The sun rose in the east and set in the west.

Before long, after dinner was delivered, the working hours of everyone there drew to a close.

Su Mo had not been idle all day either.

Through a large number of tests, he had already roughly worked out how to use the seven different parts of the miniature development platform.

As soon as the materials arrived, he could start testing right away, following the framework he had in mind.

After a simple dinner, once the power was cut off and the room was cleaned up, it was already seven in the evening.

The moment Su Mo pushed the door open, Sun Quan was, as expected, waiting at the door again.

“Brother Su, you’re really dedicated. You even cleaned the place up in there!”

Looking at the neat and bright workroom and the unfolded development platform, Sun Quan clicked his tongue in wonder. He took the lunch box Su Mo was carrying in one hand and casually tossed it into the trash can by the door.

“How about it, any progress on your side?”

“Progress, my foot. Zhang Min bought me some short-compile computer, I don’t even know where she dug up that secondhand thing, and it didn’t come with a manual. Just assembling it took me a whole day!”

“I’m telling you, those few don’t want anything at all. It all adds up to them never planning to do any work in the first place!”

Sun Quan shook his head in bewilderment, which amused Su Mo at once.

“Well then, at least my development platform is brand new!”

Su Mo looked back. Of the seven workrooms, only his had been standing open for a long time. All the others had long been shut.

Clearly, just as Sun Quan complained, whatever the skills of the other five, they clocked out right on time and very fast.

“Didn’t Zhang Min come?”

“She’s busy. Where would she find the time to come over? Besides, I heard Qiankun Grain Store is holding another tool exhibition in a few days, and nearly all the prominent figures in Mulberry Field Town have been invited. Brother Su, don’t you think that’s a hard slap in Zizai Liang Lane’s face?”

While walking out, Sun Quan started whispering about the new information he had collected that day.

“During my break at noon today, I made a point of wandering around our shop, and I still couldn’t find where the person Zizai Liang Lane has hidden is developing.”

“If you and I aren’t that person, then among the remaining five, I think the most suspicious is still that Yao Zhe.”

“As soon as that guy goes into his workroom he draws the curtain. At lunch I made an excuse to go into his room to have a look, and guess what? He wouldn’t even open the door for me.”

“If Qiankun Grain Store comes looking, let’s just push the blame onto this Yao Zhe!”

“Can you be sure it’s him?” Su Mo raised an eyebrow and stepped out of the front gate of the lane onto the street.

There were only nineteen days left until the Summer Harvest, and Zizai Liang Lane’s results today were still bleak.

Compared with Qiankun Grain Store in the distance, which still had three long lines of people signing up, this side did not have a single person asking for information, which was enough to show how great the gap between the two sides was.

“Why couldn’t I be sure? If you’ve done nothing wrong, you’re not afraid of a knock at midnight.”

“Being so secretive, to say nothing else, there’s definitely something fishy about him!”

“Enough, don’t guess wildly.” Hearing that Sun Quan was speaking purely from subjective guesses, Su Mo shook his head helplessly and did not follow up on the topic.

After a whole day, whatever else, he was extremely satisfied with this working environment.

There were good machines and equipment, meals delivered to the door of his room, and tomorrow a toilet and a sandbag would even be added in a corner of the wall.

Such things, such treatment, were not necessarily available elsewhere.

No matter what Zhang Min was actually planning, or what thoughts the other few had in mind, Su Mo’s idea was simple.

When you eat a man’s salary, you must do the man’s work.

Before the deadline arrived, he would definitely make a tool good enough to rival the energy stone sickle and hand it in.

By then, whether or not Zhang Min had other backup routes, it would be enough as long as he completed what was his own duty.

As for the rest, and the remaining time, he would definitely use this platform to speed up the development of new weapons.

At the very least, within this time he had to settle the scope and requirements of the development first, and it would be best to have a basic model.

“All right, go back. I live over by Gutian Third Street. Also, I’ve set up a small gong in front of the gate, so if there is anything you need help with, just come and find me.”

“Remember, don’t bother me unless it’s a matter of life and death!”

Arriving again at the fork in the road where they had parted yesterday, Su Mo thought it over and in the end gave this underling he had taken on only a day ago a small promise.

True, in Sun Quan’s eyes, Tian Yuan Territory was extremely safe, and as long as one lived by the book it was hard to be murdered for one’s money.

But for some reason, over these days, through observing the details and understanding the policies further, Su Mo had always had a strange feeling.

The sky above the territory was not clear for ten thousand miles. Instead, beneath thick, gathering clouds, a pair of black eyes was staring down.

Waiting only for someone to stick out his head, and then thunder would be sent down in punishment.

“Forget it, I won’t think about it. We’ll cross the bridge when we come to it.”

“If there is really a problem my current identity can’t solve, then at worst I go straight to Feng Long. Why think so much!”

He shook his head, watched Sun Quan’s bouncing back disappear from sight, then turned and walked toward the area near his home.

Just like yesterday, he passed through a few dark little alleys, took a shortcut through two long-dilapidated public buildings,

and when the view opened up before his eyes, the yellowish light in the little courtyard was, as expected, on.

At the same time, the smell of cooked food drifted straight out of the courtyard and curled under Su Mo’s nose.

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