Naming Technique of the Night

Chapter 1153: Chapter 679: Swimming Upstream

In the T101 military base located north of City 10, the massive Qing Shan Air Fortress is undergoing a comprehensive overhaul.

The black fortress is quietly docked on the ground, surrounded by tall maintenance platforms, resembling the dense scaffolding outside building walls during construction.

Thousands of maintenance engineers are busy on the platforms, maneuvering giant mechanical arms to dismantle the already scrapped parts of the Qing Shan and replace them with new ones.

Additionally, hundreds of engineers are inspecting the systems and codes of the Qing Shan, trying to derive future improvement plans for the Aerial Fortress from the last battle’s data.

The battle at Taboo Land No. 002 left the Qing Shan in a state of complete combat damage.

The anti-gravity device and reactor, after operating at overload, both require maintenance; the larger and more precise the machine, the more cautious the approach must be.

Now, just repairing its outer armor costs astronomical numbers.

In warfare, when evenly matched, it’s about who has more money.

Although Li Changqing left the Chen’s Fleet reeling for a whole year in this operation, the Li Family also paid a corresponding price.

At this moment, Li Changqing, dressed in military uniform with a lieutenant general’s rank, is seated in the command center of the military base.

She silently peruses the intelligence sent back by the Red Sparrow Organization, and two entries catch her attention.

The first is the discovery of foreign individuals within the Northern Jindai territories, but so far, the aircraft they used to cross the Forbidden Sea has not been located.

The Forbidden Sea can indeed be crossed; although ships cannot pass through, there is no hindrance in the sky.

Even in the Outer World, transoceanic flights take around 13 hours non-stop.

Previously, people from the West Coast also came to the Federation, initially welcomed, but later it was discovered that those who came were all engaged in espionage, resulting in a cessation of interactions.

All those spies were sentenced to life imprisonment and harshly interrogated for information about the West Coast, eventually revealing plans to colonize the Federation by opening a new continent there.

Although the distance of the Forbidden Sea can be crossed, it is not suitable for combat.

It should be noted that the flight radius of a fighter jet is about 8000 kilometers.

This time, the West Coast Kingdom sent people intending to find an island at sea as a forward transit base.

Airships and fighter jets will complete resupply at this advance base before flying into Federation airspace.

Since then, the Federation has always considered the West Coast people’s entry into this land as provocation, deploying radar bases along coastal areas for 24/7 monitoring.

And now, for foreigners to appear in the north, they must have flown in, and the fact that the Federal Group Army under Jindai had no prior radar warning indicates that Jindai opened its doors to the West Coast’s forces!

Li Changqing furrowed her brows; this is not good news. It seems the West Coast has already found a forward base at sea.

The second piece of intelligence is that internal conflict broke out in City 5, and although it was quelled that evening, the action to overthrow the Family Head failed; yet, the Family Head remains in their cabin on Ginkgo Mountain, unmoving.

This leaves Li Changqing puzzled; what exactly is the Qing Clan House Master planning, to treat such a severe provocation as if nothing happened?

Indeed, what the Qing Clan House Master intends to do has always been a mystery to all factions.

Previous Family Heads maintained a balance between the Shadow and various factions, where the Shadow countered the factions and vice versa, while the Family Head controlled the overall situation.

The dynastic rulers on Ginkgo Mountain have wielded their imperial strategies to keep everyone in their grasp.

But this current Family Head, Qing Xun, has not done so, allowing the Shadow forces and various factions to fight among themselves without interference, regardless of which side gained the upper hand.

It’s as if none of this concerns them.

In family infighting, the beneficiaries are always outsiders, and over the years, the Qing’s Family factions have continuously exchanged interests with other conglomerates to counter the Shadow, much like Qing Wen’s mother Qing Yun transferring core technology this time, perhaps it won’t be long before they deplete their resources.

In doing so, it harms the family’s interests significantly.

Yet the Family Head remains uninvolved, with intervening to stop Qing Yun from exchanging the Aerial Fortress technology being the first time the Qing Clan House Master took action in over a decade.

The House Master quietly watches the impending collapse from their small cabin.

At this moment, a combat staff officer entered with an intelligence report. Li Changqing glanced at the emblem on the report; it was information from Li’s Secretariat, labeled S-Class:

This evening, a young man named Ji Guanya visited the half-mountain estate in City 18 and had a 20-minute private talk with Li Yunshou.

Ji Guanya is originally a Time Traveler under Li Family, directly reporting to Li Changqing.

Li Yunshou, presently being the Master of Li Family, naturally wouldn’t meet Ji Guanya without going through Li Changqing.

The Li Family values internal order, so Li Yunshou dislikes anyone circumventing the hierarchy to meet him.

This isn’t Li Yunshou being arrogant, but ensuring a stable power structure in a vast conglomerate; if Li Changqing’s subordinates could freely bypass her to meet him, it would undermine her authority, leading to the collapse of the Li Family’s foundational structure.

As the master of Bao Pu Lodge, Li Yunshou has been influenced by his father for decades, witnessing him manage everything systematically, thereby learning countless lessons.