It was a little past seven in the evening.
After finishing their feast, Lu Ze returned to his dorm room on trembling legs.
"Luckily, Lucy went easy on me this time and didn't show her full strength. Otherwise, I wouldn't even have had enough money to pay."
He had gained a whole new understanding of Lucy's appetite. She had eaten enough for three normal people, yet she was only seventy percent full?
If her family wasn't well-off, they probably wouldn't even be able to afford to raise her, right?
After sitting quietly in his chair for a while to recover, Lu Ze glanced at the system panel displayed on the light screen.
[Achievement Points: 8,500!] [System Space Inventory: F-22 fifth-generation heavy air-superiority fighter jet, Boeing 777-300ER civilian airliner.] [Copies Available: 0] (Refreshes every Monday!)
Looking at the weapons and equipment in the System Space inventory, Lu Ze rubbed his chin. "Another Boeing 777... How about selling it to Great Xia at a low price when I return home?"
"I can materialize it in secret without anyone noticing. There's no way anyone could find out."
At his rate of copying one high-tech item per week, he could copy nearly ten items by the time this semester ended and he returned home.
Keeping them all in the System Space wasn't a solution either. As long as he concealed his identity properly, he felt it wouldn't be bad to hand them over to Great Xia.
The only problem was how to explain it. A civilian airliner like the Boeing 777 was easier to account for, but if an F-22 fighter jet suddenly appeared within Great Xia's borders, that would already be rather challenging to explain.
Later, he would be copying destroyers and perhaps even aircraft carriers. How was he supposed to hand those over? Which port was he supposed to dock them in?
Lu Ze simply stopped trying to think of a solution. "Why do I need to explain anything? It's not like Great Xia would refuse them!"
Even if they fell from the sky, could Great Xia really say no?
As for where they came from, wouldn't it be whatever he said it was?
"For now, I should contact the Great Xia Academy of Sciences."
Great Xia Academy of Sciences, Yanjing.
It was eight in the morning. Sunlight slowly spread across the land, warming everyone from head to toe.
Then, an email suddenly disrupted the quiet, peaceful scene.
"It's a new email. It was sent five minutes ago," the staff member on duty reported.
Zhang Yuli nodded. "I understand. Go get some rest first."
Sitting in his chair, he quickly repeated the various verification procedures from before.
Beside him, Zheng Lixing stared eagerly. "Old Zhang, do you think they got the technology?"
Zhang Yuli shook his head, his eyes filled with seriousness. "We don't know yet. Let's read the email first."
In an instant.
Under the two men's watchful gazes, the email popped up.
[Sorry, we were unable to obtain the B-2 bomber technology this time. We will need to wait for another opportunity.]
"So it really failed. This technology truly isn't so easy to obtain," Zheng Lixing sighed, though he was not surprised.
That was the world's top strategic stealth bomber, the most closely guarded secret of Eagle Sauce's secrets. How could its technology possibly be acquired so easily?
Failure was normal. Success was the miracle.
Zhang Yuli naturally understood that as well. After thinking for a moment, he typed out a reply and sent it:
'Your personal safety is the most important thing. Even though this mission failed, we will still pay you a certain amount of compensation, to be settled together with the previous payment.'
He was even somewhat relieved. Fortunately, the mission had merely failed, rather than the mysterious person being injured or killed while forcibly trying to obtain the B-2 bomber technology.
It was still the same saying: to Great Xia, the mysterious person was far more important than the B-2 bomber technology.
Zheng Lixing comforted him from the side. "Besides, we can't afford to use a B-2 bomber right now anyway. It's fine to wait."
"Even if we had the technology, we wouldn't have the money to build one!"
Zhang Yuli laughed and scolded him irritably. "Don't worry, Old Man Zheng. I'm not going to be upset over this."
He had never placed much hope in it to begin with, so he naturally did not feel much disappointment now.
Besides, Great Xia genuinely could not afford the terrifying cost of a B-2 bomber.
Otherwise, Eagle Sauce would not have stopped after building only twenty-one B-2 bombers. Even Eagle Sauce, with annual military spending of hundreds of billions of US Dollars, could not afford to maintain them, let alone Great Xia as it was now.
The wear, maintenance, and support costs for one hour of flight alone came to a full million yuan. Even the air force could not support such a money-devouring beast.
Before the two could speak much more.
Another email from the mysterious person soon arrived.
[We failed this time and only obtained some relatively ordinary technology. Are you interested?]
Zheng Lixing frowned as he looked at that line. "Ordinary technology? What kind of technology could that be?"
"M109 self-propelled howitzer? M60 main battle tank? Or some kind of large-caliber destructive weapon?"
Zhang Yuli pondered for quite a while. "Hard to say. I think it might be something better."
Although those were indeed ordinary technologies in the truest sense, they did not match the mysterious person's usual style of operation.
He guessed that, at the very least, it should be something on the level of an M1A1 main battle tank or a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter.
'We are very interested!' Zhang Yuli continued typing his reply.
Although he did not know what technology it was, he had a faint feeling that it would bring him a huge surprise.
It seemed the mysterious person did not make them wait long.
The Great Xia Academy of Sciences' email backend received a brand-new message.
[Boeing 777 series civilian airliner technology design blueprints.]
And just like last time, the attachments contained densely packed compressed files. Combined, they again exceeded dozens of TB in total size.
<Boeing 777-200 base model complete design blueprints!>
General Electric GE90-115B engine design details!
<Auxiliary power unit and flight control system designs>
<Composite materials and new titanium alloy material technology synthesis analysis!>
As they stared at the email before them.
The two men's eyes nearly popped out of their heads. Adrenaline surged violently through their bodies, turning their faces red as they began trembling uncontrollably.
Zheng Lixing felt his head buzzing. "The complete technology package for the Boeing 777 series?"
"You call this ordinary technology?"
"It seems I still underestimated this mysterious person's capabilities." Zhang Yuli took a deep breath and slowly calmed his excited emotions.
The Boeing 777 was the undisputed king among large Boeing civilian airliners. If this could be called ordinary technology, then what did the technologies they had mentioned earlier count as?
In the mysterious person's eyes, would those not merely be garbage technologies?
Zheng Lixing muttered to himself, "Just who is he in Eagle Sauce, to even get his hands on technology like this?"
This was the lifeblood of Boeing, even of Eagle Sauce itself, capable of generating hundreds of billions of US Dollars in annual output value.
In terms of difficulty, obtaining it was probably not much easier than acquiring F-22 fighter jet technology!
This was not the technology for a single component, but the complete technology package for every aspect of the entire Boeing 777 series.
To obtain this technology, not only would one need the full cooperation of Boeing's upper management, but countless engineers would also need to take part before such detailed technical documentation could be acquired.
What kind of identity did this mysterious person have to accomplish something so absurd?
At this point, even if he said he could fly, Zheng Lixing would consider whether it might actually be true.
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