5: I'm sorry, but he really did get zero on the college entrance exam!

This action startled the staff member who had been responsible for taking care of Ji Zhengkang.

Elder Ji was truly a national treasure.

Not even the slightest problem could be allowed to happen to someone like him.

So, they hurriedly reached out to support Elder Ji.

However, to their surprise, they were gently pushed away by Elder Ji.

After Elder Ji shouted those words, everyone in the entire venue spontaneously stopped their conversations.

They also stopped their calculations.

Everyone's gaze focused on that elderly man.

The figure who represented a monument in the Xia Kingdom's scientific community.

Elder Ji looked at the screen in disbelief.

Then, he asked his first question since arriving at the venue:

"Magnetic Confinement can be achieved with steady-state materials?"

"Then how should the fuel cycle and later maintenance be handled?"

Chen Jiankang couldn't help but feel a surge of respect; as expected of Elder Ji.

He had spotted the crux of the problem at a single glance.

So, he opened another notebook.

Ji Zhengkang stared at the screen with wide eyes.

Then, he shouted with a trembling voice:

"Enlarge the formulas below a bit."

Chen Jiankang immediately did as he was told.

A series of complex formulas appeared on the large screen, deriving the feasibility in detail.

Elder Ji's eyes were wide open, his mouth agape, as he kept muttering to himself.

"So that's how it is!"

"So that's how it is!"

"Humans try to imitate the fusion process of stars and then master it."

"But stars are the handiwork of God."

"We are too ridiculous!"

"Too ridiculous!!!"

"Hahahaha!"

"It turns out we have always been trying to solve the problem from a human perspective."

"It could never be solved."

Ji Zhengkang began to laugh loudly toward the sky.

It seemed he hadn't laughed like this in a long time.

He laughed until tears came to his eyes.

"So it was a closed loop all along. To achieve Controllable Nuclear Fusion, every step must undergo self-renewal and equal energy exchange!"

"So that's it! So that's it!"

"Tiny humans! Always trying to touch the hand of God!"

"It turns out one needs to stand at the height of a God!!!"

"Only at such a height could one write such a paper and have such thoughts!"

Suddenly, Ji Zhengkang's expression turned serious!

He asked the question that everyone present wanted to ask.

"Little Chen, who wrote these research papers?"

Chen Jiankang looked at Elder Ji.

"Elder Ji might not believe it if I say it, but it's..."

Before Chen Jiankang could finish speaking.

Bang!

The double solid wood doors of the huge conference room were forcefully pushed open.

A group of people walked in.

They all shared one characteristic.

They were all wearing solemn military uniforms.

The leader was a gray-haired man, and the epaulets on his shoulders were strikingly one bar and three stars.

General!

(PS: All characters and military ranks in this book are created within the novel's world and have no connection to reality. Please do not take them literally.)

Behind the gray-haired old man were two men with one bar and two stars on their shoulders.

Two Lieutenant Generals!

The three first walked up to Ji Zhengkang and gave Elder Ji a military salute!

This was a sign of respect for Elder Ji's contributions.

Elder Ji also recognized the newcomers.

"General Qin!"

"You've come too!"

Qin Guozhu, a General of the Dragon Kingdom who had participated in real wars.

He smiled at Ji Zhengkang.

"Yes!"

"I had to come!"

After saying that, he walked onto the podium.

"Dean Chen, may I borrow the podium for a moment?"

"Of course!" Chen Jiankang knew in his heart that this matter had already alerted the military.

Scientific research had always been inextricably linked to the military.

Because in the smokeless confrontations between modern nations.

Many major scientific research results were inseparable from the military.

But this time, for just a feasible paper, Chen Jiankang hadn't notified the military yet.

On one hand, he wanted all the top Scientists in the Dragon Kingdom to study the feasibility and formulate a plan.

Then it would be reported to the higher-ups.

The higher-ups would then decide whether to report it to the military.

He didn't expect the military to receive the news and arrive early this time.

And it was a figure at the rank of General.

So, Chen Jiankang stood aside cooperatively.

Qin Guozhu cleared his throat.

"I will answer the question Elder Ji just raised."

"We have already investigated it thoroughly."

"The person who wrote this paper is named Lu Feng!"

The large screen behind him instantly displayed a huge front-facing photo of Lu Feng.

When they saw this photo.

The huge conference room, which had fallen quiet, broke into a clamor again.

"Impossible!"

"He looks like a kid; he must have just turned eighteen."

"Absolutely impossible. Even if this child started learning and participating in research while in his mother's womb, he couldn't have written these papers."

Ji Zhengkang also didn't believe that these things were produced by this young boy.

Because it truly was a bit too science-fiction-like.

This was even more incredible than saying a child who had just learned to speak had already researched rocket launches.

Although he knew it was impossible for the military to make a mistake, Elder Ji still asked:

"General Qin, is there any possibility that the information is incorrect?"

Qin Guozhu looked at Elder Ji with a very serious expression.

"This is a major matter concerning the nation. I have repeatedly confirmed it no less than ten times."

"There is no mistake!"

"It was written by this youth named Lu Feng."

Qin Guozhu said these words; clearly, when he first received the news, he also found it hard to believe.

That was why he had confirmed it no less than ten times.

Ji Zhengkang continued to ask with a trembling voice:

"Are the parents of this youth named Lu Feng involved in scientific research?"

"No!" Qin Guozhu shook his head.

"Lu Feng: Eighteen years old."

"Father: Lu Jianguo, formerly an employee at an automobile factory. After being laid off, he opened a fruit shop of his own."

"Mother: Zhao Lan, also formerly an employee at the automobile factory. She met Lu Jianguo while working at the factory."

"After Lu Jianguo opened the fruit shop, she became a full-time housewife, occasionally helping out at the shop."

"This..." Ji Zhengkang fell into a silence.

"He neither comes from a scientific family nor has a research environment."

Ji Zhengkang muttered to himself:

"A genius! A truly monstrous genius!"

"I've read in history that whenever a nation is about to rise and become a superpower..."

"...the nation always sees the emergence of truly monstrous geniuses."

"Regarding this point..." Qin Guozhu hesitated.

He pointed to a person who had been sitting next to Elder Ji.

"Elder Ji, regarding Lu Feng's situation, the person beside you can give a detailed introduction."

The person Qin Guozhu pointed to was naturally Lu Feng's physics teacher, Zhao Cheng.

Zhao Cheng instantly felt countless gazes gathering on him.

He was just an ordinary graduate student.

Any one of the people present could give lectures to professors in a university.

They were almost all the scientific elites of the Dragon Kingdom.

And with a titan like Elder Ji by his side.

To say he wasn't nervous would definitely be a lie.

Zhao Cheng originally thought that such a high-spec meeting would never be open to a high school physics teacher like him.

But because the author of this paper, Lu Feng, was his student...

...Dean Chen Jiankang insisted that he attend no matter what.

He didn't expect that he would actually be asked to speak.

Zhao Cheng stood up.

His throat felt tight, and his mouth was dry.

For a moment, he was speechless.

Ji Zhengkang seemed to know he was a little nervous.

He smiled and patted his shoulder.

"Don't be nervous. I believe the teacher who can produce such a genius student must be very formidable himself."

Encouraged, Zhao Cheng turned around to face the academicians and professors of the Academy of Sciences behind him.

He said slowly but in a loud voice:

"Lu Feng is a student of mine. Usually, his physics exam scores are failing!"

"And in this Gaokao, he scored... zero!!"