Special forces soldier demobilization: Starting from the county government compound, a meteoric rise

In the top-secret laboratory, the concept of time becomes extremely blurred.

There was no day or night, only one round after another of tedious and high-pressure tests.

"Director Liu, our photoresist inventory is almost gone!"

The head of the materials department was sweating profusely, holding a red emergency notice in his hand, and rushed into the cleanroom where Liu Ming was located.

"We only have enough high-purity target material to last for three days! If we can't get a resupply, forget about getting the yield to 80%; the entire experimental line will have to be shut down!"

The dozens of top scientists present stopped what they were doing, and a sense of despair and heaviness filled the air.

The Western oligarchs' "supply cut-off order" is too ruthless; it truly leaves no loopholes and directly cuts off all overt international procurement channels.

"What's the panic?"

Liu Ming looked up from the microscope. His eyes were bloodshot, his chin was covered with stubble, and he exuded an undeniable weariness. But his voice remained as steady as a mountain.

He took off his gloves, walked to the nearby communications station, and picked up the dedicated telephone line.

"We can't get through, Director Liu. We've tried all the suppliers, and no one dares to defy the odds and sell us materials at this time." The head of the materials department shook his head with a wry smile.

Liu Ming ignored him and answered the phone, which rang only once.

"Has the goods arrived?" Liu Ming asked casually.

On the other end of the phone came Nangong Yao's lazy yet extremely confident laugh.

"My dear Chief, when have I ever failed to do anything you asked me to do?"

"Three hundred tons of the highest purity electronic-grade hydrofluoric acid, five hundred thousand pieces of special photoresist, and all the high-precision target materials you need have all entered the country through the special customs channel."

"We expect to arrive at your lab door in two hours."

Upon hearing this, the entire cleanroom fell into a deathly silence!

The head of the supplies department nearly popped his eyes out. He practically lunged at the phone, shouting incredulously, "Impossible! This is absolutely impossible! The whole world is blacklisting us right now, where did you get so many contraband materials?"

Nangong Yao chuckled softly on the other end of the phone.

"The West has blocked the main roads, but are there no alternative paths in the world?"

"Don't forget, your Director Liu was once a man who personally built up a territory in a certain 'no man's land'."

……

In fact, long before Liu Ming decided to break ties with the M Group, he had already anticipated this extreme situation of being completely cut off from supplies.

Being prepared for a rainy day is an instinct of the "Asura".

He instructed Nangong Yao to establish hundreds of seemingly unrelated shell companies around the world in advance, which were the so-called "backup supply chains".

The most crucial passage for these supplies to enter the Dragon Kingdom was the very place where he and his "Dragon Fang" squad fought a bloody battle back then.

—The southwestern border, a third-party zone outside "Death Valley".

It used to be a golden route for drug lords and arms dealers to smuggle goods, but ever since Liu Ming razed Moza's lair with a thermobaric bomb and took over the underground order of that area, it has become the absolute control zone of "Dragon Shield Security".

The well-known multinational giants are afraid to sell? No problem.

Goods were purchased through the Nangong Group's offshore accounts and then broken down into smaller units. These goods were then transported continuously to the border via intricate gray networks in third-party countries, and finally, under the full-scale escort of "Dragon Shield," brazenly crossed the border!

This is a classic case of overwhelming force! Using the same methods against drug dealers to deal with those self-important tech oligarchs!

You can blockade the regular army. But can you blockade those underground thugs who, for money, are willing to smuggle even nuclear weapons?

"Sufficient materials."

Liu Ming hung up the phone, turned around, looked at the stunned scientists, and a wild smile appeared on her lips.

"Now, who can tell me that it can't be made?"

"Damn it!" The head of supplies cursed excitedly and tore the emergency request form in his hand to shreds!

"Comrades! With Director Liu backing us up! If we still can't manufacture this chip, we might as well all jump off a building!"

In the laboratory, a deafening roar erupted once again, sweeping away all fatigue and replacing it with the frenzied fighting spirit of someone who had been driven to the brink of despair and then rebounded from rock bottom!

……

Three months later.

In the winter of the capital, a rare heavy snow fell.

After being closed for a full ninety days, the doors of the "Loongson" laboratory finally slowly opened.

Liu Ming was the first to come out.

He had lost a significant amount of weight, and the suit that had once fit him now looked rather loose on him. His sunken eyes were bloodshot.

But his straight spine seemed to be able to support the wind and snow.

Outside the door, there were no media outlets, no flashbulbs. Only the highest-ranking official and several absolute core figures from both the military and political spheres stood quietly in the snow.

Liu Ming walked up to the Grand Secretary.

He didn't say anything, but carefully took out a small, anti-static black box from his inner pocket and handed it over with both hands.

The leader's hands, covered in age spots, trembled slightly as he accepted the box.

Upon opening, a crystal chip, no bigger than a fingernail and with a faint blue sheen, lay quietly on the velvet lining.

Above, two tiny Chinese characters are engraved with the most precise laser engraving.

—Longyuan.

"The yield rate is 82%."

Liu Ming's voice was terribly hoarse, but his tone carried an aura of dominance that could shake the heavens.

"It adopts a completely self-developed 'two-dimensional diamond' carbon-based architecture without using a single line of Western patent code."

"Its performance not only surpasses the latest five-nanometer silicon-based chips in the West in every aspect."

"More importantly..."

Liu Ming looked at the Grand Secretary and said, word by word.

"It is entirely domestically produced."

"Okay...okay..."

The top leader looked at the small chip in his hand. This pillar of the nation had weathered countless storms and remained unmoved even when Mount Tai collapsed before him.

At this moment, tears streamed down my face!

He gripped the chip tightly, as if he held the fate of the Dragon Kingdom for the next hundred years in his hands!

"Comrade Liu Ming, you...you've suffered so much." The senior leader patted Liu Ming on the shoulder, his voice choked with emotion.

"It's not hard." Liu Ming smiled. "As long as it helps us Chinese stand tall, this little bit of hardship is nothing."

……

The advent of this "Longyuan" chip is not only a miracle in the history of science and technology in China.

It is more like a sharp dagger that instantly pierced the "technological iron curtain" carefully woven by Western capital.

When "Longyuan" was mass-produced and installed on the latest smart devices in China, it was launched into the international market with an overwhelming advantage.

Those Western giants who had once united to sanction China were completely dumbfounded.

They thought that cutting off supplies would make China submit, but instead, China took this opportunity to completely break free from its dependence on them!

Even more frightening is that with the complete exposure of Nangong Group's "backup supply chain," those third-party countries that were originally afraid to cooperate with China due to the pressure of hegemony suddenly discovered a huge business opportunity.

They began to frantically circumvent Western regulations, using this gray but incredibly smooth channel to engage in comprehensive trade cooperation with the Dragon Kingdom.

A brand new Eastern trade circle centered on the Dragon Kingdom, completely independent of the Western financial system...

Emerging from the ruins of sanctions, it grows wildly!

Sanctions? Blockade?

Faced with overwhelming technological superiority and a massive market, this became a colossal joke.

At this moment, the Western world finally felt the deep fear that originated from the awakening of the Eastern dragon.