63: The lithography machine project has been launched! This time, we're going to shock the world!

"Are you willing?!"

When Lu Chen's final question, full of hope and fire, struck the hearts of all the Xia Nation scientists present like a divine hammer splitting the heavens!

The entire lecture hall erupted!

"We are willing!"

"We are willing!"

"Damn it! I'm entrusting my hundred-year-old bones to you today!"

"Isn't it just three months?! Let's do it!"

"From today onwards! The lab is my home! No one can drag me out of here!"

Roars filled with solemnity and determination!

Angry shouts powerful enough to change the very color of mountains and rivers!

Resounded throughout the entire Kunlun Mountain Underground Base!

That was the unwillingness suppressed for decades!

That was the anger from decades of humiliation!

That was the indomitable battle cry of an ancient nation, rising again after countless falls!

Today!

They will stake all their honor and lives!

Accompanying this eighteen-year-old youth before them!

To go crazy once!

To create a miracle that will make the entire world tremble!

...That afternoon.

A top-level 'Red Mobilization Order,' personally signed by Chief No. 1, was disseminated to all core departments of Xia Nation at an unprecedented speed!

[Order!]

[Effective immediately! All scientific research units, all universities, all military industrial enterprises, all national strategic assets throughout the country!]

[Must unconditionally cooperate with all demands of the 'Kua Fu' chip project team!]

[Provide personnel if needed! Provide money if needed! Provide equipment if needed!]

[Exert all efforts!]

[At all costs!]

[Within three months!]

[I want to see our Xia Nation's own... in the Kunlun Mountain Underground Base...]

[EUV Lithography Machine!]

Boom!!!

This was no longer a simple mobilization order!

This was a declaration of a general assault on the 'chip,' the most difficult Mount Everest in human technological history!

In an instant!

The entire Xia Nation, this vast and precise national machine, began to operate frantically with terrifying efficiency!

Countless top talents!

Countless most precious materials!

Countless most advanced equipment!

Converged frantically from all directions towards Kunlun Mountain, this obscure little place!

The momentum!

It was even more exaggerated than the 'Two Bombs, One Satellite' project back then!

Even more insane!

...And as the commander-in-chief of this unprecedented 'Technological Grand Battle'.

Lu Chen once again demonstrated his terrifying, almost 'monstrous' coordination abilities!

"heavenly craft!"

He stood in the center of the control room, his dark eyes gleaming with calm and wisdom!

"Decompose the 150,000 core components of the EUV Lithography Machine, all design drawings, and manufacturing processes into 1,300 different project modules!"

[Instruction received.]

heavenly craft's ethereal virtual figure instantly appeared before him.

[Modules decomposed!]

"Very good."

Lu Chen nodded.

"Assign the 10% most difficult 'Light Source System' and 'Optical Lens' modules to our pangu team to be personally responsible for!"

"The remaining 90% of conventional modules will be distributed to the top 100 scientific research units and military industrial enterprises nationwide in the form of 'technical bidding'!"

"Tell them!"

"I don't care what methods they use!"

"Within two months!"

"I must see all qualified components in Kunlun Mountains!"

"Those who fail to complete the task..."

A coldradian curved his lips.

"Let them figure it out themselves!"

[Yes, Master.]

heavenly craft nodded, a hint of fervent adoration flashing in her intelligent eyes!

She knew.

Her young master.

Was playing a monumental game that would make the whole world tremble!

And she would be the sharpest and most obedient piece in his hand!

...Meanwhile.

As Xia Nation, this war machine, began to operate frantically.

Thousands of miles away in the Western Alliance.

They were still immersed in the immense ecstasy of soon acquiring the core technology of the Super Battery!

Langley, CIA Headquarters.

"Report, Director!"

Jack Anderson, with an excited, fawning smile, rushed into Burns's office!

"Professor Hans has returned!"

"And he brought back a piece of incredibly good news!"

"Oh?"

Burns looked up, a glint of shrewdness flashing in his hawk-like eyes!

"He said that the core of the Xia Nation's so-called 'pangu' is actually just an eighteen-year-old kid!"

"And that kid is as stupid as a brainless pig!"

"Professor Hans merely used a small trick to extract all the core technology of the 'Super Battery' from his mouth!"

"Now the technical data has been sent to our 'Eagle of Liberty' laboratory!"

"Professor Hans has made a military pledge!"

"At most, half a year!"

"He will be able to build a more superior performing... for our Western Alliance..."

"Super Battery!"

"Hahahahahaha!"

Burns couldn't hold back any longer after hearing this!

He suddenly stood up from his chair, bursting into a hearty, arrogant laughter!

"Good! Excellent!"

"Foolish Xia Nation people!"

"Do you really think that by getting a bit of dumb luck and developing some new technology, you can turn the world upside down?!"

"In the end, you still have to obediently make wedding dresses for us!"

He walked to the huge floor-to-ceiling window, looking at the prosperous streetscape outside, which symbolized the supreme hegemony of the Western Alliance.

His eyes were filled with the playful cruelty of a cat toying with a mouse!

"Deliver my order!"

He turned around and said coldly to Anderson:

"Let our 'friends' planted in 'ASML' company begin their actions."

"ASML"?

Anderson was stunned.

That was the only super giant in the world capable of producing EUV Lithography Machines!

"Tell them."

Burns's lips curved into a cold arc.

"From today onwards!"

"Impose the strictest technological blockade on Xia Nation!"

"Forget about EUV Lithography Machines!"

"Not even a tiny screw!"

"Is allowed to be sold to them again!"

"I want to let those foolish Xia Nation people know!"

"Without the 'grace' of our Western Alliance!"

"They..."

"Cannot even produce a single hair!"

"I want them to live forever in the darkness without high-end chips!"

He didn't know.

Just as he uttered these words full of arrogance and prejudice.

Thousands of miles away.

That young man, whom he called a "foolish yellow-skinned monkey."

Was standing at the peak of Kunlun Mountains.

Overlooking the vast base, dormant like a giant dragon, beneath his feet.

His eyes were filled with the domineering aura of one who surveys all under heaven!

A faint hint of disdain curved his lips.

"Blockade?"

"Who gave you the courage?"

He turned around and looked at the vast eastern sky.

A brand new red sun was rising slowly!

Completely tearing apart the boundless darkness!

His voice was not loud.

Yet it was like a divine oracle that opened up the heavens!

Clearly echoing between this vast heaven and earth!

"This world..."

"From today onwards..."

"It's time for a new game."