Douluo: Law of Heaven and Earth

Chapter 987 Ministry of Industry
Half a year?

Dai Mubai suspected that this person was deliberately messing with him, but he still patiently asked, "Is there any way to shorten the time? We only have one day."

"Perhaps you could wait outside Mr. Tang San's house and wait for him to come to you," the receptionist suggested, though it wasn't really an idea.

Immediately, the three of them turned pale.

True.

This is indeed a good approach, but it's somewhat opportunistic.

When Zhou Qing assigned this task, he also made the purpose clear: to require them to collect and analyze intelligence and cooperate with each other.

Therefore, the result—obtaining Tang San and Wang Sheng's signatures—is not important; what matters is the team members' ability to gather and analyze intelligence.

Although obtaining a signature would suffice to complete the mission, Zhou Qing's abilities allow him to disguise himself as an ordinary person and secretly observe their actions. Moreover, Romantina's soul skill is extremely powerful, capable of replicating past scenes based on existing information and even predicting the future. Nothing they do can escape her watchful eye.

Therefore, the three of them had no choice but to leave.

the other side.

Huyanli and Tuoba Wang found the Ministry of Works.

Compared to the lush greenery of the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Industry's architecture is full of modern industrial features. To the east is a soul guide parts processing plant, to the west is an assembly plant, to the south is a research area for new soul guide technologies, and to the north are testing rooms for soul guide devices and mechanical products.

Tuoba Wang wiped the sweat from his forehead, feeling the temperature in this area was much higher than outside. Looking at the large plumes of white mist rising from the buildings, he exclaimed in amazement, "My family also has a forging industry, but it's not this exaggerated. Even Gengxin City is no better than this."

"Senior Master Craftsman Lou Gao was invited here by Zhou Qing and Tang San. With their help, coupled with Zhou Qing and Tang San's joint planning, and the continuous flow of mineral resources from Abyss Town and the ocean, and even some members of the Workers' and Peasants' Council exploring local mineral resources—"

Hu Yanli had some understanding of the establishment of the Ministry of Works. "It's only natural that it could grow to such a scale in such a short time. Moreover, the Red Society's internal modifications and improvements to the system are quite rapid. Originally, there was no such thing as the 'Ministry of Works,' only the Soul Guidance Factory, which was subordinate to the Workers' and Peasants' Council..."

Tuoba Wang asked, "Is Tang San at the Ministry of Works?"

"Who knows?" Hu Yanli shrugged. "Although I lived in Holy Soul Village for a while, I don't know much about the activities of the high-ranking members of the Crimson Society."

"Shall we go in and ask?"

Tuoba Wang made the suggestion.

"Getting in is also a difficult task," Hu Yanli said, and the security personnel from the four-sided security booth on the left side of the main gate of the Ministry of Works came out.

“Huyan Li ya.”

The man clearly recognized Hu Yanli. "Brought a friend here to look for a job?"

"No."

Hu Yanli scratched the back of his head and laughed, "Uncle Zhao, I'm here to see Tang San. Isn't Zhou Qing going to train us during this holiday? The task he assigned us on the first day was to get autographs from Tang San and Wang Sheng. Could you make an exception for us?"

After saying that, he took out a piece of tenderloin from a ten-year-old fanged boar from his storage soul tool.

Uncle Zhao quickly pushed him away, his face turning serious. He said, "You little brat, you've been living in Holy Soul Village for a while now, haven't you? Have you forgotten the rules? I can't accept you!"

"Uncle Zhao, it's alright, it's just a small token of my appreciation, and it's not worth much." Hu Yanli pushed the pork tenderloin back again. "No means no, that's the rule!"

Uncle Zhao's face was extremely serious. "If this were any other soul tool factory in the village, I would have taken it in and taken you inside to have a look. But this place is different. The soul tools they are researching inside are all top secret! Even I can only look around from the outside. If you want to go in, you'll at least have to become a member of the Crimson Society first!"

"That's a real shame..."

Huyan Li sighed, bid farewell to Uncle Zhao, and led Tuoba Wang away from the Ministry of Works before saying, "Now you know that what I said was true, right?"

Tuoba Wang then realized that Huyan Li's actions just now were to prove his point to him—

Getting into the Ministry of Works is not easy.

Social niceties don't work here!
As for forcing our way in by force?
That's courting death!

Regardless of what kind of punishment they will receive, just being caught will probably end their training during this holiday season.

"Then what good ideas do you have?" Tuoba Wang asked. "How about we just wait for the rabbit to run into the tree stump?"

"What are you thinking about?"

Hu Yanli was speechless. "Zhou Qing already said that this mission tests our intelligence gathering, intelligence analysis, and teamwork. Getting signatures is not the goal. What is needed is for us to use our brains and cooperate with others accordingly."

Tuoba Wang was speechless, only saying, "I'm not good at these things."

"I'm not good at it either!"

Hu Yanli was no different. Compared to these brain-teasing questions, he preferred to use the limbs and ivory of a diamond mammoth to solve the problems posed by the people who asked them!

However, the truth is that he couldn't beat Zhou Qing by force, and even his grandfather had to submit to him, so naturally he could only abide by the rules.

Moreover, compared to other forces, the rules of the Crimson Society are extremely lenient. If you can't stand it, you can just leave. They don't care at all whether you have learned the cultivation techniques developed by the Crimson Society.

After all, the Red Society excels at innovation. The latest research they have learned about cultivation may be replaced by entirely new findings by the Red Society in just a few years.

How can the old compare to the new?

In the region led by the Crimson Society, town development and martial spirit cultivation are essentially the same—both are constantly progressing, seemingly without end...

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Xiang Ba and Feng Feng arrived at the location of the Tang Clan. Unlike the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Works, the Tang Clan, although parallel to the Workers' and Peasants' Council and responsible for guiding it, was quite simple because it had only been built recently. It consisted of only some wooden houses and a vacant lot that was nearly three thousand meters long and two thousand meters wide.

Many workers were mixing mud and laying bricks, while others waited by a large cylindrical concrete mixer to mix a gray slurry called concrete, which, once dried, is stronger than ordinary bricks and can also be used to build walls.

It is said that under Zhou Qing's influence, a member of the Workers' and Peasants' Council kept trying to mix various materials that could be used to make mud: fine sand, lime, water, etc., and finally came up with the best ratio.

The Chihhui government named this research result concrete, but the villagers preferred to call it cement.

Stepping onto the hardened concrete, Xiang Ba exclaimed in surprise, "It's really hard. For a moment, I don't know if it's soil or stone."

(End of this chapter)