77: Officially started to rub the plane by hand

Shen Yuan still had an obsession with supercomputers. Tian Ming shook his head helplessly and said, "Don't always think about your supercomputer. Let's solve the Shelter's survival problems first."

Shen Yuan carelessly said, "With the boss around, what's there to be afraid of? With a wave of your hand, countless food appears."

"I don't want to raise a bunch of good-for-nothings. I solve all the problems, working myself to death. Wouldn't it be more enjoyable if I just lived alone?" Tian Ming retorted.

Shen Yuan was silent for a moment, then said, "Boss, I want to ask you a question, but don't get angry."

"Ask away."

"Is the Shelter, in your eyes, equivalent to a farm? Or rather, is it your personal property, and we are just your appendages? Like livestock you raise?"

Shen Yuan's question was, to say the least, sharp. For Tian Ming, having such abilities made him a god. A god raising such a large group of people was not much different from a person raising cows or chickens. The power of life and death was entirely in Tian Ming's hands.

Tian Ming did not answer directly. He glanced at Shen Yuan, then counter-questioned, "Do you think I'm a farmer, raising a bunch of livestock?"

"Isn't it?" Shen Yuan asked.

Tian Ming's lips, however, curved into a smile, a smile with a different meaning. Tian Ming slowly opened his mouth and asked, "Then do you want to be a person, or do you want to be livestock that is raised?"

Shen Yuan was stunned, momentarily unsure how to answer Tian Ming's question. In fact, the question she had asked initially was a bit argumentative.

Tian Ming continued, "To be honest, I did think about that question you asked. Although my abilities are comparable to a god's, I am also a person. Humans are social animals. Do you think it's interesting for me to hide alone? Eat and sleep, sleep and eat, entertain myself, and die in solitude?"

Tian Ming paused, then said, "Living like that, don't you find it terrifying? But in the Shelter, I don't want to raise ordinary good-for-nothings who only take. So, for things you can solve, solve them yourselves. Once everything in the Shelter can be self-sufficient, I'll start lying back and enjoying myself."

Shen Yuan looked thoughtful. Suddenly, she grinned at Tian Ming, "Boss, now that you put it that way, I feel a bit short-sighted."

"You're not short-sighted, you're afraid. Afraid that I'll wash my hands of things, and even more afraid that I'll treat the Shelter as a farm, viewing you all as my personal property from the bottom of my heart. Or rather, that in the entire Shelter, only I am a person, and everyone else is a slave."

Tian Ming could naturally sense Shen Yuan's thoughts. As a highly educated person, nothing was more frightening to Shen Yuan than the regression of societal forms.

Shen Yuan looked at the man in front of her. She looked at Tian Ming with new eyes. As someone with great power, Tian Ming still maintained a sense of responsibility, which greatly pleased Shen Yuan.

Moreover, Tian Ming did not have the arrogance of a god, did not feel superior, and did not disdain the weak. He was willing to face difficulties together with the weak and help them grow. Such a leader was undoubtedly very trustworthy.

Shen Yuan stood up and said, "Boss, I was wrong. I underestimated you before. I'm sorry."

"Alright, stop with the nonsense. I don't care about your little thoughts. Hurry up and start building the aircraft. First, make the components, then assemble them. After successful debugging, I'll mass-replicate a batch."

Shen Yuan nodded with a smile and said, "Okay, I'll export all the relevant component data now, but the Laboratory might not be big enough."

"Let's go to the factory building. There's more space there, and plenty of materials. I'll just start producing and assembling the components directly," Tian Ming said.

Shen Yuan nodded, imported all the helicopter model data into her tablet, and then followed Tian Ming to Factory Building No. 2 of the Shelter. This place hadn't been cleared yet, and there was a lot of scrap metal and miscellaneous items inside.

As Tian Ming approached, the miscellaneous items began to float, and in a moment, a clear space was created.

Shen Yuan said, "Let's build the manned one first: the suspension, the outer shell, big parts first, then small."

Tian Ming nodded slightly and said, "Okay, just follow your way."

Shen Yuan called up the model data on the tablet. The aircraft body was wide, and the data on it was very detailed. The fuselage was 17.42 meters long, 3.96 meters wide, and 6.45 meters high.

As Tian Ming read the aircraft data on the tablet, a precise model of the aircraft began to appear in his mind. This was just a composite steel frame shell. Tian Ming decided to use higher strength materials instead.

With the activation of his ability, a large number of particles in the entire space were agitated. They began to reorganize according to the model in Tian Ming's mind. Tian Ming looked at the gradually forming aircraft in front of him and nodded with satisfaction.

Although he had not been involved in aircraft manufacturing before, now he only needed to follow the data provided by Shen Yuan to easily manufacture the aircraft.

After more than ten minutes, the skeleton of a helicopter had already appeared before the two of them. To form such a complex shape from nearly 3 tons of material still took Tian Ming some time.

"Boss, next are the skin, cockpit, main rotor, and tail rotor," Shen Yuan said, pulling up the data.

There were thousands of parameters, and Tian Ming felt his scalp tingle just looking at them. He also had to first construct a 3D structure in his mind based on the data, clarify the materials needed for the structure, and only then could he reorganize it.

Why not just reorganize the entire helicopter directly? Tian Ming's brain was not a supercomputer. The specifications and parameters of the entire machine, with details numbering in the hundreds of thousands or even millions. Even if Tian Ming's CPU burned out, it would be difficult to do.

The ability to reorganize is different from replication. Reorganization requires clarity on every detail, such as the standard quality of a part, its thickness, where holes are opened, the shape of the holes, the shape of the entire part, its surface area, volume, and material, etc. Therefore, it needs to be manufactured one by one.

A regular helicopter for transporting soldiers has a total number of parts, large and small, ranging from 3 to 5 million. Of course, many are identical, such as rivets, screws, transmission mechanisms, and engines. There are also circuits, oil pipelines, and so on.

Tian Ming took less than two hours to reorganize the large components. From the outside, the aircraft already looked very perfect, but the truly hard work had just begun. The entire aircraft now only had an outer shell; it could even be said to be a one-to-one model.

And the small components were a deadly task. Tian Ming spent a long time reorganizing just one aero turboshaft engine, with Shen Yuan accompanying him.

What with the diffuser, combustion chamber, and several types of blades, plus oil pipelines, cooling pipelines, controller structures, and all sorts of other things. His brain had already expanded to the heavens.

Unknowingly, night had fallen. Tian Ming and Shen Yuan had both returned to the Laboratory, now producing small parts.

For elements that were truly hard to find, such as titanium and rhenium, Tian Ming would change the atomic nucleus to create them. However, this type of manufacturing was the slowest. Tian Ming would try to use existing elements whenever possible.

The more Tian Ming worked, the more energized he became. He discovered that the more 3D models he constructed in his mind, and the more complex they were, the more skilled he became at manipulating matter.

Shen Yuan yawned, looking at the large and small components scattered on the floor.

"Boss.....I.....am.....so.....sleepy!"