99: Chapter 99 The First Tooth! The Quantum Gear, Crushing the Hegemonic Blockade!

"What conditions?" Lieutenant General Peng's eyes lit up astonishingly; this was the sentence he had been waiting for.

Su Che pointed outside the window, his tone casual.

"I need a factory building that's large enough, spacious, and capable of holding all my 'trash'."

Lieutenant General Peng nodded.

"Also, all the scrap metal in the base, including those discarded, obsolete ones, and even unknown scraps, must be transported to me."

Lieutenant General Peng frowned slightly, saying nothing.

"Finally, and this is the most important part." Su Che looked at Lieutenant General Peng, the corners of his mouth lifting slightly. "I want absolute authority to dismantle any equipment, including the 'corpse' of that Germany machine."

Lieutenant General Peng's expression turned serious; this was no small matter.

"Kid, you're trying to tear the house down."

"General, didn't you say you wanted to build an entirely new engine?" Su Che retorted. "You have to break something to build something new, and isn't this just the 'breaking' part?"

Lieutenant General Peng looked at Academician Wu Mengda, who was playing with a hover wheelchair in the distance, and then recalled the industrial embargo list. Weighing the pros and cons in his heart, the balance gradually tipped.

He slammed his fist onto the table with a dull thud.

"Fine! I'll give it to you!"

Su Che smiled; he knew where Lieutenant General Peng's pain point lay.

[Ding! Detected that the host has successfully secured key resources, laying the foundation for "Growth" industry and greatly enhancing Dragon Country's strategic depth in dealing with international industrial blockades.]

[Special Reward: Skill Points +50! Current cumulative Skill Points for the host: 2500 points.]

Su Che's consciousness sank into the system panel, and seeing that he had just enough Skill Points, he felt pleased.

"General, then I won't stand on ceremony."

"You kid." Lieutenant General Peng pointed at him. "Go on, just ask for whatever you need, and I'll back you up."

Su Che nodded and turned to leave.

Just as he walked out of the conference room, Lieutenant General Peng's phone rang again.

After answering the call, Lieutenant General Peng's expression turned heavy once more.

"What? The special bearing production line at Northern Heavy Industries has stopped?"

"Germany's technical team has completely withdrawn, and they even took the blueprints with them?"

"All of Sakura Country's precision gear orders have been canceled, with the reason being 'force majeure'?"

Lieutenant General Peng hung up the phone, his grip nearly deforming the thermos cup in his hand.

"Scorched earth protocol... it's truly blooming everywhere." He watched Su Che's receding figure, his gaze profound. "I hope you, kid, can really poke a hole in this sky."

...

At 3:00 PM that afternoon.

On the east side of the "Sky-Opening" base, a large, long-abandoned locomotive factory building was urgently cleared out.

Dragon Shadow members dumped cartload after cartload of scrap metal into the center of the factory, piling them into small hills.

That Germany five-axis linkage machine tool, which had been stuck due to the embargo, was also slowly dragged into the factory by several heavy-duty tractors, like they were hauling a giant coffin.

Academician Qian Zhenhua, President Liu Qianghua, and a group of experts stood at the factory entrance, looking at this "ruin" with heavy hearts.

"What exactly... is Little Su trying to do?" President Liu Qianghua asked.

"He said he wanted to 'grow'." Academician Qian Zhenhua muttered to himself, recalling the words Su Che had spoken in the conference room.

"Grow? How is that possible?" A mechanical expert shook his head; he still couldn't understand.

Just then, Su Che pushed a cart into the factory, loaded with various tools and his silver briefcase.

He put on his safety goggles and walked to the pile of scrap metal.

"Academician Qian, President Liu, and all esteemed seniors." Su Che's voice echoed in the empty factory. "Welcome to witness the rebirth of Dragon Country's industry."

He opened his briefcase, took out a portable industrial terminal, and connected it to a projector.

[Auxiliary Technology: Atomic-Level Directed Energy Deposition Technology Scheme]

[Redemption Points: 1500 points.]

[Auxiliary Technology: Quantum Field Constraint Forming Force Field Construction Blueprint]

[Redemption Points: 1000 points.]

In an instant, the Skill Points in Su Che's mind hit zero.

At the same time, countless complex theoretical models, data streams, and operating instructions flooded into his brain instantly.

He picked up a plasma cutting gun from the cart and walked over to the Germany machine tool.

"The General is right; to build an entirely new engine, one must first take materials from a 'corpse'."

"The core of this machine tool, Krupp special steel, not bad."

"Boom!" A blinding blue-white plasma arc suddenly flared up, accompanied by a deafening roar.

The massive Germany machine tool was sliced open by Su Che as if it were tofu.

Those core components were disassembled one by one by him and tossed into a temporarily constructed electromagnetic furnace.

Discarded titanium alloy, aerospace aluminum, tungsten steel... all kinds of metal scraps were also precisely tossed into the furnace by him.

Inside the furnace, liquid metal churned, emitting a dazzling white light.

Su Che's eyes were fixed on the furnace, while his hands operated the terminal, adjusting the parameters.

On the light screen, a complex 3D model of a mechanical part appeared—one of the core components of the Quantum Lithography Machine, a miniature high-precision transmission gear.

"Hum—" Above the furnace, a transparent force field formed by quantum field constraints slowly condensed.

Inside the force field, countless atomic-level energy particles were visibly arranging and combining precisely according to Su Che's instructions.

Like invisible building blocks, they stacked layer by layer, particle by particle, constructing the gear from the 3D model at a speed that defied common sense.

There were no sparks flying, no cutting or grinding. There was only silent "Growth".

Academician Qian Zhenhua's mouth hung wide open; he even forgot to steady his cane.

President Liu Qianghua's glasses slid down to the tip of his nose, but he was completely unaware.

All the experts were as if under a paralysis spell, staring intently at the gear gradually taking shape in the force field.

That was not casting, not forging, and certainly not 3D printing. That was... creation.

Ten minutes later, the force field slowly dissipated. A miniature gear with a metallic luster floated quietly in the air.

It was only the size of a fingernail, yet it was flawless. Every tooth, every curve of the gear, had reached atomic-level precision.

Su Che stepped forward and gently picked up the gear.

"Academician Qian, esteemed seniors." He handed the gear to Academician Qian Zhenhua, his tone calm. "This is the first tooth of the Quantum Lithography Machine."

Academician Qian Zhenhua took the gear with trembling hands; he didn't even dare to squeeze it.

"This... this is truly..." He couldn't form coherent words.

"What can this thing achieve?" Lieutenant General Peng's voice came from outside the factory; he had arrived at some point.

Su Che looked at Lieutenant General Peng, his eyes revealing confidence.

"General, since I can 'grow' one tooth."

"Then what is difficult about 'growing' a five-axis linkage machine tool?"