On the eve of his thesis defense, Chen Zhou's lab suddenly loses power.
His advisor urges him to give up, his classmates wait to see him make a fool of himself, and the review panel is convinced that his so-called "zero-loss power transmission device" is nothing but an elaborate fraud.
No one knows that the device everyone has declared impossible is transmitting energy back into the campus power grid.
Even fewer know that what Chen Zhou truly wants to build has never been just a power transmission device.
Because he has already seen it: the sun is undergoing a change, and humanity does not have much time left on Earth.
High-temperature superconductivity, controlled nuclear fusion, aerospace carriers, lunar bases...
As doomsday draws near, Chen Zhou will lead all of civilization in raising one final shield against the sun.
From high-temperature superconducting materials to controlled nuclear fusion, from optical camouflage to aerospace carriers, from lunar bases to space elevators... As technological blockades come one after another, Chen Zhou and the nation behind him choose to illuminate the technology tree leading to the sea of stars, one level at a time, with their own hands.
Only eight years later does all of humanity learn that what they built was not merely a series of wonders.
It was civilization's last shield against the sun.
My own work was criticized and even dismantled in front of me. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Luoliluosuo AI author