207: 207. An Absurd Investigation

Lü Chenxing opened the document, and after merely browsing the first few pages detailing the core ideas and the starkly different architectural sketches, his breathing grew heavy, and the shock in his eyes intensified.

Although he didn't fully grasp the technical details, he understood strategic direction and disruptive potential!

Lü Chenxing leaned back abruptly against his chair, taking a long, deep breath. Lu Feng's young yet unfathomable face once again appeared in his mind.

"This Lu Feng... how many more surprises, no, shocks, does he have in store for me?"

He dared not delay, immediately taking the document and personally instructing his secretary to prepare a car, heading directly to the National Chip Engineering Center.

This was the "National Team" of Xia Nation, assembling the country's top chip talents.

Initially, the senior experts who received him expressed some indifference upon hearing that the materials came from a private enterprise.

After all, every day they received various theories claiming to be "disruptive," most of which were impractical fantasies.

"Minister Lü, you are so busy. For such civilian submissions, we can handle them according to procedure..." a white-haired old academician politely said.

However, Lü Chenxing shook his head with a solemn expression: "Gentlemen, this document is different. You must personally review it, concentrating your top talent, and provide me with an assessment as soon as possible."

Seeing Lü Chenxing's seriousness, the experts then set aside their casual attitude, formed a temporary core expert group, and began a closed-door interpretation of the document.

During the first few hours, low-voiced discussions and questions still frequently echoed in the conference room.

"This asynchronous event-driven model... the idea is very bold, but to implement it..."

"Look here, the dynamic reconfiguration unit he proposed, will the hardware overhead be too large? Tsk tsk tsk, why does it seem a bit different?"

"Currently, the internationally recognized best should be Eagle Sauce's titan chip, right? But this data, it seems somewhat similar, yet completely different, is it an illusion?"

"This instruction set, completely starting from scratch, ecological construction is hellish in difficulty, hiss..."

However, as the interpretation deepened, especially when the experts began to use the core ideas explained in the document to inversely deduce and verify the current mainstream international architectures, the questioning voices in the conference room gradually disappeared, replaced by an increasingly intense shock!

A middle-aged expert suddenly slapped the table, excitedly standing up, his voice trembling: "My God! Here! The solution to the cache consistency problem he pointed out here... this, this is simply the most perfect, and most fatal, interpretation of that vague description in the 'titan' architecture! Their hidden core algorithm, was it actually deduced in this way?!"

"Not just here!"

Another expert pointed to the complex logic diagram on the holographic projection, his eyes filled with fervor, "Look at this branch's optimization path! He not only pointed out the direction 'titan' might adopt, but also provided three completely different alternative solutions that can bypass its patent barriers! Each one is feasible!"

"And these... these analyses of existing patent walls and circumvention strategies, terrifyingly precise! This is definitely not just theoretical discussion, this is simply a... a..."

The head of the expert group, the highly respected old academician, trembled as he took off his glasses and vigorously rubbed his reddened eyes.

His voice was hoarse but filled with immense excitement as he continued: "This is a perfect blueprint! Its value far exceeds ten, even a hundred specific design drawings! It includes the opponent's latest core design concepts, implementation ideas for key algorithms, and... and it points us to at least three broad avenues that can bypass all major patent walls!"

"Oh my god!!! Whose masterpiece is this genius?!"

The conference room fell into a brief silence, then erupted in uncontrollable ecstasy!

These experts, who had dedicated half their lives to the nation's chip industry and deeply understood its hardships, were now like travelers who had trekked through the desert for countless days and nights, suddenly seeing an oasis and sweet springs!

The final confidential assessment report from the expert group used extremely excited and affirmative language:

**[Report Conclusion: The strategic value contained in this material is immeasurable! Based on this, our country's chip industry has saved at least five years of fundamental research and development time, and successfully avoided an estimated tens of billions, even hundreds of billions of US dollars in trial-and-error costs and potential patent infringement risks! The contributor of this material, whose contribution to our country's chip industry cannot be measured by money, can be called... a National Scholar!]**

The experts surrounded Lü Chenxing, wanting to ask who the designer of the framework was.

