Chapter 882 - 466: Money Is No Object (Part 2)

Chapter 882: Chapter 466: Money Is No Object (Part 2)

He picked up the stylus and started to draw circles on the tablet.

...

Hoo...

A cold wind blew in.

In the enormous palace, everywhere were facilities like bronze slots, reactors, distillation towers, connected by pipes or trenches. Various strangely shaped valves, large and small, were spaced between them.

"This is the workshop I had back in the day."

Prince Bai Bao walked with Jing Guqing, hands clasped behind his back, through the palace.

He was in a good mood, introducing Jing Guqing as they strolled.

"In the days of the Immortal Dynasty, when practitioners reached a certain level, they no longer liked using off-the-shelf workshops. Everyone preferred custom workshops."

Jing Guqing nodded.

"Master, I understand.

"When I was poor, I liked wearing brand suits, I wore Baleno and Slade every day.

"Later, when I became wealthy, I stopped wearing mass-market goods. I started wearing tailor-made, custom-fitted suits.

"Even the chef I hired at home doesn’t use brand-name kitchenware.

"His pots, bowls, and knives, all sizes and types, are custom-made for him.

"But... it must have been difficult for Master to customize this workshop?"

Prince Bai Bao nodded with a smile.

"This set of workshops isn’t actually very highly customized.

"But it did take me over three hundred years.

"It involved thirty-nine Holy Lands of the Immortal Artifact Kingdom and thousands of Immortal Artifact Masters.

"And over four hundred Grass Pill Masters under me, collaboratively planning, designing, developing, and testing.

"Thinking back now, there are only nine Holy Lands of the Immortal Artifact Kingdom remaining, merely a fraction compared to what served me back then.

"The world changes, seas drift into mulberry fields, history evolves, civilizations cycle... it truly moves one to sigh.

"In today’s era, nevermind customizing an entire workshop.

"Even piecing together a barely usable one is nearly impossible.

"Hahaha."

The master and disciple grew more excited as they chatted.

This workshop, even in the Ancient Immortal Dynasty, was incredibly valuable!

Nowadays, with the fall of the Immortal Dynasty and most of its edifices turned to ruins, this workshop has unquestionably become rarer, more valuable, more advanced!

Prince Bai Bao walked while stroking a round reactor, feeling the rough copper rust, the fiery heat, and the gentle vibration.

Beneath this reactor, fierce flames were burning!

The reactor also emitted a bubbling sound!

The master and disciple continued onward, seeing the reactor connected to pipes, seeing pipes connected to valves, seeing the valves linking two different reactors, each outputting their products into the same slot after their respective reactions.

The slot was filled with light blue liquid, its surface floating with transparent films resembling fish scales.

Occasionally, more films generated inside the liquid, then floated to the surface.

Prince Bai Bao pointed at the liquid surface.

"Look, what you wanted is right here."

Jing Guqing grinned.

"Haha, thanks, Master!"

...

Hoo...

The cold morning wind blew through the Bai Mo Pharmaceutical Factory.

White steam puffed from the chimneys of the factory workshops.

The female secretary in high heels clacked through the corridors of the office building.

In the conference room of the research building.

Bai Mo, Professor Hong, Professor Fang, and the suppliers of laboratory equipment sat around a table discussing subsequent equipment supplies.

Professor Hong held documents, chatting while taking notes.

"...The latest scanning tunneling microscope?

"Getting two is fine."

"As for the test stations, our pharmaceutical factory is expanding soon, indeed we need more."

Bai Mo sat beside him, frowning in thought, seemingly distracted.

The fox apprentice Thunder Claw squatted on the desk, ears pricked, frowning. On his chubby face, every fox hair seemed to spell "shrewd," his dark red eyes fixed on the salespeople and engineers of the equipment suppliers!

Although he couldn’t understand the names or prices of these pieces of equipment at all... but as the rotating general manager of the pharmaceutical factory, he had to maintain his aura!

Aoweiwei’s salesman introduced new products with a smile.

