Chapter 129

They hired the DWS platform to intervene officially.

Regarding this, the Syrian side did not hesitate in the slightest.

They immediately transferred ten million as an appearance fee; after all, months of contact between the two parties had already established deep trust.

The Syrian side never worried that the DWS platform would take money without acting.

After all, to date, the transaction volume between the two parties had already exceeded three billion US dollars.

This was even more than what the Syrian side had promised when they first contacted Lin Yi.

At this moment, inside the underground works, the Syrian President and his Lady waited anxiously.

They knew that if the Ugly Nation's airstrikes were not curbed soon, Syria's interior might face problems due to collapsing morale.

"Will they come?" the Syrian President's beautiful Lady asked.

"They will, my dear. Behind DWS stands the Dragon Nation; the people of the Dragon Nation value credibility above all. Believe me!" the Syrian President said.

The Syrian President spoke.

"Mm, if we can drive out the Ugly Nation's aggressors in the future, we must properly thank the Dragon Nation!" the Lady said.

"Of course. I have already decided that if Syria can be rebuilt in the future, we will invite people from the Dragon Nation to help,

and then comprehensively learn the Dragon Nation's cultural system!"

Speaking to this point, the Syrian President paused briefly before continuing:

"This nation possesses a long history. They once had a glorious past, only declining in modern times.

Yet the people of the Dragon Nation are filled with resilience; even in the most perilous moments, they can be reborn from the ashes, just like an immortal phoenix.

Although rebirth entails the pain of being burned by fierce flames, once reborn, it can emit an even brighter light.

I am filled with admiration for this people!"

Then, he said:

"In the future, I will find someone to teach me Chinese, and I will take you, my dear, to the Dragon Nation together to personally thank those there who supported us. I believe that time is not far off!"

(Damn it)

"Mm, I also believe that Syria, like the Dragon Nation of old, will be reborn from the ashes!"

The President's Lady, deeply loved by the Syrian people, who had appeared at the front lines many times and was hailed as the "Desert Rose," said.

At this moment, high above Syria, the Ugly Nation's fighter jets were still rampaging.

They attacked military facilities and also struck civilian communities in Damascus.

They did not even spare some cultural relics with long histories.

"Haha, damn Syrian bastards, eat my big f**king missile!"

A Ugly Nation pilot flying an F/A-18E/F shouted arrogantly.

However, at that very moment, a missile suddenly surged toward him.

Without any chance to react, he and the fighter jet beneath him turned into a ball of fire.

Approximately two hundred kilometers away,

a fighter jet painted gray, featuring a distinct lift-body strake canard layout and brimming with industrial civilization design,

was flying at extreme speed over Syria.

This J-20 was cruising over Syria at a speed of at least Mach 2.

Inside the aircraft sat a figure clad in a green flight suit, wearing a dedicated holographic helmet.

That's right! The one who had suddenly appeared on the Syrian battlefield was Lin Yi.

However, unlike his real self, the Lin Yi currently in the plane was merely a holographic projection.

Yet, miraculously, he could easily control every action of the J-20 beneath him with his hands.

It felt as though he truly existed there.

It gave the complete sensation of a virtual reality game.

All five senses, including touch and smell, could be perceived through this projected form.

The reason he could appear on the Syrian battlefield was naturally due to the system's "Combat Simulation" function.

As the host, he could purchase fighter jets and tanks from the system to operate remotely.

This time, Lin Yi had utilized this function, arriving in Syria via hyperspace transfer.

Of course, his intervention did not come for free.

Syria had paid him an appearance fee of ten million US dollars.

The J-20 beneath his feet was a 2020 model; purchasing it within the system cost six million US dollars.

This was even more expensive than the F-22 available in the system.

This was mainly because the J-20 possessed superior capabilities in various aspects, with many equipment features the F-22 lacked.

The reason international data showed the F-22's manufacturing cost to be higher than Long Country's J-20

was due to the high labor costs in the Ugly Country and the markups by arms dealers.

Long Country saved significantly in these areas, but in terms of actual material costs, the J-20 was in fact higher than the F-22.

Adding the five thousand US dollars for hyperspace teleportation,

along with the carried missiles, Lin Yi's expenditure for this mission was considerable.

However, what excited him most was

that as long as the host wished, he could fly indefinitely over Syrian skies.

Of course, this would naturally not be free.

The system would automatically deduct funds from Lin Yi's overseas account to cover replenishment costs for ammunition and energy.

Furthermore, the system explained

that any weapon destroyed under the Combat Simulation function would leave no wreckage behind.

The system would instantly retrieve the debris.

Knowing all this, how could Lin Yi possibly worry about entering the Syrian battlefield?

In truth, he had been eager to try it out for quite some time.

After all, during this period, he didn't know how many times he had piloted various aircraft models like the J-20, F-22, F-35, and Su-57 in virtual reality.

In these realistic combat simulations,

he had died no fewer than several hundred times,

but the benefit was that after dying so often, he had grown accustomed to it.

Additionally, through these numerous deaths, he had gained an intimate knowledge of all types of fighter jets.

This was especially true for fifth-generation fighters like the J-20, F-22, F-35, and Su-57.

According to the system's time ratio between virtual reality and the outside world of 12:1,

his actual flight time had far exceeded 5,000 hours.

The vast majority of ace pilots fell far short of this amount of flight time.

Not to mention that every time, Lin Yi fought against a system AI with reaction speeds far surpassing those of humans,

dying more than ten times each day.

This was something no pilot, no matter how skilled, could ever experience.

Unless there was a massive disparity between the aircraft models, Lin Yi rarely managed to defeat the system AI.

This was because the system AI could always execute the most reasonable maneuvers at the optimal moment.

This was something humans simply could not achieve when facing danger.

Returning to reality,

Lin Yi, piloting this J-20, suddenly appeared on the Syrian battlefield.

Its equipped active phased array radar immediately detected numerous fighter jets in the Syrian airspace.

However, within a range of 200 kilometers, let alone older F/A-18E/F fighters,

even the F-22 stealth fighter, equipped with the AN/APG-77 active phased array radar—a product from the 1990s with a total power output reaching 20 kilowatts—

had an actual aerial target detection range of only 200 kilometers,

whereas the J-20, with its larger nose cone, carried a larger radar with a power output reaching 44 kilowatts.

— Author's Notes —

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