683: Chapter 678 More Terrifying Than a Madman

Wu Heng's legs gave out, and he immediately dropped to his knees.

"Chairman Shen, I was wrong! I was truly wrong!"

"I was blind and didn't recognize your greatness. Please be magnanimous and spare me this once!"

He began kowtowing frantically, his forehead quickly drawing blood.

Shen Yan's expression did not change at all.

He simply took out his phone and dialed Chen Guangke's number again.

This time, he pressed the speakerphone button.

"Yan Zi, we found everything out."

Chen Guangke's voice came through.

"This Wu Weiguo has major issues."

"The pollution incident at the Hongxing Steel Plant back then was covered up because he took a payoff."

"I've packaged the transfer records and witness testimonies and sent them all to your email."

"Additionally, I found out that the major shareholder behind Wu Heng's Hengtong Construction is the youngest son of the Wu family patriarch, who is Wu Weiguo's biological younger brother."

"That company is rotten to the core—violent demolitions, cutting corners on materials, and constantly embroiled in lawsuits."

"I compiled all the dirt and anonymously sent it to the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection's reporting email."

"The investigation team is probably already on its way."

Every single word from Chen Guangke struck Wu Heng's heart like a heavy hammer.

He looked up, his face ashen, staring at Shen Yan.

He finally understood.

The moment he offended this man, his fate was sealed.

The other party wasn't playing games with him at all.

Instead, he was using a method of dimensional reduction attack that Wu Heng couldn't comprehend, uprooting him and everything behind him from the foundation.

Shen Yan turned off the speakerphone and looked down at him.

"Get lost."

"Qi City does not welcome you."

That afternoon.

A massive earthquake shook the officialdom of Qi City.

Wu Weiguo, the Deputy Director of the Municipal Construction Bureau, was taken directly from his office by the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection's investigation team.

Hengtong Construction Company was sealed off.

Dozens of related personnel were detained by the police.

As for the source of all this, Wu Heng, he seemed to have vanished from the face of the earth.

Someone claimed to have seen him at the old Wu family residence.

He was personally subjected to having both his legs broken by his own biological grandfather, the highly respected old patriarch of the Wu family, and then thrown out of the house.

The Wu family chose to sacrifice the pawn to save the king.

To protect the entire clan, they had to sever ties with this wicked grandson who brought about catastrophic disaster in the most brutal way possible.

In the evening.

Shen Yan stood on the rooftop of the tallest, now derelict, office building at the Hongxing Steel Plant.

The last rays of the setting sun stretched his silhouette long.

Chen Guangke stood behind him.

"Yan Zi, everything is settled."

"The Wu family sent word through an intermediary, asking if they could treat you to a meal to apologize."

Shen Yan did not turn around.

He looked at the land beneath his feet, a place about to usher in a new era.

"Tell them."

"No need for a meal."

"Tell them to keep their dogs on a leash."

"If there's a next time, the Wu family will have no reason to exist in Qi City."

Chen Guangke felt a chill and nodded.

He knew that Shen Yan meant what he said and could deliver on it.

The storm subsided just like that.

Night descended like a massive curtain, enveloping Qi City.

But this wasteland of the third plant of Hongxing Steel was brighter than daylight.

The project kickoff meeting was scheduled for the morning three days later, to be held on the top floor of the abandoned office building that Shen Yan had 'honored' with his presence.

There were no flowers, no red carpet, and not even a decent conference table.

An old, battered ping-pong table moved up from downstairs served as the temporary rostrum.

Chen Guangke and the core members of the project team endured the cold wind on the rooftop for half an hour before Shen Yan finally arrived fashionably late.

He was not followed by bodyguards, but by a middle-aged man wearing black-rimmed glasses and possessing a refined demeanor.

"Let me introduce everyone."

Shen Yan's voice was casual.

"This is Professor Wang Jiansen, a PhD in Structural Mechanics from Johns Hopkins University."

"He is also the chief designer for our future base."

The representatives from the design institute and the engineering firm politely applauded.

But inwardly, they were unconvinced.

Academics: giants in theory, dwarves in practice.

A project of this magnitude would ultimately rely on seasoned veterans like them to bring it to fruition.

Zhang Jianguo, the Chief Engineer, a veteran who had spent thirty years grappling with construction sites, secretly curled his lip.

He had seen more 'PhDs' and 'experts' than a young man had seen steel rebar.

Shen Yan seemed oblivious to everyone's subtle expressions.

He walked up to the ping-pong table and plugged a USB drive into a portable projector he had brought.

With a soft 'buzz,' a beam of light projected onto the mottled wall.

What appeared was not the flat design drawings or the aerial renderings everyone expected.

Instead, it was an extremely complex three-dimensional dynamic model, filled with countless nodes and connecting arms.

It looked like a precision mechanical life form constantly growing and assembling itself.

"This is..."

Zhang Jianguo's pupils constricted, and he couldn't help but speak.

"A fully modular prefabricated structure?"

Wang Jiansen pushed up his glasses and answered in place of Shen Yan.

"More accurately, it's a dynamic prefabricated structure based on the 'Honeycomb' topology algorithm."

"All load-bearing and non-load-bearing units have undergone over 95% of their prefabrication work in our smart factory."

"Including pipelines, low-voltage systems, fire protection, and ventilation—everything is embedded."

"When delivered to the site, what you need to do is not 'build a building,' but 'assemble it.'"

As soon as he finished speaking, the entire rooftop fell into a dead silence.

All the Engineers and designers stared fixedly at the model on the wall, as if paralyzed.

Their minds were filled only with tumultuous waves.

This was no longer ahead of its time.

It was science fiction!

They had only seen conceptual papers on this technology in the most cutting-edge industry journals.

Unexpectedly, today they were seeing a complete industrialized application plan!

Zhang Jianguo's mouth hung open, feeling that his thirty years of professional experience was as fragile as a piece of paper in front of this blueprint.

"This... this is impossible!"

A young designer cried out in shock.

"Such massive prefabricated component production requires mobilizing what level of capacity? The precision required for transportation and hoisting is simply beyond what current equipment can achieve!"

Shen Yan finally spoke.

His voice was calm, yet it dropped into everyone's hearts like a heavy bomb.

"Production."

"Shenyan Group owns three top-tier smart building component factories in Asia. They have shut down all other production lines for this purpose and are operating at full capacity 24 hours a day."

"Transportation."

"Three hundred specially customized heavy-duty trucks have already departed from various parts of the country and will arrive in Qi City sequentially in three days."

"Hoisting."

"I have already leased the world's three largest all-terrain cranes from Liebherr in Germany. They are currently en route by sea and will reach the port within half a month."

"I don't care what method you use."

"I want to see all main structures topped out within one month."

One month!

Zhang Jianguo's thermos cup truly slipped from his grasp this time, clattering loudly onto the ground.

He looked at Shen Yan as if he were looking at a madman.

No.

More terrifying than a madman.