241: Chapter 241 Don't ask if it's stable, just ask if it's directly connected to the grid for power supply.

The next day, Lu Li took the results of the core analysis to Jingzhou.

The location was the courtyard where Elder Wu usually worked.

From the outside, it looked unassuming, but inside, it was so quiet that even the sound of the wind blowing through the leaves was clear.

When Lu Li entered, Elder Wu was already waiting for him.

The old man sat behind his desk, wearing the same dark coat, with hot tea on the table, as well as the analysis summary that Lu Li had sent over.

"Sit."

Elder Wu raised his hand, wasting no words.

After Lu Li sat down, he went straight to restating the most core anomalies.

Google Virtual Helmet.

Tesla Robot.

This isn't just ordinary catching up.

It's a sudden leap at certain key nodes.

He spoke quickly, but the more Elder Wu listened, the tighter his brows furrowed.

After Lu Li finished speaking, the room fell silent for a few seconds.

Elder Wu slowly set down his teacup, his voice low and heavy.

"Do you suspect there's an internal problem?"

"I suspected it at first," Lu Li nodded, "but looking at it now, it doesn't seem like it."

Elder Wu grunted in acknowledgment, then pushed another document over.

"I've checked on my end, too."

Lu Li looked down at it.

The document wasn't thick, but its weight was significant.

"The national security department already ran a background check on your core members yesterday."

"Entry and exit records, communications, abnormal capital flows, extended family relationships, terminal usage logs, traces of external contact—everything was checked."

"No issues have been found so far."

Lu Li's eyes darkened slightly.

Elder Wu continued:

"None of the core members have any obvious traces of contact with overseas personnel."

"If they really sold out, Guanghui Technology couldn't possibly leave no traces at all."

This sentence effectively settled the matter.

It wasn't an internal betrayal.

But precisely because it wasn't, the situation was even more suspicious.

Lu Li leaned back in his chair, remaining silent.

Elder Wu glanced at him, his eyes showing a hint of genuine gravity.

"A technology company isn't a ghost."

"If they really made it, they'll always leave a trail."

"R&D chains, supply chains, company background, testing chains, capital injection, personnel turnover—all of these can be investigated."

"I will have intelligence personnel follow those leads."

He paused here, his tone softening slightly.

"Don't be anxious for now."

"Continue with the pace here in the country as usual."

"The Anti-gravity flying vehicle, Nuclear Fusion, and subsequent releases—proceed as planned."

"Since the other side has played their hand, it shows that they are anxious too."

Lu Li nodded.

"Understood."

The two discussed a few more details before Lu Li got up to leave.

Elder Wu saw him to the door and patted him on the shoulder before he left.

"The sky won't fall."

"If there really is a ghost, it will be rooted out sooner or later."

Lu Li smiled but said nothing.

But when he came out of the courtyard and got into his car, the slight relaxation on his face slowly faded away.

The car door closed.

The world suddenly quieted down.

He leaned back in the backseat alone, his gaze falling outside the window. After two seconds, the pale blue system panel that only he could see slowly emerged before his eyes.

[Main Mission: Promote the Dragon Country to the top of the Blue Planet]

[Current Progress: Continuously Improving]

[Phase Evaluation: Advantage Expanding, but Global Confrontation Intensifying]

Lu Li stared at those lines of text for a long time.

It seems that making the country truly reach the top is not as simple as he originally thought.

He has the system.

He has his memories from his past life.

With his cheat in hand, he was able to throw out so many cross-era technologies all at once in such a short time.

Yet the United States was actually able to react in such a short time, bringing out the Virtual Helmet and Robot one after another to check him.

This is no longer as simple as just having "deep hidden cards."

Lu Li narrowed his eyes.

A thought, extremely absurd yet impossible for him to dismiss outright, suddenly popped up.

Could it be...

That there is also a technician who has been reborn on the other side?

When this thought first emerged, even he felt it was outrageous.

But the more outrageous it was, the better it could explain this series of unreasonable leaps before him.

