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

The next morning, at exactly eight o'clock.

The ordinary guards who were originally responsible for security in the corridors surrounding the S1 laboratory have all been replaced.

Instead, a special forces guard, armed to the teeth and with eyes as sharp as eagles, was deployed.

There's a guard every three steps and a sentry every five steps; even a fly has to go through three biometric scans to get in.

The atmosphere inside the control room was even more oppressive.

Because standing in front of that huge floor-to-ceiling window today are not only Li Jianguo and Qin Bing.

There are also several elderly people who have only appeared on CCTV's "News Broadcast".

They wore the simplest Zhongshan suits, their temples were gray, but their posture was ramrod straight.

Their gazes were fixed on the black ring-shaped device in the center of the reaction well below, through the thick explosion-proof glass.

That is the future of the Dragon Kingdom.

"Jianguo, is this what that twenty-year-old kid did?" one of the old men asked in a low voice.

"Yes, sir." Li Jianguo stood tall and straight, his voice booming. "Reporting to the commander, he has been living in the laboratory for a whole month because of this."

The old man nodded slightly, his gaze turning to the young man standing in the center of the control panel.

Today, Bai Che was unusually not wearing his oil-stained work clothes, but instead wearing a clean white lab coat.

He even had a cup of freshly made hot soy milk in his hand.

"Three minutes left."

Bai Che glanced at the mechanical watch on his wrist, took a sip of soy milk, and turned to look at Su Wanqing beside him.

This usually decisive and efficient "ice queen CEO" seemed a bit unusual at this moment.

She gripped the folder tightly in her hand, her knuckles turning slightly white from the force.

Her breathing was a little rapid, her eyes darting back and forth between the data jumping on the screen and the reactor below, and even fine beads of sweat appeared on her forehead.

"President Su."

Bai Che's voice pulled her back from her extreme tension.

"Huh?" Su Wanqing looked up abruptly, a hint of panic in her eyes. "What's wrong? Is there something wrong with the data? Or is it the cooling system...?"

"Don't be afraid."

"Mathematics doesn't lie. If we calculate it ten thousand times, it will succeed ten thousand times."

"Yes. I believe you."

"Attention all units"

Bai Che released his grip, turned to face the control panel, and his voice was broadcast throughout the entire Kunlun base.

"I am Bai Che."

"Final self-test initiated."

"One minute countdown."

At his command, the entire control room instantly sprang into action.

"Cooling circulation pump pressure is normal!"

"Superconductivity of the magnetic confinement coil confirmed; stable at 4.2K temperature!"

"Laser ignition array fully charged!"

"The AI ​​core 'Fuxi' has taken control of the entire system!"

One instruction after another flowed onto the screen in front of Bai Che, turning into the green word "READY".

Behind the control room, the elderly people unconsciously gripped the armrests of their chairs.

This is the first time in human history that an attempt has been made to confine a "sun" using all-carbon-based materials.

Nobody knows if it will explode.

If it explodes, the dream of China's technological leap forward will be shattered.

"five."

"Four."

"three."

"two."

"one."

"ignition."

Bai Che's slender, pale fingers gently tapped the red Enter key.

Om-!

In the center of the reaction well, inside the black carbon-based ring device, a faint blue light suddenly shone.

It was initially only the size of a grain of rice, yet it was ten thousand times more dazzling than the midday sun.

Immediately afterwards, the point of blue light expanded instantly, wildly wandering along the complex magnetic confinement orbit of graphene, transforming into a dazzling band of light that stretched from end to end.

That's plasma.

It is a high-temperature fluid with a temperature of hundreds of millions of degrees, flowing and swirling gently inside a black graphene shell that is a few centimeters thick.

"Output power...10%..."

"20%..."

"50%..."

"It's stable! The magnetic field is stable! There's not a single leak!"

On the screen, the red curve representing energy output climbed wildly at an almost vertical angle, breaking through the upper limit of the chart, and then came to a steady stop on a straight line.

"It's a success..."

Li Jianguo suddenly turned around and gave a standard military salute to the elderly men.

The elderly people stood up, looked down at the dreamlike, ethereal blue halo, and remained silent for a long time.

