Necromancer, summoning 055? What the heck?

Chapter 116 The Bald Eagle's Vigilance

Nuclear energy, a shining jewel in the history of human technology, a stellar-level energy torrent, but when you return to its essence, it is actually quite simple.

By investing massive amounts of energy, the barriers between atoms are broken down, causing the material to undergo a fusion reaction, thereby releasing even more surging energy.

Then use that energy to boil water!
Yes, you heard that right.

The hundreds of millions of degrees Celsius that ignites stars and tears atoms, the chain reaction that breaks free from the shackles of Coulomb's repulsion, and the creation that brings together the pinnacle of human wisdom, ultimately result in boiling water in a kettle and turning it into billowing steam!
Then, the steam drives the flywheel, which in turn drives the generator to produce electricity.

When our ancestors came down from the trees, they learned to throw stones and boil water.

As humanity has now reached another peak in science and technology, studying the stars and the ocean in the macroscopic world and exploring the origin of particles in the microscopic world, what they are doing is throwing stones a little further away and boiling more water.

Staying true to one's original aspiration is a good thing.

The results of "boiling water" were gratifying.

The experimental results were almost perfectly controlled. Until the main mana crystal in the magic circle was completely exhausted, the entire nuclear fusion process remained very stable, orderly, and well-organized, fully deserving the title of "controllable".

The news of the successful experiment was immediately relayed to the Cihang Engineering Department, and everyone who knew about it, was partially aware of it, or was unaware of it but knew that such an experiment existed was overjoyed.

The direction is clear; the next step is simply to continue pushing forward in this direction with more frequent and diverse experiments.

Gradually eliminate those bloated and complex structures, remove redundancies, and optimize processes until the long-awaited miniaturized controlled nuclear fusion reactor becomes a beacon illuminating new technological paths.

The research institute excitedly released yet another scientific achievement, only to be met with lukewarm congratulations from the entire planet.

However, on the other side of the ocean, a special message landed on the desk of George Bruce, the first director of the Bald Eagle Federal Security Service.

Director Bruce looked at it for a long time, seemingly understanding some of it, but ultimately not understanding it at all.

Finally, he muttered and pressed the communicator: "Call Mike and Sean over here right now. Damn it... I have to let them see this."

Unfortunately, George Bruce's level of education was somewhat low.

According to the federal naming interpretation, George means hardworking farmer and Bruce means dense forest. The combination of these two names doesn't sound very noble.

What are the identities of the other two deputy directors? Mike—a man who resembles God! Sean—a gift from God! Their names alone exude a grand and majestic lineage; their ancestors were either chieftains of the Longship Federation or meritorious officials of the Twin Lions Kingdom.

As a result, a "farmer" was allowed to occupy the high position of Director of the Federal Security Administration. If uninformed people heard this, they might think that Director George was exceptionally capable.

But the truth is, Chief George was the pig that rode the wave.

His rise to power had nothing to do with his abilities, background, or qualifications. It was simply because the previous president of the Federation vigorously promoted the process of diversification, and as a transgender person who had undergone four sex changes, he was practically the president's favorite chosen one.

At its peak, the Federation had over a hundred gender types. Four gender reassignments only changed one-thirtieth of them. What's so surprising about that?

During the previous president's term, Director George rose rapidly through the ranks, becoming a four-star general and the head of the largest federal intelligence agency.

Of course, the new lord is extremely averse to diversity and has reduced the number of genders to only two.

Fortunately, although Chief George was not very intelligent, he was extremely decisive. He quickly turned the millions of eagle coins he had painstakingly earned during his tenure into the most loyal "tribute" and offered it to the new master in time, which barely allowed him to survive the storm and purge.

Now, he needs someone to help him decipher this document.

Soon, the two deputy directors strode in.

“Oh, dear Mike, you know, these complicated technical terms just won’t get into my head.”

"I just searched online for a long time, and it seems that Dongxia has only made a small, insignificant breakthrough. Why is our Ghost in such a hurry to send back this intelligence?"

The two deputy directors exchanged a serious look.

The codename "Ghost" is a taboo subject within the Federal Security Administration. Even the three directors present, who are considered top figures in the federal intelligence system, only know him as a super agent.

As for specific details, nothing is known.

To declassify the "Ghost's" files, only the personal authorization of the Federal President, the number one figure, is required.

This guy might not send back intelligence for years, but once he speaks up, it must mean he's discovered something incredibly important.

The two quickly spread out the intelligence report and began to study it word by word.

Director George also turned his computer screen around, displaying a recent public news release from Dongxia.

"Look, the people of Dongxia themselves said that they have achieved a new breakthrough in controlled magnetic confinement nuclear fusion, extending the running time by tens of seconds."

"I really don't understand, what's so surprising about this..."

On the surface, there is nothing surprising about it. With the time limit for controlled nuclear fusion now exceeding the hour level, many of the bald eagle's allies and vassals are close to or have reached this standard.

For the Dongxia people to be restricted for a few dozen seconds longer is just a matter of burning more money.

But there were still some people on site who knew a little about the technology.

