Chapter 84: Three Hundred Billion and the Allocation of Rights

The next day, at the artificial sun base.

"Comrade Qin Hao, welcome back." Tang Jianbo shook hands with Qin Hao, and then his face again showed worry.

"Yesterday I received a call from Academician Qian, I thought about it all night, this charging plan, I've evaluated it over twenty times, it's really……"

He didn't continue, but the meaning was clear.

This plan, from a scientific standpoint, is practically a dead end.

Cheng Haitang said from the side:

"Academician Tang, we understand your concerns, but this is a top-level decision, and it's something we must do."

Tang Jianbo sighed, said no more, and led the crowd toward the core area.

Soon, the few people arrived at their destination.

"This is the optimized version of the tokamak device."

Tang Jianbo's tone carried a hint of pride, but it was soon replaced by worry,

"Xiao Qin, I'll confirm one last time: you really want to go into that vacuum chamber? Inside, the plasma core temperature exceeds one hundred million degrees Celsius."

"Academician Tang, rest assured, nothing will go wrong."

Qin Hao smiled.

He said it lightly, but it made the eyes of all the surrounding researchers twitch involuntarily.

What kind of tiger-wolf words are these?

Are you treating plasma at over a hundred million degrees like a hot spring?

Preparations proceeded in an orderly manner.

Qin Hao put on a specially made monitoring suit to monitor his vital signs from outside.

Although everyone knows that if something goes wrong, these sensors will instantly vaporize into atoms.

"All units, attention: open the vacuum chamber gate!"

When everything was ready, Tang Jianbo gave the order, and a circular gate several meters thick on the side of the ring device slowly opened with a dull hydraulic hiss, revealing a deep, cold passage inside.

Seeing this, Qin Hao didn't care, and under everyone's tense gaze, he stepped inside.

"Close the gate, start evacuating!"

"Vacuum level reached standard!"

"Magnetic confinement system activated, power at thirty percent…… seventy percent…… one hundred percent!"

"Inject fuel, prepare to ignite!"

In the main control room, the atmosphere was oppressive to the extreme.

Everyone stared fixedly at the green data on the screen representing Qin Hao's vital signs, palms sweating.

"Ignite!"

Boom!

A silent energy surge erupted inside the vacuum chamber.

On the screen, the pitch-black vacuum chamber was instantly engulfed by a blinding white light.

The violent plasma, like a captive dragon, surged wildly under the powerful magnetic confinement, releasing energy capable of destroying everything.

"Energy density has peaked!"

"Temperature…… temperature has exceeded one hundred million degrees Celsius!"

Yet, at the very center of this destructive storm, Qin Hao felt no heat or pain at all.

His surroundings were enveloped by an invisible system barrier, as if he were in another dimension.

Before him, the roaring plasma, distorted light, and violent radiation streams all appeared as energy points.

【Detected ultra-high-density composite energy field, beginning absorption.】

【Energy Points +500 million……】

【Energy Points +500 million……】

【Energy Points +500 million……】

……

On Qin Hao's system interface, the energy points number skyrocketed.

It reached over five hundred million per second!

This number left even him deeply shocked.

All his hard work of the whole day couldn't compare to a single blink now.

"Report! Comrade Qin Hao's vital signs are completely normal! Heart rate stable, blood pressure stable, no abnormal fluctuations!"

The monitors' exclamations made the whole main control room echo with a relieved sigh.

Tang Jianbo stared at the screen without blinking, his heart shaken.

This plan actually succeeded!

That replication system's protection mechanism is truly outrageously strong.

As time passed second by second,

for those in the main control room, each second felt as long as a century.

while for Qin Hao, he simply stood quietly, enjoying the ultimate satisfaction from the rapid growth of energy points.

"Ten minutes have elapsed! Shut down the reactor!"

Tang Jianbo glanced at the timer and gave the decisive order.

The plasma gradually faded, the blinding white light receded, and the vacuum chamber returned to darkness and silence.

When the gate opened again, Qin Hao walked out unharmed, and what greeted him were stares like he was a monster.

"How do you feel?" Tang Jianbo was the first to step forward, asking eagerly.

"Pretty good, no different from outside."

Qin Hao blinked and made a joke.

"That's good, but you still need a full physical! From cellular level to gene sequence, not a single datum can be missed!"

Tang Jianbo nodded, then added cautiously.

Half an hour later, a detailed physical examination report was ready.

Seeing the report's all-normal conclusion, everyone's hearts that had been in their throats finally relaxed completely.

Soon, this news was reported to Luo Lao.

"Xiao Qin, you've worked hard!"

Not long after, the Rote Commissioner Luo Te personally called to check in.

"Serving the country, it's not hard."

Qin Hao replied truthfully.

Luo Lao chuckled, then his tone turned serious: "This time, how many Energy Points did we gain in total from the charging?"

Qin Hao glanced at the number on the system panel that he had counted several times, and answered:

"In ten minutes, we absorbed over three hundred billion Energy Points."

Three hundred billion!

All previous worries about insufficient Energy Points vanished in the face of that number.

"Mm! Very good! Starting today, the Ultimate Charging Plan becomes the standard procedure. From now on, Energy Points will be obtained this way!"

"Furthermore..."

Luo Lao shifted his tone, becoming much gentler,

"Xiao Qin, you've taken enormous risks for the country and made an irreplaceable contribution; the nation will not shortchange anyone who has served."

After discussion above, it's decided that for every hundred billion Energy Points you absorb, you personally will receive ten percent, that is, ten billion Points of discretionary use.

"This privilege requires no reporting or approval; you can copy or use whatever you want, entirely up to you."

Qin Hao stared in shock, his whole body frozen in place.

Ten percent discretionary rights?

This means that just from that one occasion, he now possesses thirty billion Points he can freely use!

He is not a tool, nor merely a walking "power bank."

In the eyes of the nation's highest leadership, he is a flesh-and-blood individual with thoughts, contributions, and worthy of trust and reward—a "comrade."

From this moment on, he felt he had truly become part of this great collective.

"Luo Lao, I..."

Qin Hao's throat felt dry; a thousand words ultimately boiled down to just three simple characters.

"Thank you."

"What's there to thank? This is what you deserve." Luo Lao smiled and continued, "You can rest today; tomorrow you'll start on the real work."

After hanging up, Qin Hao's mood remained unsettled for a long time.

Thirty billion Energy Points.

Countless thoughts flashed through his mind.

Sports cars? Mansions? Money? These worldly things could no longer move him.

Then... what should he copy?

One deeply buried aspect he himself had almost forgotten—his personal martial prowess.