National Technology: Xuannv Takes to the Sky, Astonishing the Aerospace Experts

Jiang Li is reborn in the year he graduates from the National University of Science and Technology. With a Scientific Research Reputation System, he retreats to an underground base in an abandoned mining district of Sucheng and spends a year in seclusion completing the prototype of the Xuannv drone for the Nantianmen Project. On launch day, Xuannv rockets into low Earth orbit faster than the Shenzhou-37 rocket. Its design is years ahead of its time: a hollow triangular fuselage, forward-swept wings, and an inductive force-field drive.

At the Sucheng Aerospace Launch Center, Elder Li has just finished celebrating the successful docking of a supply module when Zhou Guogang, the Minister of State Security, rushes in clutching an encrypted laptop. “An unidentified aircraft has appeared over Sucheng. It's faster than a rocket and can evade tracking by every satellite.” Elder Li freezes on the spot. The Shenzhou space station urgently adjusts its observation angle. When the ultra-high-definition footage comes back to Earth, the entire control room falls silent. It's a jet-black unmanned fighter, almost identical in appearance to the concept art for the Nantianmen Project.

With trembling hands, Elder Li calls Elder Xu, the head of the Nantianmen Project. “That plan you showed me six months ago… have you already built it?”

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.