North America, Tennessee, a small town called Clinton.

As the main executive agency of the Manhattan Project in World War II, Oak Ridge National Laboratory is a city built out of thin air in the middle of nowhere, a city that is independent and inhabited by tens of thousands of the brightest brains on earth.

As one of the most important top scientific research institutions in North America, the Oak Ridge Laboratory is part of the National Department of Energy, and it has six other sister institutions that are also part of the Department of Energy: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Argonne Laboratory, Fermi Laboratory, Brookhaven Laboratory, Lowes Laboratory, and Lawrence Livermore Laboratory.

It's like a top-level laboratory cluster, and the focus of this lab cluster is on controlled nuclear fusion and all energy-related areas to counter the challenge from China.

The seven laboratories under the Ministry of Energy are all ranked among the top 15 on the planet!

This is the attitude of North America towards controlled fusion technology, and they are bound to win, and after a series of major setbacks, North America will not be willing to lose its nuclear hegemony.

In the field of nuclear energy in China, the national team has always been engaged in it, and Xingchen Technology has a fusion pre-research center, although the scale is small, it can only be regarded as a secondary and medium-sized department in the company, but the annual budget is as high as 17 billion yuan, and there is also the right to add a second budget.

According to the budget system of Xingchen Technology, once the annual budget is determined, the headquarters will not add a budget, and if the budget is spent in advance, it can only reduce the workload and wait for the next year's budget to be released.

If it is a key department such as the materials department and the life science department, the budget can be added, because the research task is extremely important, even if the financial director Lu Tao grabs it, he must fully support them to carry out the research, and the fusion center is just a member of the company's key departments.

These circumstances show that Luo Jia attaches great importance to the fusion center, but due to the sensitivity of nuclear forces, it is inconvenient to conduct large-scale research without the permission of the national team, but Xingchen Technology has been doing this kind of thing quietly throwing money at the fusion field.

In addition, Xingchen Technology has a tradition of concentrating on big things, and at present, the strength of the whole company is concentrated in the space elevator program, and the Department of Life Sciences is relatively strong because of its independent operation, and although the research fields such as controlled fusion and quantum are very important, they can only be ranked in the back row, behind the three major items of energy, semiconductors and space.

All in all, observing the research directions of major scientific research institutions in North America, we can judge their plans and assumptions for the future, as well as the fields in which China will start a life-and-death struggle with North America in the future.

Under North America, the number one scientific research giant is NASA in charge of the space program, followed by the Department of Energy, which has seven laboratories, which are extremely powerful, the only difference is that the Ministry of Energy adopts a strategy of separate and independent operation, in fact, if the seven laboratories merge, there is no doubt that they will be the second NASA.

It can be seen that space and energy are the focus of North America's development.

The third-ranked research direction is computer science, and the Lincoln Laboratory, which has a close connection with MIT, is the main representative of this research direction, and other laboratories, including NASA and Oak Ridge, also have research projects in the computer direction.

In this field, pharmacological research mainly relies on major research institutions under the North American Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as well as pharmaceutical giants led by Pfizer, as well as major medical school laboratories, not to mention the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, which is known as the world's first life sciences.

After being defeated by the Life Science Department of Xingchen Technology, the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory went underground, and the main researchers found no trace overnight, and they didn't know what they were doing.

This phenomenon did not reassure Luo Jia, but made him worried, and repeatedly urged the Wen brothers to increase investment in the field of life sciences, in case one day Watson and Reinhardt and the like suddenly jumped out and scared the world.

Ranking fifth is artificial intelligence, mainly relying on Internet companies led by Google, as well as the development of major universities, but in recent years, the signs of the North American national team entering this research field have become more and more obvious, especially after the intelligent assistant of Xingchen Technology, Xiaoxing, including the Argonne laboratory, has begun to be deeply involved in this field, and outside North America, the joint project team of the Cavendish Laboratory and the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom has also made amazing progress, and they are approaching the status of the little star step by step.

The sixth is the direction of quantum and superconductivity, that is, the project in charge of the top genius of Xingchen Science and Technology Chao Anbang, quantum typical belongs to the field of the future, which may open up a new perspective and dimension for human beings in the face of the universe, and is still on the road of building theory, far from the development of the industry, but the potential is absolutely huge.

Anyway, the battle between the great powers, the pinnacle showdown in human history, is by no means as simple as ordinary people imagine, there are too many fields, and China and the United States have to compete with each other.

At this moment, Shurakel came to the high-level conference room of the Oak Ridge Laboratory to wait for the summons, he was only twenty-four years old, and he had already successfully won the 3D chip project, which was definitely enough to go down in history.

However, Shuraker, who is approaching the peak of his life, is full of thoughts about a man, with messy hair like a chicken nest, always looking like a young Chinese man who has not woken up and seems to lack interest in the real world, thinking about his voice and appearance.

