Chapter 390 You call this a fire truck?

Meanwhile, on the other end of the connection.

Li Jiajun was sitting behind a desk in the old factory building.

Looking at the purchase intentions in the bullet chat, which were so enthusiastic they almost overflowed the screen.

The corners of his mouth couldn't help but curl upward.

Li Jiajun felt that the first piece of equipment had successfully made a name for itself.

This initial success finally allowed his racing heart to settle back into his chest.

'I knew it. As long as they are truly useful civilian tools that can protect rescue personnel, there will definitely be no shortage of buyers.'

'Look at these comrades from the local fire department procurement units; their vision is very sharp.'

'They've only seen it demonstrated once, and they've already seen the value of this long-range fire extinguisher.' This thought surfaced in his mind.

Following this strong sense of pride,

Li Jiajun's thoughts became increasingly uninhibited.

His sharp-tongued nature unconsciously emerged again.

He picked up the cup of warm water beside him and took a sip.

He treated his inner thoughts as a live stream narration and muttered to himself:

"See, it's useless to ask. Netizens are usually great at arguing in the stream."

"But when it comes down to the wire and they actually have to open their wallets, their purchasing power is far behind those fire department brothers."

"It really takes someone who knows the industry to recognize quality."

...

As soon as he said this,

there was a brief pause on the public screen of the live stream.

The military alt accounts that were fiercely competing for heavy weaponry orders were all stunned when they heard this.

They were speechless, not knowing how to explain to this Streamer who was dead set on them being fire departments.

Meanwhile, the ordinary Netizens who were caught in the crossfire instantly exploded with indignation.

They seized upon this unguarded slip from Li Jiajun.

"Main Streamer, why did you say what you were thinking out loud again!"

"Don't we have any dignity? You're narrating your own mockery of us!"

"Who would use a giant tube with a ten-kilometer range for no reason! Are we supposed to buy it and set it off as fireworks at home!"

"That hurts, brother. Even if we can't afford it, can't we at least watch!"

"Wait, is no one going to tell the Main Streamer the truth?"

"Why don't you tell him?"

"If you guys don't tell him, I won't either."

Facing the furious bullet chat on the screen from those whose financial status had been exposed,

Li Jiajun continued to display his signature thick-skinned talent.

He pretended not to see them.

He looked away from the complaining text.

Then,

Li Jiajun cleared his throat, the smile on his face becoming even brighter.

Addressing the over one hundred thousand viewers online, he spoke in an upbeat tone:

"Since everyone liked that long-range equipment so much,"

"then let's strike while the iron is hot today."

Li Jiajun indicated he would continue to introduce the next model.

"The previous one solved the issue of distance. This next one is a protective vehicle designed for extremely harsh environments in fire zones!"

After saying that,

he walked in a certain direction.

...

This was a wide, flat concrete open space.

He arrived at the place where the massive fire armored vehicle was kept.

In the frame, right in the center of the open space,

was a big fellow tightly wrapped in a massive camouflage dustproof canvas.

The canvas was propped up high by the unknown object underneath, its silhouette resembling a small hill.

On the surrounding ground, one could even see some faint white marks pressed out by a heavy object.

Li Jiajun held up his phone and walked to the side of the 'hill'.

He reached out his right hand,

grabbed the thick edge of the camouflage canvas, and gave it a hard tug downward.

Whoosh—

The heavy dust cloth slid down the metal slope and piled up heavily on the ground.

The behemoth hidden inside was exposed without reservation to the glaring afternoon sun.

...

Actually, at this moment,

everyone watching the live stream had their mouths wide open.

In a spacious office of the Imperial Capital Ministry of Military Industry,

Liu Jianguo was holding that enamel teacup with red characters, about to take a drink.

Looking at the steel beast appearing on the screen,

his mouth unconsciously opened wider and wider.

Tea spilled from the tilted rim of the cup and dripped onto his dark trousers, but he was completely oblivious.

In the high-level conference room of the General Armament Department,

The highly prestigious Old General had originally reached out his hand, preparing to stroke his remaining grey beard again.

When that massive silhouette occupied the entire live stream frame,

the Old Chief's hand froze in mid-air.

His mouth was slightly agape, and his whole body was like a frozen statue.

In the break area of a certain national top-secret laboratory,

Elder Qian was sitting on a sofa.

Out of surprise, his jaw involuntarily dropped.

The reading glasses on the bridge of his nose slid down his nose and fell onto his lap.

