Chapter 231 This is a real big shot

"That... that hasn't happened yet."

Li Jiajun replied subconsciously.

However, after that sentence, the expression on Li Jiajun's face quickly tightened.

He looked at the old man in front of him.

If it were before, he might have thought this was just a high-ranking pedant.

But after that introduction by Liu Jianguo, which could be described as a "nuke carpet bombing," and after learning the true identity of the old man before him, Li Jiajun's attitude underwent an unprecedented change.

That change was like a player who had always thought they were playing a single-player game, only to suddenly discover that a real GM had descended into the server.

Compared to the slight cunning and the "you don't understand me" casualness he had when facing other Experts before.

At this moment, Li Jiajun's attitude was unprecedentedly serious.

It was respect for the strong, and also awe for the truth.

'Since it's a big shot of this level...'

'Then hiding things would make me seem too petty, and also too disrespectful to science.'

Such a thought emerged in Li Jiajun's heart.

He took a deep breath, no longer having any hesitation.

Under the curious gazes of Liu Jianguo, Wang Dachui, and the crowd of Experts around him, Li Jiajun turned and walked toward a safe in the corner of the warehouse that looked unremarkable and even covered in a layer of dust.

He skillfully entered the password and turned the dial.

"Click."

With a soft sound, the heavy cabinet door opened.

Li Jiajun carefully carried out a black engineering plastic box from inside, as well as a roll of blueprints rolled into a tube.

"Old Qian."

Li Jiajun held these things and walked back to Old Qian, saying with a sincere tone: "You saw correctly just now, that was indeed a semi-finished product."

"The core that really turns this thing from a large firework into a sky rocket is all here."

As he spoke, he opened the box.

Inside, several precision components were neatly arranged: a combustion chamber injection plate with an extremely complex structure covered in micro-pores; a control chip the size of a fingernail, but integrated with countless circuits; and a few material samples that looked pitch black, but when held up to the light, one could faintly see complex textures.

At the same time, he also slowly spread out the complete design blueprints, without any castration or disguise, on a temporary work table.

"Hiss—"

Several younger Experts nearby leaned over to take a look at the injection plate, immediately gasped, and subconsciously wanted to exclaim "Holy crap."

Because the machining precision on it was simply ridiculously high, just like a work of art.

However.

Old Qian's reaction was completely different from those Experts who would only exclaim "Holy crap" or "Awesome" when seeing things.

He was very calm.

This calmness was not because he didn't understand, but because he understood too well; it was the accumulation after having seen too many storms.

He slowly took out a pair of reading glasses from his jacket pocket and placed them on the bridge of his nose.

Then, he leaned down slightly and began to carefully study the true core technology.

His gaze was focused and profound, as if he were examining a peerless, one-of-a-kind book that had just been unearthed.

As he looked, he nodded gently, his fingers occasionally sliding over a certain circuit on the blueprint, or picking up the injection plate and turning it at an angle against the light.

In the entire warehouse, apart from the sound of everyone's breathing, there was only the rustling sound of Old Qian turning the blueprints.

Li Jiajun stood to the side, and at this moment, he was actually a bit nervous, looking very much like a student waiting for a mentor to grade their graduation thesis.

About ten minutes passed.

Old Qian finally straightened his body, took off his glasses, rubbed his eyebrows, and then looked at Li Jiajun.

At this moment, a flash of extreme appreciation, even mixed with a bit of surprise, shone in the old man's eyes.

He spoke.

He didn't say any polite pleasantries, nor did he offer any empty, flashy compliments.

But from time to time, he would raise some extremely professional questions that pointed straight to the core.

Old Qian pointed to the part on the blueprint regarding the engine's core algorithm and asked in a calm but sharp tone: "Little Li, is the ignition timing of your integrated pulse supercharged engine dynamically optimized using chaos algorithms?"

Li Jiajun's heart jumped violently.

This was one of his proudest designs! It was also a stroke of genius to solve the combustion instability of the pulse detonation engine!

Before he could answer, Old Qian immediately threw out the second half of the sentence: "The idea is very bold; it is indeed a genius conception."

"But will it produce resonance peaks under high-frequency vibration? After all, chaos algorithms can produce strange attractors under certain extreme boundary conditions. Will your combustion chamber be able to withstand that then?"

Boom!

Li Jiajun felt as if a thunderclap had exploded in his brain.

Too accurate!

This question was simply hitting the nail on the head!

When he was designing it, he had indeed struggled with this point for a long time, and in the end, he had barely suppressed this hidden danger by using special structural damping.

Unexpectedly, Old Qian had calculated this potential fatal risk just by looking at the blueprints a few times!

Before Li Jiajun could recover from the shock.

Old Qian's finger moved to another blueprint, which was about the eagle feather attitude control system.

