The next day, Deng Xiaoqi was in no rush to return to school.

Other than an online opening ceremony, the school had not scheduled anything else.

Classes would not start until Monday.

After waking up and having breakfast in the dining room, she joined Chen Cheng to meet Andy at the airport, and they flew to the North of the Great Wall.

Chen Cheng had promised Deng Xiaoqi last night that he would accompany her until her classes officially started.

If he was busy, she would accompany him.

In any case, wherever Chen Cheng went, she would follow.

Andy's DNA comparison results would not be ready until tomorrow, so she went along too.

Zhao Yazu had originally hoped to use this business trip to get closer to Chen Cheng.

But Chen Cheng was too busy to pay her any mind.

Zhao Yazu had effectively become his bag-carrying assistant.

"Ahhh~ Sister Na~ I haven't seen you in so long!"

After the plane landed and parked in the designated spot, the moment the stairs were lowered, Deng Xiaoqi ran down quickly and gave Li Na a big hug.

Chen Cheng stood on the stairs, his mouth twitching; she had just enrolled in the drama academy last night, and she was already acting for him today, right?

No need to guess, it must have been Deng Half-City who taught her.

"Missed me?" Li Na asked with a smile.

"Mmhmm~" Deng Xiaoqi hugged Li Na's arm and rubbed against her, nodding vigorously.

Feeling the warmth on her arm, Li Na turned her head to take a look, her eyes widening slightly, and she teased Deng Xiaoqi with a smile, "Our Xiao Qi has become even more beautiful."

"Mmh... really?" Deng Xiaoqi did not know what Li Na was implying and raised her eyebrows happily.

Li Na held back a laugh and nodded, "Mmh~"

"Ahem~" Chen Cheng could not watch anymore and gave a light cough, causing Deng Xiaoqi to giggle and release Li Na's arm.

Li Na threw herself into Chen Cheng's arms and gave him a big hug.

"You've worked hard~"

"Can't help it, I was born to work," after letting go of Chen Cheng, Li Na shrugged at him and teased herself with a smile.

After saying this, Li Na turned and hugged Andy as well, "Andy, long time no see."

Andy's body stiffened slightly, but she did not push her away, "Long time no see."

After the two exchanged pleasantries, Li Na looked at Zhao Yazu, then turned to ask Chen Cheng:

"Is this Zhao...?"

How could Chen Cheng not understand what she meant? She was asking, 'Is this our new sister?'

Zhao Yazu did not show any stage fright, "Hello, President Li, I am Zhao Yazu, currently serving as Chairman Chen's secretary."

"Hello~" Li Na smiled and shook hands with Zhao Yazu, the successor's successor.

Seeing that everyone had exchanged greetings, Chen Cheng called out, "Alright, let's go."

He then walked straight towards the Land Rover Defender parked in front.

The young girl standing by the car door was Li Na's secretary.

Li Na glanced at Andy, and Andy understood immediately, "I'll go with Xiao Qi, don't worry about us."

After saying this, she walked straight towards the Defender behind.

Deng Xiaoqi glanced at Chen Cheng and was about to follow, but was pulled back by Li Na.

"Did you bring a jacket in your bag?"

"The temperature difference here is large, and it might be a bit cold at night."

Deng Xiaoqi nodded, "There's a sun protection shirt in my bag."

"Alright, then get in the car. I'll take you to eat roast whole lamb tonight."

Li Na waved at Deng Xiaoqi, then turned back to greet Zhao Yazu, "Secretary Zhao, let's go. You sit in the passenger seat, and Eleven will drive."

After making the arrangements, Li Na got into the first car.

Within two minutes, the three Land Rover Defenders drove out of the airport one after another.

Li Na took the opportunity to report on the work.

"The 'three supplies and one leveling' for our industrial park has already begun."

"The main project for the data center has just finished bidding, and the construction company will move in next week."

"Our factory buildings are mainly modular construction. Looking at the schedule pulled by the engineering department, we should be able to complete the main construction before the snow falls this year."

