Wang Tiezhu was so frightened he almost jumped up, his face turning deathly pale: "...to attach bombs to an airplane?! And to fly it?! This...this is even crazier than using stardust as a skin! If it gets out of control..."

“The theory is feasible.” Mingzhao interrupted their disbelief, his voice filled with absolute calm.

She walked to the huge drawing board, picked up a thick red pen, and drew a huge red circle directly on the tail structure diagram of the "Shadow" prototype, completely covering the original engine compartment location!

"Remove...traditional engine and accessories."

"Add... Starflame Energy Core... Miniaturized Adapter".

"Reconstruct... Energy Vector Nozzle".

"Heat dissipation... needs to be redesigned... superconducting cycle."

Her red pen quickly sketched on the drawing paper, her movements concise and forceful!

The originally complex fuel and transmission systems have been completely eliminated, replaced by an energy core and vector nozzle sketch that are extremely simple yet exude a terrifying sense of energy!

"Thrust...increased...by more than 300%."

"Energy...directly drives...avionics, stealth systems."

"Battery life...theoretically unlimited."

Every word struck everyone's hearts like a heavy hammer!

300% thrust! Unlimited range!

This is no longer a fighter jet, but a starship from science fiction!

Academician Zhang Meng's heart was pounding!

She stared intently at the revolutionary structural diagram Mingzhao had drawn, her eyes filled with both the shock of this crazy idea and the ultimate desire of a scientist that had been ignited within her!

If it succeeds... if it succeeds! This will be a revolutionary upheaval!

But the risk is... too great!

Ten times, a hundred times larger than stardust material!

The violent energy at the core of "Starflame" could destroy the machine and kill people if not handled carefully, and might even trigger a small-scale fusion disaster!

This is no longer just a technical issue; it's a crazy gamble that will cost the nation its very survival!

"How...how confident are you?!"

Zhang Meng's voice was hoarse, carrying an unprecedented solemnity and a barely perceptible tremor.

Mingzhao put down the red pen, her cool gaze meeting Zhang Meng's almost burning stare.

Instead of answering the vague question of "certainty," she presented a string of cold numbers and conditions:

"Core... miniaturized adapter... design cycle: 7 days."

"Vector nozzle...material requirements list...requires highest priority allocation."

"The superconducting circulation system... requires collaboration from the Galaxy Project... Academician Yan Zhensheng's team..."

"The wind tunnel... needs to be modified... to simulate ultra-high temperature plasma flow fields."

Finally, her gaze swept over the horrified faces of everyone in the control room, and she calmly stated a maddening fact:

"This is... the only solution."

A deathly silence fell over the control room. Only the low roar of the wind tunnel could be heard, like the restless panting of a giant beast.

Academician Zhang Meng looked at the tail structure covered by a red circle on the drawing board, which foreshadowed destruction and rebirth, and then looked into Ming Zhao's calm yet unsettling eyes.

This madman... wants to stuff a human-sized "sun" into the belly of "Shadow"!

"No, this is too dangerous! The risk is too great!"

The technician shook his head repeatedly, disagreeing with Mingzhao's idea.

Mingzhao said earnestly, "Let me try!"

Su Xuan wanted to speak, but after glancing at Zhang Meng and Zhang Mingyuan, he swallowed his words.

From the moment Mingzhao arrived at the base, Zhang Meng had been keeping an eye on Mingzhao, this person who had been constantly creating miracles.

"Then let's give it a try."

"Academician Zhang Meng!" the others exclaimed!

"I approve it!"

...

After the renovation, the wind tunnel's original deep roar was replaced by a terrifying rumble that was so sharp it could tear your eardrums, mixed with high-frequency howling!

The enormous air intake frantically devoured the air, forcibly pushing the surging airflow inside the cave to an unprecedented speed: supersonic!

To simulate the impact of the ultra-high temperature plasma jet that may be generated by the core of "Starflame" on the tail structure, the wind tunnel's heating system was also pushed to its limit!

Inside the test section's observation window, scorching, distorted, orange-red heat waves surged and rolled, illuminating the tail section of the "Shadow" test vehicle, which contained a prototype of the energy core adapter, a vector nozzle model, and a structure covering the "Black Feather" skin!

Inside the control room, the heat seemed to penetrate the thick explosion-proof glass and hit you in the face.

On the enormous screen, a dazzling waterfall of refreshed data streams unfolds: speed, pressure, temperature, stress, deformation...

Every parameter is fluctuating wildly, approaching or even exceeding the theoretical limit value in red!

The piercing alarms blared incessantly, only to be drowned out by even sharper noises.

Everyone was wearing protective suits, their inner linings soaked with sweat.

Academician Zhang Meng, Zhang Mingyuan, Su Xuan, Wang Tiezhu, and the core aerodynamics and structural experts looked as if they were nailed to the screen, their faces so solemn they could drip water.

Every time the alarm lights flashed, their hearts clenched tightly!

This is no longer a test, but a dance of destruction on the edge of a knife!

Mingzhao stood in front of the control panel, his face remaining calm beneath the protective mask.

Only those clear, cold eyes were fixed on several key real-time waveforms on the screen: the bending moment at the wing root, the acceleration at the tip of the vertical tail, and the stress concentration point at the connection of the vector nozzle.

Her fingers hovered over several large physical knobs, not making large adjustments like a traditional engineer, but making extremely subtle, almost reflex-like point-to-point corrections!

Each fine-tuning is precisely applied to the local airflow guide vanes in the wind tunnel, forcefully suppressing a potentially explosive and deadly local vortex or shock wave oscillation!

"Report! Speed ​​exceeded Mach 2.8! Approaching the design limit!"

"Report! Tail skin temperature exceeds 1200 degrees Celsius! 'Black Feather' material performance is stable!"

"Report! The vector nozzle model is showing... slight vibration! The frequency... is increasing!"

The technician in charge of monitoring the tail structure sounded terrified!

Everyone's heart leaped into their throats! They trembled!

At hypersonic speeds and extreme temperatures, even the slightest tremor can be amplified instantly, triggering catastrophic structural resonance!

This is the most terrifying nightmare for high-speed aircraft!

Wang Tiezhu's face turned deathly pale, and he couldn't help but shout hoarsely, "Stop! Stop it now! It's going to fall apart! I told you it wouldn't work! That energy core is not something an airplane should use!"

Academician Zhang Meng also looked at Ming Zhao with a start, her eyes filled with shock and questioning.

Mingzhao's gaze instantly locked onto the real-time vibration spectrum of the vector nozzle model on the screen!

A tiny, yet strangely increasing, spike signal suddenly appeared!

Her pupils suddenly contracted!

"It's not...a material or structural problem."

Mingzhao's clear, cold voice pierced through the noise, carrying a chilling insight: "It's the resonance between the energy core simulation field and the airflow!"