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Chapter 299 Experimental Factory
Seeing that Liuli showed no signs of losing control, Chen Xuan didn't bother to ask any more questions. He looked at Lin Qing and said in a confident tone, "I've also considered this plan. Although rare items are precious, they still need to be used. Otherwise, they're just a brick, the kind that could explode at any time."

In other words, Lin Qing's plan is the best option at present.

Chen Xuan also trusted that the other party was capable of handling the matter properly.

Given his and Lin Qing's tacit understanding, these words didn't need to be spoken aloud.

"Then I'm off," Lin Qing said as she stepped into the elevator.

Chen Xuan nodded, watching the elevator doors close.

Two minutes later, Lin Qing appeared on the top floor of the Baolin Hotel, thousands of miles away. This place had replaced the dilapidated bungalow by the park, becoming the location of the new branch.

If an outsider were to wander into this place by mistake, they would be baffled—who would open a fruit shop inside the most luxurious suite of a hotel?

Lin Qing took the private elevator to the first floor of the hotel. Walter Weiss and a group of family business members were already lined up in the lobby waiting for her.

"Miss Lin, welcome to our establishment." Walter stepped forward and shook her hand warmly.

"Hello, I am also very happy to be here to continue to promote cooperation with your company." Lin Qing smiled slightly.

At the same time, her keen senses caught some whispers in the crowd.

"This woman... is the important person the boss was talking about?"

"My God, she's probably not even as old as my daughter."

"Was it really necessary... to make us stand in the lobby for thirty minutes just for some young girl..."

Lin Qing didn't take these discussions to heart. In fact, only the head of the Walter Company had ever met Lin Qing before, and she had previously asked him to keep it strictly confidential and not to disclose any information related to the cooperation. So this was the first time these people had met her, and they were unaware of her identity as the representative of the Limited Agency.

"Does Miss Lin have any new plans?" Walter asked. "If not, we can leave at any time."

"Of course... everything will proceed as scheduled."

“Okay.” He personally led the way, guiding Lin Qing toward the hotel entrance.

A black Rolls-Royce Phantom was already waiting there.

After the two got into the car, the other family members gradually came out of the hotel and followed the Phantom in other vehicles.

Lin Qing looked at Walter with great interest, "I thought you would take some time to introduce your family members and key company personnel."

After all, it was her request that the other party bring their core company members to this meeting.

Walter smiled. "That was what I was going to do, but I changed my mind after you arrived in the lobby."

"why?"

"Because I noticed that your gaze lingered on them for less than two seconds... This shows that you are not interested in them and do not intend to learn more about them."

Lin Qing was slightly surprised.

I never expected this person to have such keen observation skills.

She leaned back in the chair, letting the soft backrest envelop her. "You guessed right."

“Although I am old, my eyes are as bright as they were in my youth,” Walter replied with a spirited air. Since getting involved with the organization, he felt his aging blood had been rekindled. “I just don’t understand, if you have no interest in them, why bring them along? Forgive my bluntness, but the more people know about this deal, the harder it is to keep it a secret… Most of them belong to this family, but the human heart is ultimately unfathomable.”

“It’s very simple. I gathered them together so that it would be easier for you to fire them,” Lin Qing replied.

"Expelled?" Walter was stunned; this was an answer he never expected.

“That’s right, you can’t expel the bloodline, but you can kick them out of the company, because the cooperation going forward must be based on a unified will.” Lin Qing suddenly changed the subject, “The production work has encountered difficulties, right?” “Uh… this…” Walter paused for a moment before catching up with her, “Yes, I recruited many outstanding engineers and industry experts as you suggested. My God, if it weren’t for that list, I wouldn’t have known there were so many unappreciated and underutilized geniuses in the world. But you’re right, manufacturing the prosthetic eye is still quite difficult, even the most basic version has problems with unstable neural connections.”

Have we already reached the stage of neural connections?
Lin Qing was secretly surprised; it seemed she had underestimated them.

It's important to know that in this era, neuroscience and brain science were still stuck on signal decoding. Just simulating consciousness signals was extremely difficult. According to the history she knew, a truly commercially viable prosthetic eye wouldn't appear until fifteen years later.

Seeing that Lin Qing didn't respond, Walter couldn't help but worry that she might be a little disappointed. "Don't worry, I will have them do everything in their power to research this, even if they die on the experimental table, so..."

Lin Qing smiled. She had no doubt that Walter would use a gun to force those people to work overtime until they collapsed.

"No need. One of my purposes in coming here today is to help you solve your production problems... provided that our cooperation can continue."

Walter's heart skipped a beat.

What do you mean?
Could it be that the organization wants to sever cooperation with me? No... impossible. If they intended to do that, they wouldn't need to send Miss Lin at all; a single phone call would have sufficed.

Walter quickly realized the key point—the other party would then propose an extremely harsh condition, and if he refused, the cooperation would end.

"I hope so too." His mind was racing, but he remained outwardly calm. No matter how powerful the other party was, this was ultimately a business negotiation. If he revealed his desire to maintain the deal and his weakness, it would be tantamount to handing over leverage to the other party.

After driving for thirty minutes, the convoy arrived at the outskirts of the city.

There are only vast expanses of farmland here, with the occasional village or two. Walter's newly established experimental factory is situated next to an abandoned barn. It looks like a simple warehouse, all steel structure, covered with sheet metal, and covers an area of ​​about two thousand square meters.

He even specially installed a cable to connect to this location for the factory.

Outside the factory, towering high-voltage barbed wire fences are visible, and a warning sign reading "Private Area, No Trespassing" hangs at the main gate. Armed security guards patrol the factory grounds, ready to shoot anyone who dares to approach… This is a major advantage of setting up factories overseas.

The convoy slowly drove into the factory.

Once inside, Lin Qing noticed that the interior furnishings were completely different from the exterior. All kinds of high-end machine tools were readily available, along with fully enclosed isolation chambers and cleanrooms. Clearly, Walter had invested a considerable amount of money in this.

Although it cannot meet the needs of mass production, the artificial eye is currently in the research and development stage, and having such a building is enough for experts to work on.

"Which section would you like to visit first?" Walter asked.

"There should be a meeting room here, right?" Lin Qing asked back.

"Um...of course."

“Let’s go there first,” she instructed. “Also, bring me a few prototypes to look at… even the failed ones are fine.”

"Understood." Walter immediately instructed his secretary to do so, while he led Lin Qing to the conference room. He then ordered his men to guard the area and not allow anyone to approach the room without permission.

"I'm sorry, we rarely entertain guests here, so we've only prepared the most basic tea and drinks. I hope you don't mind." He personally brewed two cups of tea, but when he turned around, he saw Lin Qing take out an old circuit board from her handbag.

What is this? It looks like something salvaged from an 80s television set...

Just as Walter was about to ask, Lin Qing had already attached the circuit board to the light switch in the conference room.

An unbelievable scene unfolded before his eyes.

Suddenly, numerous copper wires emerged from the circuit board, burrowing into the switch while simultaneously enveloping themselves, much like a reptile spinning a cocoon! Then, they slowly sank, seemingly melting into the switch, until they completely disappeared!

pat.

The water glass in his hand fell to the ground.

(End of this chapter)