This Radar, is it Fake?

It took less than two minutes.

On the other end of the phone, accompanied by the static of the signal transfer, an unfamiliar voice answered.

"Hello, this is the Air Force Management Command Center."

"Hello."

Chen Yi repeated his request: "Requesting test flight for drones, serial numbers 0A01 and 0A02."

"0A01, please confirm the airspace you wish to test fly in."

"Airspace?"

Chen Yi paused, then understood.

This referred to the flight path and altitude range for his test flight.

"Taking off from Penghai, coordinates E114,05,51.17, N22,38,18.79."

"After takeoff, head west-northwest, passing through Guangxi Province, Yunnan Province, the Hengduan Mountains, and the Himalayas."

"Altitude, below 70,000 meters."

There was a moment of silence on the other end of the phone, as if they were seeking instructions.

After more than ten seconds, the voice spoke again.

"0A01, your test flight application has been approved.

Please pay attention to civil aviation routes and do not linger excessively in civil aviation altitude ranges.

Also, drones are prohibited from breaking the sound barrier in airspace below one kilometer."

"Thank you."

Chen Yi expressed his gratitude.

He hung up the phone, opened the rolling shutter door on the side of the second floor.

Then he moved the signal relay multi-rotor drone and some signal equipment to the open balcony on the third floor.

He also brought a portable induction cooker and a small soup pot, took out noodles, fatty beef, sliced lamb and beef, mushrooms, and vegetables from the refrigerator. After a simple wash, he prepared to have a private meal while test flying the drone.

Knowing Chen Yi's habit of staying up late irregularly, these ingredients were prepared by Qin Xiaoyu and kept in the refrigerator, with regular replacements, so that Chen Yi could cook for himself if he got hungry in the middle of the night.

He opened his laptop, connected the signal antenna and control rudder, to facilitate external concealment.

"Begin takeoff!"

He started boiling water in the pot.

Chen Yi powered on the virtual helmet, activated its main functions, then put on the brainwave sensing headband and adjusted the immersive AR glasses to look like student glasses.

With a thought.

His brainwaves flashed.

Hiss!

A jet sound echoed from the second floor.

This sound was quite noticeable in the still early morning environment.

Two seconds later.

A drone, with a blue glow emanating from its underside and tail, appeared.

It looked like a pixilated manta ray.

It tilted out through the open rolling shutter door on the second floor.

With a width of over 3 meters, it already exceeded the width of the rolling shutter door.

To get out, it could only do so at such an angle.

"Looks like I need to find a new place when I have time.

Now that the drone is built, it's difficult to even get it out."

Through the precise control of the ion thrusters, Chen Yi guided the Sun Never Sets Drone out of the second floor and into the open air.

The control surface on the left wing deflected.

The drone's tilted angle leveled out.

Then, violent airflow and glow erupted from beneath the fuselage.

The entire drone ascended vertically, rapidly reaching an altitude of several hundred meters.

"This is incredible."

Once airborne, Chen Yi habitually activated the infrared scanning function.

Before the sun rose and the ambient temperature increased, he confirmed the presence of any life forms in the vicinity.

to prevent the drone from harming or affecting people around it when it accelerates later.

But as soon as it was turned on, a series of red dots, orderly distributed around his home and occasionally moving, were projected onto Chen Yi's retina through the AR glasses.

For Chen Yi, who had lived here for several years and was very familiar with his surroundings.

He could tell at a glance that the locations where these red dots moved were all key access points, vantage points, and observation points around his home.

"Am I that important now?"

Chen Yi recalled Professor Zhang's words about his consultant status, which made it convenient to arrange things for him. He had a rough idea of who these people were.

It was obvious that these were professional security personnel arranged to prevent him from ending up like the nuclear physicist from Persia.

"Rotating detonation engine, three-component scramjet engine, as well as formula models involving four or even five-component engines.

Including Yifei's ultra-high energy battery and high-end stress materials.

It seems, indeed, that I am that awesome and qualified."

Chen Yi counted the technologies he had revealed during this period.

Not counting the black technologies he used for his own projects, just the technologies that had already been made public and not concealed were enough to be considered National Scholar Unparalleled.

