Rejecting Tsinghua and Peking Universities: I Will Lead Harbin Institute of Technology to World Lead

Before leaving, the old man said to the base leader who saw him off, "Let the comrades have a good celebration; they deserve it."

The special plane pierced the night sky, heading towards the capital.

At the same time, Lin Feng stayed at the celebration banquet for less than ten minutes. He raised his glass to toast everyone present, thanking each and every colleague who had worked hard for him for three years, and then quietly left the table.

There was no farewell, no ceremony, just like every time he turned around in the past three years.

Zhao Weiguo was already waiting outside the base. The convoy set off overnight, heading straight for the nearest military airport. At three in the morning, Lin Feng boarded another transport plane that had been waiting for a long time. Outside the window, the Gobi Desert in the northwest lay like a sleeping giant in the night.

At six o'clock in the morning, the plane landed in Beijing.

Lin Feng didn't rest and drove directly to the National Energy Comprehensive Experimental Zone. When he entered the Nuwa Project's central control center, Academician Li and all forty-seven core members were already there.

Everyone was looking at him, their eyes filled with barely suppressed tension and anticipation.

"Chief Engineer Lin, you're back." Academician Li greeted him, his voice a little hoarse—clearly, he hadn't slept all night again.

"How are the preparations going?" Lin Feng asked as he walked, his gaze already fixed on the real-time data on the central screen.

"All subsystems have completed final integration testing, the superconducting magnet has cooled to operating temperature, the fuel injection system is ready, and the plasma heating device has completed preheating," Academician Li said rapidly. "But... we've encountered a problem."

Lin Feng paused, then said, "Speak."

"Regarding the selection of pilot cities," Academician Li pulled up a map, "the highest levels hope that Nuwa can be put into operation in an actual city first, both to verify its practical capabilities and to demonstrate the feasibility of controlled nuclear fusion to the whole country. But which city to choose... there is a lot of controversy."

Lin Feng looked at the map, his brows furrowing slightly.

This is indeed a difficult problem.

Nuwa is a megawatt-scale urban fusion reactor that, if successful, will completely transform a city's energy structure. However, risks remain during its initial operation—despite 100,000 hours of simulation in system space, unexpected events can still occur in the real world.

Choosing a developed city? If it fails, the economic losses and social impact will be immeasurable.

Choosing a remote small town? Insufficient infrastructure and difficulties in grid connection make it impossible to fully verify grid connection capabilities.

"What's the opinion at the highest level?" Lin Feng asked.

"I'm leaning towards a city in the southwest." Academician Li marked a point on the map. "A third-tier city, with a population of three million, a moderate industrial base, and a clear power grid structure. Most importantly... there's a ready-made decommissioned nuclear power plant there, along with the supporting power grid, safety facilities, and technical team."

Lin Feng carefully examined the data for that city.

It is indeed the best choice—not the most developed, but enough to prove its practicality; not the most remote, but the impact of failure is controllable; it has a nuclear industry foundation, and the team can adapt quickly; the power grid structure is simple, and grid connection and commissioning are easy.

"Here it is." He made his decision.

That afternoon, the highest level officially approved the decision. A silent battle had begun.

Within 72 hours, the nation's power was mobilized like a precision instrument.

The Railway Administration dispatched a special train to pack tens of thousands of components of the Nuwa device into three hundred specially made containers, which were then transported to the southwest via a secret route. All tunnels and bridges along the route were cleared in advance, and armed guards escorted the entire journey.

The power grid company dispatched its most elite team to upgrade and transform the power grid in the target city, constructing a dedicated fusion power access node. The security department conducted background checks on the entire city to ensure everything went smoothly.

The decommissioned nuclear power plant was reactivated—not by restarting the fission reactor, but by transforming it into a site for the Nuwa device. The original containment vessel, cooling system, and control center were all modified and adapted.

Lin Feng only stayed in the capital for two days before flying to the southwest.

