Rebirth 07: Start adding points from elementary school students

When the button was really pressed down, it was a little harder than a normal button, and there was a not-so-crisp click.

For a moment, Lei Kong was distracted and wanted to blame the button designer for not doing a good job of this final face-saving project.

Everyone is focused and busy processing the data at hand - even though they don't need to be so busy now...

This is not something that can be manipulated in real time to change parameters.

No one had the opportunity to look directly at the reactor - whether it was operating successfully could not be judged by looking at the reactor, so the top leaders lacked the means to intuitively understand the progress of the project.

It actually provides a good reason for everyone to be busy.

Report situations promptly and accurately.

But... Li Yan is sitting next to the big boss. Is it their turn to report the progress?
While thinking, Li Yan spoke:
“It’s heating up.”

There was a moment of silence in the audience.

"It's started. At 100 million degrees, we'll be able to observe fusion reactions soon."

Li Yan looked so relaxed, as if she was explaining the situation to visitors who didn't understand the situation.

It was out of tune with the tense atmosphere at the scene.

Lei Kong was very nervous.

Who isn’t nervous? Even big bosses are nervous.

Just kidding, this will go down in history as a great page in human history.

Controlled nuclear fusion is endless for the current scale of human survival.

On a smaller scale, this thing is a truly new energy source that can directly reduce the cost of electricity to almost zero; on a larger scale, the mastery of controlled nuclear fusion represents a huge leap forward in the amount of energy that humans can control. Many things that were only imaginable before are beginning to have a realistic framework, and the research direction of science fiction also has new support.

Humankind has been waiting for new technological advances for a long time. It is difficult to make breakthroughs in theory, and practical applications lack exciting things.

The burning of controlled nuclear fusion is the hope for a new world.

Everyone standing in the control room today, from Li Yan to the top leaders, to Lei Kong, and to all the researchers, are standing in front of the future.

At this moment, they are ahead of the whole world and ahead of all mankind.

I’ve waited too long... Lei Kong just had this feeling in his mind, but he immediately retracted it.

A little weird.

Originally, you said that China relied on this climb up the technology tree to become the master of the world, so there is nothing wrong with expressing your feelings.

The problem is that you are already the director of the world.

I still have to rely on Li Yan, who is frowning and looking at something unknown.

"Don't be nervous, everyone," the big boss said, "Whether we succeed or fail, we are already standing on a high platform leading the world!"

The whole audience applauded.

Lei Kong glanced at Li Yan and found that he was still thinking with a motionless expression.

"Tritium recovery is successful, and the recovery system is operating normally!"

"The plasma is currently in a stable state."

"The circulating water cooling system is in operation!"

He had heard these words once before at the test pile, but when Lei Kong heard them again, his heart was still stirred up in waves.

"I never get tired of listening to it. This is my lifelong pursuit after all."

As he was thinking about it, his attention was drawn to the magnetohydrodynamic generator again.

The current operating condition is perfect. After completing this cycle and resting and adjusting, it is time to start the ultimate test.

How much electricity can this thing generate...

"Start the magnetohydrodynamic generator set."

no? !
Except for the senior leader who didn't know the details, everyone else present was surprised.

"Li Yan, there was no problem with the ignition test just now, but does it need to be adjusted?"

"That wasn't a test." Li Yan said, "I checked it. There's no problem now. Why adjust it? Just connect it directly."

If I had to say...it's actually not a problem.

Why does it surprise everyone?
Perhaps it was because Li Yan remained calm in the face of such a major event.

It's too inconsistent.

"How many units should I pick up first?"

"All five groups will take over." Li Yan said.

The whole audience was in an uproar again.

“……”Lei Kong swallowed his saliva.

He also wanted to stop and check the magnetic fluid, reconfirm the interface operation, and then make a set to test the waters.

There wouldn't be much difference if five groups came together, but what if... what if something collapsed, it would be like the collapse of the world.

just in case?

He looked at Li Yan again. It seemed that he had never seen the slightest bit of uncertainty in this person's eyes.

What if this word didn't exist in Li Yan's expectations?

Although he was nominally in charge, he actually had no say in the control room today.

So, everyone followed Li Yan's instructions and connected five generators at the same time.

The already nervous crowd became even more nervous.

"The interface is normal!"

