Incredible Insight: Toy Factory Discovers Swarm Drones

Chapter 37 The Old General: Fellow military workers, whose company is this Li Family Toy Factory?In the office of the relevant affairs department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Eastern Country, the atmosphere was indescribably strange.

The director was an experienced middle-aged cadre. He pinched the bridge of his nose, repeatedly reading the sternly worded diplomatic note urgently submitted by the Israel embassy in the early hours of the morning, feeling his temples throbbing with pain.

”Li Family Toy Factory?”

He chewed on this name several times, finding it absurd no matter how he listened to it. He raised his head and instructed his most capable subordinate: ”Go, pull up all the lists of our military industrial exports, as well as the rosters of all subordinate units. Check them for me! Check if there is a unit called ’Li Family Toy Factory,’ or one disguised as a toy factory!”

The subordinate took the order and left, leaving the director alone in the office. He leaned back in his chair, his fingers tapping unconsciously on the desk. As an old hand who had been struggling on the diplomatic front for half a lifetime, he knew very well that Israel did not have the guts to challenge the Eastern Country alone. If there wasn’t the instigation of the Ugly Country behind this, he would write his name backwards. But the problem was, even if the Ugly Country’s intelligence agencies were incompetent, they wouldn’t come up with such a ridiculous target. This matter was strange everywhere, giving him a whiff of something unusual.

A few minutes later, the subordinate returned with a document, his expression strange.

”Report, Director,” he whispered, ”From the military industrial group down to the subordinate companies... we have checked them all. Not only is there no ’Li Family Toy Factory,’ there isn’t even a person named Li in charge!”

”Hah!”

The director leaned back sharply, emitting a sigh of astonishment in a genuine old Imperial Capital accent. He was speechless in his heart, ’These comrades in the military industrial sector are hiding things deep enough.’

He pondered for a moment, picked up the secure phone on the desk, and reported the matter exactly as it was to his direct superior. The superior on the other end of the line remained silent for a long time after listening, evidently also stumped by the absurdity of the matter, finally leaving only one sentence: ”I know. Wait for notification.”

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Half an hour later, an emergency internal meeting, led by higher-level leaders and attended by the heads of major military industrial units, was held in a non-public hotel conference room in the suburbs of the capital.

”No one claiming it? Everyone.” The leader presiding over the meeting, an Old General, had eyes like lightning, slowly sweeping over everyone present. His rank was already quite high, enough to make any military industrial tycoon present feel pressure.

Around the conference table, the gathered military industrial tycoons looked at each other, the atmosphere somewhat heavy.

Suddenly, everyone’s gaze focused unanimously on a man sitting in the corner. That man’s name was Liu Jianguo, and he was the head of a certain military industrial unit.

When Liu Jianguo was young, he was a daring person. Back when his unit was undergoing military-to-civilian conversion, this old guy actually dared to take some obsolete equipment, military-to-civilian, but not completely converted, taking semi-finished military-to-civilian products, and reselling them abroad. If it weren’t for his truly heaven-defying ability and repeated meritorious service, he would have been sent to prison to sing the ”tears of the iron window” back then. Even so, he still received a severe disciplinary action. Later, when the factory returned to the military industrial system, he relied on his solid technology and courage to eventually sit in the position of the head.

Feeling the gaze of the crowd, Liu Jianguo’s hand holding the tea paused. He looked up and shrugged innocently: ”Why are you all looking at me? It really wasn’t me this time.”

After he finished speaking, he seemed to feel that this statement was not quite right, and quickly added: ”What’s this all about, when was it ever me?”

This statement, which could be called ”confessing without being pressed,” made several old buddies who knew him well unable to stop their mouths from twitching.