Chapter 20 My father's leg can be cured!

Lin Jianguo looked at Zhao Di, who was surrounded by a group of senior experts and treated like a little princess, and he couldn't suppress the smile on his lips.

As long as his daughter is happy, he'll do anything.

Even if it means working as a security guard for the rest of my life in this sandy Gobi Desert.

It's late at night.

After the excitement subsided, Lin Jianguo carried the tired Zhao Di home.

He placed his daughter on the small bed covered with new cotton quilts and gently took off her shoes.

Zhao Di's little feet were warm, and her big toe twitched restlessly.

Lin Jianguo covered her with a blanket, but he didn't go to sleep himself.

He sat on a small stool by the bed, and, using the moonlight streaming in from the window, rolled up his trouser legs.

Although that injured leg has been supported by that "iron frame" recently, walking has become much easier.

But every night, when I take the iron frame down, that excruciating pain still surges up like a tide.

It felt like something was moldy and rotting inside your bones.

Lin Jianguo gritted his teeth, a fine layer of cold sweat seeping from his forehead.

He reached out and pressed on the calf that had shriveled up to just skin and bones.

Unconscious.

Besides pain, there was only numbness.

It's as if this leg no longer belongs to my body.

"well……"

The sigh was extremely soft, very soft.

It was as if they were afraid of disturbing something.

But he didn't know that Zhao Di was not asleep at all.

The little girl was squinting, peeking at her father through her long eyelashes.

She saw that her father's brows were furrowed into a deep frown.

I saw that my father's hands were trembling.

Seeing her father's face, which always smiled and coaxed her, now it was as white as paper.

Dad is in pain.

Zhao Di felt as if she had been pricked by a needle.

That kind of pain is a hundred times worse than if you were to fall flat on your face.

"Uncle Fairy..."

Zhao Di called out softly in her heart.

"Father, it hurts!"

"Do you have any medicine? Like the one we used to spray last time?"

The blue screen in her mind flashed.

The system's voice sounded a bit languid, as if it had just woken up.

[Host, the last one was just a pain-relieving and repairing spray; it only treated the symptoms, not the root cause.]

Your dad's leg has nerve necrosis, skeletal deformities, and muscle atrophy.

To completely cure him and allow him to run and jump like a normal person, we need to get a high-quality replacement.

"I want it! I want the high-end stuff!"

Zhao Di panicked and clenched her little hands into fists under the covers.

Don't worry, this system will automatically open the shop for you.

[Ding! The shop has been refreshed.]

Product Name: Primary Biological Cell Repair Solution (Civilian Version)

[Effects: Rebuilds bones, regenerates nerves, and can even heal comminuted fractures.]

Price: 5000 points.

Zhao Di blinked her eyes.

Although she couldn't count, she could tell that the "5" was followed by several circles.

"Uncle, how many points do I have?"

The system paused for a second before displaying Zhao Di's balance page.

The page pitifully displays: 250 points.

That was a small amount of savings accumulated from growing wheat and catching spies.

[Host, you're penniless.]

The system relentlessly attacked.

These points are only enough to buy two bottles of AD calcium milk.

Zhao Di's little mouth immediately pursed.

Tears welled up in her eyes.

"What should we do then?"

"I want to save my father... Waaah..."

She was crying so hard inside.

The system can't stand this.

It's a sophisticated, high-tech system; how could it be defeated by the tears of a mere cub?

Stop! Stop howling!

This system will show you the way!

[Do you see that large factory building on the east side of the base?]

There's a huge problem inside; it's the biggest headache for your country right now.

[If you can fix it, this system will consider it an S-level task for you!]

[Reward Points: 10,000!]

10,000 points!

Although Zhao Di didn't know how much 10,000 was, she knew it would definitely be enough to buy medicine!

"I'll go! I'll go right now!"

Zhao Di jumped out of bed in one swift motion.

Lin Jianguo was grimacing in pain when he heard the noise, so he quickly pulled down his trouser leg and forced a smile.

"What's wrong, Zhaodi? Did you have a nightmare?"

Zhao Di shook her head, crawled over, and stretched out her little hands to hug Lin Jianguo's neck.

He gave that stubble-covered face a big kiss.

