When I went home for Chinese New Year, I spent a million times more money on my foreign wife.

On the night the Paris fashion show ended, Langfeng Group's global pre-sale amount exceeded an astonishing figure.

When Chen Yue sent the financial report, Chen Yang was scrolling through his phone in his hotel suite.

Katyusha changed out of her dress, wrapped herself in a bathrobe, and nestled on the sofa to eat dessert.

An encrypted push notification popped up on the phone screen.

Chen Yang clicked on the notification, and the advanced encrypted interface of the Swiss offshore account slowly unfolded.

A line of numbers lay quietly in the center of the screen.

Rebate amount: US$140 billion.

A system notification sounded: The host created an exclusive haute couture dress for the bound object, causing a global cultural impact, and was judged as a double weight of "extreme pampering of wife + civilized output".

Rebate multiplier: 1,000 times.

Chen Yang flipped his phone over and placed it face down on the table without any particular reaction.

He had seen rebates of this magnitude more than once.

But then, the screen lit up again.

The second push notification.

"Special Reward Unlocked - Ultimate Tech Tree: Energy Chapter"

"Reward Content: Miniaturization technology for controlled nuclear fusion reactors (complete set of engineering drawings + material formulas + ignition protocol)."

"Note: This technology can achieve an unlimited supply of clean energy, with an output power 470 times that of the most advanced fission reactors currently available. The fuel is deuterium extracted from seawater, and the theoretical reserves can support human civilization for 10 billion years."

Chen Yang picked up his phone and stared at the screen for ten seconds.

He stood up, walked to the window, and pulled the curtains shut.

Katyusha, biting into a strawberry on her fork, asked, "What's wrong?"

"fine."

Chen Yang dialed Chen Yue's number.

"Where are you?"

"In the next room, they're processing Langfeng's handover documents."

"Come here."

Three minutes later, Chen Yue pushed the door open and came in. Chen Yang handed her his phone.

After reading the content on the screen, Chen Yue gripped the edge of the phone with her fingers until her knuckles turned white.

"Brother, what is this...?"

"You saw it."

"Controlled nuclear fusion." Chen Yue's voice was very low. "If this thing is real, brother, this isn't about money anymore, this is..."

"I know."

Chen Yang took the phone back and exited the encrypted interface.

"The blueprints and data packets are too large, and the system requires them to be received using dedicated hardware. I need a top-of-the-line encrypted hard drive, military-grade, physically isolated, and not connected to the internet."

Chen Yue: "I'll have Lei Zi handle it; it should be done in two hours."

"There's one more thing," Chen Yang said, looking at her. "We're going back to China tomorrow. This thing can't stay abroad for more than 24 hours."

Chen Yue nodded, and as she turned to leave, she said back, "The handover process on Langfeng's side—"

"You handle this remotely. The person comes with me."

"clear."

-

At 5 a.m. the next day, three Gulfstream aircraft took off from Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport and flew directly to Harbin.

After landing, Chen Yang did not return to the Snow Palace territory, but went directly to a safe house in the city of Ice City.

Lei Zi was already waiting there. On the table was a hard drive with a titanium alloy casing and an offline terminal that was completely disconnected from the internet.

Chen Yang sat down, opened the system's data transfer channel, and spent forty-seven minutes importing all the technical documents to the hard drive.

Once the transfer is complete, the system interface automatically destroys the cloud copy.

This hard drive contains the world's only complete set of data on controlled nuclear fusion miniaturization technology.

Chen Yang put the hard drive into a shockproof and antimagnetic box and locked it with three locks.

"Lei Zi, arrange a special train."

"Where to?"

"The capital city."

Lei Zi was taken aback: "Boss, it'll take three hours to fly there—"

"I won't go by air. There are signals and radar in the air, and too many uncontrollable factors. I'll go by ground, on a high-speed train, with signal jamming throughout the entire journey. I want absolute safety."

Lei Zi didn't say anything more: "I'll go and mediate."

