Anyone who criticized her would be a perfect ingrate and have people jabbing at his spine!

“Fine, I understand,” Seeing the workroom right ahead, Su Mo paused and finally ended the conversation.

By now he had met two old acquaintances from the territory.

One was Feng Long, who had become a frontier official with tens of thousands of heavy troops in his hands.

The other was the fearsome Chief of the Inspectorate, Pei Shao, who was now disguised as a cook to get close to him.

Given all these odd signs, his intuition told Su Mo that Tian Yuan Territory might have undergone drastic changes over these eight years. People who were once simple were no longer simple, and people who were once kind had begun to have ambitions.

But emotionally, he still believed that the management team he had chosen would keep a last trace of their original hearts and know what it was he sought in the wasteland.

“I’ll give you your task in a bit.”

“Okay,” Sun Quan nodded, then opened the door and entered his own workroom.

Looking back toward the canteen once, Su Mo also closed his door, deep in thought, and went on with his research.

Since Pei Shao was approaching him this way, it meant he did not want to expose his identity and wanted to achieve his aims from the shadows.

In this situation, with the game’s restrictions in place, Su Mo naturally could not take action right away either. He could only take it one step at a time.

Of course, it would be best if Pei Shao could guess his true identity, but it did not matter if he could not.

As long as he produced the right tool at the Summer Harvest and accumulated enough funds to exchange for materials, then once he built the Sun-chaser armor and had basic self-protection, however complicated the situation of the territory became, Su Mo was confident he could give it a try!

The next few days.

Ever since the two had interacted with tacit understanding and reached a certain recognition of each other, Pei Shao had indeed not come to disturb him on his own.

He kept seriously playing the part of “head chef,” throwing himself into the little canteen of Zizai Liang Lane.

Only at mealtimes each day would he cheerfully carry dishes over specially, set them down on Su Mo’s table, and say a couple of words as if by coincidence.

Even so, it made the other electricians extremely envious, wishing they could take his place.

Time rushed by, and before he knew it three days had passed.

The shop manager, Zhang Min, sent word that she would need a few more days before returning.

But with only two days left until the warm-up conference held by Qiankun Grain Store, Zhang Bowen’s excited cheers finally rang out in Su Mo’s workroom.

“Teacher, I did it, I really did it!”

Holding a sickle that gave off a faint blue glow, Zhang Bowen ran and jumped around, swinging it without stopping.

At first he was not very skilled with it.

But the more he swung, the faster the bursts of cold light came out, until at last Zhang Bowen’s arm seemed to leave afterimages.

Clearly, compared with Qiankun Grain Store’s energy stone tool, the one in Zhang Bowen’s hands was much stronger!

“Our energy consumption is only 70 percent of Qiankun Grain Store’s, but our assist effect can reach 120 percent...”

He went wild for a full four or five minutes before sitting down hard on the floor, drained of strength.

But the next second, he looked at the numbers displayed on the energy stone sickle and opened his mouth wide, panting and laughing without stopping.

“Yes, we did it!”

Having personally witnessed the birth of the energy stone sickle, Su Mo gave his first apprentice full, undiscounted encouragement.

True, all the blueprints and manufacturing methods for this energy stone tool came from him, and during the process Zhang Bowen had had to ask him for advice repeatedly to get where he was now.

But that could not hide the light that belonged to Zhang Bowen himself.

His hands-on ability, his understanding, and his sincere, devout, unhurried attitude were, compared with knowledge, the most precious things!

With a solid foundation laid, give him time. If he kept studying for five years, or ten, he would surely become another rising star of scientific research.

“But this is only the experimental version of the sickle. Next, we have to get through mass production as quickly as possible.”

With a change of tone, Su Mo returned to his worktable and pulled another blueprint from it.

What was recorded on it was exactly a more advanced mass-production energy stone sickle blueprint.

“Teacher, this is...?” Zhang Bowen stood up in surprise, and after seeing clearly what was on the blueprint, he was half astonished and half overjoyed.

It was like swimming underwater in a deep pool. Every time Zhang Bowen thought he had touched the bottom, he would find that beneath this layer of bottom was still an abyss with no visible edge.

Although he had already guessed Su Mo had other preparations in hand, actually seeing it still shocked him so much it showed all over his face.

“Take it. Making this in our territory is not hard. What you need to do is take some people and negotiate with a capable factory to start production as soon as possible.”

“To win this battle, as the current shop manager, you must understand what your duty is.”

“Teacher, I understand!” Zhang Bowen solemnly took the blueprint, a look of resolve he had never shown before flashing in his eyes.

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