Rebirth: My 80s

Chapter 863 Seeing Through
"how come……"

Li Jiankun looked at the red and bluish flames in the cement pool and murmured to himself.

There is no reason to burn it.

"Brother Kun, are you wrong in your suspicion?"

"Teacher Wang's water-based fuel is really effective?"

Next to him, General Heng Ha looked like a traitor who had converted again.

The rich brothers are not much better than them.

After all, seeing is believing.

Li Jiankun shook his head: "What did we overlook..."

"However, the water was clear water before, and we destroyed any possible fish at the bottom of the pool. Teacher Wang only poured a beer bottle of water-based fuel into it."

"It's burning now."

Everything was so clear and clear, there was no possibility of cheating, and there was indeed no cheating. There were nearly a thousand pairs of eyes staring at the scene.

Li Jiankun didn't understand what General Heng Ha said. He couldn't give an explanation for the time being.

However, no matter what, as a person who came back in the 2020s, neither his knowledge of science nor his understanding of the event of water turning into oil could give him even a hint of belief.

There is definitely something wrong!
It's just that he, and everyone watching at the scene, were kept in the dark.

While scanning the cement pool with raging flames and steaming water, Li Jiankun tried to recall everything that had happened before, starting from when Wang Hongcheng took out the beer bottle, trying to find any clues.

At this time, Wang Hongcheng was surrounded by excited people and cameras.

"Teacher Wang, I am from the Energy Committee of the National Academy of Sciences. I sincerely invite you to go to the National Academy of Sciences to give a report and discuss the great cause of energy development."

"It's an honor for Mr. Wang, thank you for your support from the leader."

"Teacher Wang, we are from the School of Petroleum. Can you come to our school to give a lecture? With your water-based fuel, the pattern of the energy industry will undergo earth-shaking changes. To be honest, the courses and research directions of our school will have to be changed." Changed.”

"It's easy to talk about."

"Teacher Wang, our Guangming Daily hopes to conduct an exclusive interview with you."

"I applied for it on a personal basis. I wonder if Mr. Wang is free in the afternoon?"

...

If this trend continues, Wang Hongcheng will become famous and popular all over the country without quotation marks, just as Li Jiankun congratulated him earlier.

God knows how much trouble he will cause by then.

Li Jiankun still remembers one figure - 400 million.

In his previous life, during the more than ten years when Wang Hongcheng relied on the so-called water to turn oil, hundreds of companies invested a total of 400 million in him.

Four hundred million, in the 1980s and 1990s, could feed tens of millions of people.

It is the combined assets of hundreds of state-owned factories.

How many people were deceived by him and lost everything, and how many companies were deceived by him and went bankrupt.

This is still the previous life.

In 1985 in his previous life, Wang Hongcheng's "career" was just getting started.

To a certain extent, it was Li Jiankun's operation that pushed him to the altar in one fell swoop.

Li Jiankun was sweating like raindrops. He couldn't bear this responsibility...

However, after careful observation and combing, he still failed to understand Wang Hongcheng's deception methods.

Although Wang Hongcheng is not a smart person - the bigger things get, the faster his scam will be exposed. However, this guy's skills in deceiving people have reached an advanced level.

Originally, Li Jiankun always had this idea:
Some high-level intellectuals and scientists these days are simply ignorant. They actually believe in such an obviously illogical thing as water turning into oil.

If it were me, I wouldn't believe it, even if I saw it with my own eyes.

No one in future generations will believe it.

I believe that many people in later generations will have the same idea.

But now, there is no way to explain this...

Bang Bang!

A few naughty children who followed the adults sneaked close to the cement pool while the parents were not paying attention. Each of them picked up a discarded wooden stirring stick from the ground and played with it as some kind of "artifact".

"These little ones, please be safe."

"Come back soon."

The adults laughed and cursed.

The naughty boy succeeded in seizing the treasure and returned with the stirring stick.

It is inevitable that these deliberately carved stir sticks will be loved by naughty children, and they are indeed very suitable for playing.

"Don't take the stick away." At this time, Wang Hongcheng suddenly said.

Everyone at the scene now respected him as a god, and no one dared to disobey him. The parents of the naughty children took the stir sticks from their children and sent them back to where they came from, making the naughty children look resentful.

Li Jiankun glanced at Wang Hongcheng, then glanced at the naughty children, and finally his eyes were fixed on the stirring sticks.

The experiment has been completed, why does Wang Hongcheng still care so much about these stirrups?

Are the naughty children fighting with sticks too relaxed? You know, when he used these thick-armed stir sticks, he felt they were quite heavy.

Li Jiankun recalled the previous scene again in his mind. When Wang Hongcheng personally took people to the wooden house and moved out these exquisite stir sticks, many people at the scene were stunned, including him.

My immediate thought was: Why does a stir stick have to be so beautifully made?

I originally thought he was trying to please the leader.

just now……

Li Jiankun realized that this was the only weird thing about the entire event.

With this thought in mind, Li Jiankun calmly walked forward and picked up a stirring stick from the ground.

As soon as he got started, he noticed something was wrong. These stirring sticks seemed not as heavy as when he first started using them, but much lighter.

As for why he hadn't noticed it before.

Very easy to explain.

If a person has been holding an object and it gradually becomes lighter, the person's body will adapt subtly and there will be no obvious perception. Moreover, they used stirring sticks to stir the water vigorously. After stirring for a quarter of an hour, their hands were sore and it was even harder to feel it.

It's different now. After such a long time, that kind of physical adaptation no longer exists.

Li Jiankun's hands are no longer sore.

