Chapter 1823 - 937: Thunderous Victory and Defeat

"With so many plans, all of them have been validated in reality, and we have tested for so long, how could there be noticeable defects?

But the one that just passed was different..."

Shi Ran shook his head with a sigh, as an engineer, the helplessness he felt at this moment was real: "It's like, both scored ninety, you scored ninety because the answers in the book only reached ninety.

Others scored ninety because they evaluated the cost-effectiveness and deliberately removed the unnecessary ten... Well, can you understand it this way?"

Can you?

Shi Long certainly couldn't understand at all!

Shi Ran had to rack his brains and spend some effort explaining meticulously.

Whether it's an electric fan or a bicycle, even small electric scooters, drones, and off-road vehicles... the industry consensus on the Coast's characteristics today is extreme cost-effectiveness, even perfect completion!

Even if there are defects, they are compromises made considering costs and patents, not unnoticed hidden dangers.

In some situations, they even directly reference existing cases from competitors, learn and optimize, then use mature patents to block the competitors' follow-up upgrade plans...

The Coast is very skilled at this!

Up to now, the products from Xinyuan and Echo are still being crazily targeted in this way.

Putting oneself in the shoes of those companies' R&D departments, Shi Ran has an urge to die.

It's not easy to live!

"Alright, had your fun, let's go!"

Shi Ran drank a large bottle of water in one go, sweating profusely, ready to go back for a shower and rest a while, only to see his brother with a playful expression.

"You think I called you here to see this?"

Shi Long beckoned, walking ahead: "Follow me, better hurry, if we're late, even the VIP passage might have a queue..."

Shi Ran followed him blankly, traversing the venue, along the way seeing more and more people, with the line outside the venue nearly reaching the entrance.

Just entering the venue, he heard thunderous shouts.

It felt like entering a stadium, with a layer of rubber track on the ground, and once they were seated, looking around, he found that besides tourists from Central City, there were many settlers from the Wilderness.

Everyone was beaming as if it were a holiday, with many from the same settlement holding banners, shouting the same name, and cheering continuously!

In the subsequent short time, those seated in the VIP stands were all acquaintances from the industry, with quite a few old friends of Shi Ran.

Different from the excitement, curiosity, or anticipation in the audience seats, the best viewing VIP stands had instead a solemn and somewhat somber atmosphere.

"Hai Province... Disabled... Games... Marathon Special Competition?"

Shi Ran saw the words appearing on the big screen and almost spit out his soda, coughing without stopping... No, brother? What kind of hell joke is this?!

Even if you craftsmen have low standards, it can't be this low, right?

And the figures walking from the contestant's passage made him completely silent—some tall, some short, some male some female, varying in skin color and age, even fourteen or fifteen-year-old teens and fifty-year-old ladies.

More than thirty contestants who passed the preliminaries, all from different settlements in the Wilderness, the only similarity being their disabilities.

Some were missing just one foot, while others had no lower body at all.

Now, all missing parts were replaced by various mechanical devices.

Using materials provided by the organizers, within the rules, each different participating team designed, tested, and completed the assembly in three days, allowing them to stand on the field like able-bodied people.

Moving freely.

Even before the competition started, someone had already run off the track, walked to the edge, and waved to their supportive family and friends.

So agile.

"..."

In the long silence, Shi Ran took a deep breath, unable to control the shivering thrill of his hair standing on end, whispered: "Is this the main event?"

On the VIP stands, faces of practitioners looked grave, most subconsciously picked up their phones to send messages, lowered their voices to report to the other end.

Some even decided not to wait for the competition to start and left.

Indeed, there was no need to watch anymore...

The upcoming performance time was left for the audience to watch the spectacle and display.

As an engineer, as long as one sees these contestants' performance and actions when they enter the stage, one can somewhat understand how terrifying the breakthroughs and innovations behind this are.

Even online, the Coast's livestream viewing numbers started to erupt like a volcano.

The audience attracted by this hellish joke-like title were all stunned, almost unable to see the scene clearly through the dense barrage.

Under the event camera lens, each contestant and the various styled prosthetics on them were given close-ups, with age, conditions, settlement of origin, and team affiliation displayed on the big screen.

Almost every time a close-up appeared, the stands would erupt with cheers and shouts.