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

"Damn it! This can't be!"

In the Free Nation's underground emergency command center, the president slammed the intelligence briefing he was holding onto the table, scattering papers everywhere. His eyes were bloodshot as he stared intently at the image of the starship hovering above China on the screen, and at Lin Feng's excessively young face.

"Technology that transcends time! The Xuanyuan Space Carrier! Gene Immunization Drugs! And this Lin Feng... he's not even forty years old!" The president's voice trembled with anger and disbelief. "How could they have reached this point so quietly in just over a decade?!"

Looking around, the staff and high-ranking military officials in the Oval Office were completely silent, their faces ashen. Their former arrogance and confidence had been replaced by a deeper fear and sense of powerlessness. The intelligence report was cold and brutal: every technology China displayed was at least a generation, or even several generations, ahead of the Free Nation's current equipment. This wasn't just a gap; it was a generational difference, an overwhelming dominance.

What truly gnawed at them was the stark contrast: the Free Nation, once hailed as a "city atop the mountain" and a "beacon of human civilization," was now its land being devoured piece by piece by a gray horde of zombies. Cities were falling, order was collapsing, and the army was suffering defeat after defeat. Meanwhile, the Eastern nation, which they had long regarded as a rival and even a potential threat, stood like a radiant fortress, not only firmly keeping the virus out of its borders but also... seemingly with complete ease.

"They have a future, while we..." A general closed his eyes in anguish, unable to finish his sentence. The implication was that the Free Nation might have no future.

Inside the underground bunker of the Europa League headquarters, the arguing was so loud it almost lifted the roof off.

"Who orchestrated the technological blockade and sanctions against China back then? And now? We're hiding underground like rats, while they're flying in the sky!" A representative from a Southern European country roared, slamming his fist on the table, his face filled with despair and indignation. "If we had chosen to cooperate back then, wouldn't we also have that immunity serum now? Wouldn't we also have starships protecting our skies?"

"What's the point of saying all this now?" Another Nordic representative said, his face ashen. "China's attitude is very clear: they're only concerned with self-preservation. That's their right, but it also exposes their selfishness! Since they don't care about the lives of their fellow human beings..."

A glint of madness and ruthlessness flashed in his eyes: "Then no one will get away unscathed! Our nuclear arsenal is still intact! Rather than being slowly devoured by zombies, we'd rather drag them down to hell with us! Wipe those damned Chinese starships, and their cities, off the map!"

Extreme emotions rapidly brewed in despair. Fear, jealousy, resentment, and anger at one's own powerlessness mixed together into a dangerous destructive impulse. The idea of ​​"mutual destruction" began to sprout in the minds of some desperate politicians and military officers.

Not only large countries, but also many small and medium-sized countries that still retain some military strength have gradually developed a distorted mentality after repeatedly requesting assistance without success. They cannot accept that in the apocalyptic scenario, only China can remain unscathed and enjoy order and security.

The power displayed by China acts like a mirror, reflecting the myriad aspects of the world under crisis. Envy, jealousy, resentment, and the madness of despair... all sorts of negative emotions spread like a plague in those countries that have fallen or are on the verge of falling. The stronger and safer China becomes, the more it highlights their powerlessness and misery, which in turn breeds deeper hostility.

While other influential powers like Russia and India are also grappling with their own internal problems, their gazes towards China are filled with extreme complexity. They have finally come to the realization that the world order has undergone a fundamental and irreversible upheaval. The Eastern superpower that they once had to catch up with has now quietly risen to the top of the planet, becoming the sole solitary entity holding a torch that illuminates the abyss.

While the outside world was turbulent and on the verge of madness due to China's "uniqueness," a true dawn was being conceived within China, in the deepest laboratories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Within the system's simulation space, time flowed at ten times the efficiency. Lin Feng's consciousness wandered through the vast, star-like sea of ​​genetic data. The genetic sequences left behind by the zombie virus, resembling garbled code, after countless comparisons, analyses, and reverse deductions, finally began to reveal their initial "encryption patterns."

"Found... the key reverse transcriptase binding site, and the covered primitive base pair template..." Lin Feng's consciousness whispered in the pure white space. A complex, dynamic gene repair map gradually became clear. Theoretically, as long as a "gene repair nanorobot" that can accurately target these sites and carry the correct template is designed, it is possible to perform "corrective surgery" at the cellular level, just like the top surgeons, to reverse the viral modification.

