My Stunning Beauty Special Agent Wife

Chapter 1340: Chapter 1338: Face and Technology

Upon hearing the commotion inside, Ye Xin quickly rushed in.

Professor Qian was clad in a special uniform... with plumes of black smoke rising from it.

Seeing Ye Xin, Professor Qian couldn’t help but grin.

Sss...

Water sprayed from the ceiling, showering Professor Qian.

To ensure the safety of his experiments, Professor Qian installed a set of smart safety equipment at home.

Detecting small smoke beyond the range of cigarette smoke, the intelligent protective system immediately activated, spraying water on Professor Qian.

Pfft!

Professor Qian was instantly drenched like a soaked chicken.

Ye Xin looked helpless, amused yet exasperated, and said, "Professor! How can you conduct experiments at home! The conditions aren’t comparable to a laboratory, just in case of an accident, you might blow up the entire villa area!"

Professor Qian shut down the system, wiped his face, and said, "It’s fine, I know what I’m doing, just making a protective suit, nothing dangerous. It’s just that I can’t sit idle at home, so I found something to do."

Ye Xin felt quite helpless.

"Have you eaten? I’ll go make you some food." Ye Xin walked into the kitchen.

Professor Qian went upstairs to change clothes.

Ye Xin’s cooking skills aren’t as good as Yang Chen’s, but simple meals he can still make.

Before long, Ye Xin cooked a few small dishes using some vegetables from the fridge.

The two sat down to eat.

While eating, Professor Qian asked, "How did the mission go?"

"It was alright." Ye Xin responded casually.

"What do you mean alright? Was it successful or not? I told you to let me handle logistics for you, but you insisted not to. Now I don’t know what the situation is, and you still won’t tell me." Professor Qian sounded a bit complaining.

Ye Xin smiled helplessly, looked at Professor Qian, and said, "Professor, Yang Chen was leading the team on this mission, not me. I was just tagging along for the fun of it."

Professor Qian scoffed, "Yang Chen is indeed capable, but if we’re talking about intelligence and logistics work, who can surpass us? I just don’t believe it!"

Ye Xin laughed, "Then you must know about the task situation, why are you even asking me?"

"Uh..." Professor Qian was at a loss for words.

Seeing Professor Qian scratching his head in frustration, Ye Xin didn’t want to tease him further, so he said, "There were some issues on site, someone escaped, but they paid a price as well. I think someone will come looking for you to develop things in the next few days, right?"

"That’s right." Professor Qian nodded, "Someone came to me, asking to reverse-engineer some warship and other ship-borne weapons. I refused."

Saying that, Professor Qian looked at Ye Xin in surprise, "You guys didn’t have a hand in this, did you?"

Ye Xin smiled and nodded.

"You’ve made it big! You’re really big!" Professor Qian seemed very excited, "Not just warship technology, but also ship-borne weapon technology, this is enough to break through many technological barriers!"

Others might not catch the bitterness in this statement, but Professor Qian certainly felt it deeply.

What is Flame Country most lacking?

Technology!

Flame Country’s tech development started late, many high-end technologies are unobtainable, coupled with technological embargoes, high-end technologies can’t flow to Flame Country, causing a technology gap that’s hard to bridge.

There was once an occasion Professor Qian remembers very clearly.

He went abroad with a leader to visit foreign warships, those foreigners were so arrogant, they didn’t even regard them, not even a Junior Guard would show them any respect.

But for the sake of the country’s development, they had to endure these harsh guards and meticulously observe their weapons.

When observing a ship-mounted cannon, a Guard even blocked the leader, not allowing him to see.

Professor Qian was very angry at the time, but he saw the leader standing on tiptoe, trying to look inside, with a face hungry for knowledge.

That scene, he will never forget.

Upon returning, Professor Qian asked him: Why didn’t we leave when those foreigners treated us this way?

The leader told him: What we need is not face, but development and technology!

In the face of a power gap, face is insignificant; what’s important is technology and development!

Once you have strong technological capabilities and a rapidly developing national backing, then people will respect you. Without strength, it’s impossible to maintain face.

That’s why Ye Xin told Professor Qian the warship was their doing, and he got so excited.

This is merit, great merit indeed!

"And then what? Did the leadership say anything when you let someone escape?" Professor Qian pursued.

Ye Xin shook his head.

With Professor Qian’s understanding of Ye Xin, he knew nothing good was likely.

He immediately raged: "How can it be like this! This clearly was a significant achievement, how can it be like this? Things have a hierarchy, not everything requires 100% certainty!"

Ye Xin explained, "Perhaps they worry about the risk of parasites."

Professor Qian fell silent.

After a long pause, Professor Qian said, "Don’t you plan to rebuild your department?"

Ye Xin shook his head, "I’m not preparing to. Even if I wanted to rebuild, Yang Chen wouldn’t agree. He’s seen the recent events, and doesn’t want me taking risks anymore."

"That’s understandable." Professor Qian nodded, "You really shouldn’t continue taking risks. I also want you to stop doing such dangerous work. After all, not everything can be 100% certain. However... lately, tasks from the spy agency haven’t been easy to complete, you might not find it easy to take a break either!"

Ye Xin smiled, "Professor, do you think they can force me to do something?"

Professor Qian shook his head, "I know they can’t, but I’m just worried you might have to agree to their demands someday."

Ye Xin fell silent.

"Have some porridge." Ye Xin smiled, serving porridge to Professor Qian.

Professor Qian took the porridge, and said, "Since you have no plans to rebuild your department, keep Sun Yue around. She’s a good girl, can help you in many ways. Besides, with Yang Chen’s status, he can afford her salary. Additionally, those two, Wang Piaoliang and Little Fairy, if you want to keep them, keep them. If not, find them a suitable unit. After all, they both have been doing well..."

Now that Professor Qian is retired, the relationships he can find are all with some old folks. He can’t find top leadership because of this, so he can only arrange for Ye Xin to do it.

Now with the status and position of the Ye family, it will be much easier for Ye Xin to do these things.

"Don’t worry, I’ll arrange it." Ye Xin nodded.

Now Ye Xin’s department has basically stopped operating, although hasn’t formally proposed retirement, everyone is quite aware, and higher-ups won’t assign her tasks.

As long as it’s her subordinates, if she doesn’t speak out, no one dares to reassign them.

If things are truly confirmed, Ye Xin won’t delay them and will give them a good path.