I Just Became a Pen Spirit, and Now You Want Me to Calculate Controlled Nuclear Fusion

"Kids these days are really something!"

"Tell me about it. Last time, I saw one playing with a spirit-writing pencil in the middle of the night. He insisted the spirit prove it didn’t exist using materialism. If I hadn’t held him back, that spirit would’ve gone up and bitten him."

"I ran into someone playing with a spirit-writing pencil last time too. He actually asked the spirit to restore the Yongle Encyclopedia for him. If I hadn’t spent half the night talking him out of it, the spirit would’ve dragged Zhu Di off to find him right then and there."

"Speaking of which, last time I..."

In the Land of Guixu, several old men were chatting when they suddenly saw a young man walking toward them with his head down, muttering to himself.

"Hey, Xiao Li, watch where you’re going! What are you muttering about?"

"Calculating controlled nuclear fusion. A few girls playing with a spirit-writing pencil just asked me to."

"They’re just messing with you. Why bother?"

"Well... they said the country needs it."

"Hm? How far have you gotten?"

"Quick, bring me my abacus!"

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.