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

The raging waves of the East China Sea failed to disturb the tranquility deep within the Gobi Desert in the northwest.

Lin Feng and his team were like being in the eye of a storm, isolated from all the noise of the outside world in that 800-kilometer-long no-man's-land.

Here, time flows at a different pace.

The entire intelligent production chain was completed in three months.

Within the 50-square-kilometer base, 73 factory buildings lie like silver behemoths on the Gobi Desert. The electric arc furnaces in the materials preparation center burn day and night, smelting rare metals transported from all over the country; the nano-machine tools in the precision machining workshop emit a low buzzing sound, cutting alloys into parts with an error of no more than one-hundredth of a millimeter; in the final assembly plant, 300 industrial robots swing their mechanical arms, sparks blooming like stars in the darkness.

Lin Feng works eighteen hours a day.

He moved between workshops, reviewing every test report, adjusting every process parameter, and resolving every unexpected problem. Sometimes, when he returned to his dormitory late at night, his encrypted tablet was piled high with briefings on the situation in the East China Sea, international sanctions, and diplomatic maneuvering, but he would only glance at them before putting them down.

Those things are being taken care of by others.

What he needs to do is to complete the legacy of Fuxi.

"General Manager Lin, the pass rate for the third batch of ultra-heat-resistant ceramic tiles has increased to 99.8%!"

"The specific impulse of the fourth-generation plasma thruster has reached 102% of the design value!"

"The multi-redundancy architecture of the intelligent avionics system has passed 100,000 hours of trouble-free testing!"

Good news comes every day.

And the Western sanctions came as expected.

On the third day after the semiconductor embargo was announced, Huaxia Xinhuo Engineering announced that its 5-nanometer process lithography machine had completed final debugging and could begin mass production of 7-nanometer and smaller process chips.

On the same day that the financial sanctions were initiated, the People's Bank of China launched the digital RMB international settlement platform, with transaction volume exceeding 300 billion yuan on the first day.

Every sanction is met with an even fiercer counterattack.

……

The game of sanctions and counter-sanctions continues, and in the Northwest Base, the sixth month has arrived.

It was four o'clock in the morning that day.

The assembly plant was brightly lit.

Lin Feng stood on the observation platform 30 meters high. Below, the last industrial robot completed the final riveting process and slowly retreated into the standby area.

In the center of the factory, the fighter jet finally revealed its full form.

The streamlined fuselage is 42 meters long and has a wingspan of 28 meters. Its entire body is covered in a dark stealth coating that gleams with a cold, eerie sheen under the lights. The nose is sharp as an arrow, and the fuselage lines are as fluid as a creation of nature, without any superfluous protrusions or gaps. Most striking is the area beneath the fuselage—not a traditional jet engine, but two X-shaped arrays of plasma thrusters.

It stood there quietly, like a sleeping black behemoth.

"President Lin, all assembly processes are complete, awaiting final inspection." The chief engineer's voice came through the headset, trembling uncontrollably.

Lin Feng took a deep breath: "Initiate full system integration testing."

The order has been issued.

Ground crew swarmed towards the fighter jets like ants, connecting a dense array of testing cables. On the control center screens, tens of thousands of data streams began to refresh.

Fuxi spacecraft has officially entered space.

Thunderous applause erupted in the control center.

But the test flights are not yet over.

"Activate the orbit maintenance system. Objective: orbit the Earth three times." Lin Feng's voice remained calm.

"Orbital maintenance system activated... Stable. Current orbital altitude: 120 kilometers, velocity: first cosmic velocity."

On the screen, Fuxi's orbital parameters are displayed in real time. It flies at a constant speed along the Earth's arc, like an artificial satellite.

The first lap tests the stability of the avionics system in the space environment.

The second lap tests the long-term operational capability of the life support system.

On the third lap, a simple orbital maneuver was performed—Fuxi gracefully changed the orbital inclination, turning like a bird in flight.

"All tests are complete, and all data meet the standards." The chief engineer's voice was full of excitement. "President Lin, shall we return to base?"

Lin Feng looked at Elder Li.

The old man nodded: "Let it come back. Don't take risks the first time."

"Fuxi, prepare to return to base," Lin Feng ordered. "Proceed with the pre-arranged plan and proceed with atmospheric reentry."

"clear."

The fighter jet began to adjust its attitude. With its nose pointing towards Earth, the plasma thrusters reversed their direction, and the speed gradually decreased.

When the altitude dropped to eighty kilometers, Fuxi entered the atmosphere.

This is the most dangerous phase—the spacecraft experiences intense friction with the air, and temperatures will rise to over 3,000 degrees Celsius. Traditional spacecraft reentry requires thick heat-resistant tiles and complex cooling systems.

However, the dark coating on Fuxi only emitted a faint red glow, as if illuminated by the setting sun. Temperature data showed that the highest surface temperature of the device was only 1,200 degrees Celsius.

"The heat-resistant coating performs better than expected!" a materials expert exclaimed.

Fifteen minutes later, the Fuxi landed smoothly on the runway.

Glide, then stop.

The hatch opened, and Longya stepped out of the cockpit, giving the control tower a standard military salute.

The control center was in an uproar.

Old Li gripped Lin Feng's hand tightly, his hand trembling slightly: "Comrade Lin Feng, you... have made history. The first space fighter in human history belongs to China."

Lin Feng smiled: "Commander, this is just the beginning."

A month later, the Fuxi spacecraft conducted its second test flight.

This time, the target is further afield: the moon.

Longya piloted Fuxi and reached lunar orbit in six hours. After circling the moon twice, he dropped the Chinese national flag and a monument at a predetermined coordinate on the far side of the moon.

Then they returned to base.

The entire mission took twelve hours.

When Fuxi landed again at the Northwest Launch Site, it had already accomplished the most amazing feat in human spaceflight history: a single-machine, single-person, single-mission mission to complete a round trip between Earth and the Moon.

The information remains top secret.

But everyone involved in the project knows that from today onwards, China not only possesses the power to protect the Earth, but also a ticket to the stars and the sea.