You're Quite a Nice Person, Aren't You! (Please Keep Reading)

You're Quite a Nice Person, Aren't You! (Please Keep Reading)

Luo Yao took out the hard drive he had kept at home, plugged it into his computer, and opened its files.

Sure enough, he found the EUV Lithography Machine blueprints the system had given him.

There were more than six thousand of them!

Luo Yao felt that workload was a bit absurd.

If he brought them out, wouldn't people think something was wrong?

But Luo Yao quickly came to terms with it. Since he could produce the technology, what else could people question besides worrying that he had used AS Company's technology?

They would be too happy to question anything.

Having thought it through, Luo Yao began looking for books to study the technology.

The system had indeed provided the complete set of technology, but without understanding it, applying it would still be difficult for Luo Yao.

It was like a teacher teaching a mathematical formula. If you did not understand how to use it, it would forever remain nothing more than a formula in your mind.

The books listed by the system were not available at home, so Luo Yao went to the company library.

There, Luo Yao quickly found the books he needed.

At the same time, the bodyguard secretly assigned to protect him was puzzled.

Why had this guy just gotten home, only to head straight to the library again?

What kind of problem was so difficult to solve?

After thinking it over, the bodyguard decided to report the situation.

After receiving the report, the people at the Sci-Tech Innovation Center told the bodyguard to keep watching Luo Yao and report it if Luo Yao needed help.

This gave the bodyguard a headache. Luo Yao kept burying himself in the library, and in order not to draw attention, the bodyguard could only pretend to read while following him around with a book.

But the bodyguard himself did not like reading. After reading for too long, he became so sleepy he could barely keep his eyes open.

Trying to sleep while forcing himself to keep reading was bound to attract attention.

Before long, he noticed someone approaching.

"What's with you following me around these past few days?" Luo Yao looked at him, unable to guess his identity.

Had someone set their sights on him?

He had good reason to think so.

As long as they were Huaji employees, they could enter the Huaji library. Among all those employees, who could guarantee there were no people with ulterior motives? Luo Yao had to get to the bottom of it.

Luo Yao felt that with his intelligence, he could easily handle someone he had caught tailing him.

What did it feel like when the person you were following suddenly caught you?

In any case, it was pretty thrilling.

The bodyguard froze. Upon seeing Luo Yao, he nervously stood up at once. After stammering for a while, he met those emotionless eyes and finally told the truth. "A leader from the capital sent me to protect you. Director Fu knows about this."

"Who is Director Fu?"

"The one who gave you the phone on Floating Continent that day—the one in the black suit."

"If you don't believe me, you can call him to confirm."

After staring at him for several seconds, Luo Yao knew he was telling the truth.

The confidential phone had been secretly given to him by that man. No one who was not in the know could possibly have known about it.

Combined with the man's earlier reaction, the way he had immediately stood upon seeing him was identical to the military stance Luo Yao had seen in training. He felt there was no need to remain suspicious.

Given how agile the man was, dragging him away would have been even easier than Luo Yao imagined.

"Do you have to follow me even in the library?" Luo Yao sat down across from the bodyguard.

Knowing that Luo Yao had dropped his suspicions, the bodyguard breathed a sigh of relief. "Mainly because I was worried you might need help."

"Mm. I actually do need some help." Luo Yao recalled the trouble he had run into while reading.

"Please, go ahead."

"I need to find a lithography machine to take apart."

The bodyguard: ...

I have never seen such an outrageous request!

This was not something the bodyguard could decide on his own, so he immediately reported the situation to the Sci-Tech Innovation Center—to Director Fu, Fu Daobin.

Even Fu Daobin, well-traveled and knowledgeable as he was, froze when he received the message.

Could this genius make a request that ordinary people might make for once?

He wanted to dismantle a lithography machine?!

Was that normal?

After a while, Fu Daobin decided to call Luo Yao and ask what he intended to do.

After discovering that the secure phone was ringing, Luo Yao went outside the library, found a secluded spot, and only then answered it.

"Security code?"

"Miracle."

Only after confirming the security code did Fu Daobin speak. "Luo Yao, I wanted to ask—when you made that request, did you mean you wanted to take apart a lithography machine?"

"Yeah. I want to take one apart and have a look."

"Are you planning to research lithography machines now?" The bodyguards sent him the titles of the books Luo Yao read every day, and over time, he had guessed what the other party was thinking.

"Yes. I may already know how to manufacture a lithography machine."

"What?!" Fu Daobin knew that this was no longer suitable for discussion over the phone, so he arranged to meet Luo Yao in East City the next day.

The next day, Luo Yao went to Rao Huiling's office to ask for leave.

"You're meeting Director Fu from the Sci-Tech Innovation Center? Why?" Rao Huiling was a little curious. Luo Yao and Fu Daobin had only met once. Why were they meeting again now?

"I want to apply for a lithography machine and take it apart to look at it."

Pfft—

Rao Huiling, who had been drinking water, spat it out.

She no longer cared that Luo Yao had seen her at her most embarrassing. Rao Huiling blurted out, "You're serious?"

