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

The successful completion of the Wukong and Baihu projects marks an unprecedented leap forward in both China's national defense and individual soldier combat capabilities.

A grand internal celebration banquet was held at the Northwest Base. Fine wine and delicious food filled the air with laughter and joy. Countless experts and engineers, who were usually serious and reserved, raised their glasses in celebration, their faces beaming with pride at making history and the relief of being able to let go of their fatigue.

Lin Feng quietly left the sea of ​​jubilation. He didn't attend any of the celebrations; after signing his name on the project's final report, he and Zhao Weiguo boarded the private jet back to Chongqing. For him, the achievement was the past, and new challenges always lay ahead. Celebrations were moments of honor for the team, but his battlefield was always in the next unknown territory.

The plane landed in the mountain city, and the familiar, moist air rushed towards me. Unlike the desolate Gobi Desert of the Northwest, this place maintained its orderly prosperity and tranquility. The global catastrophe of the zombie virus seemed like old news from a distant era.

However, when Lin Feng accessed the latest global situation report through encrypted channels, he truly felt that although the disaster had been extinguished by the "future," the aftershocks of the political and geopolitical earthquake it triggered were still violently shaking.

The world has changed beyond recognition.

Centered around the remaining free states, they united with some European countries to form the Western Federation. They possessed a relatively complete industrial framework and some cutting-edge technological heritage, but were riddled with internal conflicts, and the relationship between the former leaders and vassals had become extremely delicate in today's resource-scarce world.

Led by the Northern Bear Kingdom, the Northern Federation was formed by integrating forces from some former republics in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. They are relatively resource-rich and have a strong military tradition, but their economic structure is singular, their technological recovery is slow, and their internal control and external vigilance have reached their peak.

Led by India, the Southern Federation was cobbled together by incorporating surviving regimes from Southeast Asia and South Asia. While possessing a large population and abundant labor resources, it suffered from sharp internal ethnic and religious conflicts, severe infrastructure damage during the disaster, and the lowest level of organization and efficiency among the three federations.

The "Future" potion worked like a miracle, eliminating the threat of the zombie virus and allowing civilization to breathe. However, the loss of billions of people, the collapse of the global economic system, and the destruction of countless infrastructures by the virus left behind a huge power vacuum and a resource black hole. Survival transformed from fighting zombies into a naked struggle for resources.

Friction continues among the three federations over remaining mineral deposits, fertile land suitable for cultivation, the last remaining complete production lines, and precious sources of raw materials for future pharmaceuticals. Border conflicts, proxy wars, economic blockades and counter-blockades... small-scale skirmishes occur almost monthly. Old international law has long been rendered obsolete, and the law of the jungle prevails.

But no matter how intense the friction, there is one unspoken taboo that all three parties dare not touch—China.

In their most confidential internal meetings, the top leaders of the three federations repeatedly emphasized the same ironclad rule: "Any military operation is strictly prohibited from approaching the territory, airspace, and territorial waters claimed by China! Any provocative remarks or actions against China must be extinguished immediately!" What they feared was not only China's weapons, but also the name hidden behind all of this—Lin Feng.

Beyond external struggles, the Federation is far from peaceful internally. The reshuffling brought about by power restructuring, the infighting during the transition between old and new forces, and the power struggles between local and central authorities appear particularly bloody and ugly under the magnifying glass of resource scarcity. Within the Western Federation, there's the covert war between the Free Nation and Europe; in the Northern Federation, there's the control and counter-control dynamic between the Northern Bear Nation and its allies; in the Southern Federation, there's the centrifugal tendency of India and other members… Each Federation is like sitting on a powder keg, and true stability is still a long way off.

Only China, with its unchanged political system, intact territory, and well-ordered society, remained untouched by the zombie crisis. The widespread adoption of the "future" technology enhanced the physical fitness of its citizens. This was the only untouched paradise in the eye of the storm, not only unscathed but forged even stronger, more resilient, and more confident through adversity.

Lin Feng closed the report, his expression calm and composed. In his eyes, the conflicts and chaos outside were merely the inevitable growing pains and confusion that civilizations inevitably experience during their rebirth. As long as they didn't threaten China, he wouldn't interfere. His mission was to guide civilization upwards, not to get bogged down in quagmires.

The week at home was a completely relaxing one. His family was no longer just proud of him, but also deeply understood and cared for him. His father, Lin Guodong, would chat with him about historical anecdotes; his mother, Su Wenqing, would cook his favorite dishes in various ways; Shen Moran would quietly stay by his side; and his sister, Lin Chuxue, and son, Lin Sibin, would pester him to tell them about the interesting things they had done in their research. The warmth of his family was like the most effective soothing agent, washing away the mental fatigue accumulated from long hours of high-intensity work.

A week later, Lin Feng set off again, watched by his family.

He didn't return to the Northwest or Beijing, but went straight back to his secluded little courtyard at Harbin Institute of Technology. It was quiet, pure, and far from the administrative center, making it the perfect place for cutting-edge theoretical research that required extreme focus.

