Had there been too many eye-opening moments today?
After all these years, Shi Ran had never known that his Fourth Brother possessed the talent of a deadpan comedian.
The joke was just so cold that no one could laugh.
As an engineer, Shi Ran had risen to the crucial position of deputy director of Renewed Glory's R&D department. He had not gotten there solely through his family's support and arrangements. Naturally, he could see just how insignificant the gap was between a so-called heavy exoskeleton assistance system and actual Powered Armor! It was like going to the countryside to help with farming, only to discover the locals using old main battle tanks as harvesters.
You could not claim that something had nothing to do with Powered Armor just because it plugged into the wall and lacked a military-grade armored engine.
Brother, wasn't that courage of yours a little outrageously excessive?
"Uh... no one does anything about this?"
"Who would? The Military Department?"
Shi Long, walking ahead, laughed at that and cast him a meaningful glance. "Don't go getting everyone in trouble so that no one can make any money."
Everyone knew that Coast Industry and Tide Sound Military Industry had always maintained a relationship that was two yet one, one yet two. Though they were now entirely different companies, their operations, manufacturing, and even logistics remained intricately interconnected.
Sometimes, there were things Tide Sound could not conveniently do, orders it could not conveniently take, and goods it could not conveniently sell. Someone always had to handle them. As far as Shi Long knew, Coast now even had a rather famous "firefighting team" within the industry—a highly professional engineering crew with an excellent reputation in equipment maintenance, inventory refurbishment, long-term Central Earth deployments, and more.
They were stable, convenient, and efficient,