Genius is just the threshold for me!

Time flies by, and autumn has already passed before we could fully appreciate it, with early winter beginning to blanket the earth.

In late November, with daytime temperatures in Chengdu around 11°C, Lin Dong had already changed into his winter school uniform, and even added a light down jacket over it.

On Monday, around 4 PM, a group of friends were walking home after school.

Even though the sun sets relatively late in the southwest, the winter sun is already quite dim on the horizon.

Wow, that's amazing...

Li Tao and Zhang Yihao walked behind, huddled together on a phone watching videos, occasionally letting out gasps of surprise.

"Hey, did you guys watch yesterday's video?"

After watching for a while, Li Tao seemed to have thought of something and ran to the front to shout to Lin Dong, Huang Qingyao and others: "Last Friday, the J-15 carrier-based aircraft successfully landed and took off from the Liaoning aircraft carrier in succession... It caused a sensation all over the world."

"Your news is way behind the times. I saw it a long time ago. My dad stayed up all day watching TV that day."

As family members of Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group, few people would not pay attention to this kind of thing.

When Su Yue heard Li Tao mention this, she became visibly excited and said, "I also saw footage of a landing mishap where the pilot pulled up and attempted a go-around."

My dad immediately slapped his thigh and said that the technology used for this re-flight was incredibly advanced, and that the re-flight time was even faster than that of the American carrier-based F/A-18 Hornet.

"I heard this is related to the fighter jet's response time. Apparently, it requires a millisecond-level response time. If the response time is too slow, the fighter jet will overshoot the deck and crash into the sea..."

Li Tao replied with a half-understanding, and then said excitedly, "But I read the comments just now, and many military enthusiasts online are talking about it."

Two months ago, many people from Shenyang Aircraft Corporation were admitted to Shenyang Military General Hospital. The entire core team of carrier-based aircraft fell ill due to overwork.

Later, Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group (CAC) took over the task urgently and helped them solve the last problem in getting the J-15 fighter jets onto the carrier. I don't know if this is true or not...

"That amazing?"

Huang Qingyao and the others were stunned.

Su Yue exclaimed incredulously, "Didn't my dad say that the technical standards for large fighter jets and carrier-based aircraft are completely different? How can Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group solve the problem of carrier-based aircraft?"

"Lin Dong, are you aware of this?"

Su Yue turned to Lin Dong curiously: "Uncle Lin, he should be of a position to know about this, right?"

Lin Dong smiled and said, "My dad has been working on mechanical dogs lately and hasn't been involved in fighter jets for a long time. Even if he were involved, he wouldn't tell me about this kind of thing."

"That's true, we must all abide by confidentiality regulations."

Su Yue sighed, feeling a tickle of curiosity: "This generation of military enthusiasts online is really hopeless. They only know that Shenyang Aircraft Corporation's team is hospitalized, but they don't even know who is taking over to solve the problem."

"Even if they know, they wouldn't dare say anything. If they did, they'd be going in for tea," Xu Qingling comforted him from the side, glancing at Lin Dong as she spoke.

"Here, this is for you."

Seeing Xu Qingling's gaze, Lin Dong suddenly remembered something, took out a watch from his pocket and handed it to her: "Happy thirteenth birthday. Within a 500-meter radius of Wangcai, press this button and the dog will run over."

"You can call the dog..."

Xu Qingling's eyes immediately lit up with surprise. The next moment, she took the watch, her expression a mixture of happiness and inquiry, and asked, "Did you learn to make this from Uncle Lin?"

"Yes, I asked my dad."

Lin Dong knew that Xu Qingling was covering for him, so he smiled and nodded.

"Xu Qingling, isn't your birthday November 8th? It's been over a while, hasn't it?" Xia Ran asked curiously from the side.

When she was filling out the forms for joining the Communist Youth League this semester, she saw Xu Qingling's birthdate written down next to her.

"That's the Gregorian calendar, the birthday in the archives, but we usually celebrate our birthdays according to the lunar calendar."

Xu Qingling carefully put away the watch Lin Dong gave her and said happily, "My birthday is the 13th of the tenth lunar month, which happens to be today."

"Yes, you were born around 4 PM..."

Huang Qingyao chimed in, saying leisurely, "So every year on this afternoon of the lunar calendar, Lin Dong prepares a small gift for you..."

That's so cruel!

"Xu Qingling, I absolutely refuse to walk with you on your birthday next year, and not on Lin Dong's birthday either... You two deserve to die!"

"right!"

Su Yue chimed in with disdain, gesticulating wildly, "To kill someone is to destroy their spirit! Drag them both out and chop them up!"

"Chop it up? Great!" Xu Qingling grabbed Su Yue: "Then are you still coming over for cake tonight...?"

"this……"

Su Yue paused for a moment, then said, "Beheading and eating, we can do both at the same time."

"puff--"

Huang Qingyao couldn't help but burst out laughing, and everyone else followed suit.

"Then everyone come over for cake tonight... I'll ask my mom to order a big cake."

Xu Qingling laughed for a while, then extended an invitation to all her friends. As if remembering something, she turned to Lin Dong and asked, "Why don't you call Zhang Zihua?"

"He went to participate in a competition and can't make it back from out of town. Just leave him a seat and a piece of cake." Lin Dong shook his head.

