Genius is just the threshold for me!

10 PM.

Wang Rui spent several hours at the hotel directing and acting as the male lead. He then saw Xiao Yutong, whose face was still flushed and who was reluctant to part, into a taxi back to Northwestern University. He walked back to his doctoral dormitory at Northwestern Polytechnical University, feeling refreshed.

"Comrades, I'm back!"

Wang Rui saw that the lights were on in Zhang Yue's dormitory next door, and he could vaguely hear Cai Wei's voice. He pushed open the door and went inside.

"You have your own dorm room, why are you coming here instead of going back?" Zhang Yue said without looking up from a thesis.

"Holy crap—"

At this moment, Cai Wei seemed to notice something, his eyes widening as he asked, "Wang Rui, is this how you got back?"

"What's wrong with me?" Wang Rui asked, puzzled.

"Awesome!"

Cai Wei grabbed a mirror from the side and threw it at him: "Look at your neck and face."

"What the hell...?"

Wang Rui caught the mirror and used the light to scan her neck and cheeks. When she saw the several strawberries that had been bitten off, her eyes widened.

"Wow! This is insane... but I love it!"

"..."

Cai Wei shook his head speechlessly: "Men in the throes of new love are hopeless."

"Comrades, I plan to take my daughter Tongtong back to Chengdu for the winter vacation."

Wang Rui put the mirror aside and looked at Cai Wei and Zhang Yue, asking, "You two are more experienced. Do you have any suggestions or strategies?"

"If you're taking your partner back to Chengdu for winter break, and you're staying in the Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group's residential compound, you'll need to apply for approval in advance, right?"

Zhang Yue looked up and asked curiously, "When we went to your place to research and make model airplanes a few years ago, we always reported it in advance and needed a letter of introduction from Northwestern Polytechnical University."

"She doesn't live at my house. She rents a small guesthouse outside. She can just register at my house temporarily if she needs to." Wang Rui shook his head.

"That's fine."

Cai Wei nodded and asked curiously, "But was it you who suggested taking her back to Chengdu, or was it she who suggested going to Chengdu?"

"When we were having dinner this evening, her parents said they were going on a trip and wouldn't be home. Since she had nowhere to go by herself, they told her to come back with me and they would take her out to play..."

Wang Rui didn't hide anything and recounted the general events, then asked curiously, "What's the difference?"

"What a coincidence?"

Cai Wei paused for a moment, but didn't think much of it and said, "Since she brought it up, just ask her where she wants to go. If you invite her, she can visit some of Chengdu's famous tourist attractions..."

But couples in the throes of new love are unlikely to be in the mood for anything fun.

Upon arriving in Chengdu, I found a hotel or guesthouse and stayed there for three days straight. After going out for a couple of days, I went back to the hotel or guesthouse.

"What? Am I really that desolate?" Wang Rui exclaimed, his eyes wide.

"It's almost 10:30 PM, time for dinner. You guys have been partying in the hotel for so long, aren't you tired of it?"

Zhang Yue shook his head, then said seriously, "I saw some speculations on online forums, and it seems that Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group is working on a new project."

You've only known each other for three months and you've already gotten together. Now you want to bring her home as a guest. You'd better tell your dad first, and report it to the security department or national security beforehand.

"right."

Cai Wei nodded in agreement: "During the critical phase of a project, people are very sensitive to unfamiliar outsiders. Don't let security or national security invite your partner for tea."

If nothing goes wrong, great; but if something does, you'll be really caught off guard... And to be honest, I always feel like you two are moving too fast.

"Damn it, is it wrong for us to be naturally enthusiastic?"

Wang Rui was speechless when he heard this.

Ding-dong! Ding-dong—

Before Cai Wei could answer.

At that moment, Wang Rui's cell phone rang twice.

[Dear Tongtong]: Baby, I'm back in the dorm.

【Dear Tongtong】: The holiday will start in a couple of days. What do your uncles and aunts like? It's my first time visiting them, so what gift should I prepare for them?

"Your partner's message?" Zhang Yue asked, noticing Wang Rui taking out his phone and pausing to read the message.

"Yes, she went back and asked me what gifts I wanted to prepare for my parents..."

Wang Rui frowned as he looked at the message: "It feels... kind of strange. She seems very interested in Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group, and she's a business management major at Northwest University... Zhang Yue! Get me a pen and paper!"

"Hey! Is Little Head overly calm and tired today? Has the Sage returned?"

Cai Wei exclaimed in surprise, and before Zhang Yue could make a move, he took his paper and pen and handed them over.

"Get lost!"

Wang Rui picked up a paper and pen, quickly drew a 24-cell table with a few strokes, then thought carefully for a moment, skipped the first three cells, put a checkmark in the fourth cell, then the sixth, the eighth, the ninth...

"hiss--"

Zhang Yue walked over at this moment, saw the blank spaces that Wang Rui had checked, and then glanced at the percentage of checked spaces. He immediately gasped.

"More than a third of the way through."

Cai Wei's eyes widened as well.

Based on what Wang Rui just said, they all understood the meaning behind Wang Rui's form.

One of the blank spaces represents a date Wang Rui went on. A checkmark indicates that Wang Rui's girlfriend took the initiative to talk about Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group (CAC) during the date.

"Twice..."

Wang Rui's pen trembled twice. He took a deep breath, continued to recall, and then began to draw circles on the table.

The third space, the seventh space, the fourteenth space... and today's 24th space.

"What does this circle mean?" Cai Wei couldn't help but ask.

"He talked to me about how to get rich... a total of six times," Wang Rui said expressionlessly.

"She's trying to seduce you and drag you down with her?" Zhang Yue's eyes widened, and he immediately understood what she meant.

