Chapter 4

Father is still under the influence of anesthesia and is in a deep sleep.

Ye Qing gently felt in his trouser pocket but didn't find his phone. His coat was gone, probably cut to pieces by the doctors.

He then took the opportunity to run upstairs and ask his mother, who said that his uncle and his maternal uncles had already been called. They had pooled 50,000 yuan and transferred it over, saying that if it wasn't enough, they would borrow more, but it would take some time.

"50,000 yuan?" A young man with a thug-like appearance, hearing about the money, immediately perked up and squeezed next to Ye Qing, indignant: "If you have money, take it out quickly. My uncle is still on the operating table, and even 200,000 yuan wouldn't be enough."

"All the money has been paid for the surgery. Where do I have any money left?" Xu Lan, somewhat angrily, shielded Ye Qing: "My husband was beaten by you guys, and I haven't even asked you for medical expenses yet."

"He deserved it. No boss is a good... " The thug-like young man didn't finish his sentence before Ye Qing suddenly pushed him against the wall in the corridor.

Ye Qing struck out with both hands, his knee heavily hitting the man's abdomen.

Ye Qing couldn't help but be impulsive. His father had been beaten, and one of the culprits was actually making a fuss in front of him. What else could be on Ye Qing's mind at this moment?

Anger surged like steam from a battleship, spewing from Ye Qing's eyes. If it weren't for the two police officers taking statements who came over to break it up, Ye Qing would have sent this guy to the operating table as well.

"Is there no law? The family of the culprit dares to hit people?" The young man, clutching his stomach in pain, could barely speak.

"You wait, you're in trouble." With these words, two other young men in the crowd moved closer.

"Enough." A police officer with the rank of Deputy Inspector pushed the two aside: "If you cause any more trouble, you'll all come with me to the station, and each of you will spend fifteen days in detention."

Cao Yun also came over to break it up, hugging Ye Qing and telling him not to be impulsive. The one who led the attack had already been taken away by the police, and there would definitely be an explanation.

Only then did Ye Qing realize that the leader had been taken away. He looked at his mother for confirmation, and upon receiving her answer, he calmed down a bit.

However, Ye Qing also understood that with such an incident, the police couldn't ignore the emotions of the families. At most, they would be detained for fifteen days.

Everyone's attention was on this side, and no one noticed that the operating room door had opened. It wasn't until the doctor in surgical scrubs called out for the family members twice that their attention was drawn over.

"How is the patient?" Ye Qing, without hesitation, joined Lu Xiaozhen and Qian Dongdong's families, surrounding the doctor to ask.

"There is no life-threatening danger. Both injured have completed their surgeries. Qian Dongdong has a skull fracture and needs to be admitted to the ICU for a few days to monitor for any intracranial bleeding."

Hearing that there was no life-threatening danger, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and the tense atmosphere eased slightly.

However, the families in the ICU didn't understand. When they learned it was the Intensive Care Unit, they immediately became tense and pale.

If there's no life-threatening danger, why do they need the ICU?

"There are many instruments inside that can monitor the patient's heartbeat and blood pressure in real time. If there is any intracranial bleeding, it can be detected immediately."

The female doctor waved to disperse the crowd, making way for the patient: "Don't worry. Even if there is intracranial bleeding, it won't be life-threatening. The accumulated blood can be quickly removed, and it won't affect the patient's future ability to work. His brain wasn't damaged."

As long as he's fine, the families thought, all the best equipment and the best medicine should be used.

Doctors usually like to treat these work injury patients because they are all external injuries with clear conditions that are easy to treat.

It's also easier to charge for expensive treatments, as the boss will ultimately pay for them.

Ye Qing didn't understand these details, and even if he did, he wouldn't say anything. The workers were injured at his factory, and cooperating with the hospital was a given. Any person with a conscience wouldn't try to save money in such a situation.

After helping to move Lu Xiaozhen and Qian Dongdong into the ward, Xu Lan finally had time to visit her husband on the fifth floor.

She knew the factory wasn't doing well and had no money. Seeing her husband lying in bed, along with the subsequent treatment costs and compensation for the two workers, she couldn't help but shed tears, wondering how they would manage in the future.

Ye Qing held his mother's frail shoulders and said, "Leave everything to me. There are still machines in the factory. If necessary, I'll sell them."

Not long after these words, a nurse came in, handed Ye Qing a stack of bills, and said that the ICU bed alone cost 8,000 yuan per day. With the surgery, the two injured had only 22,000 yuan left, which would only last until the next day.

After the nurse left, five other workers squeezed in.

"Little... boss." The five workers, usually tough, were now stuttering.

"What is it!" Ye Qing said in a low voice.

"We... have decided to resign together."

Cao Yun, the older one, led the way, somewhat awkwardly: "Little boss, it's not that we're heartless. But with such an accident at the factory, the profit from the orders we receive won't even cover the medical expenses. We have families to support. If we continue working, won't our wages be delayed?"

Hearing that they were all resigning, Ye Qing was truly desperate and tried to persuade them: "I can sell the machines to raise the medical fees. If I sell the CNC gantry milling machine, I can outsource the work that requires it and finish this batch of orders. Is that okay?"

"Little boss, Lu Xiaozhen and Qian Dongdong operate the CNC machine. They will be in the hospital for a while, and we can't find someone to replace them in the short term."

"Moreover, the boss is injured. Without him directing, the workers don't know what to do." The workers, now relaxed, explained the situation to Ye Qing: "How can we continue working? Our wages are uncertain, and the boss is not here."

With the situation as it was, what could Ye Qing do to change their minds?

"Please understand. The factory is in crisis, and we can't pay the wages for now."

