Scan the painting and send it to Shi Ningfu.
Shi Ningfu: "I am very surprised. This child is very smart. He used a small piece of furniture like a desk to express the smallness of furniture. For a child his age to have such thinking is quite remarkable. I can confirm one thing now: this child is not only good at drawing macroscopic giants but also at drawing daily details, and his imagination is wild and his brushstrokes are rich and vibrant. Logically speaking, from a child's perspective, he should be able to imagine even smaller monsters. Can you have him try?"
Jiang Ye scratched his head. This teacher was very strange, always picking on monsters.
But Jiang Senlin was already tired from drawing and clamored to sleep.
Jiang Ye also had work to do, so he forwarded the homework assigned by Shi Ningfu to Cen Yemeng, asking her to take care of the child to complete the assignment later.
He left home, got in the car, and headed to the logistics city.
...
The logistics city was much more prosperous than before.
From a distance, one could see large fleets of spaceships flying back and forth in the sky above the city, emitting light. Green light meant "normal navigation," yellow light meant "object too close," and red light was used for takeoff and landing. The lights at different altitudes had different colors, creating a sense of orderly beauty.
When Jiang Ye's car landed, it was just as dusk was approaching and the sky was about to darken. Street after street lit up, illuminating all the car windows.
As he got out of the car, Shao Wan was already waiting with a team of plainclothes officers.
Beside them was a large, rectangular cargo spaceship, black on top and white on the bottom, somewhat resembling a double-decker bus. The words "Chemical Dangerous Goods - Flammable and Explosive - Keep Away" were printed on the hull.
Jiang Ye nodded. Shao Wan immediately opened the small side door of the spaceship, and everyone filed in.
Shao Wan took out a fake license plate from his pocket and attached it to Jiang Ye's car. He looked around to make sure no one was nearby, then boarded the cargo ship.
The interior of the cargo ship was not a flammable or explosive gas cabin, but a space styled like a combat command center. The walls were covered with screens, displaying various images, data, and calculation results that flickered continuously. A simple small table and reclining chairs were placed at the end, stacks of paper documents were piled in the corner, along with some living garbage, soda cans, disposable meal boxes, and wads of toilet paper. Dozens, even hundreds, of dead cigarette butts in an ashtray formed a small gray mountain, almost collapsing.
On the wall at the end of the cargo ship, a series of different headphones hung, their long cords trailing down like a group of snakes of various thicknesses.
This was the newly established eavesdropping ship.
"The initial 30,000 listening devices have all been installed. Only one malfunctioned; the rest are working," Shao Wan said. "Four thousand street listening devices are mostly in streetlights and sewers, with a few installed in other locations, such as roadside trees and billboards. Twenty thousand building listening devices are placed in ceiling lights, bathtub drains, within walls, and outside windows. Six thousand aerial and underground listening devices are installed in patrol cars, disguised cargo ships, and underground in various important locations."
"Can you hear clearly?" Jiang Ye asked. "What is the coverage area?"
"95% of the logistics city area is covered, and 99.5% of citizen conversations can be heard," said a plainclothes officer.
"The central intelligent bacteria pool and several AI software programs are responsible for noise reduction and data analysis. Any suspected valuable audio will be submitted to us for manual listening. The sound is very clear," Shao Wan said. "You can choose to listen to a sample."
A nearby plainclothes officer immediately pried open a box in the corner, took out a brand-new pair of headphones, and plugged them into the nearest control console.
On a large 60-inch screen, a map of the entire logistics city was displayed. All buildings, streets, and facilities were semi-transparent and a faint blue. Spaceships and vehicles flying in the air were light green. Dense red dots covered the entire city, each red dot representing a listening device.
Jiang Ye reached out and clicked, selecting a remote hotel.
A three-dimensional view of the hotel immediately appeared. Jiang Ye selected the end of the fourth floor, the outermost room 429. There was only one listening device in this room, installed in the U-bend of the bathroom drain.
It was working properly, and a conversation was in progress.
Jiang Ye put on the headphones and clicked on the listening device.
【Connecting...】
【Removing noise...】
【Enhancing voice...】
Suddenly, there was a slight pop in the headphones.
Extremely clear male and female voices came through the headphones, both sounding very young.
The screen displayed a waveform, and at the same time, subtitles recognized by the artificial intelligence continuously popped up, giving a cinematic subtitle feel.
Male voice: "Sister, you promised to buy me that apartment before. When can I get the keys?"
Female voice: "That apartment will depreciate in value in a few years. I'll buy it for you then. Be good."
Male voice: "A few years? I can't wait that long. Sister, you promised me, you can't go back on your word."
Female voice: "Don't argue, don't argue. This proposal of mine is very important. Wait until I finish it."
Male voice: "Wife, you're working too hard. Rest a bit. I'll peel fruit for you. Open your mouth."
Female voice: "Get lost! I don't have time to play with you!"
Male voice: "You said that apartment was a gift for me! If you dare go back on your word, don't blame me... for cheating on you!"
Female voice: "You little brat, you're so annoying. Fine, I'll buy it for you! Crawl over here and lick my feet properly until I finish this proposal. I'll buy it in full tonight!"
Male voice: "Whatever Dad asks me to do, I'll do it."
Jiang Ye took off the headphones, his face twitching.
What the hell was that?
At first, he called her sister, then wife, and finally father. There were only two people, but what a complicated and messed-up relationship!
The plainclothes officers also looked embarrassed. They had also listened with wireless headphones and hadn't expected to hear such content.
Shao Wan clicked on the screen, bringing up relevant information.
"The two people staying in this room are David Roy and Esther Maritiss, both from Cold An Star," Shao Wan introduced. "Esther Maritiss is a management executive at a chemical company, holding ten percent of the shares, with a net worth of around three billion. This company mainly produces various paints and has intentions to cooperate with White Ant Real Estate. She has already arranged to meet with Xu Yan the day after tomorrow to discuss business. As for David Roy, he is an obscure singer from Cold An Star, with a rather effeminate appearance. He was arrested for giving a fan a concussion by smashing them with a guitar and has significant debts. The two have had records of booking rooms together at hotels on Cold An Star since June last year, and they have also posted photos of themselves on social media with their faces obscured."
Jiang Ye understood.
A pretty boy.
With this information, those messy conversations made sense.
"The sound quality is good, and the voices are clear, as if they were talking in this room," Jiang Ye nodded. "I want to reiterate, this special listening operation is a last resort to cope with the planetary review. It is to identify extraterrestrial inspectors as much as possible and is not directed at anyone else. Therefore, there must be no malicious eavesdropping, no casual listening for pleasure, absolutely no irrelevant recordings, and this matter must never be disclosed to the public. Only those of us present know about this operation. If there is a leak, no one will escape. Once the planetary review is over, this operation will immediately cease, all listening devices will be removed, all equipment will be destroyed, and you are forbidden to disclose this to anyone for life, nor are you to leave any form of action records."
"Understood!" Everyone present said in unison.