138: Chapter 138 The Phoenix Emerges from its Cage! The Whole World Kneels; From This Day Forward, the Dragon Kingdom Calls the Rules!

Three weeks later.

May 3rd, 10:00 AM sharp.

Pangu Laboratory B2 level, four academician working groups stopped their work simultaneously.

On the main screen of the hall, the self-check progress bar of the integrated command and control system reached the last block, and all green lights turned on.

Situational awareness module, collaborative command and control module, intelligent decision-making module, data fusion module—four subsystems were online simultaneously.

Liu Huaqiang took off his black-rimmed glasses, wiped them, and put them back on.

"All systems go."

Su Che sat in front of the console, his tactical tablet on his lap, and two lines of text popped up on the screen.

[Ding! Main R&D task [Bones, claws, clothes—now she just lacks a brain] completed!]

[Ten-thousand-ton verification version of the luan bird aerospace carrier integrated command and control system full-domain debugging passed! Situational awareness coverage 100%! Multi-platform collaborative latency < 0.3 ms!]

[Task reward: 20,000 skill points!]

[Current host has accumulated a total of: 29,400 skill points.]

Three weeks, fifty-six academicians working in shifts without stopping, the command center went from a blank sheet of paper to full-domain online.

Su Che closed the panel.

He stood up and walked to the large equipment passage connecting the B2 level to the underground storage area.

At the end of the passage, the two-hundred-fifty-two-meter stealth skeleton stood silently.

Thirty-six Adaptive Variable Cycle Aerospace Engines were embedded in the tail truss, and the blue light of the Anti-gravity field flickered between the nodes.

The directed energy weapon array was arranged under the ventral deck, and the launch nests for twenty Xuanwu drone fighters were neatly distributed on the inner sides of the wings.

Three weeks ago, it was just an empty shell.

Now, the skeleton, battle robe, heart, brain, and fangs were all complete.

Over the past month, the automated production line ran at full speed; forty Xuanwu aerospace drone fighters rolled off the line, twenty were loaded into the luan bird's launch nests, and the remaining twenty were kept as ground spares.

Academician Qian Zhenhua unscrewed his thermos lid, took a sip of water, and walked over to Su Che.

"The ten-thousand-ton verification version is finished."

Su Che nodded.

It wasn't perfect, but it was enough.

The positioning of the verification version was never meant to be the ultimate weapon.

It was an opening blade, used to tell everyone on Earth who was still talking tough that from today on, no one would dare to defy the Dragon Kingdom.

He picked up the encrypted communication handset.

"General."

Lieutenant General Peng's voice came from the other end, hoarse but steady.

"Is it ready?"

"Ready. Twenty Xuanwu fully loaded, command and control system fully online, it can fly."

"General Shen has been waiting three weeks for these words." Lieutenant General Peng paused. "The order has been issued. The luan bird's global deterrence patrol starts today."

Su Che hung up the communication.

He didn't board the luan bird.

This wasn't his job; he was the one who forged the sword, and the state was the one who wielded it.

1:40 PM.

Western suburbs of the capital, above Pangu Laboratory.

The special skylight on the ground slid to both sides, the opening diameter expanding to its limit.

The two-hundred-fifty-two-meter-long stealth giant slowly rose from the underground.

The Anti-gravity field activated at full power, three hundred and sixty coupling nodes erupted with a continuous stream of ghostly blue light, and thirty-six Adaptive Variable Cycle Aerospace Engines ignited, the tail flames pressed extremely low by the thrust-vectoring nozzles.

No roar.

The full-domain active noise reduction module compressed all sound below the level of ambient noise.

Looking up from the ground, there was only a distortion of air in the sky; the naked eye could not capture any outline.

The luan bird's stealth mode automatically activated during the takeoff phase.

To the outside world, nothing had happened.

But on the main screen of the Pangu Laboratory B2 level, Su Che watched that blue triangle marker climb to an altitude of 30,000 meters at a speed of Mach 12, heading due east.

