Genius is just the threshold for me!

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Laboratory No. 78.

When the map scanner reached the coast of Guangdong Province, the set instructions were triggered, and a system notification popped up.

Lin Dong sat up straight, opened the real-time flight path map of civil aviation and connected to the server, then entered a series of avoidance warning commands, then exited the cruise reconnaissance mode and pulled the control stick to reduce speed and altitude.

It's still an inland sea, so it's impossible for an American aircraft carrier to appear there.

Since it's a rare opportunity to come to the beach, I took advantage of the time before the sun dipped below the horizon to descend and take aerial photos of the seascape.

soon.

The Scanner then reduced its speed to subsonic and its altitude to 3,000 meters.

At this altitude, although synthetic aperture radar's resolution doesn't improve much even as altitude decreases due to its unique technology.

Furthermore, the reduced distance narrows the time window for reflected echoes, making image and algorithm processing more complicated.

However, for ultra-high precision visible light cameras, this height already provides an astonishing level of resolution and sharpness, comparable to taking photos by boat at sea.

"Lin Dong! The seawater here is so clear, it's completely different from what I've seen at the beach before..."

Having just completed its descent in altitude and speed, the Mapper has stabilized its flight attitude.

Suddenly, Xu Qingling seemed to notice something, pointing to the clear blue ocean below the camera lens, shimmering with golden light under the setting sun.

"We're almost at the South China Sea Islands..."

Lin Dong glanced at the precise map location provided by Beidou and said with a smile, "The seawater here is the clearest and cleanest seawater in the whole country."

If you go near the islands and reefs, you can even get a direct view of the seabed through a single camera lens, seeing the corals, shells, and various fish and crabs right from the surface.

More than a decade later, the South China Sea Islands are no longer disputed, and tourism routes have been opened to the general public in China.

This is an archipelago that countless domestic military workers and soldiers have struggled for decades to finally be able to hold onto stably.

In their previous lives, Lin Dong and Xu Qingling also took the time to visit this place after the tourist route opened.

Whether it was the sentimentality of their parents or a rare moment of leisure from their previous life as cattle and horses, it's hard to say.

Even though more than a decade has passed since his previous life, Lin Dong still has a deep impression of the seascape, islands, and beaches here. When he thinks back, he can still describe them as picturesque.

"From the surface of the sea to the seabed...can we film one?" Xu Qingling asked with a bright and expectant expression.

"Can."

Lin Dong smiled and said, "But the altitude can't be lowered too much; we can only maintain this altitude. This way, the atmospheric turbulence in the middle is quite large, and I don't know if we can still focus on the seabed."

He also flew over the South China Sea last time with the Hot 1, but since the Hot 1 is a subsonic aircraft and does not have a stealth design, he did not fly too deep.

However, the Scanner now uses a low-speed stealth design and has a silicon carbide stealth coating on its surface.

As long as you don't descend to an altitude that's visible to the naked eye, you can fly over quietly to take a picture without anyone noticing.

"Just take a look, don't stay too long, otherwise the scanner account might be exposed."

Instead of controlling the aircraft himself, Lin Dong opened the command interface, entered a series of flight commands, and finally entered the precise latitude and longitude of the South China Sea Islands before pressing the Enter key.

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The screen image remains still for two seconds, then suddenly moves rapidly.

Golden waves rippled across the surface, changing the sea from deep blue to light blue, and finally becoming crystal clear.

Beneath the seemingly transparent seawater, a beach dotted with various colors against a yellow background begins to appear in the frame.

"This sea view...it really looks like a painting! My Chinese textbook didn't lie to me!" Xu Qingling exclaimed, her eyes wide with disbelief.

Lin Dong smiled, looked at the MapScanner hovering in the air according to flight instructions, opened the reconnaissance and shooting data in the background, scanned it and quickly entered a series of lens parameters.

...A yellow, multicolored underwater beach gradually zooms in on the screen, while the camera focuses and dives deeper.

A few seconds later, the whole picture blurred for a moment, and then the camera refocused, revealing a scene that looked like an underwater anime world.

Although the image experienced a continuous, slight tremor due to atmospheric disturbances and ocean waves, the underwater scenery was still clearly visible.

Vibrant corals, rugged reefs, lively fish, fine sand...

A faint golden ray of sunset light shone in from above, illuminating a swaying red coral and giving it a golden-red glow, attracting several palm-sized fish that chased after it.

"Wow--"

Xu Qingling couldn't help but exclaim in surprise, her expression filled with delight, "It really is possible to capture the entire ocean in one shot! It's so beautiful, diving in this place must be amazing!"

