Love in the Courtyard: Starting with Engineers

Even before the smoke of the Pyrrhic victory had cleared, the winds of the southeastern seas carried a new air of resolute righteousness, a sense of having reclaimed lost territory.

On the deck, the soldiers' rifles gleamed coldly in the morning sun, and their slogans shook the heavens: "Reclaim our territory, defend our sovereignty!"

The miniature reconnaissance drones developed by Longxing Factory swarmed over every corner of the mountains and forests like locusts.

A few days later, the sound of students reading aloud filled the school again, shops reopened, and ships came and went in the harbor, creating a thriving scene.

The international media is already in an uproar.

The US has also rallied a group of vassal states, clamoring for sanctions against China. Western media have further fueled this, filling their pages with out-of-context reports in an attempt to smear China's international image.

Faced with overwhelming public opinion, China's counterattack was powerful and resounding.

In the United Nations conference hall, our representative slammed a stack of evidence onto the table.

"This southern island has been an inseparable part of China's territory since ancient times!"

His words left the representatives of M and R red-faced and speechless.

At the same time, China's voice was heard around the world through various channels.

Third World countries have voiced their support, recognizing the dangers of colonialism and understanding the importance of defending national sovereignty.

The cries of "China did the right thing!" and "Oppose hegemonism!" drowned out the clamor from the United States. The balance of public opinion quietly shifted.

Behind all this, Li Yu was standing in his top-floor office at Longxing Factory, looking at the media reports on the screen, his eyes filled with a chilling coldness that seemed to freeze into ice.

"The backlash from public opinion is nothing but a war of words. It's only fair to retaliate. The submarines of Country R, ​​the artillery fire of Country M—the blood debt they owe us must be repaid with interest!"

The moment he finished speaking, he quickly swiped his finger across the system panel, using almost all of his emotional points to exchange for three assassination-level black technologies: a miniature stealth hummingbird drone, a targeted neurotoxin warhead, and a satellite real-time tracking and positioning module.

These technologies are cutting-edge tools, designed for precise hunting.

Retaliation begins in Country R.

A few days later, three Hummingbird drones took off from a small hotel in R.

The fuselage is only the size of a palm and is covered with radar-absorbing materials developed by Longxing Factory. Not a single signal can be detected on the radar screen.

Their targets are three key military locations in Country R: an anti-submarine submarine base, an intelligence analysis center targeting China, and a military component manufacturing plant.

In the dead of night, all was quiet.

The sentry at the anti-submarine base was yawning, completely unaware that a hummingbird was landing on the windowsill of the base's command tower.

The miniature warhead silently pierced the glass and precisely struck the core control panel in the command center. There was no explosion, no flash, only a cloud of colorless and odorless smoke spreading out.

The following morning, the R military was in complete disarray—the anti-submarine base command system was paralyzed, and all submarines were out of contact.

The intelligence center's core data was wiped clean, and the hard drive was reduced to a pile of scrap metal.

A sudden malfunction occurred on the production line of a military component factory, rendering all precision machine tools unusable.

What terrified them even more was that there were no signs of an attack at the scene, as if it were a sudden "technological disaster".

The Ministry of National Defense of Country R convened an emergency meeting, but couldn't even catch a glimpse of the enemy. All they could do was roar in impotent rage at the devastated ruins.

Not only that, the Minister of Defense, the Director of the Intelligence Bureau, and even the Emperor were all quietly eliminated.

And this was merely an appetizer for revenge.

The real killer move was aimed at M.

Those high-ranking officials who pushed for a hardline policy toward China—the Secretary of Defense, the Director of the Intelligence Agency, and the chairman of the defense giant Lockheed—became Li Yu's targets.

The Hummingbird drone, equipped with a satellite positioning module, accurately tracked the Minister of Defense's private villa.

At that time, he was hiding in the basement, plotting a new round of sanctions against China. "Hummingbird" silently slipped into the ventilation duct, and the targeted neurotoxin warhead landed precisely on his desk.

A few seconds later, the hawkish leader who had been clamoring for "China to pay the price" collapsed silently into a pile of documents, his face still contorted with rage.

Almost simultaneously, the Director of Intelligence died suddenly of a "heart attack" while attending a dinner party; the private plane of the Lockheed chairman mysteriously went out of control over the Atlantic Ocean and crashed into the deep sea, leaving no trace of his body.

In just three days, key figures of M died one after another, their deaths suspicious, with no trace of human intervention found at the scene.

M was gripped by unprecedented panic.

Wall Street stocks plummeted, and the market value of the defense sector evaporated by hundreds of billions.

People took to the streets to protest the government’s tough foreign policy.

The intelligence system was on high alert, yet they couldn't catch a single trace of the killer. Unbeknownst to them, their adversary had mastered assassination techniques far ahead of their time, lurking like a ghost, watching every clown in the shadows.

And all of this is just the beginning.

Assassination is merely a means to sever the enemy's henchmen; the real killer move is technological hegemony.

Li Yu said to his assistant behind him, "Pass the word: First, initiate the civilian research and development of communication technology to seize the global communication market."

"Second, accelerate the mass production of high-temperature superconducting materials for use in new energy vehicles, maglev trains, and other fields."

"Third, we will transform the guidance technology of drones into civilian aerial photography and agricultural plant protection equipment, and fully enter the international market."

The assistant's hands trembled slightly as he took notes—each of these technologies was enough to disrupt the existing order.

Even more ruthless, Li Yu set his sights on the financial lifeline of the United States.

He had already established a substantial capital presence in Hong Kong through Longteng Electronics.

Once the patents for communication and more advanced semiconductor technologies are published, global capital will inevitably flood into the Chinese market, and the US dollar hegemony will face an unprecedented impact.

When countries discover that China's technology is more advanced and reliable, who will still cling to the ever-depreciating US dollar?

Li Yu tapped his fingertips on the table. "What we need to do is not to compete with the United States in terms of who has the stronger fist, but to use technology to reshape the rules of the world."

"When our cutting-edge technology leads the world and our civilian technology spreads across the globe, the financial empire of the United States will collapse on its own."

This marks the beginning of a new era.