"Seriously. I originally wanted to ask the company for help, but the company only has two lithography machines, so I went to Director Fu."

You're actually pretty considerate!

He even knew to think of the company and not wreck its equipment.

But even so, this was just too outrageous.

Who would dare say they wanted to take apart a lithography machine?!

"Why do you want to take apart a lithography machine?"

"Because we need lithography machines."

Rao Huiling fell silent. Of course she knew what Luo Yao meant. No one knew whether the Chouguo Business Group would lose its temper and ban lithography machines from Hua Nation.

It would naturally be a good thing if they could manufacture them themselves.

"I thought you'd been researching EDA lately. I didn't expect you to be researching lithography machines instead?"

Luo Yao gave her a strange look. "Isn't EDA something you can handle? Since I have nothing to do at the moment, of course I'm researching something else."

That made so much sense that she couldn't even argue with it.

Rao Huiling thought this was no small matter. Taking apart someone else's lithography machine meant being prepared to waste eight or nine hundred million yuan. So she said, "Luo Yao, when you meet Director Fu, could you let one of our lithography machine experts participate?"

Luo Yao thought for a moment and asked, "Does he understand lithography machines?"

"Of course he does. He's an expert!"

"But I've seen a lot of people say that experts aren't actually that reliable?"

Rao Huiling hurriedly said, "Our experts are the real deal. They're different from the experts outside!"

"Then has he built a lithography machine?" Luo Yao asked with great interest.

"He has, but it failed."

"Lithography machines aren't that easy to build. But he has experience, so you can ask him if you have questions."

Luo Yao considered it, then nodded. "Experience with failure is still experience. That works."

What the hell do you know, kid?

Failure or success, damn it!

It was already good enough to have experience with failure to learn from. Some countries didn't even dare try to manufacture lithography machines. At least they had tried!

Rao Huiling felt that the longer she stayed around Luo Yao, the more likely she was to suffer a heart attack. So she told him to get back to work while she contacted the expert.

Rao Huiling definitely had to inform the President's Office about Luo Yao meeting Fu Daobin today.

After seeing Rao Huiling's message, everyone in the President's Office sent back "???"

Zheng Mengrong: Huiling, tell Luo Yao to take it easy. If it won't cost money, he can do it. But if it might cost money, have him hold off for now. We've had a lot of expenses lately.

Lu Gao: This kid really catches us off guard every single time!

Zheng Houfei: Do as Mengrong says. Taking apart a lithography machine is far too bold! Luckily, he isn't taking apart ours!

Rao Huiling: He thinks we only have two machines and probably wouldn't let him take one apart, so he thought of the Sci-Tech Innovation Center!

Zheng Houfei: Hahaha, this kid is pretty protective of us!

Lu Gao: President Zheng, you're focusing on the wrong thing.

Zheng Houfei: Huiling, remember to have Professor Yang Ming accompany Luo Yao. If possible, it would be best if you went with them too.

Accompany Luo Yao?

Rao Huiling instantly felt as if she had aged a year.

Zheng Houfei's words were not something Rao Huiling could ignore.

After she sent someone to the neighboring city to bring Yang Ming over, Fu Daobin arrived as well, accompanied by another lithography machine expert.

Their meeting was scheduled for two in the afternoon.

As soon as two o'clock arrived, the four of them gathered in a small conference room in the Laboratory 012 building.

"Luo Yao, are you trying to understand the internal structure by dismantling the lithography machine?"

Yang Ming's eyes widened when he heard Fu Daobin's words.

What the hell?

Dismantle the lithography machine?

"No. What use would it be to dismantle the lithography machine just to see its internal structure?" Rao Huiling had not told Yang Ming that Pangu EDA had been developed by Luo Yao, so he saw Luo Yao as nothing more than an unreliable young man.

"Once I take it apart and see the structure clearly, I can verify whether my ideas are correct."

Hearing Luo Yao speak so seriously, Yang Ming laughed. "That's childish talk. Don't tell me you already have an idea of how to manufacture a lithography machine?"

Luo Yao nodded, then pulled out a blueprint he had printed at home.

"This is one of the design drawings for the lithography machine I designed. Once I got this far, I wasn't sure whether it was correct, so I need to examine a real lithography machine. Looking at the outside alone won't do—I need to see its internal structure."

Fu Daobin took the blueprint and handed it to the two experts beside him.

Yang Ming accepted it with an amused expression, thinking, What kind of lithography machine could a young man possibly design?

If lithography machines were really so easy to design, he would not have failed to build even a single one.

Wasting hundreds of millions in national research funding was Yang Ming's shame.

Yang Ming held the design drawing and reluctantly gave it a glance, only for his gaze to become glued to what was on the paper.

"193 nanometers... the light source is here... liquid tin is here... strike it twice, flatten the liquid tin droplet, the second strike..."

Yang Ming muttered under his breath. He looked up in disbelief and said, "This is a light-source design—and an EUV one at that?"

"Young man, where did you get this design drawing?!"

P.S. Still asking for votes. If there's a new alliance leader or monthly votes reach 1,000, I'll post 10,000 words a day for ten consecutive days.