High-Tech Salvation: Starting with a Hand-Built Nuclear Fusion Reactor

Su Bai, an unemployed engineer, woke up in a factory on a rainy night, and memories of his past life flooded back. He had been the seed-bearer of humanity's future civilization, entrusted with rekindling the flame of technology in a parallel world. That very night, he used factory scrap to build a miniature cold-fusion device, instantly lighting up the entire industrial park. When agents burst in, he was using a machine tool to polish core components for a quantum computer. “You came at just the right time,” Su Bai said without looking up. “Help me find some palladium alloy. That's all the controlled-fusion reactor is missing.” Three months later, at the globally televised maiden voyage of the space elevator, he stood smiling at the control panel. No one knew that fragments of his memory were flashing back to something far more terrifying: Beyond the depths of space, the shadow of the Reaper fleet had quietly shifted toward Earth's coordinates.