"Mr. Shen's requests are getting stranger and stranger."
"Photolithography is one thing, but what's with this crooked shape?"
"Looks like a seal? An official seal? It does resemble one, but neither the knob style nor the seal inscription looks right—"
"Exactly. Official seals aren't this big. If one were this big, what rank would its owner have to be? And the inscription is wrong too. Official seal inscriptions should at least be in Large Seal Script or Small Seal Script. Who can even read Bird Seal Script?"
In the research institute, the Special Affairs Bureau's researchers and experts shook their heads and sighed as they discussed it animatedly.
As they talked, their hands did not slow. They deftly set the parameters and started the engraving machine.
Following the crooked, cracked seal design Shen Le had provided, they first used the ultra-fine silicon crystal they employed to print jade talismans to engrave a seal:
Then they put it through the photolithography machine and meticulously etched the internal circuitry according to the lines Shen Le had provided:
"Good thing our industrial capabilities have improved."
"Yeah. Otherwise, if these seals had to be carved by hand, it would've been a nightmare. And there's even a crack in the middle—would we have to switch carving knives after finishing it, then carve a crack down the center?"
"And those energy channels inside... before we figured out how to use photolithography machines for engraving, when everything had to be carved by hand, it was simply—"
The item Shen Le had provided was quite complex, fortunately not very large. The engraving machine clattered away, and the photolithography machine moved line by line. In less than a week, Shen Le received what he had asked for:
"Twenty seals! Great! I only wanted ten, and they gave me twenty