Chapter 205: Chapter 204: Dismantled the Courtyard House? Professor: Well Done, Do It Again!

Lin Wan Yi looked at the tiny, scattered parts laid out on the velvet cloth.

Golden gears.

Ruby bearings.

Hairspring as thin as a strand of hair.

This was not a pocket watch.

This was clearly a pile of expensive scrap metal.

Lin Wan Yi held her forehead.

She had some knowledge of antique watches, and this German-Italian Federation military pocket watch was worth enough to trade for a courtyard house in downtown Capital City.

Now, it had been dismantled by her six-month-old son.

In the crib, the culprit, Gu An, was already asleep.

His sleeping face was serene, his little mouth smacking twice.

As if the calm “master dismantler” just now wasn’t him.

Lin Wan Yi picked up a screw smaller than a grain of rice.

What to do?

Sell the ginseng in the Spiritual Spring Space to compensate?

She pressed her temples in frustration.

Forget it.

Even if the sky were to fall, I’ll deal with it in the morning.

…

The next day.

Just before dawn.

“Bang bang bang!”

The knocking sounded like the house was about to be torn down.

Lin Wan Yi had just finished feeding the two children and hadn’t yet dealt with the pile of “remains.”

Outside the door came the robust voice of Professor Liu.

“Xiao Lin! Open the door! I’ve come to pick up my treasure!”

Lin Wan Yi’s heart skipped a beat.

Fearing exactly what was anticipated.

She steeled herself, walked over, and opened the door.

Professor Liu, dressed primly in a Zhongshan suit with meticulously combed hair, wore an eager smile on his face.

Behind him stood Gu Lan, still bleary-eyed.

“Sister-in-law, Professor Liu was shouting downstairs before dawn, I couldn’t stop him,” Gu Lan said quietly.

Professor Liu ignored this.

He stepped into the house, his eyes scanning around intently.

“Where’s my watch? How did An An enjoy playing with it?”

His gaze landed on the table in the living room.

Then.

It froze.

The pile of parts on the table glistened coldly in the morning light.

The smile on Professor Liu’s face faded inch by inch.

Replaced by a deathly pallor.

His lips trembled, extending a shaking finger towards that pile of parts.

“This… this… this…”

He stumbled over words for a long while without completing a sentence.

With a “thud,” he collapsed onto a chair, clutching his chest.

His face turned from white to blue.

“Medicine… My medicine…” he gasped for air, like a fish out of water.

Gu Lan was terrified.

“Sister-in-law! Professor Liu, he…”

Lin Wan Yi panicked too, rushing to pour water.

At this time.

Gu An, who had been sitting in the stroller, expressionlessly watching everything,

Moved.

He extended his chubby little hand.

Pointed to a gear on the table, smaller than a fingernail.

Then, he pointed to the corner of the leather notebook sticking out of Professor Liu’s Zhongshan suit pocket, the one with the drool mark from yesterday.

“Click.”

He opened his mouth, making an extremely slight sound, imitating gears meshing.

“Click… click…”

Professor Liu, in his heartache, his eyes red,

“My watch! The one-of-a-kind piece I brought back from the German-Italian Federation!”

He didn’t notice the actions of a little baby.

But Lin Wan Yi understood.

Her son wasn’t messing around.

She walked over and pulled the leather notebook from Professor Liu’s pocket.

Opened it.

It was exactly the drawing of the incomplete gear set from yesterday.

The cycloidal tooth profile drawn by the drool mark was still clearly visible.

“Professor.”

Lin Wan Yi held the notebook in front of Professor Liu.

“Look.”

“Look at what! My heart is shattered! What is there to see!” Professor Liu was so angry he blew his beard out, his eyes glaring.

Yet his gaze involuntarily fell on it.

The diagram.

The small gear on the table.

And Gu An’s little finger, still pointing in the direction.

These three points formed a line.

Professor Liu’s mind buzzed.

It was like he had thought of something.

He stopped holding his chest.

Suddenly, he bounced up from the chair and rushed to the table.

He pulled a pocket magnifier from his pocket.

His hand shook, barely able to hold it steady.

He picked up the small gear indicated by Gu An and held it up to the magnifier.

With just one look.

All the blood in Professor Liu’s body rushed to his head.

He didn’t move.