When he arrived in the city, the core components of Nuwa had already begun to be installed.

The scene before us is breathtaking: a giant vacuum chamber with a diameter of 30 meters is hoisted into a reinforced containment vessel, like a giant silver egg; superconducting coils hundreds of kilometers long are precisely wound in a cleanroom with an error of no more than one-thousandth the thickness of a human hair; the first wall material installation robot is as precise as a scalpel, laying tens of thousands of special ceramic tiles on the inner wall of the vacuum chamber.

Lin Feng moved into the nuclear power plant's temporary command center.

For the next month, he practically lived on-site. He worked eighteen hours a day, reviewing every installation report, supervising the construction quality of every key milestone, and resolving every unexpected problem.

"Chief Engineer Lin, an insulation defect has been discovered during the winding process of the superconducting magnet!"

"Stop work immediately, conduct a full inspection, identify all potential defects, and revise the insulation process standards."

"Chief Engineer Lin, the welding qualification rate of the first wall material is only 93%, which is lower than the design requirements!"

"Adjust welding parameters and introduce laser-assisted welding technology. All defective products must be reworked; not a single one can be overlooked."

"Chief Engineer Lin, in field testing, the plasma control system's algorithm's response time was 15 percent slower than in the laboratory..."

"Re-optimize the code and cut all unnecessary modules. The goal: response time must meet the target, even if it means sacrificing other minor functionalities."

Each instruction was as precise as a scalpel, resolving the problems one by one.

During this period, Mr. Li visited three times.

The old man always arrived quietly, standing in a corner of the command center, silently watching Lin Feng work. He never disturbed him, never asked any questions, just watched, and then quietly left.

On his third departure, he told the local officials accompanying him, "This young man carries the energy future of this country on his shoulders. You must cooperate fully, at all costs."

Finally, the installation is nearing completion.

The Nuwa device, like a sleeping behemoth, lay quietly within the containment structure. All pipelines were connected, all systems were debugged, and all safety redundancy checks passed.

"Conduct a comprehensive inspection." Lin Feng stood in front of the control panel and issued the final preparatory order, "From the power system to the cooling cycle, from the magnet control to the fuel management, from the main control core to the emergency backup—I need 100% confirmation."

"Yes, Mr. Lin!"

A technical team of 300 people began a three-day full-system testing.

The resistance of every cable, the sealing of every valve, the operating status of every chip, the transmission rate of every data link... all details were repeatedly measured, verified, and recorded.

The test reports piled up like a mountain, and Lin Feng reviewed them page by page.

Late on the third night, the final report was handed to him.

Academician Li's voice trembled with excitement: "Chief Designer Lin... all standards have been met. Nuwa, get ready."

Lin Feng took a deep breath and glanced at the clock on the wall: 3:17 a.m.

"Notify the power grid dispatch center to prepare to cut off external power to the city and switch to Nuwa power supply mode." His voice was calm. "Notify the municipal government to activate the Level 1 emergency plan, and put all critical facilities into backup power mode. Notify the security department to enter the highest alert level."

As commands were issued, the entire city quietly transitioned from its slumber.

At four o'clock in the morning, all preparations were complete.

Inside the central control center, hundreds of eyes were glued to the central screen. It displayed the real-time status of the Nuwa device, as well as the power grid load curve for the entire city.

Lin Feng stood in front of the command console, his right hand resting on the protective cover of the start button.

"Nuwa's first electric discharge experiment, one minute countdown begins."

An electronic voice rang out, and the cold, metallic sound of counting echoed throughout the command center.

Sixty, fifty-nine, fifty-eight...

Everyone held their breath.

Lin Feng's mind flashed through the 100,000-hour simulation in the system space, the dazzling firelight of missile interception on the Gobi Desert in Northwest China, and the sleeping faces of his children at home in the mountain city.

...Three, two, one.

He pressed the button.

