“Go up and test how sturdy this thing is.”

“Go up? Me, go up?” Sun Quan pointed at the wooden tower, then at himself, looking incredulous.

“Who else?”

“Brother Zong, don’t mess with me. Don’t let my skinny looks fool you. I weigh a hundred forty-five pounds. If I crush this thing, I can’t put it back together!”

Sun Quan shook his head repeatedly and even took a step back, which drew laughter from Huang Xiaojuan, who had come over.

“Coward! How could anything my Brother Zong makes be so fragile? You wouldn’t even dare to try it.”

“Who says I wouldn’t dare? If I collapse it, your Brother Zong will come after me and beat me up!” Sun Quan shrank back, still unwilling to step forward. “If you want to try, you go!”

“Fine, I’ll try.” After getting Su Mo’s approval, Huang Xiaojuan raised her head and stepped forward under Sun Quan’s wide-eyed gaze.

Buzz.

A slightly lingering trembling sound rang out, and the wooden tower shook only slightly before it supported all the weight.

“Holy crap, it didn’t collapse?”

Sun Quan’s eyelids twitched. He quickly walked over, incredulous, and squatted down to examine the wooden pagoda.

“Holy crap, this thing can actually hold a person’s weight?”

Huang Xiaojuan weighed a little over a hundred pounds, which was not very heavy.

But that was only relative to other people.

Compared with this wooden tower, whose total weight was just over one kilogram, it was practically like a three-year-old child carrying a car on its back.

“All right, you go up too. Let me take a look!”

Su Mo watched the wooden tower change in real time and spoke without looking up.

This time Sun Quan hesitated only a moment before accepting the order and obediently stepping forward.

Buzz, buzz.

The wooden pagoda trembled noticeably louder this time, weighed down by two hundred forty pounds.

But its overall posture remained as steady as a rock.

“Youzong, your little thing is really sturdy. It didn’t collapse even with two people on it?” Wang Qian, who had been secretly watching from the courtyard wall, was also amazed to see the wooden tower remain stable with two people climbing it.

“It’s all right, Brother Wang. Why don’t you come and give it a try too?”

“Me too?” After receiving permission, Wang Qian hesitated a little in his words, but his body betrayed him completely.

He quickly took two steps at a time, walked over from the neighboring courtyard and stood up behind the other two.

Buzz, buzz, squeak, squeak...

Unlike Huang Xiaojuan and Sun Quan, Wang Qian had a solid build and weighed at least a hundred seventy pounds.

When he stood on it, the wooden tower no longer seemed so light and easy. It began to creak under the weight, as if it might collapse at any moment.

“The limit for the wooden tower is roughly between one hundred eighty and two hundred times.”

“Converted to alloy, it would probably be even stronger than it is now, perhaps three hundred times, or even five hundred times.”

After a moment’s thought, Su Mo decided to stop testing and beckoned the three of them down.

“I’m convinced, Brother Zong. I’m truly convinced.”

Looking at the wooden tower, perfectly intact and picked up again by Su Mo, Sun Quan murmured a few blank words.

“I’m impressed too.” Wang Qian, standing to the side, reacted no differently, also looking on with admiration.

In Huang Xiaojuan’s eyes, the wooden pagoda was probably just sturdy, and she could not see anything special about it.

But for the two who knew its significance, the value behind this thing was simply astounding!

A wooden tower weighing only one kilogram could have such load-bearing capacity.

What if they used iron instead? Or a more advanced alloy?

Wouldn’t that make them invincible?!

“Hehe, I’m going to take this to the Academy of Sciences to receive an award. It’s not as simple as you think.”

“Receive an award?” Sun Quan was taken aback, then realized what he meant and asked in astonishment, “Brother Zong, you didn’t solve the problem on that monument tower, did you?”

“Otherwise, do you think I went on a trip to the city yesterday?” Su Mo rubbed the dust off the wooden tower and asked with a smile.

“Damn, Brother Zong, solving that problem could make you a researcher, don’t you...”

Halfway through his sentence, Sun Quan noticed that Wang Qian was still standing to the side and quickly stopped talking.

Don’t flaunt your wealth.

At present this thing had only been made. It had not been submitted to the Academy of Sciences for verification and reward, so nothing was settled.

What if Wang Qian got greedy for the money?

“It’s all right. Go to the Lane later and ask for another day off for me. I’ll go to the Academy of Sciences after I finish eating.” Su Mo knew Wang Qian’s identity and did not mind, but he could not say it outright, so he could only try to ease the awkwardness.

“All right, things aren’t too busy at the Lane. They’ve been hiring these past few days, so I’ll be fine.” Sun Quan nodded, incredibly quick on the uptake. He did not let Wang Qian sit there awkwardly and steered the conversation back on track.

“By the way, Brother Zong, what’s this structure called?”

“What, you little brat, trying to make a replica?”

“No. I was thinking that all the important things in our wasteland have names, right? If this structure becomes popular in the future, I can say my big brother made it.” Revealing his true thoughts, Sun Quan smiled slyly.

“Well, that makes sense.” Thinking about what Sun Quan had said, and the various hidden benefits it brought...

Su Mo paused, thought for a moment, and then a smile appeared on his face.

“The tower has long pillars as its bones, narrow sections as its marrow, sloping ramps as its skin, and flying beams as its flesh!”

“It can reach beyond the nine heavens, bordering the Azure Sky, and it can also sink ten thousand feet into the earth, keeping company with the Dark Sky.”

“From now on, it will be called...”

“Skyscraping Pillar!”

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