188: What will Chapter 188 bring?

Lin Yuan's voice echoed through the spacious hall.

As his final words faded, the air in the hall seemed to be sucked out, leaving not even a trace of noise.

The gazes of dozens of top experts shifted in unison, locked firmly onto the five black hard drives on the metal tabletop.

Heavy, ragged breathing rose and fell, overlapping in the air.

Shen Changhe stood before the workbench, his eyes wide, an unprecedented fervor erupting in their depths.

He stared at the hard drives, his hands unconsciously half-raised, his ten fingers twitching uncontrollably.

The experts around him were similarly flushed, the veins on their foreheads bulging one by one.

They leaned forward, heels slightly lifted, as if ready to pounce on the workbench at any moment.

Lin Yuan took in everyone's reaction, a profound smile appearing on his face.

"That's enough."

"Don't just stare at them."

"No matter how much you look at them like this, you won't be able to build a mecha."

Once these words were spoken, the experts present were stunned for a moment, then let out a couple of awkward laughs in unison, finally breaking the taut atmosphere.

Shen Changhe also let out a "Heh," his old face flushing slightly as he rubbed the back of his head in embarrassment.

But his gaze still couldn't help but drift toward those five hard drives.

Lin Yuan said nothing more; he reached out, pushed the five hard drives forward, and steadily delivered them to Chief Engineer Shen.

"I'll leave it to you, Chief Engineer Shen, to distribute them."

The moment Chief Engineer Shen took the hard drives with both hands, his ten fingers trembled uncontrollably.

The physical weight of the hard drives wasn't actually much, but holding them in his hands, they felt heavy enough to make his arms ache.

"Old Li! Old Zhao! Old Wang!"

Three gray-haired project leads squeezed out from the crowd.

"Take your team members and get to your respective stations!"

"Prepare to connect to the secure terminals immediately! Distribute the manufacturing data with the highest clearance!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the dozens of experts scattered, running toward their respective workstations with long strides.

The sound of their footsteps was chaotic and hurried, filled with an impatient fervor.

Shen Changhe strode toward the main console, took a deep breath, and inserted the hard drives into the reading slots one by one.

Fingerprint recognition, iris verification, inputting the thirty-six-digit dynamic key.

"Beep—data transfer initiated."

Accompanied by the electronic prompt, the giant display screens in each team's area lit up simultaneously.

The cold blue light instantly illuminated every face, etched with wrinkles and filled with anticipation.

Massive amounts of engineering drawings, parameter matrices, and 3D structural models popped up, aggressively filling all the screens in no time.

The noise in the hall came to an abrupt halt.

All the experts pounced on their respective terminals, their bodies practically pressed against the screens.

They held their breath, their eyes scanning rapidly, hungrily reviewing the technical data distributed to their respective fields.

In the vast hall, only the sound of rapid mouse clicks and the subtle friction of high-speed scrolling remained.

One minute passed.

Two minutes passed.

Lin Yuan stood by the workbench with his hands behind his back, watching the scene of everyone enthralled, the corners of his lips curving slightly.

After a brief and oppressive silence.

The materials team's area was the first to erupt with an incredibly loud, near-cracking exclamation.

Gray-haired Old Li suddenly straightened his back and slapped his thighs heavily, producing a sharp sound.

"My God!"

"The compounding process for this composite armor, even the sintering temperature curve and cooling time nodes are marked so specifically!"

"With our existing special furnaces, we don't need to research it from scratch; we just need to slightly modify the temperature control modules, and we can go straight to mass production following these parameters!"

Just as the commotion in the materials team started, the structure team couldn't hold back either.

"Good heavens!"

Several engineers pointed at the joint servo motor diagrams on the screen, their voices cracking.

"Although the tolerance requirements are as harsh as the nanometer level, look here!"

A younger senior engineer jabbed his finger at the screen, his hand shaking with excitement.

"Academician Lin has even listed the tool compensation parameters and feed rates for the five-axis machine tools!"

"He even predicted the hardness fluctuation ranges for different batches of alloy blanks and provided three targeted processing plans!"

"How can you call this just technical data?"

"This is clearly a step-by-step manufacturing manual!"

"We just need to adjust the equipment parameters and follow it!"

In front of the weapons team's terminal, the atmosphere was even more heated, bordering on madness, even exuding a kind of morbid fervor.

Several silver-haired veteran experts who had spent their whole lives designing weapons huddled together, staring intensely at the design plans for the pulse particle acceleration cannon and the dual-arm laser cannons, breathing heavily in a frenzy.

"The design of this rail cooling circuit... brilliant! Absolutely brilliant!"

An old expert gripped his collar tightly, as if he would faint from tachycardia if he didn't.

"The heat dissipation efficiency is at least four times higher than our existing plan, yet the manufacturing difficulty is actually lower!"

"And this!"

Another expert leaned in, his finger trembling as he pointed to another part of the screen.

"The coupling logic between the charging sequence and the cooling cycle is actually nested! If this cannon were to fire..."

In the hall, the exclamations rose and fell like waves, one after another, each louder than the last.

Dozens of top talents representing the highest level of Xia Kingdom's military industrial manufacturing were now all red-eyed, gasping for breath, hungrily confirming every manufacturing detail of the modules they were responsible for.

Lin Yuan stood with his hands behind his back, taking it all in.

The fervor lasted for a long time.

Seeing that it was about enough, he spoke up at the right moment.

"Everyone."

"You've probably seen enough by now, right?"

His voice was not loud, but it caused dozens of pairs of eyes in the hall to shift away from the screens and converge on him in unison.

"Then, since you have this set of technical data."

Lin Yuan scanned the room, his tone steady.

"The next step is to hurry up and manufacture all the components needed for the mecha, without missing a single one."

"No one should have any problems with that, right?"

Shen Changhe was the first to straighten his back from in front of his terminal.

His face was glowing, his chest puffed out high, and his voice made the hall hum.

"Academician Lin!"

He pointed forcefully at the screen behind him with one hand.

"This data is so detailed that even the torque and thread pitch of a single screw are clearly marked; the technology is mature, and the data is complete. If we still can't build it following these ready-made blueprints—"

"Then all of us should just go home and farm; there's no point in staying here and embarrassing ourselves!"

These words were spoken with conviction, and the dozens of people behind him nodded in unison, their eyes full of certainty.

After expressing his stance, Shen Changhe took a deep breath, and his gaze fell back onto the screen.

There, the 3D outline of a five- or six-meter-tall mecha was slowly rotating, its streamlined armored surface gleaming with a cold metallic texture under the lights.

The missile arrays mounted on the shoulders, the laser cannon barrels embedded in the arms, the particle acceleration cannon of astonishing size on the back...

Every detail exuded a violent aesthetic that made one's scalp tingle.

Shen Changhe stared at the rotating steel silhouette, the fervor in his eyes gradually settling into something deeper.

It was awe.

It was awe for an unknown, beyond-imagination weapon of the future.

"I just don't know..."

He muttered in a low voice, his tone laced with a tremor he hadn't even noticed himself.

"When these hundreds and thousands of components are truly manufactured one by one and finally assembled together, the day this steel behemoth truly stands up and moves..."

He paused, his Adam's apple bobbing.

"What kind of sight will it be?"

The hall went quiet for a beat.

Lin Yuan stood there, listening to Shen Changhe's almost dreamlike exclamation, the corners of his mouth slowly curling into an arc.

He turned his head, glanced at Shen Changhe, and said in a nonchalant tone.

"We'll see when the time comes."

"Won't it be perfectly clear then?"