Chapter 746: About to Execute Fusion Ignition Protocol No. 0!

"Why are you back so late? Did you encounter an accident during the joint debugging of the plasma and control system?"

"No, just a small program bug appeared when dynamically adjusting the magnetic field, which would lag the system's operating speed. I redesigned it with the professors at the AI Computing Center."

Xu Qingzhou let out a long breath, his fingertips sliding over the girl's rounded calves.

Song Yao put down her tablet. Seeing the exhaustion on Xu Qingzhou's face, she hooked his clothes with her foot and said, "Should I cook you some noodles?"

"Cook noodles for me?"

"..."

Song Yao felt her worry was wasted.

"No need... I ate two big bowls of rice, and I'm still stuffed."

Looking at Song Yao's tightly clenched fist, Xu Qingzhou coughed dryly, got up, and decided to take a shower.

After walking a few steps and maintaining a safe distance from Song Yao, Xu Qingzhou stopped, glanced at the girl's long legs, and issued an invitation, "Do you want to take a shower together?"

"Xu Qingzhou, I've already showered," Song Yao said expressionlessly.

Xu Qingzhou said, "Showering more is good for your health."

Song Yao looked at Xu Qingzhou's sincere expression, not knowing how to retort for a moment.

Is that a shower?

Pfft, shameless!

"No."

Although she was quite tempted, her tsundere nature made Song Yao subconsciously refuse.

"Alright."

Xu Qingzhou could only shake his head. He had almost been sleeping on the floor in the lab during this period and was exhausted. He planned to go upstairs to shower first, and deal with other things later.

Watching Xu Qingzhou's back, Song Yao pursed her lips, thinking to herself that this guy gave up so quickly today. Shouldn't he have come over and grabbed her at this time...

Just thinking about it was exciting.

Some strange images couldn't help but surface in Song Yao's mind.

"Hoo~"

"Too messy."

"It's all Xu Qingzhou's fault for corrupting me, making me think crookedly so easily."

Song Yao patted her burning cheeks with her hands, hurriedly casting those unclean images out of her mind.

After taking a hot shower, half of the day's fatigue vanished. Xu Qingzhou blew his hair dry and huddled on the sofa with Song Yao. Holding her fragrant and soft body, even the last trace of weariness dissipated.

"What is this?" he asked, looking at the document on the girl's tablet in his arms.

"These are two research groups I plan to invest in."

Xu Qingzhou scanned the content of the materials.

Academician Du Yuanhua's research on radio-frequency superconducting accelerator devices at Jingda and the superconducting quantum chip project at the University of Science and Technology of China.

"Hmm, the radio-frequency superconducting acceleration unit can optimize the plasma confinement performance of the fusion device and can serve as a supplement to the institute. Superconducting quantum chips are also a key field for future development. Both have great investment value."

Xu Qingzhou put down the tablet and asked with a smile, "Have you decided?"

"I'll confirm after I go to see them in person next week."

Song Yao decided to inspect the site, as this involved an investment of over 200 million.

While speaking, she pressed her face against Xu Qingzhou's chest, smelling the intense scent of hormones and hearing the powerful sound of his heartbeat.

"No overtime tomorrow?"

She took a deep breath and asked in a low voice.

"Resting this week. The first ignition is on May 15th... there is still plenty of time."

Completing the installation within 8 weeks, the first ignition could achieve 100 million C/1000 seconds steady-state. Conservatively speaking, their technology is at least one generation ahead of the current active devices.

Being able to move this fast is thanks to many future technologies.

Modular parallel advancement + quantum sensing—this alone is already a dimensionality reduction strike.

Currently, all testing speeds are very fast. The core of the technological generation gap lies in the real-time closed-loop control of quantum sensing and AI, which basically completely rewrites the tokamak debugging rules.

At this moment, he was certainly excited, but by comparison, he felt more calm.

However, Xu Qingzhou's attention was not on the institute right now; the hot air the girl exhaled hit his chest, which was a bit itchy...

"This girl is at it again."

On this side, Song Yao pressed against Xu Qingzhou again and even gently pecked his neck. ===== CHAPTER 747 =====