Chapter 331 Don’t Let the Accident Become a Regret
“But why is it called cucumber?”

The day before the news release, at lunch in the cafeteria, Yan Jian, with his panda eyes, suddenly asked, “Also, why are they called beans and peanuts?”

“what?”

Ji Jue held the rice bowl and looked up blankly: “Are beans not delicious? Peanuts are also very good.”

As he spoke, he lowered his head, picked up a piece of cucumber from the plate with chopsticks, chewed it, and nodded: “Well, today’s cucumber is not bad.”

Yan Jian wanted to say something for a moment, but he felt that it would be useless to say anything.

The way this bastard named its product actually depends on what the cold dish in the cafeteria is on the day it decides to go into production… He will never be able to catch up with such a weird train of thought in his entire life.

“Don’t you think this is too casual?”

Yan Jian sighed: “What will the next one be called? Tomato? Potato? Or Banana?”

“It’s all right. Anyway, we can’t call them ox and horse No. 1, No. 2, and No. 3, right?”

Ji Jue asked as a matter of course: “Everyone works just to make a little money. It’s hard enough to work like a slave every day. Why do you have to poke at people’s hearts?”

“…”

In the cafeteria, which suddenly became silent, all the faces with dark circles under their eyes raised their heads and looked over here quietly.

You don’t poke at your customers, but now you’re poking at your colleagues, right?
Are the cattle and horses in the car factory not cattle and horses? !
“Why is everyone suddenly silent?”

Ji Jue looked around blankly and asked curiously, “Is it because today’s work is done?”

In an instant, the originally silent cafeteria was filled with noise!

Amid the exaggerated and empty laughter and conversation, Ji Jue nodded with satisfaction: “It’s great to see everyone so energetic. They even have time to chat. The workload must not be too saturated, right?”

“…You can be a human being!”

Yan Jian’s face fell, “Sooner or later, you will be beaten to death by your employees!”

No matter who you are, it is difficult to keep a stable mentality after working overtime day and night for more than a month.

Although food and lodging are all included and free, overtime pay is doubled and holidays are quadruple, and the benefits are already maxed out, but the days of looking up at the welding gun and looking down at the lathe every day have been too long, and the slaves are working on the assembly line even in their dreams.

It is normal to feel like you have no desire to live, but some people have already started to have hallucinations.

It is said that some people wake up in the middle of the night and always hear someone crying under the floor.

Some people were so hungry at night that they went to the cafeteria to eat. From afar, they saw a row of zombie-like figures staggering through the night, as if they were ghost soldiers passing through.

Some people also said that they got lost in the factory one day while playing with their phones. They saw a factory they had never seen before. They peeked through the crack in the door and saw many unkempt workers tied with iron chains, assembling and hanging things endlessly. If they dared to move a little slower or whisper, they would be whipped by a robotic arm that dropped from the sky.

Such a tragic scene frightened the lost people so much that they ran back in a hurry. It was unknown how long it took them to get back. When they talked about the horrific experience, their faces turned pale and they swore that they were not lying. They were really talented storytellers, but unfortunately, they asked for leave to go back to their hometown the next day. Everyone wanted to know how the story would develop later.

The weeping and wailing in the basement, the ghostly soldiers wandering in the factory area, the slave workshop in the dark, the armored off-road vehicle that would quietly transform when no one was paying attention, the factory director who secretly picked up garbage in the middle of the night and whose eyes glowed red, the strange chewing sounds coming from the assistant’s office…

In just a few months, Coast Auto Factory has compiled a new list of the top ten weird stories.

The corporate culture is booming!

Chief Engineer Yan Jian, who had only a vague understanding of the inside story, could only pretend not to care whenever he faced the crying of the cows and horses. He told them that it must be because of too much pressure and they could go to the infirmary to get more sleeping pills.

Well, bring me a bottle.

Since returning to work, his already sparse hair has begun to fall out at a rate visible to the naked eye.

Insomnia, anxiety, irritability, and anger followed one after another. There was no way. Even with the best mentality, it would be a little difficult to maintain when faced with the amazing wisdom of college students.

What’s more, there are pressure monsters like Ji Jue who always throw out a lot of demands and ask you if you can do it.

Even though there were more people and production got on track, things still didn’t get much better.

In the past two months, he has lost at least ten to twenty pounds. His face is dark and his eyes are dark, as if he had made up for all the time he had missed in the past few years.

There is a kind of beauty that is not far from death.

Especially after dinner, Ji Jue was amazed by the bottles and jars on the table.

“This is stomach medicine, this is digestive tablets, this is fish oil, this is calcium tablets and vitamins…”

“Why eat so much?”

“Is that all? There’s more. You’re still young, wait…”

Yan Jian was about to shake his head and say, “Wait until you reach my age,” but he suddenly realized that if his guess was correct, people like Ji Jue probably wouldn’t need to rely on supplements until middle age. He sighed helplessly and said nothing more.

But when I took the medicine, my hands always shook and I felt absent-minded.

The water was spilled.

