Chapter 88: Support Mountain‑Guardian Model and Insight Scanner

Senior Colonel Gao's phone call was like a bucket of cold water, dousing much of the heat Wang Hao generated from his live‑stream sales.

The institute's atmosphere tightened again, and the military‑priority strings were pulled taut once more.

But the civilian market, a beast that has just tasted sweetness, once unleashed, is not so easy to reel back.

The Swift Wind logistics side kept phoning urgent orders one after another; the marketing director wished he could live inside Longyin Research Institute's production workshop.

Wang Hao was held by Li Yang and Chen Guang, while he refined the Hunting Falcon's extreme environment test plan.

At the same time he had to steal moments to monitor the manufacturing stability of Knowledge‑Action No. 1's mass‑production line, so busy his feet never touched the ground, wailing constantly:

"I'm splitting apart! One moment I'm thinking how to make missiles hit more accurately, the next I'm worrying whether the robot's wheels get stuck on pebbles!"

Feng Yan was even busier, spinning like a top, coordinating military test preparations by day.

At night he still had to deal with civilian enterprise representatives knocking on the door.

That day, Feng Yan received a special visitor.

The director of the municipal Disabled Persons Rehabilitation Center, an elderly professor with silver hair and a gentle demeanor.

"Section Chief Feng, sorry to intrude." The old professor handed over a document, his tone earnest.

"We saw your unit's 'Support Mountain' exoskeleton demo video online, especially the 'adaptive buffering joint' technology, and we were thrilled!"

He flipped through the pictures in the material, showing scenes where immobile elders and disabled individuals faced difficulties during rehabilitation training or daily activities.

"Many patients with weak lower limbs or spinal injuries need not a full replacement of human power."

"Rather, when standing, walking, or climbing stairs, they need a stable, intelligent assist that prevents falls and eases joint load."

"Your buffering joint can provide protection when accidents occur; that's crucial!"

Feng Yan looked at those eyes yearning for independent walking, and a chord in his heart was struck.

The technology defends the nation on the battlefield; in civilian life, it safeguards individual dignity and hope.

He immediately called Li Yang.

Li Yang stared at the rehabilitation center's requirements and cases, silent for a long while.

He recalled the inspiration from the bumper cars at the amusement park, and the scenes of the Support Mountain‑Stable module repeatedly absorbing impacts during tests.

These safety measures originally designed for soldiers and rescuers seemed truly able to warm more people.

"Technically feasible," Li Yang finally said.

"We need to lower power output and refine the assist curve."

"Make it gentler, better matching the physiological traits and movement rhythm of the elderly and rehab patients."

"The appearance also needs redesigning, reducing exposed metal and adding approachability."

Talk is cheap; they got to work.

Li Yang led a small team, working almost without sleep, building on the civilian version of Support Mountain.

They iterated a Support Mountain‑Guardian model.

The power was tuned to be milder, and the buffering algorithm was specially optimized for fall protection.

The exterior adopted a soft milky white, with key stress points wrapped in skin‑friendly flexible material.

The first batch of ten prototypes was sent to the municipal rehabilitation center for trial.

When an elderly man who had relied on a wheelchair for years due to spinal injury, with the aid of Support Mountain‑Guardian,

trembled yet steadily walked a short distance on his own, his cloudy eyes instantly filled with tears as he clutched the therapist's hand tightly.

His lips quivered, and he couldn't utter a word for a long time.

An elderly grandmother, unsteady after a stroke, with the Guardian's assist,

for the first time walked up the three‑step entrance that had troubled her for years without anyone's help.

She looked back at the steps, both surprised and delighted, and laughed like a child.

The rehabilitation center's feedback video reached the institute, and even the usually reserved Li Yang, watching the renewed sparkle and tears on the elders' faces,

stood silent for a long while, only clenching his fists tightly.

Wang Hao leaned in for a few glances, smacking his lips:

"Not bad, Old Li, your iron lump can still do this… looks pretty solid."

Almost at the same time, Chen Guang's side also achieved an unexpected breakthrough.

He, who had been buried in optimizing the laser scanning modeling system, received a request for help from the Ancient Architecture Preservation Research Institute under the State Administration of Cultural Heritage.

The main beam of a millennial ancient temple showed a suspected crack, but its location was extremely hidden, making traditional inspection methods unable to assess its danger precisely.

Repair work could not commence, and a misjudgment could cause irreparable loss.

The institute's experts saw online reports of Dragon Chant using lasers for terrain scanning and structural analysis in wildfire rescue, and, with a try‑it‑out mindset, reached out.

Chen Guang took the improved portable Insight Laser Scanner to the site.

It was a magnificent, ancient hall, dimly lit, with a complex structure that clearly showed its great age.

Chen Guang operated the Insight system, emitting an invisible laser beam that performed millimeter‑level 3‑D scanning of the suspected area.

The data streamed in real time to the processing terminal, constructing an extremely detailed internal structural model.

When the model rendered, everyone on site gasped.

A highly concealed, winding crack deep within the beam's core appeared clearly on the screen.

Its length and depth far exceeded the previous worst‑case estimates!

More dangerous, the crack's tip had developed tiny voids, risking imminent fracture!

"Found it! Right here!" the veteran expert from the ancient architecture institute shouted, voice trembling with excitement.

"So clear! So precise!"

"Engineer Chen, your equipment is like giving us ancient building restoration a pair of X‑ray eyes!"

Based on the precise data provided by the Insight system.

The repair plan was quickly formulated, and a potential collapse accident was nipped in the bud.

This matter caused quite a stir in the cultural relics circle, and the names of the 'Dragon Chant' and 'Clear Observation' scanners spread like wildfire.

Soon after, the research institute under the State Administration of Cultural Heritage formally sent a cooperation intention and paid a considerable patent technology usage fee.

This is the first substantial patent dividend from technology conversion that the Dragon Chant team has received since its establishment.

When the financial notice hit the team's account, even Feng Yan was a bit dazed.

As for Wang Hao, he was even more excited, jumping up and shouting for the dividend and a celebration.

"What dividend?" Zhao Gong sauntered over leisurely, glanced at the excited Wang Hao, and poured a bucket of cold water on him.

"Does equipment wear and tear cost nothing? Does follow-up R&D cost nothing? Do trials of new materials and new processes cost nothing?"

"This amount of money is barely enough to plug a tooth gap and fill the previous shortfall."

Wang Hao instantly wilted, muttering, "Zhao Gong, can't you let me be happy for a while..."

Feng Yan watched this scene and genuinely laughed out loud.

Whether the money is much or little is not important; what matters is the technology in their hands.

It is crossing the boundary between battlefield and life at an unprecedented speed.

Taking root and growing in a vaster world, it is truly changing some things.