"Unit 2 is connected normally!"

"All crews have completed intervention..."

"The power of Unit 4 is steadily increasing..."

Now everyone was really busy. Numbers kept jumping on the screen in front of them, and they needed to quickly read the actual operating conditions from them.

"Unit 1 is fully loaded!"

"Number two is full too!"

"Synchronization, all synchronization."

"All units are fully loaded!"

"The power generation has reached the expected level and has achieved self-circulation! Leader!" The deputy leader of the research team shouted while turning around with an irrepressible smile, "We, we succeeded! We did it!"

It is difficult to define the reaction of the crowd at this moment as a single moment.

Almost everyone felt a mixture of relief and excitement.

They were cheering, clapping, crying and jumping.

But at the same time, they were also sighing, sitting down, observing, and working.

Many people hugged each other, while many others just stared blankly with their lips pursed.

At the moment of true success, my heart feels empty.

A huge sense of accomplishment swallowed up all other emotions, making everyone feel dazed for a moment.

Lei Kong closed his eyes and endured it for a long time before he could talk to the leader without crying.

"Leader, from what we can see so far, we have succeeded."

The big boss smiled and patted him on the shoulder, "Thank you for your hard work."

Lei Kong was about to salute the real protagonist, but was stopped by the big leader with a light wave of his hand.

Only then did he notice that Li Yan, who should have been thrown to heaven for gratitude by everyone, was still sitting in his seat in silence.

There was a senior leader standing nearby, and no one else came over here.

What the boss meant just now was clearly "don't disturb".

Yes, Li Yan seemed to have been lost in thought for a long time.

He just frowned slightly, staring at the...what? I don't know.

Li Yan was actually looking at the control room’s...ceiling?

Nothing?
Lei Kong was stunned, and even his ecstasy was suppressed.

How could Li Yan be in a daze at such an important moment, such a historic moment?
The "Zhurong" nuclear fusion reactor is roaring, and high-energy plasma is releasing the purest energy.

The person who created all this is just staring into space in the control room?

Standing there was not a good idea. The leader's entourage was about to step forward to give him a warning, but something unexpected happened.

Li Yan suddenly slammed the table hard and stood up with a "swoosh".

The force of this slap and the speed of his rise were so great that everyone present was shocked.

Even the senior leaders who were used to big scenes were shocked and their hearts were in turmoil.

Afterwards, everyone saw that Li Yan, who had a blank expression on his face even when he managed to achieve controlled nuclear fusion, suddenly showed an ecstatic expression, and the next moment he covered his face and burst into tears.

This is even more frightening. Nothing is more precious than Li Yan. If anything happens to him, it would be a catastrophe that would devastate the world.

The big boss leaned in and asked, "What's wrong, Li Yan?"

what happened?
I have come into contact with the truth of this world!
If it weren't for the consideration that there were other people present, Li Yan would even want to run naked!

He was filled with completely uncontrollable ecstasy and excitement that seemed to be bursting through his head.

Li Yan felt something was wrong the moment Lei Kong pressed the button.

Logically speaking, he couldn't "see" the situation in the reaction room, and all the information could only be obtained from the data on the screen.

But he clearly felt that when the superconducting coil started up and the equipment heated up rapidly, the world in front of him changed a little bit.

He instantly dismissed this feeling as a "psychological influence".

Because logically, it's impossible.

The magnetic force of the superconducting coils is exaggerated, yes; heating to a temperature of 100 million degrees Celsius is exaggerated, yes; but they can directly affect Li Yan's observable world in the control room, so there must be a problem.

However, as the nuclear fusion reaction occurred, the abnormality felt by Li Yan became clearer.

He even felt that he saw the Cherenkov blue light. How is this possible? !
Li Yan even felt that the space in front of him had some strange distortion and vibration.

It's subtle, but it's there.

【Ding】

Unexpectedly, Li Yan's skills were upgraded.

[Body +1, Level 11 skill, total ]

What the hell? Is it because I was so focused on catching things that I usually overlooked that my brain power exceeded the limit?

Eh? Brainpower...

When the staff on site started the five magnetohydrodynamic generator sets as he requested, Li Yan once again felt the changes in the world.

Even when he was facing the empty void of the control room, he seemed to see something that was difficult to describe in words.

