34: Copy! This F22 still has its charm, let me see it

Chapter 34: Copy! This F22 is still charming, let me see!

The pedestrians were in a hurry, and even though it was only eight o'clock in the morning, the California weather made the sun seem unbearable.

LLNL Laboratory employee cafeteria.

Because it was Monday, the number of people coming for breakfast was more than half the usual, making it unusually crowded.

Everyone's gaze inevitably turned in one direction, towards the two people currently eating heartily, and the piles of food next to them.

Lucy and Lu Ze, accustomed to being the center of attention, were unfazed.

"I didn't expect there to be Chinese food for breakfast today? And it seems to be pre-processed, semi-finished dishes, this is really..."

Lu Ze wiped his mouth, saying with lingering pleasure, "It's so damn delicious!"

If this kind of pre-processed (pre-made) Chinese food were served in Da Xia, even the most good-tempered diner would curse the chef's ancestors.

But you have to know this is Eagle Country, and Lu Ze could only describe this dish as 'delicacies.'

Even Da Xia's 'Lin'an Hangzhou cuisine,' considered a culinary wasteland in Da Xia, would be a dimensionality reduction attack in Eagle Country.

"Lu Ze, aren't you eating anymore?" Lucy was still immersed in her eating mode. "These dumplings are delicious, you should eat more."

"You eat, I'm full."

Lu Ze's forehead was covered in black lines.

He found other pre-made dishes acceptable, but he absolutely could not tolerate these dumplings.

Who could tell him why the dumplings made here in Eagle Country used cream and strawberries as filling? Is this something a person can eat?

Lu Ze was kind-hearted and couldn't bear to see this; these heretics should all be burned!

More than ten minutes later, several more empty plates appeared on the table.

Lucy took a few sips of juice, stood up, and stretched her limbs. "Lu Ze, do you have time later?"

"Yes, do you need something?" Lu Ze nodded.

Isn't that obvious? As Professor Hassen's two top students, when were they ever not free?

Besides sleeping, we just play, nothing else!

"I plan to go to the maintenance center this afternoon." Lucy stretched, showing off her impressive curves. "Come with me and help me out."

She needed to deliver some materials to the maintenance center later. Although her personality was even more laid-back than Lu Ze's, this was something Professor Hassen had asked for, and as a student, she didn't mind helping a little.

However, these materials weighed fifty to sixty pounds in total, and besides Lu Ze, she couldn't find a better person.

It wasn't that Lucy didn't know anyone, but she didn't get along with the other lab members as well as she did with Lu Ze.

"Going to the maintenance center?"

Lu Ze's heart immediately rejoiced, but his face remained calm. "Then I'll go with you later."

He had been thinking during breakfast about what excuse to use to get Lucy to take him there.

After all, the new batch of weapon equipment hadn't been put into the Ammunition Depot yet, and his previous excuse might not hold up. Unexpectedly, Lucy offered to go to the maintenance center herself.

"I'll find you then."

Lucy walked out of the cafeteria with light steps, showing no signs of being overly full.

Near evening, LLNL Laboratory weapon equipment Maintenance Center.

It was still the large factory building filled with various weapon equipment.

"It will take me half an hour to deliver the materials. Lu Ze, please wait for me here." Lucy said with a smile, walking towards the internal area in front of the maintenance center, which was the real core inspection and upgrade area.

The current location was more just a large Ammunition Depot for storing weapon equipment.

"Okay." Lu Ze echoed, watching Lucy's graceful figure gradually disappear.

He looked around at the various technological items.

"The opportunity has come. What should I choose to copy this time?"

Lu Ze muttered softly.

His only requirement was that the achievement point reward be as high as possible; deliberately pursuing the rarity of the item was secondary.

"I don't need general weapon equipment technology..."

He thought to himself, "Da Xia probably can't even process it all."

After submitting the previously copied F22, and Boeing 777 technology to Da Xia, the personnel responsible for overall coordination would be busy for a while.

And they also needed some buffer time; this couldn't be rushed.

"F-15 'Eagle,' not this one, too few achievement points."

"M1A2 Main Battle Tank, four thousand achievement points? Too low, no."

"B1-B bomber, six thousand points... this is a backup."

"...Two hundred points? Is this thing an old relic that came with Washington? Why keep this junk?"

Lu Ze circled the Ammunition Depot, making his selections.

He touched one piece of weapon equipment for five seconds, then another for five seconds, constantly comparing them in his mind.

After about ten minutes of wandering, the best option was still the B1-B Lancer bomber with 6000 achievement points.

Suddenly.

He came across an old friend, the familiar F22.

Let me take a closer look, how have you developed recently?

"Duplicating will reduce achievement points, but I wonder how much the F22 can still provide?" With this question, Lu Ze placed his hand on it.

As the first high-tech item he copied, he clearly remembered it was a full 10,000 achievement points.

[Current Tech Item: F22-A (Duplicate)]

[Value Achievement Points: 7500.]

[This item will no longer award tech blueprints. Please choose whether to copy.]

7500 points? Duplicating only reduced the reward by 25%?

"I just don't know if there's a threshold for this decrease." Lu Ze thought.

This was a huge piece of good news for him. After all, with one copy per week, that's fifty-two copies a year. Copying duplicate super high-tech items was an inevitable problem, otherwise, he wouldn't be able to find so many high-tech items worth copying right now.

However, if there was no threshold, copying even a top-tier fighter like the F22 three or four times would make it a very ordinary item.

Lu Ze's lips curved slightly, and he thought, "Yes, copy it."

Since this F22 had so many achievement points, why not copy it?

Was he afraid that Da Xia wouldn't know how to fly it, or that there would be too many of them to worry about? Such a charming F22 could not be missed.

[Current Tech Item, F22-A copied successfully!]

[Reward: 7500 Achievement Points, F22-A Entity (stored in inventory).]

[System Space Inventory: F22 Fifth-Generation Heavy Air Superiority Fighter × 2, Boeing 777-300ER, ...]

Meanwhile, at the Xia Academy of Sciences, in the Dean's conference room.

Zhang Yuli and Zheng Lixing sat in their chairs, contemplating the most crucial issue before them.

It wasn't the J-20 project, nor the purely domestically produced C919 project.

It concerned the Mysterious Person, or perhaps they could be called the 'Mysterious Organization.'

"Old Zhang, what stage is the Mysterious Person's request to build 1,000 schools at?" Zheng Lixing took a puff from his hand-rolled pipe tobacco.

He didn't like regular cigarettes; they were too weak.

It wasn't that no doctor had advised him to quit smoking at his age, but he had been smoking for decades and hadn't seen any problems with his health, so Zheng Lixing didn't take it to heart.

"Building a thousand schools for one billion usd is not a problem."

Zhang Yuli frowned. "It's just difficult to find so many teachers."

How many faculty members would a thousand schools need? This was a daunting astronomical figure.

Even more troublesome was the possibility that the schools would be built, but the teachers would not be in place.

This was not only the remuneration required by the 'Mysterious Organization' but also concerned the educational well-being of the entire Northwest Province, so it could not be taken lightly.

If even this could not be done well, let alone how the 'Mysterious Organization' would view Da Xia, he himself could not live with it.

The education problem in Northwest Province was now urgent.

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