This Thing's Kick is Stronger!

"We have received the payment. If there are any new technologies or other situations in the future, we will proactively contact Great Xia Academy of Sciences."

After sending this message, Lu Ze directly closed the email system.

He didn't choose to refuse the payment. After all, how could he not understand the customs of Great Xia?

Just like New Year's red envelopes, politely refusing is just a formality. No matter how much you refuse, it's useless. What's meant to be yours will be yours. But if you don't accept it, it means you're impolite.

"That actually reminded me. This 'Great Wall Watchers' organization is a good idea."

Lu Ze raised an eyebrow, an idea forming in his mind.

When he materialized the weapons and equipment later, he wouldn't have to worry about finding a reasonable excuse. It wasn't even impossible to turn this organization into reality.

A mysterious organization truly hidden within Eagle Country and even the Western world? He found the thought amusing.

Just because they could do it, couldn't he, Lu Ze? It didn't make sense!

"However, I still need to find a way to conceal my identity," Lu Ze mused.

If he couldn't find a way to cover his tracks or identity, he wouldn't dare risk appearing in a place where he might be discovered.

In 2009, although the internet wasn't as developed, various surveillance equipment was already quite sophisticated. Once a target was locked, it wouldn't take much effort to trace back to his real identity.

Without solving this problem, he could currently only conduct all his communications within the system's absolutely protected network environment.

Having figured this out, Lu Ze glanced at the time.

"Holy crap, how is it already past nine?"

A curse slipped out, and he rushed out of the dormitory.

He had promised Lucy they would meet at the cafeteria at 8:30 yesterday, and now he was more than half an hour late.

He knew that despite Lucy's usually good temper.

When she truly got angry, a movie quote could describe her prowess:

"She won the championship in her first free-style kickboxing match in Southeast Asia in 1974."

Meanwhile, at the Great Xia Academy of Sciences, nearing dawn in the deep of night.

Computers were rapidly downloading technical data in terabytes, re-encrypting and storing it in isolation.

Watching the progress bar inch upwards.

"Old Zhang, could this thing have come from some commercial company, or that organization?"

Zheng Lixing's smile was full of peculiarity.

Otherwise, why would the mysterious organization on the other side hand it over to Great Xia so eagerly, as if it were a hot potato, not even wanting the payment?

"Highly possible," Zhang Yuli nodded.

He wouldn't be too surprised if the organization on the other side did anything earth-shattering.

"However, this small drone technology truly has the highest value here in Great Xia."

He frowned, lost in thought, and said, "In any aspect, we have unique and advantageous conditions."

Hearing this.

Zheng Lixing pondered for a moment and agreed, "That's true."

Great Xia's industrialization level was already taking shape, possessing the world's most complete industrial system. Whether in terms of the industrial chain, supply chain, or scale, the production cost of industrial products like small drones would be the lowest.

If it were in Eagle Country or Europe, the various production costs alone would start from several hundred US Dollars.

But here in Great Xia, the unit might be RMB.

Moreover, the manufacturing difficulty of the entire small drone wasn't high. The core components were the flight control program, rotor motor chips, and other key technologies. The manufacturing cost alone could be resolved for one or two hundred RMB.

But what was its utility?

Suddenly, Zheng Lixing had an epiphany: "Why do we always think of using small drones for high-altitude reconnaissance or long-range reconnaissance and attack missions?"

"This small drone has a flight altitude of one thousand meters and a remote sensing range of a few kilometers."

"Can't it be used as a short-range precision strike or short-range reconnaissance and attack method?"

As someone who had been researching military equipment for decades, his thinking was always very flexible.

Drones didn't necessarily have to be used as target drones, high-altitude reconnaissance drones, reconnaissance-attack drones, or decoys like in the past.

The representative works of traditional drones in this aspect were Eagle Country's RQ-4 Global Hawk reconnaissance drone and MQ-9 Reaper drone.

Their size was no different from conventional fighter jets or reconnaissance aircraft. They were simply unmanned, reusable, route-planned, remote-controlled aircraft, and their engines might even be similar.

But this small drone represented a completely different development path.

"Its cost allows it to be used as a consumable for repeated, high-frequency use."

The more Zheng Lixing thought about it, the more it made sense, his face flushed with excitement. "Even a remote sensing range of just one or two kilometers is completely sufficient, because it only needs to complete one mission."

"It can perfectly handle reconnaissance, strike, airdrop, and bombing within a radius of a few kilometers."

With such low costs, there was no need to consider whether this small drone could successfully return.

If this mission is successfully completed, we'll get a hundred, even a thousand times the return. Next time, we can just use a new drone.

Why have most large group armies, and even division-level units, been abolished? Because modern warfare is conducted in battalion units, and each squad is a firepower strike point.

In this situation, small drones can play their biggest role at the squad level.

"Hiss..."

Zhang Yuli gasped, "Doesn't that mean these small drones can completely change the nature of localized warfare?"

Especially for low-intensity, localized conflicts or urban warfare, these small drones are like an overpowered killing weapon.

Remotely scout from a safe location, and within a few kilometers, they can snipe you or stealthily gather reconnaissance intelligence.

"That's right, this is the perfect scenario for these small drones."

Zheng Lixing slapped his thigh hard. "Now that we even have a use case, I think it's highly feasible."

"Now it's time to verify its feasibility."

After listening, Zhang Yuli also pondered, "So... who would be the most suitable buyer?"

After all, Great Xia hasn't been involved in localized wars recently; stable economic development has been the main theme in recent years.

To verify if their hypothesis is correct, it's necessary to let these small drones be tested on the battlefield once.

The sooner this weapon that can change the landscape of war is verified, the better!

Suddenly.

The two instantly thought of a name and exchanged glances.

Zhang Yuli quickly picked up the phone and gave instructions, "Notify Persia, tell them to come over quickly."

"We have important matters to discuss with him."

Didn't they want to purchase a batch of weapons before?

What era is this to still be using traditional weapons?

Just use small drones; these things pack a bigger punch.

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