Chapter Three: Buying a Factory Made of Debt

Three test benches ran together as white cryogenic fog streamed along the pipes. At 12:47 a.m., the licensed testing platform issued a timestamped report: Two thousand pressure cycles. Zero leakage. Error under extreme-low-temperature operation: less than eight ten-thousandths. Tang’s hands trembled. After twelve years, his technology finally had complete proof of stable operation. [Guoliang Precision Ninety-Day Potential Value: ¥92,000,000.] [Remaining Missing Condition: First Commercial Order.] Three business vans stopped outside. A foreign man entered and presented a card. “Henderson, procurement director for Polaris Cloud Computing. We saw the test stream on the certification platform. Can your microvalves be used in liquid-cooled servers?”