"Oh my God, I think we're in big trouble!" Third Deputy Director Sean suddenly stood up. "I think you'd better report to the President immediately!"

He quickly unfolded the intelligence report, pointed to a word in the middle, and tapped his fingers rapidly on the table.

"It's not about continuous and stable operation, it's about continuous and stable power generation, these are completely different things!"

"'Ghost' risked tremendous danger to deliver this intelligence, how could it be so simple!"

Deputy Director Sean used gestures and explanations to finally make the other two understand.

Continuous and stable operation simply means maintaining this state from collapsing, but it does not mean that this state is effective.

It's like you're in a classroom listening to a lecture. Even though you don't talk or sleep, your mind might be full of yesterday's novel, this morning's video, the girl next door, lunch... and you might not hear a single word the teacher says.

Continuous and stable operation is equivalent to students sitting in the classroom for forty minutes.

Continuous and stable power generation is equivalent to students studying in the classroom for forty minutes.

They look similar, but they are worlds apart.

All current breakthroughs in nuclear fusion are based on the excuse of "I sat in the classroom for a few extra seconds today," without daring to mention anything about studying.

I failed the exam every time, I can't take it anymore!
Because of the tight schedule and strict verification process, the information sent by the ghost could not be explained in much detail, but the meaning was already very clear.

Of course, at this level, they couldn't possibly realize that this was a message used to deceive others.

The report traveled around, from the federal gray room to the Octagon.

Soon, the bald eagle's robust and massive machine began to creak and groan as it turned.

As a long-established superpower that has dominated and reigned supreme for so many years, the White Eagle still possesses considerable strength.

At yet another high-level office meeting, the golden retriever broke with tradition and interrupted the chanting of his well-dressed elite subordinates ahead of time.

It's worth noting that, under normal circumstances, each person would typically take up two-thirds of the meeting time to offer praise to their boss.

Today, after using only a third of the material, the president became impatient.

"Enough, my children! Stop reciting facts that even a street vendor selling hot dogs could recite! Tell me what I don't know! Now! Right now!"

Chief George Bruce reluctantly stepped forward to the front of the stage.

"Your Excellency, under your wise leadership and outstanding guidance, the Federation is marching into a new and great era..."

Seeing the president's face grow increasingly dark, Director George snapped to attention, his tongue suddenly twitching as he cut to the chase.

"There is evidence that, starting sometime earlier this year, our adversaries have undergone some changes that we are unaware of."

"They established an organization with a circular symbol, an organization with immense power, and one that was full of the authoritarian characteristics of an authoritarian government!"

"What's the name of this organization?" a high-ranking federal general from the military, who was also wearing the four-of-a-kind insignia, asked.

George stammered, "No... I don't know. The Eastern Xia people are too strict. We... our agents are still investigating..."

"However, we have already discovered many clues about this organization." "Um, please, please have our intelligence analysis department prepare a detailed report."

The analysis department looked much more professional. They displayed a dense array of icons, flowcharts, and structural lines, meticulously outlining the connections between the blank area marked with a huge red question mark in the center and other departments.

"This department, because of its unique logo, will be temporarily named the Sphere Organization."

"The spherical organization reports directly to the central cabinet of the Xia Kingdom and can command almost any powerful institution and political department in the Eastern Xia Kingdom."

"To date, no personnel list or participant information of the spherical organization has been leaked. The other party's management of it is close to or even exceeds the 'Malan Flower' project of Dongxia back then."

Most of the high-ranking officials from the White Eagle Group looked completely bewildered, forcing the analysis expert to add: "Uh, it's the Big Fireworks Project!"

"We have noticed that the two major systems of Dongxia are directly related to this circular structure, the first being the Dongxia military system."

"Since the beginning of this year, the Dongxia military system has issued many strange single-item R&D orders to its affiliated military supply systems and some civilian R&D laboratories. The ones we have collected from various channels include the following types."

"Personal protective equipment for ultra-high temperature environments."

"Automatic firearms that can be used stably for extended periods in a vacuum environment."

"A wide-area active life detection radar is required to be a lightweight version that can be carried by a single soldier."

"Fast-moving vehicles for gravel terrain."

"A complete integrated lightweight meteorological data acquisition station."

"Vehicle-mounted small satellite launch and control platform".

"A long-lasting human life support device in a low-gravity environment."

……

A large amount of information of various types flashed by on the big screen, some of which included photos of what appeared to be actual objects and their corresponding parameters.

It must be admitted that the federal expert group's PowerPoint presentation skills were quite outstanding, and the visual appeal of the slides was refreshing.

Looking at the bizarre and varied research and development needs, the officials of the Federation gradually became serious.

Dongxia is a super-pragmatic superpower. They wouldn't allocate funds for trivial matters like "studies on the gender diversity of penguins" or "rapid search and rescue of cats and dogs in large-scale geological disasters"—these are all "human-centered" topics.

Such a large-scale, high-investment, and highly targeted R&D demand means only one thing—they are preparing for an unknown endeavor!

