86: Chapter 86: A Digital Massacre! The U.S. Masters Can't Sit Still Anymore!

The military salute was solemnly lowered, and the air in the command room suddenly tensed up. Everyone's eyes once again focused in unison on the young chief engineer in charge of the "Kaitian" Project.

"Engineer Su, do you really plan to... go to war with the Pan-Pacific Technology Alliance?" Deputy Director Qin's voice was low.

Su Che picked up the deep blue chip, playing with it in his hand as the corners of his mouth curled up. "It's not me starting a war."

"They were the ones who made the first move."

He gently placed the chip back into the special metal box.

"Ida Heavy Industries is just the beginning."

Lieutenant General Peng walked over to him and patted his shoulder. "Kid, you play bigger and bigger every time."

"If we don't play big, how can we make those self-righteous gods see the fangs of our Dragon Country?" Su Che's gaze was firm.

He looked at the main screen, where Sakura Country's core network nodes were still going dark.

"They thought they could choke us to death with technological barriers."

"Now, I will let them know what it means to dig their own graves."

"How is the situation over in Sakura Country?" Lieutenant General Peng asked.

A technician quickly pulled up a report. "Report, General!"

"The central data center of Ida Heavy Industries has had its core data entirely destroyed. The estimated recovery time is... indefinite."

"The Tokyo power grid is completely paralyzed, causing massive blackouts in the metropolitan area."

"The Shinkansen dispatch system has collapsed, and all national railways have suspended operations."

"Mitsubishi Bank's core database has been wiped clean, and the financial system is facing collapse."

"The servers of the Prime Minister's Official Residence and the Cabinet Intelligence and Research Office have physically fused."

The technician's voice carried a hint of trembling.

"The entire territory of Sakura Country has fallen into... digital darkness."

In the command room, everyone gasped.

How was this a cyberattack? This was clearly a digital massacre!

Su Che looked at the report on the screen, his expression calm. "This is just a warning."

"Tell them that on my turf, no one gets away scot-free."

He turned to look at Lieutenant General Peng, Dean Liu, and Deputy Director Qin.

"General, Dean Liu, Director Qin."

"Now, we should turn our attention back to the 'Kaitian' Project."

"The Quantum Lithography Machine is our true trump card."

"Once it is built, the Dragon Country's chip industry can completely break free from its shackles."

Dean Liu Qianghua's tone was heavy. "Can we build it ourselves?"

"Of course we can."

"We just need to change our approach."

Su Che walked to the tactical board and picked up a marker.

"Dean Liu, you just said that aspherical lenses can only be ground by Godwin Optics and Nikon in the entire world?"

Liu Qianghua nodded. "Yes, their craftsmanship is the result of decades of technological accumulation."

"Then we won't 'grind' them." Su Che wrote two words on the tactical board—"Growth."

"What? Growth?" Dean Liu Qianghua was stunned.

"If we can find a way to make nanometer-precision aspherical optical lenses 'grow' at the atomic level?"

Su Che looked at Lieutenant General Peng. "General, I need all laboratories in Dragon Country that possess ultra-high-purity crystal growth capabilities."

"Especially those units researching the growth of synthetic diamonds and sapphires."

"I need their top talent and all of their equipment."

"You mean... using crystal growth technology to manufacture lenses?" Lieutenant General Peng's spirit was jolted.

"Exactly." Su Che nodded.

"By precisely controlling the environmental parameters of crystal growth, we can make atoms stack along specific lattice directions."

"Theoretically, we can achieve higher precision than mechanical grinding."

"And it can be mass-produced."

Dean Liu Qianghua's eyes instantly lit up upon hearing this.

"This approach... is bold! Extremely bold!"

"But... crystal growth has extremely high requirements for environmental control."

"Especially the control of temperature, pressure, and impurities."

"Our current technology still cannot reach the nanometer level."

Su Che smiled. "Just because we couldn't achieve it before doesn't mean we can't now. We have the 'Dragon Chip,' which can lock temperature control precision at ±0.0001°C and achieve 'single-atom elimination' level impurity filtration."

He pointed to his own head. "A brand-new quantum algorithm can monitor the stacking trajectory of every single atom during the growth process in real-time, and even predict and correct crystal defects."

"This... this is simply a method only the Creator would possess!" Dean Liu Qianghua was so excited that his mustache quivered.

"If we can realize this 'atomic-level crystal growth' technology..."

"Then it won't just be lithography machine lenses—we will be able to manufacture all high-precision optical components ourselves!"

Lieutenant General Peng slammed his fist heavily onto the table. "Great!"

