Chapter 15: Observing the Charging Process

Two days passed in a flash, and the charging site has been finalized.

The location was chosen at the magnificent Liu Xia Hydropower Station.

Here not only can meet the massive power required for the system upgrade, but several military bases also guard the surroundings, and the secrecy and security levels have reached the highest standards.

When Qin Hao arrived together with the Rote Commissioner, Cheng Haitang, General Liu Zhijun, a group of senior officials, and the scientists who attended the previous meeting,

the person in charge of the hydropower station had already been waiting there.

The manager, named Li Donglai, is an experienced hydropower expert, and at this moment he greets the special guests with a slightly nervous yet unmistakable excitement.

"Comrade Rote Commissioner, and everyone... welcome to Liu Xia Hydropower Station."

Li Donglai's voice is booming, but his slightly trembling hand still reveals his inner unease.

Luo Te smiled and shook his hand: "Comrade Li Donglai, thank you for your hard work; this time we'll need the Liu Xia Hydropower Station's full cooperation."

"Serving the country is our duty!"

Li Donglai straightened his chest.

He then led the group toward the control room, introducing as they walked:

"Comrade Luo Te, during the rainy season our hydropower station runs at full capacity, with a daily maximum generation of 530 million kilowatt-hours.

Even in normal times, daily generation stays between 100 and 200 million kilowatt-hours, fully meeting this demand."

After brief greetings and a situation briefing, the party arrived at a highly guarded independent power supply area of the hydropower station.

Here, as required, the special output cables have already been connected.

Seeing all this, Luo Te's gaze turned to Qin Hao, and his expression suddenly grew serious.

"Comrade Xiao Qin, is the charging method the system described really without issue? This isn't a joke; it's an ultra‑high‑voltage cable."

Cheng Haitang also furrowed her brows and said concernedly:

"Xiao Qin, Luo Te is right; safety must be the top priority. If any discomfort occurs, stop immediately."

Qin Hao looked at their caring eyes and a confident smile appeared on his face:

"Luo Te, and Cheng, rest assured. I've directly absorbed lightning before without any problem, so you needn't worry. Besides, I'm really looking forward to the changes after the system upgrade."

Hearing Qin Hao say that, Luo Te and Cheng Haitang nodded.

Yet their brows remained uneasy; if any problem arose during the process, it would be a huge loss for the entire Yanhuang Guo. No one wants to see that.

General Liu Zhijun patted Qin Hao's shoulder, said nothing more, but his worried look was unmistakable.

Soon, Qin Hao was led to a special room where he would undergo charging.

Meanwhile, Qian Bowen and the other scientists were in the central power distribution room of the hydropower station, their gazes fixed on the massive monitoring screen and rows of data‑flashing instruments.

Through these devices, they will monitor all electrical parameters of the charging process in real time.

Everything is ready.

A technician, after receiving a signal from General Liu Zhijun's eyes, reported solemnly into the communicator:

"All units, attention: prepare to start power transmission. Initial voltage, 5 volts."

Following the pre‑arranged steps, Qin Hao extended his hands and gently grasped the metal wires of the two special cables.

The icy sensation reached him, yet his heart remained completely calm.

"Comrade Xiao Qin, how does it feel?" Luo Te's voice came through the communicator installed in the room.

"No problem, everything's normal, you can increase the output," Qin Hao replied calmly.

After receiving the reply, the technician began continuously raising the power.

"Voltage increased to 20 volts!"

Qin Hao: "No problem, continue!"

"36 volts! 40 volts!"

Qin Hao: "Alright! Could you stop being so cautious and crank up the output? This charging is too slow."

When everyone saw the voltage raised to 40 volts—beyond the human safety range—Qin Hao still showed no abnormality, which finally put them at ease.

Thus, without further hesitation, they began increasing the power output.

A few hundred volts, then several thousand volts.

Although Luo Te and Cheng Haitang had confidence in Qin Hao, their hearts still tightened, and they stared at him without blinking.

Until the technician's voice, trembling with disbelief, said:

"Report! Voltage has risen to 1,000 kilovolts! It has reached the preset ultra‑high‑voltage limit!"

In the monitoring screen, Qin Hao's face remained unchanged, and he even made an 'OK' hand gesture toward the camera,

as if the wires he held were not terrifying high voltage that could instantly turn a person to ash, but merely two ordinary metal wires.

Whew!

Luo Te and Cheng Haitang almost simultaneously exhaled, exchanged glances, and saw incredulity in each other's eyes.

Meanwhile, inside the power distribution room, the atmosphere was completely different.

"Look at that power curve!" a young power engineer pointed at the screen, his voice trembling with excitement.

The current and power data on the computer screen were wildly jumping at a staggering speed, forming a steep rising curve that showed massive energy being drawn by Qin Hao's 'system.'

Academician Qian Bowen adjusted his glasses, his eyes behind the lenses sparkling with excitement, and via internal communication asked Qin Hao:

"Xiao Qin, how do you feel now? How much energy has the system absorbed?"

Hearing this, Qin Hao glanced at the system interface and replied:

"Academician Qian, I feel great, no discomfort at all. The system interface shows the energy absorption rate is very fast; it has already absorbed about 50,000 kWh and is still increasing."

"What? Fifty thousand kWh in such a short time?"

An energy expert exclaimed, "Just tens of thousands of kilowatt‑hours absorbed like that?"

"The key is that he himself is perfectly fine!" Academician Li, a materials scientist, added excitedly.

"A thousand kilovolts of ultra‑high voltage! This is simply… no, this completely overturns our understanding of the limits of biological electricity! The system's protective mechanism for the host is too powerful!"

Another physicist murmured:

"This is no longer simple energy conversion; it must involve physical laws that we currently cannot comprehend."

"How exactly does it directly draw and transform such massive electric energy without damaging the organism?"

Stunning!

Unparalleled shock!

Permeating every scientist's mind.

"Comrade Xiao Qin, can you roughly calculate how much energy is charged in one second?"

At this point, another scientist asked Qin Hao.

Qin Hao glanced at the energy storage rate, calculated silently, and replied:

"Currently roughly five thousand energy points per second."

Hearing this figure, the scientist exclaimed excitedly:

"By this calculation, reaching the system's upgrade requirement of one hundred hundred‑million (ten billion) energy points would take less than a month, wouldn't it?"