Dawn City Nuclear Power Plant, generator room.
Blue and green signals flickered across the control console screens, while waves of deep white noise echoed through the spacious chamber.
An aging reactor stood in the center of the plant, surrounded by a dense crowd.
Its faded logo and production serial number gave it a distinctly antique air, though its streamlined one-piece cast shell and ingenious design still had plenty to commend them.
It was not just The Alliance that thought so.
Even the engineers from Utopia City agreed.
That was precisely why, ever since the shelter residents had salvaged this backup reactor from the deepest reaches of the Xizhou City subway lines and built a power station for it, the reactor had served as the heart of The Alliance's industry.
More than that, it had also served as a model teaching aid for the researchers at Camp 101 to study and reference.
And because of all those accolades, Wang Zhengyi, the nuclear fusion engineer at the Dawn City Power Station, had proudly displayed this achievement.
The Administrator had told them to learn from the Academy, but they could not let themselves be looked down on, could they?
Besides, only if the students' stuff was good enough would the teachers be willing to show them more of their real skills!
Of course, Master Wang's actual thoughts were not that complicated. He merely wanted to show off on behalf of The Alliance in front of the Academy.
What he had not expected, however, was that after seeing this "crystallization of Prosperous Era civilization," that young punk barely in his twenties had only curled his lips faintly and even mocked it without giving him the slightest face.
Master Wang's face had already turned red as a lantern. His colleagues beside him watched him anxiously,