Chapter 143: Farewell, United States!

Within a courtyard at the imperial capital of Tang Country, a middle-aged military man was speaking with an elder.

The middle-aged military officer said, “The United States has just carried out a dual anti-satellite and missile defense test. We monitored the US military launching three rounds of missiles, totaling fifteen.”

“Oh? Why did they need so many missiles?” the elder asked with keen interest.

“It seems the satellites performed evasive maneuvers, and some of the missiles missed their targets,” the military man explained.

“Is it that their missile defense capability is lacking, or could it be those satellites…”

“It’s unclear how it was achieved, but Elder Dong said that if the satellite operations were so precise that they could be controlled, it is definitely possible to monitor the trajectory of missiles in real time. The calculation speed must also be very fast; this requires a powerful surveillance network and supercomputers.”

“Do we have such capabilities with our Dr. Du Qiu?”

The middle-aged military man shook his head and said, “Although he has established a supercomputing center composed of commercial supercomputers, it should not be possible to monitor the trajectory of US military missiles. So, we are puzzled as to who is commandeering six commercial satellites from the United States to provide intelligence support to Du Qiu?”

“So, you let that Liang family kid falsely accuse Dr. Du Qiu? Are you trying to see if there is any power behind him?”

“Dr. Du Qiu possesses extraordinary talent, but aerospace is a matter of national importance and must be safeguarded. If he can pass our test, he will naturally become a pillar of the state.”

“Sigh, don’t chill his heart!”

“Don’t worry, the Ning family girl is in contact with him.”

“Give that Liang family kid a warning. Although he has the country’s interests at heart, he shouldn’t mix in too many of his own personal desires!”

“Understood.”

The next day, Du Qiu assumed another identity, that of a Bahrain-born Japanese descendant man named Kounan Nakagawa, 33 years old, who bought a batch of equipment from the United States to take back to Bahrain.

Du Qiu smoothly passed through security checks and immigration without any trouble. He even lingered interestingly in front of a screen displaying his own wanted notice before calmly leaving.

The charges in this wanted notice had changed again. Du Qiu remembered that at the beginning, he was accused of violating some act of the US Department of Commerce.

Later, when Star Ocean told him that a master hacker was searching through the networks of those three commercial satellite companies for something, two more charges were added to this wanted notice: illegal intrusion into a network and illegal seizure of another’s property.

Clearly, the US believed that it was Du Qiu who had hacked into the networks of those three commercial satellite companies and taken control of six satellites.

Subsequently, the Space Agency employed astronauts from the International Space Station to attempt some sort of capture action against the satellites.

But under the counterattack controlled by Star Ocean, the action failed.

Out of options, the US government used anti-satellite weapons to destroy the remaining five satellites.

This had just been completed yesterday.

Now, there was another charge added to the wanted notice: endangering US national security.

Oh boy, with these charges pinned on him, he might as well have become another number-one terrorist in the eyes of the US.

Of course, Du Qiu would not allow the US to slander him; he had already, through Liu Yaofeng, issued a statement on behalf of Dream Technology.

The statement asserted that all charges laid by the US against the company’s chairman Dr. Du Qiu were unfounded, and the US was making accusations without evidence.

If Dr. Du Qiu committed these offenses, can the US government produce convincing evidence for the world?

Moreover, Dr. Du Qiu has been unaccounted for since being pursued unreasonably by GIA personnel while attending the Las Vegas trade show in the US.

And Dream Technology’s exhibition staff are still arbitrarily detained in the US, unable to return to their country, which is a flagrant violation of human rights.

Without even basic freedom of personal liberty being guaranteed, which company’s staff would dare to attend exhibitions in the US or travel there for business in the future?

This declaration would be released globally the moment Du Qiu left the United States.

At that time, Star Ocean would transform into millions of online voices, spreading the statement everywhere on the international internet.

As the plane took off, heading south away from the US border, Du Qiu softly said to the window outside, “Farewell, United States!”