More importantly, he was only 300 months old.

Compared to other experts and academicians in their forties, fifties, sixties, and seventies.

No matter how you looked at it, he could be considered to have infinite potential.

In such a situation, adding a little bit of protection was a reasonable thing.

"Whatever, I don't have to pay their salaries anyway, and they aren't affecting my privacy by being close. If they want to protect me, let them."

Chen Yi shook his head, put the matter out of his mind, and began to control the drone to fly to an altitude of one thousand meters, then activated the engines at full power.

Whoosh!

The early morning sky.

A bright light suddenly flashed.

Rolling mist emerged around the drone.

Immediately after, the drone's speed increased significantly.

It broke through the sound barrier, pierced through the clouds, and flew west.

A few seconds later.

The roar of the sound barrier being broken, the gale generated by the supersonic shockwave.

Along with the rising sunlight, it cascaded down from the sky above.

But after attenuation over a distance of one kilometer.

Except for the slightly warm sunlight of summer, the roar and the gale had long since become as gentle as a breeze.

"Drone is starting to charge.

Real-time charging efficiency, 5.57 kWh per square meter per 12 hours.

As expected of the summer sun.

It just broke through the clouds and hasn't even reached the stratosphere where radiation is stronger, yet the morning sun is this intense.

If it reaches the stratosphere, the real-time efficiency at noon will definitely exceed 20 kWh."

Chen Yi looked at the charging parameters projected by the AR.

After thinking for a moment, he slightly reduced the drone's speed.

He controlled the speed to be in the subsonic range of 300 meters per second.

To avoid flying too fast for the sun to catch up.

"Today's mission, catching the sun, successful."

After observing for a while and confirming that the drone's flight and charging were normal.

Chen Yi activated the automatic flight program and turned off the AR projection in one eye.

He picked up his chopsticks, grabbed a mouthful of lamb, swished it in the pot.

He then prepared some dipping sauce, opened a bottle of pineapple beer, and began to eat breakfast.

Half an hour later.

Chen Yi finished his breakfast and put the pot and bowls aside.

He took out two more plates of sunflower seeds and dried fruits, and turned on the AR projection.

While cracking sunflower seeds, he kept an eye on the drone's flight.

"Altitude 8600, speed 312 m/s, endurance supplement 32.6%."

"The flight data and engine power curve performance this time are also quite good."

"Unlike the data from the last test flight, there aren't as many minor issues."

Check the drone's flight parameters and recorded flight data one more time.

Chen Yi turned his gaze to the area below the drone.

The powerful radar imaging function clearly captured the streetscape of the city below.

On both sides of the wide roads, countless electric vehicles and Hongguang MINIs were shuttling back and forth.

Workers, dressed in uniform clothing, were rushing to work.

Compared to Penghai, which was more refined with its shirts, skirts, laptop bags, and leather shoes and suits.

The city below was clearly a bit more rustic.

On both sides of the streets, breakfast shops had already opened for business.

Through an angled view, the drone's camera clearly captured the signs of these shops.

Various kinds of rice noodles.

Luosifen, Guilin rice noodles, Laoyou noodles, dry-mixed noodles, and so on and so forth. They accounted for more than half of the offerings.

"We've reached Liucheng."

"No wonder there are so many rice noodle shops."

Looking at the dazzling array of food signs, Chen Yi felt his recently full stomach grow hungry again.

"Next time, I must create a functional module for the drone that can sense taste, and combine it with brainwave technology for remote virtual tasting of delicacies!"

After watching for a while and taking photos one by one.

Chen Yi murmured to himself, and the drone ascended.

It accelerated along the Xijiang River basin, heading straight for Yunnan Province, flying towards the Hengduan Mountains.

However, Chen Yi, who was enjoying the magnificent landscapes of his country and the vibrant atmosphere of the cities during his flight.

Was unaware.

At the Air Force Management Command Center.

A group of people stared at the supersonic positioning signal on the screen, then compared it with the completely empty and blank radar detection interface beside it.

Everyone couldn't help but fall silent.

Some of them couldn't help but have an absurd thought.

This radar must be fake.