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

Cascaded amplification?

Energy resonance?

crazy!

"Bai Gong, listen to me, this is no joke!" Qin Bing's voice rose with excitement as he pointed to the complex model on the screen. "Once energy resonance is formed, its destructive power increases exponentially! This carbon nanotube array you designed is a perfect resonant cavity! It won't strip away graphene; it will simply wipe this Kunlun base beneath our feet off the map!"

This is an ironclad rule! It's a lesson learned at the cost of countless scientists' lives!

"Old Qin," Bai Che pointed to his temple, "their simulations are based on energy conduction in a two-dimensional plane. But they didn't take time into account."

He held up two fingers.

"When energy is focused from a three-dimensional array to a single point in a fraction of a second, the resonance doesn't have time to form before it's overwritten and reshaped by the next pulse waveform. Storms aren't meant to destroy houses; they're meant to... peel the bark off trees."

Qin Bing was stunned.

"I disagree! This is jeopardizing the security of the entire base!"

"Trust me," Bai Che uttered three words, his eyes devoid of any emotion.

He looked at Su Wanqing standing to the side.

Without the slightest hesitation, Su Wanqing picked up the encrypted phone on the table and dialed Li Jianguo directly.

"Minister Li, it's me, Su Wanqing." Her voice was clear and firm. "Bai Che has found the final solution and needs to conduct one last experiment. The experiment carries unknown risks, so he has requested that the site be cleared and that a liability waiver be signed, in which he will personally bear all consequences."

There was a full ten seconds of silence on the other end of the phone.

"...Give it to him." Li Jianguo only said three words before hanging up the phone.

Qin Bing stared blankly at the two young people. One was a madman, and the other was a woman even madder than a madman.

……

As the heavy isolation door of the laboratory slowly closed, Su Wanqing did not leave.

She stood in front of the explosion-proof glass of the observation room, quietly watching the busy figure inside.

Wang Tao called.

"Sister-in-law! We found out! The ones putting pressure on Minister Li this time are those old academics from the 'China-Science and Technology Union,' led by Academician Yang Weiguo, the top name in China for traditional nuclear energy and alloy materials. They submitted a joint report saying that Brother Bai's 'all-carbon-based' plan is a pipe dream and a waste of national resources, demanding that the project be immediately terminated and the funds and personnel transferred to them to work on 'fourth-generation nuclear fission.'"

"Yang Weiguo..." she murmured the name. "I understand. Prepare a file for all the core members of 'China Science Union,' including their academic achievements, project funding sources, and... the overseas assets of their children and relatives."

Wang Tao on the other end of the phone shuddered.

He knew that President Su was truly angry.

"Okay...okay, sister-in-law!"

After hanging up the phone, Su Wanqing looked up at the red countdown on the isolation door.

[01 day: 06 hours: 32 minutes]

This is the deadline by which the project will be forcibly terminated.

Her heart ached terribly.

Inside, he risked everything for the future of the country, while outside, someone wanted to stab him in the back.

……

The S1 laboratory was completely silent.

Bai Che stood in front of the brand-new experimental platform.

This time, there was no longer a lone carbon rod inside the reaction chamber.

Surrounding it are millions of carbon nanotubes, almost invisible to the naked eye, forming a perfect, mathematically beautiful black sunflower. These are the "power banks" that Bai Che mentioned.

Bai Che's fingers danced rapidly across the console, injecting line after line of brand-new code into the system.

[Pulse waveform: Asymmetric cosine function.]

[Energy gradient: logarithmic spiral.]

[Focus time: 3.14 picoseconds.]

Each parameter is beyond the scope of current human understanding of physics.

Qin Bing and several other senior researchers who were reluctant to leave stared intently at the monitor screen, their palms sweating profusely.

Bai Che took a deep breath, his gaze falling on the red virtual button in the center of the screen, and gently pressed it.

There was no earth-shattering noise.

