2: Chapter 2: A firecracker explodes, revealing two groups of immortals!

Ten seconds felt longer than a century.

Su Che's heart hammered against his ribs, threatening to leap out of his throat.

"Hello? Are you still listening?" The voice on the other end grew colder, tinged with impatience.

"I... I'm listening!" Su Che shuddered, stammering, "I... I'm called Su Che, I'm... a villager from this Su Family Village."

"Signal source." The person on the other end didn't waste words.

"It was me... I set off a firecracker." Su Che's voice was as small as a mosquito's hum; even he felt this excuse was ridiculous.

The phone went silent.

After a full five seconds, "A firecracker? You call an electromagnetic pulse that instantly paralyzed a radar station a firecracker?"

"I... mine is just an eco-friendly firework, no smoke, just for the sound..." Su Che tried to struggle a bit.

"Location locked, No. 13 Su Family Village. Stay where you are, do not move! Repeat, stay where you are, our people will be there immediately."

"Beep... beep... beep..."

The call was hung up decisively.

Su Che held his phone, his palms covered in cold sweat.

He was done for.

He had really messed up this time.

He just wanted to show off in the village; how did he end up poking the hornet's nest of the Military Region Command Center?

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

The door was pounded loudly, accompanied by his father Su Pingan's roar.

"You little bastard! Open the door! You've shocked Auntie Wang's pig unconscious! They're carrying the pig to our door demanding an explanation right now!"

Su Che felt his head spin.

Outside was the military region, inside was his father, and there was a foaming-at-the-mouth pig.

What kind of situation was this!

He braced himself and opened the door to see his father, Su Pingan, brandishing a worn-out broom, his eyes spitting fire.

At the courtyard entrance, Auntie Wang was sitting on the ground, slapping her thighs and wailing, with her sow lying nearby, feet in the air and twitching slightly.

Village Chief Wang Fugui and a crowd of onlookers had the courtyard packed tight.

"Su Che, oh Su Che, you child, I just finished telling you not to set off fireworks, and you went and did it anyway!" Village Chief Wang Fugui looked at him with disappointment.

"It's not a firework, Uncle, it really was a firecracker." Su Che was on the verge of tears.

"Your firecracker can blow a pig into the sky?"

Auntie Wang stopped crying and glared at him.

"My two-hundred-and-eighty-pound pig! It was about to be sold for the New Year! Now look, it's sent to the afterlife early! You compensate me for my pig!"

Just as Su Che was being surrounded and criticized by the villagers, the roar of an engine approached from afar.

A black off-road vehicle with ordinary civilian plates stopped under the old locust tree at the entrance of the village. The door opened, and a young man in a black jacket stepped out.

The young man had a buzz cut and carried himself with a rigid posture.

He walked straight through the crowd, his gaze locking precisely onto Su Che.

"Who is Su Che?"

Su Che's heart skipped a beat, and he braced himself, raising his hand. "I..."

The young man walked up to him, sized him up, and glanced at the scorched pit on the ground. He frowned.

"My name is Captain Li Jun, from the city's Telecommunications Bureau."

Captain Li Jun took out an ID card from his pocket and waved it, his tone flat.

"We received a report that there was serious signal interference in this area just now, so we came to investigate."

The Telecommunications Bureau?

Su Che paused, then realized, this was official "code"!

Village Chief Wang Fugui heard it was an official from the city, and quickly leaned in.

"Oh, Comrade Captain Li Jun, you've finally come! It's this kid, messing around with some piece of junk, the noise was terrifying!"

Captain Li Jun ignored the village chief, staring at Su Che, lowering his voice to a volume only the two of them could hear.

"What was the energy peak? Pulse width? Effective radius?"

A barrage of technical jargon hit him, and Su Che was completely stunned.

"What... what is that?"

Seeing Su Che's blank expression, Captain Li Jun's frown deepened.

Was this kid really ignorant, or just playing dumb?

"I'm asking about the power of that 'firecracker'!" Captain Li Jun emphasized his tone.

"Oh, oh," Su Che realized, quickly explaining, "It's quite powerful, the whole village could hear it, very lively, and it's especially eco-friendly, no smoke at all!"

