I accidentally joined a group of charlatans, so I immediately called the police and handed it over t

In the news footage, the face of the American spokesperson was zoomed in on extremely close to the camera, with his chin raised higher than his nostrils.

He waved the sanction order in his hand triumphantly, as if wielding God's judgment.

"To safeguard national security, we will prohibit the export of any high-end chips smaller than 14 nanometers, as well as related manufacturing equipment, to China!"

"This is the final ultimatum."

As soon as the sound ended, the screen instantly switched to the domestic stock market.

The screen displayed a shocking, overwhelming expanse of pale green!

All the stocks in the technology sector were lying on their daily limit down, unable to move.

Panic, like an invisible super tsunami, instantly engulfed the entire internet.

"It's over, this time it's really over! We've cut off their lifeline!"

"With our lithography machines being held back, we're even struggling to manufacture new mobile phones!"

"It's not just cell phones! Cars, home appliances, medical equipment... the core components of all smart devices will have to shut down!!"

Pessimistic remarks are like a virus, spreading wildly in every corner.

Base 001, Commander's Office.

Li Guobang stood with his hands behind his back, like a statue, staring intently out the window.

Even when faced with a massive charge of thousands of troops, this old general, who had emerged from mountains of corpses and seas of blood, never once frowned.

But now, facing this invisible and intangible yet deadly chip blockade, he felt an unprecedented sense of suffocation and pressure.

"Chen Xi".

Li Guobang slowly turned around, his voice hoarse, revealing an unprecedented exhaustion.

"The situation is a hundred times worse than we anticipated."

On his desk lay several disassembled precision parts, the core components of their treasured lithography machine, now cold as scrap metal.

"ASML just issued an announcement that it has not only stopped supplying goods, but also stopped all after-sales services."

"This means that if any of these precious machines we have malfunctions, they will immediately become a pile of billions of dollars worth of junk!"

Li Guobang clenched his fists so tightly that his knuckles turned blue.

"Dr. Su has also confirmed that, although we now have the Samadhi True Fire and Xuan Tie No. 2, energy and materials are no longer a problem."

"But...but to control them for precision manufacturing, we still can't do without those imported high-end chips!"

"This is cutting off our lifeline! This is going to kill us!"

Li Guobang sighed heavily, slumped onto the sofa, and seemed to have all his energy drained away, aging him ten years in an instant.

His cloudy eyes were filled with pain.

"Have we taken too big a step? Too hasty?"

Chen Xi was sitting opposite him.

He was fiddling with the scrap of Xuan Tie No. 2 in his hand, the dark purple metal spun around between his fingers.

Seeing Li Guobang's near-collapse, Chen Xi smiled, a hint of amusement in his eyes.

There was even a hint of mockery in that smile.

"Old Li, is the sky falling down?"

Chen Xi tossed the metal block into the air and caught it steadily, making a crisp and pleasant "ding" sound.

"you!"

Li Guobang was so angry at Chen Xi's nonchalant attitude that his blood boiled. He suddenly stood up, pointed at Chen Xi's nose, and roared.

"You're joking around! I'm worried about the future of the country!"

"Without chips, our FAST telescope is blind! Our missiles are just scrap metal! Our supercomputers can't even boot up! Are you expecting us to calculate with that piece of junk you're holding?!"

"Then we won't use chips."

Chen Xi spoke in a calm tone, as if he were talking about something as trivial as eating or drinking.

Li Guobang was completely stunned, thinking he had misheard.

He stared intently at Chen Xi, asking each word clearly, "What nonsense are you spouting? What else can you use besides a chip? To control it with your mouth?!"

"Old Li."

Chen Xi walked up to the huge world map and tapped the map of the United States heavily with his long, slender fingers.

"They thought they could use chips to strangle us and force us to our knees."

Chen Xi turned around, his eyes sharp as knives, radiating a terrifying light.

"But they'll never know that I never intended to play on their track in the first place!"

He walked step by step toward Li Guobang, his aura suddenly rising.

"No, to be precise, I'm going to compete against them using a different species!"

"What do you mean?"

