MW!

Following Lu Zhou, the group moved from the main building into the assembly center workshop.

The moment he reached the workshop entrance, Academician Zhang Jianrong stared at everything inside and froze as though he had been petrified.

The two researchers behind him were no different, their mouths hanging open as they failed to utter a word.

Inside, industrial machines ran like ceaselessly turning gears along a fully unmanned production line, processing raw materials into the necessary parts and assembling them. They had seen plenty of domestic manufacturing bases, but this was their first time seeing a factory that had taken automation to such an extent.

Ignoring the three stunned men, Lu Zhou glanced at his phone and rapidly tapped the screen with his thumb.

[How much longer?]

Xiao Ai: [Almost done! (??????)??]

Soon, an AGV transport vehicle carrying a cylinder roughly two meters in diameter emerged through a sliding door on the side of the workshop. It drove over to the two Magnetohydrodynamic Generator Units that had already been processed, where waiting robotic arms completed the final assembly.

Having finally recovered from his shock, Academician Zhang closed his mouth, then slowly opened it again.

"...What is this?"

Walking over to the oddly shaped device, Lu Zhou tapped the cylinder and smiled.

"This is the Sonofusion Reactor you saw in the blueprints, along with its matching Magnetohydrodynamic Generator Units. It may look a little crude here, but since it'll be installed inside a space shuttle anyway, it doesn't really matter whether it looks good."

One of the researchers standing beside Academician Zhang could not help asking, "Was this thing just made?"

Lu Zhou gave a simple reply.

"More or less."

More precisely, it had been made half an hour ago.

The two Magnetohydrodynamic Generator Units and the reactor core