Captain Li Jun: "..."

He felt his blood pressure soaring.

This was truly like talking to a brick wall!

He was asking for military parameters, and this kid was reciting civilian advertisements!

Just as Captain Li Jun was preparing to take mandatory measures, another car drove over.

It was a white BMW Mini, which looked like a crane among chickens compared to the dump trucks and wuling hongguang in the village.

The door opened, and a long leg wrapped in white yoga pants stepped out first.

Immediately after, a tall figure got out of the car.

The woman was about twenty-five or twenty-six, her long hair tied into a neat ponytail, and she wore black-rimmed glasses, looking intellectual and capable.

But her outfit wasn't "intellectual" at all; under her fluffy cropped jacket, a light blue tight-fitting quick-dry T-shirt was dampened by the humid southern winter air, clinging tightly to her body.

The huge pair of "white rabbits" on her chest could be used as basketballs.

Below her slender waist, the yoga pants outlined her perky peach buttocks vividly. As she walked, the seam of her buttocks was faintly visible, full of amazing elastic texture.

This babe, her chest is huge, and her butt is quite perky.

Su Che swallowed subconsciously.

The woman walked straight to Su Che with a professional smile. "Hello, are you Mr. Su Che from 'Che Ge's Handmade Workshop'?"

Su Che was stunned: "You... know me?"

"Of course! I'm your fan, and also an outdoor streamer for a tech channel. My name is Jiang Yingxue."

The woman extended her hand generously.

"I just saw the eco-friendly firework you made in the live stream, it was simply shocking! I happened to be nearby gathering material, so I rushed over immediately, wanting to do an exclusive interview with you!"

Live stream? Interview?

Su Che's brain couldn't quite keep up.

Captain Li Jun, standing nearby, became vigilant upon seeing this woman who had suddenly appeared.

Too coincidental.

The EMP just went off, and a beautiful streamer claiming to be a "fan" shows up?

Jiang Yingxue didn't seem to notice Captain Li Jun's gaze. She walked around the black pit, her beautiful eyes beneath her glasses sparkling with excitement.

"Mr. Su Che, you are truly a genius! This kind of 'cold explosion' technology is only seen in theoretical concepts. How did you make it into a civilian product? And at such a low cost?"

Cold explosion?

Another new term.

Su Che scratched his head and answered honestly, "I just used some high-energy reactant, plus some scrap iron shells..."

"High-energy reactant?"

Jiang Yingxue's eyes brightened even more.

"Which formula is it? Is it an improvement based on HMX, or a brand-new polymeric nitrogen compound? Did you solve the stability problem of polymeric nitrogen compounds at room temperature and pressure?"

Su Che was completely dumbfounded.

He recognized every word the woman said, but put together, he couldn't understand it at all!

He was just a "Handmade Geng" who had been fed blueprints by a system; how would he understand these theories?

"I... I was just messing around." Su Che could only speak vaguely.

Looking at Su Che's embarrassed appearance, Jiang Yingxue wasn't disappointed; instead, she smiled even more brilliantly. "Mr. Su Che, you are too modest."

"By the way, I saw in your live stream that you have many other interesting inventions, such as that bicycle that can reach 80 yards? I wonder if I have the honor of visiting your studio?"

As she spoke, her large, watery eyes drifted toward the courtyard behind Su Che, to that utility room used as a studio.

The jig was up.

Captain Li Jun sneered in his heart.

This woman's goal wasn't an interview at all, but Su Che's technology.

He stepped forward calmly, blocking the space between Su Che and Jiang Yingxue, and gave Jiang Yingxue a formulaic smile.

"This lady, I'm sorry, our Telecommunications Bureau is currently investigating a malfunction, the site needs to be temporarily sealed off, please leave, irrelevant personnel."

"Telecommunications Bureau?"

Jiang Yingxue pushed up her glasses, her playful gaze sweeping over Captain Li Jun.

"Do employees of the Telecommunications Bureau now come equipped with muscle lines that can only be trained with military combat techniques?"

Captain Li Jun's expression changed slightly.

This woman was not simple!