Amid the shrill alarms, the mood in the laboratory visibly plummeted.
As the project leader, Ding Chengwang stood at the main control console and instinctively sighed.
"Another failure..."
He shook his head with a bitter smile, his previously straight back visibly stooping.
Unlike ordinary experiments, every attempt to produce strong interaction material consumed enormous amounts of resources.
Although that was hardly significant to the vast Human Federation, from the perspective of the Materials Research Center's other laboratories, Ding Chengwang's 149 experiments had consumed most of the center's resource allocation.
Had he succeeded, that would have been one thing.
But instead, the experiments could only produce a tiny fragment measuring one micrometer on each side.
Since strong interaction material was a priority project supported by the Academy of Sciences, the other researchers at the Materials Research Center had voiced no objections. But Ding Chengwang knew that when their own research resources were at stake, anyone would harbor at least some resentment.
Thus, faced with the failure of his 149th experiment, Ding Chengwang grew increasingly anxious.
At that moment, Lü Yongchang, who had been keeping such a low profile beside him that he might as well have been invisible, seemed to figure something out. His tightly furrowed brows quickly relaxed.
He strode forward. Before Ding Chengwang could react, he pulled over the holographic image in front of him and circled several experimental data points and steps.
"There are problems in these places."
"You haven't accounted for the Grand Unified Field's effects on the surrounding spacetime."
"That's also why the critical size of strong interaction material is one micrometer."
"P-Professor Lü?!" Ding Chengwang's eyes flew wide, and he blurted out in surprise, "When did you get here?"
Lü Yongchang did not answer his question. His brows rose slightly, his expression growing sterner. "Did