Incredible Insight: Toy Factory Discovers Swarm Drones

Chapter 110 You asked me to sell jump ropes, and you alarmed the nation?The doors to the conference room were pushed open, and the previously stagnant air began to flow once more.

Everyone’s gaze instinctively turned toward the entrance.

In a meeting of this level and strict confidentiality, any unauthorized intrusion was a serious breach of discipline.

But the person standing at the door clearly couldn’t care less about that.

It was Liu Jianguo’s personal secretary, Xiao Zhao.

He was usually very composed, but at this moment, his face—which always wore a professional smile—was filled with weirdness, anxiety, and even a hint of an expression like he’d seen a ghost.

He was clutching a tablet tightly in his hands, his knuckles turning white from the force.

The Old General frowned, and before he could even begin to scold him, Liu Jianguo’s heart skipped a beat.

’Oh no.’

He thought to himself.

’This kid has followed me for over ten years and has never been this reckless. Unless... that rascal has caused trouble again?’

A symptom known as ”Li Jiajun PTSD” instantly flared up in his mind.

He instinctively glanced at his colleagues from the MIIT and the Ministry of Commerce sitting nearby, thinking that if another international mess occurred, his old bones really wouldn’t be able to take it.

”What is it?” the Old General asked in a deep voice, his tone laced with displeasure.

Xiao Zhao didn’t answer the Old General. Instead, he hurried to Liu Jianguo’s side, leaned down, and said in a whisper that was forced low but trembling with excitement:

”Director Liu... something’s happened.”

Liu Jianguo’s mouth twitched, feeling speechless.

’I knew it.’

He took a deep breath, preparing himself to clean up that ”ancestor’s” mess once again, and asked in a low voice, ”Where is it this time? Middle East again? Or Sanbianpo? Or... did he sell elderly joy to Antarctica?”

”No... no.” Xiao Zhao swallowed hard and handed the tablet to Liu Jianguo. The screen’s light was exceptionally piercing in the dim conference room.

”It’s the stream. That Baishui City Streamer you told me to keep a close eye on... Li Jiajun, he’s on the trending searches again.”

”Trending searches?”

Liu Jianguo paused, his tense nerves relaxing slightly.

As long as it wasn’t a war, and as long as he hadn’t taken down some country’s warlord, what did being on the trending searches matter? Nowadays, influencers made the trending list more often than they drank water.

He waved his hand somewhat impatiently. ”What time is it right now? Can’t you see Academician Zhang is reporting? Such trivial matters can wait until later!”

At this moment, Academician Zhang Jingmin on the podium was on the verge of an emotional breakdown.

This elderly man, who had dedicated his entire life to the nation’s aviation materials industry, was currently leaning tremulously against the projector. He pointed at the microscopic photos of snapped steel cables on the screen, his voice hoarse and tearful.

”Comrades... Chiefs... I am guilty!”

”This ’Ultra-High Strength Carbon Fiber Composite Special Steel’ technology—we’ve been tackling it for ten whole years! It has cost the country billions! Our hair has turned white, and our equipment has been run into the ground...”

”But... but just yesterday, our best sample still snapped during the simulated carrier-based aircraft landing impact test...”

The old academician took off his glasses and wiped away his murky tears with his sleeve. His sorrowful appearance made all the generals present lower their heads, their hearts feeling heavy.

”That Ugly Country company... Titan Heavy Industry, although they are mercenary, black-hearted merchants, their technology... is indeed a full generation ahead of ours! We have to admit that in the field of basic materials science, we are being held by the throat, and held tightly!”

The conference room fell into a dead silence.

Only the old academician’s suppressed sobs remained, cutting into everyone’s hearts like a dull knife.

Amidst this tragic atmosphere, Liu Jianguo’s secretary, Xiao Zhao, was sweating profusely from anxiety.

Seeing Liu Jianguo’s impatient look, he gritted his teeth and, disregarding etiquette, shoved the tablet directly into Liu Jianguo’s hands and hissed urgently:

”Director Liu! You must see this! This... this really isn’t a small matter!”

”That Li Jiajun... he’s crying in his stream, saying that the Ugly Country company we’re negotiating with, ’Titan Heavy Industry,’ is a fraud!”

”What?!”