Ch. 101Speculations on Long-Range Missiles and Assembly Lines
Lu Chen proposed a guided, multistage missile and an assembly-line system for producing Soul Tools, winning Qin Ming’s support for missile research. He left the workshop’s production bottleneck with a plan to expand output by dividing tasks among Soul Engineers and new recruits.
- Lu Chen explained how a shell could use onboard detection, staged propulsion, and guidance to strike targets at extreme range, and he named the weapon a missile.
- Qin Ming praised the design and asked to lead its research, while Lu Chen promised support and said he would handle the rare materials.
- Zhao Shen described the shortage of high-level Soul Engineers and the workshop’s low production, prompting Lu Chen to suggest assigning core-making and component-making to different workers.
- Qin Ming embraced Lu Chen’s assembly-line proposal, and Lu Chen suggested training new recruits through specialized tasks until they could make Soul Tool cores.