304: Chapter 303 A Promising Future

Sometimes, the rise and fall of an enterprise might just hinge on a single thought.

Perhaps it is just because of a simple choice.

Choose correctly, and you can ride the wind of opportunity.

If you choose incorrectly, not even the gods can save you.

Zhou Ping now has a deep understanding of this.

Frontier Technology's R&D department is already using Powered Exoskeletons to move bricks, so how far off can it be for the First Equipment Factory to produce Exoskeletons?

After all, this is no longer a question of popularization; it is truly turning a high-tech gadget into a tool for construction workers to move bricks.

Just looking at this thing makes him drool with envy.

After thinking for a moment, he suddenly remembered something, quickly took out his phone, and dialed.

"Factory Director."

The voice on the other end of the phone sounded very young.

"Hmm."

Zhou Ping nodded slightly, his face solemn, and said, "Did you see those Exoskeletons just now?"

"I saw them."

The man on the other end said in amazement, "Factory Director, where did you get these? I thought I was watching a sci-fi movie."

"Don't ask what you shouldn't."

Zhou Ping's voice sank slightly, and he said sternly, "Issue a gag order for me. No participants are allowed to spread or discuss any topics related to the Exoskeletons, especially videos and photos; no unauthorized sharing is allowed."

"If I find any relevant information appearing online, I will definitely have President Wang handle it severely."

Speaking of this, Zhou Ping's voice rose slightly.

"You know President Wang's methods. No matter what channels you use to send it out, as long as Zero investigates, the source will always be found."

"Understood, Factory Director. I will issue the notice now."

The man was not surprised.

After all, Yunsheng Equipment Factory used to be a military factory. They had learned the relevant confidentiality regulations more than once, and everyone had basic awareness.

This time, it was merely a higher level of confidentiality.

And this was the reason why Wang Shuo valued the military factory in the first place.

If it were an ordinary factory, just managing the workers would be a headache.

Zhou Ping didn't speak, just nodded, and prepared to hang up the phone, but the man's voice didn't stop.

"Also, Factory Director, Director Fang from the group just called me."

Zhou Ping was stunned.

Director Fang?

"Fang Xiaoyun?"

Zhou Ping frowned. Hearing this name, he knew nothing good would come of it.

"What did he say?"

"Director Fang said…" The young man's voice paused slightly, then said, "We are still short on the delivery quantity for our last order, and he requires us to make up the difference."

"Director Fang also said… the reason he didn't ask us to replenish it before was because we were in the same group, and he couldn't solve the supply of raw materials either. But now that the factory has been transferred to someone else, all undelivered equipment must be made up."

"Heh."

Zhou Ping sneered, "Tell them to go ask the group. The factory has already been handed over; why should we clean up their mess?"

"This…"

The young man didn't know what to say, so he could only say, "Then I will go reply now."

Just as the young man was about to hang up the phone, Zhou Ping's voice sounded again.

"Wait a moment."

Zhou Ping asked, "Did they say how much is missing?"

The young man said, "One thousand sets."

Zhou Ping sighed, "Tell him we will make it up and deliver it by the middle of next month."

The young man stammered, "This… Director Fang said that since this batch of equipment needs to be compared and tested with recently purchased samples, it… must be delivered by the end of the month…"

Zhou Ping's expression darkened slightly.

After a long while, he said slowly, "Do as he says."

The young man was clearly relieved and immediately said, "Okay, Factory Director, I will go notify everyone to work overtime to check the equipment and start work as soon as possible."

The phone hung up.

Zhou Ping let out a breath slowly and looked at the busy workers in the factory, his expression slightly gloomy.

He didn't expect that just as the factory was about to get on the right track, someone would start having crooked ideas so quickly.

He gently clenched his fists.

"The factory was ruined in your hands. Are you now prepared to lose even the last shred of dignity?"

The gag order soon reached the ears of every worker at the First Equipment Factory.

No one questioned this, and everyone was used to it.

After all, their factory had once been glorious, and it wasn't as if they hadn't produced equipment with higher security classifications before.

Of course, the main reason was… Wang Shuo had brought them hope.

Not to mention the salary increases; the promised dividends were now also within sight.

They hoped more than anyone that the factory could get on the right track as soon as possible. Only with profits could their dividends be realized.

Even if it was only a few hundred yuan a month, it was still money.

Therefore, Wang Jie, Jiang Jun, and the others found that wherever they went, although everyone stared at them with looks of amazement and envy, almost no one took out their phones to take pictures.

Occasionally there were a few, but they were all stopped by the people next to them.

Wang Jie was very satisfied with this and made a mental note to report it to President Wang after returning.

He used to be from the First Equipment Factory, and if he had the opportunity to improve the First Equipment Factory's standing in the boss's mind, he wouldn't mind doing a small favor.

The material coils on the flatbed cart had already been unloaded into the warehouse, and now the cart was carrying a huge box that was two or three meters in length, width, and height.

This thing was very heavy.

Even wearing the armor, it took three people working together to place it securely on the flatbed cart.

Behind them were forklifts driven by factory workers, as many as seven or eight of them, each carrying a huge box, slowly moving behind them.

Soon, a huge factory building appeared before everyone's eyes.

In order to accommodate this valuable equipment and meet Wang Shuo's requirements for establishing an automated production line, Zhou Ping had already called and arranged everything when he returned.

The huge factory building had been completely emptied, the dust carefully swept away, and it looked very neat and clean.

