Scholar's Advanced Technological System

Jinling Institute for Advanced Study.

A piece of large experimental equipment shaped like a barrel lying on its side was inside a laboratory.

There were three console displays next to this “barrel”.

A group of workers wearing dust-free and anti-static clothing stood in front of the console. They nervously operated this equipment under the command of Professor Wu Tianqun.

Director Li was observing everything from a distance, and he looked emotional as he put his hands behind his back.

After a couple of minutes, the director suddenly spoke to Lu Zhou.

“The Americans screwed us.”

Lu Zhou glanced at him and spoke.

“Screwed?”

Director Li nodded.

“Yeah, haven’t you noticed? They dismissed the Department of Commerce investigation against Star Sky Technology on the grounds of insufficient evidence, but that’s not the whole story. Once the Department of Commerce collects enough evidence, they can restart the investigation… That is totally a possibility.”

Lu Zhou nodded his head.

Damn these Americans are sneaky.

Quite an annoying tactic.

Basically, the White House could restart the antitrust investigation any time they wanted.

However, Lu Zhou wasn’t worried about this. After all, Chen Yushan had probably thought of a solution already.

Why should he worry about this…

When he had a CEO?

Seeing how Lu Zhou was unfazed, Director Li paused for a second and spoke.

“The Americans are coming after our high-tech companies. Their ideal Chinese companies are companies that claim to be high tech, but work at the low end of the industrial chain and have the smallest profit margins. Once our companies surpass them in a field, they’ll feel the pressure and fight back.

“I’d be willing to bet that within two years after the California nuclear core is delivered, they’ll be able to figure out the secrets of controllable fusion reactors and start attacking again.

“But you don’t have to worry too much.”

Lu Zhou carelessly smiled and spoke.

“Actually, I talked about this with Academician Wang Zengguang and Pan Changhong. We don’t judge others on their worst days, but we should always be prepared. When push comes to shove, we must ensure that we have the initiative.”

Director Li started to feel nervous.

“You’re not telling me that you left a back door in the nuclear core, right?”

Director Li wasn’t against doing this, but Lu Zhou doing this on his own initiative would be a little too scary. It would be like a citizen having their own nuclear switch.

“You’re overthinking. How would that even be possible?” Lu Zhou smiled as Director Li sighed in relief. He said, “Also, there’s no need for that…

“The controllable fusion reactor control scheme and the plasma turbulence control scheme are written by us.”

It would be extremely easy to make the control scheme do some funny stuff.

Director Li spoke.

“Oh, I see, I thought you left something inside the nuclear core.”

Lu Zhou laughed.

“Why would I do that?”

While they were speaking, the experiment was over.

The slowly rotating barrel stopped, a metal slot popped out, revealing a thumbnail-sized chip in front of the researchers.

This wasn’t their first time succeeding.

Even though they were excited, no one cheered.

Professor Wu Tianqun skillfully removed the chip from the metal slot and carefully loaded it into a brown glass vessel. He then turned toward Director Li and Lu Zhou.

“The experiment was successful.

“So far, we’ve been able to create chips with 3 million transistors per square millimeter. Even though this is just a laboratory experiment, we’re getting closer and closer to 30 million. Also, we’ve found a way to improve the integration of the transistors…

“I’m sure that we’ll be able to achieve our goal within a year!

“Good job.”

Lu Zhou nodded toward Professor Wu Tianqun and took the brown glass from his hand. He then handed it to Director Li.

Director Li took the brown glass container and carefully examined it for a while. He then handed it to the secretary standing behind him.

He watched the secretary carefully place the chip into a metal suitcase. He then looked at Lu Zhou and spoke solemnly.

“I’ll take it back to Beijing and hand it over to the experts at the Institute of Semiconductors!”

Lu Zhou nodded.

“Thank you.”

Even though the experiment was successful, one sample was not enough. After some data collection, Professor Wu Tianqun quickly began the next set of experiments.

Lu Zhou and Director Li had nothing else to do here; they turned around and left the laboratory.

Director Li suddenly remembered something and spoke to Lu Zhou.

“Oh yeah, you plan on going to St. Petersburg in August?”

Lu Zhou gave him a strange look.

“Yeah, is there a problem?”

“No problem, traveling is good. You’ll be the representative of our academic community.” Director Li smiled and said, “Speaking of which, did you receive military training in college?”

Lu Zhou said, “Of course, it’s mandatory.”

That counted toward my GPA!

“I guess… What about shooting training?”

“I haven’t… Just tell me what you want…” Lu Zhou sighed and said, “You must want something from me.”

“Hey! Am I that kind of person?” The old man smiled and said, “But I do have something I need you to do, it’s for your own good.”

“What?”

“Even though our security department has been in contact with Russian personnel, accidents still happen, right? After all, you’re not just an ordinary scholar anymore; if anything happens, it’ll be a loss to humanity—”

Lu Zhou: “Just say it.”

Director Li smiled awkwardly and said, “Just let our guys train you for a week. We don’t expect you to defend yourself, but it’ll make it easier for us to rescue you.”

Lu Zhou: “…?!”

What the hell?