Chapter 314 Factory Director, Time to Check the Spider Webs!

Let's rewind time by one minute.

Inside the office building of this new factory area located on the outskirts of Baishui City.

At the corner of the second-floor corridor, an Old Worker wearing deep blue overalls, his hands stained with a bit of engine oil, stood there holding his breath.

He wasn't in a hurry to knock on the Factory Director's office door; instead, he lowered his head.

His aging eyes stared intently at the old-fashioned mechanical watch on his wrist, its face already scratched and worn.

The second hand made a faint "tick-tock" sound, moving notch by notch.

Until the second hand perfectly crossed the twelve o'clock mark.

The Old Worker let out a long sigh of relief.

He said,

"It's time."

After saying that, he finally turned around.

He carefully held up a long wooden stick.

At the tip of the stick, a dust-covered spiderweb was hanging prominently.

The web was large and its structure was perfectly intact; it was clear he had put in a lot of effort to retrieve it undamaged from some undisturbed corner of the workshop.

Holding this oddly shaped stick, he walked with steady steps toward the ajar door and then stepped inside.

...

One should know.

These Old Workers were originally employees of this Fishing Rod factory that had been on the verge of bankruptcy.

And during the factory's most difficult times, when everyone thought they were going to be laid off and left to starve...

It was a young man named Li Jiajun who appeared out of nowhere and took over the factory.

Moreover,

Some of them had personally witnessed a scene that felt like a miracle.

Shortly after taking over the factory, they saw their Factory Director standing alone, dazed, in a corner of the empty workshop.

The Factory Director didn't use any precision instruments; he just stared blankly at a spiderweb in the corner of the wall.

After watching for a long time,

The Factory Director seemed to have a sudden epiphany and immediately produced a brand-new proposal.

By observing spiderwebs and other ordinary things, the Factory Director actually managed to solve the extremely difficult strength issues of the Fishing Rods!

Then, the entire factory was completely brought back to life.

This life-saving favor filled the Old Workers with infinite gratitude and a near-blind worship for Li Jiajun.

So,

These simple-hearted coworkers gathered in private and came up with a brilliant idea.

They unanimously believed that the Factory Director's extraordinary inspiration came from these common things in life!

To repay his kindness and to help the Factory Director maintain this vigorous creativity at all times,

They decided to bring "inspiration props" as "offerings" to the Factory Director at set times every day, specifically for him to find inspiration.

However,

This group of Old Workers also knew their level of education wasn't high.

Because they considered themselves uncultured hicks, they were afraid that bringing other random things might backfire and disrupt the Factory Director's genius train of thought.

So, they established a strict rule.

They would only bring things Li Jiajun had looked at before.

And let Li Jiajun look at them again!

They simply believed that perhaps the Factory Director could innovate based on these things he had already seen.

In fact, further down the corridor outside the door,

There was more than just this one Old Worker.

Several other people were clutching various strange objects, lining up and waiting on standby.

...

The scene shifts back to the office.

The moment the Old Worker holding the spiderweb stepped into the room, his footsteps came to a sudden halt.

He had thought only the Factory Director would be in the office.

As a result, when he looked up,

He found the room filled with sophisticated-looking strangers with powerful auras.

Seeing all these big shots gathered in the office, the Old Worker suddenly hesitated.

He didn't know whether to put down the stick in his hand or keep holding it, looking extremely awkward.

At this moment,

Standing to the side, Liu Jianguo's eyes were sharp, instantly capturing the worker's unusual behavior.

Liu Jianguo's heart stirred.

He knew Li Jiajun, that troublemaker, all too well; he didn't believe a single punctuation mark of that extremely uncharacteristic humble speech from earlier.

He felt that these workers appearing now might have some explanation.

This was definitely a breakthrough!

Thus,

Liu Jianguo spoke up decisively, looking at the nervous worker and asking in a deep voice:

"Old comrade, what are you doing coming here with that spiderweb?"

The Old Worker heard the question and glanced at Li Jiajun standing nearby.

