My dream connects to three thousand years later.

Chapter 122 Energy and Materials: Storage of Matter
Startled, Chu Zhu got up, stretched, and walked to the window. Before he could even open it, he saw the unfinished technical documents on the table.

Chu Zhu: "..."

What a cruel reality!

It gave him an urge to return to the dream world right now.

Patting his cheeks, Chu Zhu forced himself to cheer up, slumped down, and continued writing.

Chu Zhu wrote until seven o'clock, then went out for breakfast, did some chores, and finally went to class.

Chu Zhu sadly discovered that attending classes now could actually be considered a form of relaxation for him.

However, after two classes, Chu Zhu ultimately decided to continue copying what she needed to copy during class... There was no other way, time was really tight!

……

At noon.

Chu Zhu walked straight out of the classroom and prepared to go find the principal.

"Bamboo, Ah Zhu!" Lin Xia called out as she chased after him.

He took a couple of breaths, looked at Chu Zhu who had stopped, and said directly, "Well, yesterday I looked up the steps for applying for a company, and then I suddenly thought of something."

"Hmm, what's the company's name? What's its main business? And, the equity... I don't want it for now! It's all yours. The other registered capital and stuff, you can leave that to me!"

Chu Zhu shook his head. "It's not that. Even close brothers should keep clear accounts. What's due to you will be given to you. Besides, if I don't give you anything and just make you work for me, I find it hard to believe you'll run the company well... I know what you mean, but people's passion isn't limitless! And even if you're willing, it will cause trouble for your aunt and uncle in the future!"

Seeing that Lin Xia was about to object, Chu Zhu immediately added, "If you're really worried, you can add an extra clause when we sign the final agreement—that the shares will be returned to me unconditionally if I need them..."

"That's settled then!" Lin Xia immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

"As for the name... C, let's call it C Machinery Co., Ltd." Chu Zhu said carefully. After all, this was the name in his dream... and he could roughly guess why it was this name—

I guess it was extracted from the first letter of one's own surname?
As for why this is the case, it is probably inspired by Company Z—Z is the first letter of the pinyin of Zhao Shao's surname "Zhao".

"As for the scope of business, machinery manufacturing? Batteries? Radio transmission? Basically, it's engineering. Didn't you already look at some of the technical data before?"

"I still need to confirm!" Lin Xia quickly made a note, writing as she spoke, "By the way, I've made plans to have lunch with some senior students from related majors... Do you want to come along?"

After thinking for a moment, Chu Zhu shook her head. "No! I have something to discuss with the principal."

Chu Zhu felt that Lin Xia was probably just meeting some ordinary senior students... It wasn't that Chu Zhu looked down on Lin Xia, but the resources she had were right there!

Even when Chu Zhu contacted a genius like Zhao Shao, she did it through Professor Chen's connections! Lin Xia probably only has some money left from stock trading?

Moreover, this money is currently difficult to access.

In this situation, finding the right person is incredibly difficult! The only option is to gradually build up the connection. Compared to Lin Xia's approach, Chu Zhu prefers to find the key points and then fast-forward.

"I see! Then let's part ways here." Lin Xia thought for a moment, nodded, and then complained, "Speaking of which, I finally understand why the record you gave me said that if possible, shorting the stock market today... could make a lot of money! However, I didn't dare to try it this time."

On the one hand, Lin Xia didn't know how to short sell, and on the other hand, he was unwilling and dared not—the bald eagle's stock market guru once said, "No one can make money by shorting their own country!"
Not to mention, Chu Zhu's situation is quite sensitive.

Chu Zhu nodded slightly, saying nothing. He had never traded stocks before, so what could he say? What did he know? He could only relay information that even he himself barely understood!
"By the way, how's the song going?" Chu Zhu suddenly remembered something. According to the future records, it seems it was only released in July? And then it became a huge hit?

He was a little puzzled as to why Lin Xia had to wait until then.

"Let's save money first! After all, Douyin (TikTok) also costs money to promote it." Lin Xia counted on her fingers. "In addition, I also need to find some streamers or bloggers in the early stages and pay them to make similar videos! To increase your popularity... However, the quality of your song is there. As long as it becomes popular in the early stages, there will naturally be a lot of people trying to ride on its popularity later! At that time, it won't be me paying money, but others paying us copyright fees."

"So, according to plan, we'll release the song, just a little push," Lin Xia said confidently, then her expression turned awkward.

"Besides that, I also contacted some music companies! But, after glancing at the contracts they brought me, they were all outrageous... They kept saying that the copyright to all the songs you write in the future would belong to them! So I didn't plan to show them to you..."

"You can release it a little earlier!" Chu Zhu stroked his chin thoughtfully. "Actually, the cost of promoting the song might be much less than you think."

He recalled that the promotion took place in July and quickly became a hit.

He doesn't rule out the possibility of operational costs, but the problem is, if it becomes a hit in less than a month, how far can it go with further operations?

"You mean..." Lin Xia's pupils contracted, realizing that Chu Zhu might have seen something in his dream.

He forcibly suppressed the urge to press further, took two deep breaths, and nodded cautiously. "Alright, I'll contact you this afternoon! Since you've already decided, then you can sign some Douyin agreements... and some music software agreements... You won't need to find a company; you can just become a freelance musician!"

Watching Lin Xia leave, Chu Zhu stood there for a moment, then took another step. As he walked, he took out his phone and sent a WeChat message to Li Quanyuan, "Principal Li, are you at school now? Shall we have lunch together? I have something to discuss with you!"

Almost instantly, Li Quanyuan replied: "If not at school, where else could it be?"

"But it's really strange. I always thought you didn't like hanging out with us middle-aged and elderly people. By the way, you contacted me, it can't be for some other reason, right?"