"24 dates, 11 of which involved talking about Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group, and 6 of which were about getting rich... Wow, are all your dates filled with such positive and healthy topics?"

Cai Wei gave a thumbs up and jokingly comforted her, "Why is it that when Xiaomei and I go on dates, all we talk about is eating and drinking, and the little things in our lives and everyday anecdotes?"

"She didn't talk in depth, just touched on things with a few tentative questions... but she was still too impatient."

Wang Rui's right hand, which was holding the pen, was trembling. Looking at the table he had drawn up, his eyes suddenly turned red.

Although he was reluctant to admit it, statistics don't lie.

It's perfectly fine for a girl in a normal relationship to occasionally talk about these topics a couple of times during a date.

But it's absolutely impossible for her to proactively talk to her boyfriend about things that are unrelated to her major at such a high rate and frequency.

"Brothers, I have two pieces of news, one bad and one good."

Wang Rui put down his pen and looked up at Cai Wei and Zhang Yue.

"Tell me, what news?"

Zhang Yue patted Wang Rui on the shoulder in a cooperative manner.

"My first love is gone..." Wang Rui said, her voice trembling slightly.

"What's gone is gone; old love fades before new love arrives."

Cai Wei smiled and comforted you, "Next time I'll have my Xiaomei introduce you to some pretty female classmates. If you're not satisfied, I'll have Zhang Yue's girlfriend introduce you to some."

"Yes! I'll tell Xiaoqiong later."

Zhang Yue nodded and asked, "Didn't you have another piece of good news?"

"I'm going to be rich!"

Wang Rui raised his hand to wipe away the tears welling in his eyes, his expression a mix of laughter and tears, as he exclaimed, "My lost virginity, my lost first love, can sell for 1.5 million!"

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The following afternoon, in the conference room of the core area of ​​Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group.

Wang Xingguo stood by the window, looking at the scenery below, and rubbed his forehead, thinking about the phone call Wang Rui had made the night before.

At this moment, Xia Tianqiang, wearing Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group's work uniform, walked over from the side.

"Engineer Wang, the meeting is about to begin."

"it is good."

Wang Xingguo took a deep breath, adjusted his glasses to make the bone conduction headphones fit his skin as closely as possible, and walked to the main seat in the small conference room.

Di-

Wang Xingguo pressed the remote control, and the anti-eavesdropping device was activated. The conference room windows closed automatically, the electrically adjustable glass changed from transparent to opaque, and then the electromagnetic shielding curtains closed.

"Today, I'm having this small offline meeting with your R&D department and final assembly department mainly to discuss and decide on something."

Wang Xingguo looked at Xu Ziming, Xia Tianqiang, and six core members of the project team from the Technology R&D Department and the General Assembly Department who were attending the meeting, and said with a serious expression.

"That is the manufacturing of the wings for the Red Ghost project. Should we manufacture them in sections and then assemble them, or should we manufacture them as a whole and then assemble them? What solutions do your R&D and assembly departments have? You can explain them in detail now."

"Engineer Wang."

As soon as Wang Xingguo finished speaking, an engineer in his thirties took out a document and handed it to Wang Xingguo and the people present, saying seriously, "I prefer whole-piece manufacturing."

According to the Red Ghost's plan, this time the goal is to achieve supersonic penetration. As the main load-bearing component, the wing is too difficult and time-consuming to manufacture in sections and then assemble.

Another issue is that segmented construction is less robust than whole-piece manufacturing, increasing the potential for significant risks and hidden dangers.

"I think we should manufacture in stages before final assembly!"

A 40-year-old core engineer took out the documents and said seriously: "The problem of segment strength can be solved by design and fasteners, but for the whole segment manufacturing, everyone should not forget the wing parameters of this Red Ghost."

With a wingspan of 35.6 meters, it is more than twice the wingspan of our previous fighter jets. Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group (CAC) headquarters simply does not have such a large manufacturing workshop and equipment.

Although other domestic units have ultra-large CNC gantry milling machines capable of processing such large wings.

However, processing a wing of this size involves a material cutting rate and scrap rate of 70% to 80%, which means that we have to scrap 4 to 5 wings before we can make a qualified wing.

In addition, such a large wing, especially a delta wing, presents a challenge in the entire manufacturing and transportation process.

Xi'an Aircraft Industry Group (XAC) encountered this problem before when designing and manufacturing the Y-20 transport aircraft.

However, the final 45-meter wing of the Y-20 transport aircraft was manufactured in three sections, and it wasn't a delta wing; the wing surface wasn't that large.

"Engineer Li, if we manufacture in sections, how do we address the time-consuming docking process?"

The young engineer who had just spoken chimed in, his expression serious: "With segmented connections, as long as the process is up to standard, there won't be any issues with strength."

However, for such a massive transport aircraft to fly at supersonic speeds, the wings, as the main load-bearing components, must have a docking precision error that does not exceed 0.015 millimeters; otherwise, concentrated stress points will be created, compromising the overall strength of the wings…

According to the data on the segmented docking of the B-2 Spirit bomber, the three wing sections were docked using tens of thousands of fasteners, and the entire docking process took 15 months.

Moreover, the B-2 Spirit is not a supersonic bomber; its stealth capability requires that the wings have no structural undulations that could create radar reflection points, and the docking accuracy error is only 0.025 millimeters.

Our Red Ghost series needs to cope with the stress of supersonic flight, and the precision requirements for segment docking are even higher. Even with the current higher precision of the alignment equipment, it is conservatively estimated that it will take no less than 20 months.

"A single wing takes twenty months, plus the final assembly of other equipment, do we really have that much time to wait...?"