4: Because of you! Human progress has been accelerated by a hundred years!

Inside the massive conference room of the Dragon Science Academy.

This conference room hadn't been used for a long time.

The main reason was that the room was simply too large.

In fact, calling it a conference room was an understatement.

It would be more appropriate to describe it as a lecture hall or a grand auditorium.

It was a hall that could accommodate over a thousand people, with a podium at the very front.

It looked just like a giant movie theater.

Dean Chen Jiankang stood in the middle of the podium.

On the podium, that thick stack of notebooks used by high school students was particularly eye-catching.

Chen Jiankang was in no hurry and waited patiently.

By now, about two-thirds of the hall was occupied.

All of them were current academicians of the Dragon Science Academy.

They were all world-renowned scientific veterans.

At this moment, a wheelchair was slowly pushed in from outside the hall doors.

An old man sat in the wheelchair.

The old man's eyelids drooped; he seemed to still be dozing.

However, the moment the old man entered,

everyone in the entire hall stood up involuntarily.

There was no applause; instead, they paid their respects to the old man with a silent gaze.

This silent gaze was a recognition of the old man's outstanding contributions to Dragon Country.

The old man was named Ji Zhengkang, a true titan of science still living in Dragon Country today.

In the early days of Dragon Country's founding, it had been constantly suppressed by Western nations.

At that time, four Scientists stood forward.

They led a research team and plunged into the vast Western Desert.

They immersed themselves in research day and night.

Five years later, a nuclear bomb rose into the sky.

From then on, Western nations no longer dared to threaten Dragon Country with force at every turn.

Dragon Country had its own nuclear bomb.

Ji Zhengkang was one of those four Scientists.

And he was the only one still alive today.

Thus, his status in the scientific community of Dragon Country and even the entire world could be easily imagined.

In the venue, some professors who had originally felt disgruntled about being called in late at night,

feeling somewhat dissatisfied in their hearts,

wondering what major breakthrough couldn't wait until tomorrow instead of summoning people in the middle of the night—

the moment they saw Ji Zhengkang arrive, the last bit of doubt in their hearts vanished completely.

It seemed there truly was a major breakthrough that would affect the future and fate of Dragon Country.

Otherwise, why would they have called Elder Ji, who had been retired at home for many years?

Everyone even sat up straighter involuntarily.

They straightened their backs!

They watched as Ji Zhengkang was wheeled in.

Chen Jiankang greeted him, "Elder Ji, I'm sorry to disturb your rest and call you here at this time."

Ji Zhengkang lifted his eyelids and looked at Chen Jiankang.

"Little Chen, it's alright."

"As long as the country needs this old man, no matter what time it is."

"Even if I were on my deathbed, you could just wheel me over."

Chen Jiankang nodded and said from the bottom of his heart, "Elder Ji, your integrity is noble!"

Chen Jiankang said this as a matter of course.

Moreover, being called "Little Chen" by Elder Ji, Chen Jiankang—who had been the Dean of the Dragon Science Academy for over ten years—didn't feel belittled at all.

On the contrary, he felt extremely honored.

To be called "Little Chen" by Elder Ji was a privilege that few in the entire scientific community of Dragon Country could claim.

"Elder Ji, please! We've already arranged a seat for you here."

Two people were standing by the spot where Ji Zhengkang was to sit.

They didn't sit down until Ji Zhengkang's wheelchair arrived.

Only then did the two sit: one was Zhao Cheng, and the other was Zhao Cheng's mentor, Liu Chengping.

It was also the first time both of them had seen this legendary figure of Dragon Country's scientific community.

For a moment, they were incredibly excited.

Then they heard Chen Jiankang clear his throat into the microphone.

"I've called everyone here so late because I want you all to see this."

After speaking, several images began to appear on the giant screen behind him.

"Controllable Nuclear Fusion!"

*Whoosh!* The entire venue erupted in an uproar.

"Are there really results?"

A cacophony of noise began to fill the hall.

Someone raised a question.

"The theories and feasibility proposed earlier have always been subjects of our research."

Chen Jiankang didn't explain; he just continued showing the subsequent material.

Ji Zhengkang didn't speak; on his aged face,

there was no change in expression.

Regarding the field of nuclear fusion, after he had produced the nuclear bomb,

he had also spent a long time researching it.

But as the research deepened, he found that humanity was simply too insignificant.

You could use this massive power for destruction.

But when you attempted to master such a terrifying power and control it for your own use,

it was truly too difficult—difficult in every possible way.

So when he saw the topic of "Controllable Nuclear Fusion" appear,

he didn't think there had been a breakthrough like the others did.

In his opinion, based on the current development of human technology,

if humanity were to fully master Controllable Nuclear Fusion, it would take at least another century of development!

But as Chen Jiankang began to display the next parts from the notebooks,

the noise in the venue gradually subsided.

Those present were the top figures in Dragon Country's scientific community.

No one understood the value of what was written in those small notebooks better than they did.

Some began to take out their own notebooks and started sketching and calculating.

"If ceramic composite materials are applied, how can the particle trajectories and plasma stability be guaranteed under Coulomb interaction?"

Chen Jiankang was very pleased that someone had finally raised a question.

So he opened another notebook labeled "Number Seven."

"The solution is right here."

The person who had just asked the question widened his eyes to see the formula clearly.

He instantly gasped.

"So it can be done like this?"

"Using the wavelength of Compton Scattering to control electron density!"

"Why didn't we think of this before?"

Another voice said:

"No! I've proposed this idea before, but it requires massive model calculations and simulations."

"The amount of data reaches an exaggerated power of yotta."

Note: (Yotta represents 10 to the 24th power (10^24).)

"Exactly! This isn't a very unique method either."

Someone began to agree.

Chen Jiankang said nothing.

Instead, he opened the notebooks with double-digit numbers later on.

Those were the most core parts of this research paper.

The earlier parts were merely a threshold to allow the Scientists to accept the ideas or to lead them from the simple to the complex.

If he were to present the latest paths and concepts from the later parts all at once,

everyone would think it was unlikely; however, with the previous conjectures and solutions based on scientific consensus,

the subsequent parts truly revealed the unparalleled genius of the person who wrote this research paper.

As the presentation began,

Ji Zhengkang, who had been half-squinting and seemingly about to fall asleep, suddenly snapped his eyes wide open.

His mouth hung open to an unbelievable extent.

His withered hands, covered in age spots, began to shakily grip the armrests of his wheelchair.

Then, Ji Zhengkang stood up.

"Impossible!"

"This is impossible!"

Ji Zhengkang's voice trembled with an unspeakable excitement.

"The progress of human development has been advanced by a full century!!!!!"