Incredible Insight: Toy Factory Discovers Swarm Drones

Chapter 157 Oh, this? Let’s contact Liu Jianguo.At the Commander’s order,

the entire war machine of the Northwest Air Force Base began to operate at full speed.

Dozens of special vehicles from the Electronic Countermeasures Unit deployed a massive antenna array across the Gobi Desert.

Inside the command hall, dozens of top electronic warfare Experts’ fingers danced across their keyboards as waterfall-like streams of data flashed across the screens.

”Performing spectrum analysis...”

”Attempting to capture the target’s data link characteristics...”

The captain of the Electronic Countermeasures Unit, a stubble-faced lieutenant colonel, was currently gritting his teeth and staring intently at the screen.

He was prepared for a tough battle.

Based on past experience, a stealth aircraft capable of entering a major power’s heartland as if it were uninhabited territory must have a communication link using the most advanced frequency-hopping spread spectrum technology, or perhaps even quantum encryption.

Trying to crack a signal of this level was like looking for a needle in a haystack; it might even require using a supercomputing center for hours of brute-force cracking.

”Everyone, stay sharp!”

The lieutenant colonel roared into his headset, ”This is the ultimate test of our electronic warfare capabilities! The opponent is a master; we must not take them lightly! Start a full-band blind scan and prepare for forced interference and link disruption!”

However.

Just ten seconds after he finished speaking.

An operator suddenly raised his hand, his voice filled with unbelievable confusion:

”Re... Report, Captain!”

”What’s wrong? Is the opponent’s firewall too thick? Or is the frequency-hopping speed too fast?” the lieutenant colonel asked urgently.

”No... No...”

The operator took off his headphones, his expression as conflicted as if he were constipated. ”I... I think I’m connected.”

”Connected?”

The lieutenant colonel froze for a moment. ”What do you mean ’connected’? Was the decryption successful?”

”It wasn’t decrypted...” The operator swallowed hard. ”It... it’s not encrypted at all!”

”What?!”

The lieutenant colonel felt as if his brain had been struck by a hammer and rushed to the console.

On the screen, the waveform representing the target’s data link was displayed openly before them.

No complex encryption algorithms.

No frequency-hopping camouflage.

It was like a drunkard streaking down the street, shouting through a megaphone as he ran: ”I’m here! I’m here!”

”What... what frequency band is this?”

The lieutenant colonel looked at the familiar frequency band, feeling his eyelid twitching wildly.

The operator’s voice was as quiet as a mosquito’s hum:

”Report... this is... this is a civilian commercial satellite communication band. And... and it’s using the most ordinary public network protocol.”

”In fact... if we wanted to, we could directly access its flight logs through this open port right now.”

Silence.

The electronic warfare area, which had been as tense as a fully drawn bow, instantly fell into a dead silence.

The lieutenant colonel’s mouth hung open as he stared blankly at the screen.

A ridiculous sense of having his intelligence insulted made his scalp tingle.

It was like gathering the strongest guild on the server, putting on the best legendary gear, and preparing to raid the final boss, only to open the door and find the boss in his underwear playing Fight the Landlord, with the front door wide open to welcome you.

”Civilian band? Public network protocol?”

The Commander on the platform heard the report, his brow furrowed deeply. ”Are you sure this isn’t an enemy decoy? Not some advanced electronic trap?”

”Reporting to the Chief, after repeated confirmation... this is just an ordinary civilian signal.”

The lieutenant colonel replied with a constipated expression, ”Furthermore, following this signal, we have already reverse-tracked it to its control source.”

”Where is it?” the Commander asked in a deep voice.

Everyone’s eyes focused on the electronic map on the large screen.

A red dashed line extended from the target point high in the northwest, crossing thousands of mountains and rivers, and finally landed in Lu Province on the eastern coast.

The map zoomed in, and in.

Finally, the red positioning point was firmly pinned to a location in the suburbs of Baishui City, Lu Province.

”Baishui City?”

The Commander narrowed his eyes. ”Is there some military research institute there? Or a laboratory of a key university?”

The intelligence staff officer immediately cross-referenced the database.

A few seconds later, the staff officer looked up, his expression even more dramatic than that of the electronic warfare lieutenant colonel.

”Reporting to the Chief... the coordinates... show a... civilian industrial park.”

”The specific unit name is...”

The staff officer paused, seemingly unable to believe his eyes. He rubbed them, looked again, and then read with difficulty:

”Li Family... Toy Factory.”

Boom!

Those words exploded in the command hall.

”What the heck?”

The Commander thought he had misheard and subconsciously dug at his ear. ”What factory did you say?”

”Li Family... Toy Factory,” the staff officer repeated.

