Witch Special

Lin Zhenxi returned to the abandoned city area with the business license approved by the government, dragged out his magic sand table named Liulitan and began to choose a location for opening a pillow factory.

Although he had no experience in running a factory before, Lin Zhenxi had been bombarded with information. He was not an expert in anything, but he could say a few words about everything.

Lin Zhenxi wasn't driven by profit, so she didn't need to be so meticulous about it. In her opinion, the only real prerequisite was a clear road leading to the main city. Whether it was for purchasing raw materials or shipping finished products, a clear road was essential. As for other things like water and electricity, Lin Zhenxi could solve them through some unscientific means. However, transportation, a task that was expected to be frequent, was something Lin Zhenxi didn't want to do herself, so she needed to create conditions for others to handle it.

The streets in the abandoned city area are actually quite robust. After all, building a city requires road construction, and only a well-developed transportation system can support the rapid development of a new city. City Z's development was setback when construction work on the abandoned city area was almost complete, long after the roads had been completed. Although the roads are now cluttered with debris from long periods of neglect, including decent debris and more serious items like human remains... Overall, the problem isn't serious; simply clearing the roads will allow them to be used again.

Of course, in addition to clearing the debris, maintenance is also very important if the roads are to be used normally. Otherwise, it would be unacceptable if the roads are cleared today and then blocked again tomorrow. This requires the "cooperation" of the homeless people living in the abandoned urban area.

Saitama wasn't the only one living in the abandoned city. In fact, despite the lack of running water and electricity (who knows where Saitama's water and electricity come from, or who collects his rent; Lin Zhenxi couldn't understand it at the moment), City Z was full of losers who had gone bankrupt due to the setbacks in urban development. Unable to afford rent in the city or flights to other cities, they had no choice but to turn to the neglected abandoned city. At least there, they had no trouble finding a place to shelter from the wind and rain.

Human nature is always ugly, especially in those who have experienced dark times. Those who stand in the darkness, looking toward the light, are ultimately few and far between. Slowly sinking into despair amidst struggle is the common fate of all living beings. Lin Zhenxi has always been willing to assume the worst of those homeless people who have lost everything.

Tapping the glass-like frame of the magic sandbox with his wand, Lin Zhenxi made another mental note. If he wanted to gain a foothold in this abandoned city, he needed to have the power to intimidate those homeless people and keep them from causing trouble.

Or, to be more straightforward, use force.

Either she beat them into submission, until they were afraid and dared not come near her. Or she could recruit them and bring them under unified management. If she arranged jobs for all the homeless people and helped them find employment again, there would be no more homeless people causing trouble for her.

However, the latter option is only possible after the factory has grown to a certain scale. Now she has not even laid the first brick of the factory, so there is no way she can take such a kind approach.

So before opening the factory, do we need to clean up all the homeless people nearby? Lin Zhenxi frowned, raised the scale of the magic sand table, found a main road extending from the main urban area, and highlighted it on the sand table.

Then Lin Zhenxi discovered that the place where she lived was actually an extension of this main road. The overpass that her apartment building faced was actually part of the main road.

That’s right, if it’s not a main road, why build an elevated bridge through the city?

Then just find a place across from the main road!

Anyway, it's just a pillow factory, not some heavy industry with high noise and pollution. It would be easier to take care of it if the distance is closer.

The most common thing in the abandoned city area was abandoned buildings. Lin Zhenxi casually drew a few sand tables along the road and found a suitable place to open a factory. The place must have been a construction site in the past, but the construction team retreated before the work was completed, leaving only a vacant lot there.

After choosing the location, the next step was to build the factory. Lin Zhenxi felt that she had to build a decent factory building first. As for the machinery and equipment, she could purchase them from the main urban area and have them shipped over after the factory building was completed and the road was paved.

The only "technological" element in the sleep-aid pillow lies in the magical imprint embossed on the pillowcase, or more precisely, in the embossing machine that will soon be modified by Lin Zhenxi. Without Lin Zhenxi's enchanted embossing machine, even if someone copies Lin Zhenxi's work exactly, there will be no effect.

