Huaqiangbei Industrial Park

"Since it has advanced further in my hands, it is no longer appropriate to call it Jarvis. Let's rename it Hongmeng."

Hongmeng, in Chinese mythology, was the world before heaven and earth were created—the beginning of everything. Now, he had also used it as the name of the AI system.

So Chen Mu used it as the name of his own intelligent program. There was no other particular meaning behind it; he simply wanted to call it that.

"Renaming complete, sir."

There was not much difference between Hongmeng and Jarvis. For now, it merely served as an intelligent butler, with no major differences from Jarvis elsewhere.

Chen Mu had already arrived at his industrial park. The renovations were not yet complete, but all the hardware facilities had basically been installed, so he directly installed the system into the central control computer.

Chen Mu had Xu Jia go check whether all the machines were accounted for, while he himself headed to his own laboratory.

Chen Mu's Huaqiangbei Industrial Park was not very large. Moreover, because of certain "agreements" with Director Zhang, troops were stationed outside the park, guarding the place tightly. After all, the agreement with Director Zhang was extremely important.

As early as a month ago, Chen Mu had contacted Director Zhang and told him that he had developed Tony's Iron Man armor and needed a secret base of his own to manufacture it and sell it to the military...

Director Zhang had not believed him at first, but when Chen Mu brought out a suit of armor, Director Zhang agreed without another word.

That was why Chen Mu's industrial park had risen from the ground in just half a month.

"President Chen, the production line is ready!"

After inspecting the industrial equipment, Xu Jia quickly arrived at Chen Mu's laboratory, looking at him with excitement on her face.

A month earlier, when she had first heard Chen Mu say that he was developing armor, she had taken it as a joke. Yet the very next day, Chen Mu had used his family's factory to produce a suit of armor!

Although it did not possess the formidable offensive power of Iron Armor, Chen Mu's armor was still quite impressive!

"Has the titanium-gold alloy been delivered?"

Chen Mu looked at her and asked directly.

Titanium-gold alloy was the material used for Mark 3. It was much tougher than ordinary alloys and was used to manufacture spacecraft. Fortunately, China also possessed the technology to produce this alloy.

When Chen Mu proposed supplying Iron Armor to the military, the state simply allocated whatever materials he requested.

The reason Xu Jia was so excited was simple. Aside from the fact that it could greatly increase the military's strength, Chen Mu had previously promised to custom-build a suit of armor for her.

"Then good. Prepare to start the machines!"

Chen Mu had long since entered all the specifications for the upgraded Mark 2 into the Hongmeng System. Once the equipment was installed, production could begin immediately!

This time, Chen Mu had obtained a full fifty tons of titanium-gold alloy from Director Zhang, enough to manufacture one hundred suits of armor!

One hundred suits of armor, one hundred "Mark 2s"—or rather, War Machines. Such an army would be terrifying!

"With this industrial park's production capacity, it can produce ten suits a day. The materials here will be used up in less than ten days."

Of course, Chen Mu was only responsible for manufacturing the armor. As for the weapons mounted on it, the Chinese military would improve those themselves.

As Chen Mu started the machines, the factory, entirely controlled by the AI Hongmeng, began operating at high speed. Components for the armor were rapidly produced along the assembly line.

The armor Chen Mu was producing this time was essentially an upgraded Mark 2, or perhaps closer to the later War Machine. Naturally, since it was being produced in China, it had a new name of its own—Qilin 1...

Forgive Chen Mu's naming sense; his names were rather easy to mock. He simply came up with them casually, and they had no real meaning.

Of course, to make the armor better fit the name, Chen Mu made some modifications to its appearance and paintwork, giving it a more distinctly Chinese style.

The parts of the Qilin Armor were manufactured one after another. Only in China could an assembly line operate with such extravagance.

Expensive titanium-gold alloy and large industrial equipment—none of these were problems for China.

"A suit can be manufactured in two hours. As long as there are enough materials, equipping an entire corps would not be difficult."

"The cost of titanium-gold alloy is relatively high. A single Qilin Armor should cost more than five million yuan."

Five million, and that was in yuan. This cost was already extremely low; some luxury cars cost even more than that!

"Other materials can be used as substitutes, but the final combat power may be greatly reduced."

Even so, armor made from ordinary titanium alloy would still be extremely powerful.

In Chen Mu's view, the best material was still the vibranium from Wakanda. If possible, using vibranium to forge the Qilin Armor would naturally boost its power tremendously.

Unfortunately, Wakanda was still closed off from the world. The outside world did not even know that the country existed, so Chen Mu had no way to obtain vibranium even if he wanted it.

"Alright, the first suit will be women's armor. You can take it when it's ready."

Watching the assembly line begin operating without any surprises, Chen Mu no longer felt like staying to watch.

"Really?!"

Xu Jia's eyes lit up, and she looked extremely excited. The distribution of armored equipment within the military naturally followed strict rules, so it normally would not have been her turn. But if Chen Mu gave it to her, that was different.

Coupled with her "contributions" over the past month—protecting Chen Mu and truthfully reporting every situation—she had received permission to own a suit of armor herself.

"Of course. You deserve it."

Without Xu Jia's help, it would have been difficult for Chen Mu to establish contact with the military so easily. Before he produced the Qilin Armor, Xu Jia had been by his side more as a "monitor," preventing Chen Mu from doing anything that might harm the nation's interests.

However, Chen Mu did not take that to heart. He would never do such things, so he had nothing to worry about. Being monitored was fine—having a beautiful woman following him around was easy on the eyes.

It was also through Xu Jia's connections that Chen Mu had been able to present the Qilin Armor to Director Zhang, giving him the opportunity to obtain his own industrial park so quickly.

For every suit of armor, Chen Mu would receive one million yuan in manufacturing fees, along with an industrial park that completely belonged to him and all the fully equipped facilities. Xu Jia deserved credit for all of it as well.