The car cabin was very quiet.

The driver in front remained silent, as if he couldn't feel the air pressure in the backseat gradually sinking.

Lu Li watched the passing city streetscape outside the window and suddenly chuckled softly.

"If that is really the case..."

"Then things have become more interesting than I thought."

...

Time quickly reached mid-December.

Domestic discussions about the Anti-gravity flying vehicle had originally been as hot as a boiling pot.

Everyone thought the next most explosive news would be the flying vehicle press conference in early January.

But no one expected that before Guanghui Technology had officially paved the way in the sky, the state level had thrown something even more ruthless over the heads of the whole world.

Two days ago.

An official announcement, without any buildup or prior leaks, was posted directly on the news homepage—

[The Dragon Country's first commercial-grade Nuclear Fusion Power Plant will officially launch in two days.]

A short sentence.

It first left domestic netizens stunned.

Subsequently, the entire internet seemed to have been doused with a bucket of boiling oil, instantly exploding.

"????? "

"Did I misread the characters? A Nuclear Fusion Power Plant???"

"No, isn't Nuclear Fusion still in the experimental stage? Now you're telling me directly that even a power plant has been implemented?!"

"Are you kidding me? Didn't the news recently mention something about maintaining it for a few hundred seconds?"

"There's more than a floor's difference between a few hundred seconds and a power plant, right?!"

"Holy crap, is this really not an April Fool's joke?!"

The first reaction of domestic netizens wasn't ecstasy, but confusion.

Because this step was too big.

So big that many people didn't even have time to get excited, first doubting whether they had misread the news headline.

You must know, in the impression of the vast majority of people, Nuclear Fusion is still that kind of ultimate technical concept hanging high above.

Maintaining it for a few hundred seconds in a laboratory is enough to brag about for a while.

Yet now the official statement comes out, skipping over buffer words like "continuous breakthroughs," "gradual verification," and "pilot implementation," and fiercely charging straight to the front—

A power plant.

And it's not a concept station.

Not a demonstration reactor.

It is a Nuclear Fusion Power Plant that will be publicly launched, connected to the grid, and supplying power to the city in two days.

This news, not to mention ordinary netizens, even many industry insiders felt it was a bit outrageous at first glance.

Domestically, it was just shock.

On the foreign internet, the reaction was more direct.

At first, it was disbelief.

Subsequently, it was mass mockery.

The title of a hot post on a certain United States forum was extremely glaring—

[Is the Dragon Country crazy? They actually claim to have built a Nuclear Fusion Power Plant]

The comment section below was full of ridicule.

"Do they think Nuclear Fusion is child's play?"

"Nuclear Fission isn't something everyone can play with, and now they dare to go straight to a Nuclear Fusion Power Plant?"

"I bet this is just a political show."

"The reactor will probably extinguish before the live stream even ends."

"Didn't they just announce maintaining it for a few hundred seconds? Now you tell me they can already provide stable commercial power? Are they treating the whole world like idiots?"

There were also many so-called "experts" who jumped out, putting on a face of serious analysis.

"Judging from the current progress of human controllable Nuclear Fusion technology, this news from the Dragon Country has almost no credibility."

"From laboratory data to a commercial-grade power plant, the gap in between is a complete industrial era, not a threshold that can be crossed in two or three years."

"If they really dare to live stream it, it will most likely become a demonstration of a global-scale technical accident."

Some people even started counting down in advance.

"Come on, let's see how many seconds this so-called Nuclear Fusion Power Plant can last."

"I bet three hundred seconds."

"Be optimistic, five hundred seconds, no more."

"If it can run stably for ten minutes, I'll eat an electric meter on live stream."

Netizens from India were as abstract as ever.

Someone posted seriously:

"You are wrong, the Dragon Country didn't build the Nuclear Fusion Power Plant in their country at all; they must have built it on the far side of the moon. After all, we can land on the sun at night, so it's reasonable for them to secretly generate electricity on the far side of the moon."

Surprisingly, there were still a bunch of people below following along with laughter.