What Do You Mean, I Got a Perfect Gaokao Score but Have to Pay for Rice?

Chen Fan, an orphan from a poor family, ranked first in the entire province on the college entrance exam.

Everyone thought he would attend one of China's top universities and bring honor to his family. Instead, he vanished.

No one knew that on the day the exams ended, while he was eating in the cafeteria, a technology System had bound itself to him. Its first mission: kiss the stunning campus belle sitting beside him. He gritted his teeth and did it, earning one high-precision five-axis CNC machine.

Mission reward: Complete “Stage One: Laying the Foundations of Basic Industry,” build a miniature laboratory, and receive two million yuan plus the next blueprint. But there was one prerequisite: he needed 200,000 yuan in startup capital.

He had no money, but he had brains.

Using the material formula provided by the System, he got his buddy Li Xiang to invest 50,000 yuan. They rented an abandoned factory in an urban village, and within a month, they had produced a sample of the world's highest-density carbon-fiber composite.

He sold part of the patent rights and licensing, earning his first fortune. Once the mission was confirmed complete, two million yuan hit his account, and the second blueprint unlocked: a complete set of specifications for a high-precision five-axis CNC machine.

From then on, Chen Fan began building his underground technology empire. With every completed stage, the blueprints grew more astonishing: from materials to manufacturing, from manufacturing to energy, and from energy to... weapons.

The outside world only knew that the poor student who had aced the college entrance exam had vanished without a trace.

Until one day, national security traced a supply of superconducting materials that “shouldn't exist on the civilian market” to its source, leading them to an abandoned factory in an urban village.

The moment they opened the door, everyone present fell silent.

The director of the “South Heaven Gate” project had come in person.