Chapter 832: Chapter 541: Acquisition of the Conglomerate and the Beginning (Part 2)
The news being broadcasted on the screen came from the finance channel a couple of days ago, before they returned to Coastal City.
[...Tempered Heavy Industries’ stock price continues to hit limit down, with the number of orders further reduced.]
[It is reported that since the former CEO, Stolheim, lost in the Sixteenth Tier Mechanical Spirit Cup final, handed over his position, and left Great Xia, the group has been mired in a severe crisis of trust and financial distress...]
A plethora of related news windows flashed past among them.
The collapse of a giant True Master Corporation is like a towering giant crashing down, of course, it would create countless ripples.
Supply chain, capital chain, upstream, source, terminal...
Everything would be affected.
Lin Guang seemed to have already considered this: "It’s unnecessary to rely solely on the Equipment Department and the Research Department."
"The school can temporarily put down their current work and pause the progress of various research to assist us, but there is actually a more perfect solution."
"Since building a city is a long-term project..."
"Then, we can also start considering our own team."
Lin Guang extended his finger and gently tapped on the logo of Tempered Heavy Industries on the screen, then turned his gaze to another name on his phone.
——[This user does not exist].
...
April 7th.
920th floor of the Sky Arena.
The headquarters of Tempered Heavy Industries, a sword-like headquarters building, is the place where all clerical staff and core executives work.
The top floor.
In the president’s office that once belonged to Stolheim.
The luxury and technological feel here are taken to the extreme, the entire floor is a completely transparent giant circular space, with the floor and walls being a single dynamic screen that can display real-time data of the entire production base.
A middle-aged man with graying hair, carrying distinct Western features, was sitting somewhat wearily in the president’s chair at the center of the giant circular space, looking with his grey-blue eyes down at everything on the ground below.
Down there.
The intertwined web of fully enclosed pipelines among dozens of enormous circular silver-white factory buildings.
In days past.
The pipelines here would transport various initially processed Spirit Gold and high-purity Ether of various attributes to different production lines and studios, with countless automated robots of various shapes traversing among them along pre-planned magnetic levitation tracks, requiring no effort from True Masters.
However, at this moment...
Those robots were all standing still, and the production lines that would have produced a buzzing sound were eerily quiet.
Production has halted.
No orders.
——This place was once the top-ranked mechanical spiritual artifact component production base in the entire Coastal City, and even the entire Yue Shui Province.
Endless resources of Spiritual Materials were transported in a siphoning manner from all over Yue Shui Province, sent through the seemingly endless production lines of this giant structure, to be processed into finished products by the large-scale production base, and then transported back to various places in Yue Shui Province, and even to other major provinces.
The custom environment of the giant structure in the Sky Arena, the Credit Level system of Coastal City, and the conveniently unparalleled System Exchange endow many products here with incomparable production advantages.
As long as the production lines could operate, the manufacturing cost would decrease.
The rent for the 920th floor, staff salaries, and the investment to maintain the research lab were insignificant under the enormous volume of orders and official subsidies, with substantial surpluses.
However, in other words...
Once production stops, everything would deteriorate.
Heber Atlanta’s gaze was somewhat weary.
He is a board member of Tempered Heavy Industries, originally the CTO, now the makeshift CEO of Tempered Heavy Industries, currently the only remaining Six-Star Demigod.
But frankly, under the current trend, he’s also heart-weary and exhausted.
——All of this stemmed from that Mechanical Spirit Cup loss a few months ago, but it didn’t reach this point just because of it.
The technology of [Zero] itself had no issues, it was even quite excellent, having been defeated by Angry Iron Plate under watchful eyes, but still exhibiting strong performance.
If it could weather this storm, it’s not impossible to turn things around.
Yet...
Stolheim’s situation made everything worse.
With his two-month True Intent stabilization retreat making the group’s internal personnel uneasy, and upon exiting choosing to leave Great Xia with many important assets, everything plunged to rock bottom.
The market turned pessimistic, while old rivals like [Thunder Seek], [Leap Motion], [Remote Lake], [Extreme Tiger], and [Ten Thousand Paths] began to seize the market share across Yue Shui Province, poaching researchers.
So all this burden fell on Heber Atlanta.
If it weren’t for his leadership remaining and the connections and channels with Federation Country not being cut off, those Miracle Master Studios would have truly scattered.
However, given the current situation, even with him holding fort, there is no turning the tide.
Frankly speaking, he somewhat wants to quickly cash out and make a run for it, after all, many demigods and True Masters dislike being bound by worldly matters, which in ancient Great Xia was called karma entanglement, clouding one’s mind.
As for why he’s still here now... it’s because of contact he received a couple of days ago.
Because of that brief contact, he still harbors a sliver of hope.
And at the next moment, an Ether data stream lit up from his cybernetic eye alteration, and as a Demigod, his Divine Intent slightly moved.
His eyes brightened.
——It’s here.
......
In the VIP reception room.
Heber Atlanta looked somewhat surprised at the presence in front of him.