There was no deafening roar, no dazzling light effects.

On the screen, only one set of data began to jump.

[Plasma Injection: Begin]

[Magnetic field established: Completed]

Heating power: 10%, 20%, 50%...

[Plasma temperature: 100 million degrees, 500 million degrees, 1000 million degrees...]

The temperature curve climbed like a rocket, steadily breaking through the 100 million degree mark, and then continued to rise.

[Constraint time: 10 seconds, 100 seconds, 1000 seconds...]

When the restraint time exceeded three thousand seconds, suppressed cheers erupted in the command center—more than double the international record.

But Lin Feng's gaze was fixed on only one piece of data: the energy gain factor Q value.

That's the ratio of the energy output to the energy input of the fusion reaction. Only when the Q value is greater than 1 does it mean there is a net energy output.

On the screen, the Q value slowly increases: 0.1, 0.5, 0.9...

"1.0! Breaking the break-even point!" someone screamed.

But it's still rising: 1.5, 2.0, 5.0...

Ultimately, it stabilized at 18.7.

This means that for every unit of energy Nuwa consumes, she can produce 18.7 units of energy.

[Thermoelectric conversion system started]

[Grid Connection: Preparation]

External power supply to the city: Cut off

Instantly, the curve representing the city's power grid load on the screen fluctuated violently, but it was quickly caught up by another newly formed curve—that was the electrical energy output by Nuwa, which surged into the city's power grid like a torrent.

At 4:30 a.m., the entire city was asleep when the replacement of its energy heart was completed.

No one realized that the electricity they were using was no longer generated from burning coal or fission nuclear energy, but from a reaction inside the sun—controlled nuclear fusion.

"Nuwa is operating stably, with an output power of 120 million kilowatts, reaching the design value."

"The urban power grid load matching rate is 99.8%, and the voltage and frequency are stable."

"All security systems are functioning normally, with no abnormal alarms detected."

Reports came in one after another, like triumphant anthems.

As the first rays of sunlight shone upon the city, Nuwa had been operating stably for three hours.

Inside the control center, someone began to cry—tears of joy. Three years of hard work had blossomed and borne fruit at this moment.

Lin Feng slowly exhaled.

Just then, the system notification sounded in my mind as expected:

【Ding! 】

[The Nuwa Large-Scale Controlled Nuclear Fusion and Heavenly Court Missile Interception System, developed under the host's leadership, have been successfully manufactured in the real world.]

[Reward 1: Intelligent supporting facilities for the entire aerospace fighter jet supply chain]

As the holographic interface unfolds, a complete and sophisticated production system appears in the mind. From the automated smelting of special materials to the precision machining of fuselage components, from the intelligent assembly of avionics systems to the fully automated final assembly and debugging of the entire aircraft.

[Description: Enables fully automated production of aerospace fighter jets from raw materials to complete aircraft, reducing production cycle by 70%, cost by 85%, and achieving 99.999% quality consistency. Equipped with an intelligent logistics system, it allows for rapid global deployment and maintenance.]

[Bonus 2: The Core Theory of the Kuafu Global Positioning System]

A second set of knowledge flooded my mind. Unlike existing GPS or GLONASS systems, this is a next-generation positioning system based on quantum communication and microgravitational field detection. It does not rely on ground base stations, is immune to electromagnetic interference, achieves millimeter-level positioning accuracy, and possesses comprehensive functions such as global real-time observation, communication relay, meteorological monitoring, and geological exploration.

[Description: Capable of sub-millimeter level positioning in global network-free environments, with real-time observation accuracy up to 0.1 meters, communication bandwidth exceeding that of existing systems by tens of thousands of times, and an autonomous operating lifespan of fifty years.]

[Reward 3: Cash Reward - 50 million Huaxia Coins]

The moment the rewards were distributed, a sharp glint flashed in Lin Feng's eyes.

The suspended aerospace fighters are about to take to the skies!