67: With the help of Tiangong, the design of the lithography machine was completed in just one day!

When Lu Chen's seemingly casual yet terrifying rhetorical question clearly entered heavenly craft's super brain, composed of infinite data.

heavenly craft's perfect virtual face showed for the first time the frozen expression that a computer exhibits when it encounters an unresolvable logical paradox.

They don't need to complete the task within three months?!

Then why did the Master previously issue a military pledge, hold a pep rally, and push those national treasure-level Old Academicians to the brink of exhaustion? What was he doing? Playing a trick on them?!

[Master...]

heavenly craft's usually clear and nimble voice, for the first time, carried a hint of human-like confusion and bewilderment.

[I, don't quite understand your intentions.]

"Don't understand?"

Lu Chen smiled.

He gently tapped his super brain, which had been enhanced by the system, with his finger.

A mischievous smile appeared on his face.

"heavenly craft, heavenly craft."

"Although you are very smart."

"There's one thing you'll never learn."

"That is..."

"Human nature."

"Hmm?" heavenly craft tilted her cute little head.

"Sometimes."

Lu Chen looked at the project progress bars on the light screen, which, though slow, were still stubbornly advancing, and said lightly:

"A seemingly impossible goal."

"A grudge held in one's heart for decades, impossible to swallow."

"Is far more effective than any generous material reward in stimulating a team's..."

"Potential."

"What I want is not for them to build a lithography machine for me within three months."

"But..."

A profound look, unbefitting his age, flashed in his eyes!

"I want to use this opportunity!"

"To completely stir up the stagnant water of our Xia Kingdom's entire chip industry!"

"I want them to unleash unprecedented cohesion and creativity in this extreme race against time!"

"I want them to personally break the ideological shackles that have plagued them for decades!"

"To make them truly believe—"

"There is nothing that we, people of Xia Kingdom, cannot achieve in this world!"

A hint of realization flashed in heavenly craft's intelligent eyes.

She seemed to understand a little, and yet, not quite.

"As for the lithography machine itself..."

Lu Chen smiled, a "naturally so" expression on his face.

"When did I ever say I was going to rely on them to build it?"

"Eh?!"

heavenly craft's perfect virtual face instantly filled with huge question marks!

Not rely on them? Then, who?!

A terrifying thought, one that made her super brain, composed of infinite data, tremble, instantly surfaced!

"That's right."

Lu Chen seemed to read her mind and nodded calmly.

"It's exactly as you think."

He extended a finger and gently tapped heavenly craft's smooth, full virtual forehead.

A smile, full of confidence and pride, curved on his lips.

"heavenly craft."

"Don't forget."

"You are my true..."

"Trump card."

...The next day.

When Old Qian, Li Zhenbang, and a group of Old Academicians, whose eyes were bloodshot and on the verge of collapse from staying up all night grappling with core problems like the "light source system" and "workpiece stage," once again entered the control room with solemn expressions, preparing to "beg for punishment" from Academician Lu.

They saw a scene that would be etched in their memories forever.

In the spacious control room.

There were only Lu Chen and heavenly craft, two individuals.

Oh, no.

One person and one artificial intelligence.

They stood on either side of the enormous holographic screen.

The screen displayed a complex design drawing they had never seen before, brimming with ultimate precision and the beauty of industry!

It was the complete three-dimensional model of a 3-nanometer EUV Lithography Machine!

"This is?!"

Old Qian pointed at the design drawing, not even understanding a single component, his voice trembling!

"Academician Lu..."

"Where did you... get this?!"

"Get?"

Lu Chen smiled and pointed to the ethereal virtual figure standing "obediently" beside him.

"It wasn't gotten."

"It's something we spent a little bit of time on last night..."

"Just drew it casually."

“...”

The entire control room once again fell into a deathly silence.

All the Old Academicians who had just walked in were completely petrified, as if struck hard on the crown of their heads by a purple divine lightning bolt from beyond the nine heavens!

Drawn out?!

And it only took "a little bit" of time?!

You call this industrial miracle, the highest crystallization of modern industry's wisdom...

"Just a casual drawing"?!

This... how can anyone live like this?!

"No... impossible!"

Old Qian was the first to recover from the immense shock!

He rushed to the screen like a madman, his cloudy old eyes filled with unbelievable horror!

"This is absolutely impossible!"

"Just the power stability issue of the 'Extreme Ultraviolet Light Source' is a global challenge!"

"We've been working day and night for the past month and only barely managed to stabilize the power at 250 watts!"

"And ASML's latest publicly announced data is only 350 watts!"

"The stable power marked on your design drawing is actually..."

"500 watts?!"

"Do you think you're a god?!"

His roar, full of doubt, instantly awakened all the Old Academicians present!

That's right! Theory!

This is just theory! Just a design drawing that looks very impressive! It must be flashy but impractical! It's simply impossible to achieve!

In reality, it must be flashy but impractical! It's simply impossible to achieve!

However, facing everyone's doubts, Lu Chen didn't even bat an eyelid.

He calmly gave an instruction to the artificial intelligence beside him.

"heavenly craft."

"Show the simulation animation of the 'supercritical carbon dioxide laser plasma' light source solution to all the Old Seniors..."

"Demonstrate it."

[Yes, Master.]

heavenly craft nodded.

She gently snapped her fingers.

The next second!

The static lithography machine model on the huge holographic screen instantly came to life!

A three-dimensional simulation animation, full of violent aesthetics, clearly appeared before everyone's eyes!

They saw it!

They saw it with their own eyes!

A liquid "tin" droplet, a hundred times thinner than a strand of hair, was precisely injected into the vacuum target chamber!

Then!

Two ultra-high power carbon dioxide laser beams precisely struck the tin droplet at an incredible angle and frequency!

Instantly!

That tin droplet was vaporized into a super-hot plasma with a temperature of hundreds of thousands of degrees!

And in that one-ten-thousandth of a second!

A brilliant extreme ultraviolet beam, with a wavelength of only 13.5 nanometers!

Like God's scalpel!

Precisely shot out from it!

Its stable power was indeed 500 watts!

The entire process flowed smoothly!

Filled with ultimate violent aesthetics and undeniable scientific truth!

"This... this this"

Old Qian pointed at the scene on the screen, which could only be described as a "miracle," his lips trembling, unable to utter a complete sentence!

His cloudy old eyes were filled with groundbreaking horror and prostrate reverence!

The global challenge that he and his team had racked their brains over for so long, turning their hair white, was actually solved by an artificial intelligence in such a simple, crude, and incredible way?!

The global challenge that he and his team had racked their brains over for so long, turning their hair white, was actually solved by an artificial intelligence in such a simple, crude, and incredible way?!

Meanwhile, Lu Chen acted as if he had done something insignificant.

He looked at the group of Old Academicians, who were completely petrified, and smiled faintly.

"Seniors."

"Now..."

"Are there any more questions?"