"A-Date?!"
Hearing Fangzheng's words, Mitsuka's eyes widened in surprise. She stared at Fangzheng, then at the Northmont Sea.
"Hey, you guys, when did you guys become like this?"
"Calm down, Suka."
Compared to the flustered Mitsuka, the Northmont Sea was very calm. She first comforted Mitsuka, then looked at Fangzheng.
"What do you mean?"
"Let's go for a coffee and talk about something."
"That's it?"
"Yeah, a man and a woman going out, isn't that a date?"
Having said that, Fangzheng narrowed his eyes and looked at Mitsui Sui.
"Why don't you come along?"
"Eh? Eh eh eh!!? "
Although she appeared very surprised, Mitsui Suika still went to the coffee shop with Kitayama Xiu after school. There, Fangzheng was already waiting for them.
"Yo, you're here."
Looking at the two, Fangzheng chuckled and waved at them.
"Sit down."
Hearing Fangzheng's words, the two nodded and sat down. Mitsuka looked at Fangzheng, a little embarrassed, then looked at the Northmont Sea. The latter stared at Fangzheng with an unchanged expression and asked.
"What's the matter?"
"It's like this, I was given a troublesome task by the higher-ups."
Fangzheng snapped his fingers, and soon, an attendant brought the drinks and cake to the two girls. At the same time, he said, "Thank you.
At the same time, he said, "You should know about the thesis competition. Because I jointly published a thesis on the generalization of flight magic and the automatic calculation core with Northmont Industries, the school hopes that I can participate in the competition. Although I don't really want to do such a troublesome thing, in the end, I reluctantly agreed. "
"So, you want to work with Father again?"
The Northmont Sea quickly understood what Fangzheng meant, and Fangzheng nodded.
"After all, we have worked together before. This is normal. Besides, you know I'm not interested in those troublesome things."
"That's true … But what topic did you propose this time?"
"How about the practical application of general flying spells?"
"Practical?"
Upon hearing the title that Fangzheng threw out, the Northern Mountain Dragon was stunned.
"But isn't general flying magic already practical?"
After the Battle of the Nine Academies, the military also made a request to Northern Mountain Industries, and Northern Mountain Industries also began to promote their products with the fame of the battle. They divided their products into two categories. The flying skateboard was the primary product for the market, and the second-generation product that Fangzheng modified did not require the skateboard to fly directly with the help of the airflow. However, because it consumed too much magic power, it was changed to a product for high-end Magicians and the military.
"That's just a sample created to prove flight magic. It's like how I created a light bulb to prove that electricity emits light. But we can't use electricity to emit light just because the light bulb emits light."
"That's true … Do you already have an idea?"
"Of course, I'm ready."
As he spoke, Fangzheng took out a data disk. The Northern Mountain Dragon took it, inserted it into his personal terminal, and read it carefully. However, as he read, the Northern Mountain Dragon's expression became more and more strange. After reading the whole plan, she looked at Fangzheng with a complicated look of speechlessness.
"Is this the practical application of flying magic?"
"That's what I said, that's what the title says, and that's what others believe."
Fangzheng spread out his hands, squinted his eyes, and looked at the Northern Mountain Dragon with a grin.
"Isn't that enough?"
"… Indeed, it's enough."
Sensing the look in Mitsui's eyes, the Northern Mountain Dragon nodded and silently changed the topic.
After that, the three of them stopped talking about this issue. Instead, they drank coffee and talked about some interesting things in life. After that, Fangzheng said goodbye and left. After saying goodbye to Mitsuka Mitsui, Kitayama Ki returned home as fast as he could and called his father.
"Father, I have something I want to discuss with you in detail. It's very important."
"Oh? What is it? "
"It's about Harukino. He just came to me and said that he wants to cooperate with Northern Mountain Industries again. The topic this time is the 'practical application of flying magic' he's going to present in the paper competition. "
"Oh? That's a good thing. No problem. I'll tell the R&D department to cooperate fully … Now, I have a meeting to attend … "
"Father."
However, before the Northern Mountain Dragon's father could finish, he was interrupted by the Northern Mountain Dragon.
"I suggest you come back and take a look at Harukino's proposal."
"… Okay."
Although the Northern Mountain Dragon's tone did not change, Northern Mountain Chao seemed to hear something from his daughter's voice. He was silent for a moment, then changed his tone.
"Indeed. No matter what, he's an important partner of ours. Well, wait a minute. I'll arrange some company affairs and then I'll go back immediately."
After a while, Northern Mountain Chao finally returned home. Seeing his father come back, the Northern Mountain Dragon hurriedly stood up. His usually expressionless face seemed to have relaxed a little. In fact, ever since he said goodbye to Fangzheng, the Northern Mountain Dragon had been quite nervous. He felt as if he was not holding a proposal in his hand, but a major secret related to national security.
Although it was true from a certain point of view.
Now that he saw his father, the Northern Mountain Dragon could finally put down the burden in his heart.
As for whether his father would bear this burden, that was his problem.
"Well, where's the document on the 'Practical Use of Universal Flight Magic' you mentioned?"