It seemed to be a strange distortion of space, or some turbulence similar to gas or even particles? He even saw void turbulence.

With his current perception, he really couldn't interpret these things as psychological effects.

It’s also hard to see anything as “wrong” with your feelings.

Then there is only one possibility.

As his abilities improved, he was able to capture things that normal humans could not.

So, overclocking.

Yes, when Academician Lei Kong saw the dazed Li Yan, this guy actually started overclocking his brain in front of everyone.

Li Yan only wanted to do one thing, to grasp that damn feeling of incongruity just now, cut it open, and see what it was.

In the moment he overclocked, he felt disconnected from the world.

Although this feeling has always been present in overclocking before, it is even more so today.

In almost an instant, he deconstructed everything in front of him.

Those ghostly existences that seemed to exist but were not yet there are now gradually becoming clearer.

There was a condition in the middle where Li Yan thought she had floaters.

Until everything in front of you turns into a freely flowing stream of energy.

They are so wonderful and complex, interlacing up and down, rotating left and right, some distort the space, some affect the light - no, light is just a part of them.

Li Yan saw a flow of something he didn't know what to call it, let's call it energy units. They were not particles, nor were they light beams. They switched freely between multiple states, and clearly followed special rules.

Li Yan saw countless crystallizations of human wisdom in it, and also saw phenomena that humans can only "observe".

Turbulence appears from time to time at the end of the energy torrent and then quickly dissipates.

To put it more romantically, it's like Van Gogh's Starry Night.

Soon, Li Yan understood the meaning of these things——

They are the embodiment of the flow of energy.

The strange sense of disharmony that Li Yan felt was the impact of the nuclear fusion reactor on these energy flows.

He captured the subtlety of that moment, and used this sense of incongruity to tear open the curtain and glimpse another picture of the operation of the universe.

He knew that overclocking couldn't be sustained for too long.

But the breathtaking picture before my eyes is so fascinating.

It is clearly a very natural and unrestrained state, yet it is full of the beauty of logic and mathematics.

It's just like nature, with exquisite mathematical logic everywhere.

The same is true for living things...

As she thought and thought, Li Yan's somewhat overwhelmed mind suddenly had a flash of inspiration.

If we could study some rules from these flowing energy flows, what level would it be?

Is it a revision of the crystallization of human wisdom, or is it to create a new top of the existing knowledge pyramid of mankind, or is it to directly lead mankind into a new era of knowledge?
What if it is combined with the new knowledge system that Li Yan is constructing?

New cognition, new knowledge system, a perfect combination.

The moment he realized these things, the system gave him another outrageous surprise.

【Ding】

[Physics +5, Mathematics +5, Chemistry +4, Biology +3, ...]

It was like a key that completely connected Li Yan's own knowledge system with existing human knowledge. His skill levels in various subjects suddenly took a step up, and Li Yan's brain was electrified like crazy.

He really couldn't control his emotions. A burst of ecstasy from the bottom of his heart completely shattered his rationality and helped him to break free from the overclocked state.

How long has it been since I last felt this way? How long has it been!
If there's any ultimate answer to the meaning of life, this is it!

Li Yan's surging emotions almost swallowed him up, so much so that he had to slam the table hard to wake himself up.

It was not until the big boss's concerned question came again that Li Yan felt a little dazed and returned to the real world.

"It's okay, leader. I just want to say that today will definitely be a day that will be remembered in history."

"Yes," the leader nodded, although he couldn't understand why Li Yan's excitement was so delayed, but it was a good thing after all, "Before yesterday, after today, the world will be very different."

"I will lead mankind into a new era."

No one over-interpreted this sentence. In their eyes, Li Yan, who was also excited about the completion of controlled nuclear fusion, became more approachable, and that was enough.

Soon, a group of cheering people surrounded Li Yan and walked out of the control room, preparing for a simple but meaningful celebration.

Lei Kong stayed in the control room temporarily to carry out the follow-up finishing work of the reactor shutdown. He looked at Li Yan's back with tears in his eyes.

Then I felt the weird bulge on the console.

That was the palm print left by Li Yan's slap just now.

On a steel plate hard enough to withstand the impact of the hammer.

Even the greatest writer could not describe Lei Kong's feelings at this moment. (End of this chapter)