This is no longer a conjecture, but a solution with a clear technical path.

Lin Feng's consciousness returned to reality, and he immediately compiled this breakthrough into a report.

"Elder Chen, the theoretical verification of the gene sequence decryption and reversal scheme has been completed. We need to conduct live experiments to verify the repair effect and safety." Lin Feng's voice came through the secure line, calm yet containing a power capable of changing the world.

When Elder Chen received the news, he was attending an emergency meeting at the highest level regarding border pressure. He abruptly stood up, ignoring the surprised looks of those around him, and said decisively, "Approved! Whatever you need, the country will provide! All resources will be prioritized for your experiment!"

The top-level decision was issued at lightning speed. The nation's top biological laboratories, materials laboratories, and nanotechnology teams were urgently mobilized to begin preparing the special reagents and equipment needed for the experiments, based on Lin Feng's plan. An absolutely confidential and absolutely secure live sample transport chain was established.

Lin Feng once again entered a state of complete absorption, neglecting sleep and meals. The external turmoil and the smoke of war on the border seemed irrelevant to him. His world shrank to the genetic chains under a microscope and those nanomaterials that carried humanity's last hope.

Just as Lin Feng was fully focused on conducting the most crucial verification experiment, the malice of the outside world finally manifested as a tangible attack.

Driven by utter despair and a twisted mentality of "not being able to survive alone," several countries deployed their last remaining strategic deterrent forces. Submarine-launched ballistic missiles rose from hidden seas not yet fully controlled by zombies; land-based missile silos carried out their final orders amidst the chaos; and even several bombers carrying strategic weapons, with a doomed resolve, forcibly took off, their targets either the Chinese mainland or the starship hovering in the sky.

"Multi-source ballistic missile launch detected! Number twelve! Trajectory analysis... Targets are major cities in eastern and southern my country and coastal starship deployment areas!"

"Strategic bomber formation detected! Heading southwest!"

At China's highest command center, piercing alarms blared incessantly. On the large screen, red dots representing threats rapidly approached from different directions.

However, there was no panic in the command center. The commander, his face grim, ordered in a deep voice: "Heavenly Court's full-area missile interception system, full power activation. 'Xuanyuan' fleet, authorized to use directed energy weapons for interception. Fuxi fighter jets, scramble and hunt down the bombers. Objective: Keep all threats outside the nation's borders!"

The moment the order was given, China demonstrated the terrifying effectiveness of its defense system.

On the ground, phased array radars and the "Kuafu" space-based system, deployed across the country, instantly locked onto targets. In the deep mountains, deserts, and along the coast, concealed launch units opened, and interceptor missiles, like arrows released from a bow, ascended vertically into the air, meeting the incoming targets with astonishing precision.

In the sky, on the hulls of the four "Xuanyuan"-class space carriers, massive directed-energy turrets adjusted their angles, their focused beams flashing. Several blazing white beams, launched later but arriving faster, traversed hundreds of kilometers and precisely detonated missiles in their boost or mid-course phases.

At higher low Earth orbit, kinetic interceptors deployed unleash a dense barrage of projectiles.

At the same time, a large number of Fuxi fighter jets took off at a speed far exceeding that of traditional fighter jets. Guided by the early warning system, they swooped down like falcons, shooting down the incoming bomber groups one by one in airspace far from the homeland.

The flashes of light from the explosions echoed across the skies and distant seas surrounding China, like a grand yet deadly display of fireworks. Not a single enemy missile or aircraft could penetrate this layered, impenetrable three-dimensional interception network.

Key footage of the entire interception process was broadcast to the nation through official media.

As the nation watched the interception scene unfold on the screen, resembling a scene from a science fiction blockbuster, and saw the incoming red markers disappear one by one, the shock and awe in their hearts were beyond measure. There was no fear, only boiling blood and a deeper sense of pride.

"See that? That's our defense!"

"Trying to drag us down with you? Dream on!"

"China is inviolable!"

Absolute defense brought absolute security, but also extinguished the last vestige of madness in the outside world. Those countries that launched the attack, having lost their final deterrent, also succumbed to internal collapse or were ultimately devoured by the zombies.

China is like a solitary, unyielding lighthouse shining brightly in a stormy night. Its solitary light illuminates not only its own safety but also the power of technology and order that humanity has persevered in even the most dire circumstances.