74: Chapter 74: Crude Steelmaking, Unveiling the Divine Blueprints from Lockdown

Northern High-Tech Development Zone.

The 20,000 mu of wasteland, once overgrown with weeds, had completely changed its appearance.

Hundreds of excavators and bulldozers roared deafeningly, with black smoke from burning diesel trailing long streaks in the air.

Tens of thousands of construction workers wearing hard hats were divided into four large work zones, moving through the site as densely as an ant colony.

The sparks from electric welding formed a blue-and-white ocean.

Lu Chen, accompanied by Da Biao, Wu Dong, and Wei Jianguo, stepped out of the car.

Before them appeared a super anti-seismic foundation pit, ten meters deep and covering a full 30,000 square meters.

Heavy damping steel frames were already deeply embedded in the soil, and concrete mixer trucks formed an endless line, carrying out the foundation pouring.

Zhao Tiezhu was shirtless, covered in mud and water, with a towel soaked black by sweat hanging around his neck.

He stood on the scaffolding, holding blueprints and shouting at several foremen.

Seeing Lu Chen's car arrive, Zhao Tiezhu shoved the blueprints to a foreman and slid down the scaffolding's steel pipes quickly.

"Boss!" Zhao Tiezhu ran up to Lu Chen, not bothering to wipe the mud off his face, and reported loudly, "The brothers worked all night! The 30,000-square-meter anti-seismic foundation pit has been completely excavated! The gravity load-bearing shafts at the bottom are within two millimeters of the standard you provided!"

Wei Jianguo stood at the edge of the pit and gasped. An anti-seismic foundation pit of this level would take at least half a month for a national construction group to process and build, yet this group had finished it overnight.

After reporting the progress, Zhao Tiezhu's face fell.

He picked up the towel around his neck to wipe his face. "But Boss, we dare not assemble the steel frames above. The ventilation ducts and purification array bays of this ultra-clean workshop must fit perfectly with the imported breeze filtration equipment."

Zhao Tiezhu pointed above the empty foundation pit. "We don't even know what the dimensions and interfaces of that equipment look like. They've cut off the supply; no matter how well we lay the foundation, it's just a useless pit."

Wei Jianguo closed his eyes. Zhao Tiezhu was right; the core of a dust-free system is the stepped filtration of air internal circulation. Without the foreigners' precision filter membranes and electrostatic adsorption pumps, everything else was empty talk.

Da Biao cursed and kicked a pebble away.

Lu Chen didn't respond. He turned around and looked at the rolling traffic in the distance. His consciousness instantly sank into the [Peerless Good Boss System] in his mind.

After intercepting Sun Lide late last night and crushing the Prism Project, the system had issued 100,000 tech points and that hidden architectural blueprint for the [God-Level Anti-Theft Industrial Park Hub].

Lu Chen locked onto the golden blueprint icon and clicked directly into the subdirectory.

Sure enough, under the highest level of anti-theft hub system, to isolate the infiltration of any external micro-detectors, it was equipped with a unique independent internal circulation system.

[Micro-Molecular Air Purification System Scheme (Indigenous Magic-Modified Version)]

Extraction Requirements: None.

Lu Chen turned and walked toward the car, opened the trunk, removed the last row of seats, and took out a box over a meter long from inside.

Lu Chen shoved the box into Zhao Tiezhu's hands without hesitation. "Open it!"

Zhao Tiezhu didn't say a word, "Click!" He opened the latch.

An A0-sized thickened blueprint, rolled into a tube, appeared before everyone's eyes.

"If the foreigners won't sell us the equipment, we'll build it ourselves using indigenous methods." Lu Chen's voice pierced through the roar of the construction site machinery.

Zhao Tiezhu was stunned, then scrambled to take out the blueprints and spread them out on the hood of the car.

Wei Jianguo leaned in, his whole body almost lying on the blueprints.

After just one glance, Wei Jianguo began to tremble violently.

This was not some precision mechanical design drawing. It was a wild architectural structural diagram combining heavy metal compound water curtains with multi-layer electrostatic dust removal towers!

There were no complex motors or filter membranes; instead, it utilized gravity circulation, special mineral radiation water layers, and high-voltage electrostatic grids to build a micro-molecular level maze filter inside the walls.

"This... this structure..."

Wei Jianguo was incoherent. "Genius! Utilizing the physical drop of the building itself to create internal circulation air pressure! Replacing filter membranes with heavy metal ion water curtains! This completely bypasses the foreigners' blockade on high-end filtration materials!"

Zhao Tiezhu was an infrastructure fanatic who knew his stuff. He stared at the blueprints for half a minute, his eyes brightening more and more.

"Boss! This structure is simple and brutal! As long as there's enough rebar and concrete, I can build this dust removal tower and water curtain wall in three days!"

Zhao Tiezhu patted his chest hard. "It'll definitely be tighter than the foreigners' metal junk!"

Lu Chen looked at the two of them. "Speak up if there are any issues."

Zhao Tiezhu's excited expression stalled for a moment, and he scratched his mud-covered hair.

"Boss, I can build the walls and pipes, but the 'multiple composite heavy metal ion aqueous solution' and the bottom 'radioactive micro-dust adsorption layer' required by these blueprints..."

Zhao Tiezhu looked at Wei Jianguo.

Wei Jianguo nodded immediately, his expression grave. "General Manager Lu, for this system to be effective, the core lies in the mixing ratio of that heavy metal ion water curtain. It must be precise to the milligram level and requires extremely strong control over fluid mechanics and environmental chemistry."

Wei Jianguo pushed up his glasses. "Those of us here, including the 5,000 people you just recruited, are experts at microelectronics and machinery. But when it comes to heavy metal pollution purification and special solvent preparation, we are all laymen. If we get one milligram wrong, not only will it fail to remove dust, but the entire workshop will be filled with toxic gas."

Wu Dong became anxious. "Then where do we find such obscure biochemical purification experts?"

Da Biao clenched his fists. "We'll snatch them back if we have to!"

Lu Chen stood where he was, the breeze blowing the hem of his jacket.

He reached into his inner jacket pocket and took out a card emitting a pale blue light; only he could see the halo on it.

That was the [Hidden Talent Coordinate Beacon] drawn from the golden roulette wheel when he signed the 10,000-person milestone.

[Target: World's Top Heavy Metal Pollution Purification Engineer]

[Current Location: The largest 'Beishan Heavy Industry Landfill' in the neighboring city, Distance: 60 kilometers.]

"You two continue building the frame structure." Lu Chen left the blueprints with them and turned to open the car door.

"I'll go invite the person who can prepare the water curtain." Lu Chen sat in the passenger seat and slammed the door shut.

Da Biao immediately jumped into the driver's seat and started the engine.

The car spun in the mud and sped off toward the Southern District.

Wei Jianguo watched the departing van and looked down again at the indigenous blueprints that were enough to overturn the global purification equipment industry, rubbing his face hard.

He suddenly felt that, following this young man, even if they had to use bricks, they could shatter the United States' technological blockade line on level ground.