Chapter 347: Meeting Again

"A mechanical Warrior calling himself 'Frenzy' appeared near the Longhan Hydropower Station five minutes ago!"

This piece of news appeared on Major General Chen Zhongyuan's desk in less than six minutes.

Although he was somewhat displeased that the other party had not honored the prior agreement to report in advance via the radio channel specially reserved by the Chinese side before entering the country's borders, Chen Zhongyuan still immediately requested the Air Force to dispatch a Y-8 military transport aircraft, boarding it to fly toward Guangxi, where the Longhan Hydropower Station was located.

There was no help for it; he could not afford not to take it seriously.

After a classified meeting half a month ago, Chen Zhongyuan, who had only just been hastily appointed as the person in charge of 'Project 4728' a few days prior, was reappointed as the person in charge of the Lop Nur Military Base, and the original 'Project 4728' was thoroughly hidden from the surface into the underground.

Now, a state-level veteran had personally taken on the role of person in charge of 'Project 4728', and Chen Zhongyuan, who appeared to have been demoted, had also been informed by his old superior that, barring any accidents, his military rank would be raised again at the next promotion ceremony.

From this small glimpse, one could see the importance the country now placed on that extraterrestrial visitor who called himself 'Frenzy'.

However, Chen Zhongyuan was not an ordinary person after all; the Lop Nur Military Base was established by the Chinese side to facilitate contact and trade with that Frenzy, and as the person in charge of this military base, Chen Zhongyuan was very clear about the astonishing changes the country had undergone in the past month or so.

Not to mention other things, let's just talk about the changes at the military strategic level.

As everyone knows, the world's five permanent members of the United Nations hold terrifying influence in the UN and even in the global political arena.

This unique status was born from a specific period, but as time passed after the end of World War II, it was not as if no countries had tried to change this situation.

But what were the results?

Even China, which had the least influence among the five permanent members and had even once lost its voice, now had an unshakable status in the United Nations.

There was only one reason why this could be so: the five permanent members possessed strategic weapons that could determine the fate of Earth—nuclear weapons.

It was not only the five permanent members on Earth that had mastered nuclear weapon manufacturing, but why were only the five permanent members able to coerce the world and be scolded behind their backs as the five major ruffians?

Because what was the use of just knowing how to manufacture them? You also had to master intercontinental Missile manufacturing technology and develop a nuclear strike capability consisting of land-based, air-space, and sea-based platforms, ensuring that when your own interests were damaged or the country was invaded, you could throw the nuclear weapons you manufactured into the homes of those who hit you.

On this point, besides the five permanent members, only three countries on Earth—India, Pakistan, and Israel—barely mastered limited nuclear strike and counter-strike capabilities, but the gap compared to the five major ruffians remained obvious.

Even so, this still allowed India, Pakistan, and Israel to hold a certain amount of influence in regional affairs and on the international stage.

Setting aside other things for now, there were many reasons why China had the lowest influence among the five major ruffians.

There were historical legacies, racial discrimination, and economic strength; of course, the most important reason was actually that the nuclear strike and counter-strike capabilities possessed by China were generally not valued by countries around the world.

Land-based was fine; as one of the world's few missile powers, China had always possessed a land-based nuclear counter-strike capability second only to the United States and Russia.

However, air-space and sea-based nuclear counter-strike capabilities had always been China's shortcomings.

The lack of large strategic Bombers hindered China's air-space nuclear counter-strike strategy, and China's deficiencies in military aircraft, especially in the field of propulsion, were obvious; if there were no external force involved, it was estimated that it would take another twenty or thirty years of groping by the Chinese side alone to see a glimmer of hope.

The same was true for sea-based; the Founding Father once had great ambitions and shouted the ambition that "Nuclear submarines, even if it takes ten thousand years, must be built," and China's military industrial workers indeed worked hard to achieve it.

But after all, too much had been lost in modern times; after China's nuclear submarines were built, they were still riddled with problems, and the severity was no better than the lack in the air-space field.

China's self-made nuclear submarines were noisy, had poor propulsion, backward technology, and insufficient nuclear counter-strike capabilities, and they could never shoulder the heavy responsibility of defending the sovereignty of 9.6 million square kilometers of territory and more than 3 million square kilometers of maritime territory like the nuclear submarine fleets of the United States and Russia.

This difficult, long-standing problem was only thoroughly improved after the last visit of Frenzy, when the Chinese side obtained from him a large amount of new technology upgraded and improved based on Russian nuclear submarine technology.

One month was enough for the country's military experts to verify and confirm the advancement and reliability of the technology they had obtained.

Chen Zhongyuan knew that a Type 094 strategic nuclear submarine that had just started construction somewhere had already been halted, and the modification and verification plan based on the Type 094 was being redesigned; barring any accidents, a brand-new Type 094 Modified would be launched by the beginning of the year after next.

He even heard rumors that the higher-ups seemed to be tempted by Frenzy's assistance to Russia in building nuclear submarines, and there were bigwigs in the Navy who were desperately lobbying the higher-ups to introduce this type of cooperation as well.

Although some bigwigs worried that this kind of cooperation carried a significant risk of leaking military secrets, if used well, it might not be impossible to raise China's strategic nuclear counter-strike capability by a notch in a very short time with the minimum cost.

Therefore, no matter how much dissatisfaction Chen Zhongyuan had with Frenzy for not keeping his promise, as the person in charge specifically responsible for contacting the other party on the Chinese side, he had to arrive at the Longhan Hydropower Station in the shortest possible time.

Fortunately, ever since the Chinese side decided to use the Longhan Hydropower Station as a bargaining chip, they had done a lot of things in the past month or so.

This included not only moving away the nearby residents on a large scale but also building several simple military bases around the Longhan Hydropower Station.

The Y-8 that Chen Zhongyuan took could fly directly to Longhan; after three hours of bumping, the transport aircraft carried him and successfully landed in a military base temporarily named 'Red River No. 1', where he finally saw the extraterrestrial visitor who had not been in contact with the Chinese side for more than a month.

"You... are you Lord Frenzy?"

Although he had already learned in advance from the reports received that this mechanical life form calling itself 'Frenzy' that had suddenly appeared near the Longhan Hydropower Station this time had a body that had strangely expanded by nearly double from the original three meters or so.

However, when Chen Zhongyuan personally arrived at the Longhan Hydropower Station and saw Sun Cheng, who was quietly waiting for his arrival inside the 'Red River No. 1' military base, the shock and suspicion on his face still could not be concealed.

"Hello, General Chen Zhongyuan!"

Sun Cheng, who had been waiting until he was somewhat impatient, tried very hard to maintain a friendly appearance on the surface.

Although he knew better than anyone that the ferocious face of his New Body was even worse than his original Frenzy Body.

It could only be said that the genes belonging to the Decepticon had long since been branded into the deepest part of his Core.