130: Chapter 130 is all toys

Zheng Yi's gaze was fixed on Wang Shuo, but her thoughts were clearly drifting, as if she were recalling other matters.

It wasn't until a minute later that she snapped back to reality.

"Give me a reason not to arrest you."

Zheng Yi's voice was flat.

Wang Shuo, who had been carefully observing Zheng Yi's reaction, secretly breathed a sigh of relief. What he feared most was that this decisive soldier before him would say nothing at all; that would truly be big trouble.

But fortunately, she asked.

"This is for self-preservation." Wang Shuo offered a bitter smile and spread his hands. "I'm afraid of being kidnapped again, and next time, I won't have my big brother risking his life to save me."

Zheng Yi frowned slightly.

"So you intend to fight fire with fire?"

"This isn't fighting fire with fire." Wang Shuo shook his head. "This is called meeting water with an earth dam, and soldiers with a shield."

Zheng Yi's frown deepened.

"No one in Huaxia can use a Weapon to harm a law-abiding citizen."

"They can do it without a Weapon." Wang Shuo stated firmly. "For example, this time, I was taken away with a stick."

"Privately manufacturing firearms is a serious crime."

"What I manufactured isn't a firearm, it's just an electromagnetic launch system, and it's only a prototype."

...

Zheng Yi looked at Wang Shuo, as if she were re-evaluating him.

"If it weren't for Zheng Jun risking his life to save you, I wouldn't let you stand here and make excuses." Zheng Yi pulled over a chair and motioned for Wang Shuo to sit down as well.

"I know." Wang Shuo smiled slightly. Based on his experience negotiating with Chen Zhongxuan, the other party's behavior could already be considered a certain level of indication.

"So you don't need to hide anything from me. Go ahead and speak." Zheng Yi appeared very casual at this moment. "The real purpose of manufacturing this system, the channels for the materials, and most importantly... where did you obtain the technical data?"

What did that mean? Wang Shuo was somewhat stunned. Why did it suddenly feel like the topic had shifted?

"Sister Zheng." Wang Shuo said helplessly. "Couldn't all of this have been done by me personally?"

"You personally?" Zheng Yi turned to look at Wang Shuo, then shook her head. "You couldn't have done it."

What did that mean? Had he been underestimated by Zheng Jun's sister?

Before Wang Shuo could speak, Zheng Yi's calm voice came.

"I just examined the structure of the entire launch system. The charging capacitors are just ordinary supercapacitors; the power won't exceed 2000W, and the instantaneous discharge performance cannot meet the requirements. Such power and current wouldn't allow the projectile's kinetic energy to reach 4000 joules; even reaching a lower 1700 joules would be very difficult."

"Furthermore, your barrel has rifling, and the coil winding isn't professional either."

"So..." Zheng Yi looked at Wang Shuo. "Go ahead and speak, Student Wang Shuo. Out of consideration for you being a classmate of Zheng Jun, I'll give you a chance for leniency if you confess. You only need to tell me three things."

Zheng Yi held up one finger.

"First, where is the real Electromagnetic Rifle, and what is the purpose of bringing it into the country?"

"Second." She held up a second finger, a strange glimmer flashing in her eyes. "Where is your overseas contact location? And who is your contact person?"

"Third, who is the person instructing you to reach into the police station? Are they from the provincial or ministerial level? And what is their purpose?"

Three questions, each more specific than the last.

But...

What on earth is this all about?

Wang Shuo was speechless. Was she treating him like a spy?

What kind of shock did Zheng Jun's sister receive? What kind of thought process does one need to reach the absurd conclusion that he is a spy?

Wang Shuo didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "Sister Zheng, aren't you overthinking this a bit?"

"Whether I'm overthinking it or not, we'll know once we take you back." Zheng Yi was very familiar with these matters and spoke without the slightest hesitation. "According to our intelligence, there is a high probability that you, Student Wang Shuo, have issues."

