Chapter 242: American Experience
To most people, the hornbill appears and disappears like a flash of lightning.

The more countries fear Hornbill, the more support its die-hard fans give.

This is an unprecedented opportunity for Microsoft and Tencent.

In this era dominated by existing markets and with very few incremental markets, the opportunity to take a piece of cake from someone else's bowl is extremely rare.

Even though the data had to be shared with Alpha Technology and 70% of the profits had to be given out, Microsoft and Tencent agreed without hesitation.

Because this does not belong to them originally, this is originally the cake of Baidu and Google. They have no psychological burden to know in advance that the profits will be shared with Alpha Technology.

This is just like in ancient times when the party starting a war promised the property of the attacked target to the army, which was a no-cost deal.

What's more, in the early stage of expanding the market scale, Tencent and Microsoft did not intend to charge fees. They first cultivated the market for free and then slowly implanted advertisements.

Everyone is very familiar with this gameplay. Microsoft has Bing, and Tencent has Sogou, and they all know how to operate it.

Therefore, for global users, Hornbill has to use a special node ladder to continue using it. Die-hard fans are willing to pay money to support it, while most ordinary users have turned to Microsoft and Tencent.

Microsoft has been building the search brand Bing, and after obtaining technical support from Alpha Technologies, they launched the new Bing.

Although ChatGPT launched a new Bing that year, it is now 2025, so there is nothing wrong with another updated Bing.

In terms of publicity, Microsoft has spared no effort in promoting it around the world. Except for not explicitly saying that Hornbill is back, almost every aspect of the campaign hints to users that we are Hornbill.

Unlike Microsoft, Tencent no longer uses the Sogou brand. In their view, Sogou as a search engine is a complete negative asset, and it is better to start from scratch.

Tencent directly used the Chinese name of hornbill and launched the hornbill AI search, fearing that users would not know the relationship between them and hornbill.

America is afraid that its residents will associate Bing with Hornbill again, but China is not worried. Samad is just poking at the Jewish community and is not targeting China.

China's ban on Hornbill from entering the Chinese market is simply a habitual defensive move, but American is treating it like a formidable enemy.

The stress responses on both sides are completely different.

"Are you also using Hornbill?" While waiting for a flight to San Francisco at Pudong International Airport, Lin Tianmin noticed the Hornbill logo in the upper right corner of Zhou Jin's mobile phone screen.

The foreign hornbill logo has no color, while the hornbill AI search launched by Tencent in China is in a blue and gold color scheme.

It was precisely this difference that enabled Lin Tianmin to instantly tell that this was a hornbill, not a hornbill.

"Of course, aren't we going to San Francisco this time? I'll look up some information about Blue Origin while I'm at it.

Hornbill is indeed much better than all previous search engines.

If Baidu's data integration capability is 1 and Google's is 1.5, then Hornbill's is 50, and even 100 is not an exaggeration." Zhou Jing was browsing her phone while mercilessly complaining about the past search engines.

"Compared to Hornbill, Google and Baidu seem like products of the last century.

As for Hornbill, I can only say that Tencent has no credibility with me. God knows what Tencent has transformed Hornbill into." Zhou Jin fired at full power.

Lin Tianmin laughed. No Chinese Internet user would have a good impression of Tencent, mainly because there were too many pixel-level imitations and too many dark histories in the past.

"You'd better be careful. I saw online that in America, you must never let the police see the Hornbill app page on your phone. If you are discovered, you will be forced to delete it at best, or you will be called to the police station to be interrogated whether you have racial discrimination tendencies," said Lin Tianmin.

Zhou Jin held his forehead with his hand: "What do you mean by facing a formidable enemy? America is just experiencing a stress reaction."

"I'm removing putty!" Zhou Jin suddenly imitated Wu Jin's famous interview after filming Wolf Warrior 2.

"The Jews live in the body of the Americans, controlling the heavens, the earth, and the air. Do they want to control me?"

"I'm just saying just in case. Our trip is quite sensitive, so it can be considered as a proof.

Colleagues who had been to America before even gave us lessons to remind us of things to pay attention to, fearing that we would never come back." Lin Tianmin said.

