I painted an aircraft carrier on the courtyard house for Dongda University.

"That's not right."

Zhou Weiguo's heart sank. "The bald man took 800,000 antiques from the mainland back then, how could this be all he has?"

He suddenly remembered a document he had read: during this period, the Forbidden City in Taiwan had not yet been built, and the 800,000 cultural relics were stored in a mountain in Jifeng Village, Wufeng Township, Taiwan, where they remained untouched for 15 years.

Thinking of this, Zhou Weiguo could no longer restrain himself. These national treasures belong to millions of Xia people and should not be abandoned in the mountains!

He immediately used his disguise skills to change his appearance, put on the high-end suit that Bai Yuechang had made for him in Hong Kong, and disguised himself as a British Chinese.

After asking around for a while, he finally found the winding train station. In this day and age, ID cards weren't checked, and with his British passport in hand, he traveled without any problems.

But when he arrived in Wufeng Township that night, he was dumbfounded. This was no "township" at all; it was clearly a village! It was nothing like the villages of later generations.

Zhou Weiguo had no choice but to continue "pretending" while holding his passport, asking around until he finally arrived at Jifeng Village at nightfall.

Over the next few days, he searched the mountains surrounding Jifeng Village, but to no avail.

On the fifth day, just as he was about to give up and return to Wanbei to see the aircraft carrier, he discovered a large number of armed guards on a hillside.

Zhou Weiguo was overjoyed; it was truly a case of "after the darkest hour comes the dawn"! He was already in stealth mode, so he immediately activated his perception ability, and sure enough, a huge space had been hollowed out inside the mountain not far away.

After confirming he had found the right place, he used his spatial teleportation ability to instantly enter the interior of the mountain. Although it was pitch black inside, it posed no obstacle to him, given his sensory abilities.

Zhou Weiguo moved back and forth in the darkness without being noticed by anyone.

Several hours later, after checking several times to make sure nothing was missed, he quietly slipped away.

The next morning, Zhou Weiguo sat on the train returning to Wanbei, his mind already wandering to the tranquil space his daughter had specially prepared. Looking at the nearly one million antique paintings and calligraphy pieces of all kinds before him, he was troubled: what should he do with these national treasures? Hand them over to the state? What if they meet with misfortune in a few years?

Should he just leave them in the space? Or build a private museum in a few years? But what private museum can house a million top-quality antiques? He thought and thought, but he still couldn't figure it out by the time the train arrived at the station.

"Forget it, let's leave it at that for now and think about it later." Zhou Weiguo shook his head and put the matter aside for the time being.

After getting off the train, he rushed to the naval base again without stopping.

To his surprise, the base's defenses were much tighter than before, but this posed no obstacle to him, given his stealth abilities. Zhou Weiguo easily infiltrated the base.

Fully armed soldiers were everywhere in the base, and the sheer scale of the event left Zhou Weiguo speechless: "This doesn't look like welcoming an aircraft carrier visit; it looks more like welcoming some important figure!" There were several hundred people just in the military bands lined up on both sides and the cheerleaders ready to perform.

Zhou Weiguo was just about to wander around when he suddenly heard the roar of a helicopter.

Looking up, he saw a Sikorsky H-19 medium helicopter slowly landing. He immediately hurried over.

The helicopter door opened, and a man in his fifties with slicked-back hair and glasses stepped out. A lieutenant general standing beside him immediately stepped forward and saluted: "Director Yu, what brings you here in person?"

The man addressed as "Director Yu" nodded solemnly: "Although Captain Charles said there was no need for a special welcome, we cannot be impolite. I've come to check on your preparations. If everything is in order, I will board the ship by helicopter to welcome Captain Charles and his entourage on behalf of the Chairman."

The lieutenant general immediately put on a smile: "You're right. It's just too much trouble for you to come all this way in person. You are our defense minister, how about I go and greet you in your place?"

Director Yu shook his head, stepped forward, and said in a voice only the two of them could hear, "Have all the personnel been arranged? We must take over all the weapons as quickly as possible. We must be careful and cautious, and we absolutely cannot allow any mistakes to happen."

The two exchanged a few more words in hushed tones before Director Yu turned and boarded the helicopter again.

"Arms sales? Fighter jets? Missiles?"

Zhou Weiguo's heart skipped a beat, and he immediately activated his senses. The interior space of this H-19 helicopter was more spacious than he had imagined.

Without further hesitation, he slipped inside the helicopter the instant it took off.

Inside the helicopter cabin, besides the two pilots and Director Yu, there was also a very well-dressed and beautiful woman.

The helicopter's rotors churned the airflow, and it slowly rose into the air with a "buzzing" roar. The noise inside the cabin was so loud that it was almost impossible to have a normal conversation.

Director Yu leaned back in his chair, closed his eyes slightly to rest, but his brows furrowed unconsciously, clearly planning his upcoming meeting with the American personnel.

Zhou Weiguo hid in a corner of the cabin, gazing into the distance through the porthole.

The two-hour flight passed by in a somber atmosphere. When a blurry black outline appeared on the horizon, Zhou Weiguo's tension instantly tightened.

It was a huge ship, but to Zhou Weiguo’s great surprise, it was the only one sailing alone in the vast sea with only two escorting warships, which completely overturned his understanding of the US aircraft carrier’s voyages.

American aircraft carriers have always been accompanied by a large escort fleet. Do they think they've become so arrogant because their country is so powerful that they're not afraid of any accidents? Besides, he only shot down eight enemy fighters. How dare these foreign devils be so bold? A series of questions swirled in his mind.

As the helicopter drew closer, Zhou Weiguo stood frozen in place.

He had expected to see an old-fashioned aircraft carrier with a wooden deck, but what he saw before him was a brand-new steel behemoth. The hull number "61" clearly marked on the side of the ship, as well as the modern design concept that was completely different from the old aircraft carriers, all proved that this aircraft carrier was definitely a top-notch piece of equipment that had just been manufactured.

The helicopter hovered erratically above the deck for several weeks before finally landing steadily.

As Director Yu and his secretary stepped off the plane, an officer in the uniform of a U.S. Army colonel quickly approached them.

The two exchanged pleasantries in fluent English. Throughout the conversation, Director Yu bowed and scraped, praising the advanced capabilities of various American weapons and exclaiming about the "greatness of America." His obsequious manner made Zhou Weiguo, who was hiding to the side, twitch his lips incessantly.

After exchanging pleasantries, the American colonel suddenly smiled and extended an invitation: "Director Yu, there's no need to rush. Even if the aircraft carrier doesn't speed up, it will probably arrive in five or six hours. Why not come along with the ship so you can experience the 'Raider' up close? Besides, there's something you'd never expect among the things I brought for you this time."

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