62: I will end Xia Guo's "chip pain" today!

"How many units do you want?"

When Lu Chen's calm yet terrifyingly weighty words, enough to make the entire top echelon of China suffocate, clearly reached his ears through the highest-level encrypted line.

On the other end of the phone, there was a long, deathly silence.

That heart, which had long been tempered as hard as rock by countless storms and trials!

At this moment, it unexpectedly began to pound wildly... and uncontrollably!

He could even clearly hear his own breathing, which had become incredibly heavy due to extreme excitement!

He knew!

From the moment Lu Chen uttered those words!

That problem, which had plagued China for generations!

That chip pain, which weighed like an unshakeable mountain on the hearts of all Chinese researchers!

Would completely become history!

He took a deep breath, forcefully suppressing the tumultuous excitement!

His voice was hoarse yet filled with unprecedented determination!

"I don't need many!"

"I just need a quantity that will allow all of our China's mobile phones, computer servers, and even aircraft carriers and satellites to use our own 'China Chip'!"

"Understood!"

Lu Chen nodded heavily!

He knew!

This was a military order being given to him!

A technological national war where only victory was allowed, no defeat!

...The next day.

Kunlun Mountain Underground Base, Multi-function Report Hall No. 1.

This time, it was even more crowded than last time!

All of China's top optical experts, materials scientists, precision manufacturing experts, and even those national treasure-level elders who had long retired to enjoy their old age, were all "invited" from across the country by a highest-level conscription order!

Every face was filled with solemnity and tragic determination!

They were all witnesses to the development of China's chip industry!

And they were all witnesses to that history filled with humiliation and bitterness!

They had once toiled until their hair turned white to overcome a tiny photoresist technology!

They had once humbled themselves and endured countless sneers just to buy a second-hand lithography machine discarded by the Western Alliance!

They had once watched helplessly as the chips they had painstakingly researched and developed were mercilessly labeled "junk" due to their outdated performance!

That sense of grievance, that unwillingness, that hatred in their hearts!

Had accumulated for decades!

Today!

The reason they had gathered here again!

Was because they heard that an eighteen-year-old youth!

Was going to lead them to fight an unprecedented comeback battle!

To personally end that damned history of humiliation!

As Lu Chen's slightly slender figure slowly walked onto the chairman's stand.

The entire report hall, which had originally been filled with a "tragic" atmosphere, instantly fell silent.

All the white-haired Old Academicians and senior experts looked up, gazing at the excessively young man with extremely complex eyes.

There was doubt. There was scrutiny.

But more than that, there was a nearly desperate hope!

They had truly failed too many times.

They had truly waited too long.

They truly hoped.

That this young man, who had created countless "miracles".

Could create another true miracle for them!

Lu Chen stood quietly in the center of the chairman's stand.

He didn't waste any words.

He simply surveyed the hall calmly, taking in all the cloudy old eyes below, filled with tragic determination and expectation.

Then, he bowed deeply to all the seniors below who had dedicated their lives to China's chip industry.

He bowed deeply.

"Seniors."

His voice wasn't loud, but it struck everyone's heart like a thousand-pound hammer!

"I know."

"In the past few decades."

"You have suffered grievances."

A simple sentence.

But it instantly made the eyes of those tough men below, who bled and sweated but never cried, turn red!

"We clearly have the smartest brains in the world!"

"We clearly have the most diligent people in the world!"

"We clearly have the strongest national will in the world!"

"Even our fighter jets and aircraft carriers, which defend our homeland, have to consider others' opinions!"

"This feeling..."

He suddenly looked up, his dark eyes burning with a raging inferno capable of incinerating everything!

"I, Lu Chen!"

"Have had enough!"

"Today!"

"I stand here to tell all the seniors present!"

"To tell all those petty individuals who are still imposing technological blockades on us!"

"To tell the whole world! China's chip pain, from today onwards! Will be ended by me!"

His words were decisive!

Resounding!

Filled with an unparalleled domineering aura of 'who else but me'!

It instantly reignited the flame of hope in the hearts of all the old experts below, which had long been extinguished by countless failures!

"Good!"

"Well said!"

A white-haired Old Academician slapped his thigh, tears streaming down his face in excitement!

"Kid!"

"I don't care if you're human or god!"

"As long as you can build our own lithography machine!"

"This old life of mine!"

"From today onwards, it's yours to command!"

"That's right! It's his to command!"

"Count me in!"

"And me!"

The entire report hall completely erupted!

All the white-haired old experts were like a group of young soldiers about to rush to the battlefield!

Each and every one was passionately stirred! Their fighting spirit soared!

And Lu Chen, looking at the eyes below, which had reignited with blazing flames, slowly raised his right hand!

His voice was not loud, but it was like a divine oracle that split the heavens!

Clearly echoing in everyone's ears!

"I announce!"

"The 'Kuafu' Chip Project Team is officially established!"

"Our goal is only one!"

"Within three months!"

"Let China's first unit be produced!"

"Now I need your help."

"I need all the wisdom and experience you have accumulated in this lifetime."

"I need you to join me in creating a chip miracle that belongs to our China!"

"Are you willing?!"