One of the elderly men reached out his hand tremblingly, as if trying to touch the light from afar.

"God bless China..."

However, just a second before cheers erupted in the control room.

A piercing red alarm suddenly blared.

"Warning! Warning!"

A cold, mechanical synthesized voice abruptly cut off everyone's communication channels. It was "Fuxi".

"High-risk external scanning signal detected!"

"Source: Geostationary orbit, designation USA-245, codename 'Keyhole'."

"This top-tier spy satellite, belonging to the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) of the United States, is changing its orbit! It has detected a burst of neutrino flux leaking from the base and is conducting high-precision thermal imaging and spectral analysis of the S1 region!"

The large screen switched instantly.

A satellite trajectory map showing the satellite passing over the Kunlun Mountains appeared before everyone's eyes. The red dot, representing the highest level of reconnaissance technology in the United States, was firmly hovering above the base.

"broken!"

Li Jianguo's expression changed drastically. "Why did this thing have to pass overhead at this moment? The shielding layer of the S1 base can only block radar and infrared light, not the neutrino burst when the reactor starts up! Now we're completely exposed!"

at the same time.

Across the ocean, Langley, CIA headquarters.

It was late at night.

The once quiet intelligence analysis center suddenly descended into chaos.

"My God! What the hell is this?!"

An analyst stared at the energy reading on the screen that almost pierced the monitor, completely unaware that he had spilled coffee all over himself.

"Is it a nuclear explosion? Are the Chinese conducting a nuclear test there?" the supervisor roared as he rushed over.

"No...it wasn't a nuclear explosion!"

The analyst's fingers flew across the keyboard, pulling up sets of spectral data. "A nuclear explosion is a one-time release, but this...this is continuous! And its energy density is a thousand times higher than any existing fission reactor!"

"High-energy neutrino flux...this characteristic...only appears inside stars!"

"They built a star there?!"

The supervisor was stunned.

He grabbed the red secure phone: "Connect to the White House! Immediately! Wake the president up, whether he's asleep or not! Tell him that the Chinese may have obtained the fire of God!"

……

It's not just the United States.

The GRU of Russia, the Joint Intelligence Service of Europe, the Cabinet Intelligence Office of Japan...

At that moment, all the world's top intelligence agencies received that chilling data from space.

Beneath the Kunlun Mountains, there is an energy source that beats like a heart.

Every shift causes a dramatic tilt in the global strategic balance.

……

Kunlun Base, main control room.

"The reactor must be shut down immediately!" an officer in charge of secrecy shouted anxiously. "Before they can analyze the specific spectral characteristics, cut off the power supply and activate the jammers!"

"It's too late." Li Jianguo gritted his teeth and slammed his fist heavily on the table. "The 'keyhole' has centimeter-level resolution. Once it's locked, it can be modeled in just a few seconds. Our trump card... has been exposed."

Everyone's eyes instinctively turned to Bai Che.

The young chief engineer was still standing in front of the control panel, holding the unfinished cup of soy milk in his hand.

"Bai Gong, give the order! Shut down the program!" Qin Bing urged urgently.

Bai Che did not move.

He looked up at the red satellite icon peering overhead on the big screen.

"close?"

Bai Che smiled.

"Why shut it down?"

"President Su."

"Have Fuxi remove the shielding layer..."

"What?!"

Everyone present was stunned. Li Jianguo's eyes widened: "Bai Che! Are you crazy? If you remove the shielding layer, we'll be completely naked under their cameras!"

"We just want them to see."

Bai Che placed the soy milk cup on the table with a soft "click".

He walked to the big screen, extended a finger, and gently touched the red dot representing the US satellite.

"We used to hide things because we were weak, afraid that others would take them away or destroy them."

"But today..."

"When a person is carrying a torch and walking at night, he needs to be very careful."

"But what if he were holding up the sun?"

"Since they want to see, let them see as much as they want."

"Fuxi, full power output."

"Let the light from the earth shine into the sky."

"I'm going to make this satellite's camera go blind from overexposure!"

"Shielding layer removed."

"Reactor power...100%!"

"Since it can't be hidden..."

"Then let's blind them with light."