Chapter 111 We've been searching for ten years! We've been searching for ten years!

In that instant, time seemed to freeze in the conference room.

Academician Zhang Jingmin's gaze was like it had been glued, firmly sucked onto that small tablet screen.

On the screen, the young Streamer was still roaring, with the background showing two heavy trucks revving their engines frantically, and that black rope stretched taut under the immense tension, making a tooth-aching sound.

"Old Zhang! Say something!"

Seeing that Academician Zhang hadn't reacted for a long time, Liu Jianguo was so anxious that the veins on his forehead were throbbing, and he couldn't help but shout again.

But what he didn't know was that at this moment, a data storm was raging inside Zhang Jingmin's brain.

As a top domestic authority in materials science, Zhang Jingmin knew every parameter of the "Arresting Cable" by heart. He didn't need precision instruments; just by looking with his naked eye at the rope's deformation rate under extreme tension, its rebound amplitude, and that unique matte luster on the surface, he could judge it with eighty or ninety percent certainty.

'How is this possible...'

Academician Zhang thought to himself, his fingers beginning to tremble violently.

On the screen, Li Jiajun happened to bring his face close to the camera, patting the rope and shouting with a face full of grief and indignation:

"family! This is the goods that Titan Trading Company just returned! They've been working with me for several years and used to always praise my ropes. For this rush order, I specifically added a high-strength carbon fiber composite core! Even two trucks can't pull it apart! They actually said there's a quality defect? This is clearly trying to welsh on the debt!"

These words, like the final piece of a puzzle, were hammered into Zhang Jingmin's mind.

Titan Trading...

Long-term cooperation...

Rush order...

If it didn't meet quality standards, how could that money-grubbing Ugly Country Arms Dealer cooperate with this small factory for several years?

The only explanation was that the top-tier Arresting Cables used by the Ugly Country Navy in recent years were actually sourced from here!

"Breathe... breathe..."

Zhang Jingmin felt a wave of intense dizziness, his heart beating so fast it felt like it would jump out of his throat. He snatched the tablet from Liu Jianguo's hand, holding it tightly with both hands as if he were holding a newborn baby.

He pressed his eyes extremely close to the screen, and in his clouded old eyes, bloodshot veins instantly spread.

The surrounding generals were all dumbfounded, staring blankly at this usually refined and elegant old academician, who was now staring at the screen and panting like a madman.

"Old Zhang?" The Old General also sensed something was wrong and called out tentatively.

"Wuu... wuu wuu..."

Zhang Jingmin suddenly let out a suppressed sob.

Immediately after, this man in his seventies who had dedicated his life to the country felt his legs go weak and actually collapsed, sitting directly by the podium. But he didn't fall over because he was still tightly clutching the tablet computer in his hands.

Two lines of hot tears flowed frantically down his wrinkled cheeks.

"It's this... it's this!"

Zhang Jingmin suddenly looked up and roared with a heart-wrenching voice at the room full of generals and Experts:

"This is what we've been looking for! This is that 'perfect Arresting Cable'! That perfect material whose indicators all meet the standards that only exists in theory!"

Boom! The entire conference room instantly exploded, everyone feeling their scalps go numb.

"Old Zhang, are you sure? This is no joke!" A lieutenant general stood up excitedly, knocking over his chair.

"I'll guarantee it with my head! I'll guarantee it with my Party membership!"

Zhang Jingmin cried and laughed at the same time, looking like he had gone mad. He pointed at the black rope on the screen, his voice hoarse and shrill:

"This toughness, this strength... and this unique multi-layer weaving structure... We've simulated it tens of thousands of times in the lab and couldn't make it! But they... they've already built it! And they've been selling it for years!"

At this point, the ten years of accumulated grievance, self-blame, and despair in the old academician's heart completely erupted.

He pounded the ground and wailed:

"We've been looking for ten years! Thousands of our researchers worked day and night for ten years! Our hair turned white, and our eyes went blind! In the end... in the end, this thing was right under our noses! In a toy factory in our own country!"

"The darkest place is under the lamp! This is a massive case of missing what's right in front of us!"

