Chapter 523 - 495: How Many Design Personnel Are Involved?

Chapter 523: Chapter 495: How Many Design Personnel Are Involved?

"Boss, are you really going to let them use Earth Tower? Besides, it’s not even finished yet. A lot of our confidential information is just lying around over there. Isn’t it a bit inappropriate to take him over there now?"

Hearing Wei Yilong’s words, Fang Chenyi just smiled. He knew this guy treated the commercial district like his own child.

Now that he heard one of the nine best children was going to be given away, it was only natural for him to feel a little resentful.

"Heh, Yilong, do you think I’m stupid?"

Wei Yilong was taken aback by Fang Chenyi’s question. ’Right, is Brother Fang stupid? How is that possible? Even if everyone else in the world were an idiot, Brother Fang couldn’t possibly be one.’

However, this just meant that for Brother Fang to be willing to let Penguin Group use Earth Tower, Penguin Group must have given him an offer even more tempting than the tower itself.

At this thought, Wei Yilong couldn’t help but give a sheepish laugh. He then stuck close to Fang Chenyi’s side and said no more.

Of course, Fang Chenyi had heard what Wei Yilong said. ’But as for those confidential matters,’ he thought, ’even if Brother Xiaoma tried with all his might to memorize everything, he wouldn’t be able to retain much.’ He had that much confidence in his technology.

’Besides, without the coordination and support of the entire commercial district, even if someone managed to get the blueprints for a single tower and tried to build it, it would probably collapse before it was even finished.’

The group walked out of the temporary command center, hopped into a Warrior, and headed for Earth Tower.

When they arrived at the entrance to Earth Tower, they saw that intense construction work was underway inside.

The concrete pouring and welding for the tower’s main structure were already underway.

Looking up, they could see it had already reached a height of at least 200 meters. The progress was so rapid that it seemed to grow taller every single day.

The other eight towers in the distance were making similar progress. The main Sun Tower, in particular, had already reached a height of nearly 400 meters.

Fang Chenyi estimated that at this rate, the project should be completed by this time next year.

He nodded in satisfaction at the sight and gave Wei Yilong, who was standing beside him, a thumbs-up.

"Great job, Yilong. This pace is impressive."

Hearing Fang Chenyi’s praise, Wei Yilong sheepishly scratched his head.

"Ah, I can’t take much credit. The main thing is that many hands make light work. Besides, with Professor Wu and his entire team providing support, we have absolutely zero concerns on the technical side. By the way, Boss, do you know how many technical staff we have on this site right now?"

Fang Chenyi thought for a moment after hearing Wei Yilong’s question, then answered with some uncertainty.

"Two thousand?"

Wei Yilong just laughed and shook his head, a playful, secretive look on his face.

Seeing this, Fang Chenyi gave him an exasperated rap on the head and chided him with a laugh.

"You punk, trying to keep me in suspense, are you? Spit it out. How many technical staff do we have? Besides Professor Wu’s team and our own team from Yan University, I know it’s not a small number, but it shouldn’t be more than 2,000... right? Is it more?"

Grimacing from the rap on the head, Wei Yilong rubbed the sore spot and whined aggrievedly.

"Ow! Ow! I’m not that smart to begin with, Boss. You’re going to knock me stupid."

"We have way more than 2,000 technical staff now. Let me put it this way, Boss. Professor Wu’s original design team was already the top one in all of Huaxia. On top of that, we’re building a commercial empire with a world-leading design standard, so practically every university in Huaxia has sent a design team here."

"I discussed it with Professor Wu. This project has immense political significance for us, and it also helps us build a better reputation, so we let them all in. However, we didn’t let them participate in the work on the nine core towers. We just let them observe."

Wei Yilong paused, vigorously rubbing his aching head again. He grimaced before continuing.

"Heh heh. Let me put it this way, Boss. Right now, if you count all the student designers from the universities... the total number probably exceeds this."

As he spoke, Wei Yilong held up five fingers. Fang Chenyi was taken aback and blurted out, "Five thousand people?"

However, Wei Yilong just shook his head mysteriously. The sight made Fang Chenyi suck his teeth in annoyance. ’This guy never learns his lesson, does he?’

He raised his hand, about to give the guy another rap on the head. But seeing the motion, Wei Yilong reacted instantly, waving his hands and quickly blurting out:

"Whoa, whoa! Don’t hit me, Boss! Don’t! Fifty thousand! Fifty thousand! We have at least fifty thousand designers participating right now. Let me tell you, Boss, with them involved, the amount of labor we save every day is immense."

"You should have seen it. To get a chance to participate in our project, these normally proud university students are willing to do the work of manual laborers. A lot of the smaller buildings around here were built with their own two hands."

Fang Chenyi frowned slightly upon hearing this. ’I’m not opposed to these students coming here to learn,’ he thought. ’After all, they are the future pillars of Huaxia.’

’I’m more than willing to pass on the technology I’ve mastered to them. But making these students—who have only ever held books—do manual labor...’ He frowned at the thought.

"Yilong, this doesn’t sit right with me. These students are the future pillars of Huaxia. We’re not so short on manpower that we need to have them doing hard labor."

The words had barely left Fang Chenyi’s mouth when, before Wei Yilong could reply, a displeased voice piped up from nearby:

"What’s not right about it? Letting them do a bit of hard labor is a form of training. What’s the use of just burying their noses in books? Huaxia needs talented people, not a bunch of sickly weaklings. If they can’t even handle a little hardship like this, how are they supposed to serve their country?"

The speaker was none other than Professor Wu, whom they hadn’t seen in a long time.

The old professor emerged from within Earth Tower, covered in dust. He nonchalantly brushed himself off as he began to lecture Fang Chenyi.

"Professor Wu! Look at you, covered in dust. At your age, you shouldn’t be going up to the construction levels yourself. All you need to do is supervise and let the young people handle the work. I’d feel terrible if you wore yourself out."