I started with a ship full of max-level veterans, and I'm just a complete noob.

The next morning, the parking area in front of the Fifth Academy building was already full of vehicles from various units. The gatekeepers checked the documents one by one, and all the drawings and calculation drafts submitted for review were registered by two people.

When Jiang Ming entered the second-floor corridor carrying a briefcase containing the negatives, Vasily was blocking Qian Xuesen's way, with two Soviet assistants standing behind him holding wax-sealed document boxes.

"Subsequent inertial components, servo materials, and computing accessories all require approval from the technical committee. China's continued delay in signing the agreement means the supply plan will be reassessed."

After the translation was finished, Vasily handed a list of materials to Qian Xuesen, on which several key components were marked as pending in red pen.

His demands went beyond the usual acceptance procedures. The Chinese side had to first acknowledge the advanced nature of the entire set of drawings before skipping the independent machine time review and directly proceeding to production preparation under joint control.

Qian Xuesen only glanced at the first page of the list before closing the document and pointing to the closed doors of the review room.

Whether a drawing can be incorporated into a production model depends on actual engineering measurement data; supply conditions cannot replace technical conclusions.

Vasily pressed for an answer, asking whether China would be willing to bear the progress losses caused by the disruption of component supply if it refused joint control. Qian Xuesen did not give a prior statement on behalf of the meeting, but only asked the translator to write down the opinions of both sides in the record.

As Jiang Ming passed by the two men, Vasily's gaze fell on his briefcase, then quickly shifted to the overall interface document in Ren Xinmin's hand.

The Soviet side has not yet grasped the results of last night's actual test. Its biggest reliance is still on the scale of the drawings, the technical terms, and China's actual needs for subsequent materials.

Inside the venue, several old-school experts were passing around a volume on the guidance computer logic. The merged register and conditional transfer structure was indeed more compact than the old model, and the number of components and power consumption could be significantly reduced.

An expert who had studied in the Soviet Union repeatedly compared the catalog. After seeing the cross-module logic reuse, he took the initiative to introduce to his colleagues the maturity of this structure in the Soviet design system.

"From the master clock to interrupt control, the hierarchy is compressed quite nicely. If we were to review each item one by one, it would take at least several months."

"Joint control can be signed first, and production preparation and supplementary verification can be carried out simultaneously, which can save time."

The major general was already seated in the main seat, with the blue memorandum on his right, a pen pressing down on the signature page, and several officers from the military's demand group were also checking the supply list.

They did not underestimate the risks, but they had to face the challenges of project schedules, material inventory, and testing windows. The Soviet Union chose to exert pressure at this time precisely because it seized upon the reality of having to pay costs every day.

Jiang Ming and Ren Xinmin sat side by side in the back technical section. They only exchanged document numbers and did not discuss the hidden loop before the meeting.

The measured film was kept in Jiang Ming's briefcase, while the Jiuquan clutter density and overall interruption statistics were kept by Ren Xinmin. The two pieces of evidence will be mutually confirmed after questioning at the meeting.

When Vasily entered the meeting room, his displeasure had vanished. He instructed his assistant to install the slides and then personally placed the control timing diagram containing the trap into the slide folder.

After the review began, he started by talking about the overall performance, listing a series of technical indicators such as anti-interference, fault reset, redundancy protection and logic compression.

The translator kept throwing out terms like asynchronous fault tolerance, conditional bypass, and multi-level state preservation. The old-school experts checked the drawings page numbers, and some began writing their approval comments next to the memo summary.

The zero-reset register occupied only a small space in the corner of the slide. Vasily explained it as a safe reset unit for ground maintenance and extreme failures, and then turned the topic to overall efficiency.

The Soviet assistant distributed the new supply annex to the front row. The annex stipulated that after the Chinese side signed the joint control agreement, it could obtain priority access to subsequent device and computing bureau supplementary information.

The discussion in the meeting room gradually shifted towards practical conditions. Several project managers were concerned about how long the existing inventory could last, and some inquired whether China's independent testing rights would be retained after the signing.

Vasily's answers always left room for interpretation, only promising that the Soviet Union would provide the necessary assistance, but refusing to confirm whether the Chinese side could modify the core logic on its own.

The expert who had studied in the Soviet Union stood up again and believed that there were no obvious logical flaws in the current drawings. Joint control was a common arrangement in large-scale cooperative projects, and the principle agreement could be signed first.

The major general picked up his pen, looked past the memo at Qian Xuesen, and waited for the overall technical leader to give his final opinion.

Qian Xuesen did not nod. He turned to the project acceptance section of the agenda, indicating that the guidance group could raise any unresolved review issues.

Ren Xinmin then stood up and placed a blank interrupt response table on the table.

"Please explain, what is the upper limit of the safe response to continuous external interrupts for this architecture? And how does the counter register handle the overflow state after the upper limit is exceeded?"

The translator relayed the question in its entirety. Vasily stopped turning the page, then pointed to the redundancy design specifications, stating that the system could handle all the extreme conditions that live-fire exercises might encounter.

"The zero-reset register serves a protective function. If any abnormality accumulates to a dangerous level, the system will automatically recover without affecting the guidance mission."

Ren Xinmin continued to press for the hardware path and time limit for self-recovery, but Vasily shifted the answer to overall reliability data, claiming that the specific details were in the Soviet design specifications and did not need to be discussed one by one at the joint meeting.

Upon hearing this, Jiang Ming unlocked the two latches on his briefcase and placed the washed waveform films one by one on the table.

The first film recorded the first 511 interrupts, and the master clock and register outputs were all normal. The clock channel on the second film only had a straight line.

"Without the permission of the Technical Committee, China shall not conduct any further testing on the Soviet documents, and these materials are not on today's agenda."

He tried to get staff to turn off the projector in the back row and claimed that adding evidence at the last minute would undermine the joint review process.

The major general's pen was still hanging on the signature page, and several experts who had just advocated for signing had turned to look at the two negatives, and murmurs spread from the front row to the back.

Qian Xuesen picked up the gavel on the table and tapped it once. The meeting room fell silent again. He circled the words "engineering field measurement" in the agenda with a pencil.

"The purpose of today's review is to determine whether the drawings can be adopted for Chinese models. The guidance team has the right to display all the measured results obtained under the nominal conditions."

Before the Soviet assistant could argue further, Qian Xuesen had already signaled the staff to turn on the rear slide projector and handed over the entire presentation time to Ren Xinmin and Jiang Ming.

The major general placed the pen back on the table, pushed the unsigned memorandum away from his right hand, and the military recorder turned to a new page of the meeting minutes.

As Jiang Ming picked up the film and walked toward the podium, Vasily stood beside the projection screen, his palm still pressed against the anti-interference timing diagram.

The two men looked at each other across the projector. The signing process, which the Soviet side had carefully prepared, had been abruptly ended, and every subsequent line would be subject to public recalculation.

Jiang Ming pulled out the logic diagram with the red circle and handed it to the staff.

The Soviet technical explanation on the screen then disappeared, and the zeroing register and the prominent number next to it filled the entire venue.

512.