Chapter 149: Miscalculated
These people were not only professional technicians and engineers, but they also brought all kinds of modification tools and equipment, even consumables and spare parts.
Because they were in the same industry and followed the same standards, they required almost no adjustment and could directly start working. Thus, with the addition of this external support, the modification speed in each workshop section immediately showed a visible improvement.
It was already deep into the night.
Looking at the factory that used to be quiet by this time, with only the equipment areas that couldn’t stop and had to run 24 hours still having people, while everywhere else was empty, but now the factory area was still bustling with crowds, brightly lit, and full of workers hurrying about, Lin Xing wiped the sweat from his forehead, and his heart finally settled.
“Finally, we can confidently complete the mission on time… I, Old Lin, didn’t hold back civilization today.”
With Lin Xing’s heart settled, on the other side, Sun Xiaoxue’s heart became uneasy.
After fully inventorying the various ingredients in the warehouse, her heart finally dropped completely.
Their own factory was not large in scale, with only a few hundred workers in total, and most people usually didn’t eat at the canteen, so having a hundred people per meal was already a lot.
Today almost everyone was working overtime, and the number of people eating surged to several hundred at once, which required using up all the stocked ingredients, and the entire chef team had to bustle about, using all the pots and stoves to barely supply enough.
And now seven buses of people had suddenly arrived from another factory, at least over three hundred people… How, how to supply them?
Even if the head chefs swung their spatulas until they smoked, they couldn’t produce enough. Even if they could, there weren’t enough ingredients.
It was too late to procure ingredients temporarily now.
With no other choice, Sun Xiaoxue hurriedly came to Lin Xing.
“Manager Lin, the situation is like this…”
After explaining the difficulties in the back kitchen, Lin Xing, who had been relieved in his heart, suddenly looked heavy again.
Damn it, forgot about the back kitchen.
Old Zhu was so righteous, bringing the essence of his entire factory to support me, I can’t just ignore their meals, right?
The workers and engineers are pulling an all-nighter, and if they can’t even get a hot meal, I’m already owing Old Zhu a favor, and besides, rivals in the same industry, I’ve always been suppressed by Old Zhu, if I can’t provide hot meals today, who knows how he’ll mock me later.
“Really none left? Can’t squeeze out any more?”
Sun Xiaoxue said with a bitter face: “I’ve already called to have ingredients delivered urgently, but it will take at least three hours to arrive, plus subsequent processing… No, the chefs can’t keep up either.”
“If we can’t make it, then go procure from outside!”
“It’s the middle of the night now, most restaurants are closed, and those open 24 hours can’t make meals for several hundred people in such a short time.”
Lin Xing frowned, lit a cigarette, and took a hard drag. After a moment, he sighed: “If there’s really no way, we’ll have to use instant noodles and ham sausages to tide over. Hurry and procure them.”
But in doing so, who knows how that Old Zhu guy will mock me. Sigh, have to endure it.
Thinking of Old Zhu’s arrogant face, Lin Xing felt a instinctive wave of nausea.
“Yes.”
Sun Xiaoxue was just about to leave when she saw Manager Zhu walking over quickly.
“Hello, Manager Zhu.”
“Hello.”
Manager Zhu casually responded to Sun Xiaoxue and fixed his gaze on Lin Xing: “Old Lin, I’ve brought the people to you, you have to handle the logistics properly.”
“Yes, yes, yes, don’t worry, don’t worry.”
Looking at Manager Lin who was servile and full of flattering smiles, Sun Xiaoxue sighed and quickly walked outside.
Just as she walked out of the administrative building, she saw several medium-sized trucks parked at the factory area entrance, with a few people talking to the gate guard.
Seeing Sun Xiaoxue’s figure, the gate guard’s eyes lit up, and he hurriedly brought the visitors over: “Here, this is our factory’s logistics supervisor, just talk to her.”
Sun Xiaoxue was somewhat puzzled: “Hello, I’m Sun Xiaoxue, the logistics supervisor of this factory. Do you need something?”
The pot-bellied middle-aged man in front of her smiled broadly: “Hello, Supervisor Sun, hello. It’s like this: we’re from Honghe Restaurant, I’m Zhou, the restaurant manager.
We heard that your factory received a mission from the apocalypse command department and has started all-staff overtime, with people from other factories coming to support.
We thought the kitchen in the factory might be overwhelmed, and our restaurant has rich experience in catering wedding banquets and birthday banquets, so we brought ingredients and the chef team to see if we can help…
Cough, now the worker masters all represent our entire civilization, warriors charging on the front lines. We’re just a bunch of cooks, and with such a big thing as the apocalypse, we can’t help with much else, but letting the warriors eat their fill is our small contribution. What do you think…”
The puzzlement on Sun Xiaoxue’s face instantly turned to surprise.
Honghe Restaurant? That was a famous high-end restaurant throughout the city. They brought their entire chef team and even brought their own ingredients. This, this…
“Oh, thank you so much, Manager Zhou, you’ve really helped us out big time… Manager Lin, Manager Lin?”
She turned her head and saw Lin Xing walking over with a worried face, so she quickly called him over. After introducing the situation, Lin Xing was so happy that tears almost welled up in his eyes: “Thank you, thank you…”
“No problem, no problem, we were just afraid we couldn’t help. Alright then.”
Manager Zhou turned around: “Masters, get to work!”
“Got it!”
“Been a cook all my life, damn it, never thought I’d get a day to contribute to civilization. This life is worth it.”
“Just wait and see!”
Those trucks roared in and parked in the open space in front of the factory building. A group of chefs, assistants, and servers immediately busied themselves unloading stoves, pots, bowls, basins, etc., setting up tables and tents on site, taking out large bags of ingredients, and starting work right away.
Lin Xing turned and walked back into the building, just in time to run into Manager Zhu strutting out.
“Old Lin, I just checked the kitchen, you don’t have enough ingredients here.”
Manager Zhu had a gloomy face and looked unfriendly: “We’re here to support you, you’re not going to let us work on empty stomachs, are you? Or fob us off with instant noodles?
Let me tell you, Old Lin, if you really dare to do that, next industry meeting I’ll call it out publicly and see if you still have the face to stay in this line of work.”
Damn it, this Old Zhu must have anticipated this situation long ago; he deliberately wants to embarrass me to keep me under his thumb!
But unfortunately…
Lin Xing smiled confidently, with assurance in his heart.
