Chapter 20 Metallic Hydrogen!
Chapter 20 Metallic Hydrogen!
Hearing Lin Man say this, Yang Jian knew that there was no point in saying anything more, so he could only gently pat Lin Man's shoulder and say, "Be careful!"
After leaving some instructions, he turned and walked into the conference room to continue the work he hadn't finished.
Meanwhile, Lin Man, who was in the corridor, opened the system panel and walked downstairs while looking at the tasks on it.
Noticing that the task was not completed, his face darkened, and he closed the system panel.
If the mission wasn't completed, it means there's a second stage. Since most of the people I saw today were from other villages, it means that for the second stage, the people from my own village are still waiting for me at home.
Hey……
With a sigh, he picked up his backpack and slowly walked home.
Meanwhile, off the coast of Hongxing Village, Wang Ju sat on a small boat, holding a mobile phone that could control the laser defense system. She kept adjusting the screen and finally locked the laser cannon of the laser defense system to her right, about 100 meters away from the small boat.
More specifically, it's the 10-millimeter-thick steel plate on the small boat.
Locking onto the target, he picked up the walkie-talkie beside him and said, "Uncle Yaobei, watch out for any movement in the fishpond below the laser cannon when it fires."
"receive!"
Upon hearing these words, Wang Ju gritted her teeth and clicked the send button on her phone screen.
The next second, a red laser shot out from the distant fish raft and hit the steel plate of the small boat not far from Wang Ju.
Seeing this, Wang Ju held her breath and silently counted to 2. Just as she counted to 2, the red laser passed through the steel plate and went further away.
Almost the instant the laser pierced through, Wang Ju pressed the stop button, the red laser disappeared, and Lin Yaobei's voice came through the walkie-talkie:
"The fish isn't moving!"
"Received!" Wang Ju replied, then tucked the walkie-talkie into his belt and beckoned Lin Yaonan to row over.
Upon reaching the boat carrying the steel plate, Wang Ju eagerly jumped aboard, practically leaping towards the steel plate.
In the very center of that thick steel plate was a cross drawn with chalk, but in the very center of the cross was not a cross of chalk marks, but a hole the size of a fist.
The opening on the front of the steel plate has a dazzling blue color, as if it had been scorched by high temperature, while below the opening on the back, there is molten steel slag.
Even the bottom of the boat was covered.
Because some seawater was placed on the bottom of the ship beforehand, when these steel slags fell into the seawater, the temperature changed drastically, and they all turned into small water droplets.
Carefully picking up a small droplet of water, Wang Ju could still faintly feel the residual warmth from the steel slag.
How high does that temperature have to be?
He reached out and touched the still slightly warm steel plate, then picked up the walkie-talkie. "That's a wrap!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Lin Yaonan jumped onto the boat, secured it to his own boat with a rope, then jumped back onto the boat, started the engine, and towed the boat away.
Back on the fish raft, Wang Ju went straight to Lin Yaobei: "Uncle Yaobei, this stuff is great. Let's stop here for today and go back first. I need to discuss something with Lin Man."
"Also, make sure to put this away safely!"
Lin Yaobei knew this was an opportunity for his son's development, so he didn't dare to be careless. He nodded and pointed to himself and Lin Yaodong, saying, "Don't worry, there are several of us watching over him."
Wang Ju waved her right hand: "Then let's go!"
While they were packing up to head home, Lin Man also returned home.
Just as he had expected, his courtyard was packed with people, all from the village. Besides the villagers, there were also his married aunts and uncles, his cousins, and the families of all the wives in the village.
Upon seeing him appear, the group of people in the courtyard immediately stood up, and the cousin who had been pushed down several times by him last night also took the lead and walked towards him:
"Xiaoman, we're all relatives, blood is thicker than water, you can't let your relatives..."
"Stop!" Lin Man raised her hand to stop him, took out the notebook from her backpack, and handed it to him.
"Register according to the above information. Record exactly how much Lin Yaozu borrowed and how much interest he received."
"This is the village's way of securing evidence. Anyone who writes something false, I'll make trouble for them!"
"After you finish writing, just go home and wait for a phone call. Don't bother me here."
"If you think my attitude is bad, just report me to the disciplinary committee!"
Lin Man shoved the notebook at his cousin, then stepped aside and went straight into the house, leaving the cousin staring blankly at the notebook. After a while, he turned to look at a middle-aged man behind him:
"Why do I get the feeling that he's not afraid?"
The middle-aged man didn't answer his cousin's question. Instead, he stood up and shouted towards the door, "Lin Man, we're all relatives. You should at least show some respect out of consideration for our family ties!"
No sooner had he finished speaking than Lin Man's mother, who was carrying tea out of the house, heard this and threw the tea on the ground.
The sound of shattering glass, accompanied by Lin Man's mother's curses, echoed throughout the yard:
"When Lin Yaozu asked you to raise funds, you all hid it, one by one. The police came every few days to spread awareness about preventing telecom fraud, but you all pretended to be dead."
"Now that something's happened, you're coming to my Xiaoman? Do you owe her something?"
"Hurry up and register, then get out of here!"
"You're wasting my tea!"
Lin Man's mother's roar aroused the dissatisfaction of several elderly men and women, but seeing the broken glass teapot on the ground, they could only suppress their dissatisfaction.
I just dropped a teapot; it wouldn't be good if it fell on my face later.
Left with no other choice, the group had to take over the notebooks and register their information on them.
Lin Man's mother also stood beside him, constantly talking:
"Third Aunt, you actually borrowed 500,000 yuan! Let me do the math... that's 9.5% interest... It's hard to calculate. You don't seem that wealthy at all. But I remember you nagging me for days after my sister-in-law ate a little too much meat."
"Xiaofei, tell your fourth aunt how you make money? 100 million! Your fourth uncle serves that lousy fish fillet every day, doesn't make much money, and gets covered in fishy smell."
"Fourth Master, don't you think it's better to just leave your pension money lying around? Or is it too hot to handle? 118,674.2 yuan, with both whole and odd amounts, Lin Yaozu is truly a beast!"
"Lin Zhaodi, Lin Yaozu is your own brother, and he didn't even spare you? Your family's ancestral graves aren't... no, your father's grave wasn't properly buried!"
At first, the people registering didn't think much of it, but as Lin Man's mother got more and more carried away, she revealed how much money they had been swindled out of, and as a result, their faces grew increasingly dark.
After registering their names, they walked out with dark faces.
As the last person walked out of the hospital, Lin Man, who had been observing the scene from the second-floor window, heard a voice:
[Ding! Mission accomplished! Rewards being distributed!]
The sound disappeared, and Lin Man opened the system warehouse, where a silver-white cube appeared.
Select the white cube and choose to extract it.
The next second, a piece of silver-white metal, roughly one meter in length, width, and height, appeared on the ground in front of him.
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