Love in the Courtyard: Starting with Engineers

The assembly workshop at Longxing Factory has been brightly lit for days.

On the platform in the center of the workshop, a short-range tactical drone, entirely silver-gray, is beginning to take shape.

The fuselage is made of a lightweight alloy specially manufactured by Lung Hsing Factory, with smooth lines resembling a swooping falcon. The pylons under the fuselage are precisely positioned, ready to carry small guided missiles.

The most crucial "heart"—the micro turbine engine—has been steadily installed into the fuselage by Li Jianshe and several technicians.

Li Yu bent over, holding a torque wrench in his hand, carefully adjusting the bolts connecting the engine and the fuselage.

"Tighten it two more notches, but be careful not to damage the biomimetic patterns on the leaves."

The military technician standing nearby had his notebook filled with notes: "Chief Engineer Li, the fuselage weight is controlled at 180 kilograms, which is 20 kilograms lighter than the design value, extending the range by another 50 kilometers!"

"Lightness is an advantage, but strength cannot be reduced."

Li Yu straightened up and tapped the wing of the drone.

"We'll be doing static tests tomorrow. We have to withstand level 8 gusts of wind, otherwise we'll easily lose control during low-altitude penetration."

Li Jianshe grinned from the side: "Don't worry! We rolled the steel plates for this fuselage ourselves. We modified the stamping dies eight times. It can withstand not only an eight-level wind, but even a ten-level wind!"

In the classroom of Hongxing Elementary School, ever since the chalk stubs were replaced with crushed lime, he had been so heartbroken that he hadn't slept well for several days, always looking for an opportunity to tease Nannan.

But he dared not offend Li Yu. After thinking it over, he finally came up with a "good idea" - under the pretext of "supporting national defense construction", he assigned a task to the whole class: each person should collect two pounds of waste paper and hand it in within three days. If one pound was missing, the class would be punished by copying the text ten times.

"Waste paper can be smelted into steel, and steel can be used to make weapons!"

Nannan saw right through his thoughts and whispered to Xiaopang, "Teacher Yan just wants to get revenge on us, ignore him!"

On her way home from school, Nannan's eyes lit up with an idea.

She dragged Little Fatty to the recycling station, sold the toothpaste tubes and scrap wire she had been saving for a long time, bought a bunch of waste paper, and then took the pocket money her parents usually gave her to the grocery store and bought a pound of fruit candy.

The next morning, Nannan carried a half-full sack of waste paper into the classroom and dumped it directly in front of Yan Bugui. With a clatter, the sack was filled with crumpled old newspapers and notebooks.

"Teacher Yan, I've handed in all of them!" Nannan looked up with a proud expression.

Yan Bugui's eyes widened in surprise. He had thought that Nannan would definitely not be able to collect them all, but he never expected that the girl would actually manage to collect them all.

What pained him even more was that he saw Nannan distribute the remaining waste paper to several classmates who couldn't hand it in, and give each of them a piece of fruit candy.

"You...you gave the waste paper away to others? That can be sold for money!"

"Didn't Teacher Yan say we should support national defense? It's much more effective for everyone to support it together than for one person to do so alone!"

In the afternoon, several military green jeeps drove into the Longxing factory again.

This time, the person who came was a tactical planning expert from the military.

In the small conference room of the assembly workshop, Li Yu spread out the design drawings of the drone and pointed to the rack on the belly of the drone, saying, "This can carry two small precision-guided bombs with an error of no more than five meters. It can completely avoid residential areas and directly strike military targets."

An expert nodded and pointed to the communication module on the drawing: "Could the positioning signals from remote sensing satellites be directly connected to the control system of the drone? This would enable real-time control and achieve higher strike accuracy."

"No problem, we have already reserved the interface. The aerospace technicians will arrive tomorrow, and the docking can be completed within three days."

The expert slammed his fist on the table. "Great! Once the test is successful, this drone can be deployed in actual combat. At that time, those separatist forces entrenched on the southern islands will be in for a beating!"

The atmosphere in the conference room instantly became lively, and everyone's face was beaming with excitement.

Meanwhile, the Ministry of Defense of the United States, located on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, was shrouded in gloom.

The captured reconnaissance pilot has confessed to his entire mission—to steal core data on China's new engine and sabotage the drone development program.

Looking at the interrogation report in his hand, the Minister of Defense turned ashen with rage, slamming it onto the table: "A bunch of useless idiots! They couldn't even protect a single reconnaissance plane!"

The intelligence chief beside him cautiously spoke up, "Minister, we have a backup plan—our spies lurking in Beijing have received orders to infiltrate the Longxing factory tonight and destroy the drone prototype at all costs!"

The Defense Minister's eyes instantly hardened: "Tell them, they must succeed! Otherwise, once China's air power rises, our hegemony in the Western Pacific will be completely over!"

As night deepened, several dark figures stealthily crept over from outside the wall of Longxing Factory.

Unbeknownst to them, the factory's defenses had already been strengthened.

In the assembly workshop, Li Yu and the workers were still working overtime.

The two M country spies outside the wall came with the intention of dying together. They saw the brightly lit assembly workshop from afar and planned to climb over the wall, get close, and then detonate the bombs on their bodies.

The two men bent down and sprinted, stepping on the man's back to climb over the wall. Even when their hands were cut by the iron spikes on the wall, they didn't flinch.

After they got up there, the other person stepped on the wall for leverage and was pulled up by him. The two of them then quietly climbed over into the factory area.

As the patrol approached, the two men crept along the shadows.

Just as the two were approaching the workshop, [Ding! System has collected 999 points of intense killing intent!]

Li Yu stood up instantly, because the system hadn't given him any prompts for several years since he set it to be silent.

Just then, Li Yu saw two people slowly approaching from the shadows outside. Li Yu grabbed two wrenches and threw them at them.

Two loud "bangs" were heard, and the two men were knocked unconscious.

When everyone saw Li Yu's movements, they realized someone was approaching outside. Old Wang immediately shouted, "Quick, quick! Sound the alarm!"

"Woo woo woo~" Instantly, the alarm sounded throughout the entire Longxing Machinery Factory, and soldiers from the security department rushed in.

Upon seeing the two men at the door, Zhang, the company commander, went up to check them. He saw that they were wrapped with explosives, and in an instant, his head was covered in sweat.

Upon seeing this, Li Yu's face instantly darkened. He walked up to the two spies, looked at the M Country intelligence agency badges found on them, and said coldly, "Take them away and interrogate them thoroughly!"

After the spy was dragged away, Li Huaide gritted his teeth and said, "Those bastards are really persistent! Thank goodness you were here!"

"Increase patrols. The drone communication module docking must begin soon; there can be absolutely no mistakes!"

The next day, the military region and special operations forces sent people, not only to take away the spy, but also to personally participate in the protection of the machinery factory.

This incident shows that the United States has begun to resort to any means necessary, and Company Commander Zhang also received a major demerit because of this incident.