There hadn't been a month to spare.
With Ji Jue involved as well, within a week, he and Lou Feng had completed and implemented the plan for the new External Module. Only when they were working did Lou Feng truly understand that this guy really was a bona fide Crown Master.
He showed him, in the most direct terms possible, what it meant to be the Chosen of Embers—and a material-stealing maniac.
In a design burdened by countless restrictions, tedious requirements, and no precedents to draw from, he danced in shackles as though he were doing a square dance, occasionally throwing in the splits for good measure.
He only showed up now and then, working three days and slacking for two, yet he somehow turned a design that had existed only on paper into a new prototype. He even optimized the framework and workflow twice, drastically lowered the manufacturing difficulty, and then stole another twelve percent of the materials from a plan Lou Feng had already considered demanding to the absolute extreme!
Extreme penny-pinching brought about extreme cost-effectiveness.
After cobbling together a pile of scraps, what they produced was already nothing like Lou Feng's original vision. Yet it was not ugly in the slightest; instead, it possessed an ultimate industrial beauty, inside and out.
It made him repeatedly wonder who had invented something like Ji Jue.
He simply couldn't understand it.
Unfortunately, whenever people began to respect him, he started talking.
The moment he stopped working, he went from the Chosen of Embers to some stray by the roadside. He was truly insufferable.
And besides...
"Are you hiding something from me?"
On the day of the Coast charity event, Ji Jue had just entered his office when he saw Lou Feng, who had stayed up all night, holding a new