Chapter 303 "Gift" - Earthquake Inducer

"That assassin is a peripheral member of the 'Dark Blade' team under the Sakura Country intelligence agency, having undergone special driving and combat training."

"The direct order for this operation came from within Sakura Country, with the goal of attempting to eliminate Academician Jiang Jing."

"Their logic is simple: the technologies developed by Academician Jiang Jing are all epoch-making and greatly enhance the national power of the Dragon Country. As an old enemy of the Dragon Country, they are very happy to see a genius of the Dragon Country nipped in the bud."

"Even if this operation fails, it can still count as a probe into the security forces around Academician Jiang Jing, collecting data for their subsequent potential actions."

Zhou Wanqin had the speakerphone on and relayed Minister Liu's words to Jiang Jing exactly as they were.

After listening, Jiang Jing had no expression of surprise on his face, only nodding faintly.

A tall tree catches the wind; he understood this principle.

As the technologies he produced became more astonishing, and the interests and strategic landscape he touched became deeper, it was only a matter of time before he was targeted by hostile forces.

That Sakura Country jumped out was completely within his expectations.

He even suspected that the USA might have been instigating or providing support behind the scenes.

After all, who doesn't know that the USA is the Dragon Country's number one "strategic competitor" and shares an alliance with Sakura Country where they are thick as thieves.

Seeing that Jiang Jing only nodded after listening and then closed his eyes with a slight frown, saying nothing, Zhou Wanqin and Lin Hong thought he was angered by the despicable and shameless methods of Sakura Country, and could not help but feel a sense of empathy and indignation.

However, they were completely wrong.

Jiang Jing closing his eyes was not because he was angry, but because he had submerged his consciousness into the System Store interface in his mind.

Take a loss and not pay it back?

That is not Jiang Jing's personality!

A tooth for a tooth is his motto!

Besides, he possesses such a heaven-defying cheat as the system, what is there to fear?

There are so many mysterious items in the store; casually buying a few to "return the gift" would be a dimensionality-reduction strike, easy and pleasant.

As his consciousness entered the vast, star-like list of products, Jiang Jing began to browse and filter rapidly.

[Primary Genetic Virus (Specific Ethnic Group): Value 28 billion, powerful effect, but prone to causing uncontrollable consequences.]

Skip directly; this thing is simply harmful to heaven and humanity, and Jiang Jing is not a pervert...

[Disposable Meteorological Interferer (Regional Rainstorm/Drought): Value 1.5 billion]

The effect is not direct enough; it's like scratching an itch through a boot.

[Financial Storm Inducement Voucher (Designated Country): Value 20 billion]

Too expensive... Jiang Jing really can't bear to use it on them.

[Bad Luck Curse Talisman (Single Target): Value 50 million]

The effect is random and not satisfying enough.

All kinds of items were dazzling, with strange and bizarre functions, and prices ranging from tens of millions to hundreds of billions.

Jiang Jing was dazzled; some items were ridiculously expensive and he couldn't afford them right now.

Others felt useless, or their side effects were hard to control.

He needed to find a "good gift" that was moderately priced, effective, capable of precision strikes against the opponent, and wouldn't easily implicate the innocent.

He kept scrolling, filtering, and comparing...

Time passed quietly in contemplation.

Seeing Jiang Jing keeping his eyes closed and silent, his brows sometimes knitted and sometimes relaxed, Zhou Wanqin and Lin Hong thought he was pondering something and didn't dare to make a sound to disturb him.

After a long while, Jiang Jing's tightly closed eyes suddenly opened.

A flash of excitement darted through his eyes.

Found it!

His gaze was firmly locked on an item in the store list—

[Disposable Earthquake Inducer (Regional Type)]

[Description: Can set coordinates to induce earthquakes of controllable intensity (Level 1-7) in a designated area (maximum range 100 square kilometers). The induction process complies with natural laws.]

[Price: 5 billion]

As the name suggests, it can induce an earthquake in an area.

And it can control the intensity and range!

The corners of Jiang Jing's mouth slowly curled into a cold arc.

Sakura Country, right?

Like to play tricks underground, right?

Fine, then I'll send you this "big gift," hope you like it.

Consciousness locked, confirm purchase!

[Ding! Purchase successful!]

At the same time, a palm-sized, streamlined, silver-gray device full of futuristic technological feel appeared silently in his system storage space.

Returning to the hotel suite, Jiang Jing couldn't wait to take the little gadget out by himself.

The device felt slightly heavy in his hand; the material was neither metal nor wood, and the front was a black mirror-like surface similar to a touchscreen.

Jiang Jing activated it, the screen lit up, and it was indeed as simple and crude as described, with only two options:

Coordinate Input: (Longitude, Latitude)

Induction Intensity: (Level 1-7, slider defaults to 1)

"It really is... user-friendly, idiot-proof operation."

Jiang Jing weighed the little thing in his hand and couldn't help but sigh.

It was such an inconspicuous thing, yet it could easily trigger a localized man-made natural disaster.

System products are indeed all black technology.

Next, it was time to choose the "gift-giving" address.

Jiang Jing took out his phone and began searching for the geographic information and important industrial distribution of Sakura Country.

Although Sakura Country is a tiny place, it still takes some effort to find a suitable location.

Jiang Jing's principles were very clear:

First, try not to implicate too many innocent civilians; those poor workers have it hard enough.

Second, if you're going to hit, hit where it hurts the most, causing the greatest substantial loss.

Military base?

He had thought about it, but firstly, he didn't know the specific coordinates.

Secondly, the buildings in such places are definitely top-standard for explosion and earthquake resistance; a level 6 or 7 earthquake would probably just shake them a bit, with little effect.

Nuclear power plant?

Too dangerous, easy to lose control, triggering an uncontrollable ecological disaster, PASS.

After much thought, Jiang Jing's gaze locked onto a type of target—High-Tech Industrial Parks!

The locations of these parks are public and can be found online.

They gather a large number of precision instruments, high-end equipment, clean rooms, and core technologies currently under development.

If any one of these things breaks, it's worth a fortune, and they are extremely fragile, unable to withstand violent shaking.

Especially things like lithography machines, which cost hundreds of millions of dollars and have insane precision requirements; one shake and they would probably be written off directly.

"Yes, that's it!" Jiang Jing quickly locked onto a target—the "XXXX Tech Industrial Cluster" located in the XX region.

This is one of the core areas for Sakura Country's electronics, semiconductor, and precision machinery industries.