In the apocalypse, I hoarded goods and handed over my storage space to the government.

Five underground floors, the heavy equipment research and development center.

This place is much more lively than the radar lab.

The arc of the welding torch flashed, and the huge gantry crane roared overhead.

A steel giant, six meters tall, stands silently in the center.

It is not yet equipped with outer armor, exposing the internal hydraulic lines and crystal energy transmission lines in a bare state.

Even though it's just a skeleton, the suffocating oppressive feeling of a killing machine is already overwhelming.

This is the skeleton of the Great Xia's ultimate single weapon, the "Cheng Ying" heavy tactical mech.

Lu Yuan was wearing AR glasses and was sketching its energy lines in the air, talking to himself.

"No, the energy transfer efficiency here is too low, causing at least 3% energy loss. We need to switch to a composite circuit..."

He was engrossed in his own world when he suddenly felt a tightness in both shoulders.

On his left and right, Wei Jianguo and Chief Engineer Wu, like two door gods, grabbed his arms and dragged him out.

"Academician Wei, Chief Engineer Wu! What are you doing?"

Lu Yuan was startled and turned around in a panic, trying to struggle. "My 'Cheng Ying' mecha is at a critical stage, and Commander Su is urging me on."

"Enough talk! The 'Crystal Core Radar' is more crucial!"

Chief Engineer Wu's face was dark, but he didn't lessen the force in his hands.

"Thousands of factories and 60 million compatriots on the ground are all waiting for this thing to save their lives! You must come with us today!"

Lu Yuan was carried away by the two men, one on each side, with his feet off the ground.

……

Back at the Sky Shield laboratory.

Lu Yuan was pressed in front of the control panel. Chief Engineer Wu pointed to an algorithm stuck in an infinite loop on the screen, looking a little embarrassed, and spoke in a muffled voice.

The problem lies in the redundant algorithm for the 'resonant frequency'.

The high-order crystal nuclei frequencies we detect always have a tiny, unavoidable fluctuation that prevents the radar signal from locking on precisely.

Lu Yuan glanced at it and immediately understood.

Chief Engineer Wu and his colleagues are typical academics, with rigorous thinking and a step-by-step approach.

They mistook that "minor fluctuation" for a bug that needed fixing, or a noise in the signal that needed to be filtered out.

But he knew that wasn't it.

Lu Yuan didn't ask any more questions and sat down directly.

"Buzz!"

The entire control panel screen lit up instantly.

Chief Engineer Wu and Academician Wei stood nervously behind him.

Lu Yuan's fingers left a trail of afterimages as he typed on the virtual keyboard.

Chief Engineer Wu watched from the side, his eyes twitching.

Countless complex algorithm models and data streams were violently dismantled and reassembled in front of him.

Less than half an hour.

Lu Yuan's fingers stopped.

"Chief Engineer Wu, your approach is correct."

He pointed to a waveform curve on the screen and began to speak.

"However, during energy level transitions, the energy of the crystal nucleus undergoes an extremely brief decay process due to dimensional compression."

The frequency fluctuations that occur during this process are not noise.

It is the key to calibrating biological signals at different levels.

You've treated it as a bug and filtered it out, so the results never match.

A word to wake up the dreamer!

Chief Engineer Wu's body jolted violently, and a terrifying glint flashed in his cloudy eyes.

"That's right! How come I didn't think of that! Dimensional compression... decay... the key!"

He muttered to himself, staring at the green frame with an extremely complex expression.

"How could I not have thought of that! How could I not have thought of that!!"

There was both the ecstatic joy of liberation and a deep sense of defeat.

Is this what talent is?

In Lu Yuan's eyes, he could tell where the "blockage" was just by intuition.

Wu Jiayong took a deep breath, stepped forward abruptly, and rubbed his hands together excitedly.

"Once we get past this hurdle, I have experience with the subsequent array arrangements, so you won't need to do that..."

The old man's childlike energy has returned.

"Old Wu!"

Wei Jianguo grabbed him with such force that Chief Engineer Wu stumbled.

Academician Wei looked at Chief Engineer Wu's complex face, which showed both sudden realization and resentment, and solemnly shook his head.

"We old folks should accept our age; there's nothing shameful about it."

After speaking, he looked at Lu Yuan, his eyes full of appreciation and expectation.

"Xiao Lu, don't stop. Keep going, you finish it off."

Lu Yuan nodded and didn't stand on ceremony anymore.

His fingers moved again, perfectly embedding the "key" curve into the core of the entire radar algorithm.

Compile, proofread, load...

When he pressed the last Enter key.

"drop!"

A soft sound.

On the huge screen in the center of the main control panel, the red alert indicating a system error disappeared instantly.

Instead, there is a reassuring green color that represents the system running perfectly.

A blue radar scanning interface slowly unfolds.

[“Sky Shield” System - Crystal Core Radar Underlying Architecture... Completed!]

[System self-check...100%!]

[Frequency database...match successful!]

"Buzz!"

In the center of the experimental platform, the prototype of the crystal core radar emitted a low hum.

Immediately afterwards, the second-order crystal core embedded in the core suddenly lit up, emitting a soft and stable blue light.

On the screen, the previously wildly jumping, chaotic snowflakes disappeared instantly.

Instead, there is a clean black radar scanning interface.

A dark blue cursor began to slowly rotate clockwise.

"drop!"

A crisp notification sound rang out.

In the upper right corner of the screen, a few faint energy points were instantly captured.

"There's an image! There's an image!"

Wu Jiayong, no longer caring about his image, practically threw himself onto the screen. "This is...this is the first-order sample from next door to the lab?"

Clear!

So clear!

This radar bypasses physical reflection and strikes directly at the essence of energy!

Lu Yuan stood up and scratched his head somewhat embarrassedly.

"Actually, Mr. Wu, your hardware design is perfect, it's just that the logic of information processing is a bit convoluted."

The greatest truths are the simplest.

"We old bones are truly something else," Wei Jianguo exclaimed.

"Two weeks left... no, two days left."

He let out a long sigh of relief, feeling as if a huge weight had finally been lifted from his chest.

Turning her head, she looked at Lu Yuan, who was about to slip away quietly, her eyes filled with emotion.

"Old Wu."

"Um?"

"It seems we really are getting old."

Wei Jianguo took out a flattened cigarette from his pocket, held it to his nose, and smelled it.

"Times have changed, and so have the rules. From now on, the scientific research community of Great Xia will belong to these young people."

"I guess I'll just get old."

This time, Wu Jiayong did not refute. He straightened up and watched Lu Yuan's figure disappear through the door.

"As long as we can keep things going, what does it matter if we're just stepping stones for these kids?"

"yes."

Wei Jianguo chuckled, then straightened his back.

"The crystal core radar is finally complete!"

Chief Engineer Wu grabbed the red secure phone on the table, his fingers trembling slightly with excitement. "Now let's see where those flying beasts can hide!"

"Receive Commander Chen and Advisor Su!"

"Tell them, the Heavenly Eye of Great Xia has opened!"