Lin Waner walked over with a bowl of hot and sour noodles and placed it on the corner of the table.

"It flew?"

"It flew."

"You're not going?"

"I don't know how to fly it anyway." Su Che picked up his chopsticks. "Besides, it has Yiren AI on board; it's more reliable than me."

3:15 PM.

Over the Western Pacific.

The luan bird crossed the First Island Chain at a cruising altitude of 35,000 meters.

The launch nests in the belly of the aircraft opened one after another, and twenty Xuanwu aerospace drone fighters ejected and ascended, spreading out around the mother ship to form a three-layered escort formation.

The formation was spherical. From a distance, if anyone could see it, it looked like an invisible planet surrounded by twenty satellites.

The Yiren AI Core in the command center simultaneously managed twenty-one flight nodes, six weapon systems, global Quantum Communication links, and real-time situational data from the Sky-Breaking Bow network.

The luan bird's first stop: Washington.

3:00 AM Washington time.

10,000 meters above The White House.

The luan bird turned off its stealth mode.

The two-hundred-fifty-two-meter silver-gray giant appeared out of thin air in the night sky of the Eagle Country's capital, and twenty Xuanwu fighters drew dark blue tail flames around it, illuminating both banks of the Potomac River.

In the underground bunker of The White House, President Trump was woken up from bed.

The security team's report consisted of only six words: "There is an unidentified object in the air."

By the time he arrived at the situation room, the satellite images had already been called up.

On the screen, a flight platform over two hundred meters long was hovering directly above The White House, with twenty drone fighters scattered in a geometric formation within a five-kilometer radius of the airspace.

All air defense radars in the Eagle Country, before the luan bird turned off its stealth mode, had not detected any signals.

It only let you see it because it wanted you to see it.

At the same time.

The luan bird's command and control system automatically executed the program Su Che had written in advance.

Every single overseas military base of the Eagle Country scattered across the globe received the same clear-text broadcast.

"The Dragon Kingdom aerospace carrier, luan bird, has arrived in your airspace. Please evacuate all personnel and equipment within thirty minutes. Those who fail to evacuate by the deadline will be considered hostile military facilities."

Thirty minutes later, three overseas bases that refused to evacuate were precisely cut by the Xuanwu's quantum-enhanced lasers—runways, hangars, and ammunition depots were destroyed, without injuring a single person, but the facilities were scrapped.

The news was relayed back to Washington.

President Trump sat on the sofa in the bunker, his tie crooked, holding a Diet Coke in his hand, without taking a sip.

He looked at the giant object hovering over The White House on the screen.

"Call the Secretary of State."

"Mr. President, the Secretary of State is already..."

"Make him sign it."

The armistice agreement was delivered to the Swiss Embassy in the Dragon Kingdom at 5:00 AM.

All six original clauses drafted by Su Che were accepted.

Additional clauses were signed simultaneously: total destruction of nuclear and biochemical weapons, permanent withdrawal from the First Island Chain and global military hegemony, dismantling of all active aircraft carrier strike groups, war reparations increased to two trillion US dollars, and acceptance of the Dragon Kingdom's global weapons inspections.

When President Trump signed, he said one sentence.

"This isn't a surrender; it's business."

No one paid him any attention.

Sakura Country, Tokyo.

When the luan bird arrived over Tokyo, Ichiro Yamano was holding a cabinet meeting at the Prime Ministers Official Residence.

The meeting content was how to "legally delay" the implementation of the Dragon Kingdom's surrender terms.

Then the sky outside the window darkened.

The two-hundred-fifty-two-meter steel beast blocked the sunlight for half a block.

Twenty Xuanwu fighters were trailing smoke over the Imperial Palace.

The seven surrender terms from a month ago—no one had implemented them, no one had apologized, and no one had handed over military facilities.

Today, six more were added.

