Chapter 399: Chapter 397 Organization
Returning to the home he had been away from for over a month, Chen Xin couldn’t help but feel quite sentimental.
Although Qin Lan and Mo Qingyan both followed his request not to tell his parents about the assassination attempt he experienced, returning home after more than a month inevitably drew concern and chatter from his parents.
If it were in the past, Chen Xin might not have cared much, and might even have found his parents’ chatter a bit annoying.
But now, in this post-apocalyptic world, this chatter and concern seems incredibly precious.
However, after settling several matters upon returning home, Chen Xin also needed to take stock of the tasks at hand.
After all, he has now accepted the title of Academician of the highest Academy of Sciences granted by the Flame Country, and the cooperation and contact with the country have become even closer, making many things different.
The first thing, of course, is the benefits he had negotiated earlier with the high-ranking officials from Yu City, among which the most important one was naturally the construction of a research base for Chen Xin.
Chen Xin chose the location for the research base right at his doorstep and merged it with the Special Forces camp that came to protect him.
Chen Xin did this partly for convenience, at least he wouldn’t have to travel everywhere for work in the future nor be away from home for long periods. Additionally, having special forces stationed at his doorstep, security is naturally not an issue.
On the other hand, he naturally wanted to leverage the power of the system to upgrade the research base, the military camp, and his own shelter together.
Doing this not only allows the three to be upgraded as a whole, saving the trouble of upgrading separately, but also integrates them into one entirety convenient for Chen Xin’s use.
After the series of events in Lin City, Chen Xin also had some new ideas for his home that he wanted to implement, and now that the research base and military camp were to be built at his doorstep, it was just convenient for him to realize these ideas one by one.
According to Chen Xin’s plan, the military camp and research base would be placed on the surface, while underground would be his own shelter, the three should form a whole rather than simply placing the military camp and research base at his doorstep.
After all, Chen Xin is not skilled in true scientific research, all he mastered is using the system to create various kinds of black technology equipment.
So in such a situation, truly pushing Chen Xin to do research is certainly not feasible, the research base is not really meant for him to use for research.
In fact, the upper departments are also clearly aware that the role of this research base in Chen Xin’s hands is inferior to that of a machine workshop, but they still provided it.
Because a research base does not involve just Chen Xin alone.
Previously, Chen Xin collaborated with the country, continually helping the country upgrade research projects, this collaboration cannot be said to be inefficient or bad, but for the country, it is somewhat wasteful.
Because various research projects can still be researched out by other scientists without Chen Xin, just much slower than Chen Xin’s quick results, requiring more resources and time.
Though the country realized Chen Xin’s value earlier and accelerated various technological processes through collaboration with him, which indeed brought huge profits to the country, yet after Chen Xin manufactured a mini nuclear reactor, the higher-ups clearly realized that this was not the way to use Chen Xin.
Using existing research projects to have Chen Xin upgrade them is certainly a method to accelerate technological progress and develop rapidly, but it also limits Chen Xin’s potential.
This time with the mini reactor and the heating network, the higher-ups realized allowing Chen Xin to freely play is better than letting him follow the existing path.
After all, the distance between large Tokamak devices still under research and the mini fusion reactor in Chen Xin’s hands is immeasurable by logic, if following normal technological development, not to say within a hundred years, but at least within decades, achieving what Chen Xin can do would be impossible.
Therefore, this time, what the higher-ups propose is to equip Chen Xin with sufficient manpower, build a research base for him to freely develop, Chen Xin just needs to turn his ideas into reality and leave the rest to these scientists.
This change in collaboration mode is something Chen Xin is happy to see.
Through this journey to Lin City, Chen Xin also realized that although he has the system and can play a part in many things, often his contributions are actually limited, and he might even affect others because of himself.
Just like with this assassination attempt, his single disruption almost caused chaos in Lin City, delaying almost all affairs.
This is obviously not a good thing, even can be said as quite terrible.
A child of fortune does not sit under the eaves, this has been ancient ancestors’ teaching, though this saying may not be entirely correct, it indeed has its reasoning.
Just like with Chen Xin today, even if he gets a slight injury, it would alarm many people, including many big figures Chen Xin couldn’t reach before would come to check up on him, not to mention if something really happened to him, some people would genuinely be implicated.
These are just secondary, with the impact of Chen Xin’s demonstrated capabilities now, if something happens to him, it would be a great loss to the entire Flame Country.
In such circumstances, the higher-ups of Flame Country naturally hope to protect Chen Xin like the most precious porcelain by placing him in a safe spot, avoiding any bumps.
Though when the country sent people to discuss this matter with Chen Xin, he hadn’t experienced the assassination yet, but during his over-a-month stay in Lin City previously, multiple research projects were delayed, not just one or two.
Compared to the losses caused by delaying these projects, providing Chen Xin with a dedicated research base is utterly insignificant, and Chen Xin himself is certainly worth such national investment.
Now with such assassination incidents, naturally, Chen Xin’s safety becomes even more crucial.
Though having a whole special forces unit at the doorstep might seem like being reared, for Chen Xin, this is indeed protection isn’t it?
Moreover to be fair, these special forces are just here to protect Chen Xin’s safety, they won’t restrict his personal freedom, if Chen Xin really wants to go out, they can only follow him, and cannot impose any restrictions.
Therefore, upgrading the research base, military camp, and his shelter together is what Chen Xin plans to do next.
As for whether Chen Xin has enough upgrade points for such a large-scale upgrade?
Since he started his journey to Lin City earlier, it has been a while since Chen Xin last checked his total survival points. After all, ever since the Isotope Thermoelectric Battery production line started operating, with a hundred Isotope Batteries produced daily, averaging three to five batteries bring 5000 survival points straight to Chen Xin, his total survival points have long exceeded six digits.
Unless the first digit changes, otherwise, there is really no need to watch the constantly growing number every day.