Building Firearms

"Alright! Your Uncle Zhang happens to be visiting family these next few days. I'll invite him to dinner tomorrow. If what you made is useful, I can have Uncle Zhang get in touch with the military."

After thinking for quite a while, his father said this.

The "Uncle Zhang" he mentioned was one of his old classmates. He had joined the army back then and was doing quite well now, serving as a field-grade officer at Military Headquarters.

His father could not provide Chen Mu with any help regarding military industry. All he could do was seek out this old friend.

"Let's make the thing now. Tomorrow, I'll give it to Uncle Zhang and have him bring it back to the army for testing. If this gun is really useful, we can submit it directly. That'll clear us of any involvement."

"And you can get the Silk Banner you've been wishing for..."

At that, his father chuckled. In his view, he did not want to bother with any other consequences. As long as they cooperated with the authorities' arrangements, there would be no problem. Their family had always obeyed the law, so there was nothing else to worry about.

"Fine. I only need the title of 'genius,' anyway!"

Chen Mu nodded as he spoke.

"..."

After being a "good-for-nothing" for so many years, he was probably desperate to prove himself, wasn't he?

His father said nothing. He personally separated the blueprints for the various components into different parts, scrambled them, then divided them into ten sections and stored them on ten USB drives.

"Stay here for a while. I'll have someone make the parts. Don't cause trouble!"

His father rolled his eyes and spoke irritably.

Of course, deep down, he still had serious doubts. Chen Mu's design might not even be possible to manufacture.

It was only because the blueprints were so astonishingly detailed that he had no choice but to believe.

"No problem. I'll head back first. Also, when you give the item to Uncle Chen tomorrow, don't forget to tell him that guns made from the materials in your factory will definitely lack some power. Only firearms made with special alloy steel will have stronger performance."

To put it bluntly, he looked down on the factory's materials.

Although making firearms only required machine tools of average precision, the material used for the gun body was a major problem. The factory's ordinary materials naturally fell far short of the requirements for an improved M4, so its power would definitely be reduced.

Still, it was a firearm optimized by the Huaqiangbei System. Its power would not be much worse than that of ordinary firearms. Setting everything else aside, even the domestic Type 95 Rifle might not necessarily be better than it!

"You're looking down on my factory?"

Hearing that, his father put on an "angry" expression and glared at him.

In truth, firearm structures were not particularly complicated. Compared with electronic products like phones and computers, they were much simpler.

Aside from certain high-tech weapons, ordinary bullet-firing guns were extremely simple to manufacture. As long as one had a stamping machine, some relatively "old-fashioned" firearms could be produced.

Weapons such as the AK series were famous for their simple structures and were even easier to make.

Of course, the prerequisite for making these weapons was having complete blueprints. With detailed plans, producing them was not difficult.

A while ago, he had heard that blueprints for a "3D-Printed Plastic Gun" had circulated online. Some ordinary people had even been able to make a gun following the plans using nothing more than a household 3D printer.

Though it was made of plastic, it had every component a firearm should have. When loaded with real bullets, its power was no weaker than that of certain other handguns, and it had stirred up quite a discussion overseas.

Fortunately, the domestic internet had the Green Dam, and the Great River Crab blocked that sort of thing. Only a small number of curious people had downloaded the blueprints from abroad, so "3D-printed guns" had not spread very widely within the country.

This showed that manufacturing firearms was not actually very difficult.

Although his father's factory was not particularly large, it had all the necessary equipment. Producing some firearm components would not be much of a problem. As Chen Mu had said, there would only be a gap in materials, but that mainly affected the firearm's lifespan, weight, and handling. There would be no other major issues.

"..."

Rolling his eyes, Chen Mu did not pay it much mind and left directly.

His objective had already been achieved. In the future, he would introduce far more than just firearms—there would be even more high-tech weapons. He needed a "suitable" identity, so the identity of a "weapons genius" was indispensable.

He had come to the factory only to give his father an early warning, lest they be frightened later on.

Otherwise, when Chen Mu introduced things like the Iron Legion and the Super Soldier Serum, his parents might not be able to accept it all at once.

The Uncle Zhang his father had mentioned was actually an unexpected bonus. Chen Mu had still been worrying about how to establish contact with the military, yet his father had handed him a pleasant surprise.

However, Uncle Zhang's rank was not high, so it would take quite a long time to get any results. But Chen Mu had plenty of time.

"Tony hasn't become Iron Man yet. In fact, he was only captured by terrorists three days ago. If I remember correctly, Tony will be imprisoned in that cave for a week. In other words, he still has four days before he can escape."

Tony would not get out of danger until four days later, then he would need another day to return to America, followed by a whole mess of other matters. Even if he began researching the Iron Man armor that very night, it would still take at least several days to create the Mark II, right?

During this time, Chen Mu could analyze and research more technology, increasing his technological reserves.

The Huaqiangbei System's analytical and research capabilities only studied and modified existing items, storing their technology. Little Ai's database already contained quite a bit of technology.

Phones, computers, televisions, cars, sports cars, and firearms.

Each of those things contained a vast number of technologies. Any single one of them could be used to build a fortune. That was why Chen Mu did not care who the military factory belonged to.

Money? With so much technology at his disposal, did Chen Mu still need to make money by reselling arms?

"It's a shame there haven't been any technology exhibitions lately. Otherwise..."

Otherwise, by attending an exhibition, Chen Mu could silently obtain countless technologies!