Defense Giant: From Bankrupt Company to Global Hegemon

“Mr. Lin, this is your final warning. If you can't provide a quantum shield prototype plan that meets the Global Security Convention within three days, Xingchen Defense will be sealed and liquidated!”

Beyond the office's glass curtain wall, the neon lights of New Chang'an reflected in Lin Shen's bloodshot eyes. His father's disastrous legacy after jumping to his death, just 800,000 yuan in liquid assets left in the company's accounts, and Blackwater Group cutting off the supply of key components... The place once hailed as the “cradle of security technology” was now an empty shell, its rooms filled with calls from creditors.

“Put me through to Su Li.” Lin Shen tightened his grip on the yellowed research notebook. It had belonged to his father's most prized engineer, a prodigy said to be able to “calculate a missile's trajectory with a formula,” but confined to a basement lab by a rare blood disease.

The moment the call connected, a piercing alarm suddenly rang out. On the surveillance feed, Zhao Tiancheng, CEO of Blackwater Group, kicked down the laboratory door with his lawyers. His fleshy finger pointed at the blueprints on Su Li's desk. “Hand over the quantum shield's core parameters, and I'll give you triple your current salary!”

Su Li's pale face flushed red. She hurriedly stuffed a USB drive into the insulated food jar Lin Shen had brought her. “This is... my energy-circulation design, revised seventeen times. Whether we survive depends on it!”

Clutching the food jar, still warm to the touch, Lin Shen looked at the two messages that appeared on his phone at the same time:

Military liaison Ye Bing: “I hear you have anti-drone system technology. We urgently need it at the border. Name your terms.”

The story gets even better in the novel...