Chapter 400 Seriously? You firefighters really dare to ask for that?

Inside the office of the Imperial Capital Military Industry Department.

After Liu Jianguo sent the message asking "Is the fire out?", he stood frozen in place, holding his phone for a long time, unable to snap out of it.

The spacious room was so quiet that the faint hum of the air conditioner's vent could be heard.

The veteran comrade maintained a posture of leaning forward.

The smartphone with a privacy screen protector felt slightly hot in his palm.

Warm sweat seeped along the lines of his palm, making the device very slippery.

He felt as if his airways were somewhat blocked.

His chest rose and fell slowly and heavily.

...

On the computer screen, the live stream was still ongoing.

The young toy factory director was sitting steadily in the cockpit of the armored vehicle.

His expression was incredibly relaxed, even carrying a hint of the pride that comes with a job well done.

Looking at that young face,

the veteran comrade's teeth ground together audibly.

He felt a surge of blood rush straight to his head.

'I told you to make firefighting supplies.'

'I told you to solve various pain points.'

'You brat actually came up with a Thermobaric Bomb!'

As a veteran who had spent most of his life in the military industry system, he was all too aware of the destructive power of such a weapon.

That rising mushroom cloud, that visible ring of white shockwave.

It was a physical phenomenon where the air was literally compressed until it exploded.

The terror of this weapon of mass destruction was that it sucked out all the oxygen within a range of several hundred meters at the moment of explosion.

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The fire would indeed be extinguished.

But the trapped people nearby and the firefighters themselves wouldn't even have ashes left.

Li Jiajun, this guy with such strange logic, actually marketed this weapon as a fire extinguisher.

This unprecedented move was simply... simply unbelievable.

And the "three absolute safety" guarantees he had solemnly made over the phone earlier, now...

What the hell!

...

At the same time,

at the Fishing Rod factory,

the Deputy Factory Director, who was responsible for holding the phone to film the scene, slumped on a dusty slope.

His legs were as limp as noodles, completely devoid of strength.

On the hilltop not far away,

the orange fire dragon that had been spreading wildly across the mountainside, fueled by the wind,

was now completely gone.

Not even a single piece of smoking charred wood could be found.

In mid-air,

the mushroom cloud, which hadn't yet fully dissipated, was still slowly spreading outward with the high-altitude air currents.

The air was filled not only with the smell of burning but also with a strong sense of suffocation caused by the lack of oxygen.

The Deputy Factory Director opened his mouth,

gasping for air in large gulps.

'Wait, this is what "leaving it to you" looks like?' This thought surfaced in his mind.

The phone stand had been knocked askew by the wind pressure just now.

This scene was transmitted without reservation to the terminal devices of over a hundred thousand viewers via the high-speed network.

...

Inside Li Jiajun's live stream room,

the bullet comments flooded in even more frantically.

"What did I just watch! Is this something a fire extinguisher can freaking do?"

"The wildfire said: I was terrified; I didn't even have time to run before I was sent to the afterlife."

"Main Streamer, fess up, did you secretly get the launch codes for nuclear weapons?"

"Fire: I just wanted to burn some branches, and you freaking sucked out all my oxygen!"

"This is called physical-transcendence-style rescue; even King Yama would call you a pro."

"Buy a fire extinguisher and get a mushroom cloud for free; what a deal!"

"I'm a witness, the fire is indeed out; even the Earth God moved away overnight."

"Main Streamer, be honest, are you the vanguard sent by aliens to destroy Earth?"

...

Looking at these rapidly scrolling bullet comments,

Li Jiajun sat upright in the driver's seat.

He tapped the metal panel on the edge of the console with his finger, producing a crisp echo.

Seeing his viewers' lack of exposure to the world,

a smug smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.

This was exactly the effect he wanted.

To crush them with absolute hardcore strength, making these Netizens who usually only knew how to argue completely submit.

He cleared his throat.

He looked into the phone's camera, preparing to start his science popularization.

"See, Netizens just love making a fuss over nothing."

He directly used his internal complaints as the live stream narration, reciting them with a straight face.

"This is what's called a scientific dimensional reduction strike."

"I already explained the three elements of combustion just now."

"As long as you completely strip away the oxygen element, even the most violent fire will be extinguished instantly."

"Isn't firefighting supposed to be fast, accurate, and ruthless?"

"As long as it achieves the ultimate goal of zero-dead-angle firefighting, it is the most competent piece of fire equipment!"

As soon as these self-righteous remarks were made,

the Netizens in the live stream room were immediately displeased.

The sounds of condemnation in the bullet comments rose again.

"Main Streamer, don't go too far! Why did you say your inner thoughts out loud again!"

"Don't we need to save face? We were just scared by your inhuman firepower!"

"You call this stripping oxygen? You're stripping away the right to breathe for every living thing in that area!"

"It's over, it's over; this Streamer is already obsessed with his own art of firefighting and can't pull himself out."

...

Facing the Netizens' protests,

Li Jiajun just curled his lip.

He was very carefree.

In his eyes, this was a great innovation made to protect the lives of firefighters.

'These guys are just jealous of my excellent R&D capabilities.' This thought surfaced in his mind.

He leaned against the wide seatback, feeling incredibly comfortable.

...

Amidst this suffocating silence,

in an office of the Ministry of Military Industry in the Imperial Capital,

the smartphone that Liu Jianguo had casually tossed onto the desk suddenly lit up.

Accompanied by two "buzz-buzz" vibration alerts,

at this moment, someone from the procurement department sent another message.

It was the same head of a certain Provincial Fire Procurement Department from before.

Just now,

this local procurement head had truly witnessed that small mushroom cloud rising.

Liu Jianguo reached out and picked up his phone, his fingertip sliding across the screen to unlock it.

He clicked into the chat box.

A text popped up on the screen: "Director Liu, when I said earlier that we wouldn't dare to procure this thing, I was joking."

Seeing this sentence,

Liu Jianguo was taken aback.

His eyes widened slightly.

He scrutinized this line of text.

The veteran comrade's brain began to work at high speed.

'What does this mean?'

He thought to himself, could the other party really be that bold?

In this local system where rules and safety were emphasized everywhere,

equipment that could cause large-scale explosions was definitely a hot potato to be avoided.

Yet the other party actually said the previous refusal was a joke.

He began to search for a reasonable explanation for the other party's behavior in his mind.

'Now that they've seen the terrifying power of this Thermobaric Bomb in extinguishing a mountain fire, they find it useful instead and are preparing to procure it?'

'Indeed.'

'This kind of firefighting efficiency is simply unprecedented.'

'When encountering those continuous forest fires, ordinary water trucks can't get in at all.'

'If the Fire Brigade could be equipped with such weapons,'

'they would only need to fire a few from a safe distance,'

'to instantly block the spread of the fire, saving vast forests and the lives and property of the surrounding people.'

The veteran comrade's thoughts drifted further and further.