"It won't affect the installation and commissioning of the HVAC and power equipment in winter."

"As for the wind and solar power plant, we will be able to finish leveling the dunes for some of the initial sites after National Day and begin pouring the foundations for the photovoltaic panels."

"However, the workload for the wind and solar plant is huge, so there won't be much major progress this year."

"The installation of the photovoltaic panels and turbine blades is scheduled for early April."

"Sand-fixing vegetation like saxaul and Caragana will be planted simultaneously."

"After the new year, the team from Peking University will follow up on the experimental research you proposed regarding using algae for sand fixation."

"..."

Li Na spoke continuously, reporting the progress of the data center to Chen Cheng, covering everything regardless of whether he already knew it or not.

"Has the design institute provided the detailed plan for the power plant?"

"Mmh~" Li Na nodded and handed over the tablet in her hand.

"They provided a version of the plan yesterday, and we held a meeting with the construction unit."

"This is the material from yesterday's meeting."

"Following your idea of 'power generation on the panels, planting between panels, and raising sheep under panels,' the working net height of the photovoltaic panels has been increased to 1.5 meters."

"Our engineering department and the ecological experts from Peking University both approve of this plan."

"Once the power plant is built, this is the optimal solution for both minimizing the impact on existing wildlife and attracting wildlife to settle there."

"The only problem is that the difficulty of maintaining the power plant will increase in the future."

"The horizontal plane for all cleaning operations will be raised by 1.5 meters, meaning it will all have to be done using engineering vehicles."

"Moreover, there are no mature precedents for this plan yet, so we might need to customize engineering vehicles that can be raised to clean the photovoltaic panels."

Chen Cheng quickly finished reading the power plant design plan provided by the design institute and waved his hand, "Don't worry about that cost; just implement it according to this plan."

"In the future, don't hire people from outside for power plant maintenance; solve some of the local employment."

"For the training of maintenance workers, have the supplier send a team over."

"The tasks of raising sheep under the panels and planting between them can be handed over to local herdsmen."

"As for the cleaning vehicles you mentioned, have the procurement department check if there are any mature automated cleaning devices on the market."

"If not, you can talk to Andy and cooperate with Company Name to develop one."

"This thing will have more and more of a market in the future."

"Alright~ I've noted it down," Li Na replied, blinked, and continued:

"There is one more thing."

"What?" Chen Cheng was a bit curious to see her looking hesitant.

"Before coming to pick you up, leaders from the district came for an inspection and heard that I was coming to the airport to pick you up. Mr. Zhu from the engineering department and the project manager from the construction unit are accompanying them, and they are still visiting our site now."

"Judging by their stance, they don't want to leave without seeing you."

Chen Cheng clicked his tongue, "They came suddenly?"

"Mmh~" Li Na nodded, "I estimate it's because the commotion on our side is too big."

"The total investment for the first phase alone exceeds 30 billion, which is a very large data center project domestically, or even internationally."

"Once built, this will inevitably become the supercomputing center with the strongest computing power globally in the short term."

"With these 'most' titles, it's hard not to attract the 'concern' of the leaders."

Chen Cheng frowned; some people really did not listen to advice even after being warned.

They insisted on grabbing this performance for themselves.

Chen Cheng had returned to the capital immediately after finalizing the location to meet with some leaders and expressed his wish not to be overly concerned; the leaders had also expressed their support on the spot and made calls.

It seems the effect was not very good.

But thinking back, it was not surprising.

Zhao Yazu, sitting in the passenger seat, had a serious expression.

A total investment of 30 billion.

And that was just the first phase.

No wonder the higher-ups gave her an ambiguous task without a clear goal.

Now she probably understood the purpose of James sending her here.

To spy on the real purpose of this 30 billion, or to spy on what exactly was the reliance that made Chen Cheng so aggressive.

One must know that the total investment in data centers in China last year was only 360 billion.

Chen Cheng invested 30 billion in one go, accounting for nearly 10% of China's total data center investment last year.

Chen Cheng nodded with a smile, "Alright, then let's meet this leader."