293: Chapter 292 It's all garbage

Nothing gives a person more of a sense of security than thirty billion.

If there is anything, it would be forty billion.

With the support of thirty billion in funding from Huaneng Group, Wang Shuo could completely withdraw his own capital to do other things, such as... repairing that dilapidated missile base deep in the mountains.

However, all these things have to be put on hold for now; he needs to meet someone first.

...

Cao Xue lay on the hotel bed, staring quietly at the ceiling with vacant eyes.

It had been three days. She had been in Hanzhong City for three whole days, yet she still hadn't seen that CEO Wang. Even Assistant Liu, whom she had met last time, had only been seen in passing before vanishing without a trace.

No one knew how many times she had cursed that brat CEO Wang whom she met last time in her heart. If it were possible, she would really go to his door and drag this guy here.

Unfortunately, she had no bodyguards and couldn't beat him.

"Brat."

Cao Xue gritted her teeth and cursed hatefully out loud.

If it weren't for the fact that she needed something from someone this time, she would have long returned to Donghai City. As the dignified young lady of the Cao family, would she suffer this kind of treatment in this dump of a place?

The phone beside her rang once.

Cao Xue picked up the phone and clicked on the voice message she had just received.

She listened quietly for a while, then replied, "I know."

Then she tossed the phone aside and continued to stare blankly at the ceiling.

For the past three days, she had spent most of her time like this.

At the beginning, she was worried that the factory would fall into chaos without her, but after two days passed, she was stunned to discover that the factory seemed to be developing even better without her interfering.

The workers were full of enthusiasm, raw materials were continuously entering the assembly line to become batteries, and then taken away by the transport fleet sent by Frontier Technology.

It was non-stop and bustling with activity.

There was even a trend of improvements to this assembly line.

This... was very awkward.

Was it that she had been limiting their potential all along?

Cao Xue felt a bit frustrated.

She had originally thought that she should be a mature entrepreneur, and leaving home to start a business was to prove this, but now it seemed she had fallen into some kind of misconception.

Could it be that what her sister said was true?

Was she only meant to be a vase? And that finding someone to marry was the only way out?

The phone rang again. Cao Xue picked it up and pressed the answer button without even looking.

"Hello? This is Cao Xue."

The next moment, Cao Xue jumped up from the bed, quickly sat up straight, and revealed a look of surprise.

"Are... are you serious? CEO Wang has time to see me?"

...

Wang Shuo sat in the meeting room, carefully observing the "CEO Cao" sitting opposite him, who wasn't much older than him, his expression slightly unnatural.

From the moment she walked in, she had been staring at him non-stop.

Staring was one thing, but what was with that look in her eyes—teary, flickering, and flirting?

Someone who didn't know better might think I did something to her.

Wang Shuo muttered to himself, but on the surface, he revealed a smile and said, "CEO Cao, we meet again."

Cao Xue looked at the man opposite her with a bit of grievance and said softly, "CEO Wang is a busy man; it's really hard to see CEO Wang."

The expression on Wang Shuo's face stiffened.

What was this thick tone of a resentful woman?

"Ahem."

Wang Shuo coughed and explained seriously, "CEO Cao, I have indeed been a bit busy these past two days. I neglected you."

Is this just a matter of neglect?

This is completely not treating me as a partner!

Is there anyone who makes a partner wait in a hotel for three days?

As this thought crossed her mind, Cao Xue's expression as she looked at Wang Shuo became even more resentful.

Wang Shuo felt a little creeped out by her gaze.

Could this CEO Cao have burned her brain from a fever these past few days?

"CEO Cao."

Wang Shuo prepared to change the subject: "I heard you have been looking for me. Is it about the battery production line? If it's this matter, you actually don't need to come in person. You could just send an email to Sister Liu; I have already given all the technical documents to her."

Cao Xue was slightly stunned, staring at Wang Shuo with her mouth open, looking somewhat cute.

It... it was that simple?

The matter she had been thinking about and planning for so long before coming, and even considered whether to use her trump card or not, was settled in just two sentences?

It could be settled by sending an email?

Looking at Cao Xue's dazed state, Wang Shuo became even more certain that her brain had been affected by a fever.

"Of course, since you are here, it's not impossible for me to tell you in person..."

"Clatter."

Before Wang Shuo finished speaking, Cao Xue slammed a phone heavily onto the table.

"Is the battery inside this, the one you replaced?"

Wang Shuo glanced at the phone on the table and nodded gently.

"Do you know how many days this battery has been running continuously?"

Cao Xue asked.

Wang Shuo thought for a moment: "According to the battery's capacity ratio, it should be about fifteen days."

Cao Xue's eyes instantly turned red.

"Twenty-one days, a full twenty-one days! It hasn't been charged for twenty-one consecutive days!"

Wang Shuo looked at the 10% battery remaining on the phone and said with a smile, "If you weren't holding your phone for twelve hours a day, this would also be normal."

Cao Xue was stunned, then felt a bit discouraged.

Yes, to the man in front of her, isn't this all normal?

He was the one who created this thing, how could he not know the actual test data?

Then, with her making such a fuss, wouldn't it be a bit embarrassing?

Cao Xue glared at Wang Shuo fiercely, leaned back into her seat, regained some composure, and said, "Don't bully me into thinking I don't understand technology. Since I was able to set up a battery factory, I certainly know the principles and technology."

"I have calculated it. Based on the volume of the battery you installed in this phone, its battery capacity must have reached at least 90,000 mAh. Only by reaching this number can it ensure twenty days of continuous battery life."

"But now, the battery capacity of the same size on the market is only 5,600 mAh! How do you explain that?!"

Wang Shuo shrugged his hands.

"That's why I said before, it's called a quasi-solid-state battery, between a liquid battery and a solid-state battery. Also, there is one point you got wrong..."

Wang Shuo smiled calmly: "It's not 90,000 mAh, but 100,000 mAh."

Cao Xue stared at Wang Shuo with wide eyes, her shock evident.

100,000 mAh?

Inside such a battery, no more than 70mm long, 60mm wide, and 4mm thick, it contained 100,000 mAh of energy?

How was this done?

"This... what if it explodes?"

Cao Xue asked with wide eyes.

She couldn't help but consider it.

If this thing exploded due to improper use, it wouldn't be comparable to a 5,000 mAh battery. If it really hurt someone, they, as the manufacturer, would have to pay compensation!

"Hmm..."

Wang Shuo rubbed his chin and said, "It does explode under special circumstances, and the power is not small."

Cao Xue shivered and subconsciously moved a little further away from the phone.

"But under normal circumstances, this thing won't explode, it will only catch fire."

Wang Shuo pointed to the phone on the table.

"To make it behave, I specifically put a lot of effort into setting up a lithium-ion passivation process, which can significantly reduce the activity of lithium ions. I also set up some special structures in the design, so this thing is very safe now; you don't even have to worry about it getting pregnant."

"Preg... pregnant?"

Cao Xue was stunned.

"It means swelling."

Wang Shuo explained helplessly.

Cao Xue was a bit speechless, but then she became excited again.

"So this thing is very safe now?"

"Of course."

Wang Shuo showed a confident smile and said, "I dare not say anything else, but when it comes to safety, every single lithium-ion battery on the market right now is garbage!"