And in the broader world of the internet,

whether it was the procurement head of a certain provincial fire bureau,

or an ordinary college student hiding in a dorm eating instant noodles,

facing this extremely unreasonable metal beast,

over a hundred thousand people, at this very second,

all maintained the same slack-jawed, stunned expression.

...

In the live stream frame,

that behemoth radiated a terrifying sense of oppression.

It was a physical intimidation brought about purely by the tonnage of steel.

The vehicle body was painted a dull deep red.

Broad metal tracks gripped the ground tightly, with thick rubber blocks attached to each track shoe.

The body lacked any streamlined aesthetic; it was all sharp angles and massive sloped surfaces.

And on the circular metal base atop the vehicle,

a metal tube, so thick and long it made one's scalp tingle, pointed straight into the void ahead.

Li Jiajun saw the silence in the bullet chat and thought everyone was captivated by this majestic design.

To demonstrate its mobility,

he fixed his phone onto a special tripod.

Then he walked to the side of the vehicle and grabbed the metal handles welded onto it.

Stepping onto the wide tracks, he climbed up using both hands and feet.

He pushed open the heavy hatch above his head and dove into the cockpit.

A few seconds later,

it ignited and started up.

...

Rumble—!!!

Along with the deafening roar of the engine,

a thick cloud of black exhaust suddenly billowed from the grilled exhaust pipe at the rear.

The sound wave was like an ancient metal beast being awakened.

Even through the phone microphone's audio filtering, it still made the eardrums of hundreds of thousands of Netizens ring.

The massive body gave a sudden shudder.

Then, those two wide tracks began to turn.

Accompanied by the clacking sound of the tracks crushing the ground,

small pebbles on the concrete ground were instantly ground into powder.

Sitting in the cockpit, Li Jiajun skillfully operated the two joysticks.

He drove it in a circle around the yard.

The entire backyard seemed to tremble slightly with the movement of this beast.

After demonstrating a few simple turning maneuvers,

accompanied by a sharp screech of braking friction,

the vehicle came to a steady stop in front of the camera.

Then he turned off the engine and pushed open the hatch.

He jumped down from the over two-meter-high roof along the armored slope.

Dusting off his hands, he walked up to the camera.

He said to the camera with a hint of helplessness:

"family, this thing is just too big."

"It's really inconvenient to drive it out of the factory, and it's not easy to demonstrate mobility tests in the city."

"So, let's just talk about its performance."

...

As Li Jiajun finished speaking,

he then began to introduce the insane specifications of this fire armored vehicle as if listing family treasures.

He walked to the front of the vehicle.

He raised his hand.

He patted the thick, sloped steel plate.

His palm collided with the metal, producing a dull, solid thud.

"Everyone, look at this thickness and design."

Li Jiajun calmly introduced his masterpiece.

"To protect against falling objects from heights and the devastating shockwaves from chemical plant explosions,"

"this body has six hundred millimeters of equivalent composite armor!"

"As long as people are inside, even if a building collapses on top of it, it definitely won't be crushed!"

Next, he squatted down and pointed at the row of road wheels below.

"To adapt to debris-filled terrain full of rebar and concrete, ordinary tires definitely won't work."

"So, I equipped it with a fifteen-hundred-horsepower turbocharged diesel engine!"

"And with this chassis support, it can reach an off-road speed of seventy kilometers per hour!"

"A fire scene is a battlefield; time is life. Speed and power must be maxed out!"

Finally,

Li Jiajun stood up and took two steps back.

He pointed at the thick and long metal tube on top of the vehicle.

"Of course, there's also this one on the roof."

"To be able to cover the fire source from a distance with high flow,"

"this is equipped with a 125mm smoothbore injection tube that can spray ultra-high-pressure water jets!"

...

As he calmly read out this string of outrageous data,

then, at this moment,

whether it was the ordinary Netizens in the live stream who were still expecting a civilian toy,

or the big shots behind the screens who held high positions and controlled massive resources,

everyone was dumbfounded!

It was as if a depth charge had been dropped into everyone's minds.

Their fragile line of common sense was completely ground into powder at this moment.

Six hundred millimeters of equivalent armor?

Fifteen hundred horsepower?

Seventy kilometers off-road speed?

Because from those iconic road wheels, rubber-padded tracks, and high-angle sloped armor,

to that impossible-to-ignore 125mm 'injection tube',

these elements combined had a unique and clear definition in any modern military textbook.

What the hell kind of fire truck meant for rushing into fires to save people is this?

This is clearly a heavy Main Battle Tank armed to the teeth!