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Chapter 172: Chapter 169: Technology
The subsequent conversations were mostly Qiao Siyu talking while Xie Yusheng listened.
Her speech was always unhurried, soft but laced with a slightly uncomfortable tone.
Listening, Xie Yusheng...
Could not help but pull out his phone to check it.
This action made Qiao Siyu frown. "Ah Sheng, can you turn off your phone in this situation?"
"I already muted it,"
Xie Yusheng said, "It’s just that my phone has been ringing intermittently for half an hour. I guess I’ve received a dozen calls. It must be something important."
"What could be more important than you being here with me, welcoming this sacred wedding of ours?"
"I..."
Xie Yusheng wanted to say something more, but his phone rang again.
The number displayed was...
"It’s my third Grandpa."
Xie Yusheng said.
Qiao Siyu did not like meals being interrupted by outsiders.
Immediately she said, "You can call him back later."
But Xie Yusheng ignored her and answered the phone directly.
This scene filled Qiao Siyu’s pretty face with displeasure.
"Grandpa?"
"Xiao Sheng, are you at Dai’er’s private kitchen right now?"
Grandpa Xie Hongxing’s urgent voice came through the phone.
"Yes."
"Don’t leave. In at most five minutes, someone will come to fetch you. Go with them and honestly answer all their questions,"
Xie Hongxing said.
"Oh? I’m currently with Siyu..."
"Don’t worry about her now, they will be there in five minutes."
The tone of Xie Hongxing’s voice grew heavier.
Having heard this, Xie Yusheng knew the situation was serious and agreed immediately, "I understand."
By the time he hung up, Qiao Siyu had stretched out her slender, fair hand, "Give me the phone."
"What?"
"Ah Sheng."
Qiao Siyu’s voice was as soft as ever but carried an undeniable firmness, "We are discussing the most important event of our lives. At such a time, you taking various calls..."
"It was a call from my grandpa."
Xie Yusheng replied.
"Don’t you know it’s rude to interrupt others when they are speaking? I don’t want you to be someone who is crude in speech and actions... However, I will help you change,"
Qiao Siyu said and reiterated, "Give me the phone. I’ll keep it safe for you."
"My grandpa said that someone is coming to get me, I need to leave for a while,"
Xie Yusheng responded.
His tone seemed lighter, as if he had been eager to leave.
"Leave?"
Qiao Siyu asked, "Does grandpa not know you are with me?"
"It sounds like it’s something important."
"What could be more important than me?"
Qiao Siyu looked at Xie Yusheng, "Ah Sheng, you are an adult now. You don’t have to always follow your family’s wishes. This behavior... in colloquial terms, is called being a mama’s boy. I hope you can be independent and not always listen to your family..."
Xie Yusheng looked at Qiao Siyu...
Her face, hardly less beautiful than that of a top celebrity.
For some reason, the thought of spending the rest of his life with her brought an unfounded sense of fear.
Qiao Siyu, noticing something odd in Xie Yusheng’s eyes, perhaps felt she was rushing him, so she softened her tone, "Listening to elders is not bad, but we should also have our own thoughts, shouldn’t we? So, let’s start by not letting our families disturb this beautiful date."
With that, she stretched out her hand again, looking at Xie Yusheng.
The message in her eyes was very clear.
Xie Yusheng, holding the phone tightly, did not let go.
Qiao Siyu did not back down either, her face wearing a serene smile.
This standoff continued for a while, until...
"Tap tap tap!"
A group of three people entered the refined room, disrupting the atmosphere.
One of them, oozing military presence, fixed his gaze on Xie Yusheng and approached swiftly, "Mr. Xie Yusheng."
Realizing something, Xie Yusheng quickly put the phone back in his pocket and responded, "That’s me."
"Defense Bureau."
The man showed his identification, "Mr. Xie should have told you, there is an important matter and we need your cooperation for some inquiries, please come with us."
"Defense Bureau?"
Xie Yusheng was startled but quickly said, "I understand, let’s go."
After speaking, he immediately turned to Qiao Siyu, apologetically saying, "Siyu, you see, I really have something urgent."
Qiao Siyu frowned but after glancing at the man, she did not stop him, "Then go and come back soon."
Xie Yusheng nodded, and like one freed from a cage, followed the man quickly out of the room.
Outside, three sedans were already waiting.
It appeared there were two police motorcycles ready to lead the way.
This scene made him slightly startle.
"Please get in the car."
The man said.
Xie Yusheng didn’t dare to delay, so he got into the car, and with the sound of police sirens, they quickly drove towards the suburbs.
This scene made Xie Yusheng, who was sitting in the car, somewhat uneasy.
Although his family had some money and had entered the ranks of billionaires, that was his family’s assets, and he himself...
Still had to work at his uncle’s observatory, which one could guess meant his disposable funds were at best slightly more than an average person.