"What's the reason?" Wang Shuo said speechlessly. "You can't just rely on a woman's sixth sense, can you?"

"I never rely on a sixth sense." Zheng Yi said calmly. "I only analyze problems. There are three reasons for suspecting you."

"First, according to our intelligence, the only place where an Electromagnetic Weapon appears in organized formations and possesses lethality comparable to a rifle is overseas. And as for weapons of the same type that can reach the standard of a rifle in terms of damage, apart from captured ones, they have only appeared with you so far."

"Second, our mission this time is to track down the mysterious signal that appeared during a previous national secret theft case. The location where this signal appeared just happens to be W City. I won't name the contact person, but you should be very familiar with them; after all, it was the person you chose."

"Third, don't you think your kidnapping case was a bit too deliberate? You chose three fools, and the main suspect overlaps with the contact person we are looking for. Moreover, you took the opportunity to replace W City's Eagle Eye System with the Sky Eye. Don't tell me you just simply upgraded it without leaving any backdoors to steal information?"

This...

If Wang Shuo didn't know that he hadn't done anything, based on what was said above, he might have even considered himself a spy...

Why were there such coincidences?

"National security cannot be taken lightly. If it is later discovered that Student Wang Shuo has been wronged, I will personally come to apologize to you. As for now, do you have anything else to say?"

"None." Wang Shuo sighed. "However, Sister Zheng, everything you've said for so long is based on only one foundation: that this electromagnetic launch system in front of you is fake."

"As long as the electromagnetic launch system is fake, all the above speculations have a basic logic."

"But what if it's real?" Wang Shuo looked at Zheng Yi. This situation actually wasn't hard to break. "As long as it's proven to be real, then according to your previous analysis, Sister Zheng, the connection between this launch system and overseas can be completely severed, because it has never appeared before. This is a..."

Wang Shuo's eyes shone brightly.

"A new type of electromagnetic launch system designed by me, Wang Shuo, personally!"

Zheng Yi frowned. She had thought of this too, but as a top student, her analysis was absolutely sound. The launch system before her was not enough to achieve destructive power comparable to a rifle.

In Huaxia, and even across the entire world, the Electromagnetic Rifle is just in its infancy.

According to what she understood, an Electromagnetic Rifle capable of firing a projectile with 1000 joules of kinetic energy was considered very advanced. But such things had no advantage at all in the face of existing hot Weapons. Not to mention sniper rifles with muzzle kinetic energy as high as over 10,000 joules, even standard rifles usually had muzzle kinetic energy exceeding 3000 joules and an initial velocity exceeding 600 meters per second.

Huaxia had been researching this for over a decade, and even after capturing the opponent's Electromagnetic Rifle, they hadn't been able to make a breakthrough. They were stuck on the high-capacity and miniaturization of the power supply system's capacitors, and the energy storage power source was also a major problem.

If these two problems weren't solved, electromagnetic firearms would forever only exist in PPTs. This was also the reason for her confidence.

But now...

Zheng Yi looked at the young-faced Wang Shuo in front of her. She didn't believe that this student, who was the same age as Zheng Jun, could be an overseas spy. But the facts were right in front of her; she was only conducting a practical analysis based on the facts she understood. The conclusion reached might be absurd, but it was definitely not a fantasy.

Compared to national security, sometimes it is inevitable to sacrifice some personal interests; this is something that cannot be compromised.

Zheng Yi sighed in her heart and stood up. At this time, surely the outside had already been silently surrounded by special forces, right? Just waiting for her signal.

"Student Wang Shuo, if you have nothing else to say, let's change the place for our conversation."

"I have no problem with that." Wang Shuo, who was checking if the capacitors were damaged by over-discharge, looked up, his smile pure and confident. "Give me five minutes, and let me demonstrate to you what an electromagnetic launcher really is."

"Compared to this, the things you saw before are all... toys."