That’s right, Light Armor Aerospace was invited by Blue Origin to send people there for exchanges and visits. After learning of Blue Origin’s invitation, Space X also followed suit and expressed the hope to communicate with Chinese counterparts.

Under Bezos' operation, there are no more obstacles to the cooperation between Blue Origin and Aerospace.

Lin Jia definitely didn't dare to go to Guangjia Aerospace. He would definitely be caught if he went there, and it would be miserable if he couldn't come back and was indirectly imprisoned. It was too serious to send a senior engineer there in case something unexpected happened.

If we don't send some capable engineers over there, communication will not yield any results.

I don't expect to absorb anything nutritious from this trip, but it's mainly to show my style and lay a good foundation for subsequent cooperation.

In the end, Lin Tianmin and Zhou Jin were selected. The former was the earliest employee of Guangjia Aerospace and the deputy team leader of the recyclable rocket project team. Zhou Jin was Lin Tianmin’s college roommate. She joined Guangjia Aerospace after graduating with a doctorate and completing a postdoctoral period. Although she had insufficient experience, she had strong abilities.

There were also some other colleagues, about ten people in total, all of whom were less experienced.

Since everyone wants to go and see the place, it would be a shame not to go on this opportunity of public travel. Since Guangjia Aerospace has cooperation with countries such as France, Bolivia and Brazil, my colleagues have traveled to these places on business trips many times.

The happiest group of people went to France to work as technical consultants. The house rented for them by the French Space Agency was right next to the Arc de Triomphe. It only took 15 minutes to walk past the Arc de Triomphe to the center of the 15th district every day, and they worked eight hours a day without fail.

This is based on the fact that they require themselves to work eight hours a day, and often the French Space Agency's liaison person cannot be found in the afternoon.

We experienced several rounds of strikes, each lasting a month. You said you didn't go to work, but you still went. You said you went to work, but there was no work.

All the colleagues who stayed in France for a year were reluctant to leave. After coming back, they talked a lot about the wonderful life in France in the company.

Colleagues who went to Brazil were even happier, as the workload they undertook in half a year was almost the same as that they undertook in the headquarters in a week.

Therefore, within Guangjia Aerospace, overseas assignments are absolutely good jobs, and you have to grab them every time. You can't go there just because you want to.

But this time it’s a little different, because when you go to America, everyone is still a little worried that America will accuse you of some false charges and not let you come back.

They are really capable of doing such a thing.

I want to go but I don't dare to go. After all, Guangjia Aerospace is still a very sensitive company internally. It has been at the top of the Zhicai list for many years and is regarded by the outside world as a major threat to America.

Of course, the biggest threat now is Alpha Technology.

Lin Tianmin and Zhou Jin were not afraid after being selected within the company. They were single anyway, and the current environment was not so bad that it would be dangerous to be a Chinese.

It’s very close to fly directly from Shenhai to San Francisco, it only takes about 11 hours, and it doesn’t even take a day.

"I should have unloaded the Hornbill on the plane.

America is too sensitive." Zhou Jin complained.

Because they had just spent five hours in the immigration hall, which was almost half of the flight time.

“I saw it on Xiaohongshu and I thought it was a joke, but it turned out to be a targeting.

When I came to America before, they only checked my passport and visa. I never saw them check what apps were installed on your phone.

I guess if we didn't have the hornbill installed, our luggage would be exempt from inspection.

It’s because there’s a hornbill on your phone that I force you to open the box and check it.” Lin Tianmin also complained.

He also downloaded Hornbill on his phone.

"I discovered that throughout the immigration hall, the American customs officers check the cell phones of Chinese citizens, fearing that you might have installed Hornbill and brought it in. This is stricter than marijuana," Zhou Jin said after leaving the immigration hall.

Lin Tianmin said: "What are you thinking about? Americans don't care whether you have marijuana or not.

I didn’t have a deep impression of the situation when I was just browsing Weibo in China before, but after coming here, I realized how angry and humiliated the Jewish community is.

Everything possible was being done to prevent the spread of hornbill in America.

I'm afraid you'll spread wrong ideas to pure America."

"This is the Jews. Their infiltration into America is really powerful." Zhou Jin also sighed.

