A live stream of someone hand-making a giant white robot attracted the attention of the government,

Outside, the world was in chaos, but inside the Qiming-1 laboratory, it was eerily quiet.

The chaos in the backend continued, with the technical team's shouts and keyboard clicks creating a jumbled mess, but all of this noise was automatically muted by Bai Che's brain.

He closed the live stream background and couldn't be bothered to look at the panel that was refreshing his influence like an avalanche.

At this moment, his consciousness was completely immersed in a deep blue light—a magnificent universe composed of countless intricately interlocking structures.

Arc reactor.

This thing is much more troublesome than the "Qiming-1" battery.

If battery technology is a university textbook, then this artificial sun is a Library of Congress that needs to be built from the ground up.

Palladium core cold fusion catalysis model, superconducting magnet confinement algorithm for tokamak devices, energy output matrix...

Behind each of these terms lies an industrial system that is at least a hundred years ahead of the rest of the world.

It smells delicious, but it makes me bald.

As Bai Che felt the overwhelming amount of knowledge in his mind, which was so vast it was almost despairing, he began to question the meaning of life for the first time.

This system is trying to force me down the dead end of being a tech geek and an infrastructure fanatic.

He pulled himself out of his chaotic thoughts and refocused his gaze.

Not far away, Su Wanqing was standing in front of the control panel, a few strands of her beautiful hair were messy and stuck to her slightly sweaty cheeks.

She was speaking at breakneck speed into the earpiece of an Alibaba Cloud expert.

"I disagree with emergency capacity expansion! Your entry point has been breached, not that your capacity is insufficient! Immediately grant us the highest physical layer access, and we'll write our own traffic offloading protocol!"

"Don't give me that rule-based explanation. The biggest security problem right now is that hundreds of millions of people can't even open a crappy website!"

That decisive and ruthless queen-like aura made the technicians next to her not dare to breathe.

Bai Che crossed his arms and admired the "Battlefield Rose" painting, feeling that this was the most exciting version of Su Wanqing.

He walked over unsteadily.

Su Wanqing sensed his approach, ended the call, ripped off the earpiece, and turned around. Her phoenix eyes were bloodshot and filled with suppressed anger.

"What is it now, my hands-off manager?"

Her voice was almost hoarse; she was clearly at her limit, and her tone was chilling.

Bai Che didn't care at all. He raised his hand and pointed to the ceiling of the laboratory, which was covered with pipes.

Then, his finger slowly pointed to the concrete ground beneath his feet.

Su Wanqing was taken aback by his riddle.

"What do you mean?"

Her mind was completely occupied with servers and user complaints; she really didn't have time to play Pictionary.

Bai Che withdrew his hand, put it in his pocket, and looked serious.

"I'm thinking that we might have to move our next project to a different location."

"One... it has to be dug at least fifty meters underground, with independent earthquake resistance, the kind that can withstand an earthquake of magnitude eight."

Su Wanqing's mind went blank with a buzz.

Bai Che didn't give her time to react and continued talking in a casual tone.

"For power supply, we need a dedicated military power line, along with a backup diesel generator set. Oh, and the cooling system needs to be adequate too; it needs to be able to dissipate heat during peak electricity usage in a small town."

"Also, shielding. Both the physical and signal layers must be completely isolated; not a single electromagnetic wave can leak out or be detected from the outside."

Fifty meters underground?

Military power supply?

Small-town-level heat dissipation?

Complete signal shielding?

Su Wanqing's proud CEO brain was truly overwhelmed this time; the CPU was hissing and smoking, and it completely crashed.

Her bloodshot phoenix eyes widened as she stared blankly at Bai Che, completely unable to reconcile the image of this lazy young man with the terrifying words he uttered.

What is this going to do?

Are they building an underground military base? Or are they planning to dig a hole and bury themselves?

Bai Che looked at her blank expression, which seemed to be a mix of "Are you crazy?" and "I'm hallucinating," and helplessly shrugged.

On that handsome face, that familiar, slightly innocent smile from Versailles reappeared.

He leaned a little closer, lowered his voice, and whispered something in her ear in a tone that suggested, "I'm helpless too."

"Senior, broaden your perspective."

"Our lab seems... a bit too small."

boom!

This statement had a greater impact than the website crashing, slamming into Su Wanqing's nearly burnt-out CPU.

It's gotten smaller again?

This Qiming-1 laboratory, spanning over a thousand square meters and boasting top-of-the-line facilities in China, was simply looked down upon by him.

From a power bank to the need for underground nuclear shelters... just how many technological advancements have been skipped in between?

Su, a cool and aloof senior student and an all-around CEO, felt for the first time that her intelligence and cognition were being repeatedly rubbed into the ground by this man in an incomprehensible way.

I would really appreciate it!

Just as she was completely petrified and her worldview was about to collapse, Bai Che straightened up and took out the encrypted satellite phone in front of her.

Su Wanqing asked a question subconsciously.

"What...are you doing?"

"Call for help!"

Without turning his head, Bai Che tapped the screen with his finger and dialed the number he had only used once.

The call was answered instantly.

The voice that came through the receiver was steady yet tired, but also trembling with excitement.

"Comrade Bai Che! I've been looking for you! Do you know that you...you..."

Li Jianguo was so excited that he was almost incoherent.

Bai Che wasn't interested in hearing compliments, nor did he bother to ask what kind of commotion was happening outside.

He interrupted the other person directly and got straight to the point.

"Representative Li, please make this brief."

"I need a new laboratory."

Li Jianguo on the other end of the phone was clearly taken aback.

"No problem! What level of support do you need? The government will approve it! Do you need more equipment, or...?"

"No."

Bai Che interrupted him again, walked to the window, looked at the city shrouded in night, and clearly stated his request in a tone as if discussing tomorrow's weather.

"I need to discuss a cooperation agreement with the government regarding new infrastructure."