"Father, you wait."

"Zhaodi will go earn money to buy you medicine!"

After saying that, the little girl didn't care about Lin Jianguo's reaction, put on her shoes and ran outside.

Lin Jianguo was stunned.

make money?

Where can I make money in this desolate wilderness?

"Hey! Zhaodi! Don't run around!"

Lin Jianguo quickly grabbed his crutches (he wasn't wearing his exoskeleton that night) and limped after him.

At this moment, the heavy equipment workshop on the east side of the base was brightly lit.

A group of technicians in blue overalls were pacing around a huge machine, looking worried.

It was a Soviet-made five-axis CNC machine tool.

It was as big as an elephant, and its whole body gleamed with a cold, metallic sheen.

This is the base's prized possession; it's the core equipment used to process precision missile parts.

But six months ago, when the Soviet expert left, the machine broke down.

No matter how I try to fix it, I can't get it fixed.

It seems that the control system inside has been tampered with, or that some key component is missing.

Chen Zhiyuan was squatting next to the machine tool, holding a blueprint in his hand, and had pulled out several strands of his hair.

"Old Chen, it still doesn't work."

An old technician next to him sighed and threw the wrench in his hand to the ground.

"These foreign devils' things are too complicated."

"We dare not dismantle it, for fear we won't be able to put it back together."

"If this can't be fixed, we won't be able to manufacture the missile guidance head, and the project will be stuck here!"

Chen Zhiyuan gritted his teeth, his eyes bloodshot.

"We have to fix it, even if it can't be fixed!"

"That's the lifeblood of our country!"

"I refuse to believe that a living person can die from holding in their pee!"

That's what he said, but he wasn't really sure himself.

This thing involves sophisticated hydraulic transmission and electronic control, which is a field that even he, a mechanician, doesn't quite understand.

Just when a group of grown men were feeling gloomy and depressed.

A small head peeked in through the workshop door.

Zhao Di came running in, panting, still wearing that floral cotton-padded jacket, her hair all messy.

"grandfather!"

Zhao Di called out.

When Chen Zhiyuan turned around and saw that it was Zhao Di, his bitter face instantly relaxed.

"Oh my, my little darling, what are you doing here?"

"This place is all metal; what if we bump into something?"

Chen Zhiyuan quickly stood up, wanting to carry Zhao Di out.

Zhao Di, however, did not let him hug her.

She took short strides and walked straight to the huge machine tool.

She tilted her little head back, looking at the "giant iron elephant" that was several times taller than her.

In Zhao Di's eyes, this was not a machine tool at all.

The system's scanning interface is now open.

The entire machine tool was transformed into a semi-transparent three-dimensional model.

The inside is covered with a dense array of red and green lines.

Deep inside the machine tool, a blinding red light was flashing.

The system said that was the place where it was "sick".

"grandfather."

Zhao Di stretched out her little finger and pointed at the big guy.

He spoke in a childish voice, yet with unusual firmness.

"This big iron elephant is sick."

"Its tummy hurts."

“Zhao Di can cure its illness.”

Chen Zhiyuan was stunned.

The group of technicians around were also stunned.

If other children said this, they would probably think it was just innocent childish talk and would be appeased with a piece of candy.

But this is Zhao Di!

It's Zhao Di, the one who drew the exoskeleton blueprints, grew super wheat, and spotted the aircraft malfunction at a glance!

Chen Zhiyuan's heart skipped a beat.

He crouched down, bringing his line of sight to Zhao Di's.

His voice was trembling slightly.

"Zhao Di...can you really cure him?"

Zhao Di nodded.

"Mmm!"

"Just get the bad bugs out of your belly."

"Grandpa, let me try."

"I want to earn points to buy medicine for my father."

Zhao Di spoke those last words very softly.

But Chen Zhiyuan heard it.

His eyes instantly reddened.

This child...

This child's heart is filled with nothing but her father!

"good!"

Chen Zhiyuan slapped his thigh and stood up.

He glanced around at the dumbfounded technicians.

Shout loudly:

"What are you all standing there for?!"

"Get Zhao Di the tools!"

"What we old guys can't handle, our little lucky star might just be able to do!"