Everyone's Shooting AKs, So Why Are You Giving Me a Loitering Munition?

Lin Zhou followed his retired uncle to work as a security guard at an industrial park in Africa. He had planned to patrol and stand watch, earn a good salary, and build a house for his family. But just after he got off the plane, he awakened the "Future Warfare Military Industry System."

He had been told he would be directing traffic, but on the first day, the System's sign-in reward was a micro reconnaissance drone and precision-guided rockets! The foreign desert was rife with danger, with bandits and roaming armed groups running rampant. While the local security company was still exchanging fire with outdated AKs, Lin Zhou already had access to technology and firepower from a whole new era.

An enemy convoy of armed pickup trucks had just charged to within five kilometers of the perimeter when the intelligent swarm of drones Lin Zhou sent up locked onto every target. Working with individual cloudburst rocket launchers, they carried out a precise strike as if performing surgery. His uncle stared in shock as his nephew tapped away on a tablet and the enemies fell in droves.

The System did more than provide traditional heavy firepower to satisfy his fear of insufficient firepower. It also unlocked cutting-edge equipment such as satellite thermal imaging, loitering munition arrays, and electromagnetic interference devices. As Lin Zhou wired large sums of money back home, he upgraded the small industrial park's security into an iron fortress equipped with an intelligent defense system.

He was pulling in twenty thousand dollars a month with ease. Six months later, Lin Zhou founded his own security company, made his uncle vice president, and sent every former coworker from back home abroad as a "high-tech security guard." When an international mercenary army launched an all-out assault on the base, hundreds of suicide drones rose into the night sky, while Lin Zhou shouldered an anti-tank missile launcher on the ground. A combination of traditional and futuristic firepower made the enemy understand what it meant to be crushed by a vastly superior force.

The world suddenly discovered that the industrial park in the Middle East, the safest one of its kind, had a level of defense that surpassed that of the regular armies of most countries.