Chapter 351 This instruction manual is so thick, you're letting a child read it?

The next morning.

The Imperial Capital.

Inside a building of a certain military industry department.

Sunlight streamed through the large floor-to-ceiling windows, spilling into the spacious and bright office.

Liu Jianguo sat behind his massive mahogany desk.

He held a cup of freshly brewed hot tea, slowly blowing away the floating leaves on the surface.

The fragrance of the tea curled in the air.

Just moments ago, his secretary had brought him a package.

The package wasn't large, and it bore a label for express delivery.

The sender's address was clearly written as the Li Family Toy Factory in Baishui City, Lu Province, and the sender was Li Jiajun.

Liu Jianguo set down his teacup and looked at the cardboard box on the table, which was tightly wrapped in waterproof tape.

He couldn't help but shake his head with a faint, amused smile.

'This kid actually sent that failed product over,' he thought to himself.

He recalled the phone call from yesterday afternoon.

On the other end, Li Jiajun had been as excited as a child discovering a new world, swearing that he would turn this defective product that couldn't even extinguish a fire into a toy gun for children.

He even said something about the bullets splitting in mid-air and how cool it would be for kids to play with.

Liu Jianguo felt that this young man's logic was truly unconventional.

A device specifically developed to put out massive fires, even if it lacked sufficient propellant, couldn't just be treated as a child's water gun.

But on second thought...

Since it was a failure that couldn't even put out a fire, it was likely just an empty shell with no substance.

Liu Jianguo didn't take it too much to heart.

He pulled open his desk drawer and fished out a pair of sharp scissors.

Holding the scissors, he expertly sliced through the thick layer of tape along the seams of the package.

The box was opened.

It was stuffed with white foam peanuts used for shock absorption.

Liu Jianguo pushed the foam aside and reached in.

Soon, his hand touched a hard object.

He pulled the item out in one go.

It was a large handgun, entirely dark grey in color.

Liu Jianguo held the gun in his hand and examined it carefully.

The design was completely unremarkable.

There were no complex tactical rails.

The surface didn't even have the slightest metallic luster; it looked like the kind of toy gun you could buy anywhere at a street stall.

Liu Jianguo curled his lip in slight disappointment.

He felt that compared to the previous Carbon Fiber Fishing Rod, which was full of high-tech texture, this thing's appearance was far inferior.

...

However.

When he took the handgun and gave it a few hefting tosses in his hand...

A subtle change occurred in the expression on his originally nonchalant face.

This large Parent-Child Firefighting Pistol was incredibly light.

It felt airy in his hand, completely lacking the heavy, solid weight of traditional metal firearms.

Liu Jianguo reached out and tapped on the barrel and the grip, producing a crisp "thud-thud" sound.

He discovered that the material of this handgun was actually not metal.

Instead, it was a type of synthetic plastic that appeared extremely lightweight.

Liu Jianguo was speechless.

He felt that Li Jiajun must have cut corners.

Even if it was a failure, he couldn't just pass off something this shoddy, could he?

But.

Relying on the intuition of an old military industry veteran developed over years of experience...

Liu Jianguo felt that things might not be that simple.

Although that kid often caused trouble, when it came to materials, he had never put out a defective product to fool anyone.

To verify his thoughts.

Liu Jianguo reached out with both hands and tightly gripped the large barrel of the handgun.

He took a deep breath, and the muscles in his arms instantly tensed.

He began to gradually increase his grip strength, attempting to test the compression limit of this plastic shell.

One should know that with the grip strength he had from years of exercise, even an ordinary thin-walled steel pipe would be slightly dented by him.

Liu Jianguo strained until his face turned red.

However.

The grey plastic barrel in his hands didn't budge an inch!

There wasn't even the slightest visible deformation or bending.

Let alone the cracking sound that cheap plastic usually makes when squeezed.

Liu Jianguo let go and let out a long, heavy breath.

He looked at the deep marks left on his palms, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but twitch twice.

The strength of this plastic was simply astonishing!

This was definitely not the cheap stuff used for ordinary toys on the market.

This kind of compressive strength didn't match the physical properties of ordinary synthetic plastic at all.

...

Liu Jianguo's curiosity was completely piqued.

He held the plastic handgun and began to fiddle with it repeatedly.

He looked left and right.

He observed the anti-slip patterns on the grip and the connection gaps at the trigger.

He even...

To see more clearly.

He lifted the handgun directly.

He aligned his eye with the dark muzzle, closed one eye, and peered intently down the barrel.

This was purely an old military man's habit of checking the rifling.

He just wanted to see if there was any special design or air-sealing structure inside the barrel.

But he had no idea that inside this seemingly ordinary plastic toy was a Sub-mother Splitting Warhead perfectly transplanted from the twin-tailed scorpion drone.

Liu Jianguo peered for a long time, but it was pitch black inside and he couldn't see anything.

He set the handgun down and rubbed his aching eyes.

"This thing really doesn't have any lethality."

Liu Jianguo murmured to himself.

But.

How exactly was this thing supposed to be used?

Was it like an ordinary water gun, where you just pull the trigger to fire?

...

Liu Jianguo frowned and placed the handgun on the desk.

He felt that a complete toy couldn't possibly lack even a simple set of instructions.

Even if it was just a palm-sized slip of paper, it should at least teach a child how to load the bullets, right?

So.

He reached back into the opened express box.

He rummaged through the pile of white shock-absorbing foam.

After searching for a while.

He suddenly felt something at the very bottom of the box, tucked into the gap between the cardboard layers.

He felt a square and somewhat heavy booklet.

Liu Jianguo's eyes lit up, and with a forceful pull of his fingers, he pried the object out from the bottom of the box.

However.

When he brought the heavy booklet before his eyes.

And saw clearly what it actually was.

The expression on his face, which was used to seeing great storms, instantly froze.

His eyes widened in an instant.

It was actually the accompanying manual for this plastic handgun!

Liu Jianguo stared blankly at the thing in his hand.

He felt his perception of reality take a massive hit.

What kind of toy gun manual is a booklet bound with art paper and a thickness of two or three centimeters!

This manual was over a hundred pages thick!

Holding it in his hand, it felt heavier than a solid brick.

Liu Jianguo took a deep breath and opened the heavy manual.

Then, he flipped through it randomly.

However, what met his eyes was not some cartoon drawing teaching a child how to pull the trigger.

Instead, it was filled with dense, highly professional mechanical cross-sections!

The pages were covered with complex engineering drawings.

They were filled with a vast amount of operating parameters, pressure thresholds, and feedback waveform diagrams from various sensors.

What the hell is this???

A plastic handgun that didn't even use a scrap of sheet metal.

Paired with a thick manual comparable to a space shuttle maintenance manual.

This absurdity was so off the charts that Liu Jianguo felt his brain was about to short-circuit.

He held the booklet, which was thicker than a brick, in both hands.

His gaze moved slowly from the dense parameters in the manual to the dull grey plastic handgun on the desk.

Liu Jianguo's mouth hung open as he fell into a state of profound shock.