai'Li stated. They were currently in Jiang Yue's office, having a secret meeting: as Jiang Yue called it.

"Yes... you are right," she nodded.

"Are you sure this is just a drone, and not some Unmanned Aerial Vehicle(AUV)?" Wang Minghua tried to verify. From Jiang Yue's design, one could see that they were making something very close to an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, used by the military in surveillance.

"Have you seen an AUV, which records both audio and video from hundreds if not thousands of miles away?" Long Die interjected. "This is not an AUV, but a cross-over between a drone and AUV."

"Like a combination?"

"Yes," Long Die answered.

"But how?" Bai'Li asked.

This time it was Jiang Yue who answered, "Drones are basically unmanned aircrafts. However, AUV's tend to be bigger, more recognizable, than the drones that everyone is familiar with. This machine is going to be the size of a drone, fully undetectable. But at the same time, all its functionalities will be more that of AUV's. So, this one is like a combination and an upgraded version of the both."

Her answer instantly made everyone speechless with the exception of Long Die, who had already been familiar with the details of this project.

"But... that is not what we have informed everyone... I mean... the designed that we have made was... not for something as sophisticated as that," Bai'Li said. Even for him, this project was a little too ambitious. He couldn't help but wonder if Jiang Yue was really taking everything seriously, or maybe she was not aware of its possible effects on the military technology.

If some countries got a glimpse of that idea, they would surely do their best to get a hold of that model.

"This is a top secret project. The one that was announced was only a decoy: a miniature version of this one," Jiang Yue stated. "This is the reason, why I did not accept any sponsorships nor collaborations with other companies and countries. This project is questionable and a little illegal."

"Illegal..." Wang Minghua mumbled. "For some reason, you make the word 'illegal' sound so fun this time."

"Count me in with this one. Just tell me everything in details, so I can keep the secrecy. But I have a condition..." he added. "I want to operate this drone when we will be testing it."

"Well... Me too... so, what is the name of this project?" Bai'Li inquired.

"Name?" Jiang Yue smirked. " Let's call it 'COLOSSUS'."

EDITED BY: Yui

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