Wang Jie looked at the factory building in front of him and said calmly, "Let's begin."

In two days, building an entire automated production line consisting of more than a dozen pieces of equipment from scratch was undoubtedly difficult.

Not to mention that they were all laymen.

If it weren't for zero egg, let alone completing this task, it would be impressive if they could even understand it.

Fortunately, they didn't need to worry about anything.

All they had to do was follow the drawings and construction sequence arranged by Zero, place the equipment piece by piece into its designated position, and connect the required lines, just like building with blocks.

This was also difficult, but compared to the previous task, it wasn't that hard.

They each chose the boxes they were responsible for, didn't even need tools, and directly used the Powered Armor for brute-force dismantling, opening all the boxes in no time.

A few of them couldn't look after each other, so they acted separately, and the scene looked a bit chaotic for a moment.

But there seemed to be a pattern in the chaos.

Shen Yan and the others standing on the side watched quietly.

They didn't seem to be able to help with these things.

And… watching Jiang Jun effortlessly lift two huge metal mechanical arms and place them in their respective positions, then use the small electric tools extending from the armor's arm to install them, Shen Yan was tongue-tied.

It seemed there was nothing to help with.

With the Powered Exoskeleton, even if they wanted to go up and help lift something, it would seem a bit redundant.

If this thing becomes popular in the future… just thinking about it feels terrifying.

Shouldn't the Exoskeleton still be in the laboratory stage?

Why did they see the finished product now?

Who exactly came up with this?

Countless questions lingered in Shen Yan's mind.

Looking at the busy Wang Jie and the others, he secretly made a decision.

He turned back and looked into the factory again.

In just less than half an hour, the layout of the equipment in the factory already had a prototype.

The functional areas on the ground had already been divided, and based on Shen Yan's understanding of the equipment, he could only roughly see that they belonged to four different assembly lines. As for the specific functions… because the key equipment all used enclosed horizontal Machining Centers, he couldn't tell.

Perhaps this was the reason why Wang Jie and the others didn't avoid them at all.

Two hours later, the first production line was declared complete.

The dense and complex equipment was dazzling, and coupled with the overhead crane tracks covering the ceiling, a simple factory building was forcibly transformed into something with a futuristic feel.

As for those mechanical arms moving around on the ground, he didn't know what to say.

A companion next to him was watching with great interest and couldn't help asking, "The equipment is so dense, where do the people stand?"

"People?" Shen Yan looked at the production line taking shape in front of him, his eyes complex. "Who said this production line needs people to operate it?"

"It doesn't?" The companion was stunned, a bit puzzled, "But this production line isn't equipped with automated sensors, nor does it have specialized automated engineering control software."

Without these, there is no such thing as automation.

It's not like they haven't seen fully automated factories that operate without humans; they saw one last year when the factory organized personnel to visit the group's advanced equipment production base, but the layout and investment of that factory were definitely not at this level.

Does the one in front of them… have any similarities to an automated factory?

Except for the overhead crane system hanging from the ceiling which looked like it had some basis for automation, the equipment on the ground looked completely disorganized.

They couldn't even tell what these production lines were for.

They wanted to ask, but seeing that the few big shots who were quite amiable before became serious as soon as they entered working mode, their stern expressions seemingly freezing the air, they had to give up on that idea.

Shen Yan shook his head slightly and didn't speak.

A few minutes later, the situation changed again.

Two of the five separated and came to the position Wang Jie had initially marked. The zero egg beside them flew around the factory wall and then returned to the two.

One of them looked at the phone in his hand and nodded slightly.

"Let's do it here. Cutting a few openings here won't affect the main structure of the factory."

"Hmm." The other person didn't object.

There really was nothing to object to regarding the position calculated by Zero.

Subsequently, everyone saw the two take out acetylene torches from who knows where, fix them onto the armor, and begin cutting operations.

The steel-structured factory wall was soon cut with an opening more than two meters wide and three meters high.

Before everyone could figure out what was going on, sparks also appeared on the other side of the factory wall, and an opening even larger than the current one was cut out.

Everyone looked at each other.

This wasn't the end. Soon, everyone discovered that one of the five had moved out a stepladder, stepped onto the ladder, and reached above the opening.

"Zero, change the armor mode; change the passive motion following to active."

He gave the order casually, and under the continued bewildered gazes of everyone, he took out… a spray paint can.

Subsequently, three standard spray-painted characters appeared above the opening. "Feeding Port."

The font was neat, just like printing.

Just looking at this handwriting, it definitely couldn't have been written without twenty years of experience as a painter.

Wang Jie was very satisfied with this.

Is writing difficult?

You just hold down the spray paint can, and leave the rest to the armor and Zero.

Look at the battery level on the chest of the armor.

After messing around for more than two hours, moving things, transporting, and running back and forth, the battery level of this thing actually still had more than seventy percent left.

Is it that durable?

Wang Jie was slightly surprised, but not puzzled.

There were already enough things about President Wang that didn't make sense. He had even built the armor; was it a problem if the battery was a bit more durable?

However, judging by this progress, it seems it won't take two days to fully build these production lines; one day is enough.

That's fine, finish early, change jobs early.

Wang Jie turned to look at the other opening.

Jiang Jun was standing on a stacked platform, writing on the wall.

The characters "Finished Product Transfer Station" were already more than half written.

Retracting his gaze, Wang Jie showed a hint of a smile and turned to walk into the factory.

The future is promising.