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Chapter 24

You call this ordinary technology? What is the identity of the mysterious person in Eagle Nation?

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It was past 7 PM.

After the big meal, Lu Ze returned to his dorm room, trembling.

"Fortunately, Lucy let me off the hook this time and didn't use her full strength. Otherwise, I wouldn't have had enough money to pay."

He had gained a new understanding of Lucy's appetite. She ate the equivalent of three normal people's portions and still only felt 70% full?

If a family wasn't well-off, they probably couldn't afford to feed her, right?

Sitting quietly in a chair to recover for a while, Lu Ze glanced at the system panel displayed on the light screen.

[Achievement Points: 8500 points!] [System Space Inventory: F-22 Fifth Generation Heavy Air Superiority Fighter, Boeing 777-300ER civil airliner, .] [Replication Count: 0] (Resets once every Monday!)

Looking at the weapons and equipment in the system space inventory, Lu Ze stroked his chin. "Another Boeing 777? Maybe I'll sell it to Great Xia at a low price when I return to the country?"

"If I secretly manifest it without anyone noticing, no one will ever find out."

At his current rate of replicating one high-tech item per week, he would have replicated nearly ten items by the end of the semester when he returned home.

It wasn't practical to keep them all in the system space. As long as he concealed his identity, he thought it would be good to hand them over to Great Xia.

However, explaining how he got them would be a major problem. Boeing 777 airliners would be easier to explain, but an F-22 fighter jet suddenly appearing within Great Xia's borders would already be pushing the limits of credulity.

Later, he planned to replicate a destroyer or even an aircraft carrier. How would he hand those over? Which port would he dock them at?

Lu Ze decided to stop thinking about solutions. "Why should I explain? Great Xia won't refuse them anyway!"

Even if they fell from the sky, would Great Xia say they refused?

Where they came from would be up to him to decide at that time. Whatever he said the source was, that's what it would be!

"For now, I should contact the Great Xia Academy of Sciences first."

Great Xia Academy of Sciences, Yanjing.

It was 8 AM. The sun was shining warmly on the land, making everything feel cozy.

Suddenly, an email disrupted the peaceful and serene scene.

"It's a brand new email, sent five minutes ago," the duty officer reported.

Zhang Yuli nodded. "I know. You can go rest now."

He sat in his chair, quickly repeating the verification procedures he had done before.

Zheng Lixing, standing nearby, stared intently. "Old Zhang, do you think we got the technology?"

Zhang Yuli shook his head, his eyes filled with seriousness. "We don't know yet. Let's read the email content first."

Instantly.

Under their watchful eyes, the email popped up.

[Apologies, we did not obtain the B-2 bomber technology this time. We will have to wait for the next opportunity.]

"So it failed. This technology is indeed not easy to obtain," Zheng Lixing sighed, not surprised.

That was the world's top strategic stealth bomber, a top secret of the Eagle Country. How could its technology be easily acquired?

Failure was the norm; success was a miracle.

Zhang Yuli naturally understood this. After a moment of thought, he replied to the email:

'Your personal safety is paramount. We will still pay you a certain remuneration for this failed mission, to be settled along with the previous payment.'

He was even somewhat relieved that the mission had only failed and that the mysterious person hadn't been injured or killed trying to forcibly obtain the B-2 bomber technology.

As he had said before, this mysterious person was far more important to Great Xia than the B-2 bomber technology.

Zheng Lixing comforted him from the side. "Besides, we can't afford to use the B-2 bomber anyway. Waiting a bit is fine."

"Even if we had the technology, we wouldn't have the money to build it!"

Zhang Yuli laughed and scolded him good-naturedly. "Don't worry, Old Man Zheng. I won't be too upset about this."

He hadn't had high hopes for it in the first place, so he wasn't disappointed now.

Moreover, the exorbitant cost of the B-2 bomber was something Great Xia truly couldn't afford right now.

Otherwise, the Eagle Country wouldn't have stopped at building just 21 B-2 bombers, despite its annual military budget of hundreds of billions of dollars. Even they couldn't afford to maintain them, let alone Great Xia today.

The cost of maintenance and operation for just one hour of flight was a million RMB. The Air Force couldn't afford such a "money pit" either.

Before the two could converse further.

Soon, the mysterious person's email was sent again.

[We missed this time and only obtained some relatively ordinary technology. Are you interested?]

Zheng Lixing frowned as he read the line. "Ordinary technology? What kind of technology could it be?"

"M109 self-propelled howitzer? M60 main battle tank? Or some kind of high-caliber lethal weapon?"

Zhang Yuli pondered for a long time. "It's hard to say. I think it might be something better."

Although these technologies were indeed ordinary, they didn't align with the mysterious person's usual style of operation.

He guessed that the technology should at least be on the level of an M1A1 main battle tank or a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter.

"We are very interested!" Zhang Yuli continued to type his reply.

Although he didn't know what the technology was, he had a vague feeling it would bring him a huge surprise.

It seemed they didn't have to wait long.

The backend of the Great Xia Academy of Sciences' email received a brand new message.

[Boeing Civil Airliner 777 Series Technical Design Blueprints.]

The attachments inside, just like last time, were densely packed compression files, with a total file size exceeding tens of terabytes.

Boeing 777-200 Basic Comprehensive Design Blueprint!

General Electric GE90-115B Engine Design Detailed Explanation!

Auxiliary Power Unit and Flight Control System Design

Composite Materials and New Titanium Alloy Materials Technology Synthesis Analysis!

Staring at this email before them.

The eyes of both men almost bulged out, their adrenaline surging, causing their faces to turn red and their bodies to tremble involuntarily.

Zheng Lixing felt his head buzzing: "Hiss... the complete set of technologies for the Boeing 777 series aircraft?"

"You call this ordinary technology?"

"It seems I underestimated this mysterious person's capabilities," Zhang Yuli took a deep breath, slowly calming his excited emotions.

This was the absolute king among Boeing 777 civil airliners. If this could be called ordinary technology, what would the technologies they mentioned earlier be?

In the eyes of the mysterious person, wouldn't they only be considered trash technology?

Zheng Lixing muttered to himself: "What is his identity in Eagle Country for him to be able to obtain this kind of technology?"

This was the lifeline of Boeing, and even Eagle Country, generating hundreds of billions of U.S. dollars in output value annually.

Even in terms of acquisition difficulty, this wouldn't be much easier than the F-22 fighter jet technology!

This wasn't the technology for a single component, but the entire set of technologies for the entire Boeing 777 series, from top to bottom.

To obtain these technologies would require the full cooperation of Boeing's high-level management, and even many engineers would have to be involved to get such detailed technical data.

What kind of identity did the mysterious person have to achieve such an outrageous feat?

Now, even if he said he could fly, Zheng Lixing would consider if it was true.

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