"... Our latest batch of pipettes has much higher precision than before; let’s get a set for Expert Bai Mo to try.

"If it’s good, we’ll deliver more sets.

"If it’s not, return them to us..."

He was speaking when suddenly the little general manager on the desk raised his fox paw with a "swish," signaling him to stop.

Everyone at the table froze.

What was the little general manager doing?

The little general manager turned to reveal Expert Bai Mo behind him.

It seemed Expert Bai Mo had just finished his contemplation, he raised his head, cleared his throat, and spoke.

"Uh... what’s the highest rotational speed for industrial centrifuges on the market now?"

The engineers from the three equipment suppliers responded quickly!

"Ten thousand RPM!"

"Ten thousand revolutions per minute!"

Someone even became adept at anticipating questions and quickly answered.

"Specialized high-speed centrifuges can reach ten thousand revolutions per minute!

"As for capacity, the maximum is around one hundred thousand milliliters.

"Generally, there’s nothing bigger."

Bai Mo nodded.

Ten thousand revolutions per minute... still too slow.

One hundred thousand milliliters... also too small.

The sales managers from the equipment suppliers all showed eager eyes.

"Ha, Expert Bai Mo, are you looking to procure this?"

"We can provide the highest-performance centrifuge!"

"We’ll send you a product document afterward, you can review the specific parameters first?"

Bai Mo shook his head.

"I want... a super-large centrifuge that’s more than thirty thousand RPM and ten cubic meters.

"Also, I need this centrifuge to have an air suction function.

"I hope it can intake flow-adjustable gas during rotation, and perform mixing and stirring..."

Bai Mo roughly described his idea.

The engineers from several equipment suppliers quickly opened their notebooks and took rapid notes.

"... Thirty thousand RPM is actually a basic requirement, better to achieve higher if possible."

Bai Mo finished describing his idea.

The engineers from several equipment suppliers exchanged glances, showing difficulty.

"Uh..."

"This..."

"There’s definitely no such product on the market."

"It would need to be specially developed."

"This will require a large-scale investment of manpower and resources into research.

"Moreover, how much time it will take is really hard to say."

Professor Hong and others nearby were also stupefied.

"Expert Bai Mo, what do we need this for?

"Is it usable in the pharmaceutical factory?"

Bai Mo was also a bit embarrassed.

The pharmaceutical factory obviously does not use this.

However... Fox Mountain’s Elixir Skin Workshop needs such an item.

It involves too much expertise, too much knowledge, too much industrial foundation and accumulation, and if Bai Mo tried to tackle it himself, it would be too arduous.

He wanted to try asking the equipment suppliers for help, to see if they could harness the power of modern technological civilization.

"The pharmaceutical factory... with it... uh..."

Bai Mo furrowed his brows, looked at the ceiling.

If such an item could be created and brought to Fox Mountain, it would be quite useful for the Danpi Workshop, for many purposes!

But the pharmaceutical factory doesn’t do alchemy, so what could it use this for?

He tried remembering the resources the Immortal Committee already had, inventorying their Immortal Grass, like Seven-layered Purple, Yunluo Grass, Gray Shadow Flower... like Mycelium, Iron Lotus Leaf, Corpse Flower... his mind raced and he thought rapidly.

Instinctively reached out, took the water cup handed by Thunder Claw, and took a sip.

He then looked back at the ceiling, pondered for a while, and finally looked down at the suppliers of laboratory equipment.

"This item... could be used to create a new type of bulletproof material!"

Professor Hong and Professor Fang exchanged glances.

The equipment suppliers were also slightly surprised.

... Expert Bai Mo is researching this?

Bai Mo nodded.

"Yes, it can indeed be used to create bulletproof materials.

"Can you few do it?"

Bai Mo saw the hesitation in the eyes of the engineers and sales managers.

He turned to Professor Hong and instructed.

"Then let’s place the order.

"Performance is crucial, the stronger the better.

"Time is crucial, the faster the better."

He looked at several sales managers.

"Of course, we... spare no expense."