A nation's industrial development begins with junior engineers.

Chapter 1043 Uh, overestimated!

"What the hell!"

"Electronic components!"

Before he could finish speaking, Xiao Cheng felt the hard object in his pocket pressing uncomfortably against his thigh, and thought he should get rid of it as soon as possible.

His right hand deftly reached into his bulging trouser pocket, pulled out a heavy, slender cylinder with a dull metallic sheen, and tossed it onto the velour seat of the passenger side with a "thud," like throwing a piece of scrap lead, with a slight bounce.

"Here, isn't this what you asked me to pick up? Why didn't you take it? I'll leave it here with you, you can keep it! It saves me the trouble. You have a car, right?"

Xiao Cheng clapped his hands, looking relaxed as if he had completed his mission and was about to hand it over.

This series of movements was so fluid and natural, it was as easy as offering a cigarette.

Liu Yuncang froze in the driver's seat, not even having time to retract his left foot.

His eyes widened, staring intently at the cold metal object on the seat. His mind went blank for a moment, followed by an explosion of boundless fear and a sense of absurdity!

“You…you motherfucker…” Liu Yuncang’s voice became shrill and distorted.

He pointed at Xiao Cheng, his fingers trembling, "Who told you to take it out? Who told you to give it to me! Are you crazy!"

The veins on his neck bulged: "Don't you know the rules?! My orders were to take you to dig a hole! I didn't ask you where you came from, what you did, or what you brought, and I can't ask you!"

This is the fundamental ironclad rule of single-line!

And you just threw this thing into my car?

"If I even glance at what you brought, maybe...maybe Team Leader Zhang will 'deal with' it! You're trying to get me killed! You idiot!"

"I actually agreed to let you go tomorrow! Don't you know that teacher surnamed Zhang is a ruthless killer?!"

"Hey! Why are you so nervous? Didn't you say it's just parts for radios?" Xiao Cheng was startled and took a step back, instinctively crouching down with his hands on his head in defense. But he still tried to defend himself.

"Component?"

Liu Yuncang was too lazy to waste any more words on this idiot. He glared at him fiercely, his gaze unconsciously sweeping over the object that had been thrown onto the passenger seat.

It was long and slender, with a cold, hard metallic sheen, and a small copper connector at the end. It looked somewhat familiar, as if I had seen it somewhere before, but I couldn't quite place it.

Do radio stations have such parts?

wrong……

Liu Yuncang recalled that he seemed to have encountered something similar in a crash course for technology. The instructor from the Bald Eagle University had placed it on the podium, quite a distance away...

Oh, I remember now, isn't this an M6 standard electric detonator?

No, this one is a bit bigger; it looks like an enhanced version.

Ok?

Mmm! Mmm! Mmm! Mmm!

I'm so angry!

Just as Liu Yuncang finally figured out what this thing was, the slender metal tube lying on the soft velvet seat experienced extremely subtle but just-right friction between its end and the velvet fibers due to the throwing and slight bounce.

A faint blue spark, almost imperceptible to the naked eye, suddenly appeared between the copper connector and the velvet cloth with a "crack"!

"Fuck!!!"

Liu Yuncang roared and almost scrambled to open the car door, throwing himself to the side and crashing heavily to the ground, while also rolling twice away from the car.

The moment he landed, the component suddenly exploded with a muffled "boom"!

The flames flashed and disappeared in an instant, and thick smoke and the acrid smell of gunpowder filled the car!

A charge equivalent to 0.8 grams of TNT might only produce a loud bang in an open space, but in the relatively enclosed space inside a car, its shock wave and fragmentation effect are amplified many times over!

"Bang! Crash—!!"

The passenger-side window was hit first, and under the combined effect of the shock wave and tiny metal fragments, it instantly shattered into countless sharp pieces, shooting out like a rainstorm into and out of the car!

The driver's side window was also covered with spiderweb-like cracks and looked like it was about to shatter.

Inside the carriage, the velour seats were blown open with charred holes, the stuffing was ripped out, the interior panels were a mess, and smoke filled the air.

"Ugh—!"

Although most of Liu Yuncang's body had already thrown out of the car, one of his arms, which had not yet been fully retracted, was exposed in the direction of the driver's side window.

Several sharp-edged shards of glass flew past like knives, embedding themselves deeply into his forearm and the back of his hand, causing blood to gush out immediately.

More shards struck his back and the car door with a crackling sound. A wave of scorching heat, mixed with acrid gunpowder smoke, billowed from the car door, scorching Liu Yuncang's hair and the hem of his clothes.

Outside the car, when Liu Yuncang suddenly roared in fury, "Don't you know the rules?!" the stern tone and furious expression instantly triggered a switch of fear in Xiao Cheng's mind...

The team leader, Zhang, who gave him the short-term "training"!

Every time he was clumsy and failed to meet the requirements, Team Leader Zhang would reprimand him in this tone, and then the leather belt would be lashed down mercilessly, causing him to instinctively cover his head and dodge.

At this moment, although it was Liu Yuncang who spoke, the similar furious tone made Xiao Cheng react almost subconsciously—as Liu Yuncang slammed the car door and lunged out, Xiao Cheng also cried out "Ouch!" and suddenly covered his head with his hands, squatting down and shrinking into the smallest possible ball, burying his head deep between his knees.

Crouch down with your hands behind your head to prevent this from happening!

This awkward posture, born of fear and "post-training syndrome," has now become his life-saving talisman.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh…!

Most of the glass shards that shot out of the car windows flew slightly higher.

By crouching down and covering his head, Xiao Cheng managed to lower his most vital organs—his head and torso—below the trajectory of most of the flying debris!

Only a few low-lying fragments and some loose items from inside the car blown out by the blast hit his back, shoulders, and buttocks, tearing his clothes and causing a stinging pain, but none of them were fatal.

After the explosion, there was a brief silence, broken only by the faint sound of shards of glass falling.

“Exploded…exploded?”

Trembling, Xiao Cheng looked at the smoking car and the injured Liu Yuncang, and finally realized that the "electronic components" he had thrown in seemed to be nothing good.