Out of the pot? For a moment, I thought someone was going to be unlucky. Yu Lian almost couldn't help but roll his eyes.
However, every factory has its own unique slogans and auspicious words, so it's not good to say anything. It's better to maintain a warm uncle-like smile and look at them with satisfaction.
Thinking this, Yu Lian continued to smile at the cheering crowd, then lit his beloved wrinkled lao dao (old blade). But before he could enjoy the pleasure of burning health, a black giant like an iron tower squeezed out of the joyous ocean of cheering Earth People and Lumina people opposite him. Who else could it be but Babalu?
Most Lumina people look like walking praying mantises, but Babalu, who looks more like an oversized longhorn beetle than a praying mantis, was gesticulating with two of his hands, while his other two hands carefully held a 'square brick' over a meter long. He squeezed through the crowd and ran towards Yu Lian.
Looking at his cautious movements, one would think he was holding his newborn baby.
Babalu ran to Yu Lian and, as if presenting a treasure to a monarch, held the 'baby' high in his hands.
"It's done! Captain, we succeeded!" The dark carapace on his cheeks trembled unnaturally, his excitement evident.
The object he held in his hands was a rectangular metal bar over a meter long, very regular, and naturally a very deep black color, yet it always seemed to shimmer with a vibrant yet profound purple luster.
Yu Lian took the metal bar in his hands and immediately felt a heat that made even his soul feel fiery.
It hasn't even cooled down! Even if you Lumina people have thick skin, even if this natural alloy cools down quickly after refining, you can't just carry it like that and run over!
However, Yu Lian was not uncomprehending, because even he, an old hand who had lived three lives, felt a sense of happiness that made him want to shout loudly.
In fact, no matter which life it was, he was madly infatuated with this feeling.
The first time he crudely produced a dozen ion cannon batteries; the first time he used a small blast furnace to refine alloy armor for an exoskeleton; the first time, in a simple workshop inside a hollowed-out asteroid, he assembled a three-phase bomb.
And, in this life, this heavy rectangular block in his hands.
Its official name is 'Thai Alloy,' a superconducting alloy containing a large amount of metalloid elements. Because it is directly refined from taion ore, it got this name.
It is not the irreplaceable Zero Element. In fact, in the most cutting-edge material laboratories in the universe, more powerful alloy products have already appeared.
However, in this star system, in this Far Shore Star Region right next to the opposite nebula, this is the most cost-effective special material, bar none!
"We really did succeed!" Yu Lian sighed contentedly, as if he had just finished eating an entire carbon-grilled groundhog.
He let the workers rush over, grab him, and cheer as they threw him into the air.
He saw the nebula in his soul world continuously expanding, and once again understood an iron rule that only extraordinary people, or rather, only high-level spiritual energy users, know.
"Want to progress? Want to see a wider universe? Just follow your heart!"
Well, every high-level spiritual energy user has a different understanding of 'following their heart,' but Yu Lian felt that his understanding must be correct.
He forgot that he was a Captain, a spiritual energy user, a Moon Person, a military rising star with widespread attention, and allowed himself to fully immerse himself in the celebration like an ordinary worker.
"With this finished product! I can now send a message to New Seville. They will send over a batch of down payment and some living supplies," Yu Lian said.
"However, we haven't won yet! We need to keep the machinery running smoothly and complete 100,000 tons of alloy products within three months! Everyone still has a lot to do!"
"Yes! Tomorrow will be another busy and fulfilling day! But let's talk about tomorrow's matters tomorrow! Today, you can't run away!" Babalu laughed heartily.
Workers and citizens took out meat, noodles, and some berries, as well as inferior wine they brewed themselves from potatoes and sweet potatoes—these were all prepared for the New Year, but they took them out without hesitation today.
Xia Xiake and his hunting team also carried a Dinosaur Bird as big as a polar bear, set it up in the square, and started roasting it.
He had brought it back last night, venturing into the mountains with the most capable members of his hunting team, specifically for this evening.
Yu Lian knew they had taken a considerable risk. This polar bear-sized mountain Dinosaur Bird was an ancient species, definitely a local overlord. According to the setting of a certain comic he had read in his previous life, its hunting level would have to be at least 10 or higher.
However, facing the bright eyes of the hunting team members, the words of reproach genuinely couldn't come out for a moment.
