172: Chapter 172 Mission in Progress (Part 4)

The modification work continued for nearly two hours.

During these two hours, Cao Xue watched helplessly as the battery production line she had spent a fortune to build was turned into a mess, tattered and torn, and then, under Wang Shuo's direction, quickly restored to its appearance, gradually becoming something she found very familiar yet strange.

It wasn't that she didn't want to approach, nor that she didn't want to stop him.

But whenever she got close, two men looking like bodyguards in black suits would immediately and politely stop her, and then politely ask her to return to her original position.

After a few times, Cao Xue realized that she couldn't stop this man.

After all, he had brought two bodyguards who looked like they had quite high combat capabilities.

Although the number of people didn't seem like much, who told her she didn't have any?

In the future, she would also hire a few bodyguards to surround her wherever she went.

Cao Xue thought indignantly.

When Wang Shuo carried the heavy hopper and, with the help of the workers, reinstalled it, the entire modification work was declared finished.

He checked the time; it had taken a total of two hours and twenty-three minutes.

It was still within the plan.

Next, it was time to start trial production.

The first step was… the processing of positive and negative electrode materials and the passivation of lithium ions.

This step was not something Cao Xue and the others could watch.

Therefore, Ms. Cao Xue, who was just fuming about her production line being messed with, was the next moment politely asked to leave the workshop by the two bodyguards who had blocked her several times.

"You, the one surnamed Wang!!!"

Before leaving, Cao Xue shouted in grief and indignation: "Give me back my phone!"

It was useless.

Wang Shuo, focused on his work, didn't react at all.

Nimbly using some common chemical reactions to process the positive and negative electrode materials and lithium-ion passivation, Wang Shuo began to prepare the electrolyte.

He went to the mixer, threw in the primary materials needed for the electrolyte, pressed the switch, and started mixing.

After mixing for two minutes, he paused, added new materials, and continued mixing.

Then he paused again, added more materials, and mixed again.

This process lasted a full half hour.

After the electrolyte had basically formed, Wang Shuo took two small bags out of his pocket, poured out some granular solid particles and some silvery-white metal powder, carefully weighed and mixed them, and added them all into the mixer.

He pressed the switch again.

Wang Shuo let out a breath and checked the time.

Fortunately, there was still time. As long as the electrolyte was prepared, once the production line started, dozens of batteries could be finished quickly; it wouldn't take much time at all.

Outside the door.

Many workers looked at their angry CEO Cao and felt a bit helpless.

"CEO Cao, please stop being angry." A worker tried to persuade her.

"Not be angry?" Cao Xue looked at him, even more furious: "Who told you to follow his orders? He asked you to dismantle it, and you just dismantled it? Do you still have any respect for me? And I treat you all so well usually."

"Isn't this your arrangement?"

The worker muttered in a low voice.

"My arrangement?" Cao Xue's voice was sharp: "When did I arrange this?"

"You said it this afternoon." The worker said helplessly: "You told us to follow Miss Liu's arrangements."

All the workers nodded in unison.

Cao Xue paused, feeling stifled and unable to speak, and could only say indignantly: "Then you should use your brains too! Just because you're told to listen to others, you'll listen to anything? If that man surnamed Wang told you to jump off a building, would you go? Huh!"

"No." The worker shook his head vigorously: "We aren't fools."

Cao Xue paused again, glared fiercely at this worker, but had nothing to say.

She must have lost her mind; why did she pay these blockheads such high wages? No wonder her company couldn't keep running.

If she had known earlier, she would have gritted her teeth and gone home; why did she have to insist on striking out on her own?

Now look at this; in her own factory, her own workshop, her own territory, she had actually been kicked out by someone! She didn't even have the right to stand in the workshop!

Going home was embarrassing, but could it be more embarrassing than this?

Cao Xue glared fiercely at the factory door, having already mentally abused Wang Shuo a thousand times.

"Old Wang."

Just as she was beating up Wang Shuo in her mind, a young employee beside her whispered: "Do you think it's possible to manufacture batteries without electrolyte?"

Without electrolyte?

Cao Xue turned her head abruptly and looked at the employee: "What did you say? What about the electrolyte?"

The young employee swallowed hard; his CEO looked like she was in a terrible mood.

"I saw that Mr. Wang tell people to pour out all the electrolyte in the mixer and clean it."

"Poured it out?" Cao Xue was stunned.

The electrolyte is the key to the exchange of lithium ions between the positive and negative electrodes of a lithium battery. Without it, how can you make a battery?

No matter how impressive your solid-state lithium-ion battery is, it still has the word 'lithium' in it. Without electrolyte, how can you ensure the movement and transfer of lithium ions? How can energy be transported?

Cao Xue felt her composure crumbling a bit.

You surnamed Wang, if you don't come up with anything this time, I will hire several bodyguards and beat you into a pig's head!

If I don't make you lie in the Hospital for a few days, I, Young Miss Cao, won't be satisfied!

Just then, Young Miss Cao heard a buzzing sound from inside the factory.

She was all too familiar with this sound; she could hear it every day before.

This was the sound of the production line running.

This left her stunned. Did this guy surnamed Wang really restore the production line to a working state? And he seemed to have solved the electrolyte issue too? Did he make it on the spot using those materials? He didn't let her go in and even confiscated her phone just because he was afraid she would peek?

Hmph, stingy man.

Cao Xue curled her lips.

And this guy was overestimating her intelligence a bit, wasn't he? If she could understand things at a glance, would she have run her factory into this state?

Cao Xue thought silently, feeling that her intelligence had been despised.

Half an hour later.

Wang Shuo, with a satisfied look on his face, walked out of the workshop carrying a small box, accompanied by Liu Yemei and others.

Cao Xue was about to glare at him, but she saw something flying towards her.

She hurriedly scrambled to catch it, and upon closer inspection, it was her phone, which had been away from her for over an hour.

Looking up again, the man surnamed Wang had already boarded the black commercial vehicle that Liu Yemei had arrived in. Seeming to sense her gaze, the man who made her grit her teeth turned his head and said in a calm tone: "I installed a new battery in your phone; you can try it out and then make a decision."

After saying this, he drove away.

Leaving Cao Xue and the workers speechless.

"You surnamed Wang..."

Cao Xue clenched her fists.

She wanted to hit someone.

...

In the car.

Wang Shuo checked the time again.

2:30 AM.

He took out his phone and dialed Lin Junfeng's number.

"Mr. Wang."

Lin Junfeng's voice sounded a bit weary.

"Hmm, how is the production progress?"

"The molds are almost ready." Lin Junfeng replied: "The seamless steel pipes are still being produced. We just finished three batches, ten pipes per batch, and the winding is proceeding simultaneously. Some small parts are also being processed."

"Very good."

Wang Shuo nodded in approval.

Lin Junfeng was quite reliable in getting things done.

Everything was ready; the only thing left was assembly.

And at this moment, there were... seven hours left until the delivery time!