Although Li Quanyuan hadn't interacted much with Chu Zhu, he was a shrewd and experienced man who had already roughly figured out Chu Zhu's personality...

He was also very curious about what kind of family environment and upbringing could create such a "unique" personality.

He can't be called a bad person... but he can't be called a good person either!
On the surface, it may seem that they are somewhat profit-driven? However, in essence, they do not seem to value profit that much.

Although they are in school and in society, there is a strange sense of being detached from school and society.

It's like he only symbolically pursues what ordinary people strive for, and doesn't really care at all. How can there be such a person?

Of course, that's why Li Quanyuan doesn't actually dislike Chu Zhu... He's just a profit-driven person, and he'll only do official business and ultimately gain some political achievements.

"Don't worry, even if something happens this time, it will be a good thing!" Chu Zhu's voice was steady and sincere.

"You little rascal!" Li Quanyuan was both amused and exasperated. There was still something going on, wasn't there?

"Come to the teachers' dining area in the third canteen. I'll be waiting for you here! You know the exact location, right? If not, contact me when you get here!"

……

Teachers' canteen area.

"Kid, the food is ready. I specially picked out some dishes that young people like! I hope it suits your taste." Li Quanyuan pointed to the plate opposite him as he saw Chu Zhu stride towards him.

Several teachers were also eating nearby. Upon seeing this scene, their expressions varied, and they were all astonished. Who was this student? So brazen as to have the principal serve him food? And it seemed the principal was even paying?
However, they didn't say much, at most glancing at it a couple of times before lowering their heads to eat again. As for discussing what exactly was going on here—

Who would dare to chatter in front of the principal? At least wait until the principal has finished eating and left before talking.

"I'm fine with anything!" Chu Zhu sat down directly opposite Li Quanyuan, casually pulled a stack of papers from her backpack, and pushed them toward Li Quanyuan.

"I looked it up online and found out that you're also an academician! And you're an engineer... specializing in aerodynamics!"

"?" Li Quanyuan's face twisted for a moment, staring intently at Chu Zhu, he hesitated several times as if he wanted to say something but then stopped.

No, you're only finding out now?!
Besides, even if you just found out, couldn't you at least pretend to be polite and say you've heard so much about me? I'm not going to deliberately nitpick or cause you trouble in this regard!
You really are...

shook his head.

"what is this?"

Li Quanyuan casually flipped through two pages, then his eye twitched. It was a research paper?

And this name—

Storage of Energy and Materials

"?" Li Quanyuan fell into deep thought.

Chu Zhu then started eating. What he pushed over was certainly not the technical data on Alisu lithium batteries!
This is the source of technical information for Alisu lithium batteries – Xinghai Detailed Explanation, specifically a paper related to energy batteries.

This was something Chu Zhu just rushed out this morning.

Chu Zhu naturally dared not write a complete explanation of the Star Sea and release it to the public, but he was willing to work on the scattered papers piece by piece within the organization.

Extraterrestrial civilizations, or the Golden Dawn, aren't something you can just destroy by encountering a scientist—

Otherwise, let alone what reaction China would have, even the United States probably wouldn't tolerate him!
"No, you're really writing a paper... Shouldn't you write one about physical fitness, how to train to your level, or maybe a paper on music?" Li Quanyuan closed the paper. He wasn't angry, or rather, after talking with Chu Zhu several times, he felt that if he kept getting angry, he would probably shorten his lifespan by a few years.

In response, Chu Zhu simply stated, "This paper internally records three new material synthesis methods! It also proposes a mathematical model for optimizing existing battery structures..."

"Even simply transferring these materials to existing batteries and optimizing their structure would be enough to increase their energy density by 1.5 times!"

Alisu lithium batteries are revolutionary! They directly increase the energy density of batteries to one-sixth that of gasoline—doesn't that sound like a big deal? Still far inferior to gasoline?
The key issue is that the energy density of lithium iron phosphate batteries currently on the market is only one eighty-first of that of gasoline!

Advanced and expensive ternary lithium batteries have an energy density that is only one-fifty-fifth that of gasoline.

A major automaker plans to launch a fully solid-state lithium battery this year with an energy density that is only one thirty-seventh that of gasoline!

Compared to them, Alisu batteries can be described as "terrifyingly bad".

In this situation, during the initial exploratory and trial-and-error period of communication with Li Quanyuan, there was absolutely no need for him to bring out Alisu's battery technology data as his trump card.

More than enough for one paper!

Li Quanyuan fell into a brief moment of thought, then narrowed his eyes and spoke in an enigmatic tone.

"Kid, I really don't want to question you... but, this career change you've taken is a bit too far."

To avoid upsetting Chu Zhu, Li Quanyuan carefully chose his words and said tactfully, "Otherwise, you could just be a great musician or a rising star in sports. That would actually bring honor to the school! There's really no need for these attention-seeking stunts."

"I knew you wouldn't believe me!" Chu Zhu showed no sign of anger... or conversely, if Li Quanyuan nodded directly without any doubt, that would be strange to him.

After casually shoveling a couple of bites of rice, Chu Zhu asked, "Principal Li, do you know Zhao Shao?"

"...I know him! I was the one who approved his request for the school's support." Li Quanyuan's eyelids twitched, and he earnestly advised, "Perhaps this senior has caused you some misunderstanding, but he is truly capable!"

"I've talked to him... He's really quite different from you!"

"People are different. Whether your talent lies in scientific research or not... you are already very outstanding! You need to learn to accept your weaknesses and strengths! Then, follow your talents and do what you're good at..."

In response, Chu Zhu immediately took out her phone, pressed the speakerphone button, and then dialed Zhao Shao's phone number.

(End of this chapter)