What does it mean to get a perfect score on the college entrance exam but then go missing?

There's no such thing as a free lunch in this world; what Qin Ze saw was a plan for a next-generation fighter jet.

Qin Ze even felt that using this plane as a wingman was a bit of a waste; it could be used as a main fighter jet.

Whether it's power, range, or combat systems, they all represent an exponential improvement over the previous two versions.

Qin Ze instantly gained confidence.

This version no longer has a pass/fail issue.

But how shocked Professor Yang must have been when he finally figured it out.

Therefore, Qin Ze stopped trying to probe Professor Yang and immediately busied himself with putting the ideas in his mind into a plan.

……

……

A few days later.

The Academic Lecture Hall of the School of Aeronautics.

After completing the mechanical modification report for the Yunji project, Yang Hewei walked out with a headache.

There is no other reason.

Another problem has arisen.

Although the Yunji project has been approved, there are still significant differences in the specific solutions among the stakeholders, and no consensus has been reached.

So every meeting lately has turned into a heated verbal battle.

Just like today, nothing was left except for a few personal attacks.

……

"Director Yang, please wait!"

In the corridor, a stranger suddenly called out to him.

Before Yang Hewei could even ask, the person on the other end immediately showed his identification.

Sun Xiang, from the State Secrecy Bureau of the State Council.

Yang Hewei was slightly taken aback upon hearing the introduction from the person opposite him.

This unit, like the National Security Bureau, is also a classified entity.

However, unlike others, Sun Xiang was directly under the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense, which had a high degree of vertical integration and was specifically responsible for confidentiality work in the field of science and technology.

Someone like him, if he doesn't show up, that's fine, but if he does, it's a major case.

Yang Hewei then cautiously asked, "Has our project been leaked?"

Sun Xiang smiled slightly and waved his hand, saying, "No, my superiors sent me here to assist Director Yang."

"assist?"

Yang Hewei didn't understand.

"Yes, didn't the higher-ups instruct you last time to release a plan to mislead the enemy? I'm here to assist with that."

"Oh! Yes, yes, yes, yes!"

Yang Hewei suddenly realized.

"I've been so busy with serious scientific research these days that I forgot about this."

Sun Xiang complained, "With Professor Yang here, this is not right of you. The higher-ups said that this mission to confuse the enemy is actually a kind of scientific research mission."

Yang Hewei didn't take this matter seriously.

But the higher-ups have always taken the matter of strategic deception very seriously.

Firstly, the Strategic Deception Project can reduce the confidentiality pressure on Yunji.

Secondly, the strategic deception project can put pressure on similar projects on the opposing side.

When you calculate it carefully, the profits are quite substantial.

Therefore, the higher-ups went all out again, sending Sun Xiang from the confidentiality department to personally assist in the work.

Finding a secluded corner, Sun Xiang asked with concern.

"Professor Yang, what stage is the plan at?"

Yang Hewei stated truthfully: "I had my students working on the plan."

"But students, you know, are generally more conservative."

"The proposed plan wasn't impressive enough, so it's still being revised."

Sun Xiang didn't say anything upon hearing this, he just nodded.

He knew that Yang Hewei was suspected of slacking off.

However, his superiors instructed him to cooperate with Yang Hewei, so he had no position to find fault.

Students are students, anyway, the plan is just for bragging, so it just needs to be roughly complete.

Yang Hewei continued, "I reckon the final draft should be out in the next couple of days."

"I'll bring it to you as soon as the final draft is ready."

"Whether you leak it or not is none of my business."

Yang Hewei's thinking was very simple.

After the plan was completed, the people in the security department took it and publicized it as Yunji's final plan.

This task is now complete.

Sun Xiang shook his head helplessly: "Director Yang, this is just the beginning."

Yang Hewei: "????"

"My superiors sent me here with new instructions."

Sun Xiang explained.

"Once the deceptive plan is completed, you need to go through a proper process here."

"To make it appear to outsiders that it is a genuinely approved project."

To put it bluntly, if you're going to put on a show, you have to go all the way.

External forces are not fools either.

Can you just pick any solution and call it Yunji?

People can also make their own judgments.

Therefore, the superiors considered everything very thoroughly. Since they were going to lie, they decided to make it as clear as possible.

But Yang Hewei was a bit slow-witted: "What does 'full set' mean?"

"After the project plan is completed, we need to move on to the wind tunnel stage."

"Good grief! This is unacceptable!"

Yang Hewei exclaimed in surprise.

This project may be a boast, but it's a huge one.

They're boasting about a long-endurance, large stealth drone.

For a wind tunnel test of this type of aircraft, the most advanced wind tunnel experimental equipment must be used, with a minimum speed of transonic speed.

"Section Chief Sun, do you know how much it costs to advance to the wind tunnel stage?"

Sun Xiang: "Seven figures."

Yang Hewei was slightly taken aback; it seemed Sun Xiang had come prepared. "Section Chief Sun, is it worth spending seven figures to build a wind tunnel just to brag?"

"It's worth it!"

Sun Xiang resolutely blocked the railway.

"Only data from wind tunnel tests is truly reliable."

"Only then will the outside world believe that we are really working on this project, and not just using it as a smokescreen."

The spies from those external forces aren't stupid either.

If someone comes to the spy with materials supposedly related to the Yunji Project.

Even spies get suspicious.

Therefore, to prove it, we can only use wind tunnel data.

Look, we've already spent millions on this wind tunnel, now you believe me, right?

"Professor Yang, you don't need to worry about the money."

Sun Xiang explained.

"This funding will be handled by the Security Bureau and won't be deducted from your project."

Yang Hewei immediately relaxed: "You should have said so earlier!"

Sun Xiang chuckled: "So all that talk about is money."

"Of course, funding is life for a project."

Yang Hewei suddenly looked up.

"I can understand the wind tunnel."

"But there's a problem."

"Those proposals are all student proposals; they're all just bragging."

"It's simple to ask them to produce a model of a wind tunnel."

"But once we got inside the wind tunnel, we couldn't get any data out."

Although wind tunnel experiments involve taking an object with an aerodynamic shape similar to an airplane, or in some projects, taking an airplane directly, and putting it into the wind tunnel.

Artificial airflow is used to simulate various problems encountered by an aircraft during flight.

The wind tunnel is the place where the real test is done.

Those boastful plans may sound amazing on paper, but once they're in the wind tunnel, they'll definitely be exposed for what they really are.

But Sun Xiang had already arranged everything.

"Professor Yang, you will be in charge of getting the project into the wind tunnel."

"As for the experimental data, I will falsify it."

"No matter what data they boast about, no matter how rubbish the data is, it will eventually become the world's most advanced drone aerodynamic data."

Yang Hewei suddenly realized: "So this was all a setup!"