Ke Meng could not see inside. He could only use his spiritual senses, vaguely making out over a hundred Special Items at work within.
"Ten, nine, eight... three, two, one!"
As the countdown ended, everyone watched the screen, but Ke Meng could see the laser beam ignite the fuel with his own eyes.
The high-energy laser generated temperatures exceeding a hundred million degrees. Once it ignited the nuclear fuel, fusion began, and the various Special Items kept moving, containing the fusion reaction within the reactor.
"Ignition successful. No problems for now." The director of the fusion institute let out a long sigh of relief. Now all they had to do was wait and connect it directly to the test power grid.
"Test power grid successfully energized!" an artificial intelligence announced over the speakers.
Cheers filled the room. Everyone was elated, smiles blooming on their faces.
The reporters were excited too, holding up their microphones to interview the director.
A cameraman filmed the scene with his camera. Its hardware featured built-in intelligent algorithms that obscured the faces of anyone with a high confidentiality rating.
The cameraman noticed something: when Ke Meng appeared in the frame, the machine edited him into empty air. Even his body vanished.
Just how high was his confidentiality rating? he wondered in astonishment.
The camera accidentally caught the Director-General, who was also edited into empty air, as though he did not exist.
Everyone here was a major figure. Almost none of them could appear in the news footage.
Only with their permission could they be filmed normally.
Ke Meng chatted with the Director-General and the others for a while before leaving. None of them were fools. They had already checked with Spiritual Perception before ignition. Nothing would go wrong this time; it would definitely go smoothly.
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