Similar to this kind of treatment with the traffic police clearing the way, let alone him, even his father or grandfather would hardly enjoy it.
"What happened?"
Xie Yusheng couldn’t help but ask.
"Someone will explain to you when we arrive at the destination."
The man said.
Seeing this, Xie Yusheng didn’t feel it appropriate to ask further.
With the traffic police clearing the way, the vehicle maintained a speed of around forty to fifty kilometers per hour and after half an hour, entered a group of buildings.
This group of buildings...
He recognized it.
"Southern Central Academy?"
The vehicle drove inside for a few minutes and soon stopped in front of a building resembling a laboratory.
By then, there were already many security personnel present, even including a few armed soldiers standing guard.
This left Xie Yusheng completely astonished.
Although Southern Central Academy had two national laboratories, did it really need such a high level of secrecy?
Soon, he was brought into a house at the edge of the laboratory complex.
By the time he arrived, someone was already waiting there.
Inside, there was someone familiar.
Du Dongyuan.
"Xiao Sheng is here, have a seat."
Du Dongyuan called out to Xie Yusheng.
"Grandpa Du."
Xie Yusheng greeted him, looking curiously at the other few people in the house.
However, Du Dongyuan didn’t introduce them but exchanged pleasantries and went straight to the point, "Xiao Sheng, don’t be nervous. We called you here just to inquire about some information. Do you remember the two documents you sent me two months ago?"
"Two months ago?"
Xie Yusheng was startled.
He immediately thought of something.
The next second, he seemed a bit surprised, "Yes, that’s true. If I remember correctly, it was a material formula and a missile design? Were they useful?"
"Indeed, they were somewhat useful,"
Du Dongyuan uttered, "But, those materials and that design, they weren’t your own work, were they?"
"No."
Xie Yusheng honestly responded, as such things couldn’t be concealed.
He said, "I just felt that the information seemed somewhat credible, so I sent it to Grandpa Du to see if it might inspire some ideas, and now it seems..."
He glanced at the several people in the room.
Although Du Dongyuan had not introduced them, these individuals had an imposing or authoritative aura about them, so he smiled and said, "It looks like it really was helpful."
"Helpful, and not just a little,"
Du Dongyuan spoke, and upon the urging glance of an elderly man beside him, said, "So, where did you get these documents from?"
"This..."
Xie Yusheng appeared somewhat embarrassed.
"Is it inconvenient to disclose? Is it because of the special identity of the other party, or did they request confidentiality?"
"Not exactly..."
Xie Yusheng with a hint of strangeness, "I don’t know the origin of the other party. At first, I thought it was just a practical joke, but then I wondered if it might be a spy agency, and later... I myself didn’t know what... or who they were anymore..."
At that moment, a middle-aged man eagerly stood up and asked, "Can you tell us more about the organizational structure of those people?"
Du Dongyuan glanced at the man and introduced, "This is Director Wang Chixi of the Defense Bureau."
Upon hearing this, Xie Yusheng’s pupils contracted, and he couldn’t help saying, "Those Wujin materials and the missile design diagram... are extraordinary?"
Considering that these documents all came from Xie Yusheng, Wang Chixi nodded at Du Dongyuan.
Right away, Du Dongyuan said, "I don’t know much about that missile design diagram, but according to them, it uses a completely new design concept and... its technical content far exceeds our current era, at least twenty years ahead of domestic short to mid-range air defense weapons. The only regret is that it lacks the most critical engine part. I am more familiar with that material known as Wujin... "
At this point, he took a deep breath, "This material, not only does its performance greatly exceed our expectations, but it also showed us a completely new research direction. Its emergence is almost equivalent to the birth of a new element on the periodic table..."
As Du Dongyuan continued, Xie Yusheng couldn’t help but widen his eyes.
He had previously felt that the Wujin material was made to sound quite serious, almost as if it were real, but he hadn’t anticipated...
That it actually was real?
"In short, this material, completely different from our current material systems, not to mention its data itself, the key is the change it brings to the materials industry. This change is like adding a zero behind a huge number, a total advance of black technology by tenfold,"
As Du Dongyuan spoke, he sighed with feeling, "This material’s primary structure is fundamentally different from any material we are familiar with. If someone told me this was alien technology, I might believe them."
"Alien technology..."
Xie Yusheng suddenly widened his eyes.
"Xiao Sheng, can you tell us, what exactly is this organization? Could you contact them again to see if we could purchase a complete version of the Heavenly Sword missile? If I’m not mistaken, they might possess mature controlled nuclear fusion technology..."
An elderly man beside asked.
"Mature controlled nuclear fusion technology..."
Xie Yusheng glanced at the bigwigs in the room and took a deep breath, "Grandpa Du, Director Wang, if I tell you... that person... really claimed to be an alien, saying they come from a place called ’Qian Star’, would you believe me?"