"He's pushing himself too hard right now."

When Zhang Yihao heard Xu Qingling mention Zhang Zihua, his expression suddenly fell silent: "I went to his house half a month ago. He's already studying high school courses and calculus on his own, preparing to skip a grade and go to high school next year..."

My uncle passed away, and now the family won't even let us say his name. I don't know if Zihua can get through this.

As he spoke, Zhang Yihao couldn't help but sniff, and his eyes reddened.

He and Zhang Zihua have been close since childhood. Before the third grade, they were both the most mischievous kids in their class, and their families were also related.

But now, his family has strictly forbidden him from mentioning this matter, and Zhang Zihua has become taciturn. He doesn't know how to persuade him.

"He'll get through it. Right now, Zihua is feeling like a dark cloud is blocking out all the light."

Lin Dong paused for a moment, then looked at the setting sun in the west and smiled, saying, "Once Uncle Zhang can see the sky again, the dark clouds will disperse, and the light will naturally shine in... Let's not talk about this anymore, or we'll have to go back for a lecture."

"Yes, let's talk about the monthly exams. They're in a few days. How's everyone's studying?"

Huang Qingyao then chimed in, interrupting everyone's thoughts.

"It's alright, I've reviewed everything," Su Yue said calmly.

"Yes, it's time for the monthly exams again."

Xia Ran replied after hearing about the monthly exam, then turned to Lin Dong with a serious look: "Lin Dong, how come your scores were so low in the last two monthly exams? You didn't even get an excellent score..."

"You've passed."

Lin Dong smiled and said, "I'm just naturally bad at reading."

Done.

Lin Dong didn't say anything more, and told Xu Qingling to hurry up with the others.

Back at the family compound, everyone else went home, while Lin Dong and Xu Qingling went to laboratory number 78...

"Lin Dong".

Enter the outer perimeter of the base.

Xu Qingling glanced back at everyone's backs, then suddenly turned to Lin Dong, seemingly with some worry, and said, "Why do I feel like Xia Ran seems to be paying a lot of attention to you?"

"Are you sure? Isn't it because I pay more attention to you?"

Lin Dong was taken aback for a moment, then smiled and said, "This kind of person is talented and has been proud and unwilling to admit defeat since childhood. You defeated her several times, so she has her eye on you. I'm just one of those people you happened to be dealing with."

"……what?"

Xu Qingling was stunned, her eyes widening as she exclaimed, "You can do that?"

"Otherwise, how would I explain your question?"

After chatting for a few minutes, Lin Dong arrived at the lab, entered the password and fingerprint to open the door, and said, "Let's not talk about them anymore. Let's take a look at the big toy that Uncle Xu and the others are assembling today..."

After entering the room and turning a corner, Lin Dong turned on the lab screen, entered the password to start the server, and then accessed an internal network address.

Instantly.

An assembly process was displayed on the 200-inch screen.

Wang Xingguo, Xu Ziming, and more than a dozen core engineers from Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group (CAC) were wearing full dustproof suits and surrounding two 12-meter-long aircraft, using various hoisting tools to install equipment modules into the cabin.

Because it was all done manually, the whole process seemed a bit slow, but it was full of rigor and smoothness.

"This is……"

Xu Qingling opened her eyes wide, staring at the screen with anticipation, and asked, "Is this the first project you're in charge of?"

She knew that Lin Dong had started taking charge of a top-secret project during the summer vacation, and Xu Ziming had even specially instructed her not to disturb him.

She had never seen or asked about the type of aircraft Lin Dong was working on; this was the first time she had seen the project Lin Dong had been busy with for the past six months.

"Yes, the world's number one reconnaissance aircraft." Lin Dong nodded with a smile.

Because of him, Xu Qingling's access level has already been raised many levels, so bringing her over to watch now is not considered a violation.

After all, apart from the hydrogen bomb configuration, it is probably the biggest secret in the country right now.

Xu Qingling has known this secret for so many years without any problems, which means she is a comrade who has passed rigorous tests.

"But why are there two?"

Xu Qingling pointed to the two WZ-8 reconnaissance aircraft being assembled on the screen and asked with some curiosity, "Don't these medium to large-sized aircraft require constant test flights and adjustments? Won't there be any problems building two at once?"

As a family member of Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group (CAC) and an employee of the flight test department, Zhou Xiaoyan knew some of the details.

That is, when developing an aircraft, only one will be built at first. After continuous test flights and improvements, it will be mass-produced once it is finalized.

"One of them is mine. I will go through a special test flight procedure and conduct the test flight myself."

"This is an unmanned reconnaissance aircraft that does not require a crew, so the test flight requirements are not that strict. Moreover, as long as the final assembly is successful, there will be no problems with my design."

Lin Dong smiled and said, "This set of reconnaissance aircraft can cover half of China in half a day."

Once the final assembly is complete tomorrow, we'll remotely control it to take some photos at sea, and see if we can find an American aircraft carrier to take a picture of.

When you come back, watch the sun rise in the west again. Didn't I promise you last time...?

"You promised me last time..."

Xu Qingling paused for a moment, then a surprising smile spread across her face, her eyes shining brightly and all traces of worry vanishing: "Okay, we'll come over after class tomorrow..."