Chapter 148: We Are Warriors!
“Xiaoguang, for the next 5 days, Father and Mother won’t be home. You must take good care of yourself at home.
There’s food left for you in the fridge, and instant noodles. Just heat them up yourself when you eat. Also, don’t run around everywhere at night. Stay obediently at home…”
Sun Xiaoxue tirelessly instructed her son, her face full of worry.
Thirteen-year-old He Xiaoguang stood obediently in front of his parents, looking well-behaved, but his eyes were very lively, occasionally revealing a hint of cunning and excitement: “Got it, Mother. I will definitely be good.”
He Dashu looked at his wife somewhat impatiently and couldn’t help interrupting her: “What do you have to worry about with our Xiaoguang? Afraid he’ll suffer? It’s good if he doesn’t bully others.
Xiaoguang, listen to me. You stay home obediently and do your homework. No going out, got it? If I hear you’ve hit someone again, I’ll hang you up and beat you when I get back!”
“Got it, Father. I will do my homework properly.”
“Let’s go, let’s go.”
He Dashu pulled his wife and hurriedly went out the door.
As soon as the door closed, he faintly heard an excited low roar from inside the home: “Yes! Finally free!”
Sun Xiaoxue’s heart tightened, and she was about to open the door again to continue lecturing, but her husband stopped her.
“Forget it. It’s your child; don’t you know his temperament? Talking won’t help. As long as he doesn’t go too far, let him be.
Let’s go, let’s go. Hurry to the factory area.”
Sun Xiaoxue sighed: “My heart just won’t settle down.”
Arriving at the underground garage, she saw people continuously coming out of the elevators, each looking hurried as they opened their car doors and sped off out of sight.
She knew these people were probably all like her, heading to various factories.
This residential community was a famous engineers’ community, home to countless technical managers, engineers, scientists, and the like from factories, companies, and enterprises.
Including the two of them.
It seemed that at this moment, not only their own factory had been conscripted by the apocalypse command department…
Getting into the car and setting it to automatic driving mode toward outside the garage, Sun Xiaoxue’s attention finally shifted from worrying about her son.
“Dashu, why did the apocalypse have to come out of nowhere? Can’t those aliens just live their own lives? Why do they have to invade us?”
“Sigh, who knows. Damn it, whatever their reason, if they dare invade us, we’ll fight them.”
Sun Xiaoxue nodded silently.
The car drove through the crowded streets and finally arrived at the factory area.
The parking lot was already full of cars. Familiar or unfamiliar people who all worked at the same factory hurried toward the production building or design building.
Sun Xiaoxue went to the logistics support department to wait for further orders, while He Dashu quickly headed to the meeting room.
“Old He, you’re here? Hurry, hurry, we’ve been waiting for you.”
The meeting room was filled with smoke, the floor littered with cigarette butts, as if these people had already been discussing for a while.
“What’s the specific mission? How’s it arranged?”
Pulling out a chair and sitting down, Lin Xing quickly introduced: “The mission our factory received is a batch of Y-shaped steel. After discussion with Engineer Sun, Engineer Liu, and the others, our factory’s Furnaces 1 and 5, after emergency modification, should still be able to handle the production mission.
But the problem is the circuitry: Y-shaped steel production demands far exceed the original production load. To switch to producing Y-shaped steel, the existing circuitry must be comprehensively modified and upgraded, raising the peak power from the original 200MW to 300MW, and it must be completed within three days to leave enough time for subsequent production.”
He Dashu widened his eyes in disbelief: “Complete circuitry modification in three days? This…”
Lin Xing said solemnly: “I know it’s tough. But isn’t the furnace modification or subsequent refining tough too?”
He Dashu looked at Engineer Sun and Engineer Liu, seeing the same heaviness on their faces as on his own.
He took out a cigarette, lit it, took two hard drags, then threw it down and stamped it out forcefully: “Then what more is there to say? We’ll work desperately, that’s all.
But… I can only guarantee we’ll work desperately. Whether we finish, I can’t promise.”
“You old He, talking just like Engineer Sun and Engineer Liu.”
Lin Xing shook his head with a bitter smile: “Do our best. If we really can’t finish, can the command department force us to death? Can I force you to death?”
The chief engineers exchanged glances: “Then let’s get to work.”
In the president’s office, one command after another was issued. Employees who had been waiting there early, without regular production missions, immediately threw themselves into the work.
Truck after truck of raw materials and parts were brought in, quickly distributed and sent to various sites. The originally orderly production workshops quickly became messy.
At this moment, under the heavy physical and mental labor, no one complained, no one shirked.
This was a massive war, its purpose to fight for every one’s survival. And we at this moment were the warriors charging forward on behalf of human civilization in this war.
The factory buildings before us were our battlefield against the enemy.
Lin Xing stood guard at the construction site, brows tightly furrowed.
Though not from a technical background and not deeply knowledgeable about technology, he could still see that the current progress was lagging behind expectations.
He opened his mouth, as if wanting to say something, like encouraging the employees to push harder and speed up, but in the end he sighed and gave up.
He could see that the employees’ speed had already reached its limit.
People were so busy they didn’t even have time for a sip of water.
There really weren’t enough hands…
“We’ve done our best. If we really can’t complete it, there’s no way…”
At that moment, at the factory area gate, several buses followed by several large trucks suddenly drove in.
This is…
One bus stopped, the door opened, and a familiar figure came into view.
That was Old Zhu, also a member of the Steel Association.
So-called fellow competitors are enemies, but now…
“Old Zhu, what are you doing here? We’re busy, no time to entertain you.”
Old Zhu glared at Lin Xing: “I say Old Lin, you didn’t think I came to make trouble for you, did you? Look, look!”
Lin Xing looked over and saw many more familiar figures getting out.
Engineer Zheng, Engineer Shen, Engineer Yang…
Every engineer was someone Lin Xing had coveted for a long time but could never poach.
“Heard your factory was conscripted, so I thought, with your factory’s bit of technology and talent pool, you’re probably unable to shoulder this responsibility. If you delay things, it’ll be trouble. Sure enough, look how long it’s been, and the modification progress is only here? Tsk tsk tsk.”
Manager Zhu shook his head with a sigh, looking disdainful: “Sigh, if not for the support I brought, with your factory’s strength, you’d have to wait until the next life to complete production.”
Lin Xing ground his teeth in hatred: “You old Zhu, you came to taunt me today, huh?”
“Yes, came to taunt you. You’ll have to take it. Just say, do you want this support or not?”
Lin Xing lowered his head full of unwillingness and humiliation, gritted his teeth, voice squeezed from his throat: “Yes!”
Manager Zhu waved his hand spiritedly: “Comrades, charge with me!”
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