Illusion Immortal Technology (Bonus Chapter for Instant Noodles)

Shen Bing gave Sun Li a job: meet with the workers. They were all from the same town, so talking to them should be easy.

Shen Bing drove with Boss Wu to Tangjin County and found a professional accounting agency to handle the factory's transfer.

At the same time, Shen Bing registered a company: Illusion Immortal Technology Company.

Stone Bridge Glass Factory became a subsidiary of Illusion Immortal Technology Company and was renamed Illusion Immortal Glass Factory.

All right, Shen Bing admitted he had limited talent for naming things, but it was his name, and he thought it sounded good.

"Illusion" stood for dreams, in memory of the mobile game Fantasy Westward Journey, which the Gate to the Immortal Realm had once been. "Immortal" needed no explanation; the technology in his hands came from the Immortal Realm.

When Boss Wu heard the company name Shen Bing had chosen, he nearly broke down. It was just a Glass factory. What did it need a technology company for? He knew his little factory well enough. Producing a few tons of sheet Glass a day was already doing well.

After all, it only had a small crucible furnace. There was a limit to how much molten Glass it could produce.

But Boss Wu's view was too narrow. Who said Glass had nothing to do with technology?

In today's world, hardly any Gao-tech industry could do without Glass.

The glass substrates used for LCD panels, the lithography lenses used to make chips, even the specialty glass used in aerospace—which of them wasn't a high-tech product?

The bigger the dream, the bigger the world.

From the moment Shen Bing obtained the Over-the-Horizon Telescope Manufacturing Technology, he had decided that the Glass industry would be the first step toward building his business empire.

With the Gate to the Immortal Realm in his hands, Shen Bing could look down on any company in the world, provided he had enough money.

Of course, Shen Bing wasn't going to tell Boss Wu any of that. He could hardly say he planned to make lithography lenses in that tiny workshop.

"Running a factory and a business is such a hassle," Shen Bing said with a helpless sigh.

It might have been a small Glass Factory, but there was no shortage of work to do.

The factory needed workers and technicians to run. Someone also had to buy raw materials and sell the products.

Shen Bing felt as though he needed to be in several places at once.

Two of the five workers Boss Wu had introduced could just about be called technicians. They could oversee the Glass-making process, but their skills fell far short of what Shen Bing needed to make his Glass.

As for sales, forget it. The five workers weren't exactly timid, but none of them had a salesperson's gift of the gab.

Buying raw materials was easier. As long as he had money, quartz sand and the other supplies were easy to get.

The hardest part was finding someone to manage the place.

Shen Bing knew his own limits. Even with his superhuman brain, he couldn't handle every aspect of the company himself. He needed a professional manager.

Fortunately, that market was well established. The major Head Hunting Company firms had plenty of professional managers for Shen Bing to choose from, including senior talent with excellent character and ability.

The catch was that he had to be able to pay them enough.

Trying to recruit someone like that with his little workshop as it stood would be a joke.

Shen Bing wasn't in a hurry. After sending Sun Li off, he signed employment contracts with the five workers, complete with confidentiality clauses.

Other people might have scoffed at those clauses. What secrets could a shabby Glass Factory possibly have?

But Shen Bing was planning ahead. His goal was to turn this small Glass factory into a top-tier Glass manufacturer. A leak was out of the question.

Shen Bing didn't pin all his hopes of keeping things secret on the contracts. They were only his outermost defense. The real protection was technical, and he was confident no one could crack the technology he brought in.

That confidence came from his understanding of the modern Glass industry and his own store of knowledge. Then there was his brain—something no one else could replicate.

Next, Shen Bing began Debugging the equipment and drawing up the production process.

Equipment Debugging was skilled work. Product quality depended heavily on getting it right.

After Debugging, the equipment was still the same equipment, but what it produced would be subtly different. Combined with the right proportions of raw materials fed into it and precise control of firing time and temperature, certain properties of the finished product would change completely.

The Debugging was so precise that even someone watching Shen Bing Debugging the equipment could never reproduce it exactly.

Since his brain had been transformed, Shen Bing's control over his body had reached the nanometer level.

In other words, when he nudged, adjusted, or corrected a component with his fingers, he could do so with nanometer precision.

Even the grade-eight craftsmen once treasured as national assets in China would be utterly outclassed by Shen Bing's lightning-fast brain and incomparably deft hands.

Shen Bing spent the entire day at the factory before leaving, covered in grease.

Before he went, he made sure to tell one worker to stay and watch the place. There were hundreds of thousands of yuan tied up in it, after all.

Back home, Shen Bing took a thorough shower, then searched online for raw-material suppliers and placed an order.

He didn't order much for the first batch, just seven or eight tons.

Glass was mainly made from quartz sand, soda ash, limestone, and similar materials. There were deposits of these in several cities around Rongcheng, so transport was convenient. The supplier promised delivery the next day.

As for the other metallic additives, he needed so little that Shen Bing ordered them directly from an online store.

By the time he finished, it was already ten at night.

Shen Bing finally had time to take out his phone and check the Gate to the Immortal Realm.

Busy as he had been these past few days, Shen Bing had still found time each day to enter the Gate to the Immortal Realm and look for a suitable task.

The results had been disappointing. Tasks in the Immortal Realm were not easy to complete. With only one teleportation opportunity left, Shen Bing had even more reason to save it.

This time was no different. Every task required the powers of an immortal, and for now, Shen Bing had no way to get those.

"Can't be too greedy, I suppose. The technology in the Over-the-Horizon Telescope Manufacturing Technology alone will keep me busy for a long time." Shen Bing sighed and set his phone aside.

He then switched on his computer and went straight to an online digital library to study. It was something Shen Bing did every day.

Looking things up online was much less efficient than reading in a library, but Shen Bing had no other choice.

For now, Shen Bing was mainly reading about advanced Glass processing and electronic information technology. Those were the main directions in which Illusion Immortal Technology Company would develop.

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