From the Start, I Awakened Atomic Vision

Chen Mo, a CNC machine operator, earns 6,500 yuan a month, owes 8,000 yuan, and works so much overtime that he's starting to question his life.

After a meteor shower, his eyes gain the ability to see atoms: crystal lattice arrangements, stress distribution, microscopic cracks. Nothing escapes his sight.

Others guess based on experience; he simply looks. Others rely on luck to adjust machines; he corrects errors with the precision of a tailor making a custom fit.

A tolerance of 0.003 stuns the whole factory. Director Zhou tries to take the credit? The timestamps don't lie.

Starting with a secondhand three-axis machine, he develops his own CNC system and builds a five-axis machine made entirely in China. From completing the industrial machine-tool supply chain to astonishing the world with room-temperature superconductivity and lighting up cities with compact nuclear fusion...

Then he looks up at the stars.

"Earth can't contain my machine tools anymore."

The first flight of a spaceplane, the completion of a space elevator, and a fusion-powered spaceship's expedition to Alpha Centauri...

This is the story of a working man who uses a pair of eyes to carry Chinese manufacturing into the stars and beyond.