A Fake Research Assignment? But I Really Built a Dyson Sphere

Liu Zhongyuan joins an agricultural research institute and accepts an assignment from his superiors: turn Mars into a farm and build a Dyson sphere around the sun.

What he doesn't know is that the assignment is fake. The higher-ups made it up to fool and mislead foreign countries.

When a leader visits the base to inspect the project, he exclaims, "Good heavens! We told you to work on agriculture. Why are you making military equipment and building nuclear-powered fighter jets?"

Liu Zhongyuan: "Didn't you say to build a farm on Mars? Using nuclear-powered planes to bring crops back from Mars makes sense, doesn't it?"

Leader: "Good grief! The Mars farm plan was just a cover story. You actually went and built it!"

Liu Zhongyuan: "A cover story? Then did I build that Dyson sphere for nothing?"

Leader: "You built a Dyson sphere too?!"

System: "Host, if you pass off soon-to-be-obsolete products as advanced technology and sell them to foreign countries for a profit, your rewards will be doubled."

Liu Zhongyuan: "The fifth-generation agricultural mecha is ready. Then let's sell the first-generation mecha, which is a hundred years behind, to them."

Freedom Nation: "You keep hyping obsolete products as the latest technology and selling them to us for a fortune. That's utterly immoral."

Liu Zhongyuan: "Ripping you off? You're just too far behind. I'm helping you advance."

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