Chapter 244 The Bet, Do You Remember? "I..." Gao Kai was speechless after being scolded, his face turning red and white in turns, only then realizing that he had lost his composure in front of his teacher.
Su Tang remained silent throughout.
She simply stood there quietly, her gaze fixed on the Type 54 pistol that Gao Kai had just assembled.
Then, she extended two slender, fair fingers, her index and middle fingers together, and gently tapped the back of the gun's slide.
"Click".
A very faint, almost inaudible metallic sound of metal shifting was heard.
The voice was so soft that Wang Jin and Li Xiangyun couldn't hear it at all. They just thought Su An's action was inexplicable and deliberately mysterious.
But Gao Kai's pupils suddenly contracted.
He understands what others don't.
That's the sound of parts being guided back to their "incorrect" positions by external forces due to uneven stress between them!
Su Tang withdrew her hand, her voice still calm and even, yet it was like the sharpest scalpel, dissecting his last shred of dignity, slice by slice.
"In your pursuit of that fraction of a second of speed, you used too much force during the return stroke of the sleeve."
"This caused a 0.3-millimeter misalignment between the latch at the end of the recoil spring guide rod and the groove behind the barrel extension."
Gao Kai's face turned pale instantly.
In the final stages of assembly, amidst the cheers around him, he indeed used brute force to install the sleeve in order to gain those fractions of a second.
At that moment, he did feel a slight, almost negligible, sense of stagnation.
But his desire for victory made him act like a gambler blinded by greed, causing him to ignore everything else.
He thought that as long as the assembly was complete and he could lift the gun, he would win.
He thought that he would get away with it and no one would find out!
Su Tang didn't stop; her cold gaze, like an X-ray, stared directly at Gao Kai's bloodless face.
"This error is very small and will not affect your ability to complete the assembly process, or even your ability to pull the sleeve and hang the machine with the empty chamber."
As she spoke, she raised her hand and made a pulling motion, her posture as perfect as a textbook example.
"but……"
"As soon as it is loaded with live ammunition and the first bullet is fired, the slide will jam severely at the moment of recoil due to this 0.3 millimeter misalignment."
"If you're unlucky that day, or if the primer charge of this batch of ammunition is slightly too large..."
Su Tang paused, looking at Gao Kai's face, which had completely lost all color, and softly uttered the last few words.
"It will explode."
The barrel exploded!
Wang Jin and the others were completely confused. They didn't understand anything about mortises or joints, but they did understand the word "burst"!
For a soldier, for a gun mechanic, they know better than anyone what this means!
The anger on Old Man Sun's face vanished instantly, replaced by an unprecedented horror.
He strode forward, picked up the gun that Gao Kai had assembled, put on his reading glasses, and examined it carefully under the light.
In the workshop, only the heavy breathing of old man Sun remained.
With each of Old Man Sun's movements, Gao Kai's heart sank deeper and deeper into an abyss.
He knew that Su An was telling the truth.
But he still clung to a sliver of hope: What if? What if she was bluffing? What if that feeling of unease was just his imagination?
She didn't even touch my gun, she just glanced at it from that distance and tapped it. How could she... how could she know everything?
Is this...is this even human?!
"Damn it..."
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