A Returned Overseas Student Worthless? Call Me the Father of Chips!

In 1955, He Yanqing transmigrates aboard a homebound ship and becomes a “phony” overseas student who got into Stanford through his family’s donations.

With an academic background check looming and the eminent researchers aboard looking down on him, He Yanqing panics.

Just then, the “Everything Equipment Slot System” activates!

[Equip “Semiconductor Fundamentals”: instantly reach max level and master the perfect chip architecture!]

[Equip “Scrap Metal”: break through the barriers of the era and upgrade it into an “extreme ultraviolet lithography machine”!]

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After returning home, he applies to work at the most remote, rundown machinery plant, hoping to keep a low profile and scrape by without being found out.

Six months later, Eagle Sauce imposes a sweeping technology blockade on Longguo, claiming it will take the country a hundred years to make advanced technology.

Yet just as the military leadership falls into despair, they spot He Yanqing in a ramshackle factory, handcrafting “nanoscale chips” with crude machine tools!

Elder Hua is stunned on the spot: “You call him a phony? He’s worth ten divisions of Eagle Sauce all by himself!”

Eagle Sauce is completely crushed: “We’ve only just developed our first-generation computer, so how has Longguo already launched the Nantianmen Fleet? Who gave us the intel saying he was a dropout and a fake?!”

From hand-built chips to fusion engines, from the Starlink Project to an interstellar fleet.

With his own strength, He Yanqing propels his country’s fortunes a century ahead, to the pinnacle of the stars!