69: Chapter 69, "Project Red Coast"

"Colonel Chu, this person is Cao Bo."

Captain Shao Jie pointed at Cao Bo and said.

"I don't know him."

Chu Ge stared at Cao Bo for half a minute, confirmed he didn't know him, said this, and turned to leave.

"Okay, then I know!"

Shao Jie replied nonsensically.

"Huh? What do you know? That, what Chu kid? You don't know me, but Dilireba Nazha knows me. I came here to watch the concert today, you let them release me... Hey..."

Chu Ge ignored him, turned around, and walked away with Nazha.

"Nazha, I'm going back to Yanjing. I have to go to the military airport tonight to catch a flight; the institute has been very busy lately."

"Oh, okay then. Should I take you there? Sister Li is nearby."

"No need. You can't get into the military airport anyway. Captain Gong and the others are there."

"Oh, that's right. I forgot."

Dilireba Nazha just watched Chu Ge without speaking, her eyes blurred with tears.

The two looked at each other, and Chu Ge gently kissed her forehead...

In the distance, Captain Gong and the others stood with their backs to them, vigilantly watching the surrounding crowd.

This small area temporarily belonged only to them.

After a long while,

"Go call Sister Li to pick you up and take you home. I'll watch."

Chu Ge finally spoke.

"Okay."

The music ended and the crowd dispersed; there is always a time for gathering and parting.

Chu Ge watched Nazha walk away, feeling a surge of sadness in his heart. He didn't know when they would meet again.

"Captain Gong, let's go. Back to Yanjing!"

"Yes, Academician Chu."

Soon, a team of military jeeps drove over from a side road. Chu Ge got in the car, and Captain Gong and the others opened the doors. The convoy of military vehicles gradually disappeared amidst the discussions of the surrounding citizens.

...

Shao Jie watched the convoy that had already disappeared and gave a military salute from afar. For them, Chu Ge was a legendary existence.

"Let's go, Young Master Cao. It's time for you to hit the road."

Cao Bo couldn't stop shivering anymore. This, why did it sound so chilling?

"That, Captain Shao, I suddenly remembered, what did I hear you call that young man just now? Colonel Chu? Is he also one of your military people?"

"That's right. You finally figured it out, but it's too late. Daring to provoke Colonel Chu, you can be considered the first person in history. In the future—though I guess you won't have a chance in this life—you must understand some principles: there are some people you can't afford to provoke!"

After hearing this, Cao Bo's mouth twitched violently, and then he sat down on the ground, his face pale. This time it wasn't just his heart that went cold; he was afraid his whole body had gone cold.

Captain Shao glanced at him with contempt and gave his subordinates a look. Young Master Cao was carried into the car by the two of them.

The sirens flashed, slowly merging with the neon lights of the night in this great city of China, until they reached the end.

...

Yanjing time, 23:00. After washing up, Chu Ge lay comfortably on the big bed in the dormitory.

After reporting his safety to Dilireba Nazha, he called up the database in his mind. He had developed a habit; even if he didn't write progress reports at night, he would close his eyes and study System Big Brother.

Good buddy.

Yesterday was too hurried. Regarding the Electromagnetic Kinetic Sniper Rifle, Chu Ge hadn't finished reading it yet, so he continued to study from where he left off.

"System Big Brother, what is the rating for the Electromagnetic Kinetic Sniper Rifle?"

[A-Grade]

It seems this guy is in a good mood today.

"A 10,000-meter range. Even with a 16x scope, I can't see the target, right? If I can't see the target, what am I supposed to shoot? Besides, how do I remember that the armies of various countries only use up to 8x at most?"

[What is your target?]

"People!"

[Who told you that the Electromagnetic Kinetic Sniper Rifle is for shooting people? Are people even worthy?]

"Hey, I..."

Chu Ge held back. He had to continue communicating; he couldn't lower himself to the level of this non-human.

"Then what should I shoot?"

[According to your military system, high-value targets are the primary targets for the Electromagnetic Kinetic Sniper Rifle, for example: radar stations, missile launch vehicles, armored targets, etc.]

"Oh, I seem to understand. Similar to an anti-materiel sniper rifle. What else?"

[What else? Do Godzilla, Aliens, and Transformers count?]

"Holy crap, you even know these?"

[The system will learn part of the new knowledge framework from the host. The database did not have raw data for these things; I am saving them!]

"Ahem, you really don't need to save them. Those things are useless, they are all fabricated. You'd better save some novels; that's more comfortable!"

Chu Ge was truly shocked by what System Big Brother just said and started joking with it.

"What else have you learned?"

Don't say it, Chu Ge was still very interested in these things, but later when he thought about it, why was it a bit terrifying to think about? Later events proved that Chu Ge wasn't just imagining things.

[Host's knowledge is lacking; this system is trying other ways to continue learning!]

"Alright, you can roll away and go to sleep!"

Chu Ge wanted to sleep. Damn, it was such a happy day, and in the end, he was stimulated by this guy to the point of insomnia.

Chu Ge tossed and turned, and Academician Chen didn't sleep either. He was on the phone with Director Wu.

"Old Wu, do you mean that we can launch "Project Red Shore"?"

"Yes, Old Chen. The big leaders had an emergency meeting tonight and finally decided to implement "Project Red Shore" ahead of schedule!"

"Then, then little Chu might be in the limelight from now on."

"Haha, what are you worried about? Are you afraid that China can't protect him now? Besides, we have 1.4 billion people behind us to back him up!"

"Alright, I obey orders! However, once this plan is implemented, the security measures for little Chu's family might need to be upgraded!"

"You don't need to worry about this; relevant deployments are already being made."

"Good, good!"

Academician Chen hung up the phone, stood up, and slowly paced to the window. He took off his glasses, rubbed the space between his eyebrows, then put them back on, and just stood there quietly, looking at the dark night outside the window.

"Is dawn after the darkness?"

Academician Chen murmured.

"Project Red Shore" was something they had set up early on. After Chu Ge developed the complete controllable nuclear fusion technology, China had already completed the technical upgrades and generational gap accumulation for this technology during this period.

It was time to push it to the world, convert it into a technological barrier, and then use it to harvest wealth globally.

This kind of gameplay had always been the routine of developed Western countries, using technological advantages to continuously extract high profits and plunder wealth.

China had to pay incalculable foreign exchange for this every year. Although the country had invested heavily in the research and development of these high-tech technologies in recent years, the starting point was too late, and there had still been no major improvement.

Once the castrated version of the controllable nuclear fusion technology was released, it would inevitably be used by countries with ulterior motives, and then reverse-engineered to seek technological upgrades.

However, China was not worried, because by then, China would probably already be in the sky.

This was the ultimate version of "if you don't keep up in one step, you won't keep up in every step."

Also, the implementation of this plan also meant that its creator, Chu Ge, was about to surface!!!