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

Five breakthrough research projects are being pursued simultaneously.

Photon weapons, Home Guardians, the new version of Azure Dragon Potion, White Tiger Armor, and the next generation of light-speed warships—each of these is a cutting-edge technology that transcends its time, and each requires overcoming countless technical challenges.

Lin Feng always takes the lead in every research project.

He travels between laboratories and factories around the world, personally solving the most challenging problems. At the photon weapons research center in Beijing, he spent three days and three nights continuously monitoring the debugging data of the energy compression module, personally adjusting seventeen key parameters. At the Home Guardian materials synthesis base in Shanghai, he crawled into the high-temperature reactor to analyze the reasons for the abnormal material structure at the molecular level. At the White Tiger armor assembly line in the Northwest, he and the engineers squatted beside the assembly line, repeatedly testing the airtightness of the space life support system.

Lin Feng was able to easily solve all kinds of problems in his research.

After all, he had already spent a full thirty years in the system simulation space—from the first ten years of perfecting the photon weapons and home guardians, to the later twenty years of upgrading the Azure Dragon potion, the White Tiger armor, and the light-speed warships. In those thirty years, he had already simulated every detail of every technology countless times, and all possible problems had been rehearsed and resolved in the system space.

The bottlenecks he encounters in the real world today are all easily overcome by him.

With just a glance at the data, he can pinpoint the root cause of a problem. After hearing only a few descriptions, he can provide a solution. With just a few hands-on debugging sessions, he can get a project that's been stalled for months running again.

The world's top scientists, initially shocked, then numb, and now utterly convinced, no longer questioned or hesitated. They did exactly as Lin Feng instructed. They firmly believed in Lin Feng's ability to succeed.

Time keeps passing.

All research projects are progressing smoothly. The energy compression module of the photon weapon has finally broken through the 95% mark, the defect rate of materials for the Home Guardian has dropped from 80% to 20%, the new version of the Azure Dragon Elixir has entered the clinical trial stage, the space combat test of the White Tiger Armor has been successfully completed, and the keel of the new generation of light-speed warships has been laid in the dock.

Every advancement means that humanity is one step closer to protecting its home.

Just as various research efforts were progressing in tandem, exciting news came from Mars.

Five whole years.

Five years have passed since the Mars terraforming project began. The red wasteland of yesteryear has been completely transformed.

Oxygen concentration has reached 80% of that on Earth, allowing for free breathing without aids. Oceans formed from melting polar ice caps cover one-third of the Martian surface, their azure waters shimmering in the sunlight. Orbital reflector arrays precisely regulate light and temperature, and the average temperature in the Martian equatorial region has stabilized at around 15 degrees Celsius.

The first higher plants have taken root and sprouted in Martian soil. Seedlings transported from Earth, genetically modified to adapt to the low gravity and high radiation environment, are slowly growing on the Martian surface. Blue-green algae in lakes have long been replaced by more complex algae and plankton, and the underwater ecosystem is refining itself.

Mars terraforming was a success.

Humans will indeed be able to land on Mars. Mars will become humanity's second home, and also humanity's second home in the solar system.

The moment the news was announced, the world erupted in celebration. Countless people took to the streets to cheer and celebrate, television stations broadcast live footage of Mars on a loop, and social media was flooded with posts about "the second Earth."

However, behind the cheering crowds, those in the know who were truly aware of the situation knew that this newly established home was about to face its most severe test.

Mars will become the main battlefield in the face of the enemy.

Humanity will not be making a large-scale landing on this nascent planet for the time being. Instead, countless weapons, defense systems, and combat platforms are being continuously transported to Mars. There, the most powerful defense line in human history will be established to prepare for the impending unknown enemy.

Lin Feng stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window in the command center, looking at the planet with its interplay of azure and ochre red on the holographic projection.

Five years of hard work have finally blossomed. Unfortunately, when the flowers bloomed, those who came were not there to admire them, but to wield knives.

He looked away, preparing to continue his research.

Just then—

【Ding! 】

That familiar notification sound once again rang gently in the deepest part of Lin Feng's consciousness.

Lin Feng was slightly taken aback, then closed his eyes and let his consciousness sink into the system space.

In the pure white space, a gigantic sphere of light floated before them, slowly rotating. Inside the sphere, countless streams of information flowed like galaxies, coalescing into an incomparably magnificent blueprint.

[The host-led planetary terraforming project has been successfully created and is operating stably in the real world.]

[Project rewards are now being distributed...]

[Reward: Core theoretical knowledge of planetary propulsion systems]

[Description: Possessing this technology allows an entire planet to propel itself forward, enabling it to travel through space like a light-speed warship, reaching speeds up to ten times the speed of light.]

The sphere of light exploded, and information poured down like a waterfall.

Lin Feng's consciousness was instantly overwhelmed by a massive amount of knowledge—how to install an energy generator in the core of a planet, how to use the planet's own mass and gravitational field to construct a propulsion field, how to propel the entire planet forward without destroying its ecosystem, how to increase the speed to ten times the speed of light...

That's not a simple propulsion technology.

That's the technology that turns planets into spaceships. That's the technology that allows humanity to travel with their existing homes instead of searching for new ones.

With it, Earth will no longer be a dead star fixed in its orbit. It can move, it can change direction, and it can travel through the galaxy like a light-speed warship. When the solar system faces a threat, humanity can choose to evacuate with Earth. When a more habitable star appears deep within the Milky Way, humanity can push Earth there, becoming a true interstellar civilization.

What Lin Feng was even more concerned about was that the approaching enemy planet—that planetary spaceship capable of moving at near the speed of light, even faster than a light-speed warship—clearly also possessed similar technology.

It might even be more advanced.

This was technology possessed by the enemy. Now, humanity possesses it too.

Lin Feng's consciousness stood silently amidst the torrent of information until the last byte was completely absorbed.

When he opened his eyes again, the command center was still busy, live footage of Mars was still playing, and the factories in the distance were still roaring.

But Lin Feng knew that from this moment on, the stakes in humanity's hands had become even higher.

The enemy has planetary spaceships, and humanity will also have them.

Enemies can take their homes with them when they go to war, and so can humans.

He slowly clenched his fist, a faint smile appearing on his lips.