I ask you to build tractors, but you build rockets?

"Huanxing...laboratory?"

Fu Mingdong looked at the name of the building in front of him with some confusion. It was a little different from what he expected.

Today happens to be April 1st, it can’t be an April Fool’s Day joke?

On the other hand, Ai Quan, who was with him, looked up and down at the newly renovated laboratory, which looked more like a large factory, and explained thoughtfully:

"This is newly built or renovated. It used to be the old factory area of ​​Xinyuan, which was the original site of the tractor factory."

Fu Mingdong opened his eyes wide and saw a spacious six-lane asphalt road. A tall and strong wall was built outside the laboratory. Everything he saw was extremely clean. Where could he see the traces of a tractor factory?

“Look at this abnormal-looking door and the huge gap inside, it’s all designed to transport space shuttles and rockets.

Xinyuan No. 1, Xinyuan No. 2, and H1 all came out of here. Later, it should have become an accessories production base, and it should have been converted into a laboratory recently.

Hey, look, there are a few lines of words below the sign. "

Fu Mingdong took a closer look and read out the elegant gilt font that Ai Quan was referring to:

"Key cooperative unit of the National Academy of Sciences"

"Key cooperative unit of the Institute of High Energy Physics"

"National Key Secret Unit"

"China Frontier Physics Research Center"

"..."

It seems like an amazing place, almost catching up with EAST.

And judging from a few lines of small print, it seems that this place focuses on cutting-edge physics research. Will this thing really be related to the business scope of private enterprises?

However, he did not doubt his life for too long, and was pulled in by the receptionist. He walked all the way to the core office and met Ye Changsi, who had just flown back to attend the opening ceremony of Huanxing Laboratory.

Of course the latter knew these two leading figures working at EAST, and they shook hands and greeted them warmly when they met.

When the two responded, they discovered that the people they were communicating with Ye Changsi just now were Wu Yunfeng from the Institute of High Energy and the vice president of the Academy of Sciences. These are both important figures.

"I'm sorry, you two. This place has just been renovated and the conditions are very poor. However, the conditions of the apartments converted from the hostel are still good. I have wronged you in the past few days."

Fu Mingdong confirmed the authenticity of this statement with his naked eyes. There were still some unfinished decoration materials in the corridor outside, and most of the rooms were locked and sealed. It was obvious that they were undergoing in-depth renovation projects.

From here, you can also see that the venue, which cannot be seen from the outside, is filled with wooden boxes of various sizes. From the visual inspection, it should be various large-scale experimental equipment purchased.

Although the equipment was purchased four months ago, it usually takes half a year to a year to arrive. However, Xinyuan used its influence. Most of the equipment was purchased as second-hand goods, but it would not take long to disassemble and assemble them again. Quite time consuming.

Fortunately, most of the machines that need to be purchased are general-purpose machines for national-level laboratories. The equipment that is actually used to tackle core areas is produced by the base itself, which is only for internal use and has more guaranteed performance.

Most of the production equipment in the C-level base has been dismantled. Now we only need to wait for the new equipment to be installed before the Huanxing Laboratory can be officially put into use.

"Where can there be grievances...President Ye, are the equipment you can provide...also produced here?"

Fu Mingdong asked the question he had at the beginning. He thought he would be taken to the main base.

"Ah, no, of course not, at least not yet."

Ye Changsi immediately understood what he meant and explained with a smile:

"First of all, in the future, we will put more advanced research work in the Ring Star Laboratory. Also, the main base is not convenient now. It may be necessary to strictly control the entry and exit of personnel for a long time. The things we talked about are the same here. Can communicate.

Well, we should go there to communicate. The main R\u0026D personnel are all here. "

Ye Changsi took the lead and walked out while continuing to introduce to Fu Mingdong:

“I published a paper on gas plasma specular reflection technology a year ago. In fact, the original idea was to provide a more powerful microscopic research tool that continuously destroys basic particles to explore the final structure of matter.

The theoretical prospect of this technology is to increase the laser power by 7 orders of magnitude, which is ten million times, to a maximum of 50 million petawatts. "

"This energy level can indeed tear apart the most basic microstructure."

Fu Mingdong nodded in agreement. He had also studied the paper carefully in the past two weeks.

"Yes, but we are still far from being that powerful. The magnification is only more than a hundred times, and the final energy level that can be released is only 10 megawatts, which is far from expected."

"This is already amazing!"

Fu Mingdong couldn't help but said:

“We need the ability to precisely arrange plasma at tens of millions of degrees Celsius into a smooth plane and build multiple reflection channels in a tiny space.

I never thought that electromagnetic force constraint could be so powerful and precise. It is no exaggeration to say that you have shot an arrow to the moon. "

“Haha, no, we have a spaceship, we don’t need bows and arrows.

But it is really difficult. We all thought it was impossible, but we finally found a way. "

Ye Changsi paused the topic at this point and continued to lead the way with a smile until he arrived at a conference room that looked like it had been used.

When I pushed the door open, I saw a dozen people sitting sporadically. There was no traditional conference table here. Everyone was sitting on simple chairs. There were blackboards and projector whiteboards hanging in front of them, which looked more like It's a classroom.

There are 3 A+ level, 10 A level and two highly talented B+ level engineers gathered here, which is almost the entire essence of the base's cutting-edge scientific strength.

"Master Fu, we meet again."

Cheng Nankai stood up to say hello, which made Fu Mingdong's thoughts return to last year.

They had been together for almost two months, but Cheng Nankai's image in his impression was not outstanding. Although he could not be said to be taciturn, it did not leave a deep impression on him.

He was surprised that Cheng Nankai appeared here. Did he also find time to develop "trampoline" and strong magnetic and laser technology?

However, Fu Mingdong didn't ask any more questions. After greeting a few people, he sat down and started a detailed technical introduction meeting as planned.

The process was fascinating, and with the main researchers on hand to answer questions at any time, the two hours flew by almost in a flash.

When the meeting ended, everyone in the EAST visiting team was still not satisfied. They huddled together and whispered and headed to the prepared residence. However, everyone in the base who also left the meeting went in another direction and finally entered another more secluded room.

The moment he closed the door, Ye Changsi looked at Cheng Nankai eagerly:

"How about it? Can it be done?"

In his expectant eyes, Cheng Nankai nodded sharply.

"There is no problem. Judging from the technical indicators they require, we are confident in manufacturing a fusion test device similar to EAST. The only expensive parts of the Tokamak test reactor are superconductivity, ignition and core containers.

Based on the technology we have mastered, we can directly carry out research on laser confinement inertial plasma fusion reactors after conquering ‘Chiren’.

It will take a lot of time to master Chiren, which can be used to understand EAST in depth. Once ‘Chiren’ achieves a breakthrough, we will immediately start building our own fusion test reactor. "