"And here."

Old Qian looked at the complex circuit diagram, his brows furrowed slightly: "How did you consider the redundancy design of this eagle feather control system?"

"Although you used bionic principles, the response speed is very fast."

"However, if one control surface fails, how is its control law reconfigured?"

"I see your logic here seems to strongly associate all the control surfaces. Once one chain breaks, won't the entire attitude control lock up?"

...

Li Jiajun stared blankly at Old Qian, his mouth slightly open.

Amazing!

Truly amazing!

This problem was exactly the biggest shortcoming of his current version! Because he pursued extreme response speed, he had indeed sacrificed a part of the system's decoupling.

"This..." Li Jiajun just wanted to explain.

Old Qian picked up the black material sample again, held it up to the light, as if he could see through the molecular structure inside.

"And this material ratio for the dragon scale shell."

Old Qian turned his head and looked at Li Jiajun with burning eyes, a gaze that seemed to be able to see through people's hearts: "I noticed that you added a trace amount of xx element."

"Is it to improve the toughness of the material at high temperatures?"

"However, although this xx stuff is useful, its bonding strength with the ceramic matrix has always been a problem. How did you solve the interfacial debonding? Did you use a nano-coating transition?"

...

If the first two questions had shocked Li Jiajun.

Then this third question made Li Jiajun's scalp tingle directly.

You must know, adding trace elements to the material was a folk remedy he had thought of during an extremely accidental epiphany, and it was an absolutely exclusive secret!

The specific element name was not written on the blueprint at all, only a code name!

But Old Qian actually called it out in one go!

Every one of Old Qian's questions was accurately asked at the key nodes of the design.

None of them were nonsense, and none of them were layman's talk.

Every word precisely cut through the gorgeous outer shell of Li Jiajun's design, pointing straight to the most core, most essential, and also most vulnerable vital point.

Li Jiajun was surprised to find that this old man could not only understand his design but could even predict the potential risk points in his design.

This feeling was too wonderful.

In the past, when he worked on inventions, the people around him were either cheerleaders like Wang Dachui who only knew how to shout "Boss is awesome," or leaders like Liu Jianguo who only cared about "whether it can be requisitioned."

Although he was called a genius, he was actually lonely inside.

It was a kind of loneliness of drawing one's sword and looking around in bewilderment.

But now.

He felt that he had met a kindred spirit!

He had met someone who could truly understand his language, truly understand his thinking, and even stand at a higher dimension to guide him!

The surprise in Li Jiajun's eyes faded, and in its place was the excitement of meeting a worthy opponent, a frenzy of finding a true soulmate.

"Old Qian! You are so right!"

Li Jiajun slapped his thigh hard, not caring about seniority or anything, and directly leaned in next to Old Qian, pointing at the blueprints and starting to explain: "Regarding that resonance peak, this is what I thought: I added a layer of honeycomb sound-absorbing lining to the inner wall of the combustion chamber, using the acoustic black hole principle to..."

"Oh? Acoustic black hole? Interesting." Old Qian's eyes lit up, "But won't this affect the thrust-to-weight ratio? After all, it adds dead weight."

"It won't! Because I integrated this lining with the cooling channels! And..."

The two went back and forth, starting a technical discussion that outsiders couldn't understand at all, like gods fighting.

Their speaking speed became faster and faster, and the vocabulary involved became more and more professional.

From the lattice structure of materials science to the boundary layer separation of fluid mechanics.

From the robustness analysis of control algorithms to the application of micro-particle interference effects in quantum physics on sensors.

"Wonderful! Using quantum tunneling effect to solve the zero-drift problem of sensors? Young man, how did you grow that brain of yours?"

"Hey, Old Qian, your suggestion about control law reconfiguration is the one that's brilliant! Why didn't I think of using fuzzy logic to make the middle layer?"

The two chatted more and more congenially, getting more and more excited.

Li Jiajun gestured wildly, spit flying everywhere.

Old Qian was also glowing, as if he had become decades younger, completely devoid of the majesty of the grandmaster he had before, and instead looked like an old urchin who had seen a beloved toy.

This old man and the young man, at this moment, seemed to have forgotten everything around them.

They forgot that they were being investigated, forgot that they were in a warehouse, and even forgot the gap in age and status.

In the field of science, they were equal.

They were two stars that had accidentally met and resonated strongly in the vast starry sky of truth.

And standing on the side, Liu Jianguo, Wang Dachui, and the other Experts were completely unable to interject at this moment.

They were like a group of elementary school students who had stumbled into a top-tier academic seminar, staring at each other with wide eyes, their faces full of bewilderment and confusion.

Who am I?

Where am I?

What are they talking about?

Is this the legendary world of big shots?

And seeing this scene, Liu Jianguo's eyes suddenly flickered.