Ye Qing stood up, patted their shoulders: "I will sell the machines and try to pay your wages. If I can't pay within a month, you can come to the factory and take steel plates or machines."

The workers hurriedly said they could understand.

After the workers left, Ye Qing had to leave the hospital to his mother.

Ye Qing rushed downstairs to assess the damage to the CNC gantry milling machine at the factory. If everything went as expected, this machine would have to be sold first. The only thing he could do now was to determine how much it could fetch.

The [Qingyun Cutting Machinery Manufacturing Factory] was located in the southwestern corner of the industrial park in Zhongyun City. This was where Ye Qing's father and grandfather lived. In 2009, the area was demolished and expanded into an industrial park. Ye Jiangning built a standard production workshop according to the plan.

The workshop covered more than 2,000 square meters and had a yard. With the support of the industrial park's entrepreneurship projects and the compensation for the old house and land, the cost of the steel structure workshop was not high.

This workshop was the largest real estate asset of the Ye family, but the manufacturing industry in Zhongyun City was not doing well, and there were many vacant standard workshops in the park, making it impossible to sell.

With a heavy heart, Ye Qing opened the door and walked into the workshop.

There were processing machines, cutting machines, automatic wire feeding TIG welders, 10-ton floor-standing presses, and swivel head drilling and milling machines. These were the main processing machines in the factory, but in an era where scrap metal was worth less than paper, they couldn't be sold for much.

Only the gantry milling machine was worth something. Stepping over the pile of steel plates, Ye Qing walked to the gantry milling machine.

He clearly remembered how excited and hopeful he was in 2009 when the giant machine was lifted and assembled in the workshop in sections.

A massive machine, several stories high and tens of meters long, made of steel, was incredibly impressive and awe-inspiring to any young person.

This was the pure awe inspired by metal. This machine belonged to the [Qingyun Cutting Machinery Manufacturing Factory] and to Ye Qing.

Now...

Looking at the machine bed lying on the workbench, the lifting system and computer control arm smashed, and the dark red bloodstains on the ground, Ye Qing gently touched the bright stamping plate on the gantry milling machine and then resolutely walked to the office area at the end of the workshop.

The office area had three floors with fourteen rooms. The first floor stored various parts, the second floor was where Ye Qing and his father worked, and the third floor was where the workers ate and slept.

Entering his office on the second floor, Ye Qing turned on the computer and prepared to post an ad on the local forum to sell the used gantry milling machine.

The price of used machines didn't drop much because the larger the machine, the more important the metal stress was for processing accuracy. A machine that had been used for a few years often had better and more stable accuracy than a new one.

But now the gantry milling machine was damaged, and it was bought in 2009 when metal prices were soaring. The expensive machine, which originally cost nearly 1 million yuan, was priced at only 200,000 yuan after careful consideration.

Only by doing this could he ensure that the buyer would find it profitable and be willing to pay the purchase price after inspecting the machine at the factory.

As he slowly edited the post, the silence in the office was suddenly broken by the vibration of his phone, startling Ye Qing.

Wasn't the phone being upgraded? Why was it vibrating?

Pulling the phone out of his pocket, Ye Qing found that the phone, originally given as a gift with a phone bill, had changed its appearance.

The plastic body had turned into a cold, hard metal body.

The charging port and headphone jack were also gone...

Strange!

Stranger than strange!

Ye Qing's heart pounded as he pressed the button. The phone, which had just completed the system upgrade, displayed a fingerprint binding interface on the screen.

"I must be dreaming!" Ye Qing's jaw dropped as he hesitantly placed his thumb on the screen.

"Beep beep" two sounds, and the phone screen showed that the fingerprint binding was complete.

What made Ye Qing even more frustrated was that the upgraded system had deleted all the applications on the phone, and even the photos and contacts were gone.

On the bare screen, there was only one application—[Monster Factory].

There was no internet, and there was no signal.

What is Monster Factory?

Ye Qing was completely confused. The phone had already given him a scare by emitting 100,000 volts of electricity when it got wet, and now even the casing had changed.

Perhaps...

It was a joke by aliens?

Ye Qing, already numb from the shock, opened the only application on the phone with this thought.

Monster Factory: This is the home of a magical race of monsters who love labor and are skilled at creating various machines. Their understanding of machines even surpasses their own lives.

They are also very intelligent, and beneath their impressive physiques, they possess remarkable abilities.

Welding, machine tools, milling machines, drilling machines, CNC machines, laser welding machines, five-axis联动processing centers, seven-axis联动CNC processing centers, ten-thousand-ton hydraulic presses...

There is nothing these monsters can't operate.

This application also has a magical store that sells various processing tools!

Common ~ Fine ~ Rare ~ Excellent ~ Legendary ~

Handheld cutter (Common quality) Attribute: Cutting ability increased by 15%.

Handheld drill (Fine quality) Attribute: Drilling ability +25%, drilling speed +5%.

Vernier caliper (Rare quality) Attribute: Measurement accuracy +40%, chance of perfect accuracy +1%.

Flame cutter (Excellent quality) Attribute: Cutting ability +150%, flame temperature +100%, cutting speed +80%, cutting accuracy +15%.

Metal flaw detector (Legendary quality) Attribute: Flaw detection depth +200%, flaw detection accuracy +200%, penetration density +200%, flaw detection types +50, 5% chance to activate a perfect flaw detection skill that ignores any material obstruction.

All kinds of processing tools can be bought here!

Later, powerful hero-level monsters with strong attributes can also be recruited.

Ye Qing was completely stunned as he read through these descriptions. Mobile users, please visit http://m.piaotia.net

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