130: Chapter 130 The US has revealed all its trump cards, Su Che: I'll just treat them as targets!

Jiang Yingxue's tablet projected onto the main screen, coordinate points flashing.

Su Che tossed the wet towel onto the table, water droplets splashing.

"What's the decryption progress?" Su Che pulled over a swivel chair and sat down, tapping the keyboard to connect to the Yiren AI Core.

"Eleven percent." Jiang Yingxue stared at the screen. "The encryption logic completely violates existing mathematical principles; it's using brute-force exhaustion."

"Give it more computing power." Su Che entered commands into the supercomputing terminal. "Divert all three idle quantum computing clusters from Pangu Laboratory to the core."

The progress bar on the main screen jumped forward a notch.

Qin Lan pushed open the heavy glass door and walked in, her military boots clicking on the waxed floor.

"Fifteen tons of high-purity graphene and three tons of liquid gallium-indium alloy are on the way." Qin Lan slapped an electronic receipt on the table. "The Military Science Commission's logistics department has emptied out all the strategic reserve warehouses around the capital; they'll be here within an hour."

Su Che nodded.

He shifted his attention away from the L2 signal and pulled up the blueprints for the upgraded Full-band Metamaterial Stealth Structure.

The forty-two-meter verification section skeleton lay in the center of the hall.

This wasn't enough; the stealth cloak couldn't just be a piece of cloth torn off like before—a ten-thousand-ton platform required adaptive electronic skin.

3:55 AM.

Washington, The Pentagon.

Austin slumped in his leather swivel chair.

His tie was pulled crooked.

The tactical screen was covered in red error markers.

Seven carrier strike groups, twenty-one warships sunk; the remaining ones were fleeing eastward, their hulls damaged.

Adam stood by the window, holding a glass of ice-cold whiskey.

"The gravitational wave base is destroyed, the fleet is ruined." Austin covered his face with his hands. "Our hegemony in the Western Pacific has ended completely tonight."

Adam took a sip of his drink.

"The Dragon Country not only has that monster capable of burning through decks, but they have also mastered the means to counter gravitational waves." Adam turned around. "This exceeds humanity's existing technological tree."

"Are you still thinking about those damn fragments?" Austin slammed the table. "What we have to face now is congressional inquiry and the ridicule of the whole world!"

Adam set down his glass.

"Takaishi Sayuki just sent an encrypted communication request." Adam said in a flat tone. "She wants us to provide a nuclear umbrella."

"Let her go to hell!" Austin cursed.

4:50 AM, Pangu Laboratory underground unloading area.

Three heavy military trucks came to a stop.

The blast door opened.

Soldiers in hazmat suits pushed hydraulic carts, moving lead-gray sealed canisters into the B2 level.

Su Che started the high-precision quantum doping equipment.

"Inject the liquid gallium-indium alloy into the reactor." Su Che pushed down the control lever.

The silvery liquid metal rolled inside the ultra-high vacuum chamber.

"Prepare the graphene film array."

A massive robotic arm grabbed the rolls of graphene and fed them into the laser etching zone.

This was no longer manual cloth tearing.

Su Che entered the parameters for heavy-duty topological layout on the keyboard.

The quantum coherent beam carved complex microscopic patterns onto the graphene surface.

Lin Waner sat on a folding chair in the corner.

She held a needle, mending her taped-up sneakers.

The thread passed through the canvas, making a faint friction sound.

Su Che caught a glimpse of her movements out of the corner of his eye but didn't speak.

He turned up the reactor temperature, and the liquid metal began to fuse with the graphene under the guidance of the quantum laser.

A deep black material, one that almost swallowed the surrounding light, slowly took shape at the output end.

This was the heavy-duty stealth combat robe.

Jiang Yingxue's tablet beeped urgently.

"Su Che!" Jiang Yingxue stood up straight. "Decryption progress is one hundred percent."

Su Che paused the next command for the stealth material.

He turned his swivel chair to face the main screen.

Qin Lan gripped the tactical terminal at her waist.

The garbled text on the main screen began to reorganize.

The Yiren AI Core translated the high-dimensional quantum signals into human-readable text.

There was no sound, only cold characters appearing line by line.

[Coordinates confirmed.]

[Low-dimensional energy transition detected.]

[Warning: Unauthorized dimensional interference detected in this region.]

[Cleanup program will arrive in three stellar cycles.]

There was only the hum of machinery in the hall.

Jiang Yingxue stared at the screen, her hand resting on the edge of the table.

"Three stellar cycles." Qin Lan spoke up. "How long is that?"

"A stellar cycle usually refers to the time it takes for a target planet to complete one orbit around its star." Su Che stared at the screen. "Three years."

Three years.

Not the Eagle's missiles, not the joint fleet, but some high-dimensional force from behind the L2 Lagrange point.

They defined Earth's technological breakthrough as "unauthorized dimensional interference" and dispatched a cleanup program.

Su Che leaned back in his chair, his fingers tapping the armrest.

The coordinates left by his grandfather had attracted prying eyes.