Lin Dong looked at the girl who was so unabashedly expressing her emotions and exclaiming in surprise, only in front of him and her family, and then looked at the underwater scenery displayed on the screen. He chuckled and said, "You can go and have a visit sometime."

"No, it's good enough if we just look at it with the camera."

Upon hearing this, Xu Qingling quickly shook her head: "I heard from my father that things aren't very stable here yet. Let's wait until things are more stable before we go sightseeing..."

Yeah, even if things stabilize, we still need to be careful. This place is too far from land and close to the border; the risks are too great. Let's just stay home and stay safe; we won't go out for fun!

Although I have little resistance to these underwater scenes that resemble those in an anime.

But Xu Qingling did not forget the special nature of Lindong; in the past, these places were too risky.

If it's just a trip there that puts Lin Dong at risk, she'd rather stay home and look at the photos...

"Alright then, we'll talk about it later."

Lin Dong responded with a smile, controlling the map scanner to take pictures of the underwater scenery in several places. When he saw that he had been there for more than ten minutes, he no longer hesitated to lift the civil aviation avoidance order, stepped on the rudder, and then pushed the throttle and control stick hard.

boom--

The aircraft's attitude on the flight interface suddenly changed.

The Scanner hovered halfway in the sky, and the next moment its nose pointed to the south-southeast, transforming into an arrow that shot sharply into the sky.

Height 6500... Height 10000... Height 15000... Height 21000...

Speeds: Mach 1.2... Mach 1.7... Mach 2.2... Mach 2.6...

In a short while, the Mapper soared to an altitude of 25,000 meters, breaking the thermal barrier and reaching Mach 3.5.

On the flight interface.

The entire front of the device emitted a faint red light, indicating that the temperature had soared to 600 degrees Celsius.

Lin Dong did not stop and continued to accelerate into the air.

Soon, the Scanner soared to the critical altitude of 4 meters, leveled its fuselage, and increased its speed to Mach 4 to begin cruise.

In the flight interface simulation image, the Scanner maintains a slight pitch angle, the vertical wings are retracted, and the entire fuselage presents a wave-riding attitude.

On a section of the fuselage slightly below the nose, due to continuous contact and friction with the shockwave, a small portion of the fuselage has turned red, with the displayed temperature fixed at 920 degrees Celsius.

"Let's get down to business."

Lin Dong observed that the increased altitude, coupled with significant atmospheric disturbances at the ocean level, contributed to the situation.

The camera lens image, which had become blurry, was quickly entered into a command to activate the synthetic aperture radar main reconnaissance mode.

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The reconnaissance footage on the screen flashed briefly.

The camera-mode view that was previously the main feature has disappeared.

Instead, a standard radar reconnaissance scanning interface appeared, displaying images of a dozen blurry, pixelated ships.

With a radar resolution of 0.5 meters, these ships and fishing boats, which are tens of meters in size, can only leave a small, blurry pixel on the radar reflection wave.

Lin Dong continued to adjust the radar reconnaissance parameters.

Soon, the entire scanning area became a 300-kilometer-wide horizontal scanning zone, displaying changing infrared patches and spectral data.

The ships and fishing boats that were originally tens of meters in size have disappeared in the scanning interface and have been replaced by green signal dots that show their approximate size parameters.

"300 kilometers wide... sweep straight ahead, then change course and turn back when you reach the border of another country, until you have swept the entire sea surface."

Lin Dong checked the remaining battery life, quickly set the reconnaissance route, and pressed the confirmation button.

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The image on the screen disappeared.

The next moment, a map of the entire South China Sea appeared on it, with a reconnaissance track 300 kilometers wide sweeping southward at Mach 4.

In less than two minutes, the reconnaissance trajectory reached the border of another country.

The trajectory then turns left, flying 300 kilometers in 4 minutes, before turning left again, sweeping over the previously blank area.

Keep scanning until you reach the domestic border area, then turn right, then right again, then left, then left again...

"No way... this is really unlucky? Stuck at the port and unable to get out?"

"But didn't some fishermen run into them last week?"

Lin Dong watched as it flew 820 kilometers in just 10 minutes, scanning a reconnaissance area of ​​24.3 square kilometers.

It's like a giant, greedy snake, using its massive body to scan and occupy the entire South China Sea region.

But apart from a group of fishing boats a few dozen meters long and merchant ships a hundred meters long, the aircraft carrier he was looking for was nowhere to be found.

Occasionally, the system would scan ships hundreds of meters in size, and the hyperspectral imager would immediately intervene to identify them, ultimately confirming that they were large container ships, not the aircraft carrier they were looking for.

