Chapter 313 Li Jiajun's Changed Nature

"I guess I didn't lose face for our Li Family Toy Factory."

Wang Dachui thought happily to himself.

He sat steadily on a small folding stool in the corner, feeling as if he had completely integrated into this high-IQ game of chess.

Just as Wang Dachui was still savoring his brilliant performance...

Inside the office, the situation changed once again.

An Aerospace Expert, who had been standing behind Elder Qian and hadn't found a chance to speak since entering, finally couldn't hold back any longer.

He took a step forward and stood in front of Li Jiajun.

This Expert was one of the core Experts in the National Key Laboratory responsible for the Carbon Fiber material project for the latest generation of Fighter Jets.

Just now, when Liu Jianguo and Li Jiajun were arguing fiercely and Wang Dachui jumped out to "expose himself," he had already been on the verge of speaking.

It was just that the people present were all too dramatic, and he couldn't get a word in edgewise.

His mind was filled with that material of terrifying strength; he had no interest whatsoever in their so-called grudges, love-hate relationships, or dramas of mutual concealment.

You see, this Expert was someone who was entirely devoted to technology.

He didn't pay much attention to the outside world and didn't know much about the heart-stoppingly major feats Li Jiajun had pulled off before.

In his eyes, there were only data and the microstructure of materials.

He even thought that the young Factory Director Li before him was, like himself, a researcher entirely devoted to the laboratory.

He even felt a sense of mutual appreciation for a genius who could overcome such difficult problems.

...

At this moment, once Wang Dachui finally finished speaking, there was a brief lull in the office.

This Aerospace Expert finally found an opportunity to speak.

He pushed up the thick glasses on the bridge of his nose and looked at Li Jiajun with burning eyes.

With the mutual appreciation unique to technical personnel in his eyes, the Expert asked Li Jiajun with utmost sincerity:

"Factory Director Li, how exactly did you research and develop this Carbon Fiber material?"

"Can you take us to see your laboratory?"

He wanted to know the answer so badly.

He desperately wanted to see with his own eyes what kind of top-tier equipment and precise formula could produce, in such a short time, the kind of material that even their National Team was helpless against.

...

Hearing the Expert's question.

Hearing this, Wang Dachui, sitting in the corner, instantly widened his small, beady eyes.

He was so excited he even dropped the melon seeds in his hand, thinking excitedly:

'Here it comes! It's time for the Factory Director to show off!'

Wang Dachui adjusted his posture and even held his breath, preparing to listen intently to his boss's next brilliant speech that would surely be recorded in the factory's history.

...

Facing the Expert's expectant gaze.

Li Jiajun blinked and asked back with a look of confusion:

"What laboratory?"

...

Hearing this counter-question, the Aerospace Expert was stunned for a moment.

He thought Li Jiajun might be guarding some trade secrets, so he replied as a matter of course:

"The laboratory where you developed this Carbon Fiber!"

"To be able to break through the strength bottleneck of over 6,000 MPa and solve the high-temperature resistance problem of 200 degrees, you must have a very complete set of experimental equipment and data models, right?"

Looking at the Expert's serious face.

Li Jiajun's lips moved.

Actually, Li Jiajun had originally wanted to talk about how he had conducted the research.

He had even been organizing his words in his mind, wanting to tell the other party that he had realized the woven structure from seeing a spiderweb in the corner and the ceramic coating from watching the Fat Master Chef in the cafeteria toss his wok.

But...

The words had just reached the tip of his tongue before he forced himself to swallow them back down.

Li Jiajun thought about it.

What was the persona he had set for himself?

A pure People's Toy Maker!

And the performance of this Carbon Fiber, as he now knew, was material that even the Air Force flying in the sky could use.

If he really announced with great fanfare how he had developed it, or even put those outrageous theories on the table...

Wouldn't his persona collapse?

After all, his persona as a People's Toy Maker was, in the end, just someone who made toys, a proper private entrepreneur.

If he appeared more impressive and professional than these top national scientists...

Wouldn't that persona completely crumble?

Then wouldn't all his hard work avoiding Uncle Liu and moving to a new factory have been for nothing?

'No! I absolutely cannot say it!'

'I absolutely cannot have anything to do with the military industry ever again!'

Such a thought emerged in his mind.

...

Therefore...

Li Jiajun spread his hands, and the expression on his face became extremely flat.

He even bowed slightly and said in an extremely humble, almost apprehensive tone:

"There's no laboratory. I'm just a toy maker."

"This thing was created purely by chance."

Li Jiajun looked at the Experts and began his fabrication with a straight face:

"After all, materials science is often just a matter of probability."

"I was just trying to adjust the formula and accidentally added a bit more of this and a bit less of that."

"I was lucky and just happened to stumble upon it."

At this point, he smiled sheepishly and added:

"That's within the realm of reason, right?"

...

As soon as these words were spoken...

In the office, the air went silent in an instant.

That silence carried an extremely eerie atmosphere.

Liu Jianguo, standing in front of the desk, was stunned for a moment.

He looked at Li Jiajun in surprise.

He thought to himself, why isn't this Little Li showing off?

In his impression, once this kid came up with something heaven-defying, even if he refused to admit it was a weapon, he would definitely find ways to brag about how exquisite his design was and how big his imagination was.

Why did he change his nature today? He actually attributed everything to ethereal luck?

Wang Dachui, sitting in the corner, had a face full of disbelief.

He was also surprised to the extreme.

This didn't seem like his factory director's style. After all, his director was a master of showing off, loving to pull off consecutive stunts, but this time he wasn't doing it.

Could it be that he was tired of acting earlier and wanted to keep a low profile?

Wang Dachui felt like his brain's processing power was reaching its limit.

Elder Qian, standing to the side, also frowned slightly.

Elder Qian was also surprised.

He also felt this didn't seem like Li Jiajun's style.

After all, in his impression, Li Jiajun had always been sharp-tongued, the kind of troublemaker who could call even a national treasure scientist like him a "poor relative."

But this time, facing a colleague's inquiry, he was so humble—even suspiciously so.

Just as the office fell into silence because of Li Jiajun's "unusual humility"...

"Creak—"

The ajar door of the office was suddenly pushed open from the outside.

An Old Worker wearing deep blue overalls, his hands covered in oil, poked his head in and walked in.

He was holding a long stick in his hand.

At the tip of the stick, a dusty spiderweb was hanging.