The whole world, because the US suddenly launched an anti-satellite test and fired three rounds of fifteen missiles, was abuzz with discussion.

Raksha country almost immediately reacted, declaring it would conduct a full-range test of its intercontinental ballistic missiles in three days to show that its powerful nuclear arsenal fears not the US’s missile defense systems.

It was clear to all that anti-satellite missiles are also part of the missile defense system.

Tangia Federation, Dar es Salaam International Airport.

When a Bahrain-born Tang-descendent businessman, Li Shennan, appeared at the international exit of the airport, a towering black figure had already rushed over and hugged him.

“Mr. Li, you’re finally here. Welcome, welcome!” the giant man said loudly, then whispered in Li Shennan’s ear, “Master Du Qiu, I have been looking forward to your arrival.”

Du Qiu smiled, patted the big man’s back, and said, “I’m glad to see you, Mr. Hao Ren.”

The big man was none other than Du Qiu’s close friend, Hao Ren.

Hao Ren quickly led Du Qiu away from the exit, and in the blink of an eye, they were seated in an off-road vehicle.

“Master Du Qiu, I’ve missed you to death!” Hao Ren blurted out as soon as the car started moving.

“Hao Ren, try to use my other name in the future; you can call me Li Shennan or Shennan.”

“Hey, there’s no one else in the car. Aren’t you being a bit too cautious?”

“I’m worried you might get used to my real name and can’t change it; if you slip up in front of others, it might give us away,” Du Qiu argued.

Hao Ren drove, saying, “This is the Tangia Federation, the Americans have almost no power here; this is my turf, why should we fear?”

“You say that now, but if you managed to bring the US pressure on Tangia Federation, I bet your country would definitely hand me over.”

“How dare they?! You are my teacher, the one who brought investment and wealth to Tangia Federation.”

Seeing Hao Ren’s still innocent nature, Du Qiu was somewhat moved but admonished, “I built the industrial park here hoping to use this as a base, not to be driven around by others. Listen to me, don’t call me by my real name; just treat me as Li Shennan. Everything can wait until we have enough strength. Then, you can openly call me by my real name.”

Hao Ren nodded and said, “I will listen to you, master. By the way, can I keep calling you master? I’ll just say I’m learning management from you.”

Du Qiu shook his head and said, “That’s up to you, but perhaps it’s better to wait a little later, at least until people feel we are more familiar, then you can call me that. After all, we’ve only met recently; there has to be a process. Also, where are you taking me?”

“Come with me, I’ll take you to a good place.”

The off-road vehicle drove south from Dar es Salaam City for about sixty kilometers, around a section of mountain road. Suddenly, a vast valley opened up before them, with a sparkling lake in the far west.

“What a beautiful view here!”

In the valley, at the foot of the large mountain on the north side, there was a complex of Tang-style buildings from the 60s and 70s.

“It’s nice, isn’t it? The most important thing is, this place used to be a military factory with its own power plant.”

Du Qiu was surprised and asked, “What do you mean? Is this entire area for my industrial park?”

“You’re so clever, you guessed it right away.”

“No flattery!” As Du Qiu looked out the car window at the approaching factory buildings, it reminded him of those third-line base factories in Tang Country.

“All this space, with existing factory buildings, just sold to me?”

Du Qiu was still a bit incredulous; the place was practically a small town.

He asked again, “Is this place still operational? How many people work and live here?”

“Not a single soul!”

Du Qiu immediately disbelieved, exclaiming, “How is that possible? Such a large area, and you just left it vacant? What about all the workers and their families?”

“They moved to the suburbs of Dar es Salaam. This place was not completely empty; a military unit was stationed here, using it as a military training base.”

“Your father really threw in a lot, giving me such a good base.”

“What’s the big deal? You paid for it.”

Thanks to “Wuji2016” for the alliance leader reward! I won’t forget the additional chapter!