The Military Industry Prodigy

[I, Lu Zhe, will make the sci-fi wonders of the sky: space carriers, aerospace fighters, and tactical mechs a reality!]

Lu Zhe is a top student studying Energy and Power Engineering at Jinling University of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

At the start of his sophomore year, he and his girlfriend, Su Daiyu, attended a feasibility study seminar for the “space carrier” project, organized by the Space Force and the General Armaments Development Department in response to strategic needs and the shape of future warfare.

More than three thousand people took part, both online and in person, discussing the project for three days. Their conclusion was that it was not necessary enough, not very feasible, economically unviable, and unlikely to be completed anytime soon...

The project was rejected!

Lu Zhe and his girlfriend were both staunch supporters of the space carrier project. They believed that building a space carrier could spearhead the development of industries such as metallurgy, mechanical manufacturing, materials, electromechanical engineering, and electronics.

But with the project rejected, there would be no funding.

As luck would have it, on his way back to the dorm, Lu Zhe was struck by lightning while carrying an umbrella.

He woke up three days later.

During those three days, he had a very long dream. He dreamed that he became the chief engineer of a space carrier. From project approval to the completion of the prototype, it took a full ninety years. He aged from a young man into a middle-aged man of 140.

But just as the prototype made its first test voyage and its fusion reactor fired up, he woke up.

Strangely, his memories of the dream lingered faintly. He couldn't say he didn't remember it, because if he thought hard enough, he could recall bits and pieces. But he couldn't say he remembered it either, because most of it was hazy.

To make up for his frustration and resentment, he decided to build a space carrier.