At 3:30 in the morning, the final detection of the Shenguang 4 device was completed and the equipment entered the electronic system debugging stage. This stage took about 20 minutes, which ensured that the laser generator of the Shenguang 4 system could accurately irradiate the laser light onto the target pill evenly.

In fact, due to the high-precision and high-energy fiber laser generator, this fusion device uses the so-called "direct drive" mode, or target shooting mode, that is, there is no need to use the extra gold cavity to convert the high-energy laser into x-ray, avoiding the energy loss generated in this step.

However, the increase in energy conversion efficiency brings higher requirements for the laser beam. On the one hand, it needs to ensure that the laser can be effectively absorbed through the collision process when passing through the corona zone to avoid the generation of excessive superheated particles; on the other hand, it also requires equal pressure near the ablation array, because the core of inertia constrains nuclear fusion is to compress the raw material inward through the reaction force generated by material ablation, so as to complete fusion in a high-pressure and high-temperature environment.

During the electronic system debugging process, Ye Zhou held the latest version of the inspection report in his hand, and while doing the final inspection, he asked the staff:

"Have the peak energy output of the laser determined?"

"It's confirmed that it basically stabilizes at 6.2mj at 3 nanosecond pulse width, with a peak power of 1100 trillion watts. This indicator is several times higher than the Nif of the Ugly Kingdom. Theoretically, they can get close to ignition with such low energy. There should be no problem with our energy numerical ignition."

"It depends on whether the reaction can be achieved by self-sustaining--our current target pill contains too little fuel. From an intuitive perspective, it can maintain the instantaneous combustion of plasma. However, through sensor monitoring, we can use theoretical values ​​to verify the feasibility of self-sustaining reactions in the future."

"Okay. Has the data sensor been checked?"

"Checked, everything is fine."

"Where is the power supply? Are the energy storage equipment and capacitors working properly?"

Just as electromagnetic guns need to be driven by super-large capacitors, the high-energy laser required by this device also requires super-large capacitors. If it is burned or powered in the process, it will cause a devastating blow to the entire experiment.

"Confirm that it is normal, the capacitor load-bearing ratio is now only 60%, which can fully cope with the voltage impact at peak."

Hearing this, Ye Zhou breathed a sigh of relief.

He stood in front of the monitoring screen in the control room, looked at the Divine Light No. 4 device like a giant mine through the surveillance camera, and a continuous wave of waves broke out in his heart.

It won't take long before this device that carries the hopes of all Chinese people and even all humans will be igniting its first time. For this moment, all researchers have overdrawn their lives for nearly three years.

And under their feet, there is still decades of technological accumulation.

He looked at Qian Lixun on the side. There was no tension on the latter's face. Instead, he sat leisurely on the lounge chair in the control room, eating the cherry he had found from somewhere.

Seeing Ye Zhou's gaze, Qian Lixun pushed the box containing the cherries to him and asked:

"Do you eat?"

Ye Zhou shook his head and replied:

"I won't eat anymore. I'm so nervous that I feel a little bitter in my mouth."

"It's just that you have to eat. Don't say you're nervous. I'm a little nervous. After all, it's a lot of significance..."

"I'm afraid I'll have to train my mentality for a few years."

What Ye Zhou said is indeed the truth. Although he has experienced countless times in the simulator, he is still too young in the end. When facing such a major issue, he naturally feels nervous.

However, he was still pretty good, and the researchers on the side were even trembling with nervousness.

Time passed minute by minute, the final electronic system detection was completed, and all data was normal. Ye Zhou looked at Qian Lixun, who nodded slightly, and then spoke:

"Then let's start."

With his order, all the staff who had already been in place immediately began to act.

The first thing to start was the capacitor charging process. As a huge amount of current poured into the capacitor from the energy storage battery, everyone's hair stood up slightly under the action of static electricity. Ye Zhou saw Lin Ling's hair floating on the side, subconsciously thought she would be curious about it, but the latter just calmly played with his hair with his hands.

Ye Zhou then realized that he was not surprised by this phenomenon as old as her who had been in and out of high-energy particle collision machines for many years.

The saturation value of the capacitor on the screen continued to rise. After climbing to 80%, the staff member on the side turned to look at Ye Zhou and Qian Lixun. They nodded together. Then, the staff pressed the button in their hands.

Everything happened in silence. From the periphery of Shenguang IV, everyone could not see any specific situation, but in fact, within the first wall, the most violent energy explosion in the world was happening.

128 lasers burst out from the optical fiber, carrying extremely hot temperatures, and rushing towards the central target ball.

Within a nanosecond level, the thin layer of plastic sheet used to fix the target pill was ablated. Subsequently, the shell of the target pill was also severely ablated, and high-temperature plasma began to form, but under its own inertia, the plasma had not yet diffused, so it turned to squeeze towards the core position before it could diffuse.

The temperature in the Shenguang IV device rose to 160 million degrees Celsius in this instant, and there was no accident, and the fusion reaction followed.

Then, light blue plasma began to form in the target room. If a camera could record it at this time, what everyone saw would be a ball of blue clouds floating like a ghost, which clearly contained the most explosive energy in the world, but it was as calm and stable as a misty blue cloud like morning light.

In this world, the highest temperature that can be reached in nature is the sun, but its core temperature is only more than 20 million degrees. But now, in front of Ye Zhou and others, the temperature has reached 180 million degrees Celsius, which is 9 times the core temperature of the sun.

All this reaction occurs between breaths, and the laser stops functioning immediately after the ignition is completed, but the fusion reaction continues.

Everyone was nervously watching the temperature numbers on the screen, which was the most intuitive indicator of the reaction process, and they found that the temperature reading did not drop after the laser was completely turned off.

Obviously, the self-sustaining fusion reaction is in progress.

1 second, two seconds, three seconds.

Ye Zhou felt his heartbeat stagnation in these three seconds. Then, when the reading on the screen beats to 3.46 seconds, the temperature begins to drop.

This means that the self-sustaining fusion reaction lasts for a full three seconds, and within these three seconds, the energy released by the fuel is equivalent to the energy when hundreds of kilograms of gasoline are burned.

Ye Zhou looked at the staff member beside him, who noticed his gaze and replied with a trembling voice:

"Reading.....Reading is stable."

"Judged from the existing data, the self-sustaining steady-state discharge fusion reaction is basically... basically realized!"

It was not until this moment that Ye Zhou finally vomited the breath he held in his chest.

He looked at Qian Lixun again, who nodded slightly, and then announced:

"The first ignition experiment of Shenguang No. 4 was successful!"
Chapter completed!