In the past, when people read some of the remarks that were reposted by bloggers back to the simplified Chinese Internet, they thought they were exaggerated. But now that they have come to America, they know that they are not exaggerated at all.

"Lin Tianmin? Zhou Jin?" A white man stood in front of them, holding a sign with the Guangjia Aerospace logo in his hand and asked.

"Yes, who are you?" Lin Tianmin asked.

"I am from the security team hired by Light Armor Aerospace in America. My name is Guy, and I am responsible for your safety," Guy said.

Lin Tianmin and Zhou Jin looked at each other and understood each other's meaning. Guy didn't have many muscular lines on his body, which was really inconsistent with the image of the security elite in American TV dramas.

Only after the other party produced proof of identity did the Guangjia Aerospace team follow him to the booked hotel.

"Look, that building should be the human hibernation center. I saw it on Xiaohongshu, which said that there are two types of human hibernation centers in America.

One is that the government built it for the new immigrants in America. It is as broken as it can be. Except for the human hibernation equipment, everything else is made of junk, in order to prevent the middle class from occupying this place, which will affect the efficiency of the federal government's purchase. "Zhou Jin looked around in the car and felt that too many things around him were different from his impression of San Francisco.

It has been five years since the human hibernation center entered the American market. During these five years, the relationship between America and China eased for a time. Before stepping down, White imported a large number of human hibernation equipment to continue to promote their human hibernation center plan.

After all, illegal immigrants are a stronghold of voters for the Democratic Party. The events in Israel in the past have dealt a heavy blow to this stronghold. The Democratic Party urgently needs to save the situation. More human hibernation centers and more complete benefits of escaping reality allowed the Democratic Party to quickly pass a plan to build human hibernation centers worth up to $120 billion in the last years of the Democratic Party in the White House.

Do you want to say that the human hibernation center is good? That's not the case. There have been many scandals in the past, such as illegal blood draws, illegal organ matching and even transplants of immigrants in the human hibernation center. Although such news will eventually be labeled as conspiracy theories, it is a blow to the credibility of the human hibernation center.

The illegal immigrants from China don’t believe that America will really provide them with benefits, not to mention that this is Chinese technology.

Under the instigation of illegal immigrants from China, blacks, Mexicans and Latinos also began to disbelieve, which led to the fact that after the current illegal immigrants came to America, Asians had to be pulled out of the sheets and "educated".

Back to the human hibernation center, although it has many disadvantages and potential risks, for the lower-class people, it can make them forget the troubles in reality for a while, so it is still in a state of supply exceeding demand.

"Is there another kind?" Lin Tianmin asked after hearing it.

Zhou Jin said: "There is another type of service that is specifically provided to the wealthy. It is said that it is often combined with Eastern philosophical practices such as meditation and Zen, and packaged into a combined concept for customers.

No matter how luxuriously they are built, many American cults have begun to use human hibernation centers to preach.

In short, this type of human hibernation center can be regarded as a high-end club.

But the silver mirrored building along the way seems to be the human hibernation center. I saw it on Xiaohongshu. "

This kind of people are mainly middle class and wealthy people, who go there for a few days to relieve their inner depression.

Of course, there are also people who claim that they have achieved real skills with the help of human hibernation, but these people are a minority after all, and their experiences cannot be replicated, cannot be falsified, but cannot be confirmed either.

After the human hibernation equipment was sent to the International Space Station, the fact that astronauts from various countries had to queue up to use the equipment has further promoted the human hibernation equipment.

Conservatives who were originally skeptical also began to gradually accept it.

There were no problems when using it in space, so there shouldn't be any problems on Earth.

This has led to human hibernation equipment becoming extremely popular in America, so popular that people have even forgotten that it is Chinese technology.

DJI is a brand from China. No matter how indispensable it is, Americans know that it is a Chinese brand. China has unique industrial advantages in drones.

But human hibernation is not like that. Under the shaping of the collective consciousness of the media, less than 40% of the people know that human hibernation technology comes from abroad, and less than 20% know that it comes from China.

With such top-notch brainwashing technology, it is no wonder that some people in China can be remotely bred.

"Does Guangjia Technology have a flagship store in San Francisco?" Lin Tianmin asked curiously.

(End of this chapter)