Village chief, your township enterprise sells laser cannons?

Chapter 38 Oh no! The spectrometer is broken!

At booth number 130, the person closest to Qin Zheng was a young woman who looked to be in her early twenties. At that moment, she was holding a QR code sign in her left hand and a mobile phone in her right hand, and she was standing on tiptoe looking at the crowd.

Upon hearing Qin Zheng's question, he turned around abruptly and handed the QR code to her: "Hello, uncle, could you help me complete this task?"

The young girl's eyes widened, her eyes watery. Qin Zheng was reminded of her own disobedient daughter, who looked just like that when she asked for money or did something wrong.

He sighed and nodded: "Mm..."

The next second, the young woman pushed the QR code forward a little more: "Follow our official WeChat account. By following our official WeChat account, you can earn points by checking in every day, and you can use those points to redeem rewards."

"As for that booth you asked about..."

The voice paused there. The young woman looked around and, noticing no one was watching, leaned forward a little more: "According to our boss's information, the owner of booth number 134 is a young master."

"It seems like people come here just to make a name for themselves, then sell their stuff at a high price and make money off the books."

"Then they made a laser cannon that could melt through a 5mm steel plate in 5 seconds at a distance of 5 kilometers, a piece of metal that they insisted was metallic hydrogen, and a battery that could store 7.1 kWh of electricity per kilogram."

"Our boss even said this was done too sloppily, and that the owner of this place is definitely from the north."

"Only northerners do things this sloppily!"

Qin Zheng wholeheartedly agreed with the young woman's words; indeed, only people from the North would be so rough around the edges.

He took out his phone again and glanced at the new message from the student. The new message was a photo of a silver-white metal piece, which was casually placed on the counter.

There was no lid, and no protective measures whatsoever.

If it were truly metallic hydrogen, this thing would have exploded by now.

He sighed, turned around and started following the official WeChat account, tinkering with it as instructed by the booth staff.

At the same time, don't forget to prick up your ears and listen to what's happening around you.

He was curious to see how this amusing incident would end once it spread.

Besides doing scientific research, we still need to find some recreational activities.

Lin Man was very satisfied to see this huge crowd at booth number 134 next door.

He pulled a small mirror out of his pocket, checked his appearance, and after confirming that he was even more handsome than Daniel Wu, he put the mirror away and naturally greeted the large group of people:

"Hello everyone, to those attending the exhibition and to those who saw me on the internet through their phones!"

"Welcome everyone to booth number 134 at the Guangzhou Military-Civilian Dual-Use Technology and Equipment Exhibition. Now, please allow me to introduce the products we are exhibiting."

"The first product is our high-energy laser defense system. Although the vehicle looks a bit ugly, that's not what we're talking about. It's just a vehicle. If you don't like the vehicle's appearance, we can sell you just the laser system. You can even have it towed by a motorcycle."

"You could also replace the motorcycle with a tractor, or even a handcart."

"Because a standalone laser defense system weighs only 300 kilograms."

"Our laser head uses unique technology that can emit laser power of up to 1.5 megawatts in an instant."

"It can melt through a 5-millimeter-thick steel plate in 5 seconds at a distance of 5 kilometers."

"The venue is too small, so we won't be doing the tests. We'll post the relevant test videos on our Douyin account tonight."

"Our company's account name is Hongxing Information Technology Co., Ltd. You can follow us."

"Now let me demonstrate how to operate it..."

Just as Lin Man was about to turn around to operate the laser defense system, a voice came from the counter on his left:

"Could you explain what this metal is like?"

He turned around and saw that the speaker was a middle-aged man in his thirties. The man had an action camera hanging around his neck and a Bluetooth microphone next to his mouth. The phone on his right selfie stick was obviously live streaming.

As for the live stream camera, it had already turned to metallic hydrogen beside Lin Man when Lin Man looked at the middle-aged man.

Lin Man looked over and saw the middle-aged man also give him a smile, a gloating smile.

In his eyes, Lin Man saw a thirst for online traffic.

Even the best wine needs advertising; who doesn't crave attention?

Lin Man smiled slightly, bent down and took out a brand new handsaw from under the counter, then picked up the piece of metallic hydrogen on the counter and started sawing.

In just a few minutes, the fist-sized piece of metallic hydrogen was transformed into seven or eight metal ingots the size of a little fingertip.

Then Lin Man picked up one of the pieces and handed it directly to the middle-aged man who had spoken earlier, then pointed to his right:

"At booth number 127 over there, their main product is a portable spectrometer, and there are also metal phase meters at the surrounding booths."

"You can take it to them and have them test it for you, and check out the quality of their products while you're at it."

After the middle-aged man took the small piece of metal with a bewildered look, Lin Man reached out and gently patted his shoulder, admonishing him like an elder, "Go have fun, but be careful!"

After speaking with the middle-aged man, he grabbed the remaining pieces and handed them to the people around him, saying, "Anyone else want to play? Come and get one from me!"

In addition to buyers and sellers, a large number of tourists also attend these exhibitions.

Buyers want to buy equipment, and sellers want to sell equipment; they're not particularly interested in this kind of thing.

The most annoying thing is for tourists. They take something from one booth and then go to another booth to have it tested. This kind of thing happens only once in hundreds of years.

Now that we've encountered this opportunity, we have to have a blast!

"I want!"

"Give it to me! Give it to me!"

"Give me one!"

Qin Zheng's student squeezed to the front of the crowd, received a piece the size of a fingernail from Lin Man, glanced at it, stuffed it into his pocket, and turned to squeeze out of the crowd.

As soon as he squeezed out of the crowd, he saw Qin Zheng beside him. The two quickly went over and pulled out the metal from their pockets like treasures:

"Teacher, we got a piece of metal from that person. Let's go play with it over there."

Qin Zheng finally finished filling out the content for the public account and completed the task assigned by the young girl. Hearing the student say this, he quickly took out some toilet paper from his pocket, took the silver metal from the student's hand, and wrapped it in the toilet paper.

He squeezed it with his hand through the toilet paper to feel its weight, studied it for a while, then looked up at his student: "You're just holding this thing with your bare hands?"

His student nodded calmly: "The staff member at booth number 134 kept holding this thing in his hand, and he even sawed it open just now."

"It feels very light when you hold it; it feels like a compound of magnesium and other things."

"There's a spectrometer at booth 127 over there. We'd like to go over there and test it out, just for fun."

Upon hearing this, Qin Zheng squeezed the metal block in her hand again; this thing didn't seem to be magnesium.

It's more like beryllium, but the weight doesn't quite match.

The people at booth 127 had also heard some rumors. The moment the three of them took out the metal block, the staff at the booth took the metal block and placed it under their flagship product—a handheld XRF spectrometer—and started the spectrometer.

but……

The spectrometer's detection indicator light flashed several times, but the spectrometer's display screen remained completely blank, empty of everything.

The staff member holding the spectrometer blinked, then awkwardly hid it behind his back.

Qin Zheng's students also looked at the staff at this moment:

"Is this thing broken?"