He felt that providing inspiration to the Factory Director was of the utmost importance and shouldn't be delayed just because guests were present.

Then,

The worker shook the spiderweb hanging on the stick.

Meeting everyone's bewildered gazes, he said loudly with a simple and honest expression:

"It's time."

"It's time for our Factory Director to look at the spiderweb!"

After saying this, he completely ignored the suddenly bizarre atmosphere in the room.

He turned directly to Li Jiajun, his eyes full of earnest expectation:

"Factory Director, take another look. Maybe you'll come up with another great idea!"

...

As soon as these words were spoken,

Liu Jianguo's eyes suddenly lit up.

'As expected, there's something fishy going on!' This thought surfaced in his mind.

He knew this kid was definitely not as simple as he appeared on the surface.

And standing to the side was Elder Qian,

along with the Aerospace Experts from the national key laboratories who usually only dealt with cutting-edge instruments.

Watching this scene, they were all astonished.

They stared blankly at the simple-hearted worker and that tattered spiderweb.

Everyone's forehead was filled with question marks.

What kind of move is this?

What kind of idea can you get from looking at a spiderweb?

Could this be some unique quirk of this grassroots genius?

Elder Qian was, after all, a titan who had weathered countless storms.

Suppressing the violent fluctuations in his heart, he took a step forward.

Elder Qian looked at the Old Worker and asked very solemnly with a hint of urgency in his voice:

"Old comrade,"

"Does your Factory Director often look at this?"

Facing the inquiry of this extraordinary elder,

The worker didn't hesitate at all.

He nodded as if it were a matter of course and answered loudly with great pride:

"Yes!"

"Last time, the Factory Director solved the problem of the Fishing Rods being exceptionally strong just by looking at this!"

...

Boom!

These words exploded in the quiet office.

The crowd thought for a moment.

The Experts, who were originally full of confusion, had their expressions change instantly.

"Exceptionally strong"?

They were all top-tier materials science Experts.

They immediately understood the meaning behind those words.

This was clearly talking about solving the core metric: high strength!

That was the data for the seven thousand megapascals of tensile strength clearly written in the Special Intelligence Report!

This sentence, exploding with information, threw all the Experts present into massive confusion.

They felt their scalps go numb from the shock.

Looking at a spiderweb?

Solved the high-strength material problem that had left the national team at a loss?

This...

Is this scientific?

Isn't this like listening to a fairy tale?

And the man at the center of attention,

Li Jiajun was completely dumbfounded.

He stood there dazed, his mouth half-open.

The corners of his mouth twitched violently.

He felt this worker was toxic.

He had finally managed to be humble for once, finally tried to gloss over those world-shaking R&D processes to maintain his safe persona as a "People's Toymaker"...

...yet his secrets were being exposed in public again!

These old buddies were practically backstabbing him with precision!

Li Jiajun felt speechless to the extreme; he almost wanted to die.

...

On the other side,

Liu Jianguo looked at Li Jiajun's expression of having given up on life, completely unable to keep his composure.

He wore a "now this feels right" expression, as if watching a play.

This was it.

This was the Factory Director Li he knew, who was full of an eerie and unorthodox vibe.

And in a very inconspicuous corner of the office,

Wang Dachui, who had been sitting steadily on a small stool,

suddenly slapped his thigh.

A crisp "smack" sounded particularly abrupt in this space filled with confusion and shock.

An unprecedented fanatical light erupted in Wang Dachui's small eyes.

He screamed frantically in his heart:

'So humility was just the wind-up for showing off!'

'Brilliant, absolutely brilliant!'

'This is the essence of a consecutive flex!'

Wang Dachui was so excited that the fat all over his body was trembling.

He hadn't even realized just now.

Li Jiajun's calm-as-water humility from earlier was actually the ultimate setup for this moment of showing off!

Using the mouth of the lowliest worker and the most unadorned words to fiercely shock these high-and-mighty national-level great scientists!

Such calculation, such methods!

One could only say that Factory Director Li Jiajun's methods of showing off were as seamless as a divine stroke.