Chapter 49: Masters Assembled: Longhai University's First Campus Tour

He Yu's open letter was not merely a stone cast into the water; it was a depth charge.

The shockwave of the explosion stirred up turbulent undercurrents across the entire ocean of the Chinese internet.

The bubbles of skepticism and ridicule were completely shredded, replaced by a curiosity that was far more surging and scorching.

A shell university? A faculty scam?

When these labels were beaten to pieces by the iron fist of reality, people's gazes pierced through the fog of public opinion and locked firmly onto Longhai University itself.

They wanted to see.

With their own eyes, to see for themselves.

They wanted to see what kind of campus, bearing so much idealism and courage, had been forged into existence.

This desire for inquiry, sweeping across the entire internet, had converged into an unstoppable torrent.

To respond to this expectation, the moment the core area of the first phase of construction was declared complete, He Yu's personal account published a brand-new update.

There were no redundant words—just a title and a timestamp.

[The First Expert Inspection Delegation of Longhai University].

A special live broadcast synchronized across the entire internet.

As soon as the news broke, countless people immediately set broadcast reminders, and a premonition of witnessing history grew wildly in everyone's heart.

On the day of the broadcast.

Precise to the second, the black screen lit up right on time.

There was no countdown, no flashy opening sequence. The moment the camera stabilized, the air across the entire internet seemed to have been sucked out.

He Yu stood at the very front of the frame.

Behind him was neither an empty construction site nor cold architecture.

Instead, there was a group of people.

A group of figures whose very presence was enough to make the entire Chinese scientific and technological community tremble.

Li Weimin, the chief designer of China's environmental engineering projects, the national scholar who had personally brought several rivers of death back to shades of green.

Qian Liqun, a grandmaster in the field of new energy, whose name was synonymous with half of China's future energy strategy.

Jiang Yi, a living fossil of domestic hydraulic engineering.

Chen Jing, the universally recognized top authority in the botanical world.

...

Every single name was as heavy as a mountain.

Every single figure represented the pinnacle of a field.

At this moment, they stood together so casually, appearing side by side within the same live-broadcast lens.

A royal flush.

This was a true royal flush.

After an absolute dead silence lasting a full three seconds, the live chat section went completely insane.

[“Am I blind??? Chief Engineer Li? Academician Qian? Am I watching the annual Science and Technology Person of the Year awards ceremony on CCTV-1?!”]

[“What the hell kind of divine lineup is this? Are we summoning a dragon? Principal He, how on earth did you pull this off?!”]

[“I hereby announce that everyone who previously claimed Longhai University was a scam can now queue up to receive slaps across the face—the kind where you use both hands alternately!”]

[“Say no more, my mind is completely numb. This isn't even a matter of faculty strength anymore; you've literally relocated China's scientific brain trust over there!”]

This live broadcast had no script.

It didn't even have a single word of hosting commentary.

He Yu simply nodded calmly toward the camera, then turned sideways and made a gesture of invitation.

The camera began to move slowly, following this group of China's top minds as they embarked on a genuine tour of this already taking-shape, picturesque campus.

It was a stroll.

And it was also a flowing, top-tier academic feast.

The camera followed Li Weimin to the edge of the "Heart of the Dragon" ecological park.

The elderly man, with lean features and eyes as sharp as a hawk's, crouched down beside a crystal-clear wetland. He extended a hand covered in calluses, gently pushed aside a water lily leaf, and pointed to the underwater filtration system composed of various colored sands and stones.

"Multi-stage ecological circulation sounds very complicated, but it's actually just mimicking nature itself."

His voice, captured clearly by the recording equipment, spread across the entire internet.

He didn't look at the camera; his eyes were solely fixed on the creation that had consumed his painstaking efforts.

"Polluted wastewater enters the first-stage sedimentation tank here from urban pipelines, and we use anaerobic bacteria to break down the large-molecule organic matter inside. Then, the water flows through this reed bed—see those root systems? They are the most efficient heavy-metal accumulation systems..."

Using the most plain language, he was popularizing top-tier technology capable of subverting the entire environmental protection industry.

For the first time, viewers in the livestream stream realized that the most profound science could be so close to them.

The camera shifted, aiming at Academician Qian Liqun.

He was standing in front of the base of a gigantic "ecological dome" that looked like a creation from another world. The metallic skeleton reflected a cold and rational brilliance under the sunlight, brimming with a strong sci-fi vibe.

Qian Liqun did not bother explaining those complex structural mechanics; instead, he simply reached out and gently stroked the cold base, the light erupting in his eyes even more blazing than the sun overhead.

"Zero carbon!"

He uttered those two words, his voice trembling slightly with excitement.

"What you are looking at is not merely a building. It is an independent energy-cycling entity! The photovoltaic film on the outer layer, the geothermal exchange system underground, the kinetic energy capture devices at the wind vents... In the future, this campus will completely shed its reliance on the external power grid!"

He wasn't forecasting; he was proclaiming.

Proclaiming the arrival of a future era of clean energy.

Meanwhile, on the other side, experts Jiang Yi and Chen Jing were engaged in an oblivious, impassioned academic debate over an artificially dug stream.

"No way!" Jiang Yi, the rigorous hydraulic engineering expert, pointed at a bend in the stream with tightly furrowed brows. "At this gradient, the water flow speed will exceed 0.5 meters per second, and the native aquatic plants at the bottom won't be able to anchor themselves at all. In less than three months, this will just be a barren ditch!"

"Who said I was going to use native aquatic plants?" Botanist Chen Jing immediately retorted, pulling a small sample bag from her pocket containing a previously unseen plant with exceptionally well-developed root systems. "Look at this, the newest hybrid variety from my laboratory—'Coiling Dragon Grass.' Its root penetration is strong enough to take hold in lime-soil mixture!"

"Your grass might take root, but it won't change the riverbed erosion caused by the current..."

"Then we'll just add three cascading waterfalls upstream to slow down the kinetic energy..."

There was no gunpowder in this argument, only an ultimate pursuit of perfection.

It demonstrated to everyone that at Longhai University, science was not a cold dogma enshrined on an altar, but a vibrant, living reality that could be debated, continuously optimized, and filled with vitality.

This live broadcast had no flashy special effects and no sentimental background music.

Everything under the lens was terrifyingly real.

It showed the entire internet the completed, breathtakingly beautiful campus of Longhai University that far exceeded everyone's imagination.

More importantly, it lifted a corner of this future academy, allowing the world to glimpse the unfathomable soft and hard power behind it.

The chat comments in the livestream had transformed from initial shock into a scorching torrent.

Every viewer's heart was beating violently.

They realized that what they were witnessing was the birth of a miracle.

Longhai University.

Before today, those four words might have still been a distant and vague dream lingering only on blueprints.

Yet after this moment, it was already a sacred sanctuary of science growing wildly, converging the nation's top wisdom and courage.