74: Advanced CNC machine tools, production success!

“It's not difficult at all, isn't it something anyone with hands can do?”

Boom—

Cui Guangsheng felt a bolt of lightning strike him, making his scalp tingle and his mind reel.

Not off by a single hair's breadth.

Is it really something anyone with hands can do?

He had been in this line of work for decades; were his hands disabled?

After a long while.

Cui Guangsheng finally came back to his senses.

He looked at Li Mubai with complex emotions and asked again:

“Boss, how long have you… been doing this?”

Li Mubai didn't want to waste time.

He had already turned around, picked up raw materials, and secured them onto the machine tool.

Hearing Cui Guangsheng's question, he pondered for a moment before answering:

“Roughly… five days ago.”

“Five days ago? Are you kidding me!!!”

Cui Guangsheng exclaimed, a storm raging in his heart.

He looked at Li Mubai, who continued to work, as if he were looking at a monster.

The legendary genius wasn't enough to describe him.

Even a genius.

It's impossible to achieve such precision in just five days, right?

He had met many geniuses.

But even those people needed nearly four or five years of accumulation to reach the level of an Eight-Grade Fitter.

And Li Mubai had reached the state of being not off by a single hair's breadth in just five days.

This was completely unimaginable.

Such things only appear in movies.

Could a normal person achieve this level?

Absolutely impossible!

There was only one conclusion.

His boss, Li Mubai, was not a normal person at all!!

While Cui Guangsheng stood there in a daze.

Li Mubai had already produced another thumb-sized part.

Looking at Cui Guangsheng, who was still standing there, his eyes unfocused.

Li Mubai called out:

“Master Cui, time to get to work.”

There were still thousands of parts, big and small; they couldn't waste any time.

“Oh, oh, coming, coming.”

Cui Guangsheng snapped back to reality and hurriedly responded.

… …

A month passed quickly.

The Steel Factory was producing in an orderly fashion.

With Master Cui's help, most of the parts required for the Numerical Control Machine Tool were quickly fabricated.

The program development for the Numerical Control Machine Tool had also been completed long ago, thanks to the efforts of the genius Ruan Xiu.

Currently.

Except for a few critical large components.

The completion rate of this Numerical Control Machine Tool had reached ninety-five percent.

In a few more days, after processing the large components and final assembly, the entire Numerical Control Machine Tool would be officially declared complete!

“Boss, you are truly amazing!”

“You completed such a large part in just half an hour.”

“If it were me, it might take a whole day, and I might not even be able to finish it smoothly.”

In the empty workshop.

Cui Guangsheng looked at Li Mubai with admiration.

Over the past month.

His admiration for Li Mubai had almost reached its peak.

The parts he made were not only highly accurate but also very fast.

Often, by the time he finished one small part, Li Mubai had already finished three or two small parts.

Such speed and precision.

It was a skill he had never achieved even in his youth.

It left him filled with emotion and admiration.

“You flatter me.”

Li Mubai smiled modestly, then asked:

“By the way, how is your progress on that part?”

Hearing this.

Cui Guangsheng's face showed difficulty:

“Boss, to be honest, I might disappoint you this time. This part requires too much processing, and I've tried many times, but I can never get its precision to fully meet the standard.”

He sighed, his face filled with regret.

If he were younger, processing this last part would definitely not be a problem.

But now.

He had to admit one thing.

He was getting old…

After this month, his hands trembled even more severely.

Every time he processed a part, he secretly took medicine at home.

Then, relying on extraordinary willpower, he forcibly steadied his hands, preventing them from shaking while processing parts.

But now.

A month had passed.

The medicine seemed to have no effect anymore.

Not only that.

His hands trembled even more violently.

Last night…

After a day's work, he sat by the bed as usual, then shakily picked up the medicine bottle placed on the nightstand.

He finally managed to twist open the cap.

He wanted to pour out the pills inside.

But his hands wouldn't obey, trembling violently.

He tried to control them, but he was powerless.

Finally, the medicine bottle slipped from his hand and fell to the floor, scattering pills everywhere.

He sat on the bed, stunned for a long time.

The dim yellow light shone on his temples, which were already streaked with white.

At that moment.

He understood.

He… was indeed old…

Should he give up like this, or continue?

Looking at the scattered, conspicuous pills on the floor, he sat by the bed, his heart anxious.

However.

He quickly made a choice.

His trembling hands no longer allowed him to squat down and pick up the thin pills from the floor.

So he bent over, lying on the ground.

His chest pressed tightly against the cold floor.

Then he extended his tongue and licked the pills from the floor, one by one, into his mouth. This action was repeated six times.

The doctor said.

This pill could temporarily ensure his hands wouldn't tremble, but he shouldn't take too much, as it could have side effects, making his arms tremble even more severely.

Normally, two pills were the limit.

This time.

He unhesitatingly tripled the dosage, swallowing six pills.

… …

“Don't say that, why not try again? I need to assemble the parts now and can't spare a hand. If the part isn't made by then, I'll personally step in.”

Li Mubai, holding a basket of parts, smiled at Cui Guangsheng.

“Okay!”

Cui Guangsheng nodded in agreement.

Seeing this.

Li Mubai began to walk to the side, took out all the parts from the basket, and started assembling.

And in front of the machine tool.

Cui Guangsheng looked at his subtly trembling hands and murmured to himself:

“Old fellow, this is the last time you'll make a part. Put some effort into it!”

As he spoke.

He spread his hands into palms, then his five fingers clenched tightly into a fist, changing from palm to fist.

He gritted his teeth, his face determined.

A moment later.

His five fingers moved slightly, and the tightly clenched fist slowly opened. His hands, which had been slightly trembling, became heavy and steady at this moment.

Seeing this.

He began to sharpen the cutting tools, then processed the part's rough shape.

On the other side.

Li Mubai also pieced together and integrated all the components.

Before long.

A machine as tall as a person began to take shape.

Afterward.

He went to Ruan Xiu's office and invited her over to debug the machine tool program.

After debugging the program.

Ruan Xiu looked at the big guy in front of her, examining it up and down:

“Is this the Numerical Control Machine Tool you built?”

This was her first time seeing a Numerical Control Machine Tool that looked like this.

Initially, she had no expectations for Li Mubai building a machine tool.

But now.

This thing seemed to have really been made.

When she was debugging the program earlier.

She saw the precise mechanism inside the machine tool clearly.

Even the machine tools her school imported from abroad didn't seem to have a structure as precise and ingenious as this machine.

“That's right. This is what I'm building. Now everything is ready except for the last crucial step; one more part, and this machine tool will be complete!”

Li Mubai said, turning his head to look in Cui Guangsheng's direction.

And Cui Guangsheng, at this moment, was holding a palm-sized part, looking at Li Mubai with excitement.

He had successfully made this last part!