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Chapter 107 Liu Jianguo’s Relentless Pursuit! Frustration! A rope worth ten million US dollars!Imperial Capital, a certain confidential compound not open to the public.

On a midsummer afternoon, the sun was scorching, and the asphalt road was baked soft and oily. The cicadas on the trees screamed with all their might, adding a bit more irritability to the already sweltering air.

A black Hongqi sedan with military plates sped into the courtyard, its tires screeching against the hot concrete as it came to a steady stop in front of a small building.

As soon as the car door opened, a heatwave hit him square in the face. Liu Jianguo climbed out, his shirt soaked with sweat and sticking clammily to his back; he looked quite disheveled.

His eyes were puffy, clearly having just rushed back from the southwest border thousands of kilometers away without even having time for a sip of water.

After dealing with the Punk Elder who wanted to drive an elderly joy into the Golden Triangle to fight, and then arranging the technical sealing of the black tortoise batch, he felt like his old bones were about to fall apart.

’When will these days ever end?’

He thought to himself, wanting nothing more than to rush home, take a cold shower, and then sleep like the dead in an air-conditioned room.

But reality wouldn’t allow it. An encrypted call from the Old General had dragged him directly from the airport to this place.

There was only one sentence in the call: ”The sky is falling, come quickly.”

Liu Jianguo wiped the sweat from his forehead, took a deep breath, and pushed open the heavy doors of the meeting room.

The air conditioning inside was strong, but the coolness could not dispel the oppressive atmosphere in the air. The room was thick with the smell of smoke, enough to make one’s throat itch.

The long conference table was filled with generals with gold stars on their shoulders and white-haired Experts. Everyone’s face was filled with gravity, even a sense of despair.

The Old General sitting in the main seat had a face as grim as water. The cigarette in his hand had burned down to the butt, and he only abruptly stubbed it out when it scorched his finger.

”Jianguo is here, sit down,” the Old General’s voice was hoarse.

Liu Jianguo didn’t dare say much. He found a corner to sit in and scanned the report in the center of the conference table.

A line of bold text was printed on the cover of the report: ”Emergency Report on the Failure of Key Material Research for the Project 003 Arresting System.”

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Seeing this line of text, Liu Jianguo’s heart sank.

Project 003 was the latest generation of aircraft carrier built with the entire strength of the Eastern Country, the key to the Eastern Country’s Navy heading into the deep blue. And the Arresting System was the ”lifeline” on the carrier that could pull a carrier-based aircraft weighing over twenty tons and traveling at over two hundred kilometers per hour to a stop in just a few seconds.

Without this rope, the aircraft carrier would be a floating target at sea; planes could fly out but wouldn’t be able to land back.

”The situation... is very bad.”

Academician Zhang, who was in charge of technical research at the Aeronautical Materials Institute, spoke up. This usually energetic Old Expert seemed to have aged ten years at this moment. He didn’t even bother to wipe the sweat trickling down his white hair at his temples, and his voice carried a sob.

”We collaborated with the three major domestic Special Steel Plants, trial-produced over four hundred formulas, and conducted thousands of ultimate tensile experiments...”

At this point, Academician Zhang took off his glasses and covered his face in pain, his fingers trembling.

”...All failed. The latest data just sent back shows that the sample with the best strength snapped during the fiftieth ultimate impact. The toughness and fatigue resistance are still at least a generation behind combat standards.”

The meeting room fell silent.

There was only the hum of the projector fan and the annoying chirping of cicadas outside the window.

Liu Jianguo looked at Academician Zhang’s white hair, and he felt terrible as well. He knew how hard these Old Experts worked, but this was like a natural chasm blocking the path of the Eastern Country’s industry.

”What about the previous stock?” a Navy Vice Admiral asked anxiously. ”Didn’t we manage to get a few through special channels?”