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Chapter 54

With this thought in mind, Lu Chongshan picked up three pieces of material, turned around and walked out of the laboratory, into the room next door marked as Laboratory No. 3.

Qin Zheng quickly followed, and as soon as he entered the room, Lu Chongshan handed him a heavy lab coat: "Put this on, and put on the gloves, so you don't hurt yourself later."

Lu Chongshan tossed the clothes to Qin Zheng, then turned and walked to the corner. He took out a piece of metallic hydrogen from his pocket and threw it into the crucible, then put the crucible into the electric furnace.

While he was preparing, Qin Zheng also got dressed and came to his side. Lu Chongshan pointed to the temperature display screen next to him:

"You need to observe a few states next. The first state is when the metal begins to soften, and the second state is when the metal completely melts."

"You need to record the time and temperature at which these two states occur. After recording, turn off the device and wait for the metal inside to re-solidify."

"The third state is the state after the metal has re-solidified."

"Make sure to record everything carefully, I'm going to test the ductility."

The switch is turned on, and the electric furnace starts working.

While the electric furnace was heating up, he took out another piece of metallic hydrogen, went to the drawing die, and first used the small hammer in his hand to hammer the metallic hydrogen into a small strip.

After weighing the small strip of metallic hydrogen on the electronic scale next to him and measuring its length, Lu Chongshan then inserted the strip into the wire drawing mold.

The machine is controlled to clamp the other side with a fixture, and then slowly stretched.

After the first drawing was completed, he went to the edge of the drawing die and checked the remaining metal residue on the hole before putting the drawn wire into a smaller die hole. The equipment was started again, and the wire was drawn once more.

With his repeated operations, the small metal strip turned into a metal wire about the thickness of a human hair.

After shutting down the equipment, Lu Chongshan took the roll of metal wire back to the electric furnace. The furnace was already off, but the metal in the crucible had not yet completely solidified.

Noticing his movement, Qin Zheng quickly turned around and immediately noticed the roll of metal wire in Lu Chongshan's hand.

He narrowed his eyes, then asked with delight, "This thing has excellent ductility?"

Lu Chongshan picked up the coil of metal wire in his hand, found the end of the wire, and pulled it out: "This is all I can do here, but even so, the ductility of this metal is not much different from that of gold."

"Given the low resistivity of this metal, if it could be mass-produced, it could almost replace gold."

"What are your plans next?"

Looking at the thin roll of metal wire, Qin Zheng carefully took it, examined it in her palm, and then returned it to Lu Chongshan. She then recounted the entire story of how she obtained the metal, including the relationship between Lin Man and Zhang Renhe, before whispering:

"The principal's exact words were: If this thing is real, then we will increase our cooperation with this young man named Lin Man."

"Our College of Fisheries will go first to pave the way, and the other colleges will follow."

"Another one is Secretary Renhe. He is young and energetic, and with enough support, he can go even further."

"This is an opportunity."

After hearing his explanation, Lu Chongshan started pacing around the lab. After pacing twice, he gently shook his head at Qin Zheng:

"Then we need to go find Secretary Renhe first, but we can't go empty-handed."

At this point, Lu Chongshan started circling again. After a few minutes, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he said to Qin Zheng:

"I'll give you an outline later, and you write a report for me. I'll prepare the data for the report."

"Then tomorrow morning, you and the principal take this report to Secretary Renhe."

"Remember to congratulate him on taking on a good student first, and say that he has a good eye for talent."

"Let's not talk about cooperation yet."

Everyone here is a researcher and someone who is adept at interpersonal relationships. When Lu Chongshan said this, Qin Zheng understood Lu Chongshan's thoughts.

This thing is only related to Lin Man, and has nothing to do with Zhang Renhe.

So we need to find a way to connect Zhang Renhe with these things, at least to let him know their importance.

Only in this way will Zhang Renhe take the initiative to consider the next step, and they can then go with the flow and act accordingly.

With a nod, Qin Zheng followed Lu Chongshan out of the lab to the neighboring lab to write a report.

As the first rays of morning sunlight streamed into the laboratory, Lu Chongshan pressed the start button on the printer.

As the printer whirred, a report, smelling of ink, appeared before him.

After binding the three copies of the report, he handed it to Qin Zheng. Qin Zheng took it, glanced at it, nodded, and then went to find the principal with Lu Chongshan.

The principal had been waiting in his office. When the two arrived, he rubbed his slightly swollen eyes and said, "Let's go. Whether our school can surpass the other universities depends on this."

At 7:32, the three arrived at the Provincial Party School and confirmed with the gatekeeper that Zhang Renhe had not yet arrived. So the three of them stood guard at the gate, quietly waiting for Zhang Renhe.

At 7:45, Zhang Renhe's car slowly drove into the Provincial Party School. Seeing the three people guarding the entrance, he told the driver to stop the car, got out, and slowly walked up to the three men. He said to Zhou Youning, the president of Ocean University:

"What wind blew the three of you here?"

Zhou Youning took the report from Lu Chongshan and carefully presented it to Zhang Renhe:

"Isn't this to report good news to Secretary Zhang? We must congratulate you on taking in a prodigy and finding a good student."

"I just discovered the results and came to tell you the good news as soon as possible."

"Aren't you going to offer us a cup of tea?"

These words left Zhang Renhe completely bewildered. He first glanced at Zhou Youning, then at Qin Zheng, and finally his gaze settled on Lu Chongshan.

I don't know this person.

As for the students...

Never mind, let's talk about it inside.

He pointed to the door: "Come on, let's talk in my office. I'd like to see what kind of congratulations you have for me."

"And I'd also like to know when I accepted a student you can all congratulate."

Zhang Renhe led the way, and Zhou Youning quickly followed with the report in hand. "Secretary Renhe, you are too modest. If it weren't for Qin Zheng, I wouldn't have known about the relationship between that child and you."

"That child must be ambitious and probably wants to achieve something before speaking to Secretary Renhe."

"However, gold always shines. Qin Zheng went to the military-civilian dual-use technology exhibition and discovered the child's shining point."

"So, a few of us, being rather clueless, just wanted to show off in front of Secretary Renhe."

Qin Zheng, Dual-use Technology Exhibition.

These two keywords were enough for Zhang Renhe to understand who the student Zhou Youning and the others were talking about was. He glanced at Qin Zheng, then his eyes swept over the report in Zhou Youning's hand, and he shook his head helplessly.

"You guys, all you do all day is study this stuff!"