You went on a blind date and presented an A-level wanted criminal as a meeting gift?

Dead silence.

A suffocating, deathly silence.

After Lin Chen's three violent scratches landed, the entire core laboratory, a hundred meters underground, seemed to have all the air sucked out.

Then came a volcanic eruption of rage!

"What did you do?!"

"You're insane! You're a madman! Stop!!"

"My hard work! That data took me three days without sleep to calculate!"

A dozen or so white-haired researchers, their eyes bloodshot and seemingly about to spit fire, charged toward the blackboard with an air of rage, as if they wanted to devour Lin Chen alive.

This was their last hope, the result of three days and three nights of tireless work and exhausting their energy!

Now, they've been so contemptuously and completely wiped out by some nobody who just appeared out of nowhere!

"Stop him! Stop him now!"

The fat face of Director Wang, the head of the Bureau of Investigation and Statistics, twitched violently with extreme anger, his features squeezing together and making him look incredibly ferocious.

He pointed at Lin Chen's nose, his voice sharp like a cat whose tail had been stepped on.

"Outrageous! Utterly outrageous!"

"Who gave you this authority! This is tampering with a top-secret national research site! This is dereliction of duty! This is a crime!"

He roared furiously at the group of murderous special forces soldiers behind Lin Chen.

"What are you all standing there for? Where is military law? Where is discipline?! Seize this madman immediately! Shoot him dead on the spot!"

However, the soldiers from the Wolf Warrior Special Forces Company remained motionless, like statues.

Their eyes were cold, and their gun barrels were slightly lowered, demonstrating their stance through their actions—General Su Dingguo's orders were above all else.

"Ah—! My data! My hard work!"

A piercing roar drowned out all the noise.

Chief Engineer Liu, a national treasure-level scientist who is over sixty years old and has dedicated his life to the country, seemed to have all his strength drained away at this moment, staring at the "tainted" blackboard with bloodshot eyes.

He trembled violently, not from excitement, but from heartache and despair.

"You brat! You arrogant brat!"

Liu suddenly turned his head, his bloodshot eyes fixed on Lin Chen, and a beast-like growl came from his throat.

"I'll fight you to the death!"

He roared and staggered as he lunged at Lin Chen.

Su Qingge's heart leaped into her throat, and she instinctively wanted to step forward to stop him.

Faced with this scene of universal condemnation, and faced with the desperate efforts of a national treasure-level scientist.

Lin Chen's face remained completely expressionless.

He didn't even turn around.

Just as Liu's fist was about to touch his back, Lin Chen moved.

He neither dodged nor blocked.

He simply raised his right hand, the one holding the chalk.

With a flick of the wrist, the brush moves like a dragon or a snake.

The chalk slid rapidly across the blackboard, producing a series of crisp and rhythmic "tap-tap" sounds.

The voice seemed to possess some kind of magic, instantly suppressing all the roars and curses on the scene.

Amidst everyone's astonished gazes, brand-new lines, mysterious symbols, and sets of parameters so precise they made one's scalp tingle poured forth from Lin Chen's hands.

He didn't draw the complete blueprints; instead, he re-outlined a completely different drive shaft structure based on the original drawings.

The structure was one-third simpler than the original design, yet it presented a near-perfect aesthetic in terms of mechanics.

Liu, who was halfway through his lunge, suddenly froze in place.

His outstretched fist remained suspended in mid-air, unable to move forward even an inch.

His eyes were fixed intently and greedily on every movement Lin Chen was writing, as if he were witnessing a divine miracle.

Swish.

Lin Chen finished the last stroke and casually tossed the piece of chalk, now just a stub, onto the ground.

He slowly turned around, his gaze calmly sweeping across the entire room before finally settling on Engineer Liu's blank face.

"trap."

Lin Chen's voice was indifferent.

"Your backup data is a fatal trap from the very beginning."

He pointed to the three parameters he had crossed out on the blackboard.

"If I'm not mistaken, these three key data points were extracted from backup files of the stolen blueprints, right?"

Engineer Liu nodded subconsciously, his expression still dazed.

A cold smile curled at the corners of Lin Chen's mouth.

"The mole was very clever."

"He planted this time bomb in the original backup data."

"This structure, when tested in shallow water, will produce perfect data."

"However, once the submersible dives to a depth of more than 1,000 meters, the enormous water pressure will induce a specific high-frequency resonance in the power shaft."

Lin Chen's tone was firm and left no room for argument.

"At that time, the entire drive shaft will break instantly within 0.01 seconds, the submersible will be completely out of control and turn into a pile of scrap metal that sinks to the bottom of the sea."

"Your efforts over the past two weeks have not been to save the country, but to hand a knife to the enemy."

The entire venue fell into a deathly silence.

You could hear a pin drop.

After a brief silence came even more intense questioning and ridicule.

"Nonsense!"

"Who does he think he is? Can he tell there's resonance just by looking at him?"

"What a clown trying to attract attention! He's definitely just trying to become famous!"

"Mr. Liu, don't be fooled by him! This kid is a complete fraud!"

The researchers around them snapped out of their daze, their faces once again etched with deep sarcasm and contempt.

In their view, Lin Chen's words were simply a fantasy.

Only Engineer Liu.

He neither agreed nor refuted.

His cloudy old eyes were fixed on the formula that Lin Chen had modified, his pupils contracting, dilating, and then contracting violently in his eye sockets.

His brain was working at an unprecedented speed.

Every parameter Lin Chen modified was like a key, precisely unlocking the shackles that bound his mind.

That redundancy factor that had been troubling him for three days and three nights...

That paradox of torque that had been puzzling him for so long...

Under Lin Chen's seemingly arrogant three strokes, everything suddenly became clear!

pass!

Everything is working!

This is truly a perfect design!

This is truly a work of genius!

"Thump!"

A muffled thud shocked everyone present.

Liu, the chief engineer of the prestigious China Military Industry Institute, known as a "national treasure," suddenly collapsed to his knees and knelt down before Lin Chen!

His old face was already streaked with tears, and his expression was so agitated that he was almost delirious.

"That's right... absolutely right..."

"High-frequency resonance... How could I not have thought of that! How could I not have thought of that!"

Engineer Liu pounded the ground with his fist, his voice filled with regret and lingering fear, but even more so with a kind of fanatical fervor, as if he had heard the truth in the morning and was ready to die in the evening.

He suddenly raised his head and looked up at Lin Chen.

"Sir! Please accept my bow!"

"No! Please accept me as your apprentice!"

This kneeling seemed to drain all the sound from the scene.

The mocking expression on Director Wang's face, which had been waiting to see a good show, froze completely.

His mouth was slightly open, his eyes were almost bulging out of their sockets, and the color of his face changed from blue to purple, finally turning into an ugly liver color.

He felt his face being slapped with a burning pain by an invisible hand.

No place to be self-contained.

Su Qingge stood at the back of the crowd, watching the man who remained calm and composed amidst the condemnation of thousands, using his uncanny deduction skills to reverse the situation.

Her clear, cool eyes sparkled with a strange light.

At that moment, Lin Chen's tall and straight back seemed to grow ever taller in her eyes.