“This is impossible!”
Keiichi Nagaoka, who was standing inside the Bird’s Nest Stadium, stared at the scene in front of him with a dumbfounded expression. The brilliant light show had hindered his ability to think.
Like a magician grabbing rabbits out of his hat, countless colorful butterflies were released from the water bottle sized cylinder, flying in the air like birds.
Those butterflies were so realistic and charming.
It was almost like…
They were real!
Then suddenly, all of the butterflies disappeared.
Just when Nagaoka Keiichi thought it was over, he saw the engineer from Star Sky Technology pointing the cylindrical projector toward him.
He was about to ask what the man was going to do when he suddenly heard a buzzing sound.
Immediately after, he saw wasps the size of a fist, swarming out of the cylindrical projection device, flying toward him.
“Ah! Help!”
Nagaoka Kei screamed with a horrified look on his face. He raised his arms and stepped back. The staff standing next to them also looked frightened, and they quickly stepped aside.
However, nothing terrible happened. Nagaoka Keiichi, who was in the path of the wasps, only felt a warm, humid wind blowing across his cheeks. The wasps flew past him like they did not exist at all.
The engineer from Star Sky Technology smiled and turned off the holographic projector in his hand.
Instantly, the swarm of wasps turned into dust, disappearing with the wind.
The sports stadium returned to its original calm and peace.
However, there was a sense of tension in the air.
Nagaoka opened his mouth. He was about to say something when he saw the engineer from Star Sky Technology smile at him.
He thought back to his humiliating scream just now, and his face suddenly turned red. After a while, he coughed and put on a confident look on his face.
“… I understand now.
“You guys are using the Tyndall effect for imaging.
“This set of equipment has a fatal weakness, haven’t you discovered it? First is the projection area, as well as the range! I admit that this is good for small-scale holographic projection technology, but how do you plan to use this equipment to cover the entire stadium? Are you going to build a fountain in the middle of the stadium?”
Yeah…
The scope of the water mist sprayer does seem small.
Secretary Wu couldn’t help but think. Even though he no longer trusted NTT, he quickly looked at the engineer from Star Sky Technology.
However, after hearing this, the engineer smiled coldly.
“Are you kidding me?
“This problem can be solved by a few high-power fog machines.
“Constructing a holographic projection system in a fixed stadium is much simpler than building a hand-held holographic projection device. It’s almost twice as easy as the device I have in my hand right now.
“We can even separate the fog machine from the imaging system and transform the entire stadium into a huge holographic image generating device. All of the audience will be in a virtual world.
“Forget about it, you probably don’t understand anyway.
“Anyway, don’t try to challenge our technology with your little tricks. This is the real deal.”
After that, the engineer from Star Sky Technology reached out and caught the drone that had flown back from the sky. He turned it off and then put it back into the suitcase.
In front of the stunned Nagaoka Keiichi, the engineer patted the suitcase in his hand and glanced at Secretary Wu next to him.
“It’s done. I’m going to go back first. If you still want to stay here, please get me a car to send me to the airport.”
Seeing how the engineer had finished his work, Secretary Wu said, “You’re… You’re… already done?”
“Well, it’s just collecting data. How long would it take?” The engineer from Star Sky Technology glanced at the NTT engineers and Nagaoka Keiichi. He smirked and said, “We don’t waste time, unlike most people.”
He walked out of the stadium without glancing back.
The people who were still there looked at each other with bewildered looks on their faces. Especially Secretary Wu, he was totally muddled.
He thought it would take a lot of work to complete the data collection. However, the drone was able to complete the job in a few minutes, whereas the NTT Group staff members had been working for hours.
This difference…
Is too big…
The person in charge of the stadium looked at the two Japanese people, who were equally as confused. He leaned over and asked, “Should we still kick them out? Or should you call Director Ou?”
Wu Yuanhang opened his mouth and snapped back to reality. He took his phone out of his pocket.
“… I’ll call and ask.”
The person standing next to Nagaoka Keiichi had a weird look on his face; he looked at his boss and spoke in an awkward way.
“Nagaoka… What should we do?”
“This is impossible…” Nagaoka Keiichi’s pupils widened as he tightly clenched his fists. “This can’t be true…”
“Yes! This can’t be true! This is a trick by the Chinese!”
His eyes were bulging out of his sockets. Suddenly, he turned around and grabbed his subordinate’s shoulders with both hands. He thought he was going crazy and said, “They convinced Star Sky Technology to be a part of this trick! How can a small-scale holographic projection technology be more difficult than a large-scale holographic projection? This is… unheard of!”
Kawada-kun was shocked by this. His facial muscles twitched as he spoke in a trembling tone.
“But you also saw what just happened…”
“…”
Nagaoka Keiichi felt something stuck in his throat. His face turned pale, losing all of its colors.
At this moment, he was powerless.
The wings of the butterflies seemed to be so realistic; every inch of color and texture was so vivid.
No matter how much he lied to himself, he knew deep in his heart that this technology was something that NTT Group could never achieve.
Actually, technically, no one in this world could achieve this level of sophistication.
The texture of the holographic image was so realistic and so detailed that he could even smell the fragrance of the spring breeze and feel the flapping of the butterfly wings…
Even though he did not want to believe that any of this was true, he did not want to imagine how the board of directors would punish him if this deal went south.
This was going to be a 50 billion yen deal…
If he did not explain the situation clearly to his higher-ups, he would be toast…