”A toy factory?!”

Beside him, the white-haired senior chief engineer’s glasses almost fell off. ”You call an aircraft that can fly eight thousand kilometers, carry five tons, and perform powered gliding in the stratosphere... a toy?”

”Is this some kind of huge joke?”

”If this is a toy, then what are the things we build? Oversized sky rockets?”

Just as everyone was in an uproar, thinking the intelligence system must have a bug.

”Report! The optical satellite has completed its orbital maneuver! It’s about to pass over the target!”

The voice from the Image Reconnaissance Team interrupted the discussion.

”Switch the image over! I want to see for myself what this toy looks like!” The Commander waved his hand, but in his heart, he didn’t believe it.

He felt this must be some kind of cover identity or a massive coincidence.

The large screen flickered.

A high-definition black-and-white photo, taken from hundreds of kilometers high and sharpened in real-time by a supercomputer, appeared before everyone.

The background of the photo was thin clouds.

And in the center of the frame, the drone with long wings and a twin-boom structure was soaring through the clouds like a proud eagle.

Its lines were smooth, filled with the beauty of industrial design.

The hardpoints under the wings were empty, but this didn’t diminish its suffocating sense of pressure at all.

”A fine plane... it really is a fine plane...”

The chief engineer looked at the aircraft’s aerodynamic layout and couldn’t help but praise, ”This combination of high aspect ratio and twin booms is simply a work of art born for long endurance!”

However.

When the lens zoomed in further, focusing on a piece of skin under the wing.

The Experts, who were just praising it, suddenly went silent.

In the spot where a military emblem or tactical number should have been painted, a logo was clearly printed.

It was a cartoon bear head with rounded lines, looking charmingly naive and grinning widely.

The art style was full of childish innocence, as if it had just been peeled off a kindergarten wall.

Below the grinning bear was a line of square Chinese characters:

【Li Family Toy Factory】

And below the Chinese characters was a line of pinyin: 【Li’s Toy Factory】.

...

Dead silence.

Absolute dead silence.

In the entire command hall, one could hear a pin drop.

Even seeing the heaven-defying data or hearing the report of a ”toy factory” wasn’t as shocking as this moment.

Data can be fake, intelligence can be misjudged.

But the cartoon bear in the high-definition photo was grinning, silently mocking this group of top military Experts and this heavily guarded underground command center.

The Commander stared blankly at the logo, the corner of his mouth twitching uncontrollably.

He felt his worldview collapsing, rebuilding, and then collapsing again.

”A toy factory...”

He muttered to himself, his voice as hoarse as if he had been thirsty in the desert for three days. ”It really is... a toy factory?”

”What kind of toy factory can build something like this? Huh? Who are they selling it to? Ultraman to fight monsters?”

A young staff officer nearby, looking at the logo, suddenly seemed to remember something, and his face became extremely strange.

”Chief... I think I’ve seen this logo somewhere before.”

The staff officer said cautiously, ”A while ago, that ’gas canister cannon’ that caused such a stir online, and that ’stealth children’s toy car’ that played the Baishui City traffic police for fools... it seems... it seems they were also made by this factory.”

”And that export-turned-domestic Arresting Cable that throttled our Navy...”

Hearing these keywords.

The Commander’s body jerked.

Although he was in the northwest, he had heard these ”urban legends” circulating in military industrial circles.

It was said that there was a young man named Li Jiajun who always managed to build the most outrageous things in the most ridiculous ways, leaving the relevant departments in chaos.

”You mean... this is that legendary... Li Jiajun?”

The Commander’s expression became exceptionally vivid.

It was three parts shock, three parts absurdity, and four parts a sense of destiny that said, ”Of course it’s you.”

He took a deep breath, feeling his temples throbbing.

He looked at the ”twin-tailed scorpion” still frolicking at ten thousand meters on the screen, then at the grinning bear.

The anger in his heart dissipated, replaced by a deep sense of powerlessness and an urge to quickly throw away this hot potato.

”Since that kid is behind it... then this matter is no longer our concern.”

The Commander rubbed his brow and regained his composure, but his tone carried a deep exhaustion.

”Tasks like this that can give someone a heart attack should be left to the professionals.”

He turned his head and said to the communications staff officer:

”Connect me to Unit XX.”

”Look for Liu Jianguo.”

”Tell him there’s another big surprise flying over our heads and for him to come and claim it immediately!”

At this point, the Commander paused. Thinking of Liu Jianguo’s expression upon hearing the news, a hint of schadenfreude actually curled the corner of his mouth.

”By the way, ask him if his quick-acting heart-saving pills are enough; if not, I have a few bottles here.”