After putting down the cup, Yan Jian wiped his mouth and laughed at himself: “When I get older, I can’t do anything well.”

“Are you worried?”

“Just…nervous.”

Yan Jian leaned on the table and looked back outside the cafeteria. There was a newly renovated factory building and workers coming and going. Under the bright sunshine, the roar of tamping the foundation came from afar, and the new factory building was still rising from the ground.

Everything that I thought would fade away into oblivion is back again, even better than I expected.

Every time this happens, I always have a feeling of unreality, like a dream.

“It’s great to be able to build cars again.”

He breathed a sigh of relief.

All the resentment and resentment over the years seemed to have disappeared in just a few short months. Looking at the gradually expanding factory area in front of me, my eyes couldn’t help but sparkle.

Whenever I think about the car I designed returning to the market, I can’t stop getting excited.

“I’ll go around the workshop again and check the quality control.”

He stood up with his knees supported, and looked at Ji Jue: “What about you?”

“I’ll sit here for a while and come over later.”

Ji Jue answered calmly, picked up the water cup and drank it all in one gulp. Soon, hot steam rose from his body and disappeared.

Even through a table, Yan Jian could feel the hot wind blowing on his face.

It’s like sitting in front of a furnace with its doors open.

Under the blazing sun’s light from the window, there seemed to be a faint dark red lingering in those dark pupils, rising violently, as if to ignite everything it saw.

But in just the blink of an eye, all the abnormalities disappeared.

It’s like a hallucination.

“As a man, there are always a few days every month when you feel hot.”

Ji Jue grinned and waved his hand: “Don’t take it to heart.”

“I believe you.”

Yan Jian rolled his eyes, turned and left, too lazy to bother with all this nonsense.

The cafeteria had become silent and deserted without anyone noticing. Ji Jue was the only one left, lazily leaning on a chair, basking in the sun, as if he was drowsy.

Those faint light spots that seemed like hallucinations and that only he could see fell from the sky like sparse snowflakes, gathering and blending into his body. With silent breathing, the essence of the Supreme Good that came from the embers silently flowed through his body and soul, and finally merged into his blood.

Like grease poured onto a charcoal fire, fuel is poured into an engine.

Fire falls into the furnace!
The blood of the furnace, which had already been under control, began to move spontaneously again.

The high temperature he emitted at this moment was nothing but useless waste heat, and the real changes were emerging from Ji Jue’s body along with the tiny but continuous fire.

After several days of continuous infusion, a faint silver glow actually appeared on his fingernails.

When he flicked his fingers and hit the steel pipe under the dining table, it actually made a clanging echo like the collision of metal, loud and distant.

In the past, the interference of physical properties that required a lot of thought and concentration to control now only requires a thought!
After [Blood in the Furnace], there comes [Eternal Firewood].

With the continuous production at the Coast Automobile Factory for more than a month, beans and peanuts were distributed in all directions, and Ji Jue’s works gradually had more and more influence in this world.

Even if the alchemical content is negligible, and even if it cannot even be called a complete work, as the quantity increases, all shortcomings become insignificant.

Nowadays, in the Coast Automobile Factory and other acquired and reorganized tricycle workshops, brand new tricycles come out of the assembly lines almost every moment, are loaded onto large transport vehicles, sent to the wilderness and suburbs, and sold through stores or partners, and finally reach the hands of every user.

It’s like a set of ember money printing machines running 24 hours a day.

Even though the denomination is so small, a dozen vehicles added together are just a drop in the bucket, but even the smallest unit multiplied by such a huge scale and productivity will form a terrifying qualitative change.

After Wanhua quickly completed [Blood of the Furnace], the progress of [Eternal Firewood] was like riding a rocket, increasing at a terrifying speed that ordinary craftsmen could hardly imagine.

In just over a month, one third of the goal has been completed, and it is still rising!
The rewards for the old man number one on the list are arriving like crazy!

Whether it is overloading goods, transporting waste soil, racing late at night, illegal operations, or even smuggling or using weapons to fight each other, the more changes Ji Jue’s works create in this world and the greater the influence, the greater the reward and feedback will be!
Pile up soil to form mountains, and gather water to form rivers.

Over time, the progress that used to be made bit by bit with painstaking efforts has now skyrocketed like downloading a software and becoming a member!

Wisps of invisible flames descended with the continuous change, fell into Ji Jue’s soul and merged into his blood.

When the fire begins to flow into the furnace, creation begins again!

Ascension, purification, transformation, and integration.

The essence of the four foundations of alchemy rose from his blood, as if using his body and soul as material to transform it into something that was closer to the essence of the Supreme Good and more in line with the essence of the Ashes!

If observed under a microscope, one can find that with the circulation of the furnace blood, Ji Jue’s internal organs, bones, nerves, lymph, muscles and skin, the most basic structure of all cells, has gradually emerged with pure silver light like mercury.

Different from the previous one-step progress of [Blood of the Furnace], during the ‘slow’ progress of [Eternal Firewood], Ji Jue could carefully feel the operation of the Essence of Ashes and the countless subtle changes it brought about.