When he awakened his grandfather at Longmai Base, that "the observer" had warned him.

Now, the warning had become a countdown.

"Three years." Su Che stood up and walked toward the device spitting out the black stealth material. "That's enough time to do a lot of things."

Jiang Yingxue turned to look at him.

"Aren't you afraid at all?"

"Does fear solve the problem?" Su Che put on heat-resistant gloves and picked up a piece of the freshly formed stealth armor plate.

It was extremely light to the touch yet possessed astonishing toughness.

"The Eagle got the fragments, studied them for thirty years, and only deciphered a part, then spent decades reverse-engineering quite a few things, but that was about it. Didn't I take down their 'Glutton' genetic engineering technology and their half-baked gravitational waves?"

Su Che pressed the armor plate onto the aluminum-lithium alloy skeleton in the center of the hall.

"Click."

The adaptive interface locked perfectly.

"They treat high-dimensional civilizations as gods." Su Che took off his gloves and threw them onto the console. "I only see them as targets."

Qin Lan took two steps closer.

"This matter must be reported to General Shen and the highest authorities immediately."

"Report it." Su Che pulled over the keyboard. "And tell them that the progress of the Nantianmen Project needs to accelerate."

He looked at the standby interface of the Yiren AI Core on the screen.

[Ready.]

Currently, they were still building the verification-version ten-thousand-ton class, and the completion time was still far off.

Three years to build a one-hundred-thousand-ton aerospace carrier, plus a full complement of unmanned fighters and a directed-energy weapon cluster.

Time was very tight.

Su Che carved out a new area on the console.

"The skeleton and the stealth cloak are in mass production." Su Che looked at Qin Lan. "But I need more hands."

6:00 AM sharp, Sakura Country, Tokyo.

Prime Minister's Official Residence.

Takaishi Sayuki sat behind a large desk.

The lights in the room were not on, only a desk lamp was lit.

The secretary pushed the door open and entered, stepping very lightly.

"Prime Minister." The secretary lowered his head. "Washington has rejected our request."

Takaishi Sayuki did not move.

"They said the joint fleet is severely damaged and they need to re-evaluate the Asia-Pacific strategic deployment." The secretary swallowed.

Takaishi Sayuki picked up a fountain pen on the table.

"Abandoned."

She stood up and walked to the window.

The sky was already turning white.

Photos of the JS Izumo with its deck burned through were still going viral on the global network.

The Dragon Country's fleet was pressing on the edge of the East China Sea, ready to blockade the entire island nation at any moment.

"Is there any news from Ida Yuji?" Takaishi Sayuki asked.

"The hospital called; Mr. Ida suffered sudden heart failure half an hour ago and resuscitation failed." The secretary replied.

Takaishi Sayuki's hand holding the fountain pen tightened.

The technology was defeated.

The military was defeated.

The backer had run away.

She looked at the city skyline gradually lighting up outside the window.

"Prepare for a national television address." Takaishi Sayuki turned around. "We have to consider the wording for an unconditional surrender."

6:30 AM, Pangu Laboratory, B2 level.

The forty-two-meter-long verification skeleton was already covered with 10% of the black stealth combat robe.

The lights hit it, but there was no reflection; this part of the structure visually seemed to have disappeared into thin air.

Su Che finished the water in his cup.

In his mind, the blue-and-white system panel lit up again.

[Ding! External high-dimensional threat countdown established.]

[To ensure the integrity of the Nantianmen Project combat system, a main R&D mission has been triggered!]

[Mission Name: Without a Swarm, the Mothership Is Just a Sitting Duck!]

[Mission Content: A stealth cloak can hide one's figure, but offense is the best defense. Please develop the Xuan-Nu aerospace unmanned fighter system and equip the luan bird with the deadliest fangs!]

[Mission Reward: 15,000 skill points, unlock exchange permissions for [Aerospace Unmanned Autonomous Decision-making Technology] + [Trans-atmospheric Flight Dynamic Control Technology] + [Cluster Collaborative Offense and Defense Algorithm Technology], exchange points 8,000.]

[Current host has accumulated skill points: 7,000 points, temporarily unable to exchange.]

Su Che stared at the last line of the panel; he was short by one thousand points.

He shifted his gaze away from the panel.

The Yu-01 was just a patchwork verification aircraft.

The real Xuan-Nu unmanned fighter required a landing system fully compatible with the aerospace carrier, as well as more terrifying cluster combat capabilities.

Su Che rubbed his chin; he needed to find a place to make some quick money.

Lin Waner bit off the thread used to mend her shoe.

She put on the shoes and tested them on the floor.

"It's fixed." Lin Waner walked over and packed up the thermal container.

Su Che looked at the old sneakers on her feet.

He pulled over the tactical terminal and created a new document.

[Simplified Airframe and Biomimetic Structural Assembly Scheme for Civilian Aerospace Fighters.]

Military-to-civilian conversion, dimensionality-reduction strike on the civilian market, and earning some skill points on the side.

Su Che typed the first line of code.

The three-year countdown had begun.