After working through the night, Chen Yi adjusted the equipment's machining precision without changing its appearance and completed the engine manufacturing process before returning from the factory to the studio.
When Qin Xiaoyu saw Chen Yi return, she took out the breakfast she had kept warm beside her.
"Brother Yi, I brought you breakfast—shrimp dumplings and rice noodle rolls."
"Thanks."
Chen Yi took the breakfast and pointed at the dozen large crates outside. "Get a forklift and bring these parts to my office."
"Yes."
Qin Xiaoyu pulled over the pallet jack from the corner and skillfully lifted the crates, sending them one by one to Chen Yi's second-floor office via the elevator.
"Boss, as of now, our follower counts across all major platforms have each increased by 320,000. The replay videos of our livestreams uploaded to the platforms have averaged over five million views.
Among the top ten trending searches on the major platforms, three to four are related to Yifei.
At this rate, this livestream video is expected to surpass ten million views and set a new record for us.
Many fans who had gone quiet over the past half year have returned to comment and interact since last night.
Some fans even uploaded footage of the model aircraft drones that they tracked and filmed using space telescopes."
After Qin Xiaoyu left, Xia Keke, who had also worked through the night, came over with a report to brief Chen Yi on the traffic data from yesterday afternoon until now.
The report was quite thick, five or six pages long.
Each page contained traffic data from a different platform, recording various figures and charts.
Chen Yi looked through it for a while. Summed up, the content between the lines came down to just two words.
It had blown up!
"How are the store's sales and click-through rates?"
Chen Yi rubbed his temples and asked about the more critical store data.
He was not a professional content creator. The purpose of social media was to drive traffic to his own store.
Ten million views sounded frightening.
In reality, ten thousand views only earned a few or a dozen yuan.
The increased advertising revenue from the traffic would have to wait until the next sponsorship deal to be cashed in.
"Very high. Click-throughs have exceeded 800,000.
We listed 4,000 engines in total, and they were completely sold out by two in the morning. Plenty of people are still urging us to restock.
Also, the backend has received many private messages from model aircraft merchants seeking cooperation. They want to visit and discuss wholesale arrangements. Xiaoyu also received many calls asking about wholesale orders early this morning."
Xia Keke took out another report recording the contact information of merchants inquiring about cooperation, their intentions, estimated order amounts, and so on.
Chen Yi took the report and flipped through it.
When he saw that it recorded more than two hundred expressions of interest in cooperation, Chen Yi, who had worked through the night, suddenly felt like breaking down.
Have these people all gone crazy?
Are they seriously not going to let me rest?
He had just spent the entire night dealing with production and manufacturing, and now he had to handle wholesale inquiries from hundreds of merchants after returning.
This boss was practically becoming a corporate drone.
"Take them back, take them all back. The office is taking the day off today.
You and Xiaoyu move the stuff to my office, post a vacation notice, shut down the work phone, and go home to catch up on sleep.
You're young girls. Why stay up all night?"
Looking at Xia Keke's obvious dark circles and exhausted complexion, Chen Yi tossed the report back to her and indicated that the office was taking the day off.
". . . A vacation?"
Xia Keke froze, clutching the reports. "Boss, the intended value of these wholesale inquiries has already exceeded three hundred million. Aren't you going to negotiate contracts with them today?"
"Three hundred million is just three hundred million. I waste three hundred million every day."
Chen Yi carried his breakfast aside and began eating, answering indifferently, "Our little workshop will already be busy for a month with the 4,000 units we sold, plus the 200 units Old Zhang wants wholesale.
Let's finish these 4,200 orders first. We can't handle any more orders than that."
Wasting three hundred million every day.
Xia Keke understood instantly. Her face reddened, and she stopped speaking as she held the reports.
"When you have time, contact a headhunting firm."
After finishing breakfast, Chen Yi said to Xia Keke, "We're gradually getting on track now. It's about time we found a professional manager, or it'll affect Yifei's development."
". . ."
It'll affect you slacking off and resting, right?
Xia Keke's mouth twitched, but under Chen Yi's tyranny, she could only nod. "I'll contact a headhunter in a moment, but you'll still need to handle the interviews, Boss."
"Why contact them in a moment?
I already said today is a vacation. We'll talk after the vacation."
Chen Yi picked up a toothpick to clean his teeth, waved his hand, and went upstairs to his second-floor office.
Opening several crates, Chen Yi took out the turbojet model aircraft drone components inside.
The engine, Avionics Main Control, camera, communications module, navigation module, altimeter, thermometer, speedometer, casing, hydraulic retractable landing gear, control surfaces, and more were quickly assembled into a turbojet model aircraft.
"One thing still separates it from being a real drone."
After assembling the model aircraft, Chen Yi pulled out a box from beneath the bed and rummaged out a circuit board tightly wrapped in layer upon layer of plastic wrap.
The circuit board was connected to many wires, with a transmitter and receiver attached to it.
"It still works."
Chen Yi connected the circuit board to a power supply and tested the current, his expression brightening.
This thing was called a Doppler Pulse Radar and used DBS Radar Imaging Technology.
It was said to be dismantled military drone equipment from the Two M battlefield, a collectible Chen Yi had spent some money to acquire.
Although the nature of radar principles meant Doppler detection angles and performance were not as comprehensive as Phased Array Radar—
—in environments with more chaotic waves, such as the ground and sea surface, Doppler Pulse Radar had the advantage, tracking signals more accurately.
"Only with radar can this be considered a real drone."
After installing the radar into the drone, its attribute panel appeared before Chen Yi.
[Item: Fixed-wing Drone] [Attributes: Energy x7.6, Speed x11.3, Stability x5.2 (-2.7), Strength x8.4, Communications x12.5, Radar Imaging x10.8, Avionics x8.7, Aesthetics x6.1] [Consciousness Wave: 447961↑] [Adjustable Attributes: 0] [Note: This is a drone blindly piled with materials. It appears powerful, but will fall apart the moment it flies!]
"Without that ugly aerodynamic layout from before, even with the same engine, its speed dropped by more than two points. And this stability attribute..."
Chen Yi looked at the drone's attributes and the note beneath them, a bitter smile appearing on his face.
"I only have one radar. I'll first adjust the radar's attributes to the highest level, then assemble the other drones and adjust their other modules. Finally, I'll dismantle every module and assemble the strongest drone on Earth."
With a thought from Chen Yi, seven-colored light blossomed.
The drone's speed, strength, communications, and other attributes began to plummet, while its radar imaging attribute soared.
A few seconds later, the light faded.
The drone before him had completely changed in appearance.
Its once-shining metal casing was now covered in rust. It was strange and asymmetrical, without the slightest hint of stability or beauty.
[Item: Fixed-wing Drone] [Attributes: Energy x1.6, Speed x1.3, Stability x3.2 (-2.7), Strength x1.4, Communications x1.5, Radar Imaging x58.8, Avionics x1.7, Aesthetics x1.1] [Consciousness Wave: 438461↑] [Adjustable Attributes: 0] [Note: This is an extreme drone beyond imagination. Perhaps you could call it a radar mounted on a drone frame.]
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