76: Section 76

The military factory itself has an enormous demand for energy, and the recent breakthroughs in combustible ice extraction and application technology have greatly met their needs.

Therefore, when the Research Institute submits any new application, leaders from other fields will give it the green light and allow it to proceed.

After all, once the Research Institute makes a technological breakthrough, the first to benefit will be their respective fields, especially in military applications, where many cutting-edge products are immediately applied.

Indeed.

The next day, when Chief Yun proposed the funding application at the meeting and invoked Lin Bai's name, it was immediately passed unanimously.

They even worried that the funding wasn't enough, adding another 500 million yuan, allocated from military expenses.

Of course, the requirement was the same: once the technology achieved a breakthrough, it needed to be applied to the military field as soon as possible.

The research was in full swing.

To achieve ultimate success, several large factories around Yanjing once again went into full production, fully cooperating with the Research Institute's manufacturing demands.

In fact, due to the discovery of a brand-new superconductor material this time, the heavy industry factories once again entered a high-level secrecy status.

By this time, two months had passed since the combustible ice technology was developed.

Lighthouse Country had finally appeased its domestic citizens and dealt with the relevant domestic industries.

To save his position, the President sacrificed many of his original interests, giving them to those industries that had been severely hit economically by his policies.

However, once things in Lighthouse Country had stabilized slightly,

He subconsciously turned his attention back to Huaguo.

After all, the matter that concerned him most still had no resolution!

“shit, two months, and this intelligence department still hasn't figured out what kind of existence this Lin's is!”

After muttering the name Lin's, the President continued to look at the intelligence reports from various countries in his hand.

After roughly flipping through the other countries and finding nothing unexpected, he began to focus on Huaguo's internal intelligence.

Indeed, after reading it, he immediately became restless.

“Several heavy industry factories have started full operation again. What exactly is Huaguo up to recently? What big moves are they making?”

However, for projects not related to the investigation of “Lin's,” the intelligence department was relatively reliable.

Another report quickly informed the President of more detailed circumstances.

“The Hualong Experimental Field has been operating continuously recently?”

“Hualong Experimental Field, I remember that's where Huaguo installed the country's only Nuclear Fusion reactor, right?”

“So, Huaguo has been working on a Nuclear Fusion project recently?”

“Heh, these Huaguo people are really dreaming big, actually investing so much energy and capital into this area?”

This kind of super-large experiment is usually conducted outdoors, or inside a super-large and empty building.

So, it's inevitable that every country conducting such large-scale experiments will be detected.

Of course, the specific details would naturally be kept secret.

Therefore, the President could only guess that Huaguo had been strenuously working on the Nuclear Fusion project recently.

But he couldn't be certain; it might also be a smokescreen, making him think Huaguo was doing Nuclear Fusion, but perhaps they were doing something else.

However, having not paid attention to Huaguo for some time, the President's ability and means to interfere with Huaguo had significantly weakened.

Thinking of this, the President decided to first disrupt Huaguo's public opinion.

Anyway, even if there was no result, it would be good to annoy the other party.

But to say that the President was worried about Huaguo achieving Nuclear Fusion, that was completely impossible.

In fact, when the President saw that Huaguo's key project was focused on Nuclear Fusion, he felt incredibly relieved.

This kind of project, which wouldn't yield results for thirty or fifty years, was still only in the experimental stage even for their Lighthouse Country.

He didn't believe Huaguo could achieve it now!

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Chapter 76: News Announced! Doubts from all sides, is Huaguo messing around?! [Begging for subscriptions!!]

Chapter 76: News Announced! Doubts from all sides, is Huaguo messing around?!

The President was not optimistic about Huaguo's experiment at all.

However, seeing Huaguo conducting this experiment so recklessly and openly, he felt a bit strange internally.

First, he ruled out the possibility that the other party had made a breakthrough in Nuclear Fusion.

What remained?

Hmm... The President put himself in their shoes, considering his usual practices, and the reason for doing this became obvious.