He also knew that even a Dinosaur Bird this large wouldn't be enough to feed everyone in the city; this was specifically hunted by everyone to give him a taste of meat.
Yu Lian was silent for a few seconds, then directly tore off a large piece of half-cooked meat from the still-roasting bird, chewing it heartily until the juices flowed.
The spontaneous celebration began. Even a small spaceship landing directly on the apron outside the urban area didn't attract much attention.
Thus, when Miss Fina Li arrived in Maple City, what she saw was Yu Lian, who was mixed in with the workers, happily drinking inferior wine with everyone.
This elite bureaucratic officer was no longer wearing his beautiful and exquisite naval officer's uniform. He was clad in a work vest stained with oil and sweat, emanating a scent full of... well, masculinity. He had messy hair and equally messy stubble, and his face was tanned a yellowish color by who knows what.
However, he was laughing quite heartily.
"Yu'er, is this the big news you mentioned?" she asked with a smile. Her voice wasn't loud, but in such a lively and boisterous environment, it easily drifted into Yu Lian's ears.
Yu Lian looked over at the sound and saw a beautiful face smiling like a flower, wearing a fitted women's officer's uniform, a peaked cap, and her long hair tied into a bun at the back of her head. Her entire being stood there, as if she belonged to a completely different artistic style from the entire Red Maple Factory, and even the entire Lumina Star.
"I thought when I arrived, Yu'er would have already wiped out all the Lumina Rebels and cultists hiding in the ancient city," she said with a smile.
The girl then looked at the workers nearby who had noticed her, swallowing back the criticism of 'not doing proper work.'
"Isn't this big news? The hope of a factory, a race, a planet, reborn from the ashes!" Yu Lian laughed heartily, extending his hand to Feifei.
The workers who saw this scene instinctively felt that Yu Lian was truly too impolite. Facing such a fairy who suddenly appeared before everyone, shouldn't he have burned incense, bathed, fasted, and changed clothes?
However, Feifei calmly took Yu Lian's hand and directly gave it a strong tap.
"...Hey, Yu'er, I'm a military reporter! I need to report victories that the public can see! Our fleet crushing the enemy like a storm, our brave warriors invincible in the enemy's flagship, just like Yu'er did in the Xiwei Star System. If there's nothing that exciting, then at least there should be something to replace it! Like the Servant's Society seeing The Myriad Souls Heresy, which caused so many terrorist incidents on Earth, completely becoming history or something," Feifei said.
"Yes! But this isn't the people's victory!" Yu Lian held Feifei's hand and pointed to the distant furnace that was emitting electric arcs towards the sky.
"That is victory! Red Maple Factory lives! Then, all the sources of unrest on this planet will lose their foundation, completely becoming rootless trees! More importantly..."
He then pulled Feifei, turning her to face the celebrating workers.
The light from the bonfires and lamps merged with the pulsating light emanating from the factory behind them in Feifei's vision. These halos formed blurred color blocks and lines on the joyful faces of the people, slowly becoming indistinct.
One by one, the crowds singing and cheering in the ripples of light, their faces, their figures, could no longer be clearly seen, and it was even impossible to distinguish whether they were Lumina people or Earth People.
Feifei had just returned from the Far Shore Nebula, having personally witnessed the spectacular and dangerous grand scene formed by variable stars and red giants that could swallow a planet at any moment.
Such grandeur, such profundity, such ineffability, was simply unimaginable to these workers, most of whom had never left their hometowns.
Compared to such magnificent cosmic wonders, everything here seemed insignificant.
However, Feifei suddenly felt a surging vitality! It made her blood slowly heat up as well.
"I think I understand what Yu'er is doing..." Feifei looked deeply at Yu Lian, then tightly clasped his hand, smiling sweetly.
"Yes, Feifei, this is the real deal!"
"Is this what Yu'er calls the victory of the laborers? The true victory?"
Yu Lian stood tall, full of pride.
"Then, to protect the fruits of the laborers' victory! Yu'er, what you need to do is not just here, you know."
Yu Lian heard the different meaning in her words, and his face immediately fell. He felt that the brilliant world of great production and construction he was in had collapsed once again.
"Sigh! I can't get motivated! I don't want to fight!" said a certain Three Rings spiritual energy user.
"Sigh, I'm really destined to be busy! Feifei, what else have you found out?"
