13: The experiment was a success! Academician Li immediately wanted to become his apprentice!

Facing Long Weiguo's incredibly solemn inquiry, Lu Chen just smiled faintly.

He put down the light pen in his hand, turned around, and his gaze swept calmly across the conference room, over those pairs of eyes belonging to the top brains of the Xia Kingdom, which were still in a state of system crash.

"My next step?"

"Very simple."

He held up three fingers.

"Three days."

"Give me three days, as well as... a P3-level materials science laboratory, and absolute command."

"Three days later, I will turn what you see now, what is written on the screen, into... a physical object you can touch."

His voice was not loud, but it exploded in everyone's ears like detonating thunderclaps!

Three days?

Turn such a subversive theory into a physical object?!

This... how is this possible!

"Nonsense!"

Academician Li Zhenbang, who had previously been reduced to silence by Lu Chen's "lesson," jumped up like a cat whose tail had been stepped on!

However, this time, his tone was no longer one of questioning and anger, but a kind of... anxiety born of frustration at someone's failure to meet expectations!

"Young man, I admit that you are an unparalleled genius in theory! But you underestimate the distance between theory and practice!"

"Do you know how many processes are required to prepare 'mesoporous carbon nanofibers'? Do you know how complex equipment debugging for 'atomic deposition' is? Do you know..."

"I know."

Lu Chen interrupted him cleanly and decisively.

He looked at this hot-tempered but incredibly serious Old Academician regarding science, and for the first time, showed a serious expression.

"Academician Li, I know what you are worried about."

"But please trust me."

"For me, there is no distance between theory and practice."

His eyes were calm, yet they contained a kind of unquestionable, god-like absolute confidence!

Li Zhenbang was choked by his gaze, and the rest of his words were forcibly blocked back.

Long Weiguo took a deep look at Lu Chen, and then slammed the table!

"Good!"

"Never mind three days, I'll give you five!"

"Never mind a P3 laboratory; I will have the Academy of Sciences' top-tier P4 materials laboratory transferred for your use!"

"Whatever personnel you need, whatever equipment you need, make a list right now! Within an hour, I guarantee everything will be delivered to you!"

He looked at Lu Chen, his eyes burning with a flame called "high-stakes gamble"!

"I, Long Weiguo, bet on it!"

"I am betting the entire future of the Dragon Shield Bureau on your ability to create... a miracle in these three days!"

...

Three days later.

Five hundred meters underground at the Dragon Shield Bureau headquarters, in a P4-level, ultra-clean dust materials science laboratory.

The atmosphere was so oppressive it was almost frozen.

Long Weiguo, Zhang Jingtong, Academician Li Zhenbang... all the bigwigs of the Xia Kingdom's scientific and military circles were wearing thick sterile suits, crowding outside the laboratory's observation window like a group of prisoners awaiting judgment, staring fixedly at the scene inside.

In the center of the laboratory, the young man in a white research uniform was methodically carrying out the final operations.

Over the past seventy-two hours, Lu Chen had almost never closed his eyes.

He was like the most precise, tireless supercomputer, leading the entire experimental process.

On the first day, it took him only one hour to list a dense, thirty-page list of equipment and materials.

The Dragon Shield Bureau's energy was utilized to the extreme; countless rare materials and top-tier equipment were urgently airlifted from all over the country, and even from overseas.

On the second day, he began to guide the group of experts and professors who were usually arrogant and aloof to carry out the preliminary preparation of materials.

At first, almost everyone held a skeptical attitude toward his operating methods.

"Nonsense! How can the temperature of 'Chemical Vapor Deposition' exceed one thousand degrees? The structure of graphene will be destroyed!"

"The ratio of this catalyst is completely wrong! It is impossible to synthesize the polymer we want!"

"Stop! Hurry up and stop! If this continues, this 'molecular printer' worth thirty million will be scrapped!"

Voices of questioning rose and fell.

Academician Li Zhenbang, in particular, had almost shouted until his throat was hoarse.

But Lu Chen's response was always just one word: "Do."

He didn't even bother to explain.

Because the knowledge in his brain was at least fifty years ahead of this era!

Explaining to them was no different from a modern chemist running to explain the "Periodic Table of Elements" to an ancient alchemist.

It was completely like talking to a brick wall!

Under Long Weiguo's strict order to "obey all commands," although the experts were full of complaints, they could only hold their noses and follow Lu Chen's steps, which they considered "unorthodox," step by step.

Then... a miracle happened.

"My God! We succeeded! We really prepared flawless single-layer graphene at an ultra-high temperature of 1100 degrees!"

"This... how is this possible?! This ratio... actually synthesized a highly stable polysulfide polymer! This completely subverts polymer chemistry!"

"Report! The thickness test results for the 'ion thin film' are out... 2.8 nanometers! We... we really did it!"

Exclamations, like sleep-talking, rose and fell in the laboratory!

Those experts and professors who were full of complaints earlier were now all looking at the young man standing in front of the console as if they were looking at a monster!

Their eyes turned from skepticism to shock.

From shock, it turned to awe.

Finally, it turned into... fanatical worship that threw them prostrate on the ground!

A god!

This was no longer science!

This was theology!

And now, it was the final moment to witness the "miracle"!

Under everyone's gaze, Lu Chen carefully placed a silver-gray thin piece, only the size of a fingernail, into the battery performance tester.

"Start the test."

He pressed the button.

The screen on the instrument lit up instantly!

Everyone's heart jumped into their throats!

【Voltage detection... normal!】

【Current detection... normal!】

【Cycle life estimate... greater than 50,000 times!】

【Final energy density detection in progress...】

On the screen, a number representing energy density began to soar wildly!

100Wh/kg!

300Wh/kg! — Surpassing the limit of existing lithium batteries!

500Wh/kg!

800Wh/kg!

Finally!

In the instant everyone's pupils contracted to the limit!

That number steadily stopped at a value that would make the whole world tremble!

【1024Wh/kg!】

Success!

Inside the laboratory, there was first a dead silence.

Then, a heaven-shaking cheer, like a tsunami, erupted!

"Success! We succeeded!"

"Hahahaha! One kilowatt-hour per kilogram! We have created history!"

Countless white-haired scientists, at this moment, hugged each other like children, weeping with joy!

And outside the observation window, on Long Weiguo's firm face, two lines of hot tears also flowed down!

He clenched his fists tightly, his nails digging into his flesh, but he didn't even notice!

He knew that from this moment on!

The Xia Kingdom would completely break free from the shackles of energy!

A brand new era belonging to the Xia Kingdom had arrived!

Just when everyone was immersed in immense ecstasy, an old figure suddenly "thumped" and knelt on the ground!

Everyone was stunned!

They looked in the direction of the sound and saw Academician Li Zhenbang, a titan of the engineering world in the Xia Kingdom, at this moment, actually... actually, performing a... formal apprenticeship ceremony toward the young man in the center of the laboratory who still had a calm face!

His face was covered in tears, his voice was hoarse, but he was filled with unprecedented piety!

"Lu... Teacher Lu!"

"Please... take me as your disciple!"

"I, Li Zhenbang, am willing to perform the disciple's rites, serve by your side, and listen to your teachings!"

"Please... do not despise me for... being dull!"