He Yuan knew she was just brushing him off. He sighed, went to the kitchen to heat a cup of milk for her, silently placed it on the table beside her, stayed with her for a while, and then returned to his room.
He knew he couldn’t persuade her to stop, so he could only take more meticulous care of her in daily life.
Ji Shuyu was also feeling anxious.
Theoretical calculations and preliminary experiments were progressing slowly, and the existing experimental conditions and data support were far from sufficient.
Many ideas couldn’t be verified. She felt as if she were groping in the dark, making painstakingly slow progress while time waited for no one.
Late one night, yet another set of experimental data fell far short of expectations. Ji Shuyu leaned back in her chair in frustration, massaging her throbbing temples.
A translucent screen, visible only to her, appeared before her eyes.
Recently, absorbed in her research to the point of forgetting food and sleep, she had rarely visited the points mall.
Just like how most women enjoy retail therapy to feel better, she also liked browsing the points mall when she was unhappy or troubled.
Whether she bought anything or not was another matter; just browsing lifted her mood.
As she was looking through the still expensive cutting-edge technical materials in the mall, the light screen suddenly flickered a few times and popped up a new prompt.
[Simulation Lab function successfully activated! Points required to unlock: 100.]
[Simulation Lab: Consume a certain amount of points to simulate material synthesis, performance testing, and other experimental processes within the consciousness space, significantly shortening the R&D cycle and reducing physical experiment costs.]
Ji Shuyu abruptly sat up straight, all drowsiness gone, her heart pounding with excitement.
This… this was like receiving help in the nick of time!
This mall… how does it always seem to know what she lacks and what she needs?
No matter. Right now, Ji Shuyu desperately needed a breakthrough.
She couldn’t wait to try it out. Following the prompts, she set the first material formula and process parameters she wanted to simulate and selected the basic precision mode.
[Points -50]
[Simulation starting…]
In just a few minutes, the testing process—which might have taken several days or even weeks in a real lab—was completed rapidly.
[Simulation Result: Material A, tensile strength below expectations, insufficient toughness. Adjustment recommended.]
Even though it failed, Ji Shuyu was thrilled. For just 50 points, she had ruled out one wrong path.
The efficiency was incredibly high!
She immediately adjusted the parameters based on the simulation feedback and invested points to run another simulation…
Unknowingly, the sky outside began to lighten.
Ji Shuyu exited the system. Though she was somewhat mentally fatigued, the previous sense of confusion was gone.
She had failed over a dozen times and consumed quite a few points, but she had successfully identified the three most promising technical paths. This was far beyond the blind groping of the past few months.
With the cheat code of the points mall, Ji Shuyu was now in an excellent mood.
She stood up, walked to the window, and looked at the light of dawn breaking on the horizon, her heart filled with hope.
With this Simulation Lab, she would definitely be able to develop better materials faster.
The brave warriors fighting for peace in distant lands, including their constantly worried-about younger brother, He Han, might truly get to use the results of her work one day sooner, gaining an extra measure of safety.
She gently clenched her fists, her gaze firm.
Ji Shuyu took these research findings and went to the laboratory.
Everyone watched her, despite her advanced pregnancy, walking swiftly and energetically, and they couldn’t help but marvel.
How incredible are their genes? They had never seen Ji Shuyu experience any morning sickness.
“Alright, everyone, except for the most critical tasks, from now on, we focus on this. We must strive to finalize this material as quickly as possible,” Ji Shuyu said, clapping her hands to gather everyone.
They looked at the materials she had distributed. Although they didn’t fully understand the rationale, no one objected.
The research direction was always set by Ji Shuyu. If she was this urgent about it, it meant this material was highly important.
So, everyone sprang into action, setting aside other less pressing matters.
After countless days and nights of relentless effort, consuming a vast amount of points for simulation experiments, and enduring numerous failures only to grit her teeth and start over, Ji Shuyu finally achieved a breakthrough.
She successfully synthesized a prototype of a new composite fiber.
This material was not only lightweight but could also adapt to changes in light, offering significant concealment capabilities.
She immediately went to share the news with Auntie Qin, Qin Ru.
She was her mother’s closest high school friend and also the largest shareholder of the research institute.
Of course, she had to share the first research achievement with her.
Qin Ru took the material sample, felt it carefully, then put on her reading glasses and meticulously turned the pages of Ji Shuyu’s notebook and report.
As a seasoned technical expert, while her knowledge of cutting-edge theory for new materials might not be as deep as Ji Shuyu’s, she possessed solid judgment.
The more she read, the more astonished her expression became, eventually turning into one of sheer disbelief.
“Shuyu… this… are these data real?” Auntie Qin looked up, gripping Ji Shuyu’s hand tightly.
“It hasn’t been long at all! You really developed it? Good heavens, if this is true, how remarkable would this be! Think of all the applications!”
She instantly grasped the potential changes this material could bring.
Lighter bulletproof vests, more covert reconnaissance equipment – how many soldiers’ lives could it save!
“It’s true, Auntie Qin! Preliminary lab tests have verified it repeatedly!” Ji Shuyu nodded, her smile radiant. “Although we’re still some distance from the final product and mass production, the most critical core challenges have been overcome!”
“Good child! Good child! If your mother knew, she would be so overjoyed!” Qin Ru was so moved her eyes reddened. She hugged Ji Shuyu, gently patting her back.
“This is wonderful! Truly momentous news! You’ve worked so hard, really, so hard!”
The two sat in the lab, discussing in low voices.
Completely unaware that not far away, a man was staring greedily at the notebook in their hands and the small sample.
He was the “Mole,” hired by a foreign agency and embedded here.
Ever since those two foreign men learned there were valuable things on the island, they had returned home, growing increasingly resentful.
Moreover, they heard the island had established its own research institute, so they thought, why not just take the research results directly?
They spent a fortune to plant someone undercover. He had been there since the institute’s founding.
He never thought he’d actually stumble upon something truly valuable.
That material, that data… it was priceless!
“Shuyu, you must keep this safe. Compile a new, detailed report. I’ll take it to show Old Qi,” Auntie Qin said.
“That’ll stop him from always saying our institute isn’t making progress. This time, I can tell him not only is our institute capable, but it might even give his career a boost too!”
Auntie Qin was immensely happy, her eyes welling up as she looked at the experimental data.
“Auntie Qin, I have a question I’d like to ask you,” Ji Shuyu said, seeing Qin Ru mention Su Wanning.
Qin Ru turned her head, not understanding.
“Do you know Professor Wang Hansheng? The materials science professor from Peking University.”
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