"What's so great about this hunk of junk?"
"I'm talking about Meng Hao, the boss of this company called Huarong Industries."
"Wow, he's super handsome... and at such a young age, he already has an asset worth over a billion yuan... and you know, this is a business empire he built entirely from scratch."
"Look at his sharp demeanor. He not only has the looks of those handsome guys from TV dramas, but his professional knowledge completely outclasses those pretty boys who only know how to sell their faces and bodies!"
*Pfft!*
The mouthful of tea Zhang Weimin was drinking sprayed out.
Something was off.
Extremely off.
Why did he detect such a strong feminine hormone scent from his daughter's words?
His own daughter, was she developing a crush!
In her early twenties.
Self-made.
Worth over a billion yuan.
Owns her own industrial company.
Her looks alone could crush any young heartthrob Zhang Qianjin had ever seen.
If such a divine figure truly existed, it was likely that half the girls in Great Xia would fall for him.
As a father.
Zhang Weimin instinctively grew suspicious.
He suspected this kid was a player, just good at packaging himself and luring young girls online!
"Oh?"
"Is that so?"
"So outstanding?"
"You're saying he sells powered mechs?"
"Come on, let your father have a look. I'll use an adult's normal thought process to help you find the flaws."
As a veteran fighter pilot with over twenty years of experience and an expert in military equipment, Zhang Weimin didn't believe in powered mechs.
As a colonel who had access to some top-tier, cutting-edge technology.
Zhang Weimin knew.
Currently, the top research laboratories in Great Xia and all other major military powers worldwide had not yet developed humanoid military robots or combat powered mechs that could be deployed in actual combat.
Therefore.
He could almost definitively conclude.
This so-called boss, who claimed to have developed a wearable, freely controllable powered mech, with an asset worth over a billion yuan and an extremely handsome appearance, was definitely a scoundrel who only preyed on naive, young girls.
Zhang Weimin intended to use his military technology knowledge, which was superior to that of ordinary people, to casually point out some standard errors in the so-called powered mech and thus brand this impostor named Meng Hao, who made his daughter exude feminine hormones, with the mark of a "scoundrel."
"Come, let your dad show you a few tricks, let you see what professionalism is!"
"Give me the tablet."
"Watch your dad unmask this swindler!"
Zhang Weimin plopped down beside his daughter.
Ignoring her unhappy expression, he snatched the tablet, pointed at the photo displayed, and began to pick it apart.
"This image shows the engine module of the mech..."
"What a joke! A powered mech that completely defies aerodynamics, looking like a metal brick, is equipped with jet engines..."
"This is pure nonsense, deceiving amateurs... Currently, there are no jet engines in the world that can be scaled to the size of a mech and provide sufficient thrust..."
As expected.
An expert's touch was evident.
With just a glance at the mech's jet engine, Zhang Weimin immediately hit the nail on the head, identifying the problem.
"Look at the material used for this engine... Huh? Why is the material used for this jet engine CMC ceramic matrix composite? This material is currently only mastered by the US military and is used in the engines of the F-35, the world's strongest fighter jet. Our Great Xia has no way of possessing it!"
Zhang Weimin blinked.
Something felt off.
Perhaps it was a high-fidelity replica?
Even then, it was impossible.
Being able to replicate to this extent was more difficult than obtaining the actual CMC ceramic matrix composite.
A CMC ceramic matrix composite on a domestic toy mech?
This was impossible.
Absolutely impossible.
He must have been mistaken.
He decided to set this issue aside for now and approach it from a different angle.
"Uh... take a look at the structure of the jet engine on this so-called powered mech... What's going on, are you kidding me? This is a three-dimensional high-turbulence, high-vortex floating wall combustion chamber?... Such a complex jet engine structure, it's impossible to fake!"
Zhang Weimin was starting to sense something was wrong.
This jet engine.
The more he looked at it, the more it resembled the jet engine of an F-35 fighter jet.
Most importantly.
This jet engine on what was merely a "large toy" powered mech had many details that were even more revealing than those officially disclosed by the US.
If he hadn't seen this engine on his daughter's tablet, Zhang Weimin would have suspected he was attending a top-secret military equipment exhibition.
He reached for a bottle of mineral water provided by the inn, gulped it down, and after composing himself, continued to examine the photos on the tablet.
"Regarding fuel consumption... uh, the bearing swiveling nozzle... Alright, I have to admit, an engine using such nozzle technology must use SAF bio-jet fuel... This type of fuel, free of aromatics and sulfur, can increase flight time by 25% and aggressive driving time by 20%-40%."
Zhang Weimin was dumbfounded.
This powered mech he had intended to debunk had already brought him too many surprises.
The jet engine alone on this powered mech was undoubtedly the STOVL F135-PW-600 engine, unique to the latest fifth-generation fighter jets in the US.
No.
To be precise.
It was a scaled-down version of the STOVL F135-PW-600 engine, with its various technical parameters increased by at least 150%.
Putting aside the difficulty of making technical improvements to the original engine, miniaturizing equipment while retaining its original functions was already an extremely challenging task.
For example, nuclear reactors.
There were plenty of nuclear reactors all over the world.
However, a miniature nuclear reactor, like the one on Iron Man's chest, had yet to see any technological breakthrough.
In other words.
The engine on this powered mech had a general structure that referenced the F-35's STOVL F135-PW-600 engine... However, both its optimization level, technological advancement, and development difficulty far exceeded the original model... It could even be said that its technical standards were 10 to 20 years ahead of the original.
"Dad."
"Are you okay?"
"This is a civilian powered mech worth a million yuan, produced by Huarong Industries!"
"Why do you look so stunned?"
Zhang Qianjin looked at her father, who was frozen in place, and asked in surprise.
However, her father, who usually doted on her like a precious pearl, seemed to be in a trance. He didn't seem to hear her calling him and was instead glued to her tablet, frantically switching and refreshing different photos.
"The riveting technology of this powered mech is actually aeronautical fish-scale welding technology..."
"This powered mech uses lithium batteries instead of SAF bio-jet fuel for its jet engine, and its power is even stronger..."
"This powered mech is equipped with a high-brightness active scanning display module and can achieve infrared vision. Such a clear image is something even the most advanced military-grade infrared scanning modules cannot achieve..."