Chapter 38: Xiaomi Heavy Industry, First Entrepreneurship

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Protagonist:

Lin Yi

Khalid couldn't stay calm!

That's a cannon, a cannon!

Cannon!

Seeing his excited state, Mohammed hurried forward, grabbing Khalid with both hands and pulling him away.

He could understand Khalid's excitement, but as a qualified Arab, he knew even more clearly that during business negotiations, one must absolutely not reveal too much emotion.

Too much emotion, and one's thoughts will be controlled by others, allowing them to manipulate you.

After being pulled away by Mohammed, Khalid also slowly came back to his senses; being overly excited was not a good time for negotiation.

Taking several deep breaths in succession, adjusting his excited heart, he returned to the sofa and sat down again, interlocking his fingers to support his chin, staring intently at Lin Yi with burning eyes:

"Mr. Lin, you're preparing to sell cannons to me — does that mean you people are preparing to enter the field?"

On the sofa, Lin Yi looked calmly across at the other party; he knew very well who the "you people" in Khalid's mouth referred to.

Of course, this was also his intentional doing.

Having an invisible big shot behind him could save him a lot of trouble.

Under Khalid's gaze, Lin Yi leaned against the sofa, slanting toward the left side, his left hand quickly propping up his cheek, smiling faintly, then gently shaking his head:

"I'm a legitimate merchant, what I sell are civilian products, what 'enter the field'? I don't know."

While shaking his head, he opened that broken system panel and began conceiving the details of the Gas Cylinder Mortar.

【New Project, Gas Cylinder Mortar 001!】

【Using YSP12, YSP35.5, YSP118 liquefied petroleum gas steel cylinders as shells!】

【Requiring range greater than 3 kilometers, cannon body overall materials all civilian products, easy to disassemble, install, transfer and transport, and capable of zone firing like a general mortar.】

Lin Yi thought through the requirements in his mind; in merely several dozen seconds, the relevant requirements appeared on the pale blue screen.

Click confirm R&D.

In less than 5 seconds, the relevant evaluation prompt popped up.

【R&D codename Gas Cylinder Mortar 001 project establishment complete, project R&D requirements acquired, after comprehensive evaluation, this R&D requires investment of 100 yuan in funds.】

【Whether to invest R&D funds?】

This...

The figure of 100 bucks made Lin Yi subconsciously widen his eyes.

Thought about it, then he felt relieved; no matter how bad that broken electric pressure cooker was, it was still an assembly of several industries.

And relatively speaking, the Gas Canister Mortar needed fewer things.

100 bucks was also very normal.

Click pay.

System prompt immediately popped up.

【R&D funds invested, blueprint generating!】

【Because this R&D product name contains 'cannon' and has explosion requirements, therefore judged as military goods, triggering special trait, product performance boosted to 500%!】

Gaze lingering on the popped-up prompt for a moment, Lin Yi directly opened the generated blueprint; he was very curious — the electric pressure cooker had explosion power boosted 500%, for a Gas Canister Mortar like this, where would that 500% performance boost manifest?

Would it be power and range across the board, or only explosion power?

Compared to the electric pressure cooker's blueprint, this Gas Canister Mortar blueprint was very simple.

Main parts are all stamped parts, welded parts and turned parts, even turned parts are very few; the most expensive are the gun carriage and the screw strut adjusting angle in the middle of the gun carriage, then the gas cylinder.

The wheels at the very bottom gave Lin Yi a feeling of returning to 20 years ago, when horse-drawn carriages still walked everywhere.

Seeing they were all commonly seen things, Lin Yi lightly let out a breath of relief.

This also meant processing difficulty wasn't high, could save a huge sum of money.

As long as the price was suitable, could earn a basin full and bowl full.

Blueprint continued turning back; not beyond Lin Yi's expectations, at the end of the parts diagrams, he saw that gift blueprint.

That is, that configuration table for various gunpowder and explosives loading.

Inside the configuration table were all common gunpowders and nitrate explosives, not even Octogen, let alone later CL20, HNIW, or even Energetic Ionic Salt.

Following the energy application formulas in memory, converting the power of these gunpowders and explosives once through, Lin Yi smiled.

The day before yesterday seeing that broken electric rice cooker's configuration table at the back, he already felt something wasn't right.

In actual application, in order to let gunpowder and explosives burn fully, the general handling method is to granulate the gunpowder and explosives.

And these processes can only boost a portion of performance, cannot reach 500% strength.

In other words, this so-called configuration table is actually something to deceive people's eyes and ears.

Similar to RGB lights inside a computer case.

So it still relies on brute force.

Getting this answer, he felt relieved in his heart.

Since this so-called configuration table isn't some heaven-shaking secret, he can completely operate it well and sell this configuration table for a sky-high price.

Left hand waving across the front, the pale blue system panel vanished, and the Gas Canister Mortar blueprint, following his thought, converted into photos, appearing in his phone.

Right hand fished out phone, shook it at Khalid, Lin Yi said softly:

"If Mr. Khalid doesn't believe, I have completed pictures here, you can take a look."

Finished speaking, he found the picture in his phone's album, opened it, and smoothly pushed the phone in front of Khalid.

Khalid did not reach for the phone immediately, but continued to stare at Lin Yi with those light blue eyes of his.

He had seen all of Lin Yi's actions just now, and the feeling Lin Yi gave him was like that of a mental patient immersed in his own fantasy world.

He wanted to open his mouth and ask a couple of questions, but at this moment the videos he had seen at the booth silently emerged again.

Emerging simultaneously was the scene of them using roadside bombs to attack NATO garrison troops in Iraq.

He needed this thing!

Taking a deep breath, Khalid half-believing half-doubting took the phone, letting his gaze fall on the phone screen.

On the Nokia 5800XM's 3.2-inch screen was a photo taken in the sunlight.

At a glance Khalid saw that thing in the sunlight that looked like a cannon.

A bit over two meters long, the whole thing presenting as a dark blue tube, mounted on a frame with two wheels, at the very front of the tube a round canister.

The shape of that canister, Khalid was very familiar with.

Gas cylinder.

A very common thing in the Middle East region.

After all, with oil and natural gas produced at home, using this thing is quite normal.

Looking at this photo, Khalid gradually spaced out.

This thing indeed counts as a cannon — a cannon.

Even the smallest kind of gas cylinder can hold several kilograms of liquefied natural gas; if swapped for explosives and fitted with a fuze, that is a natural cannon shell.

Fired in a mortar fashion, very safe!

Gritting his teeth, Khalid pressed his fingernail on the touchscreen and swiped hard; the photo in the sunlight vanished, turning into a cannon shell structural diagram.

【YSP118 Standard Steel Cylinder Shell Diagram!】

Because it was in Chinese, Khalid did not know Chinese; he knew this was a very important blueprint, but he could only stare blankly at the blueprint.

Silent for a moment, he returned the phone to Lin Yi, and while handing it back his finger tapped the phone screen once, pointing at the blueprint inside the screen and asked:

"Mr. Lin, can you tell me what this is?"

Snap!

Taking the phone back, Lin Yi raised his hand and snapped his fingers, then explained:

"This is the type commonly used in our country, a standard gas cylinder with an internal water capacity weight of 50 kilograms."

"Converted to volume, this one can hold 118 liters!"