Chapter 121 - Waves of Applause
Chapter 121: Waves of Applause
While he was boasting about the products to no end, Ding Chen saw that the audience below the stage had started to look impatient. More of them did things like drinking water, changing their sitting postures, and other small actions.
However, Ding Chen did not panic at all. After all, he was still carrying the small prop his niece had given him. His nervousness had left him long ago.
Just as the audience’ doubts were about to reach a critical point, Ding Chen stretched out his arm to the side and gestured. “I know my story just now seems like a fantasy. Everyone doesn’t believe that our small company, which had just been established for less than half a year, can showcase achievements that would stand out in the world. But please don’t be in a hurry to question it, because you will never be able to imagine what kind of dazzling energy a genius can release. Let’s welcome the company’s product designers, Huo Tian and Bi Ying, to give a detailed explanation for the two products!”
Bi Ying was in a wheelchair and was pushed by Huo Tian to the center of the stage.
Huo Tian was initially unwilling to let Bi Ying make such a sacrifice. When they were discussing the schedule for the product launch, she even got into a fight with Bi Ying because of this. She felt that their products were outstanding to begin with and there was no need to use his pride in exchange for attention.
However, Bi Ying convinced everyone, including Huo Tian, with just a few words. “But I no longer treat my disability as a defect. I don’t have legs, but I can still walk, run, and do any extreme sports that ordinary people wouldn’t dare to do even if they tried. I want to use my own experience to tell those people who, like me in the past, had given up on themselves because they had lost a part of their bodies. Fate has caused us to lose some things, but science will make us stronger.”
At that moment, Huo Tian started to look at Bi Ying in a new light. That gloomy and inferior boy had grown into a strong person who dared to endure hardships.
Everyone agreed to Bi Ying’s suggestion. Before going up to the stage, Bi Ying took off his pair of robotic legs and sat in the wheelchair again after so many days. However, he felt more at ease than he had ever felt before.
After going on stage, Huo Tian explained the design concepts of the two products in detail according to the rehearsed process. She spat out a lot of professional jargon that smashed into the ears of the audience, turning their originally clear thoughts into a tangled ball of yarn.
During this time, Bi Ying would also occasionally explain about the smart chips inside. The audience, who could not follow the thoughts of the two geniuses, were even more confused.
However, it didn’t matter if they didn’t understand those obscure technological terms. The visual impact they were given was huge.
After they were done with the introduction of the products, Bi Ying picked up the microphone, pursed his pale lips, and said, “As everyone has seen, I’m a cripple who has lost both my legs. However, with the combination of Huo Tian’s knowledge of machinery, Si Huan’s financial support, and my own capabilities in the realm of smart programming, we came up with the smart prosthetic limbs that everyone saw during this product launch. As a result, I’ve returned to the life of a normal person…”
Bi Ying said as he bent down and struggled to reach his empty trouser legs, wanting to roll them up.
Seeing this, Huo Tian half-knelt on the ground and took over from him. Their gazes met and Bi Ying saw the concern in Huo Tian’s eyes. He took the initiative to give her a reassuring smile.
When Huo Tian got up again and moved to the side, everyone saw that the area around Bi Ying’s thigh, which should have been his knee, was now covered by a special dressing and bandages. Although they didn’t see the section on the back of the stump directly, no one would suspect that him being a cripple was faked.
The audience could not help but let out exclamations of surprise. However, the amazing thing about the robotic prosthetic limbs was beyond something as simple as an automatic attachment. Bi Ying did not need any leverage and stood up easily like an ordinary person.
Bi Ying pressed a button on the wheelchair and two unused grooves extended from both sides of the wheelchair. The prosthetic limbs embedded in the grooves were sent to the front of the wheelchair by a mechanical device. Without Bi Ying needing to do anything, the prosthetic limbs accurately met his broken leg. Then, the joint on the prosthetic limbs seemed to have come alive and automatically attached to Bi Ying’s leg. Then, they tightened and fixed securely onto his leg.
The audience could not help but let out exclamations of surprise. However, the amazing thing about the robotic prosthetic limbs was beyond something as simple as an automatic attachment. Bi Ying did not need any leverage and stood up easily like an ordinary person.
His trouser legs were hanging down, covering his silver robotic prosthetic limbs. This made Bi Ying’s subsequent actions of running and jumping even more unbelievable. If they hadn’t seen him putting on prosthetic limbs with their own eyes, who would believe that a boy who could move so freely was actually a cripple who had lost both legs?
Everyone was no longer stingy with their compliments, and waves of applause surged toward the three people on the stage.
Huo Tian looked in the direction where family members were seated. Ding Rong was smiling and clapping. Looking carefully, Huo Tian realized that there seemed to be tears in her eyes. Her mother was really too emotional. She would cry when she was sad and she would also cry when she was happy…
Huo Tian sighed in her heart and then looked at Si Huan, who was sitting beside Ding Rong. Si Huan was also smiling and clapping, his gaze focused in her direction. Huo Tian was too far away and could not see the emotions contained in Si Huan’s eyes, but her face felt hot for no reason.