Boom!Boom!
He brought the stir stick to his ear and flicked it with his fingers, making a crisp sound. The stir stick is hollow!

"Manager Li, why is such a big man playing stick? Come on, let's talk about business."

Wang Hongcheng squeezed out of the crowd and walked quickly towards this side.

He reached for the stir stick in Li Jiankun's hand, but was shouted away by the latter.

rub rub!
Wang Hongcheng stood unsteadily and took several steps back.

Ok?
There was an uproar.

Many people immediately raised their eyebrows and glared at Li Jiankun, wondering why he dared to be so disrespectful to Teacher Wang.

"Li, what do you mean?"

"Try touching Teacher Wang again!"

"Immediately apologize to Teacher Wang!"

There was no shortage of young guys pushing in front of the crowd, rolling up their sleeves and gearing up, as if they wanted to teach Li Jiankun a lesson.

"Teacher Wang?" Li Jiankun glanced around, "I think calling him Wang Liar is enough."

Hey!
This is probably called saying nothing but continuing to die.

"Manager Li, it doesn't matter if you attack me, but you also want to insult my reputation. How did I offend you?" Wang Hongcheng said sadly, his forehead was covered with sweat, and he did not dare to give Li Jiankun a chance to speak again.

"I, Mr. Wang, sit upright, but you can say that my scientific research results are not good enough. I personally believe that there is still a lot of research space for water-to-oil technology. So far, I have only scratched the surface.

"But I, Wang, hate being called a liar. It's an insult to my character!

"It doesn't matter if we don't want to cooperate. If you are still here, I will leave immediately!"

After he said that, he started to leave.

Not to mention whether Li Jiankun can let him go, the people can't let him go either.

And if they were reluctant to let him go, everyone's attention immediately fell on Li Jiankun.

"you go!"

"Leave now!"

"roll!"

...

Some excited young people shouted to drive Li Jiankun away while all approaching him.

The Fugui brothers immediately protected Li Jiankun and knocked down several particularly radical guys who were about to reach out to Li Jiankun.

No one expected them to be so skilled, not even Wang Hongcheng.

Taking advantage of the moment when everyone was shocked, Li Jiankun raised the stirring stick in his hand and shouted loudly: "Everyone, please look at what this is!"

People looked along where he indicated and suddenly discovered that there was a small hole at the bottom of the small head of the wooden stirring stick.

If you don't look at it face to face, it is easy to ignore it.

Wang Hongcheng was sweating coldly: "Okay, if you are still here and misleading people, if you don't leave, I will leave!"

"Stop this liar!"

Li Jiankun shouted.

"Let me put it this way, please give me two minutes. If I can't prove that he is a liar, I will let you do whatever you want."

Everyone wanted to keep Wang Hongcheng, but they didn't dare to step forward to take action. At the critical moment, their own people were more reliable. General Hengha rushed forward, each holding an arm, and grabbed Wang Hongcheng.

Li Jiankun said this, everyone pretended not to have seen this scene, all eyes were focused on him, waiting for a reasonable explanation.

"Now I'm asking the person who just took the stir stick to pick up another stir stick and feel it."

The big shots at the scene heard the words and followed suit one after another.

After using the stirring stick again, many people also noticed something strange.

"It seems a little lighter?"

"It's too light, obviously."

Boom!Boom!
"It's hollow."

"There's a little hole on the little head underneath."

Li Jiankun continued: "Everyone put the tip of their nose to the small hole and smell it."

Everyone did it again.

If you smell it like this, there is a distinct smell of gasoline.

"What does this mean? These stirring sticks have been stirred in the pool. Now the water in the pool has turned into oil. It must smell like gasoline!" Wang Hongcheng was imprisoned by General Heng Ha and shouted loudly.

Everyone nodded frequently, this makes sense.

"Then please explain to us what this small hole is for, and why the weight of the stirrer before and after is different?" Li Jiankun looked over.

Wang Hongcheng: "..."

His eyes were rolling around as he was forming words of deception.

Li Jiankun asked himself and answered: "Let me explain it to you.

“These stirring sticks are deliberately made hollow, filled with fuel in advance, and a small hole is left at the bottom, which is sealed with mud or something soluble in water.

“When we stir the water with a stirring stick, the sealing material dissolves and the fuel inside is poured into the pool.

"There are hundreds of stirring rods, even if each one only contains one or two kilograms of fuel, it still weighs hundreds of kilograms. The density of oil is lighter than water, enough to cover the surface of the pool with a layer.

"That's why people saw what looked like a pool full of water burning.

"If you don't believe me, you can wait and see. This fuel is not enough to evaporate one hundred tons of water. In the end, there will be a lot of water left. Why?

"Because Wang Hongcheng also had another mechanism, a larger mechanism, located under the pool. He made a double arrangement, but I discovered it in advance and sealed it so that he could not open the mechanism. There are more inside. fuel.

"The so-called water turning into oil is basically a scam. It relies on magic-like means to use some deceptive tricks to make everyone think that water can really turn into oil with a little so-called water-based fuel."

After hearing this, the scene was agitated.

Li Jiankun's inference about the hollow stirring stick and the small hole at the bottom is quite reasonable, and it seems that this is the only explanation.

In addition, he also said that there was a mechanism at the bottom of the pool, and he discovered it in advance and destroyed it. They also asked everyone to wait and see if the water in the pool could be boiled dry. Whether it is true or false is not difficult to judge, just wait.

Wang Hongcheng's face turned green. He originally wanted to find an excuse to clear the place after burning for a while...

(End of this chapter)