Of course, Northern Mountain Chao did not know that his daughter had become a black-hearted cotton. He looked at the Northern Mountain Dragon in confusion and asked. He knew his daughter very well. He knew that she was not the kind of person who would speak without thinking, and she was very obedient and sensible. Knowing that he was busy with company affairs, she still insisted on coming back, which showed that the proposal was not ordinary.
"Here it is."
The Northern Mountain Dragon handed over the data disk in his hand. Northern Mountain Chao took the disk, inserted it into the terminal, and opened it to read. At first, his expression seemed a little careless, but halfway through, Northern Mountain Chao's face turned serious. He even got up and walked into the study, then locked himself in the room. After almost two hours, Northern Mountain Chao came out of the study with a solemn face.
"Who has seen this proposal? Where did he give it to you? "
Looking at his daughter, Northern Mountain Chao hurriedly asked. The Northern Mountain Dragon thought for a moment, then answered.
"It was in a coffee shop near the school. Only Suika and I know about this document. I'm the only one who has really seen this document … provided that Harukino didn't show it to anyone else."
"That's good …."
Hearing the Northern Mountain Dragon's answer, Northern Mountain Chao breathed a sigh of relief and smiled bitterly.
"Practical application of flying magic? I can't believe he thought of that. "
"Actually, I'm not wrong. After all, this thing is indeed used for flying …."
After a few hours, the Northern Mountain Dragon finally calmed down. He could finally crack a joke now.
"Well said, but the technology in this …. Are you sure he …."
"I believe Harukino is not the kind of person who speaks without thinking. If he wasn't sure, he would never have given us this proposal, father."
The Northern Mountain Dragon certainly knew why his father showed such a strange expression. It was naturally because of the proposal.
Indeed, Fangzheng hadn't lied to them about the core content of the proposal. It did mention the practical application of flying magic. To put it bluntly, it meant using flying magic to make something fly.
But the problem lied in the thing itself.
It was a … .robot.
It was not that there were no robots in this world, but according to the terminology of this world, they were not called robots or mecha, but "upright tanks". From the name, one could tell that although this thing was humanoid, it did not walk on its feet. Instead, it moved forward like a tank with caterpillar tracks on its feet, and it was equipped with various weapons.
This kind of thing was invented in Eastern Europe and used to sweep away infantry in urban areas.
Therefore, when Fangzheng said that he wanted to use flying magic to verify a flying robot, there was actually no problem with this in itself — it would be strange!
There was a big problem here!!
First of all, how could a robot fly with flying magic? What was the power source? How could it be controlled? How could it be designed? These were almost all new topics, involving many difficult problems, many of which had not even been proposed yet. People in the era of steam power would not think about how to make anti-gravity systems out of boredom, right?
It could even be said that many of the magical engineering problems in this document were no less difficult than the "Three Great Problems of Gravity Magic", but Fangzheng had actually solved all of them …. To be honest, if it was not written by Fangzheng, Northern Mountain Chao would have thought it was some kind of whimsical story.
But now … .it was all true!
Thinking of this, Northern Mountain Chao felt a great deal of pressure. If this thing was really built, even if it was just an experimental machine, he could imagine what it would bring.
And this was what excited Northern Mountain Chao the most!
After that, Northern Mountain Chao left home in a hurry and went to the company again. For Northern Mountain Industries, this was almost the biggest project since its establishment.
In fact, no one knew that this was just a poisonous bait thrown by Fangzheng.
After all, Fangzheng had always been the advocate of giant warships, cannons, and drones. How could he be so bored as to build a Gundam to slap himself in the face? If this was China, then Fangzheng would not have taken out such a stupid robot. He would have directly used the Star Destroyers and drones. But this was Japan, and he had no intention of leaving the good stuff to Japan. So he came up with such a "beautiful" Gundam construction plan.
In fact, this was also Fangzheng's plan.
The technology that Fangzheng had developed was definitely going to be given to his country, but how he was going to give it was a problem. Although he could secretly transmit the technology through Zhou Gongjin, think about it. If the technology that he had just developed suddenly appeared on the other side, unless there was something wrong with his brain, he would definitely think that someone had leaked the secret, right?
So Fangzheng came up with this idea.
First, he made use of the Japanese's "Gundam complex" to build such a prototype. Fangzheng was sure that, with the mentality of the Japanese, once they found such a "powerful and useful" creation, they would definitely increase their investment in it. When the time came, Fangzheng would just have to bluff them again, and Japan would once again embark on the path of militarism. After all, back when Japan launched a sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, they also felt that they were very stable.
If they were given a Gundam, the Japanese military would definitely go all out to get it.
Once Japan decided to increase their investment in the research and development of Gundams, the prototype they built would definitely have a lot of confidential Japanese magic technology in it. So, all Fangzheng had to do was wait for them to finish everything, then steal one and send it back.
It was the same principle as when Jean stole the Gundam.
In this way, even if the other side came up with some kind of technology, Japan would only think that they had reverse engineered it. They would never think that the inventor of the technology was actually a mole sent by the other side ….
But … this act required the other party's cooperation.
(End of this chapter)
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