"While this method of scouting 400 square kilometers per second and brute force is satisfying—even scanning the entire southern high seas area would only take an hour—whether we can quickly find the target still depends on luck..."

"Clearly, we're out of luck today; we need to use some technology."

Lin Dong waited another ten minutes. He saw that half of the non-domestic South China Sea area had been swept away, but there was still no trace of the target. He immediately decided not to wait any longer.

Lin Dong opened the reconnaissance aircraft's control interface, entered a series of commands to activate the high-precision electronic reconnaissance mode, and began searching for various radio and radar signals in the air.

beep beep...

The monotonous electronic reconnaissance beeping sounded from the control interface.

Signals are captured and identified, but are quickly discarded after system analysis.

After the Mapsweeper flew for another two and a half minutes, covering nearly two hundred kilometers, a distinctly different directional signal suddenly came into the electronic reconnaissance's field of vision.

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The system emitted a long beep.

Before Lin Dong could react, the entire scanner automatically changed direction and flew towards the location of the signal.

beep!

Didi!

As the Scanner advanced, the signals in the air grew stronger, and the interactions became more frequent.

Soon, a little over a minute after they had flown out.

A large, unusually yellow ship entered the scanning boundary, and the hyperspectral analyzer immediately intervened to perform spectral identification of the signal.

[Beep—Large aircraft carrier detected! Large aircraft carrier detected!]

A red warning box pops up, and then the precise latitude and longitude are calculated and sent back to the server immediately.

Without Lin Dong's control, the scanner continued forward.

Soon, eight anomalous signals, each nearly two hundred nautical miles apart and scattered across a large area of ​​sea, were also detected.

The hyperspectral analyzer was used simultaneously to identify camouflage.

In less than five seconds, the yellow anomaly signal quickly turned red, and the entire ocean area turned red at that moment.

[Beep beep beep—Carrier fleet detected! Carrier fleet detected…]

"Pfft—Holy crap, they actually caught them?"

Chief Engineer's Office.

Wang Xingguo was taking a sip of water when he suddenly heard the alarm from the shared Lin Dong reconnaissance system. He looked up and saw the precise latitude and longitude coordinates being automatically calculated and entered. He couldn't help but spit out the tea in his mouth.

He suddenly looked at the clock next to him, his expression turning incredulous.

From Chengdu until now.

Less than an hour had passed...

Less than an hour.

This has exposed the aircraft carrier fleet that was entrenched and hiding in the South China Sea, supporting the US's Asia-Pacific strategy.

"That reconnaissance plane...it's truly terrifying."

Xu Ziming also looked shocked and let out a breath.

Just now, the two of them observed the entire investigation process from the office...

Although he saw this kid using a reconnaissance plane that cost 200 million yuan to build, not counting the research and development costs, to descend and take his daughter to see the sunset seascape and take pictures of the underwater coral reefs, his eyes twitched a little.

But the subsequent activation of the synthetic aperture radar's reconnaissance scanning mode, which scanned 400 square kilometers per second and directly over the South China Sea, still had a psychological impact on him.

"A strategic weapon, this is a strategic weapon..."

"If it's not terrifying, how can it be called a strategic weapon?"

Wang Xingguo replied to Xu Ziming, looking at the aircraft carrier's coordinates that had been accurately marked on the screen, his expression one of barely suppressed excitement.

Although China does not yet have a good anti-ship missile that can effectively penetrate the air defense network of an aircraft carrier fleet.

But with such precise coordinates, even without anti-ship missiles, if we replace them with the engine solution provided by Lin Dong and the Changjian-100 hypersonic cruise missile designed with his assistance, we can launch a massive attack and still achieve a 50% sinking rate.

This means that they no longer have to feel powerless and hopeless when facing an aircraft carrier blockade in the open sea, and can only watch helplessly as the other side provokes them from above.

If the other side dares to really push forward now.

If we go all in, we might just send the entire enemy team to the bottom of the sea.

Thinking of this, Wang Xingguo quickly opened the safe next to him, picked up the red phone, and dialed the familiar button.

"Boss...we've caught him!"

"Nine ships, the entire fleet didn't miss a single one... Yes... they didn't notice!"

"……good!"

Wang Xingguo gave a brief report, and then heard a pause followed by laughter that seemed to relax considerably...

He hung up the phone and watched as Lin Dong, having adjusted his distance, began taking photos of the reconnaissance footage. The heaviness in his eyes seemed to dissipate and turn into a hazy, dreamlike state.

"...That's wonderful!"