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...Chapter 78: Lighthouse Country is in chaos! How is this possible for Huaguo?! Nuclear Fusion experiment!!

Chapter 78: Lighthouse Country is in chaos! How is this possible for Huaguo?! Nuclear Fusion experiment!!

The Huaguo government officially announced the news about Nuclear Fusion again.

Moreover.

This was already the third time this month!

After initially facing skepticism, a week later, they immediately announced the first success: a major breakthrough in high-temperature resistant materials.

The second announcement came just three days later!

Following the high-temperature resistant materials, they also obtained superconducting bundled coils capable of transmitting heat of hundreds of millions of degrees.

In just ten days, they successively overcame the two biggest difficulties that had stumped the entire world!

Originally, most countries had mastered the basic theory of Nuclear Fusion.

Even a college student could understand the basic principles of how Nuclear Fusion occurs.

So, when these two difficult points were overcome, everyone believed that completing Nuclear Fusion would surely succeed within three to five years.

However!

What shocked everyone the most was...

The government's third announcement!

They didn't need fifty years, or even five years!

Only five days had passed!

All in all, it was only fifteen days—exactly half a month!!!

When the Huaguo people saw this announcement, they were practically paralyzed with laughter.

"Oh my, I can't handle it. The good news keeps coming one after another; I can barely keep up."

"Is this the Huaguo Speed? It's too powerful!"

"Why react? I'm just going to hype it up right now!"

"Five days! Do you know how I spent these five days? I blinked, and they passed, hahahaha, and then Nuclear Fusion was achieved!"

"It's unbelievable, but since it's Huaguo, and the Lin Group is involved, I think it must be reliable!"

"Don't question it, just believe it first!"

"Everyone, don't get too excited. It's just a regular experiment. There's still a long way to go before the public can benefit from it."

"I have to be excited! Huaguo broke through a technology that even Lighthouse Country couldn't crack!"

"Exactly! Coupled with this unique Huaguo speed, I'm going to flaunt it!"

"I wonder what Lighthouse Country thinks?"

"How else can they see it? They'll watch on their knees. They stomped on us so hard before, now it's our turn to rub it in their faces!"

"Right, brothers, share those wall-climbing techniques! I'm going to go deliver some face-to-face damage!"

"Come on, those who don't know how, send me a private message. As the keyboard warrior army, we can't always consume internally. I'm going to output externally and let them feel the speed of Huaguo keyboard warriors!"

...Following the release of the three announcements, the Huaguo populace was in an extremely excited state.

They immediately started circumventing the Great Firewall to output externally.

However severely people from other countries had mocked Huaguo back then, they were now suffering an equally severe backlash.

People are like that: comparing goods makes you discard them; comparing people makes you miserable.

When the people of Lighthouse Country saw Huaguo surpassing them step by step—a top-down surpassing, where both high-end technological prowess and the public's standard of living exceeded theirs.

This crushed everything these people had boasted about, such as fresher air, rounder moons, and greater freedom in action.

This instantly triggered an explosion of emotion among the citizens of Lighthouse Country.

In turn, the citizens of Lighthouse Country began applying pressure on the President in The White House.

"What is wrong with this President?"

"He's too incompetent, right?"

"He's just watching Huaguo rise up without us making a single move?"

"Didn't the textbooks say that the countries in the East are very backward, to the extent that eight out of ten people don't even have a TV at home?"

"Why are they suddenly so much better off than us?"

"Does this indicate that the research institutes in Lighthouse Country are full of parasites? They take our taxpayer money but don't do any real work!?"

"Why was the President so certain before that Huaguo's investment in research projects was corruption? Is he doing the same thing himself?"

"President, come out and give us an explanation!"

"I suggest overthrowing this President and letting the previous President take power again to make Lighthouse Country great again!"

"What exactly are the people in The White House doing???"

"..."

The rhetoric the President once used against Huaguo was now being turned back on them.

Lighthouse Country citizens were particularly agitated when the topic of embezzling tax money came up.

The President, sitting in his White House office, looked at the pile of documents covering his desk, all containing dissatisfaction and protests sent from various states, including the mess of demonstrations and protests occurring in multiple locations.

He hadn't expected that after spending so much time calming the public's emotions...

Only half a month later, they were back at square one!

"shit!"

"These Huaguo fellows, this is too wicked!"

"Investing billions of yuan into an impossible project wasn't corruption, but they were actually researching the project?"

"The most infuriating thing is that they actually managed to research it successfully?"

The President remained utterly incredulous even now.

Didn't everyone agree that Nuclear Fusion was impossible to achieve in the short term?

Why did Huaguo break through it just by saying so?

They broke through the medical field, the chip field, and the energy field.

How can your Huaguo be so capable!?

The pressure on the President's shoulders was growing heavier and heavier. If this continued, forget about campaigning for re-election, it wasn't even certain if he could finish his current term peacefully!

"Mr. President, we must also present some scientific research achievements to appease the public!"

"Currently, the grassroots public has strong opinions against the President, and they are starting to doubt The White House's ability to handle affairs."

"For the President's next election, the public must see his accomplishments!"

Several officials and staff members from the President's faction spoke up one after another.

Forget the President, their pressure was also immense!

If they couldn't keep the President in power, these confidantes who followed him would be the first ones to suffer when he stepped down!

At best, they would lose their official status; at worst, the next President would use various excuses to investigate them and throw them in jail.

Therefore, in order to allow the President to placate the public, they decided to release some heavy-hitting achievements to stabilize public sentiment.

In fact, Lighthouse Country hasn't been without research achievements over the years.

However, every time they were compared to Huaguo, they ended up losing ground!

They had breakthroughs in the medical field, but they couldn't compare to Huaguo's specific cure for asthma!

They had breakthroughs in the energy sector, obtaining new technology for exploiting Combustible Ice, but not only was Huaguo surpassed, the international community also determined their technology was harmful and prohibited its use.

This resulted in them not daring to publicly promote this technology; they could only use it secretly.

This made it seem as if Lighthouse Country had made no breakthroughs or progress at all.

This was the real reason the citizens of Lighthouse Country were growing increasingly dissatisfied. After all, nobody would be happy seeing the target they once mocked suddenly flip the tables and step on them.

The President was initially confused, but after his secretary presented him with a document, he suddenly realized.

"A brand new technology for Nuclear Fission?"

"It increases the impact capability of neutrons, enhancing energy acquisition efficiency, but it will increase nuclear waste after the reaction..."

The President frowned while murmuring.

He had been aware of this matter previously.

But the reason it wasn't announced, only executed in secret...

...was because this improvement came with negative attributes.

Most people in the world are already terrified of anything nuclear, and they are particularly resistant to nuclear waste.

If they announced this research achievement, which generates more nuclear waste, the backlash would certainly outweigh the support.

But.

Currently, apart from this heavy-hitting achievement, they had nothing else presentable!

Originally, they had made several consecutive breakthroughs in chips.

However, due to Huaguo's world-class 5-nanometer chip universalization policy, all countries worldwide could now use 5-nanometer chips.

This caused Lighthouse Country to instantly lose all its advantages.

Any further breakthroughs only granted them a tiny advantage in same-level competition.

In fact, they couldn't even look up to Huaguo anymore.

At this critical juncture, daring to mention anything about chips would absolutely trigger a second wave of public anger.