Chapter 34 Serving the Motherland is an Unshirkable Duty!

Zhao Zizhen cleared his throat and said solemnly, "Young friend, thank you for everything you have done for our motherland!"

They were not surprised that Lin Yang openly admitted to orchestrating the three incidents involving the "Little Sakura" nation. However, hearing it confirmed from his own lips still left them with a lingering sense of shock. Each of those three feats was earth-shattering, and in terms of difficulty, they were nothing short of hellish. Yet, Lin Yang had accomplished them all in a single day. Zhao Zizhen and his colleagues could neither imagine nor comprehend how he had managed it.

Despite their intense curiosity, they refrained from prying. This was undoubtedly Lin Yang’s secret, and probing into it would be highly impolite. Moreover, everything Lin Yang did was beneficial to Shangxia. They had already discussed this in meetings: they would never proactively investigate his secrets to avoid making him uncomfortable or creating a rift.

Hearing Zhao Zizhen’s words, Lin Yang smiled. "Serving the motherland is my bounden duty."

This reply sent another wave of emotion through Zhao Zizhen, Ye Guhong, and the others. *What a magnificent sentiment—serving the motherland is a bounden duty!* With such a successor in the country, how could they not prosper?

Seeing that Zhao Zizhen had fallen silent again, Lin Yang continued, "Dean Zhao, please clear out your inbox. I am preparing to send over the relevant materials. The file size this time is quite large, so I want to ensure there is enough storage space to receive it."

"Ah? Right, I’ll clear it immediately," Zhao Zizhen replied, snapping out of his daze. He then instinctively asked, "Young friend, is the breakthrough the Little Sakura nation made in nuclear technology truly that significant?"

"I don't know," Lin Yang replied.

"Wait... what? You don't know?"

Lin Yang’s response left Zhao Zizhen, Ye Guhong, and the others completely bewildered. If he was about to send them data on the Little Sakura nation's nuclear breakthroughs, how could he not know?

"Young friend, aren't you sending us the data on their latest nuclear technology? If it weren't a significant breakthrough, there shouldn't be that much data, right?" Zhao Zizhen asked, utterly confused.

"When did I say I was sending you data on their nuclear breakthroughs?"

Lin Yang’s follow-up left them even more perplexed. Zhao Zizhen felt his head spinning. "Young friend, didn't you say you were sending us nuclear technology materials?"

"I am sending you nuclear technology data, yes," came Lin Yang’s calm response over the phone. "But it is not the data from the Little Sakura nation’s recent breakthrough."

Hearing this, Zhao Zizhen and the team monitoring the call—Ye Guhong and the others—were left in absolute disarray.

Zhao Zizhen murmured, "If it’s not the nuclear data from the Little Sakura nation... then what is it?"

"It is the complete set of technical specifications for controllable nuclear fusion."

*Boom!*

In an instant, the minds of Zhao Zizhen, Ye Guhong, and the others went blank. What had they just heard? A complete set of controllable nuclear fusion technology? Were they dreaming? Were they hallucinating?

Zhao Zizhen stood frozen in place, while at the Special Management Bureau, Ye Guhong, Tang Wensheng, and Han Zhaoyu stared at one another in disbelief. They were acutely aware that no nation on Earth currently possessed nuclear fusion technology. It was widely believed that humanity might not master this technology for another century. Much of the current research remained in the conceptual and hypothetical stage. The difficulty was insurmountable.

Nuclear fusion was inextricably linked to energy. What does a country need most for rapid development? Energy! If they could solve the majority of their energy issues, development would be inevitable. Yet, the current reality was that every nation on the planet faced energy shortages, with the gap only widening over time. Nations had been exploring solutions for years, but there had been no substantive progress. Even the world’s most powerful nations, working together, could not yet achieve extraterrestrial energy mining.

If they could master controllable nuclear fusion, a significant portion of their energy problems would be solved overnight. It was the "holy grail" that every major power was desperate to claim, yet success remained elusive due to the sheer technical complexity.

And now, they were hearing that Lin Yang was giving them the entire technical blueprint for it.

How could they not be shocked? It was no exaggeration to say that whoever mastered controllable nuclear fusion first would hold absolute influence on the global stage. It was a qualitative leap. Beyond energy, it had vast applications in medicine. Who could guarantee a life free of illness? Even the greatest scourge, cancer, could potentially be treated using radioactive isotopes generated by controllable nuclear fusion. Its value was immeasurable.

Energy and medicine—the two most critical pillars of human social development—could both be largely resolved through this technology. Ye Guhong and his team struggled to imagine the heights their country could reach. Environmental pollution could be drastically reduced, energy consumption would no longer be a constraint, and industrial vitality would flourish. Without the fear of energy depletion, they might, within years, develop spacecraft capable of traveling between the planets of the solar system. The mere thought made their scalps tingle with excitement.

As an academician and Dean of the Academy of Sciences, Zhao Zizhen understood the transformative power of this technology better than anyone. His hand shook as he held the phone. "Young... young friend, are you... are you serious? Is it really the technical data for controllable nuclear fusion? Did I hear you correctly?" His voice trembled.

This was controllable nuclear fusion! It was enough to alter the entire trajectory of human development. If anyone else had said this, he might have been skeptical, but coming from Lin Yang, he knew it was real. Lin Yang had already shown them too many impossibilities.

"That’s right, Dean Zhao. You heard correctly. It is the complete set of controllable nuclear fusion technology, not the garbage data from the Little Sakura nation that doesn't even qualify as half-baked."

*Clatter!*

Zhao Zizhen’s hand trembled so violently that the receiver slipped and slammed onto the desk with a loud bang.

"Professor..." came the startled voice of Wang Guang from nearby.