Chapter 918 916: Fully Intelligent Production

That day, beside the usually quiet Anyang Base, a group of workers was energetically participating in the project renovation.

It is said that when money is in place, working 24 hours non-stop is a minor matter.

As usual, Frederick Perez, who took a special car from a not-so-great hotel in the county to the Anyang Base, saw a lot of people working as soon as he got out of the car.

What puzzled Frederick Perez most was that these people, obviously doing hard labor, all had smiles on their faces and were working with great enthusiasm.

While Frederick Perez observed them, the workers were also curiously examining this foreigner.

These days foreigners are common, but ones like Frederick Perez, dressed flamboyantly with long yellow hair, are indeed rare.

If not for his characteristic mustache, from the back, he truly looked like a woman.

"Hello, may I ask what you are doing?" Frederick Perez used his somewhat broken Mandarin to question the workers, puzzled, since according to the intel, this building was supposed to have been abandoned and awaiting demolition?

However, the workers' reaction caught Frederick Perez off guard.

As soon as he finished speaking, everyone steered clear of him, quickly distancing themselves.

Frederick Perez spread his hands in confusion.

"Why?" Frederick Perez turned to his secretary and asked again, "So, why?"

The secretary shook his head and whispered, "Sir, perhaps it involves Candy Technology's commercial secrets."

At that moment, Su Wenyan drove over in an electric sightseeing car.

"Hey, Mr. Frederick Perez."

Hearing the call, Frederick Perez turned to look at Su Wenyan.

"Oh, Ms. Su."

Su Wenyan glanced at Frederick Perez and then at the former project department, finding it somewhat amusing.

Frederick Perez probably couldn't dream that this project department's transformation was because of him. Otherwise, the fate awaiting this three-story building would only be demolition.

Without explaining what the workers were doing, Su Wenyan simply gestured for Frederick Perez to get in the car and smiled, saying, "Mr. Frederick Perez, considering your urgency, I specifically asked the boss to allow you to visit the spacecraft production progress periodically."

Upon hearing this, Frederick Perez was shocked, his eyes revealing disbelief, while also looking at Su Wenyan with some suspicion.

The country of Xia has an old saying, 'Be wary of hospitality when there's nothing in return,' meaning ulterior motives are likely at play!

After all, there's no such thing as a sudden windfall.

But the temptation to visit the production base inside Anyang Base's mountain was something Frederick Perez couldn't resist.

As long as he nodded, Frederick Perez would become the first foreigner to enter the core zone of Anyang Base.

In some sense, opening the core area to outsiders is quite an unbelievable act.

"Mr. Frederick Perez? Aren't you prepared to come in and have a look with me?"

"Go!" He couldn't refuse, nor could he resist.

A few minutes later, outside the mountain entrance, Su Wenyan parked the electric sightseeing car and said with a big smile to Frederick Perez, "Mr. Frederick Perez, to prevent any unnecessary trouble, please store all electronic devices in the electronic cabinet beside you, and then you can pass through security to enter with me."

Security... Frederick Perez could totally understand.

Without saying much, Frederick Perez and his secretary complied with Su Wenyan's request, handing over all electronic devices they had.

Watching Frederick Perez and his secretary pass through the security system sent this morning, with no alerts from the system, Su Wenyan somewhat suspected if Zero's designed system had issues.

The next second, as if sensing what Su Wenyan was thinking through her expression, Zero remotely issued a voice prompt.

"Security check normal, proceed."

Under Frederick Perez's gaze, Su Wenyan didn't get on the electric sightseeing car they had just taken but instead took him and the secretary on the internal electric sightseeing car.

Such tight security made him abandon any thought of secretly leaving something on the electric sightseeing car.

Indeed, Candy Technology's confidentiality protocols were as strict as rumored. Especially along the way, when Frederick Perez saw countless Whites, he became even more convinced.

With these formidable Whites around, unless there was a method to breach the Whites' intelligent systems beforehand, attempting any trick under the eyes of a group of Whites would be suicidal.

"Ms. Su, in your company's production workshop, has labor been completely replaced by Whites?"

Driving the electric sightseeing car leisurely, Su Wenyan confidently said, "That's right, except for the final assembly stage, our spacecraft production line has achieved full automation."

"A White costs over a million, probably only your Candy Technology is extravagant enough to use Whites as labor."

Su Wenyan smiled without responding; everyone understood inside. It was clear that after all these years, though Whites had undergone two upgrades, their production costs were certainly not as expensive as before.

The exact cost, Su Wenyan didn't know, but it's definitely not more than fifty thousand. Su Wenyan was quite sure about that.

If Mo Jingchun knew about Su Wenyan's guess, he would definitely give a thumbs-up, as her cost estimation was about right.

The difference was less than forty thousand.

Only Mo Jingchun and the relevant departments knew how low the cost of Whites was for Candy Technology in these past two years. The secret supply of Whites to the upper levels reached an astounding number.

What puzzled Mo Jingchun continuously was that after the Whites were moved, they vanished without a trace.

Nobody knew where they were secretly transported to, without even a whisper of a signal.

Suddenly, Frederick Perez was shocked by what lay before his eyes.

"Is that an engine?"

Following Frederick Perez's pointing direction, Su Wenyan looked up.

"Yes, to be precise, it's the spacecraft's backup emergency plasma engine. When this plasma engine on the spacecraft starts working, it indicates there is a major issue with the spacecraft's main engine and it cannot function properly."

"This... why wasn't it seen in the Wentian pictures."

"It's simple; it's hidden beneath the cargo bay. The backup engine is solely used to provide emergency power and cannot completely replace the main engine's function."