608: Come to find trouble

Before coming, Academician Hao Ran had thoroughly investigated Ren Yi's family background.

It could be said to be unremarkable.

The only notable point was that this university student named Ren Yi had Ai Dapao as his thesis advisor.

He and Ai Dapao had not seen eye to eye from early on; it would not be an exaggeration to say they were the biggest rivals.

Because he was a genuine conservative!

For so many years, the verbal battles and struggles between the two had never ceased.

As the president of Qingbei University, Academician Hao Ran's biggest philosophy was to send students to the United States for advanced studies, thereby building a bridge of friendship between the two countries.

Even in the current period when China was being shamelessly suppressed by the United States, his philosophy still revolved around academic internationalism and global division of labor.

The struggles between the two countries should not affect academic cooperation, and by no means should they affect academic exchanges between universities in both nations.

He could be said to be a conservative among conservatives!

It's just a pity that after years of “effort” by Academician Hao Ran and others,

most of the top students from Qingbei University who went to the United States for study abroad never returned to China.

And as for the so-called United States exchange students, almost all of them returned to their home countries after graduation!

Regarding this, the conservative faction, led by Academician Hao Ran, firmly believed that China's technology lagged behind the United States by at least fifty years.

Enduring humiliation was an inevitable path for China, and if even one person could return with their studies completed, it was a gain!

It was clear that his conservative faction had completely irreconcilable ideological conflicts with radical factions like Professor Ai.

After learning that Ren Yi was Ai Dapao's student, Academician Hao Ran became even angrier!

He firmly believed that this was an action specifically designed to target him.

The so-called Human Bionic Mecha was simply impossible to succeed.

The outcome of the project he led had already been concluded: it was impossible to succeed.

No one could change that!

Hearing Academician Hao Ran's sarcastic remarks, Wu Dawei chuckled and said,

“Just wait and see.”

As a high-ranking official in the Military Region, Wu Dawei's thinking ability was very strong, and he quickly understood the crux of the matter.

He knew that Academician Hao Ran's visit this time, besides coming to demand an explanation, also had the intention of making things difficult for Ren Yi.

Unfortunately, in the face of absolute intellectual superiority and technological leadership, all suppression was futile.

These days, although Wu Dawei was busy with National Day affairs, he still took time to visit the Aerospace Base.

It could be said that the Mecha's progress was incredibly fast.

He had complete confidence in Ren Yi!

At this moment,

Commander Wu's deep voice came.

“Comrade Wu Dawei, aren't you going to lead the way? Are you going to make the leader wait for you?!”

Wu Dawei immediately responded.

“Yes! Leader, please, Commander Wu, please!”

Under Wu Dawei's leadership,

more than a dozen armored vehicles and ten helicopters were dispatched, fully armed, escorting this convoy of domestic Red Flag cars towards the Aerospace Base.

...

Aerospace Base firing range.

It covered an area of tens of thousands of mu.

A Mecha figure shimmering with metallic luster moved rapidly,

As it approached the target, it suddenly leaped, and faint blue flames shot out from various joints of its body.

The entire Mecha abruptly soared into the air, directly hovering at a height of one hundred meters.

The Mecha Warriors extended his left hand, and a miniature missile ejected from his forearm.

Boom!!!

A loud explosion followed immediately.

At the rocket target, which was ten meters in diameter, only a massive hollow remained!

The Mecha Warriors flew back, landing steadily.

He removed his head armor, revealing Chen Zhihui of the special operations forces.

He said with excitement,

“Report, the test mission has been successfully completed!”

Li Qi, Lin Jie, and Ma San were also very excited.

“It really is a case of you get what you pay for. I said this money was well spent!”

Saying this, the three of them embraced each other, weeping with excitement.

“All successful! Is this not a dream? All tests have succeeded!”

Ren Yi was slightly speechless.

Originally, he thought several hundred million was already high.

But these people were even more willing to spend money than him, demanding the best configurations and pursuing perfection.

Even if it meant spending tens of millions or hundreds of millions more to improve performance by only 0.1%, they would not hesitate.

Moreover, seeing that various technologies were very complete, these three directly considered mass production, and twenty sets of each Mecha part and system configuration were produced.

In just over half a month, the project funding had already approached ten billion!

It was truly spending money like water; it felt like the money wasn't their own, so they didn't feel the pinch.

Fortunately, this project was currently a national priority with ample funding; otherwise, who could afford such expenditure?!

Ren Yi stood up from his chair, looked at the expectant eyes of everyone, and smiled slightly:

“After continuous improvements and rigorous testing of various Mecha configurations over the past few months,

“we can now basically announce that this project has achieved initial success.”

“Thank you all for your hard work over the past few days!”

Clap! Clap! Clap!

Immediately, hundreds of researchers present applauded excitedly. After more than half a month of hard work, they had finally succeeded.

This filled every researcher with gratitude; it would be the most valuable experience in their scientific research careers.

After a brief discussion with Li Qi and the other two, Ren Yi continued to speak loudly.

“Next, according to the pre-arranged schedule, Captain Chen Zhihui will conduct the final, full-process comprehensive test of the Human Bionic Mecha.”

“Testers, please take your positions. We will begin in thirty minutes!”

At the same time.

Aerospace Base center.

Under Wu Dawei's lead, the leader had already entered the hall.

“Where are the people? Why is there no one here?”

Looking at the empty Aerospace Base, Xu Guanlin asked curiously.

