Eagle Sauce: I Was Just Bragging, So Why Are You Actually Building It?

In a National Defense University of Science and Technology lecture hall, the professor pointed at an exaggerated concept illustration from Eagle Sauce and sighed. “The gap is too big. We’ll never catch up.” Shen Yifei silently lowered his head and drew the complete design on his scratch paper. When summer vacation ended, the “model aircraft project” he submitted sent the entire Iron Fist Theater into an uproar. The military region sounded a Level Two alert. When the general rushed into the school, he saw a black, tailless stealth aircraft descending vertically. “Th-this was really built by one person in just two months?” From then on, the military industry had a new ironclad rule: Whatever Eagle Sauce bragged about, Shen Yifei would build. They had just announced a “laser weapon concept,” and his laser cannon had already cut through an armored target. They showed off their “loyal wingman program,” and his Black Phoenix fighter had already won a one-against-forty-eight battle. They were hyping up their “sixth-generation fighter concept art,” and he quietly wrote the project proposal for the “Pan-Domain Sky Fighter.” Then Eagle Sauce held its latest press conference and once again unveiled a “nuclear-powered aerospace fighter from a hundred years in the future.” Looking at those familiar specifications, Shen Yifei finally couldn’t help laughing. His assistant asked in confusion, “Engineer Shen, are we going after this one?” He shook his head and walked deeper into the lab, toward the fighter that had already completed its maiden flight. “They said, ‘If the enemy can come, so can I’... But the enemy never came.”