Li Guobang's brows furrowed. He had a vague feeling that Chen Xi, that madman, was about to do something earth-shattering again.

What is the essence of silicon-based wafers?

Chen Xi didn't wait for his reply and continued speaking to himself.

"It's like carving billions of grooves into a piece of sand with light, letting electric current flow through them, and using 'on' and 'off' to represent 0 and 1."

"Its upper limit is locked by the laws of physics and by the precision of the lithography machine."

"Even if we have money and resources, we won't be able to see their taillights in less than twenty years as we try to catch up on this road."

Chen Xi leaned down, staring intently into Li Guobang's eyes, his voice carrying a bewitching charm.

"Twenty years is too long; I will seize every moment."

"Old Li, what if we don't use silicon wafers?"

"What if we don't use electricity?"

Li Guobang's breathing suddenly became rapid, and he felt his heart pounding wildly.

"What exactly are you trying to say?!"

Chen Xi slowly took out his phone and turned on the screen.

The slowly rotating black and white yin-yang symbol stood out prominently in the office at that moment, as if it contained some supreme truth.

"The US has lithography machines."

Chen Xi's tone was calm, yet it exuded a powerful confidence that could overturn the world.

"But we have the Taoist Ancestor."

Li Guobang's pupils suddenly contracted!

"Old Li, think about it carefully, what are those talismans used by cultivators essentially?"

Li Guobang's mind went blank, and he subconsciously replied, "Scribbles?"

"wrong!"

Chen Xi shook his head, a smile playing on his lips.

"That's the carrier of information! It's a program written for heaven and earth to see!"

"Taoist talismans are created by inscribing the rules of heaven and earth and the logic of spiritual energy circulation onto yellow paper or jade using a special programming language!"

Chen Xi became more and more excited as he spoke, his eyes shining with a captivating brilliance!

"A dust-repelling talisman that can automatically identify dust and deflect it—isn't that the ultimate adaptive environmental cleaning program?!"

"A lightning strike talisman that can sense an enemy's killing intent, automatically lock onto it, and unleash lightning—isn't that the most advanced intelligent friend-or-foe identification and automatic attack system?!"

"These so-called talismans are actually biochips in the cultivation world! They're mind processors!"

"Moreover, it is three-dimensional, even higher-dimensional! It interacts directly with the laws of heaven and earth!"

"It doesn't need that damn nanometer precision, because it's part of the law itself!"

"It doesn't need a lithography machine; it only needs divine will!"

"What we need to do is ask Lao Tzu, the top-tier programmer, to teach us how to industrialize this divine thought programming technology!"

Li Guobang's mind felt as if it had been struck by a bolt of lightning from the heavens!

Using symbolic drawing instead of photolithography?

Using jade instead of silicon wafers?

Using divine thought to write programs?

This...this fucking...it sounds like a complete fantasy!

but……

Li Guobang suddenly remembered that piece of Xuan Tie No. 2!

It reminds me of the Kuafu Battery, which could create infinite energy!

He shuddered, a surge of electricity shooting from his tailbone straight to the top of his head!

Damn! It seems to actually work!

If batteries can be used to form formations, and metals can be used to forge weapons, then why can't chip crystals be used as talismans?!

"You...you..." Li Guobang's lips trembled with excitement. He grabbed Chen Xi's shoulder, his nails almost digging into his flesh.

How confident are you?!

"Why don't you try it and see?" Chen Xi's lips curled up slightly, revealing a smile that suggested he had everything under control.

Under Li Guobang's burning, almost murderous gaze, his fingers flew across the screen.

He clicked on the avatar that symbolized the supreme existence of Taoism.

[Laozi, the Supreme Lord]

The private chat window opens.

Chen Xi sent out a message that was enough to overturn the entire history of human computer development and make all of America's technological hegemony a joke in an instant.

[Newcomer reporting in, seeking protection]: Daoist Ancestor, this junior has recently become quite interested in the art of talismans.

[Newcomer reporting in, seeking guidance]: I wonder if you could offer some advice?

[Newcomer reporting in, seeking protection]: Especially the kind of method that can inscribe complex divine logic into tiny jade stones, making them operate automatically.