Anonymous Contact! Call Me "The Enthusiastic Ordinary Citizen"

Chapter 5: Anonymous Contact! Call Me "The Enthusiastic Ordinary Citizen"

Meanwhile.

Lu Ze had no idea that his email had caused an enormous uproar in Great Xia across the ocean.

After sending the two emails, he removed the SIM card from his phone.

He tossed it into a container of strong acid he had prepared long ago, waiting for it to quietly disappear without a trace.

Although every email he sent was protected by the system and could not be intercepted or obtained by anyone else, with all internet traces erased whether sending or receiving emails,

he still would not willingly expose even the slightest clue, lest anything unexpected happen.

As he slowly walked back into Duke University's campus, the first thing Lu Ze did was collect the free food subsidy distributed by the school.

"If I don't fleece these capitalists, am I even human? I have to fleece them hard!"

"If I don't eat it, who's going to make up for the nutrients I lose?"

Lu Ze muttered to himself as he headed toward a familiar spot.

No matter how bad the food tasted, he absolutely could not let them get away with giving out one less portion.

He had to take his share of every kind of free subsidized food, even if he could not finish it.

He had to take all the free subsidized school supplies too, even if he had no use for them.

Housing aid, tuition reductions, scholarships—if he could apply for them, he would. He absolutely could not let them spend one cent less.

After all, if he saved Eagle Sauce a few hundred or even a thousand US Dollars each month, wouldn't that add up to more than ten thousand US Dollars a year?

He was a state-sponsored international student. The country was paying for him to study in Eagle Sauce, and if he did not fleece Eagle Sauce, was he even human?

If Lu Ze cost Duke University more than ten thousand US Dollars extra every year, wasn't that a contribution to Great Xia?

Bringing glory to the nation was the duty of our generation!

"I remember the lab is offering free snacks and dinner today. I'll go slack off there after lunch break." After finishing his free meal, Lu Ze rubbed his chin.

As an Ivy League university in Eagle Sauce, Duke University had Lu Ze enrolled as a master's student in the School of Mechanical Engineering and Materials, one of its flagship programs. He had also received a full university scholarship.

The value of this degree was beyond question. If he wanted to join any institute or laboratory within the school, he would never be turned away.

After eating and drinking his fill.

"What high-tech item should I copy next?" Lu Ze muttered to himself as he walked back to his dorm.

"Another aircraft? The Achievement Points probably wouldn't be higher than the F-22. Or should I go for some other technology?"

The copying chance only refreshed once a week, so he definitely could not waste it carelessly.

The world's top fighter jet was currently the F-22. As for the others, some, like the F-35, had not officially entered service yet, while others, like the B-2 Spirit bomber, were simply beyond his reach.

As for ordinary aircraft, they probably would not yield many Achievement Points.

After all, this was a place where Blacks ranked first, Whites ranked second, Asians were pushed aside, and Chinese descendants got slapped around. It was difficult for him to access core classified technology.

No one bullied him here, but at school, he was more like a lone outsider.

Still, that made it more convenient for him to copy high-tech items, since it was less likely that anyone would notice his movements.

A while later.

Just as Lu Ze had completed his great campaign of consuming the evil capitalist class's assets,

he was lying on his dorm bed, pondering what he should copy next time,

when a notification suddenly sounded in his mind.

[Ding! Host, the email you sent to the Great Xia Academy of Sciences has received a new reply!]

"They contacted me so quickly?" Lu Ze was somewhat surprised. The speed was beyond his expectations.

He had thought the Great Xia Academy of Sciences would need at least a day or two to verify the source and authenticity of the technology.

Yet less than an hour and a half had passed, and they were already in such a hurry to reply?

He took out another anonymous SIM card, inserted it into a phone, and projected the email interface onto the system's light screen.

The moment he logged into his mailbox, an email immediately popped up.

[Email reply from the Great Xia Academy of Sciences.]

[We have received your technical blueprints. May we ask what you require from us?]

[Please contact us as soon as possible after receiving this reply! —Great Xia Academy of Sciences.]

Looking at the reply, Lu Ze thought for a moment before a line of text appeared:

"Are you satisfied with these technical materials?"

He sent it directly to the Great Xia Academy of Sciences' email address again.

Less than a minute after his reply, another new email appeared.

[We are very satisfied with this technology. What compensation would you like for it?]

[Also, may we establish more detailed contact? —Great Xia Academy of Sciences.]

Clearly, someone on the other side had been watching closely, which was why the replies came so quickly.

After all, this was an anonymous encrypted email. The Great Xia Academy of Sciences had no idea who had sent it.

Song Qinyi and Liu Zhixue had even speculated whether it was a hidden piece planted in Eagle Sauce decades ago.

Now that this person had obtained the F-22 fighter jet's design blueprints, if anyone else discovered it, they would be plunged into tremendous danger.

The mysterious person's situation was now urgent. They had to help him leave as soon as possible.

What they meant by establishing contact was using special means to safely bring him out.

Lu Ze naturally understood the meaning behind the Great Xia Academy of Sciences' email and replied directly.

"You don't need to know who I am. You may call me [The Enthusiastic Ordinary Citizen!]"

"If necessary, I'll leave you an email to inform you. Remember to pay me for the F-22 fighter jet's design blueprints!"

It was not yet time for him to return to Great Xia, and he was not worried in the slightest that the technology copied by the system would be exposed.

The time to reveal his true identity had not come either.

After sending those replies.

Lu Ze removed the SIM card and followed the same procedure as before, physically destroying the evidence once again.

Luckily, SIM cards in Eagle Sauce were all anonymous these days. Otherwise, he would not have been able to buy so many.

Elsewhere.

Great Xia Academy of Sciences.

Liu Zhixue helplessly shook his head, silently closed the email interface, and deleted the records of those emails.

"Old Liu, how did the contact go?" Song Qinyi from Institute 611 still had not hung up the phone and immediately asked.

"He didn't reveal any information. He said he would contact us later." After briefly relaying the details, Liu Zhixue sighed. "Sigh, it seems this mysterious person still hopes to remain in Eagle Sauce. That way, he can play the greatest possible role."

As for the compensation mentioned by the mysterious person, Liu Zhixue did not take it to heart.

How could F-22 fighter jet design blueprints possibly be measured in money?

That was something not even tens of billions of US Dollars could buy!

The research and development costs alone had consumed a full seventy billion US Dollars from Eagle Sauce. It had taken more than ten years and tens of thousands of elite researchers to produce it.

Compensation?

It was not a question of how much they could offer. Whatever compensation he wanted, they would give it to him!