Jiang Fan had barely sent the message when he received a reply!
Little Wildcat: You have a girlfriend? Who?
Jiang Fan immediately thought of his classmate Chu Ruoxi, who had spent a whole day hanging out with him a few days earlier!
Although they had not been properly acquainted for long, Chu Ruoxi's lively, adorable manner and innocent beauty had deeply attracted him.
Thinking of her, Jiang Fan could not help the corners of his mouth lifting!
Just then, his phone chimed again!
Little Wildcat: Who is it! If you don't tell me, I'll keep pestering you. Hmph!
Jiang Fan had no time to get tangled up with Qiao Yifei, so he replied directly!
Jiang Fan: My high school classmate, Chu Ruoxi!
Thousands of miles away, Chu Ruoxi was holding her phone, reading the message Jiang Fan had sent.
When she saw that he meant her, she immediately broke into a delighted smile.
"Hmph, he even secretly called me his girlfriend. What a big meanie! Hehe..."
Although Chu Ruoxi complained about Jiang Fan aloud, her pretty face bloomed with a flowerlike smile.
She recalled that Jiang Fan's score of 300 on the college entrance exam had actually been the result of deliberately controlling his score. Although she did not know why he had done it, it was enough to prove his ability!
Now, all their classmates knew that Jiang Fan had controlled his score. They had previously mocked him as a complete idiot who was only fit to attend Sandong Lanxiang Technical School.
Yet Jiang Fan had developed a solar photovoltaic panel, and Huaqing in the Capital and Dragon Country Peking University had fought to offer him admission without an entrance exam.
The more she thought about it, the more she realized that Jiang Fan had slapped those classmates resoundingly across the face without uttering a word!
She had worried before that Jiang Fan would really choose a technical school, and the distance between them would only grow until they inevitably became strangers. But now, things were looking up. They might even attend the same university!
Seeing Jiang Fan use her as a shield now, calling her his girlfriend,
Chu Ruoxi felt quite happy.
Then again, Jiang Fan was rather handsome, too. He was over 1.8 meters tall, was not overweight, and was usually calm and composed in whatever he did. Although he did not talk much, he was still the type she liked...
If Jiang Fan really became her boyfriend, that would actually be pretty nice.
As Chu Ruoxi thought about it, her little face could not help turning red!
She decided to keep pretending to be Qiao Yifei and tease him some more, so she sent Jiang Fan another message!
Little Wildcat: Then what do you like about Chu Ruoxi?
After typing the words, Chu Ruoxi could not help feeling a little excited, looking forward to how Jiang Fan would compliment her!
"Hehe... send!"
Chu Ruoxi murmured!
But her smile froze instantly!
Because Jiang Fan had deleted her.
"You big meanie! Hmph, how dare you delete me on WeChat! Just see how I deal with you when you get back!"
With that, Chu Ruoxi angrily tossed her phone onto the bed!
A moment later, another thought occurred to her.
Huh!
Wait!
Jiang Fan thought she was Qiao Yifei, and that was why he had deleted her! So he had not meant to delete her!
At that thought, Chu Ruoxi started giggling again.
This also proved that Jiang Fan was not a womanizer. If she dated him in the future, she would never have to worry about him getting tangled up with other girls. Hehe...
But a little while later, she pursed her lips and murmured!
"Without Jiang Fan on WeChat anymore, how am I supposed to chat with him?"
After deleting Little Wildcat from WeChat, Jiang Fan instantly felt that his phone was much quieter!
He quickly finished his meal. Since he could no longer go to the institute's reference room, he pushed his empty bowl aside, took out his notebook, and began organizing his plans!
Jiang Fan spent the entire morning in his quarters, working out the details of his plans.
Judging by Zhou Huaide and the others' efficiency yesterday, he estimated that they should finish making the modifications based on the materials he had organized last night by around eleven thirty!
So, sometime after eleven, he took his notebook and headed to the laboratory.
Just as Jiang Fan had expected, they were carrying out the final checks.
When everyone saw Jiang Fan arrive, they immediately greeted him.
"Chief Engineer Jiang, you're just in time. We've finished implementing the modification plan you gave us. Please check it and see if there are any problems left."
"All right."
Jiang Fan walked up to the tokamak and inspected the sections they had modified.
Five minutes later, Jiang Fan finished his inspection. He found that the curvature of the material in one component was incorrect, but everything else was fine!
"Uncle Zhou, this section needs to be modified. The angle here is 121.789 degrees, a deviation of 0.02 degrees!"
After speaking, Jiang Fan handed the angle gauge to Zhou Huaide.
Zhou Huaide measured it as well. Sure enough, it was off by 0.02 degrees! His face instantly darkened, and he addressed everyone.
"Who made this material?"
"Commander Zhou, I'm sorry. It was me. It's my fault for not measuring it accurately!" a researcher said!
Just as Zhou Huaide was about to give him a thorough dressing-down, Jiang Fan spoke!
"Uncle Zhou, just have everyone be more careful next time."
Zhou Huaide also knew that with their tight schedule, some minor problems were bound to arise!
But the tokamak was extremely complex. Even a tiny problem meant that all the connected components had to be reworked, which would cost them a great deal of time!
"We'll let it go this time. In the work ahead, everyone must be careful, and then more careful still. You're all researchers, so you should know better than I do that even a tiny error could cause the entire project to fail..."
Everyone understood that the material requirements for controlled nuclear fusion were extremely precise.
When plasma circulated inside the tokamak, even a tiny error could lead to instability in the nuclear fusion process!
Because of that researcher's error, most of the materials from that morning had to be reworked. He felt deeply guilty as well!
After the final modifications were completed, he made a point of apologizing to everyone. No one blamed him, and they even offered him some words of comfort.
In truth, everyone knew that none of them wanted problems to arise.
Time slipped by, the days flying like a weaver's shuttle!
The controlled nuclear fusion project was completed amid their intense yet orderly modifications!
After Jiang Fan finished checking all the materials and data, his tense expression finally relaxed!
"We've successfully developed it!"
Zhou Huaide shouted, and everyone cheered along with him!
Only Jiang Fan knew that the tokamak they had developed this time was merely to fulfill the agreement between Zhou Huaide and the chief!
But to truly develop controlled nuclear fusion, keep its output steady and sustained, and apply this new energy source across various fields,
they would need another year, as well as at least ten billion in funding, to accomplish it!
"Jiang Fan, when will we conduct the ignition test?"
"Uncle Zhou, because our schedule was so tight, the tokamak I developed can only be used once."
"Once? Then how confident are we that we can keep the nuclear fusion stable for a hundred seconds?"
"Seventy percent!"
"All right, I'll contact the chief right away!"