Chen Yue chimed in from the side, "Brother, if we charter a high-speed train, we need to make some arrangements with the railway system."

"Contact Director Li and tell him that I have something to hand over to the highest level in person."

Chen Yue picked up the phone and went to the next room. She returned in less than ten minutes.

"Minister Li said that the people in Beijing are already making arrangements. The special train will depart from Harbin South Station in two hours, without stopping along the way, and all signal base stations along the route will temporarily reduce their power. When it arrives in Beijing, someone will meet it directly on the platform."

"Minister Li asked you what you brought."

Chen Yang glanced at her: "What did you say?"

"I said, it's ten thousand times more important than the last space-based defense plan."

"What was his reaction?"

He didn't say anything. He coughed twice before hanging up.

-

Two hours later, at Harbin South Station.

The platform was cleared out, and all passengers and staff evacuated.

The eight-car white high-speed train was parked on the innermost track, with twelve fully armed Black Kite security personnel standing at each end.

Chen Yang, Chen Yue, and Lei Zi boarded the fourth carriage. The hard drive case was fixed to a shock-absorbing bracket in the center of the carriage and covered with an electromagnetic shield.

The train starts moving, accelerates, and pulls out of the station.

The city buildings outside the car window began to recede, faster and faster.

Chen Yue sat opposite him, scrolling through data on her phone: "Brother, I've done a rough calculation. If this technology can be implemented, the cost of electricity generation alone will drop to one-thousandth of what it is now. Oil, natural gas, coal—the entire fossil fuel industry chain will become worthless within ten years."

"What do you think should be done?"

Chen Yue put down her phone: "Hand it over to the country."

"reason?"

"This thing is too big. So big that no private organization can handle it. If you hold it, the world's energy oligarchs, military-industrial complexes, and intelligence agencies will unite to destroy you. But if it's in the hands of a nation, that's a different story."

Chen Yang did not respond.

Chen Yue continued, "Besides, brother, you already have more money than you can spend. This technology isn't a tool for making money for you, but for 1.4 billion people, it's life itself."

The scenery along the way flashed by outside the window: plains, rivers, tunnels, all the way south.

Five hours later, the train entered Beijing.

A row of people were standing on the platform.

Leading the group was Li Bu, followed by four officers in dark uniforms.

Chen Yang got off the car carrying the hard drive case.

Li Bu came forward, his gaze falling on the titanium alloy box, then he looked up at Chen Yang.

"The person is already waiting for you."

Chen Yang: "Who?"

Li pointed towards the platform exit—a black sedan with a special license plate was parked there, with two escort vehicles in front and behind it.

"Zhongbeihai."

Chen Yang handed the box to Lei Zi and got into the car first. Chen Yue and Lei Zi got into the car behind.

The convoy drove out of the station and headed west along Chang'an Avenue.

Forty minutes later, the convoy passed through three security checkpoints and entered Zhongbeihai.

A small meeting room. A long wooden table, without any unnecessary decorations.

On the table were a teacup and a reading terminal that had been disconnected from the internet.

The door opened, and an elderly man with gray hair walked in. He had no secretary or entourage.

The old man sat down at the other end of the table and looked at Chen Yang.

"Xiao Chen, I heard from Director Li that you brought a big gift."

Chen Yang opened the box, took out the hard drive, and placed it in the center of the desktop.

"Miniaturization technology for controlled nuclear fusion reactors, including complete blueprints, material formulations, and ignition protocols."

The meeting room remained quiet for a long time.

The old man stared at the hard drive, then looked up.

"What are the conditions?"

"There are no conditions," Chen Yang said. "It will be handed over to the state free of charge."

The old man stood up, walked around the long table, and stood in front of Chen Yang.

He stretched out his hand.

Chen Yang shook it.

The meeting room door was closed from the outside, and the footsteps in the corridor gradually faded away.

Chen Yue and Lei Zi sat in the waiting room next door, and their tea had already been refilled three times.

The red light above the door was on—the meeting was still in progress.