24: Chapter 24 Mr. Xu, you call this a prop?

"Chairman Xu, isn't this a film prop? Can a prop even have a tire blowout?"

Ma Wenkang asked, puzzled.

Good grief~

This was the first time he'd ever heard of a film prop vehicle managing to blow its own tire.

Even if the prop vehicle looked somewhat realistic...

A tire blowout was just... a bit inconceivable...

"Uh... the blowout was an accident."

Xu Hao rubbed his nose, at a loss for how to explain it for a moment.

He couldn't exactly say that this wasn't a prop...

If word got out, he'd end up being labeled as someone who builds weapons without authorization.

However, the tire of the transport vehicle had indeed burst.

"It's my fault too. I was negligent for a moment and forgot to change the tires."

Xu Hao put on the hard hat handed over by his assistant, Wang Qian, and walked toward the Giant Transport Vehicle.

At the same time.

Wang Qian also brought over two hard hats and handed them to Ma Wenkang and Gao Zimin respectively.

The two took them, nodding slightly in thanks.

Then, they put on their hard hats and followed him.

"Oh? How so? If you change the tire, it won't blow out?"

Ma Wenkang continued to press for answers.

He was also quite curious as to why a prop vehicle would have a tire blowout.

And.

From what Xu Hao said, it seemed like the prop vehicle's tire blew because he hadn't replaced it in time...

This was a bit strange.

It's just a film prop vehicle, right? Why would you need to keep changing tires?

Hearing Ma Wenkang's question, Xu Hao explained:

"Today was a load test for this transport vehicle, but the wheels were still the ordinary ones; they hadn't been replaced yet. Therefore, these ordinary rubber wheels couldn't withstand the massive load, and with a 'bang,' they exploded!"

Xu Hao shook his head helplessly.

This whole mess had given him a scare; he'd thought a safety accident had occurred in the workshop.

Fortunately, there were no workers nearby when the tire exploded.

Otherwise, the airflow generated by the blowout would have injured them.

"Ah? The load was so large it crushed the wheel? This..."

Ma Wenkang's eyes widened slightly as he looked at Xu Hao with a face full of disbelief.

Beside him, Xiao Gao also looked at Xu Hao incredulously, as if saying, 'You're joking, right?'

"Chairman Xu, just how heavy was the load to be able to crush and explode a tire?"

Ma Wenkang asked with quite a bit of curiosity.

A regular large truck has a carrying capacity of around five or six tons.

The more impressive ones can reach ten tons.

But even if these trucks were at full load, it wouldn't be enough to crush and explode their tires.

"Oh, 1000 tons!"

Xu Hao inspected the hub of the Giant Transport Vehicle and spoke casually.

"Because they were ordinary tires, they exploded when the load reached about 600 tons."

"Sigh, such negligence..."

Xu Hao was quite annoyed.

The events on the internet these past few days had caused him to be a bit distracted at work.

Fortunately, he had just checked, and there were no issues with the hub of the Giant Transport Vehicle.

It was just...

Once Xu Hao finished stating the transport vehicle's load capacity, Ma Wenkang was instantly stunned.

"How... how much?" He asked again, somewhat uncertain.

"600 tons," Xu Hao said, not understanding the reaction. He turned his head with a look of confusion.

It's only six hundred tons, why so surprised?

Ma Wenkang couldn't help but gulp. He looked seriously at Xu Hao's face, as if trying to find a single trace of a lie.

Unfortunately, other than a bit of annoyance at his own negligence, there was no other expression on Xu Hao's face.

"Chair... Chairman Xu, you say this vehicle can carry 600 tons on ordinary tires. Then, if we go by what you said and put on your specialized tires, what would the load capacity be?"

"At least 1000 tons!"

Xu Hao answered immediately.

"Ordinary rubber tires don't have enough strength. Our specially designed tires use a special rubber formula that allows the tread to maintain closer contact with smooth ice and snow surfaces, generating much stronger grip."

"Tires made with this special formula can withstand much greater loads, maintain stable tire pressure, resist high and low temperatures, and have good corrosion resistance."

Xu Hao introduced the features slowly.

However, Ma Wenkang's focus was solely on the transport vehicle's load capacity.

"One... one thousand tons?!"

Even though Ma Wenkang had prepared himself mentally, hearing this number still made him gasp.

He was calculating in his head...

If a large truck's load is 10 tons, this transport vehicle is 100 times that!!

A single transport run could equal that of 100 large trucks!!

"Whew..." Ma Wenkang exhaled a breath of turbid air, his face full of shock.

"Chairman Xu, you call this a film prop vehicle?"

Ma Wenkang looked at Xu Hao with an unreadable expression.

If you call a transport vehicle with a load capacity of over 1000 tons a film prop, then what do you call those large transport trucks currently in production?

Toy cars? Model cars?

"Haha... it should be considered a prop vehicle. It's just that it's... a bit more realistic, it can move a little, and its load capacity is a tiny bit larger..."

Xu Hao rubbed his nose and laughed.

Hiss...

Ma Wenkang didn't know what to say.

Gao Zimin beside him was much the same, truly stunned into silence by Xu Hao's 'tiny bit'.

A 'massive' bit... yeah... it really is a massive bit!

Ma Wenkang looked up at the behemoth before him, and a sense of pressure welled up in his chest.

Standing before this Giant Transport Vehicle, he felt that he was simply too small.

Like an ant standing before a grown man.

Unattainable, like a great mountain.

He took a step back and shifted his gaze to the fighter jet behind it, and the doomsday mecha with its legs crouched in a combat stance.

"Chairman Xu..."

Ma Wenkang took a deep breath, held it, and spoke again.

"Then what about that fighter jet and the doomsday mecha back there?"

Ma Wenkang stared at Xu Hao without blinking.

Don't tell me these are 'props' too?

"Uh... they're also film props. Props that can be used, can move, and can fly!!"

Xu Hao didn't even dare look Ma Wenkang in the eye, only offering a bashful explanation.

"Hiss!"

Ma Wenkang recoiled and sucked in a breath of cold air, a 'just as I thought' expression appearing on his face.

Xu Hao chose not to look at the 'I've seen a ghost' expression on Ma Wenkang's face and instead explained to himself.

"To be precise, this fighter jet is a heavy Transport Aircraft for carrying large machinery in a doomsday low-temperature environment!"

"The airframe was built modeled after the A-225, with multiple performance upgrades performed on that basis."

"The fuselage uses a high-wing plus V-shaped vertical tail layout, and is equipped with eight individual super-powered aero-engines."

"At the same time, considering the harsh doomsday environment where there might be no light, only a slotted windshield was retained to reinforce the stability of the airframe."

"The cabin volume is large; calculated by passenger capacity, it can accommodate 2,000 passengers."

"It has super-strong and super-long endurance. Under full load and full fuel, it can fly continuously for over 2,500 kilometers."

As he spoke, Xu Hao had already led Ma Wenkang and the others to the front of the A-225 Transport Aircraft.

The things Xu Hao was saying were all very professional.

Ma Wenkang and Xiao Gao were completely lost, not understanding a single word.

But...

He knew that this plane could fly!!

Not only could it fly, it sounded incredibly impressive.

A passenger capacity of two thousand people and a continuous flight range of two thousand five hundred kilometers...

It seemed like even the large domestic passenger planes weren't this powerful, right?

Ma Wenkang was completely dumbfounded.

He had come to investigate taxes, so how did it turn into this...

"Chairman Xu..."

Ma Wenkang looked at Xu Hao with a rather resentful gaze.

"You call this... a prop?"