"We were tricked so badly by those foreign devils! They took the things our own people made and used them to choke us! They even wanted to extort ten million US dollars from us per cable!"

"A great humiliation! But also... a stroke of immense luck!"

The old academician's crying echoed in the conference room.

But to everyone's ears, this crying sounded more beautiful than the most wonderful music in the world.

Everyone's face showed an extremely vivid expression. It was the trance of instantly rising from hell to heaven, a distortion of turning from grievance to ecstasy.

"Haha! Hahaha!"

The Old General sitting in the main seat suddenly burst into a hearty laugh. He laughed until tears came out, pounding the table with a thunderous sound.

"Good! What a Li Family Toy Factory! What a Li Jiajun!"

"This kid manages to come up with something new every time! This time, he's given us a massive surprise!"

The heavy, desperate atmosphere from earlier vanished instantly.

In its place was an excitement of holding one's head high.

What technology blockade?

What "must sign and acknowledge our backwardness"?

To hell with it!

Now the situation has reversed! This life-saving straw is in our own hands! And from the looks of it, the production volume isn't small!

Liu Jianguo looked at the group of big shots lost in celebration, his mouth twitching, feeling speechless.

He wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, feeling that his old life was saved.

'This Li Jiajun is truly a bizarre lucky star. Although he causes trouble every time, the trouble he causes always turns into a blessing for the country in the end.'

'This constitution is really something else.'

He was speechless in his heart, but at the same time, he felt a sense of relief. Regardless, the Aircraft Carrier was saved, the Navy was saved.

"Liu Jianguo!"

The Old General had laughed enough; he suddenly pulled back his expression, his gaze piercing as he looked at Liu Jianguo.

"Present!" Liu Jianguo reflexively stood at attention.

"Depart immediately, right now, this instant! Take the best team and take a special plane to Baishui City!"

The Old General pointed at Li Jiajun, who was still acting miserable on the tablet screen, his tone becoming exceptionally serious, even carrying a hint of murderous intent:

"No matter what method you use, no matter how much money it costs! Even if you have to empty that factory for me! You must bring this batch of 'jump ropes' back to me!"

"Also! This matter must be kept strictly confidential! Before the goods are in hand, we must not let the Ugly Country side realize what's happening! We're going to give them a huge surprise!"

"Yes, sir!"

Liu Jianguo accepted the order loudly.

He knew that this was not just a procurement; it was a battle for the nation's fate.

And that silly kid who was crying in the livestream over tens of millions in liquidated damages probably didn't know that the "junk" in his hands was already a priceless national treasure.

"Wait!"

Just as Liu Jianguo was about to turn and leave, Academician Zhang Jingmin, who had just recovered, struggled to climb up from the floor and grabbed Liu Jianguo's sleeve tightly.

"Take me with you! Minister Liu, I beg you, take me with you!"

The old academician's face was covered in tear stains, but his eyes were frighteningly fanatical: "I want to go personally! I want to see with my own eyes what kind of divine equipment can create such perfect material! I want to go on... a pilgrimage!"

Liu Jianguo looked at the old academician's trembling hand and nodded heavily.

"Alright! Old Zhang, let's go together!"

...

Half an hour later, at the military airport in the western suburbs of the Imperial Capital.

An unmarked military transport plane roared onto the runway in the night.

Inside the cabin, besides Liu Jianguo and Academician Zhang Jingmin, sat over a dozen high-ranking officers from the General Staff, National Security, and the Navy. Everyone had a solemn expression, but excitement flickered in their eyes.

Liu Jianguo sat by the window, watching the lights receding rapidly outside, and sighed silently in his heart.

'Li Jiajun, oh Li Jiajun, you've really hit the big time this time.'

He took out his phone and glanced at the screen that was still livestreaming.

On the screen, Li Jiajun was facing the camera, still grumbling incessantly:

"family, I can't go on like this! If this pile of broken ropes can't be sold, I'll have to sell them as scrap metal!"

Scrap metal?

A strange smile curled at the corner of Liu Jianguo's mouth.

Just you wait, kid.

Your uncle is almost there.

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