Chapter 46

The employee responsible for receiving Ye Qing's first reaction was that Ye Qing was crazy.

"A proper laboratory, with the qualifications to issue authoritative appraisal reports. It can also take on some high-tech research projects. If it receives government projects, it can even enjoy funding."

"If a company wants to set up a proper laboratory, even at the city level, it has to be one of the top companies in the city. It also needs relevant scientific research equipment; otherwise, the approval won't be granted. This has to be reviewed by the city committee; we can't handle it here."

"What about laboratories below the city level?"

"Then you just find a place, put up a sign, and set it up yourself."

The staff member thought Ye Qing was a recent college graduate who wanted to start a business and become a boss, and found it somewhat amusing: "Some small factories have their own product laboratories, but they are just for self-entertainment. They can't take on external projects and have no authority; they can only use them for advertising to fool people."

Ye Qing said thank you, paid the remaining agency fees, and left.

Ye Qing's goal of establishing a laboratory was simple and necessary.

The Monster Factory currently has only two levels, yet the products it manufactures are already so powerful. When it reaches a higher level, the products it manufactures will undoubtedly be even more astonishing, and many black technologies will inevitably emerge.

Ye Qing is not a scientist; if black technologies keep popping up, it would be obvious that something is amiss.

However, if a scientific research laboratory is established, all of this can be reasonably explained.

Last time, when Ye Qing helped Rongwei repair the steam pipeline, two professors from his alma mater's [Materials Chemical Engineering Laboratory] came to provide chemical assistance.

If Ye Qing also had a similar laboratory, these high-tech and black technologies could be the result of research in the laboratory.

As for the laboratory, he could simply stuff the monsters inside to fool people. Even if the FBI came, they wouldn't be able to get any secrets out of the monsters.

If he bought a bunch of expensive equipment for the laboratory, the outside world might even praise it as the Eastern [Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory]!

Unfortunately, the hardware standards required for a proper laboratory are currently too high for Ye Qing to meet.

There are plenty of unregulated laboratories in fake medicine advertisements.

However, this kind of thing can't even fool laymen, so Ye Qing had to put the plan on hold.

Back at the seaside factory, Ye Qing hung the business license in the makeshift office.

Just as he finished hanging the license, the Monster Factory suddenly issued a notification:

"Congratulations, you now have a second factory. The branch factory will enjoy one-third of the main factory's attribute bonuses. Do you want to bind it as a branch factory?"

Ye Qing unlinked the old factory in the industrial park and made it a branch factory.

A Level 2 Monster Factory can bind only one branch factory. At Level 3, it can bind two branch factories.

One-third of the attribute bonuses mean that the branch factory can only enjoy less than 1% of the manufacturing efficiency, lifespan, and precision bonuses, which are not very significant.

Currently, there are four powerful laborers processing the parts for the electric vehicle.

The steel frame of the electric vehicle is made of thick-walled steel pipes. Ye Qing ordered a large batch of Q195 welded steel pipes and Q235 seamless steel pipes.

These steel pipes need to be bent into specific arcs, and the monsters are using manual pipe benders.

The battery box and the screw ears are cut and welded directly.

When processing the wheel hubs, a problem arose. For large-scale production of electric vehicle wheel hubs, molds are used, and the hubs are cast. Ye Qing bought some aluminum alloy pipes and aluminum alloy sheets to process them himself.

With the monsters' skills and the equipment in the production workshop, processing the wheel hubs is not difficult. If necessary, he can use the CNC machining center.

However, Ye Qing found that the material waste was too severe. Aluminum alloy sheets are already expensive, and to cut a curved wheel hub, a large piece of sheet is often wasted.

If he used casting, it would be much simpler, requiring only an aluminum electric furnace and a mold.

He decided to ignore it for now and wait until all the parts were processed to assemble and see the result.

With nothing to do, Ye Qing summoned the Lord's Chariot and controlled it to move through the underground cave to check if the pipeline was still discharging pollutants.

As soon as the Lord's Chariot emerged from the underground cave, it found that the surrounding seawater had become murky, with very low visibility.

Ye Qing looked at the image transmitted by the screen and chuckled. He had already prepared a piece of wood with the emblem of the Ocean Guardians Association carved on it.

