From Scrapyard to the Edge of the Universe

At nineteen, Lu Chen worked at a scrapyard in the south of the city. He discovered that by closing his eyes, he could 'see' the path of every current inside a chip. Starting with repairing a scrapped aerospace-grade power module, he went on to reverse-engineer flight control chips, reconstruct AI architectures, and crack the code for room-temperature superconductivity. The world outside the scrapyard began to panic—because what he was fixing was not scrap metal, but the very foundation of technological monopoly. He didn't stop. From chips to energy, from Earth to the stars, he lit up humanity's tech tree one node at a time. Until one day, a signal that shouldn't exist came from deep space—someone in the shadows was watching every light he ignited. 'Don't observe. Observation attracts attention.'