49: Chapter 49 Holy crap! This battery is insane!

Technology for the next ten years.

These six words echoed in the empty meeting room.

Old Zhang opened his mouth, but no sound came out.

He stared at Chen Xu.

The young man standing in front of the whiteboard.

Chen Xu's gaze moved away from Old Zhang's stiff face and swept across the room.

"I know what you're thinking."

"On what grounds?"

He didn't give anyone a chance to argue and continued:

"From today on, the organizational structure of Xingchen Machinery will be adjusted."

"'Xingchen Machinery' will continue to serve as our production and manufacturing base, and Old Zhang, you will be in full charge. The goal remains unchanged: continue to expand the production capacity of the 'Storm' first generation and seize the market."

Old Zhang nodded subconsciously.

Chen Xu paused, picked up a marker, and wrote four other words on the other side of the whiteboard.

Star Technology.

"Additionally, I have registered and established 'Star Technology.' This company will be our future core for technological research and development, specifically responsible for tackling the most cutting-edge technical challenges."

One production factory, one R&D company.

This was the layout of a conglomerate.

Chen Xu put down the marker, turned around, and his gaze finally fell on Chen Shiyi.

"Chen Shiyi."

"Boss." Chen Shiyi stood up.

"You will serve as the first Chief Technology Officer, the CTO, of Star Technology."

"The first project is exactly what I just mentioned."

Chen Xu's finger pointed again at the circled word on the whiteboard.

"Batteries."

"Develop our own next-generation battery technology."

"Understood."

Chen Shiyi's answer was the same as before.

Simple and crisp.

Chief Technology Officer.

super battery.

Old Zhang wanted to say something, but the words wouldn't come.

"Meeting adjourned."

Chen Xu announced.

Chen Yi, Chen Er, Chen San, Chen Si, and Chen Shiyi—the five of them turned and left the meeting room with identical strides.

Only Old Zhang was left, still standing there in a daze.

He looked at the empty meeting room, then at the handwriting on the whiteboard.

Those five young men had already returned to their respective posts.

Those who needed to calibrate equipment calibrated equipment; those who needed to maintain the production line maintained the line.

Old Zhang let out a long sigh, pulled a cigarette pack from his pocket, and lit one up.

Amidst the swirling smoke.

Images of the factory's capital chain snapping and bankruptcy liquidation flashed through his mind.

Forget it.

It's already come to this, what else can I do?

Might as well just follow President Chen and do it!

...

General Manager's Office.

Chen Xu closed the door, completely shutting out the noise from the outside world.

He walked behind the desk and sat down.

His consciousness sank into the system.

Chen Xu's intent directly locked onto the search bar of the technology library.

"Battery technology."

Hum.

The interface refreshed.

Countless technical blueprints related to batteries listed out like a waterfall.

[High-Energy Ni-MH Battery Improvement Plan], Price: 150 technology points.

[Second-Generation Lithium Iron Phosphate Battery Electrolyte Formula], Price: 400 technology points.

[Sodium-Ion Battery Graphene Anode Application Technology], Price: 900 technology points.

...

A dazzling array.

Any one of these technologies, if taken out, would be enough to raise the technical level of a second-tier battery factory by a whole level.

But Chen Xu's gaze skipped right over them.

What he wanted was total dominance.

He wanted an absolute generational gap that would make giants like Yadea, Aima, Tailing, and Danew lose even the courage to try and catch up.

His intent continued to issue commands.

"Filtering conditions: Lead the current era by at least ten years, possess potential for large-scale industrial production."

The interface flashed again.

[Solid-State Capacitor Hybrid Lithium Battery Technology Package]

Chen Xu's intent clicked open the details.

[Introduction: Combines solid-state electrolytes with supercapacitor principles to achieve the unification of energy density and power density. Completely solves the thermal runaway risk of ternary lithium batteries and the low-temperature performance degradation of lithium iron phosphate batteries.]

[Core Parameters]:

[Energy Density: 400Wh/kg (Double that of current top-tier ternary lithium)]

[Cycle Life: Over 5,000 cycles (Double that of current top-tier lithium iron phosphate)]

[Charging Speed: 80% charge in 20 minutes (Supercapacitor level)]

[Operating Temperature: -50°C ~ 100°C (Unique globally)]

[Safety: No thermal runaway during nail penetration, crushing, or short-circuiting (Absolute safety)]

Below, there was a line of small text.

Price: 5,000 technology points.

Five thousand technology points.

According to the system's 1:1000 top-up ratio.

That was exactly five million RMB.

Chen Xu stared at that number.

Of the ten million plus earned from selling the 'Storm' over the past half month, nearly half would be invested into this invisible, untouchable blueprint.

Chen Xu looked at the string of numbers on the screen.

Countless images flashed through his mind.

When this technology was implemented.

Yadea, Aima, Tailing, Danew—these so-called giants would become things of the past overnight.

The technical accumulation they were so proud of would become meaningless.

The brand barriers they spent decades building would collapse in a single night.

Because Star Technology's batteries would achieve total dominance in all core indicators.

The energy density would be three times theirs.

The cycle life would be double theirs.

The charging speed would be ridiculously fast.

The operating temperature range would cover 99% of the Earth's extreme environments.

Most importantly—absolute safety.

This wasn't a competition.

This was a massacre.

Five million.

This was the admission ticket.

An admission ticket to the future that truly belonged to him.

With it, Yadea, Aima, and the like would all become dust crushed by the era.

The electric motorcycle market?

No.

His goal from the very beginning wasn't the tiny electric motorcycle market.

It was new energy vehicles.

It was energy storage power stations.

It was aerospace.

It was every field that needed to be driven by energy.

This five million was more than worth it.

"Exchange."

His intent did not hesitate for a second.

[Insufficient balance, would you like to top up?]

"Top up five million."

[Top-up confirmed: 5,000,000 Yuan = 5,000 technology points.]

[Deducting funds from the host's bound bank account...]

[Deduction successful.]

[Exchange successful!]

[Solid-State Capacitor Hybrid Lithium Battery Technology Package has been issued. Relevant technical data is being implanted into the consciousness of the designated Bionic Human (Chen Shiyi)...]

[Implantation complete.]

A series of notification tones flashed rapidly through his mind.

Hum.

Almost the same second the system notification tone stopped.

The screen of Chen Xu's phone on the desk lit up, and a bank SMS popped up.

[Your savings account ending in 8848 completed a transaction of 5,000,000.00 Yuan at 15:32. Current account balance: 6,245,800.00 Yuan.]

Looking at the string of numbers that had instantly shrunk by nearly half.

There was no ripple of emotion on Chen Xu's face.

Money can be earned again if it's gone.

But the opportunity to lead an era, once missed, is gone forever.

He closed the system interface and leaned back against the chair.

Everything was ready.

The next step was to turn the future on the blueprint into reality.

And at this very moment.

In the workshop of the High-Precision High-Tech Department.

Chen Shiyi suddenly stopped what he was doing.

He stood next to the seven-axis machining center.

Streams of blue data flashed through his eyes.

Technical information regarding batteries was frantically pouring into his consciousness.

Material formulas, production processes, equipment parameters, quality control standards...

Every detail was incredibly clear.

He closed his eyes.

A complete production line had already been constructed in his mind.

Three seconds later.

He opened his eyes.

He turned and strode toward the office.

He knew what to do next.

Star Technology's first project.

super battery.

It has begun.