High-Tech Comeback: Building Controlled Nuclear Fusion by Hand from the Start

In 2035, a blockade by the Four Great Tech Alliances pushes Longxia to the brink. Lin Mo, a graduate student in materials science, accidentally activates the “Cosmic Core,” an artifact of an interstellar civilization hidden inside a Shang-Zhou bronze jue at the scene of his advisor’s mysterious death. From then on, his path to a comeback begins.

On a rain-soaked night, blue light flares as a 100,000-volt Tesla coil weaves an electric cage. Cuneiform characters flicker eerily across a bloodstained USB drive. The truth behind the stellarator leak three years ago, a three-body prelude transmitted from deep space, a mysterious signal from the far side of the moon...

From a young man hand-building nuclear fusion in an unfinished building to the chief scientist in charge of a planetary defense system, Lin Mo faces the strangulation of multinational capital, cracks an AI rebellion crisis, and repels a two-dimensional foil’s dimensional strike, uncovering humanity’s most brutal truth: we are not the universe’s first players, but we must become its last winners.