Chapter 16: Ambassador Mr.

  The interrogation of Hashib continued until after five in the morning. Laim ordered that Hashib be kept in solitary confinement, with no one allowed to approach him. Now Hashib was his trump card for subjugating Orldton, and he couldn't afford even a slight slip-up.

  Laim got up after sleeping for less than three hours.

  "Ah, awakened by the telephone bell, Ambassador Orton said: 'General Lyme, thank God I've finally found you, I was looking for you all day yesterday.'"

  "Yesterday was busy." Laim said calmly.

  "Really, I saw the battle report, one day eliminating more than 600 terrorists. You're an intelligence officer, how did you become a combatant and achieve such great results? When did you become so fierce?"

  "Bad luck. Got shot."

  Laim thought, and indeed it was luck that the arms dealer Oulton arrived just in time, it was time for him to make a contribution to China. Yesterday, while hanging out with Allen, Laim had an idea, he himself crossed over into the American CIA, but his previous life became a vegetative state, this was okay, the problem was, the case under Zhao Changsha's name had become a dead end, leaving behind such a tail, it was too unscrupulous to be human. If the case was settled, whether he crossed over or became a vegetative state would no longer matter.

  At first, the National Security Bureau wanted Zhao Changsha to complete this case and then retire because it was a little-known case. Since the late 1980s, when Western countries imposed an arms embargo on China, China's defense industry had no choice but to rely on itself for development. Self-reliance sounds good, but in reality, it is extremely difficult. The West has undergone industrial revolutions earlier and has strong technological capabilities. Although China has a civilization of several thousand years, its feudal agricultural society, which faces the earth and backs the sky, is not glorious. Technological development is not just about using hoes to cultivate land; saying "self-reliance" does not produce results overnight. It requires taking one step at a time, pursuing progress over a hundred or two hundred years. To bridge this gap, China must adopt a strategy of rapid and unscrupulous development, including stealing and robbing. The US and the Soviet Union stole many scientists from Germany in the past, the Eight-Nation Alliance stole more national treasures from China, and Japan stole countless things from China.

  It's not excessive to steal some stuff from the West now. Of course, we need to be a bit more sophisticated in our "stealing" techniques. As the saying goes: there is an art to stealing. That's probably what it means.

  Zhao Changsha was handling a case that required some "theft".

  The case code name is "Thief".

  The "stolen" is a new material engine, also known as the positron drive engine. It captures space antimatter as fuel and can be applied to aviation, aerospace, and navigation. It is the most advanced new material energy engine in the world today. More than 20 scientists from the US, UK, and Israel participated in its development. The success of this technology will trigger a revolution in the field of new energy. Humanity's flight to Mars is no longer an unattainable dream. With only tens of milligrams of antimatter fuel, a positron drive spaceship can send humans to Mars in just one or two days. If applied to military use, it would be unimaginable. A high-ranking official from the Pentagon once watched a demonstration at the research lab and was shocked to the point of almost fainting because a few grams of antimatter bombs could destroy the entire Earth. The US and UK have classified this project as top-secret national security information, strictly prohibiting its spread and disclosure.

  This approach has sparked controversy among scientists.

  This scientist advocated for the demilitarization of antimatter technology and suggested submitting this technology to the United Nations to form a resolution, benefiting all humanity, belonging to all humanity, and not being monopolized by a few countries. Zhao Changsha got in touch with this scientist through various channels, but just as this scientist was willing to hand over relevant research and development data and technical materials to China, the intermediary contact disappeared, and this scientist also lost contact, and it is unknown whether he is dead or alive, and there has been no news for several years. Zhao Changsha only knew that this scientist's code name was "Ta Shu", and a arms dealer named Coleman was also related to this matter. He searched for possible clues in the complex broken line, but unexpectedly, he crossed over.

  Laim has the responsibility of taking Zhao Changsha's unfinished "thief" business to the end.

  This anti-matter technology has been researched since 2006, but in 2003, only a few people proposed this research direction and it did not attract the attention of the US government. In other words, the construction of this "rotten tail building" had not yet begun. He wanted to use this time difference to find that Coleman as soon as possible, find his uncle, and thus avoid his uncle's disappearance.

  He even thought it would be better if he could bring his uncle back to China.

  Ellen's father Ambassador Alton may have a connection to this lead, as Alton has a large number of American businessmen backing him, and Coleman is among them.

  Laim knew what Alton was getting at and said, "Ambassador, look where we're talking."

  "Blue Moon Coffee Bar."

  The Blue Moon Coffee Shop was a new establishment in the Green Zone, just near the US Embassy in Iraq. Although Iraq had become an American domain, outside of the Green Zone, roadside bombs and terrorist attacks still occurred frequently, and no American dared to venture out of the heavily fortified area. Ten minutes later, both Lem and Alton arrived at the Blue Moon almost simultaneously and found a private room to sit down.

  Here is the translation:

  Orton was forty-six years old, with a receding hairline and not much brown hair combed neatly in place. His brown eyes gleamed with some murkiness and greed. Being appointed as an ambassador abroad was still Orton's first time in his life; he wasn't from a diplomatic background but rather a former arms dealer who operated three arms sales companies in the United States. The previous US Ambassador to Iraq had been recalled by President Bush due to anti-war sentiments, leaving the position vacant. Due to the severe security situation in Iraq and Saddam's downfall, there was basically no diplomacy to speak of after that, and career diplomats were unwilling to take on the role of US Ambassador to Iraq. Orton initially showed little interest in the position but changed his mind at a dinner party one evening.

  It was a banquet gathering of arms giants, and the situation in Iraq was the main topic of this banquet. Because Iraq is at war, as long as there is war, arms dealers can make a fortune. The arms giants are most afraid that this world will be peaceful, without the smoke of war, there will be no source of wealth. They studied the situation in Iraq and believed that Iraq was the best place to sell arms, with a constant flow of arms into Iraq, which would not arouse suspicion from any national government, thinking it was the need for the Iraqi battlefield. As long as the arms entered Iraq, they could flow to all parts of the world through Iraq. Using the Iraq war to smuggle arms sales became a consensus among the giants, and they chose Alden as their agent.

  So Alton gladly accepted the post of Ambassador to Iraq.

  Alton arrived in Iraq in April to take up his new post and quickly hit it off with Lame. He found that Lame was also a greedy man. According to the agreement between the giants, he could get 10% of the profit for each arms deal, but after Lame joined, he asked for 15% of the profit, but he had to accept Lame's terms. Lame was in charge of intelligence work and had connections with financial tycoons, white gangs, anti-government organizations, and even drug trafficking groups around the world, holding a vast network of arms clients in his hands, opening up a vast source of wealth for him. In just a few months, the conventional weapons sold through Lame's channels exceeded $12 billion.

  He was trying to get his hands on Laim's arms client network, but Laim's CIA identity made him wary and unable to make a move. At the same time, he felt threatened by something elusive about Laim. So, he had his daughter Imani approach him, but the silly girl didn't seem to have any effect.

  Orton was nervous.

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