Exiled to the Northwest, I Build the Southern Heavenly Gate Project by Hand!

[Military Industry in the 1950s] [Modified Item Traits] [Northwest Base] [Heavy Industry Powerhouse]

In 1958, Lu Zeyan, a mechanical engineering PhD who had returned from studying in the United States, refused to let a prominent academic take credit for his work. His fiancée also called off their engagement at the last minute because she looked down on his poverty. As a result, an official order sent him to the 404 Agricultural Machinery Repair Factory in the wind-swept Gobi of the Northwest!

Everyone thought he'd spend the rest of his life repairing tractors in the sand.

But as soon as he stepped off the green train, Lu Zeyan awakened the "Industrial Trait Upgrade System for All Things"!

As long as he touched an industrial product, he could extract and combine traits, then bestow them with astonishing effects!

He gave the nearly scrapped [Dongfanghong Tractor] the traits [High-Energy Turbine] and [Composite Armor]. A main battle tank rolled out of the agricultural machinery factory workshop and blasted half a dune flat!

He gave the [Biplane Agricultural Sprayer], used for pest control, the traits [Supersonic Cruise] and [Radar Stealth]. At an air show, it streaked past the control tower at Mach 3, and the Air Force commander's binoculars fell straight to the ground!

He gave the [Homemade Rainmaking Rocket] the traits [Multiple Independently Targetable Reentry Vehicles] and [Terminal Maneuverability]...

Three years later, his former fiancée and her family came to the Northwest with an inspection group, hoping to laugh at how destitute Lu Zeyan had become.

Instead, the hangar doors deep in the Gobi roared open. Lu Zeyan stood on the deck of a hundred-thousand-ton aerospace carrier, with a hundred military industry magnates bearing stars on their shoulders standing behind him and saluting in unison: "Chief Engineer Lu, requesting permission to ignite!"