From Silicon Valley Construction Work to Building a National Treasure at Junior College

[Host's school reputation has exceeded 1,000. Reward: complete EUV lithography machine blueprints] Shi Zhijun looks at the translucent panel before him, then at his roommate on the bed shouting, “Hurry up and rank up!” He has shouldered 97% of the school's hard data on his own. The remaining 3% is his roommate's ranked points after losing three games in a row. Want the ultimate reward? First, he has to max out the reputation of this lousy junior college! “Principal, I want to teach a course.” “You're a freshman. What could you teach?” “How to build a lithography machine.” From being mocked across the internet as “a no-name junior college chasing clout,” to National Security Bureau armored vehicles rolling onto campus to install a firewall; from being publicly humiliated by his old classmates from top universities and told he'd “spend his whole life tightening screws,” to making the sanctions list of Eagleland alongside Tsinghua and Peking University. Shi Zhijun leads a bunch of underachievers who can't even enter a Wi-Fi password, and somehow turns Blue Box Vocational and Technical College into the “Blue Star's strongest dark-web barracks,” keeping the Pentagon awake at night. “Who says a junior college can't build the nation's most important equipment? I'll build it, and I'll make it common as dirt.”