Chapter 1479: Chapter 1477: Transcendent Industrialization
"This is outrageous! Is she the real director or am I the real director? Is she the first person in charge or am I the first person in charge? Without my signature, she has no right to allocate goods privately, alright? Believe it or not, I will go find her right now?!" Gro glared at the male secretary.
"I believe, of course, Director." The male secretary blinked and said, "Actually, I tried to use the reason of needing a signature to stop her initially. But Deputy Director Nancy said that once she signed, you wouldn’t dare to oppose her, so... she finally got the goods moved away..."
"I..." Gro listened, mouth agape, his eyes wide open, drawing several deep breaths, and the next moment he slammed the table heavily, striding out of the office.
The male secretary hesitated for a moment and quickly caught up: "Director, Director, don’t be so emotional. When Deputy Director Nancy said that, not many people heard it, at most ten people, it’s not too embarrassing, just endure it and it will pass.
But if you go to her, and you can’t win in words or fights, it’ll be really embarrassing. Think about it calmly, really think about it calmly... Hey, wait, Director, you’re heading in a direction that doesn’t seem to be towards Deputy Director Nancy’s office... Hey hey, Director, where are you going, wait for me..."
After a while, outside the door came Gro’s roar mixed with anger and reason: "Where do you think I’m going?! Do you really expect me to fight with that crazy woman who’s now a Third-level Wizard? Of course, now I am heading to the production workshop to see if the latest products from the assembly line can make up for the shortage of goods moved from the warehouse!"
"Um, yes yes, Director, you’re right this time."
"I’ve always been right!"
"Yes yes..."
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The first production workshop.
Gro and the male secretary strode in.
You can see that it’s a gigantic warehouse-type building, several tens of meters high, one hundred meters wide, and three hundred meters long.
The core of the whole workshop is the purple-black apparatus located centrally.
The entire apparatus is over ten meters high, resembling a metallic barrel, but topped with numerous conduits, control rods, and circuits, with the thickest circuit running from the workshop ceiling to the outside, connecting to three absorption columns of the production factory.
Through the absorption columns, Free Energy Elements over a vast area in the high sky can be quickly absorbed, with efficiency thousands of times greater than an individual Wizard using Spiritual Power.
The absorbed Free Energy Elements are then transmitted to numerous production workshops, through a series of instruments, melted into energy more stable than mana, and stored in specific containers.
These specific containers, in some sense, are equivalent to batteries of Extraordinary Power, which can be installed on specially designed magic rune tools, allowing a trained ordinary person to use them without any Extraordinary Power.
Of course, these specific containers can also be massively decomposed, releasing the energy contained within, used for other productions. But that has nothing to do with the solidification factory. The task of the solidification factory is to continuously solidify Free Energy Elements and transport them as needed and instructed, via locomotives, to various locations.
Speaking of which, in Shalin’s high-level internal documents, the construction of the Free Energy Element Solidification Factory is one of the very few most important projects, code-named "High-altitude Fishing Net," ranked second, currently thirty have been established, with forty more planned or under construction. The amount of resources invested is second only to the top-ranked project — "Bottled Sun."
The reason for such investment is because, in Shalin’s high-level planning, the Free Energy Element Solidification Factory can greatly advance the industrialization of Extraordinary Power.
What is the industrialization of Extraordinary Power?
To explain, it’s that before the Black Sun plan in the Wizard World, Free Energy Elements could only be absorbed individually by Wizards, then used for casting.
Calculating it, no matter how high the Wizard Level was, the absorbed Free Energy Elements weren’t much. Moreover, they were only absorbed when needed.
It’s like having an Endless Ocean, but only a few gifted fishermen can fish in it, and they can’t fish continuously for twenty-four hours a day. In such a case, the quantity of fish caught daily is almost negligible compared to the total fish in the entire sea; the vast majority of fish resources are idle.
This is an extreme waste of resources.
Thus, numerous Free Energy Element Solidification Factories were established, directly extending absorption columns to the high sky, casting out invisible nets, continuously capturing the "fish" swimming in the "ocean" of the high sky, efficiently acquiring resources to use, fundamentally changing the world.
In this world, through a series of surveys, it can almost be ascertained that the blood of industry — oil, should only exist in legends. In some sense, this is a fatal blow to world industrialization. However, there are those who refuse to accept it; without oil, they won’t use oil, opting to directly use solidified Free Energy Elements as supernatural oil, directly ushering in the industrialization of extraordinary!
This is the industrialization of Extraordinary Power!
As an important part of the industrialization of Extraordinary Power, Gro is not too clear about his significance, even if he knows, he has no mood for pride now.
Upon entering the production workshop, he promptly stepped towards the workshop steward nearby.
There is a bald man who quickly plastered a smile seeing Gro: "Director, is there anything you need?"
"Quit the nonsense." Gro gave no pleasant facial expression and said straight away, "I ask you, how much solidified energy was produced today?"
"About 120,000 units, all piled over there." The bald man answered honestly, pointing to a corner of the workshop where you could see stacks of wooden boxes, "I’m preparing to produce enough to reach 200,000 units before noon, then log it and send it to the warehouse."
Gro listened and stepped over to the stacked boxes, pressing lightly, under the spell’s effect, the lid of the box automatically popped open, revealing what was inside.
Inside were neatly placed nearly a hundred Crystal Cubes, each having the volume of a finger, about ten centimeters long, two or three centimeters thick. Looking closely, it’s like a jar of viscous liquid, opaque, with weak light occasionally flashed inside, creating faint energy waves.
This is the most common product after Free Energy Elements are solidified — standard-type Energy Cubes.
Gro checked and found the quality was fine, returned the Energy Cube to the box, and looked at the bald man, instructing: "These products are not to be sent to the warehouse, handle them as an emergency, I will sign for you later, then send them directly to the traffic station in front of the factory to meet the locomotive from Redstone City, they’re waiting to transport them to other places."
The bald man hesitated and quietly reminded: "Director, handling in emergency requires both your signature and Deputy Director Nancy’s, otherwise it’s considered a violation, aren’t you afraid Deputy Director Nancy will come to you?"
"Come? If she doesn’t come to me, I’d still go to her!" Gro spoke angrily, "If she hadn’t emptied half of warehouse six, would I need to come here now to fill the shortage? Moreover, this first workshop isn’t enough; I have to go to the second workshop too, damn it!"
After speaking, Gro left angrily, leaving the male secretary and the bald man in place.
The bald man glanced at the male secretary, hesitating said: "Should I move the goods to the traffic station next then??"
"Of course, then have the documents signed by both the director and deputy director." The male secretary said.
"Hmm? Didn’t the director just say not to find the deputy director?" The bald man was puzzled.
"Did the director say that?" The male secretary smiled faintly, "The director’s exact words were, ’If the deputy director doesn’t come to him, he would go to the deputy director,’ right?"
"Oh, got it." The bald man suddenly realized.
"As long as you understand, quickly do it." The male secretary said no more, striding quickly in the direction Gro had left.
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