"Cao Yuan! You have become a god in the field of materials science, and I will also reach the pinnacle of the semiconductor field! ”

Shuraker silently recited Cao Yuan's name in his heart, and gradually clenched his fists, as if he harbored some kind of resentment towards Cao Yuan.

Assuming you know Cao Yuan's words, you will understand that Shurakel silently resents him, and there is nothing abnormal about this matter itself.

Because Cao Yuan has a jealous physique, which comes from his dedication to abusing vegetables, it is clear that he is already one of the most important scientists in the world, Cao Yuan's time should be more precious than gold, but he spends a lot of time to run into various games, with his strong talent to abuse vegetables, and he never gets tired of it.

In fact, when Cao Yuan was younger, he was more interested in arguing with others on the forum than in abusing vegetables, but as he grew up, he understood that words are both rights, and understood that being a keyboard powerhouse could not promote social progress, and those who were stubborn by nature would not wake up because of their wise views.

So, Cao Yuan gave up the idea of saving those stubborn stupid people, and devoted himself to abusing vegetables in the game, anyway, he was happy to make all his opponents depressed.

Shuraker was one of the victims, he could never forget Cao Yuan's coquettish shot, which directly exploded his head, Shurakel looked at the bright red blood splashed all over the screen, stunned in surprise, and deeply remembered the name of the perpetrator Cao Yuan.

In a world where only madmen and paranoids can survive, Shurakel is able to stand out by virtue of his capital, in addition to his talent, as well as his stone-like stubbornness and persistence.

In the next game, Shurakel died, and the perpetrator Cao Yuan.

In the next game, Shuraker died, and the perpetrator was still Cao Yuan, and after the kill, Cao Yuan was very arrogant and sent out a smile with the corners of his mouth upturned, this disdainful attitude completely stabbed Shurakel's self-esteem, making him feel blood surge, and bruises on his brain.

People are two-sided, Cao Yuan is an incomparable genius, but at the same time, he is also the most arrogant abuser in the game, people always see Cao Yuan with a harmless smiling face, that's because he took all his emotions to the game to vent, leaving everyone with always happy and not waking up.

Shuraker's character is too stubborn, and in the research of 3D chips, it is inevitable to encounter the problem of electron migration, and countless scientists are helpless against it, or even give up, but Shurakel has been stumbling all the way, and since he set the goal of researching 3D chip technology, he has never wavered even the slightest.

Such a character is placed in his personal grudge with Cao Yuan, it is an endless challenge, Cao Yuan keeps changing the habit of changing games, playing for a period of time, feeling that the game has no freshness, Cao Yuan will immediately delete the number and change to another game.

Shurakel stared at the dynamics of Cao Yuan's social account, and wherever Cao Yuan went, Shurakel chased after him.

I think it's also true love, one year, two years, three years, four years, it's the fifth year in a blink of an eye, poor life is short, how many five years can there be.

……

Northwest China, Jiuquan Aerospace Base.

After dinner, Cao Yuan, as usual, lay in the bathtub and took out his mobile phone and logged in to the game interface.

"It's a familiar feeling." After killing a guy with the online name Klein in a row, Cao Yuan shrugged his shoulders and muttered to himself in his heart.

Habits are a very difficult existence to change, step out of the left foot or the right foot when walking, take a sip of soup when eating noodles, and then eat noodles.

The game is also, some people's game style is as cunning as a fox, they like to hide in the corner to yin the enemy, and some are like brave people, desperate to kill on the front line of battle, holding a giant sword, making sharp moves, opening and closing.

Cao Yuan keenly found that the style of this netizen named Klein is familiar, in fact, whenever Cao Yuan starts a new game journey, he can always meet a guy similar to Crane, he may be called Cristiano, or Browning Salgado, with different names and different images, but the fighting style is always the same.

Boom~

Cao Yuan didn't think too much about it, and with a wonderful roundabout kill, he took out Crane for the third time, and then advanced along the edge of the map to the next rally point.

"It's so boring, always fighting this kind of boring opponent will make my game level regress, but this guy likes to fight me very much."

Thinking of this, Cao Yuan typed in the game chat channel, "Please, can you not follow me and go to someone else to play, I'm very busy..."

……

Tennessee

The hand holding the phone is shaking, while the heart is dripping blood.

"Dr. Shurakel?"

Hearing the voice, Shurakel let out a sigh of relief, looked up, and saw a beautiful secretary with blonde hair smiling at him.

"You're really the most game-friendly scientist I've ever met, and I don't know what the charm of the game is, and the director asked me to inform you that the guests from Washington are ready to meet you." Miss Secretary said.

Shurakel stood up, thought for a moment, reluctantly put his phone on silent, then put it in his pants pocket, and strode towards the conference room.

"Congratulations, Dr. Shurakel! I was in the conference room just now, listening to the director and the guests in Washington, who were full of praise for you! The secretary added behind Shuraker.

Praise?

Shuraker didn't have any pride in his heart, and all he thought about was the Chinese man who had messy hair like a chicken nest and was as careless as if he could never wake up.

The one named Cao Yuan, his fateful opponent.