There was no earth-shattering explosion.

"Buzz—"

A faint, yet strangely persistent hum, seemingly from the dawn of the universe, resonated deep within everyone's soul.

The lights in the laboratory were no longer as dim as before.

In that instant, everyone had a strange feeling—the whole world seemed to have been stripped of all sound and color, leaving only a single, pure white light emanating from the reaction chamber.

The white light lasted for less than a nanosecond before it vanished.

Everything returned to silence.

It was as if nothing had happened.

Failed?

This was the first thought that popped into everyone's mind.

Bai Che remained silent.

He donned a heavy radiation suit and walked step by step toward the cooled-down reaction chamber. The robotic arm slowly opened the chamber door, revealing the scene inside.

The special carbon rod that served as the "eye of the storm" remained intact.

But on its surface, it seems... there's nothing there.

"Sigh..." Qin Bing sighed deeply, as if all her strength had been drained away.

As expected, it failed. The miracle did not happen.

However, Bai Che extended the clamp of the mechanical arm and, with an almost pilgrimage-like gentleness, carefully... "peeled" off a layer from the surface of the carbon rod.

It was a substance as thin as a cicada's wing, almost completely transparent.

Under the illumination of a searchlight, it reflects a strange, iridescent rainbow of light, and a perfect hexagonal lattice structure, visible to the naked eye, emerges on its surface.

It floated quietly in the weak electrostatic field of the clamp, like a snowflake that did not belong to this dimension, light, pure, and flawless.

It's breathtakingly beautiful.

"This...this is..." Qin Bing rushed to the explosion-proof glass, staring intently at the thin film, her whole body trembling violently.

"Quickly! Get high-precision spectral analysis done! Quickly!"

Without him saying anything, the data had already appeared on the main screen.

[Material composition: Carbon (C)]

[Structure: Single-atom-layer hexagonal lattice]

Purity: 99.99999%

Defect rate: 0.00001%

When that series of data, which challenged the limits of the instrument's precision, popped up, the entire control room fell into a deathly silence.

Several elderly academicians with white hair seemed to have all their strength drained away, slumping into their chairs, tears welling up instantly in their cloudy old eyes.

They have spent their entire lives pursuing this "perfect material" that only exists in theory.

And today, a twenty-year-old young man... tore it off like peeling off a piece of cling film.

[Ding! Congratulations, host, you have successfully created 'God's building blocks'!]

[Completion rate of the mission "All-Carbon-Based Revolution": 30%]

[Interim reward distribution: "God's Building Blocks" - Carbon-based Material Application Blueprint Package (Basic Level), has been stored in system space.]

In my mind, the system's notification sound was both cold and pleasant.

Bai Che ignored it.

He controlled the robotic arm and gently placed the graphene, which carries the future of humanity, onto the sample stage.

The isolation door slowly opened.

Su Wanqing was the first to rush in, her eyes red-rimmed. She ran to Bai Che, wanting to say something, but her throat seemed to be blocked, and she couldn't utter a single word.

She saw his extremely tired face and his frighteningly bright eyes.

"We...we succeeded." Su Wanqing's voice trembled slightly. "Bai Che, we can...we don't have to worry about the deadline anymore..."

Bai Che smiled.

He reached out and gently wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes, then turned around, his gaze sweeping over everyone and landing on the cold countdown on the wall.

[01 day: 04 hours: 12 minutes]

His voice wasn't loud, but it reached everyone's ears clearly.

"the term?"

He picked up the walkie-talkie, his tone as indifferent as if he were asking about the weather today.

"Please receive Minister Li."

"Comrade Bai Che! It's a success?!" Li Jianguo's joyful voice rang out.

Bai Che looked at the perfect graphene, a lazy yet extremely contemptuous smile curving his lips.

"Minister Li, please convey my message to Academician Yang Weiguo and the others."

"The seven-day deadline they gave us is too long."

"I only needed one day."