"Dean Liu, I must ask you to step in and immediately coordinate with the Chinese Academy of Sciences to gather all relevant experts."

"We will jointly establish the 'Kaitian Project' Optical Materials Research Group, with Chief Engineer Su serving as the group leader."

"In terms of resources, the military will spare no effort to fully guarantee and cooperate."

"Alright! I will coordinate it immediately!" Dean Liu Qianghua was so excited he looked as if he had aged twenty years younger.

He looked at Su Che, his eyes filled with admiration.

This kid always managed to turn seemingly unsolvable problems into smooth paths where hope suddenly dawned.

"As for that micro-Gal level active vibration isolation frame..." Su Che walked to the tactical board and wrote down three more words—"Anti-gravity."

"Anti-gravity?" Deputy Director Qin exclaimed.

Su Che nodded. "Yes."

"Since we can't eliminate the vibration, we will eliminate the 'gravity'."

"If we can use Anti-gravity technology to keep the entire lithography machine platform in a state of microgravity or zero gravity..."

"Then what vibration would there even be to speak of?"

After listening, Lieutenant General Peng fell into deep thought.

As for Anti-gravity technology, Su Che had previously demonstrated another form of it—Anti-gravity water pumping technology—back in Su Family Village, and his grandfather Su Changshan had already researched Anti-gravity matter fifteen years ago.

He just hadn't expected that he would apply it here.

"To what extent can this technology achieve right now?" Lieutenant General Peng asked.

Su Che pondered for a moment. "Theoretically, we can cancel out 99.9% of gravity's influence through local gravitational field regulation."

"But a lithography machine weighing several hundred tons requires stronger energy output and field stability. We can first use military-grade superconducting materials to build a validation platform to test the load threshold."

Lieutenant General Peng made a decisive call. "Good!"

"The military-industrial units will fully cooperate with you in the research and development of the anti-gravity vibration isolation platform!"

"Chief Engineer Su, go ahead and do it without holding back!"

Su Che looked at the words "Growth" and "Anti-gravity" on the tactical board, his eyes deep.

"We will definitely build this 'Divine Money Printing Machine'."

"And we will make it even more perfect than they can imagine!"

Just then.

The door to the command room was suddenly pushed open.

A young female officer in military uniform walked in with an anxious expression.

"Report, General Peng! The White House has issued an emergency bulletin!"

"The President of the Eagle Nation has signed an executive order, initiating a new round of 'maximum pressure' against our country."

"The executive order requires all countries and enterprises with cooperative relations in Dragon Country's technology sector to terminate their cooperation within 24 hours, or face comprehensive sanctions from the Eagle Nation!"

Su Che frowned slightly.

He had just beaten Sakura Country to the ground, and now President Trump had jumped out.

It seemed that Prometheus's phone call had been remarkably effective!

"General Peng, they also said..." The female officer hesitated.

"Said what?" Lieutenant General Peng's tone was icy.

"They said... this is a... 'righteous counterattack' against Dragon Country's cyber-terrorist activities!"

"Cyber-terrorist activities?" Su Che sneered. "I think they just want to strangle us in our cradle."

Lieutenant General Peng looked at Su Che, a trace of worry flashing in his eyes.

"Engineer Su, it seems our time... is running out."

But Su Che smiled.

"General, they think this is pressure."

"But I think..."

He picked up the marker again and wrote two more words next to "Growth" and "Anti-gravity."

"Opportunity!"

"The Eagle Nation's sanctions will only make those countries that rely on the Dragon Country's market but are coerced by hegemony see reality. They will either give up their interests to follow the Eagle Nation, or lean toward us to share the technological dividends. This is our opportunity!"

"What we need is speed!"

"At the fastest speed, build this 'money printing machine'!"

"Then, use it to completely... crush the Eagle Nation's technological hegemony!"

Looking at Su Che, for the first time, Lieutenant General Peng saw a resolve that was even more resilient and crazed than his own in this young man.

"Good!" Lieutenant General Peng said once more, concise and powerful.

"Then... let's go all out!"

"Director Qin, immediately initiate the highest-level information warfare contingency plan to deal with any potential cyberattacks the Eagle Nation might launch."

"Dean Liu, as for the Optical Materials Research Group, I'll have to trouble you to arrange its implementation tonight!"

"The Dragon Shadow Assault Team will enter first-level alert. Chief Engineer Su's safety must not be compromised!"

...

One command after another was issued from Lieutenant General Peng's mouth, and the entire command room instantly entered a state of combat readiness.

Su Che looked at the bustling scene before him, his heart burning with passion.

He knew that an unprecedented technological war had already raised its curtain.

And he was the... Swordholder of this war.