Chapter 66 System: Build me a giant black fish!
Professor Liang's bow completely stunned the shipyard technicians.
Even the chief engineer is convinced, so who would dare to cause trouble?
Zhao Di suddenly became the little princess of the shipyard.
Wherever I went, people offered me water, fanned me, and even secretly slipped me cookies.
Professor Liang kept his promise and had the logistics department purchase a huge bag of White Rabbit milk candy, a truly "giant" version, weighing a full five pounds!
Zhao Di hugged the candy bag, which was bigger than her head, and was so happy that her eyes were practically closed with her grin.
She felt she had found another great place.
Although the people here speak in strange ways, they are very kind to give you candy.
Just as Zhao Di was happily peeling the candy wrapper, the system in her mind joined in the fun.
[Ding! Mission complete!]
The stubborn old man has been won over; his favorability has increased by 10086.
[Current map detected: Southern Coastline.]
[A technological gap has been detected: Deep-sea deterrence is zero.]
[Triggering the main quest: Deep Sea Ghost.]
[Mission Description: In the ocean of this world, many bad dogs are running amok in their big black fish. We can't just watch; we have to build one too!]
[Task Requirements: Make a large black fish toy that can swim underwater continuously without needing to breathe and runs extremely fast.]
[Mission Rewards: Miniature Nuclear Reactor Blueprints (Naval Version) + A Box of Chocolates.]
This time, the system learned its lesson and stopped using technical jargon, directly using "big black fish toy" to fool children.
Zhao Di's eyes lit up even more when she heard "big black fish".
"Uncle, can you catch crabs with a big black fish?"
Yes! Not only can it catch crabs, but it can also capsize those naughty dogs' boats!
The system guides and instructs patiently.
However, this large black carp is difficult to cook; it requires very hard bones.
[Host, look at that pile of scrap metal.]
The system marked a large red circle on Zhao Di's retina around the pile of scrap steel that looked like a small mountain in the distance.
There are some things there that, although they look worn and tattered, can still be used after washing.
Go, Pikachu! Go collect junk!
Zhao Di crunched the candy in her mouth.
She shoved the bag of candy into Lin Jianguo's arms and clapped her little hands.
"Daddy, I want to go pick up trash!"
Lin Jianguo was bragging to Zhao Tiezhu about what had just happened when he heard his daughter's words and almost bit his tongue.
"What? Picking up trash?"
“Daughter, we have candy to eat now, we don’t need to collect garbage to exchange for money anymore.”
“It’s not for exchanging money!” Zhao Di shook her head seriously. “It’s for making bones for the big black fish!”
"The fairy uncle said there's treasure in that garbage dump!"
After saying that, she didn't care whether the adults agreed or not, and ran towards the pile of waste with her short little legs.
Lin Jianguo and Chen Zhiyuan exchanged a glance.
Well, this little devil is up to his old tricks again.
"Keep up! Keep up!" Chen Zhiyuan's hands were trembling with excitement. "Last time she found a nuclear battery while picking up trash, who knows, she might find an aircraft carrier this time!"
A group of people followed Zhao Di closely behind.
Professor Liang, disregarding any pretense of being the chief engineer, eagerly followed along.
The scrap heap was full of rusty steel plates, cut-off scraps, and discarded parts.
It was dirty and smelled of engine oil.
Zhao Di didn't mind at all.
She scurried in and out of the room like a hardworking little groundhog.
"This! This is hard!"
Zhao Di struggled to drag out a rusty steel pipe.
"This one! This one is round!"
He picked up another broken gear.
"And this! This board is so heavy!"
She pointed to a black steel plate that was half buried in the ground, her face flushed red, but she couldn't move it.
Lin Jianguo quickly went up to help.
As soon as he started working on it, he sensed something was wrong.
This steel plate doesn't look big, but it's incredibly heavy!
It is at least twice as heavy as a regular steel plate of the same size!
Professor Liang leaned closer for a look, and his eyes widened instantly.
With trembling hands, he scratched at the rust with his fingernail, revealing a dull metallic luster underneath.
"This...this is a fragment of special pressure-resistant steel left behind by the old brother!"
"This is a treasure! When they left, they said they would take everything with them, but I never expected that one piece would be left behind here!"
“And this!” Professor Liang picked up the broken gear. “This is a scrap part from a precision drive shaft. Although it’s broken, the material is top-grade nickel-chromium alloy!”
Professor Liang became increasingly alarmed as he looked at the document.
Is this little girl picking up trash?
This is clearly a treasure hunt in this pile of garbage!
Every item she picked up was either made of a special material or had an ingenious structure.
Not a single one was truly defective!
"Wonderful! Absolutely wonderful!"
Professor Liang watched Zhao Di bustling around in that pile of junk, his eyes filled with fervor.
"She's picking out the materials! She's relying on her intuition to choose the most suitable materials for making that 'big black fish' thing!"
"Although I don't understand what this 'big black fish' she's talking about is, it must be a formidable creature!"
Zhao Di had been busy for a long time, and her little face was covered in black and gray, turning her into a little tabby cat.
She arranged the things she had picked up on the ground in a row.
There were steel pipes, gears, steel plates, and several broken cables.
It looks messy and chaotic, like a junk exhibition.
But in Zhao Di's mind, the system had already scanned and modeled these things, and automatically generated an extremely complex assembly diagram.
Not bad, not bad. Although they're all scraps, we can still manage to piece together a basic frame.
[Host, now that we have bones, we also need skin.]
That big black fish needs to go into very, very deep water; if its skin isn't strong, it will be flattened.
Just like a flattened soda can.
Zhao Di immediately tensed up when she heard that she would be flattened.
"What should we do then?"
"The sheet metal here isn't very sturdy; even Grandpa's boat has holes in it."
So we have to make the leather ourselves.
The system said mysteriously.
Do you remember the last time you made medicine for Dad?
Let's make an even bigger soup this time!
Let's throw all this junk into the pot and make a super, incredibly firm soup!
Zhao Di tilted her head and thought for a moment.
She knows how to make soup!
Isn't it just adding water and ingredients and then starting a fire?
That's easy!
She stood up, dusted off her hands, and spoke loudly to the experts who were studying the pile of junk:
"That's not enough!"
"I want to make soup!"
"I'm going to boil all these iron blocks into a delicious soup!"
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