Without hesitation, he controlled the Lord's Chariot to block the discharge pipeline.

From the surface, Longxi Beach looked no different from other coastal areas, with rippling waves. However, the water quality in this area was very poor, which made Ye Qing very unhappy.

Many people enjoy seafood, and Ye Qing's Lord's Chariot could easily catch seafood in the sea. Now that the seawater was polluted, even if he caught something, it couldn't be eaten.

After blocking the pipeline, Ye Qing logged into WeChat and refreshed his Moments.

Ye Qing didn't have many friends on WeChat, mostly classmates. He rarely posted on Moments, and he was too lazy to like his classmates' posts.

A bunch of WeChat business ads...

Ye Qing pouted and continued to scroll down, looking for any pretty selfies.

Many of his classmates had become WeChat business sellers. Some, after being scammed, still maintained their pride and continued to promote their products, which made Ye Qing too lazy to refresh Moments.

Selling calcium supplements, miracle soaps, and Korean face masks.

Under the hype of these classmates, the miracle soap became a panacea, even treating hormonal imbalances. The face masks were said to have a cosmetic effect, turning pigs into beauties.

If he weren't so lazy, Ye Qing would definitely block all these people.

After scrolling through several circles of ads, Ye Qing was about to exit when he suddenly remembered something and quickly scrolled back up.

Ye Qing glanced and saw that a cartoon cat avatar had posted a Moments, which seemed to be an ad.

Xia Muqing might be using a cartoon cat avatar, and Ye Qing quickly found it among the many ads.

Sure enough, it was Xia Muqing. Ye Qing remembered her voice very well, and she was the general manager of [Tian Sheng Mining Group], with a very high background.

Xia Muqing posted two photos. The first photo showed a row of equipment, draped in red silk, that looked like excavators but had long arms.

Ye Qing recognized this equipment; it was high-end rock drilling vehicles used in mining operations, typically costing over a million each.

The manufacturing leader in Zhongyun City, [Huaxing Heavy Industry], had this kind of product.

Ye Qing had seen Huaxing Heavy Industry's trucks carrying this equipment many times, traveling all over the country.

The second photo seemed to be a signing ceremony, with a large crowd.

Ye Qing quickly enlarged the image to see if there were any beautiful women.

The second photo was very disappointing for Ye Qing. In the center of the red carpet and red background wall, a man and a woman were sitting at a table covered with red flowers, signing documents, with many people standing on both sides.

The female protagonist was very beautiful and seemed to have a good temperament. However, from her attire and demeanor, it was clear that she was not in the same age group as Ye Qing.

She was at least in her thirties, possibly even in her forties.

The man signing on the other side, after a long look, seemed to be Li Huaxing, the leader of Huaxing Heavy Industry.

The two emcees on the sides were young and fresh, but definitely not Xia Muqing. The crowd was all men in suits.

At signing ceremonies, the background wall usually has the names of both companies and the cooperation project.

The focus of this photo was on the two people signing, and the company names at the top were not captured.

"Absolutely not, I absolutely don't believe it's Xia Muqing." Ye Qing thought that Xia Muqing, whose voice was better than a nightingale's, could not be this aunt.

"Hmm~ The one taking the photo below must be her." Ye Qing encouraged himself.

"Beep~ Beep~"

At this moment, a low and powerful car horn sounded from outside the window.

Ye Qing was taken aback. Whose car horn was so powerful?

The factory was already surrounded by a wall of hollow bricks and cement built by the monsters. There was a gate facing the sea, which was usually closed, so no one could peek into the production workshop.

But Longxi Beach was in a remote area, and the ordered goods had already been delivered. Who could be outside?

Leaving the production workshop, Ye Qing looked out the gate, but there were no vehicles outside.

Was he seeing things?

"Beep~ Beep~" The low horn sounded again. Without the workshop blocking it, Ye Qing's hair stood on end, and he quickly checked his ears.

This time, Ye Qing clearly heard that the sound was coming from the sea.

Very puzzled, he opened the west gate by the sea and was stunned.

A beautiful white double-decker yacht, about fifteen meters long, was moored at the dock left by the old shipyard.

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