Dismantling all militaristic relics in the country, completely purging the financial clique forces controlled by the descendants of Class-A war criminals; the defense sovereignty of Kyushu Island and the eastern islands under the permanent direct administration of the Dragon Kingdom; mandatory inclusion of all historical facts of the War of Resistance Against Japan in national textbooks, and an annual national apology and moment of silence on the day of defeat; core industries fully controlled by the Dragon Kingdom; key transportation arteries, energy hubs, and deep-water ports all handed over to the Dragon Kingdom for trusteeship.

The last point: the new Prime Minister, Ichiro Yamano, must go to China today, immediately, to apologize.

Not tomorrow, not through legal procedures, but now.

Ichiro Yamano stood in front of the window, looking up at that behemoth in the sky.

Forty minutes later, he boarded a special plane to the capital.

Over the next eight hours, the luan bird swept across the globe.

The Stick Country, Philippines, Australia, Vietnam, and Canada all signed the "Permanent Defense Dependency Treaty"—dissolving their armies, opening ports and strategic locations, and having their economy, energy, and diplomacy placed under the trusteeship of the Dragon Kingdom.

The expression of the president of the Stick Country when signing was described by diplomats on the scene as "like drinking a bowl of iced vinegar."

The stranded warship of the Philippines was towed away and dismantled two hours after the treaty took effect.

The border defense forces of Vietnam retreated five thousand meters behind the border line and did not take another step out.

Canada unfroze all of the Dragon Kingdom's corporate assets and paid an additional three billion US dollars in compensation.

South India took the initiative to send envoys to show goodwill; the Dragon Kingdom refused to cooperate, only demanding they completely dismantle offensive armaments, strictly observe zero provocation, and accept normalized border defense inspections.

The remaining thirty-plus allied nations that refused to surrender, after the luan bird flew over their homelands one by one and demonstrated quantum laser strikes in uninhabited areas, collectively signed the "Global Peace Convention"—unconditionally destroying all weapons of mass destruction, never forming alliances against the Dragon Kingdom, and accepting normalized inspections.

The Dragon Kingdom led the establishment of new global security regulations.

Anyone researching or hiding nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons or other weapons of mass destruction would have their core facilities directly destroyed by the luan bird and Xuanwu.

The wars on Earth, from today on, had ended.

May 4th, 2:19 AM.

Pangu Laboratory B2 level.

Su Che sat in front of the console; the hot and sour noodles in front of him had long since gone cold, and the chopsticks were resting on the edge of the bowl, having barely been touched.

On the main screen, the luan bird's flight path covered most of the globe and was on its way back.

He stared at the screen for two seconds, then reached out and pushed the bowl aside.

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

[Ding! Detected that the Dragon Kingdom has achieved its global anti-hegemony strategic goals!]

[The luan bird aerospace carrier verification version's first global deterrence patrol mission has been successfully completed! Global hostile forces have been completely subdued, and the Dragon Kingdom's new security order has been established!]

[Extra reward: 50,000 skill points!]

[Current host has accumulated a total of: 79,400 skill points.]

79,400 points.

Su Che looked at the string of numbers and leaned back in his chair.

Lin Waner didn't know when she had appeared beside him. She looked down at the bowl of hot and sour noodles that hadn't been moved much, picked it up, and turned to walk out.

"I'll go heat up a fresh bowl for you."

Su Che didn't respond.

His gaze fell on the line of red characters on the left side of the main screen.

That was the warning about the L2 Lagrange point that he had blocked a month ago.

Things on Earth were cleared up.

But this ten-thousand-ton verification version of the luan bird was, after all, just an opening blade.

The hundred-thousand-ton official version was the real guy that had to face those things in the sky.

Su Che pulled the keyboard over and created a new document.

He typed six characters for the title.

[luan bird - Ultimate Version]

The cursor blinked on the blank page.

He still had 76,400 points in his reserves, a star team of fifty-six academicians, and this brightly lit underground laboratory.

That was enough.

It was time to build the real big guy.