78: Chapter 78 The Birth of the Quantum Chip, the Creation of the World by Pangu!

President Liu Qianghua's roar echoed through the empty laboratory, laced with tears and the release of decades of suppressed frustration.

Like a child, he waved the scorching report sheet, rushing toward every stunned researcher.

"Did you see it! Did you see it!"

"2.997 nanometers!"

The entire Zhurong No. 1 Laboratory went completely insane.

Countless white-haired academicians and professors, national treasures who were usually precise to the sixth decimal point, cast aside their reserve and wept in each other's arms.

It had been suppressed for too long.

They had been choked and humiliated by that tiny chip for too long.

Lieutenant General Peng stood outside the crowd, watching this ocean of jubilation, a hint of a smile appearing on his perpetually icy face.

He looked toward Su Che at the center of the storm.

The young man was just leaning against the console, drinking water calmly, as if he had merely fixed a tractor a moment ago.

The scene shifts to Sakura Country. Prime Ministers Official Residence.

The atmosphere in the tea room had changed from its previous leisurely complacency to that of an ice cellar.

"Baka!"

Prime Minister Takaishi Sayuki kicked over the expensive tea table, hot Gyokuro tea spilling everywhere, but she didn't even notice.

She stared fixedly at the urgent CIA intelligence report presented by her secretary; her well-maintained face was twisted beyond recognition by extreme anger and fear.

"Unassessable quantum energy fluctuations?"

"Unprecedented fluctuation characteristics?"

"Your Excellency Takaishi, this is impossible!" Ida Yuji knelt on the floor, his face pale as paper. "I know their semiconductor industry foundation like the back of my hand! It is absolutely impossible for them to bypass our equipment and create such a thing out of thin air!"

"But it has appeared!" Takaishi Sayuki roared like a furious beast.

"Right after we announced a total embargo! Right after you declared to the whole world that their industry was nothing but scrap metal!"

"What is this? This is a naked slap in the face! It is pinning the face of our Great Sakura Empire to the ground and stomping on it hard with the soles of their shoes!"

Ida Yuji's body began to tremble uncontrollably.

He thought of a possibility even more terrifying than being slapped in the face.

If... If the Dragon Country people had really mastered a brand new power of "Creation" that completely bypassed the existing technological system.

Then their Ida Heavy Industries, and even the precision manufacturing that the entire Sakura Country prided itself on, would become worthless overnight.

That wouldn't be scrap metal. That would be historical garbage, worse than scrap metal!

"No... absolutely not allowed!"

Ida Yuji's eyes were instantly filled with bloodshot veins; it was the final madness of a gambler who had lost everything.

He looked up sharply at Takaishi Sayuki.

"Your Excellency Takaishi, 'Onikiri' has failed, but we still have 'Amaterasu'."

Takaishi Sayuki's face twitched, her expression grim.

"Amaterasu"... that was the strongest sleeper agent Ida Heavy Industries had planted within the Dragon Country, lurking for twenty years; it was their final and most venomous trump card.

"Are you sure?" Takaishi Sayuki's voice was sharp and cold, filled with bone-chilling ruthlessness.

"Sure!" Ida Yuji's voice sounded as if it were squeezed out from between his teeth, filled with intense murderous intent.

"Since it cannot be understood, then... destroy it completely!"

"I will turn that place into scorched earth! Let their hope, along with their laboratory, turn to ash!"

Zhurong Laboratory. The jubilation lasted for half an hour.

In the end, it was a single sentence from Su Che that calmed everyone down.

"Respected seniors, the slingshot is built, but we need a bullet to hit the bird, right?"

One sentence woke everyone up from their ecstasy. That's right! The equipment was just a tool; the ultimate goal was to create that chip!

President Liu Qianghua was the first to react. He wiped away his tears and walked quickly to Su Che, his voice still trembling with excitement.

"Engineer Su, tell us, what do we do next!"

"Bring over everything else on the list." Su Che pointed to the main screen. "Ultra-high purity silicon wafers, quantum state lock-in instruments, nano-scale quantum dot positioning equipment..."

"Also, connect the port for the 'Pangu Quantum Computer'. I need its computing power to perform real-time monitoring and calibration of the entire manufacturing process."

The order was executed with maximum efficiency. Half an hour later.

Beside the quantum potential well generator that looked like a "rice cooker," several other top-tier auxiliary devices had been connected.

A palm-sized, ultra-high purity silicon wafer, wiped spotless, was carefully placed on the "target position" by a robotic arm.

Everyone held their breath. The turning point for the Dragon Country's semiconductor industry, and even the fate of the nation's science and technology, was right before their eyes.

Su Che sat down at the main console again. This time, his expression became unprecedentedly focused.

"Initiate 'God's Slingshot'." "Initiate quantum state lock-in instrument." "Initiate nano-scale quantum dot positioning equipment."

"'Pangu Quantum Computer' computing power connected, start calculating etching paths."

"Hum—" Several of the nation's heavy instruments emitted a low resonance simultaneously.

On the main screen, data streams poured down like a galaxy from the nine heavens.

Su Che's hands turned into a blur on the keyboard. His operation was no longer the simple and crude method from before. It was a kind of... precision that bordered on art!

"First layer, quantum entanglement layer etching, initiate!" "Eject!"

Following his command, the machine pieced together from scrap parts once again demonstrated its miraculous power!

Countless atoms, screened and accelerated like the most obedient soldiers, were "ejected" onto the surface of the silicon wafer with precision beyond imagination!

There was no light, no fire. Only on the screen, a microscopic array, invisible to the naked eye and composed of countless quantum dots, formed out of thin air!

"Second layer, logic gate array construction!" "Third layer, quantum state control integration!" ... One layer. And another.

Under Su Che's control, that tiny silicon wafer was undergoing a complete transformation from the inside out!

Time passed minute by minute. No one spoke. No one dared to move. Everyone stared fixedly at the silicon wafer that was being "created."

It was no longer purely silver. As layer after layer of microscopic structures were added, its surface began to reflect a... deep, dark blue light that seemed to contain a sea of stars.

Twelve hours later. When the last layer of the packaging and cooling structure was etched, Su Che finally stopped. He leaned back in his chair and let out a long breath. It was done.

The robotic arm slowly lifted. A chip, only the size of a fingernail, with a dreamy dark blue color and what looked like countless stars flowing on its surface, lay quietly on the tray.

It was the Dragon Country's first. 3-nanometer quantum chip!