A nation's industrial development begins with junior engineers.

After checking on the wounded, I decided to go find Dr. Lan Ying. During our earlier conversation, she mentioned that the seed crystal rod had been completed and that she would be able to extract the ruby ​​crystals that Jiangxia needed in the next few days.

Pull it out? Maltose, huh? The little rascal is a genius when it comes to processing certain special materials.

But what does it matter?

The kid isn't an omniscient, omnipotent overlord, but he can summon reinforcements. And those he summons aren't ordinary people...

This time, the torch performed quite well, without suddenly giving up halfway and leaving the little guy with a bruised and swollen face.

The famous Chaoyang District of Beijing.

The place that will one day be a bustling metropolis still has many farmlands.

The sawtooth-shaped roof of Factory 718 has a rather fantastical style.

"Junior brother! Slow down! There's a huge block of ice at the entrance!"

At the factory gate, the senior apprentice from Yunnan and Guizhou, his face bruised and swollen, repeatedly called out to the little brat. The little brat stared at the ice block for a moment, then circled around it.

"Tsk tsk, is there no one left in this factory? They didn't even bother to clean up the gate."

"Hey, senior brother, why are you here so early?"

"Early my ass! I've been waiting for you for ages! Where's that thing you were talking about? Let me see it now!"

Senior Brother Yungui was indeed very anxious, so much so that he swore and grabbed Jiangxia's large satchel with both hands, refusing to let go.

"Hey, there's no use in getting anxious since there's no Big Yellow clone. Besides, the converter isn't finished yet. Why don't you get someone to finish the circuit board first?"

Yes, Jiang Xia had already told his senior brother from Yunnan and Guizhou about using magnetic tape as external storage. Today was the day they would meet, but he wondered why his usually composed senior brother was acting like a virgin about to enter the bridal chamber.

"How could I not be in a hurry!" Senior Brother Yungui rubbed his cheek. "Besides, do you think Big Yellow's clone was made at the Academy of Sciences? You still need to use that screen..."

Senior Brother Yungui winked at Jiang Xia, giving him a knowing look.

"How embarrassing! The news just came back yesterday, it's so embarrassing, I didn't have the nerve to tell you..."

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"We sent a few units westward—uh, to the place that desperately needed 'Big Yellow' (a type of memory chip). But the magnetic core memory didn't adapt well there; not only was most of the pre-written program lost, but it was also incredibly slow. We got laughed at by the comrades there again..."

Well, that's hard to say. It's quite reasonable that geomagnetic anomalies in some places could trigger a chain reaction, causing magnetic core memory to malfunction.

Furthermore, current magnetic core memory is quite delicate, and it is perfectly normal for data loss to occur due to severe shaking during transportation.

If there's a problem, just solve it.

Jiangxia then pulled out a large bag of blueprints and handed it to his senior brother from Yunnan and Guizhou.

"Here it is. I modified a tape recorder at home, but I didn't dare take it apart for fear of upsetting my dog, Dahuang. Everything's fine with the circuit board manufacturing here, right? Let's just make a new one. The fishermen from the Navy should have sent over some tapes, right?"

"Yes, no problem. Chemical etching was developed by Dr. Lan Ying, but it can only be done in small batches at the moment, so it's still a bit slow."

"That Lan Ying is something else, instead of further developing this technology, she's rushing to pull crystals..."

"The navy too, saying the waves have been big lately and it's hard to catch fish, so they stingily sent over only a few dozen boxes..."

"Are you taking advantage of me because I've never fished before...?"

The eldest brother, still rambling on, didn't reach out to take it, and led Jiang Xia into a small hut near the factory gate.

"Uh, you mean crystal pulling? Aluminum oxide? I'll take that!"

"Besides, as for chemical corrosion and stuff, senior, do you know of a method that involves printing circuits?"

The senior brother from Yunnan and Guizhou, walking ahead, smiled silently: "I knew you had something special to offer. You wouldn't reveal it without a little provocation. Having a goal makes things easier. We have plenty of time, junior brother..."

After taking a few steps, I pushed open another small door.

"Underground passage?"

"Yes, this is the way into the factory area. I'm the one who pours the water at the factory gate..."

"Huh? Is that really necessary?"

"Of course there is, it's well hidden! Didn't you see you grumbling about why no one was dealing with the ice at the entrance? That gives the enemy the wrong impression that this factory area is nothing special!"

Hehe, I learned it from "10 O'Clock on National Day," pretty cool, right? (An old movie, quite good.)

"Has your factory been inspected by the verification team? Two people were arrested in our workshop! One of them was carrying sulfuric acid!"

"I knew it! The first two batches of transistors kept having problems, but the ones from Hong Kong were fine! That rat is so clever. She only puts a tiny bit of sulfuric acid on the pins each time. They pass quality control during final assembly, but once assembled, the pins corroded by the sulfuric acid start to malfunction. And the malfunction doesn't even appear immediately..."

At this point, the senior disciple from Yunnan and Guizhou paused for a moment, waiting for the little brat to exclaim in surprise.

"Uh, senior brother, you fell down yourself, how come you're all bruised and battered?"

Tsk tsk, this kid doesn't play by the rules!

Am I supposed to tell you that you got bored while waiting, suddenly wanted to skate on the ice, lost your balance, and fell flat on your face?

The depressed senior brother was once again led astray by the little dummy.

Upon arriving at the underground security room, under the watchful eyes of relevant personnel, the blueprints were officially handed over after both parties signed the seal across the seam.

Meticulous.

"Hey, junior brother, don't think it's too much trouble. This is a workflow summary from a department head. Apparently, he was once fooled. Someone used a few pieces of paper to pretend to be blueprints, and he signed off on an important project in a very ordinary way..."

Hmm? Really?

There's a strange sense of familiarity about it.

"By the way, junior brother, why don't you go get a seal made too? There will be quite a few situations later where you need to sign, and a seal will make things much faster..."

Watching the little guy write his name on every drawing, getting a bit impatient towards the end, his senior brother gave him another idea.

Hey, right. Last time, the people at the hideout gave me a few seals, all fancy and fancy. One of them even had the words "Only the most refined and single-minded" on it. I should be able to erase those words and carve my name on it. Anyway, that seal is pretty solid.

Once all the formalities were completed, the senior apprentice grabbed the blueprints and ran off.

The remaining cubs stared at each other, bewildered by the guards.

"Comrade, could you take me to Dr. Lan Ying? I'm quite curious about the ruby ​​and all that. Uh, my security clearance level should be high enough, right?"

The guard gave him a deep look. "Of course, you have free rein here. Come with me, comrade!"

Ah, the phrase "unimpeded" made Xiao Dai Mao feel much better.

We're someone of importance now!

Its proud little ahoge (cowlick) swayed back and forth.

After following the guards around the passage several times, they saw Dr. Lan Ying in the glass house directing several young people to carefully and slowly immerse a red seed crystal rod into the melt in the crucible. After the tip of the seed crystal was coated with a small amount of melt, it was pulled upwards at an extremely slow speed.

"Slow down, slow down, you absolutely mustn't go too fast!"

A moment later, the man holding the crystal rod trembled slightly, and the formed crystal immediately shattered into pieces.

"Teacher, my hand was sore, it just shook a little!"

"Hey, it's not your fault. There's a special kind of equipment in Pennsylvania that can pull crystals. But I didn't pay attention to it at the time and didn't understand how it worked. I'm sorry to have troubled you guys..."

Jiang Xia covered her face. "My dear PhD, you should come to me with mechanical issues!"

With a motor, reducer, and lead screw, you can achieve any level of stability you want!