“Ridiculous!”

“It's past ten in the morning, prime working hours, yet there's not a single soul in this huge Aerospace Base. Does this look like a place for scientific research? Are you joking with the nation's money?”

Academician Hao Ran immediately jumped out and sneered, as if he had caught Wu Dawei in a misstep.

“Wu Dawei, is this the scientific research project you were so confident about? Today truly opened my eyes!”

The leader's expression remained calm, and he said nothing; no one knew what he was thinking.

Commander Wu, on the other hand, had a grim expression.

This was a slap in his face!

This Wu Dawei was truly unreliable!

National Day was in a few days, and he had repeatedly emphasized things, yet he messed up at such a crucial moment!

Wu Dawei also panicked and was about to pick up his phone to ask Ren Yi what was going on.

At this moment,

a loud “boom!” came, startling everyone present.

Everyone looked in the direction of the sound, unsettled.

What's going on?

Wu Dawei, however, felt his heart settle.

“That's right, they must be at the testing ground, testing the Mecha's performance, which is why there's no one here.”

“Let's go, let's go, I'll take you there now!”

Saying this, he led the way.

...

As the former chief designer of the individual exoskeleton armor, Academician Hao Ran had worked here for several years and was very familiar with the environment.

As he walked, he introduced the place to the leader, as if he were the host here.

“Three kilometers behind the Aerospace Base, there's a firing range that has been abandoned since the exoskeleton armor project began.

I wonder what this student Ren Yi and his team are researching there? Does the Human Bionic Mecha test need to be conducted at the firing range?”

“Oh!... I remember now, his advisor Ai Dapao specializes in missiles. Could it be that his own university's testing ground isn't good enough, so he's come to a national-level Aerospace Base for personal use of public resources?”

Academician Hao Ran deliberately used the term “student” to refer to him, with malicious intent.

This would create a misconception among everyone that Ren Yi was young, inexperienced, and unreliable.

Wu Dawei frowned.

After many years of cooperation, he had long known Academician Hao Ran's true nature.

Such petty tricks were indeed as shameless as ever!

Academician Hao Ran was particularly excited and continued:

“Leader, Commander Wu, before we go, I'd like to introduce the research results of the previous project.”

“Currently, all individual exoskeleton armors in our World have a core load capacity that does not exceed five hundred kilograms.”

“This is a number precisely calculated by global scientific teams based on all current materials and technologies.

To break this limit, there must be major innovations in various Mecha material fields!”

At this point, Academician Hao Ran looked at Wu Dawei.

“Wu Dalang, as the director of the WarCom Bureau, your announcement of the armor having a two-thousand-kilogram load might have some strategic considerations for external purposes.”

“But from a scientific perspective, let alone two thousand kilograms, even eight hundred kilograms of load is impossible.”

The leader, upon hearing this, remained expressionless and calmly looked at Commander Wu.

Commander Wu understood and immediately asked a question.

“Academician Hao Ran, do you not think there's even a slight possibility that the Mecha parameters are real?”

“Absolutely impossible! If such absurd data were true, then my years as the president of Qingbei University would have been lived in vain.”

Academician Hao Ran waved his hand, his expression incredibly firm.

Commander Wu then asked:

“Then how do you explain the video data reported by Comrade Wu Dawei? He wouldn't engage in deception, would he? Does he dare?”

Academician Hao Ran thought for a moment.

He then expressed his true thoughts from the past half-month.

“Perhaps, it's a carefully designed hoax? That thing looks like a toy model; it's not realistic at all.”

“Wu Dawei is the director of the Strategic Deception Bureau, and he was previously the overall head of the individual exoskeleton armor project. He had some discarded parts from our original joint development, which he just used to deceive Western countries.”

“I have to say it had some effect. Haven't the United States lifted several technological blockades against our country these days, just to confirm whether our Mecha technology is real?”

“It's clear that this deception has been quite fruitful, and that's what I admire most about him.”

Academician Hao Ran firmly believed.

The previous exoskeleton armor was a show orchestrated by Wu Dawei himself.

The main purpose was to deceive Western countries and achieve the goal of subduing others without fighting.

He didn't expect the bluff to get too big to retract, so he could only make the best of a bad situation.

As for the armor itself?

Heh heh!

He said two thousand kilograms of load, and it's two thousand kilograms?

If there was no exaggeration, would Wu Dawei still be the head of the Strategic Deception Bureau?

After listening to Academician Hao Ran's words,

Wu Dawei's anger flared up.

This old man was clearly deliberately disparaging him in front of the leader!

Just as he was about to retort, Commander Wu, who was beside him, had already spoken coldly.

“Academician Hao, what reason makes you believe that my dignified Southwest Military Region's military industry Aerospace Base would dare to falsely report military industrial technology data?”

“If it truly were a model, as you said, would the nation restart this project? Do you think the national leaders are fools?”

Academician Hao Ran's face suddenly turned pale upon hearing this, and he said nothing more.

Loose lips sink ships!

Anyway, his goal had been achieved; as for how to deal with it, that was the leader's business.

“Put away your arrogance and ignorance!”

Commander Wu's resonant words made Academician Hao Ran's face flush, and he wished he could find a hole to crawl into.

His hatred for Wu Dawei and that Ren Yi intensified.

Seeing Academician Hao Ran being scolded, Wu Dawei felt a secret satisfaction.

He secretly gave Commander Wu a thumbs up.

His own Commander truly protected his subordinates!