129: Chapter 129 Pressure is applied, and the public opinion front is lost!

CIIA Director's Office.

General Arnold sat in his chair, while Director Joseph stood before the desk.

"We must make those guys at the Ministry of National Defense put pressure on the Dragon Country!"

General Arnold said through gritted teeth.

For a long time, the USA's technological level and military strength had consistently held an advantage over the Dragon Country.

He absolutely would not allow the Dragon Country to surpass the USA and ride on their heads!

General Arnold looked up and said to Director Joseph again:

"Director Joseph, I order you to scout out more information about the Dragon Country's military for me."

"Especially Xu's Heavy Industry, keep a close eye on them; I want every piece of information, no matter what it is!"

Director Joseph immediately looked troubled.

"General Arnold, my assets were discovered by the relevant departments in the Dragon Country and have all been eliminated!"

The 'rat' asset was one he had planted for many years.

He hadn't expected it to be discovered by the Security Department of the Dragon Country this time, causing him significant losses.

Every year, the CIIA's investment in these assets was massive.

But at the same time, the returns were also huge.

Just like the top-secret information about the Doomsday Vehicle and Powered Exoskeleton Mecha this time; that was extremely useful confidential information!

It was a pity that the 'rat' was ruined.

It would likely be even harder to scout out information about Xu's Heavy Industry in the future.

Hearing Director Joseph's complaints, General Arnold became irritable.

"If the assets were eliminated, then just find more!"

"If one is eliminated, find me two. If two are eliminated, find me three, four, five!"

"Doesn't the Dragon Country have some pro-USA elements? The USA loves people like that the most."

"Find them! Not only do they cost less, but they are also willing to do our bidding."

"Hahaha... these idiots!!"

Thinking of these pro-USA elements, General Arnold, who had been a bit angry, was now amused.

After laughing, General Arnold looked at Director Joseph with a meaningful expression.

"Director Joseph, I know what you are thinking; you just want funding, right? You really are a cunning fox!"

General Arnold snorted, wearing an expression of 'I have already seen through you'.

Seeing his intentions exposed, Director Joseph smiled awkwardly and did not refute.

General Arnold was right; he did indeed want funding.

After all, planting these assets required a large amount of capital.

Even for the pro-USA elements that General Arnold mentioned, the price was not low now.

In recent years, with the rise in prices in the Dragon Country, even this 'subsidy' had risen quite a bit, making Director Joseph extremely depressed.

"Director Joseph, listen to me!" General Arnold pointed at Director Joseph's nose, his eyes sharp.

"I can give you the funding, I can even take one-tenth from the Army's military budget to use for your CIIA overseas asset deployment."

"But!"

General Arnold stood up.

Although he was obese, when he stood up, a fierce aura rushed towards him, making Director Joseph's body tighten involuntarily.

"If you don't scout out more information about the Dragon Country and Xu's Heavy Industry for me, I will personally strip you of your uniform!"

General Arnold kept poking Director Joseph's chest with his finger, with such force that Director Joseph could not stand steady and retreated again and again.

Director Joseph broke out in a cold sweat. "Understood! General Arnold!"

General Arnold looked at Director Joseph with satisfaction, then put on his hat, snorted, and turned to leave.

Meanwhile.

The USA Ministry of National Defense held a press conference.

Rarely, they invited all domestic and foreign reporters to attend the press conference in person.

This made reporters from many countries feel very surprised.

Because when the USA held press conferences, they were usually 'carefully selected', choosing 'obedient' reporters to enter the conference site as much as possible.

Today, it was as if the sun had risen from the west.

At the press conference, the Ministry of National Defense spokesperson expressed strong condemnation regarding the Dragon Country's private development of military technology products such as the Doomsday Vehicle and Powered Exoskeleton Mecha.

They urged and hoped that the Dragon Country's military would voluntarily destroy these military products that harmed world peace, return a sense of tranquility and peace to all countries on Blue Star, and return to the path of peaceful development.

The USA Ministry of National Defense spokesperson said:

"We hope the Dragon Country officials can make their military spending transparent and detailed, and not maliciously hide some ulterior military expenses."

"Military development of all countries should be based on healthy competition!"

The USA's press conference stirred up a thousand waves, causing widespread discussion in various countries.

At the same time.

The USA used their powerful external propaganda capabilities to control the battlefield of public opinion.

Not only on foreign social platforms, but even on the Dragon Country's popular social platforms, their people had the upper hand.

On Weibo, there was a chorus of abuse, with many netizens verbally attacking the Dragon Country's military.

Some accounts were just numbers, had not been online for a long time, and had not even posted a single blog post.

At this sensitive time, they all popped up.

They carried topics, posted almost identical posts, and expressed strong dissatisfaction with the military's actions.

They all demanded that the Dragon Country officials follow the USA's requirements and execute them as soon as possible.

These people, under the slogan of loving peace and cherishing peace, wantonly attacked the mainstream media of the Dragon Country online, hoping they would speak up and contribute to the peace of Blue Star.

For a time, Weibo was incredibly lively.

Various posts full of 'sentiment' appeared regularly under the topic.

"The Dragon Country has been a land of etiquette since ancient times; we love peace, so shouldn't we just not have these highly aggressive weapons?"

"We follow a defensive national defense policy; why would these weapons and equipment appear on our land?"

"Please, official authorities, destroy them quickly; the demeanor of a great power that we finally managed to promote is about to be gone again!"

"..."

Posts similar to these were countless.

It made those truly patriotic netizens feel nauseous, as if they were going to vomit the milk they drank in their previous life.

In fact, righteous netizens knew that these so-called 'peace activists' had all received US dollars.

Although they were not the mainstream voice online, they kept emerging endlessly, were uniformly organized, and shouted slogans quite loudly.

Therefore, they stirred up quite a wave of rhythm online.

Making countless enthusiastic and righteous netizens grind their teeth in anger.

"Why don't these spineless cowards just die!"

"Damn it, it's so embarrassing, why does the Dragon Country have people like this?"

"I'm so angry, why haven't the Dragon Country officials made a move yet?!"

"The authorities wouldn't really have compromised, would they?"

Righteous netizens held their phones, constantly refreshing the Dragon Country's official Weibo.

Unfortunately, after refreshing for several hours, they did not see any movement from the officials.

Their hearts gradually sank.

And those traitors saw this and became even more rampant, unbridledly threatening the authorities to destroy these military products.

Time passed quietly, and in a blink of an eye, it was evening.

Just when everyone thought the Dragon Country officials would remain silent and choose to compromise.

The Ministry of National Defense of the Dragon Country spoke up!