The other party must be using this project to make money or something!

Heh, while such things seemed quite normal to the President, since he had discovered the other party's intentions, it would be quite good to disrupt and annoy them.

Having not interfered with Huaguo for so long, the President was itching for action, always feeling uncomfortable if he didn't cause some trouble for other countries... And at the same time.

Over in Huaguo.

The Nuclear Fusion project was still advancing rapidly.

Even the aged and steady Academician Jiang now smiled joyfully every day.

Looking at the progress reports daily, everyone in the Research Institute couldn't help but beam with joy.

After all, the Nuclear Fusion project was now making more progress in one day than it used to make in a year!

Various equipment was also being produced in full swing.

However, because they couldn't replicate that perfect material, they had to separate the perfect building material into three materials, each with its own advantages and disadvantages.

Then, they still needed to experiment to determine which material selection was the most suitable.

Although there were many tasks, all members of the Nuclear Fusion project were extremely excited and thrilled.

Everyone couldn't help but voluntarily work overtime, staying in the laboratory for eating, drinking, and sleeping every day, reluctant to leave.

However, just then.

Rumors began to circulate online, starting from who knows where, about “Nine-Six-Seven.”

“I heard we restarted the controllable Nuclear Fusion project?”

“What restart? It's always been progressing at a lukewarm pace.”

“Lukewarm? I heard the higher-ups suddenly gave this project tens of millions?”

“How could it be so little? I heard it was several hundred million!”

“Holy crap, throwing so much money into this project is like throwing money into the ocean to feed fish?!”

“Ridiculous, anyone with eyes can see that this money will end up in certain people's pockets; investing in this project is just an excuse!”

“This is just outrageous!”

“Even Lighthouse Country can't achieve controllable Nuclear Fusion; does Huaguo expect to reach the heavens in one step?”

“Isn't this clearly misusing our taxpayers' money? It's too much!”

“At a time like this, such parasites still exist in the government; it's time for a cleanup!”

“Why are they misusing our taxpayers' money like this?! This is our hard-earned money, given to the country, not for someone to line their own pockets!”

“The government needs to explain!”

For a time, as the Nuclear Fusion project gained momentum, such comments suddenly erupted online.

Of course.

If one observed closely, they would see that these people's social accounts were mostly very low-level, and even their IP addresses were unknown.

However, rumors spread like wildfire, and people followed suit.

For a time, the public was actually misled, truly believing that there was some major problem at the top, and that there were gluttons who had embezzled hundreds of millions.

However, due to several previous technological breakthroughs, surpassing Lighthouse Country in multiple aspects,

The people of Huaguo are now not so easily swayed.

Aside from a few thoughtless individuals who joined the angry condemnation, more people were actually filled with anticipation and excitement.

“Eh, why are so many people not optimistic?”

“Exactly, I think it's quite normal that our Huaguo's controllable Nuclear Fusion might also be on the verge of a breakthrough, isn't it?!”

“Tsk tsk, Lighthouse Country's Nuclear Fusion is still in the experimental stage, unable even to achieve small-scale operation, so why should we be able to go directly from the experimental stage to the usable stage?”

“One glance, and it's clear: the person upstairs is either stupid or malicious!”

“Why must Lighthouse Country achieve it first before we can? Can't Huaguo be the first to break through?”

“Exactly, don't forget the specific medicine for asthma, the new rare earth refining technology, the environmentally friendly combustible ice extraction technology, and even the sub-nanometer photolithography machine that the whole world didn't believe in—have you forgotten all of that?”

“No way, no way, does anyone really think Huaguo can directly achieve controllable Nuclear Fusion?”

“No way, no way, the person upstairs really isn't optimistic about us?”

“Don't forget! We still have a mysterious existence! Has the name Lin's been forgotten so quickly?”

“Holy crap, Lin's, you are the best!”

“If Lin's is involved in this Nuclear Fusion project, I am very optimistic!”