They always like to make detailed plans ten or even several decades in advance, a habit that is really annoying.

Now, their new plans seem to have been exposed to the Great Federation.

"Although those guys from Dongxia did all sorts of cover-ups and secrecy work, they had nowhere to hide from the Federation's powerful intelligence network!"

That statement is both right and wrong.

The reason it's not right is that such a large-scale R&D mobilization involves a huge number of departments and personnel. To achieve complete secrecy at the grassroots level, it would be impossible without adopting the closed-door policy of some countries and cutting off all internal and external exchanges.

This is also the main reason why Dongxia's [Compassionate Voyage] Engineering Department, after consulting with the Cabinet, added a large number of other field tasks, purely research-oriented tasks, and deliberately misleading tasks to the original research and design tasks.

If the data is contaminated enough, you won't be able to tell what I look like.

With the support of the cabinet, the [Compassionate Voyage] Engineering Department doesn't need to worry about costs at all. So let's go all out and bring out all the equipment that might be needed for lunar exploration, Mars exploration, and life-bearing planet exploration projects. Let's study them first.

You'll need it sooner or later!

However, there is some truth to this statement: the intelligence capabilities of the Bald Eagle Federation remain unparalleled on this blue planet.

It wasn't just the allure of their money, but also the unique image they had cultivated as a global superpower, a paradise on earth, that attracted many sheepdogs willing to bring their own provisions and seek refuge in the free world.

At this point, the analyst was quite pleased with himself. He selected a slide, enlarged it, and showed a series of recent research projects from a certain mechanical physics laboratory in Dongxia.

"Especially this series of equipment sets for the 'low gravity' environment, the Dongxia people have created a little illusion. The matching range is from 0.8m/s to 2.4m/s, but in reality, we can see at a glance that the value in the middle is exactly 1.6m/s."

"Without a doubt, the Dongxia people's goal was the moon."

This is yet another psychological game.

Everyone knows that Dongxia is working on a lunar program.

But Dongxia deliberately disguised a lunar program device as another device. What does this mean?
This indicates that Dongxia does not want the White Eagle Federation to control the progress of its lunar program.

This is extremely suspicious!

Just as the analysts were enthusiastically interpreting the information, they were interrupted by the cold voice of a general from the Ministry of National Defense.

"Since the Dongxia people have been secretly developing this for so long, and our intelligence department is so powerful, why did it take so long to discover the problem?"

"Forehead……"

The expert looked at the bureaucrats of the General Security Bureau with some confusion.

Political problems are best solved by these politicians.

“That’s right!” Second Deputy Director Mike quickly replied: “As you know, some time ago, because of that shady businessman, he betrayed the President’s trust and dismissed a large number of federal civil servants without authorization, causing trouble for the work of many of our departments.”

"This certainly includes our intelligence agencies and many informants outside."

"Fortunately, the wise President discovered that kid's true colors, and now the chaos has been rectified, and everything in the Federation is back on track. Yes, that's it!"

The reporting continues.

"X... The second main contact point of the Dongxia X organization is some research laboratories."

“Unlike research and development institutions, Organization X provides these research laboratories with certain special substances, which are then analyzed by the research laboratories.”

"In this regard, Dongxia's blockade is very strict. Apart from the core person in charge of the laboratory, most of the peripheral personnel can only access a little bit of information. We can only make indirect judgments through some other related information."

"The materials that are known to be provided may include:"

"Soil, rocks, gravel, atmosphere, etc., which differ to some extent from the surface composition of Earth!"

"Some laboratories have apparently received requests to analyze water samples and plant matter!"

"In addition, there are several completely unverifiable reports that Organization X provided strange mutated biological specimens."

"Regarding the research findings, there is currently no evidence to suggest that Dongxia has obtained anything from these research products. However, according to a clue provided to us by a young Dongxia entrepreneur, a subordinate laboratory of the Dongxia Life Science Research Center may be involved with Department X."

"This laboratory has recently developed a special treatment method that is suspected to have some effect on elderly patients with serious illnesses, but the treatment is limited to a small number of people, such as some powerful people and academic cliques."

"This courageous young man angrily denounced the ruthless exclusion of his father, and thus chose to expose the dark and sordid inside story to us!"

"Our verification revealed that this is highly likely to be true."

"Because an elderly expert who was previously considered terminally ill and beyond cure, and who had even been predicted by top medical experts in our federation to have no more than three months to live, has now returned to work!"

A group of federal elites stared blankly at the aged, deeply wrinkled face on the screen, a huge sense of absurdity welling up in their hearts.

Finally, the eagle commander broke his silence.

He leaned forward, his hands resting on the smooth mahogany table, his signature hair seemingly burning brightly under the light.

His gaze was intense, his voice loud and clear, and he spoke rapidly, his face flushed with excitement.

"Alright, no one understands Dongxia better than me!"

"My child, are you trying to tell me that the Dongxia people discovered the relics of God, unknown to the Federation, on the dark side of the moon?"

"Or did they burn those poor aliens' butts with glowing red cigarette butts, and burn out something amazing?"

(End of this chapter)