[Blood of the Furnace], [Eternal Firewood], and [Spirit from Heaven].

Life, mind, soul.

Using everything in oneself as material, the world as a melting pot, and countless creations and changes as steps, one can get closer to the essence of the highest good step by step. After the triple qualitative change, even other creations will no longer be needed, and the craftsman himself will become a true work of nature!

This is a cruel test and generous gift that belongs only to Ashes!
After endless suffering, there will be a brilliant crown of glory.

By then, even if Ji Jue treated the association as nothing like Ye Xian, no one would dare to force him.

But such a future is too far away. Even for a cheating player like Ji Jue who has pressed all the ALT1234567890, he can’t say that he is sure of success.

Before this wave of turmoil subsides and the storm dies down, he must seize the time, finish everything he can, and take advantage of all he can.

Otherwise, when the dust settles, no matter how slow the association’s reaction is or how long the dispute lasts, it will not allow him to act so recklessly again.

Before that, Ji Jue decided to go all out.

If you are going to do it, do it thoroughly. If you want to disrupt the market, then disrupt the market first!

As for the subsequent warnings and fines, naturally, Lv Yingyue, who was holding on to the power of the garrison step by step, would pay for it…

This is the end of the short break.

Ji Jue rolled up his sleeves and walked towards his loyal assembly line with full energy:

“Go to the factory and work!”
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Fifteen hours later, with diarrhea-like crazy shipments, the first fully self-developed and self-produced family sedan “Cucumber” since the resumption of work at the Coast Automobile Factory was officially launched!
The official website was also updated with a disappointing promotional video.

In this era of 1080P and 4K8K ultra-high definition, the entire model was shot with some outdated mobile phone, and you can even see the pixels.

Coupled with the 8BIT electronic music that takes people back to decades ago, and the rough and exaggerated special effects fonts in bright red and green, it thoughtfully delivers a thunderous opening to every viewer.

A cheerful female narrator began to read.

【Sixteen years of craftsmanship】

[Five thousand eight hundred days of non-stop exploration]

【This has created a unique classic! 】

In the picture, a vehicle covered in black blackout cloth comes into view, accompanied by an impassioned introduction and a shockingly outdated camera movement showing a partial close-up.

Soon, it landed on a weird cucumber LOGO carefully drawn by the runner-up of the Yacheng Turtle Painting Competition.

Then, the scene changed. The driver Ji Jue, who was wearing a racing suit, lowered his head and put on his helmet. He walked towards the camera with his head held high and chest puffed out. He lifted the blackout cloth, and then there was a close-up of the car door opening.

Accompanied by all kinds of weird bright red and green special effect fonts, it began to elaborately introduce the almost non-existent and shabby configuration inside the car, which almost made people shed tears of sympathy.

As the vehicle started, the cucumber car gradually drove out of the curtain, and a mini car that looked like a chopped pepper fish head suddenly appeared in front of everyone.

Then, without any warning… a roar suddenly burst out from the screen!
The entire car took off into the air!

From the audience’s dull sight, it flew up!
A heavy truck loaded with steel coils, which had been waiting for a long time, broke into the shooting site under the camera, created a frontal image of their shooting works, and then drove away!

But for some reason, the employees who were pulled around the venue and acting as background boards with stiff smiles suddenly burst into cheers and praises, and danced with joy.

I am so happy from the bottom of my heart.

One could even hear Yan Jian’s crazy laughter as he stepped on the accelerator in the truck.

As expected of Assistant Ye, his creativity is unmatched in the world!
In the long shot of plastic fragments and parts of the car body falling like rain, the cucumber that was hit and flew back and forth in the air spun 7,600 degrees, fell to the ground, rolled over, and returned to the center of the camera again.

The first vehicle in history to be completely scrapped before it even left the factory made a shocking appearance in a promotional video.

While in the twisted car frame, Ji Jue, who had unbuckled his seat belt, walked out with his head held high.

Unscathed!

There wasn’t even a crack on the helmet.

Behind him, the employees who had been prepared rushed forward with fire extinguishers. In the background, bursts of white mist and thick smoke rose.

Ji Jue took off his helmet, smiled triumphantly at the camera, and finally raised his hand to make a V sign.

【Safe driving is everyone’s responsibility】

[Don’t let accidents become regrets]

As the screen gradually went dark, only a line of text with a colorful border emerged from the darkness in the narration.

——【Coast, always protecting your safety! 】

Three hours later, when it was almost dawn, with the push from all parties, the keywords of Coast Automobile Factory and Cucumber had become hot searches.

Five hours later, when office workers were yawning on their way to work on the subway and bus, this trailer, which cost less than 300 yuan to shoot after deducting the cost of the vehicle, had been carried by many self-media and had become popular on all short video platforms, spreading throughout the federation!

Just like that, after shocking countless eyes and jaws, Coast Automobile Factory fired the first shot in its return to the industry!
(End of this chapter)