Boom!!
Chen Heng's head was rumbling
Boom!!
his body violently jerked before falling to the ground
"Am I dead" his mind was chaotic when he suddenly had a flashback
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Chen Heng came to his room after talking with his teacher for some time
Despite the late hour, his mind was sharp
His teacher's stern words from earlier in the day still echoed in his mind,
"I know you want to save me from here, but there is not much you can do, so please don't do anything foolish in your anger, lest you lose your life for the dying old man"
"you, are still young and you do not have much experience in life, and I have lived my life enough"
"do, you understand Chen"
Chen Heng clenched his fists at the memory
then he remembered the words of the government official in charge of their research
"So what! I don't care, I want to publish research as soon as possible. If you can't do it, I can find someone else to do the work. Do you understand?"
How dare that man talk to his teacher like that? The very teacher who had discovered the equation that could change the world. Yet, here they were, confined and pressured, their life's work reduced to a demand from an impatient bureaucrat.
calming the anger, Chen Heng focused on his duty today
Although his teacher had found the equation, the groundbreaking formula that could convert mass to energy,
But, implementing it required extensive observation and analysis of nuclear reactions.
Tonight, Chen Heng decided to watch the nuclear reaction test alone, as Albert had allowed him.
Albert knew that the only thing that could lift Chen Heng's mood was diving into his research.
and, this is the reason Albert had retired for the night, leaving Chen Heng to take the lead on the night shift at the nuclear power plant's observation deck.
With his research plan in mind, Chen Heng gathered his notes and set off.
The path to the observation deck of the nuclear power plant was all too familiar. He'd walked it hundreds of times, each step echoing in the quiet night. At the security gate, he swiped his card, gaining access to the facility.
The small nuclear reactor loomed ahead, this nuclear reactor had the power to destroy an entire city if it ever got out of control
This was why the lab was situated on an island, isolated and far from any human settlements
Reactor was formed by the government's most advanced technology for their research
and was the only one in the entire world
As he settled into his station, the console in front of him flickered to life.
Data streams and graphs formed across the screen, and codes of information appeared before Chen Heng that he had learned to interpret with ease.
He initiated the sequence to start the reaction of a nuclear reactor, his fingers moving over the controls with ease,
The reactor core began to glow, a pulsating heat radiated from the center of the reactor and an immense amount of energy was produced every second
Chen Heng's eyes were glued to the readouts on the screen,
Everything seemed normal at first, but then, without warning, the readings spiked
"What's going on?" he muttered, adjusting the settings in an attempt to stabilize the reaction
But, instead of calming down the reactor core's glow intensified, becoming a blinding white light that seemed to pierce through his eyes
Suddenly, a gap in space-time opened before him, a rift that shouldn't have appeared in reality has come.
The room was bathed in an otherworldly blinding dark light, and Chen Heng felt an overwhelming force pulling him towards it.
his every body fiber was being pulled toward the rift with extreme gravitational force
He tried to resist, but the rift was relentless
In that moment, Chen Heng's world changed forever.
The light filled his vision, and his senses were overwhelmed by its intensity
He felt a strange sensation as if his soul had separated from his body and was being stretched and compressed all at once
Cheng Heng's body fell on the ground with the last thought, was he going to die
Chen Heng has entered a state-like coma,
The alarm which was set off due to a high spike in reading soon attracted multiple security guards
soon, his condition was reported to his teacher, and management
he was taken to hospital on Iland
the hospital on the island was very advanced, it had all the medicine and instruments necessary to stay alive
The hospital room was filled with the steady beeping of machines, a constant reminder of Chen Heng's life and death
Meanwhile, the management was puzzled
When they saw from CCTV recording, they didn't witness any light like Chen Heng they only saw, the nuclear reaction going out of control
reading spiked suddenly on the monitor
after which Chen Heng tried to maintain stability, and slowly nuclear reaction became stable
and they saw Chen Heng staring into empty space with horrified eyes before falling to the ground,
they didn't see any rift or light which Chen Heng saw
therefore even the government was puzzled about what Cheng Heng saw during the experiment
Despite several brainstorming and attempts to replicate the conditions of Chen Heng's experiment, they found no clues as to what had caused the anomaly.
Albert who has kept Chen Heng like his own child, was sitting beside him in the hospital
"Chen, if you can hear me," he whispered, his voice trembling,
"I'm so sorry. I never wanted this for you. You have so much potential and so much to offer the world. Please, come back to us."
The room was silent except for the rhythmic beeping of the heart monitor.
Outside, the world continued on, oblivious to the extraordinary events that had unfolded within the walls of the nuclear power plant.
As the weeks passed, the research team continued their work under the government's watchful eye.
But for Chen Heng's teacher, none of it mattered as much as seeing his student awake and healthy again.
He spent every waking moment by Chen Heng's side, hoping and praying for a miracle.
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