So she doesn't need to apply for a patent at all. The mystery she bestows is the world's strongest patent protection.

Besides the embossing machine, there's also the idea of ​​installing a microcircuit inside the pillow to charge the magic brand. This would then be converted into magic power through the brand's magic reservoir. This was even simpler. Lin Zhenxi planned to simply purchase ready-made flexible circuit stickers and stick them directly inside the pillowcase. This would also add the wireless charging gimmick, making it easier to advertise.

To build a factory, especially in a lawless area like the abandoned city, Lin Zhenxi first had to gather a team of people to deter the homeless from causing trouble. Therefore, her first batch of employees had to be fierce and intimidating.

Lin Zhenxi subconsciously thought of another group of bald people she had observed before.

In the abandoned city, there are actually more than one mobile light bulb like Saitama, with no hair on his head. It can even be said that Saitama is just an inconspicuous member of this group, because deeper in the abandoned city, there is a criminal gang characterized by bald heads. Every member of that gang has shaved his head to a shiny new look.

Because he was not sure whether Saitama was the bald boss he was looking for, Lin Zhenxi also secretly observed the bald criminal gang called "Taoyuan Group" and got to know them.

The leader of that criminal gang was called Hammerhead. It seemed his brain wasn't fully developed, causing his skull to grow a bit deformed. While most people's heads are round, wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, Hammerhead's was narrow at the top and wide at the bottom, with a square chin. This made his head look a bit like a hammerhead, which is probably how he got the nickname "Hammerhead."

This "Hammer Head" gang, with the slogan "Promote non-work and let those who are willing to work support those who are unwilling to work," recruited a group of young people who were unwilling to work and became a tyrant in the abandoned city. The first thing these young people had to do after joining the gang was to shave their heads completely, giving themselves a bald head like the gang leader.

In a city like Z, a city in a state of slow decline, the most common problem is the lack of jobs. Whether it's a lack of talent or a self-righteous lack of skills, the reasons for finding a job vary, but the dilemma they face after starting a career is the same.

Even if he was just a thug, at least he had a way to make a living. Hammerhead probably didn't realize that while he was saying "I'll never work," he was actually providing those unemployed young people with a job to make a living, preventing them from becoming homeless and dying in a corner where even stray dogs couldn't find them.

Well, with his underdeveloped brain, he probably can't realize this.

To be a thug in the Waste City, you need more than just connections, let alone the largest and most vibrant social group there. Hammerhead was clearly not a player who relied on intelligence, so his only remaining means of roaming the Waste City was force.

The reason Hammerhead was able to dominate the abandoned city was because he had somehow obtained a batch of combat uniforms. These uniforms possessed a terrifying strength-boosting effect. Even a skinny person would instantly possess the strength to uproot a weeping willow. Hammerhead, a simple-minded individual with incredibly developed limbs, was amplified to terrifying levels after donning those bulky black combat uniforms.

To Lin Zhenxi, the bald underlings of the Taoyuan Group, once in combat uniform, were practically a group of half-giants, capable of overturning a one-and-a-half-ton car or pushing a stationary locomotive. And the leader, Hammerhead, was even more formidable. He was like a mountain giant, his head full of stone, yet possessing immense strength. Lin Zhenxi's familiars had witnessed Hammerhead's destruction of buildings; the steel and concrete of unfinished buildings were as fragile as clods of earth beneath his iron fist.

Aren't these the very people Lin Zhenxi desperately needs right now? They're the local tyrants of the abandoned city. If Lin Zhenxi can recruit them, the homeless harassment she'd been worried about will be solved. Furthermore, their sheer strength makes them perfect for building factories, moving equipment, and transporting goods.

As long as we use this high-quality labor force to open up the situation, the rest of the things will probably be much easier.

As for how to get the Taoyuan Group to abandon the club's purpose set by Hammerhead himself and work for Lin Zhenxi obediently? That's easy. Of course, it's all about persuading them with reason.

Lin Zhenxi likes to reason with guys like this who have no special abilities and rely solely on equipment to win.