Lü Chenxing also recovered from his shock. He didn't know where Lu Feng had obtained such significant content, but at this moment, he dared not delay.

He quickly took this highest-rated report from the expert group and promptly submitted it to the decision-makers.

At the same time, he picked up the secure phone and dialed the head of the National Security.

The call was quickly connected. Lü Chenxing skipped the pleasantries and went straight to the point: "Old Wei, it's me. Regarding Lu Feng... he provided some chip architecture data, which is priceless. The expert group rated it as 'National Scholar.' I want to know, has he had any unusual movements in the past two days? Especially... have any new special talents appeared around him?"

On the other end of the phone, Old Wei's voice remained steady, with a hint of understanding: "Old Lü, I was just about to call you. According to the information we have, Lu Feng indeed went to Lincheng a few days ago."

"Lincheng?"

"Yes, he went to a private nursing home and picked up a person."

"Who?" Lü Chenxing's heart tightened.

"A vegetative patient."

Old Wei's voice was devoid of any ripples: "Male, just turned eighteen, an orphan. He became a vegetative patient three months ago due to a car accident and was fostered in that nursing home with fees paid by the community. Lu Feng brought him back to Jiangcheng and arranged for him to be admitted to the best private hospital. And then..."

Old Wei paused, seemingly checking specific records, and then continued: "Then, just a few days ago, that vegetative patient, who was medically determined to have almost no chance of waking up, miraculously woke up."

"A vegetative patient... woke up?"

Lü Chenxing was stunned. This news also sounded incredible: "Could it be... this chip data is related to this awakened vegetative patient? Did he design it?"

A ludicrous yet seemingly plausible thought flashed through his mind instantly.

Did Lu Feng find a reclusive chip genius who had fallen into a coma due to an accident?

However, Old Wei's subsequent words completely shattered his speculation and sent a deeper chill down his spine.

Old Wei's voice carried a hint of subtle gravity: "We investigated this young man's entire background. He grew up in an orphanage, his social connections are extremely simple, almost blank, one could say. His educational record only goes up to junior high, he hasn't even attended high school. Medical records show severe brain damage, a persistent vegetative state, with a less than one in a thousand chance of waking."

"So, from any known scientific and logical perspective, he possesses no knowledge or ability related to chip design, and it's even impossible for him to have mastered even the most basic higher mathematics."

Lü Chenxing murmured, repeating the words, feeling his understanding being overturned: "An orphan who just turned eighteen, was in a coma for three months, and didn't even finish high school... Then... then where did these chip architecture materials come from? Did Young Friend Lu..."

He didn't finish his sentence, but the meaning was clear.

If it wasn't the vegetative young man, then the only source could be Lu Feng himself, or he possessed some means of information acquisition that they completely couldn't comprehend.

Silence fell on both ends of the phone.

After a while, Old Wei slowly spoke, his voice low: "This matter has gone beyond the scope of conventional intelligence analysis. Lu Feng, and these phenomena occurring around him, all point to one conclusion... he harbors a great secret that we cannot yet reach."

He paused, then added: "However, regarding your data, it should be related to that young man, because after being discharged from the hospital, his personality became very strange. He highly praised Lu Feng, even though the two had clearly never met before. Now he is placed by Lu Feng on the top floor of the Jiangcheng University research building, equipped with the highest level of security and computing resources, which aligns with the time the data was sent out."

Lü Chenxing hung up the phone. He walked to the window, looking at the bustling capital city outside, but his heart was in turmoil.

The expert group's "National Scholar" evaluation, coupled with the absurd reality from Old Wei's side, formed an extremely strong and unsettling contrast.

Lu Feng's image in his mind became even more mysterious, and even more... awe-inspiring...