After taking a detour, he soon arrived at the place where he usually met Sun Quan.

“Brother Su, you’re finally here!”

“Damn, things are in chaos outside. The guards arrested two or three hundred people this morning.”

Upon seeing Su Mo’s figure appear in the distance, Sun Quan, who had been hiding in a corner, jumped out.

His noticeably quicker pace showed that everyone had inevitably been affected to some extent by this chaos.

“With nothing to do, no money, and unable to afford food, these people are bound to cause trouble.”

Once they reached the main road, they could see there were more patrol teams.

The two walked side by side to Zizai Liang Lane without running into the sort of “robbers” from before.

Sun Quan hurriedly took out the breakfast that Huang Xiaojuan had prepared and handed it to Su Mo.

Su Mo sat down in his workroom without a moment’s delay and continued working.

In four or five days, about sixty percent of the armor blueprint had been disassembled, and the manufacturing process was largely mastered.

Once the whole blueprint was disassembled and a few key components collected, Su Mo would be able to operate this miniature development platform and begin manufacturing the Sun-chaser armor, Version 0.

Unfortunately, after sitting down today, he first had to put the armor blueprints away in the cabinet and take out a fresh sheet of white paper to start drawing.

“If the Summer Harvest only lasts ten days, Zhang Bowen’s energy stone tools alone will certainly not be enough to finish the harvest.”

“If Zizai Liang Lane lost money, that would be a minor issue. The real disaster would be if it went bankrupt and had to sell off all its equipment and materials.”

The manufacture of the armor required a precision integration platform.

That platform, along with nearly forty or fifty thousand points’ worth of materials, would be liquidated in the bankruptcy proceedings.

Even if Su Mo could find a suitable shop later, the progress would likely be delayed significantly.

Therefore, in order to keep things stable,

building on Zhang Bowen’s work, Su Mo decided to continue iterative development, striving to research and develop a harvesting machine that could directly target these special plants, an innovation several times faster than the energy stone tools.

That way, even if time was tight and a few fish still slipped through the net, Zizai Liang Lane would not suffer a direct loss.

“The Xinghuo No. 3 wheat variety is relatively fragile, which means a fully automated machine must be sufficiently gentle and flexible during harvesting.”

“That is the only way to guarantee output.”

As he sketched out the blueprints, an idea quickly formed in Su Mo’s mind.

It was quite simple: there were still a large number of migrant workers scattered throughout Mulberry Field Town.

These people couldn’t find work, and their asking price was low enough.

If they were excluded from the production process, he would inevitably have to put more energy into research and development to make up for it.

On the other hand, using some semi-automatic tools would also take a great deal of time to train these people, if he wanted to ensure the efficiency of the harvest and guarantee that the Summer Harvest could be completed within ten days.

And this was precisely the current pain point.

No time!

“Then let’s go all the way and cut out the harvesting step altogether.”

“As long as we develop a tool to overcome this hardest hurdle, we can get everything done, even if the rest is all manpower!”

How could he make sure that the wheat growing on the ears fell safely to the ground without breaking, and went back to the field?

It was a major problem.

But after thinking of the design blueprints for the Sun-chaser armor in the cabinet at his feet, Su Mo gritted his teeth and set to work.

Before long, the planar structure of the energy stone engine that Lü Kuan had researched began to slowly take shape on paper.

Reason told him that doing so would definitely risk being discovered by the territory.

However, for the sake of the grand plan, Su Mo decided to take a risk and try to achieve a quick victory in a short time.

Once he got into the actual research and development, time flew by.

Before long, it was noon again.

“Brother Su, lunch is ready! We’ve finally found a chef for our canteen!”

“I heard that today they’re serving not only braised pork but also sauerkraut fish. Hurry up and grab some rice!”

Clap, clap, clap.

The lunch bell had just rung when Sun Quan stood at the door and called out.

These days, natural disasters were becoming more and more frequent.

The small scale of the farms meant that meat prices were not only no cheaper than they had been in the wasteland a year ago, but were actually getting more expensive.

For ordinary people, the only time they could afford meat was during holidays and festivals, when they could finally have a little oil in their mouths.

Wanting to eat braised pork or sauerkraut fish was an absolute luxury!

“Brother Su, hurry up!”

“Those people run incredibly fast. If we get there late, we’ll only get leftovers.”

“They’re here! They’re here!”

Hearing the urgency in Sun Quan’s voice, Su Mo reluctantly got up, straightened his clothes, and opened the door.

“What’s the rush? If we wait any longer, the chef will drop back to the same level as before. Then we’ll see if you’re still laughing.”

“How could that be, Brother Su?” Sun Quan shrank back. “I heard that the chef who came today is from a five-star hotel and has three apprentices under him.”

“Even if someone like that does a terrible job, it can’t be worse than those two old men from last time, right?”

As he walked toward the canteen, Sun Quan kept sniffing the air around him, very much like some kind of animal.

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