You Said I Was a Fake PhD, Yet I Built the First-Generation Lithography Machine by Hand

[A Great Industrial Nation] [Science and Technology Make the Nation Strong]

Chu Jianguo carries the soul of a skilled technician and is reborn as a Stanford PhD returning to China in the 1960s. To keep his thoroughly useless "phony" credentials from being exposed, he decisively turns down a top research institute and throws himself into the most run-down repair shop at Hongxing Steel Mill, where he can keep his head down and survive.

He thought he could quietly get by among the piles of scrap, until he activated the [Everything Equipment Slot]! As long as he stuffs unwanted industrial junk into a slot, it can reverse-engineer the most advanced technology and practical skills.

A shard of glass tubing that others dismiss becomes, in his hands, an instant revelation: [Complete Guide to High-Purity Silicon Wafer Processing]! He only meant to slap together a repair for a broken gear and get by, but with a pile of burnt-out wires and a busted caliper, he transforms a nearly scrapped machine tool into a micron-precision five-axis CNC system!

When the whole factory watches parts emerge that are ten years more precise than the world's cutting edge, the chief engineer who had been sneering drops to his knees in apology overnight. An old academician from the central institute is so shocked that he drops and shatters his teacup on the spot. "You call this a phony? You're one man dragging all of Daxia's industry forward!"

Watching the leaders look at him with feverish excitement, Chu Jianguo rubs the half-used vacuum tube in his pocket and falls into thought. If I equip this thing, could I even build a mecha?