When you close the door, the world is shut out.

Consciousness sinks into the system space.

The sense of time here is completely different from that outside. Here, the 1:100 scale makes every minute and second feel incredibly long. Seventy days in reality is a full twenty years here.

Twenty years is enough for an infant to grow into a young adult, and for a theory to grow from its nascent stage to full bloom.

Lin Feng focused all his attention on the two vast theories that were the new rewards from the system.

[Core Theoretical Knowledge of Earth Core Energy Transformation] is not just an energy plan, but more like a divine tome about the energy of planetary interiors. He first spent several years gaining a comprehensive understanding of the massive thermal energy and rotational kinetic energy generated by the liquid iron-nickel circulation in the Earth's core, as well as the "deep Earth energy field" contained in the changes in the Earth's magnetic field, which has not yet been fully explained by existing physics.

Then, he began to deepen the theory and translate it into engineering. Designing the sky-high well structure that extends thousands of kilometers underground, penetrating the hard crust and plastic mantle, required entirely new materials science and geological engineering. He simulated the performance of dozens of special alloys and composite ceramics under ultra-high temperature and ultra-high pressure, and finally selected three optimal solutions.

The principle behind planetary generators is even more ingenious. It's not simply heat exchange; rather, it uses energy harvesting units with specific structures to directly capture the kinetic energy of the Earth's core fluids and the fluctuations of the deep Earth's energy field, converting them into stable, high-density electrical energy or primary energy that can directly drive fusion reactions. Lin Feng established a complete mathematical model for this conversion mechanism and optimized the distribution and efficiency of the energy harvesting array.

Energy transmission is also a major challenge. How can energy from such depths be safely and with low loss transmitted to the Earth's surface? He designed a geothermal transmission network based on superconducting materials and special geological resonance principles, supplemented by relay stations on the Earth's surface and in near-Earth orbit, to build a blueprint for a global energy internet network.

Another core theory, the [Earth's Core Energy Exploration and Operation System], is the prerequisite and tool for realizing the above blueprint. The design of the Xirang-class Earth's Core Engineering Ship is a miracle of engineering and survival technology.

Within the system space, Lin Feng began simulating the material stacking of each layer of the ship's pressure hull, designing an external shape capable of withstanding the compression of mantle plastic flow and the erosion of high-temperature lava. The propulsion system needed to be able to move forward through molten rock and maneuver flexibly in the fluids at the Earth's core boundary; he integrated ultra-high-energy plasma drill bits with geomagnetic fluid propulsion technology.

The in-cabin ecosystem maintenance system needs to achieve complete self-circulation for several years or even longer within a small space. He optimized the previous ecological model of the Guanghan base, making it more compact and efficient. The supporting single-person underground work suit, the exploration robot that can adapt to extreme high temperature and high pressure environment, the sampling and analysis equipment... each of them needs to undergo thousands of tests and improvements in the simulated hellish environment.

The past twenty years in the system space have been twenty years of single-minded focus and lightning-fast thinking.

Over the course of twenty years, he encountered countless theoretical dilemmas and technical deadlocks. Sometimes, even when material properties reached their theoretical limits, they still couldn't meet the requirements; sometimes, energy conversion efficiency was stuck at a certain threshold and couldn't be broken through; sometimes, the ship's structure experienced unexpected fatigue fractures during simulated complex geological activities...

Whenever there is a critical moment like this, the system's reward library of optimized solutions will be quietly activated.

The first time he struggled with the stability of crustal penetration during the initial stage of the well, the solution library provided three different progressive stress release and support combined solutions, which gave him a sudden insight.

The second instance occurred when the energy field coupling efficiency of planetary generators reached a bottleneck, and the solution library suggested a novel field resonator design approach based on the quantum tunneling effect…

Each hint wasn't a direct answer, but rather opened a new window, illuminating an unthinkable path. Leveraging his profound knowledge and repeated verification under accelerated time, Lin Feng quickly absorbed and refined these sparks of inspiration, integrating them into his own theoretical system.

Twenty years have passed in the blink of an eye.

When Lin Feng's consciousness slowly awoke from the deep deduction, only seventy days had passed in the outside world.

He opened his eyes, and a fleeting glint of light, like flowing molten lava from the Earth's core, flashed in them before returning to the calm of the deep sea.

On his desk, the open notebook still held the notes he had made before leaving home. But in his mind, two complete and detailed documents, adapted and optimized to China's existing industrial capabilities—the "Overall Plan for the Development of Earth's Core Energy" and the "Complete Technical Data of the Xirang Earth's Core Engineering System"—had already taken shape.

From site selection and drilling to reaching the Earth's core; from energy harvesting to global delivery; from the construction of engineering vessels to the complete set of operational equipment... every technical detail, process flow, and emergency plan is crystal clear.

The sleeping heart of the blue planet has been gently awakened in his theory.

Awaken it, draw upon its near-infinite energy, and provide the entire planetary civilization with an eternal source of power—this will be his next great gift to China and to humanity.