“To get into the Academy of Sciences, you must pass three major examinations: basic circuits, basic physics, and basic chemistry.”

“At the same time, in front of the examiners and within six hours, you must personally build a technological item, which carries an important weighting in the score.”

“I can teach you how to make things, but the exam...”

The three basic examinations were roughly at the level of an ordinary university graduate.

Back then, after hearing this news, Su Mo had even thought of taking the exam himself to see whether he could get in.

But after learning that the maximum age limit was twenty, he gave up the idea.

Of course, learning all three subjects by twenty was surely difficult.

Fortunately, there was no passing line. The exams were used only for scoring.

As long as the three scores were added up and multiplied by the weighting coefficient of the item at the end, and the final result ranked within the top sixty, one could enter the Academy.

“Brother Su, I have no problem with the exam. All I need is for you to teach me to build one item with a high coefficient!”

Though he had just been knocked down, Zhang Bowen still looked full of drive.

Seeing this look, Su Mo pondered for a while, and a flash of inspiration suddenly struck him.

Why not teach this Zhang Bowen and let him make the energy stone tool himself?

In the morning, when Bowen wasn’t there, Su Mo could go all out on developing the portable armor.

And when Bowen came in the afternoon, Su Mo could hand him the energy stone tool design step by step to try making.

With two lines running together, he could finish the teaching and also repay the favor of these tools and materials, without delaying anything.

His mind made up, Su Mo said clearly, “All right. This afternoon you start by learning some basic operating techniques with me. Tomorrow I’ll give you a corner of space, and you’ll learn while making things alongside me.”

“Okay!”

Setting everything else aside, Zhang Bowen’s attitude would satisfy any teacher.

Throughout the afternoon, while Su Mo was teaching, Zhang Bowen’s mother, Ju Yunxiang, also found time to come over once.

Seeing her son so absorbed and enchanted by what he was learning from Su Mo, she nodded in satisfaction.

“Young man, work hard. Our Zizai Liang Lane will not treat you unfairly.”

“When we get through this difficulty, I’ll make the decision and have the old man hire you on a lifetime basis!”

“Auntie, don’t worry. I’ll definitely teach Bowen well.”

The whole Zhang family, from top to bottom, seemed remarkably calm.

There was no sign at all that Zizai Liang Lane had reached a crisis of life and death.

But with watchers outside, Su Mo’s own situation was not much better, so he naturally had no mind to worry about these things.

Six in the afternoon.

After assigning Zhang Bowen homework for after class and seeing him off, Su Mo finally had time to concentrate on researching the armor’s construction.

The casing material.

From the materials list for Zhang Min, Su Mo finally chose Grade-3 flexible alloy as the main material.

It was not cheap. One kilogram cost six thousand points, and by a preliminary estimate of five kilograms, that was thirty thousand points straight away.

But the high price came with excellent performance: it could hard-resist the impact of large-caliber bullets for a short time and help absorb part of the kinetic energy.

All it needed was a replaceable energy-dissipating plate installed on the inside to deal, to a certain degree, with the threat of long-range exchanges of fire.

Weapon selection.

Given how strictly the territory currently controlled armed equipment, Su Mo finally settled on a three-step weapon plan.

First, install two medium-caliber rifles and develop a matching module that could reload automatically.

Second, install a high-pressure gun that could spray smoke to hide his figure for a short time.

Third, install a high-strength cutting blade that could use the compression property of the energy stone to briefly spray out a plasma beam, cutting through any object whose strength was below Grade-7 alloy.

These three weapons were cheap to build and could basically handle the situation at hand.

As for more, it would not be too late to think of ways to add components later, when he had money or new technology.

Power.

Building a flying armor like Iron Man’s Mark suit was naturally impossible for now, limited by constraints on every side.

But strong mobility on land was not difficult.

By adding two power outputs on the back and two more on the legs, he could basically achieve movement and repositioning within a small range.

“Everything is ready, only the east wind is missing.”

“Tonight I’ll work overtime and draw up a design first, and see whether the system can be upgraded!”

Outside the room there were watchers following like shadows.

Going home was, in fact, not as safe as staying here and working overtime in this room.

He called over an idle attendant of the lane and had him carry a message to Huang Xiaojuan, then Su Mo returned to the workroom and locked the door.

And as he sat down, even Su Mo himself did not realize it.

How terrifying an impact everything he was about to do would set off in the future!

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