Like a stone statue.

Gu Lan asked nervously, “Sister-in-law, what’s wrong with Professor Liu? Is he out of his mind?”

Lin Wan Yi shook her head, she couldn’t understand either.

Suddenly.

“Haha…”

Professor Liu let out a dry laugh.

Then.

“Hahahahahaha!”

He burst into an earth-shattering laugh.

Laughing so hard that tears sprang from his eyes.

He tossed the magnifying glass aside, rushed to the baby carriage, and lifted Gu An high, like holding a treasure.

He raised him high above his head.

“Genius!”

“Damn it, he’s a genius!”

This titan of the physics department was like a madman, spinning around in the room.

“Do you know!”

He pointed at the small gear on the table and shouted at the stunned Lin Wan Yi and Gu Lan.

“This watch’s original design has a flaw! The wear rate of this transmission gear is three percent higher than the normal value!”

“I’ve researched for ten years! Ten years without finding a perfect optimization plan!”

“This kid…”

Professor Liu excitedly kissed Gu An’s forehead.

“He’s not dismantling the watch!”

“He’s repairing it! He used his nails to grind a perfect angle on the worn surface of the gear!”

“He solved my problem…”

Lin Wan Yi and Gu Lan gaped.

With… nails?

Fixed the flaw in German precision instruments?

It sounded more absurd than a fairy tale.

“This watch!”

Professor Liu placed Gu An back in the baby carriage, waved his big hand, full of grandeur.

“It’s worthless now!”

“Compared to An An’s talent, it’s nothing!”

“It’s his! Just consider it a toy for him!”

He patted his chest.

“Dismantle! Dismantle at will! If it’s broken, I’ve still got more in my storage!”

“Suwei Federation’s precision gyroscope, Beautiful Country’s aviation slide rule, if he wants to dismantle them, I’ll get them for him!”

Lin Wan Yi hadn’t recovered from this massive turnaround.

There was another sarcastic voice at the door.

“Old Liu, screaming like a ghost early in the morning? Showing off your broken watch?”

Professor Wang from the Agricultural College walked in leisurely with his hands behind his back.

He originally came to see Gu Ning.

But as soon as he entered, he saw Professor Liu going crazy.

Professor Liu was overjoyed.

He exaggeratedly told the story, nearly wagging his tail up to the sky.

“See? Old Wang, this is talent!”

“The talent of our physicists!”

Professor Wang listened, pursing his lips.

He walked to the baby carriage without even glancing at the pile of parts.

He pulled a shiny object from the cloth bag he brought with him.

A surgical blade.

He shook it in front of Gu An.

Then.

He slowly took an apple out of his pocket.

“Swipe, swipe, swipe.”

With a few light cuts.

An entire apple turned into a delicate flower in his hands.

He handed the “apple flower” to Gu Ning.

“Ning Ning, see here, how’s your grandpa’s skill?”

Gu Ning laughed “giggle,” reaching out to grab it.

Only then did Professor Wang lift his head, glancing sideways at Professor Liu.

“Dismantling a broken watch, what’s so great about it?”

He snorted coldly.

“I dismantled things like those when I was young.”

Suddenly, his tone changed, voice rising sharply.

“If you’ve got the nerve, let him dismantle something alive!”

Professor Liu was unconvinced: “Something alive?”

Professor Wang spoke slowly.

“Our institute just imported a high-cost biological microscope from the German-Italian Federation.”

“The latest model.”

“Tomorrow!”

He made the decision.

“I’ll bring it over! Let An An dismantle it for fun!”

“…”

Lin Wan Yi held onto the wall.

Are these two old men insane?

One sends priceless antiques.

One wants to dismantle national key laboratory equipment.

Should she call the police and arrest these wasteful old men?

Just as Professor Liu and Professor Wang were fiercely arguing over “whose toy is more advanced.”

“Bang!”

The door was forcefully flung open from the outside.

A young man in blue overalls, covered in oil and sweat-drenched, dashed in.

It was Gu Yanshen’s technician, Jiang Zhou.

He looked pale, gasping for breath.

“Sister-in-law!”

Jiang Zhou’s voice was tinged with a sob.

“Something’s wrong!”

“The color TV factory’s display tube production line just imported from Germany…”

He shouted in despair.

“Blew up!”

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