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Chapter 301 In the Name of Miracles

Walter gasped. What was this? Although he wasn't the one who built the factory, even a fool could tell that a robotic arm couldn't possibly be installed in a ventilation shaft!

Dr. Wei was also taken aback, but his focus was on the other person's empty eye sockets. "You... are you also experimenting on your own body?"

Lin Qing did not answer.

She pointed to the glass jar in the project manager's arms, "Bring it here."

Wei Hefan was stunned for a moment, then quickly handed over the two jars, his heart pounding – he realized that today might be the most incredible day of his life.

Lin Qing opened the jar and took out the wet sample from the saline solution. It didn't look like a real eyeball at all. The center was made of glass material, and you could see many tiny circuits densely packed inside. The outer shell was made of silicone and artificial protein layers, and it felt like a rubber ball when you squeezed it.

Theoretically, it doesn't support plug-and-play; it requires a specialized nerve-suturing surgery to be installed on the human body. The doctor clearly found this method too cumbersome and directly installed a "socket" in his eye socket—a concept quite similar to later prosthetics.

“This is a damaged, defective product; I need to fix it,” Lin Qing said again in Chinese.

The robotic arm descended a second time, picking up the two failed products as well.

After a moment, the artifact gave its answer: "The repair required exceeds the current equipment level and must be upgraded."

Lin Qing was not surprised by this result.

N959's repair capabilities are closely related to the resources it controls, making its control over an ordinary house vastly different from its control over a steel mill. Although this experimental factory has introduced many high-end equipment, it's still unrealistic to expect it to bridge a technological gap of ten or twenty years.

"Then let's upgrade."

"Can I expel everyone?" Requiem asked.

“No.” Lin Qing immediately rejected the idea. “From now on, you will have to work with these people and hide yourself to avoid them noticing anything unusual.”

It even sighed, "Alright... I understand, I'll treat them like parasites inside my body. So... upgrade begins."

A massive upheaval suddenly occurred.

A fire alarm suddenly sounded in the machine tool processing area.

People hurriedly evacuated the work area and were just about to put out the fire when they found that the alarm had stopped and there was no sign of fire outside.

Charlie, a 31-year-old machine operator, returned to the workshop cursing and swearing, only to be shocked by what he saw.

A huge multi-axis CNC machine tool has vanished without a trace!

That's a huge thing weighing tens of tons. Let alone moving it out, it would take half a day to dismantle it.

But now it is indeed gone. Judging from the shape of the dust on the ground, it seems to have vanished in an instant, leaving only a clean floor.

"A ghost!" Charlie screamed at the top of his lungs.

In the kitchen area, 54-year-old farmer Harvey was planning to go to the chicken coop outside to catch a few live chickens to make soup. He had heard from the head chef that a big boss was bringing VIP guests to visit the factory today, and they needed to prepare some fresh ingredients; free-range hens seemed like a good choice. But as soon as he arrived at the barn yard outside, he saw an excavator digging up the entire chicken coop and driving it towards the warehouse.

"You bastard, are you blind?! How dare you touch my chickens!"

This chicken sells for $50 a piece to the company!
He didn't know anything about high technology; the only reason he was working as an assistant was because he happened to live nearby. As compensation for the land, the company not only provided him with a job but also bought the fishpond and chicken farm he had built in his spare time. Although Harvey didn't understand why the company's offer was so generous, he figured he'd be a fool not to make money; raising fish and chickens could earn him more than a salary…

So what the other party dug up wasn't the chicken coop, but a huge pile of cash!

Harvey immediately grabbed a pitchfork and charged forward.

However, it appears that no one was sitting on the excavator.

Through the glass, he saw that the cockpit was empty.

The excavator finally stopped in front of a concrete mixer, dumped all the chickens from the cage into it, and then the mixer started running on its own!
This process is also unmanned.

Harvey's anger gradually turned into fear. He cautiously approached the excavator, used a pitchfork to pry open the cab door, and found that there was indeed no one inside, only a few cables tangled on the dashboard. Where did these cables come from?

His gaze followed the cable that meandered through the grass and found that it disappeared into the factory.

Just then, something bumped into his right foot.

Harvey looked down and found that it was actually a toy car, with an electric wire trailing behind it.

"Damn, that scared me to death! Which bastard—"

Before he could finish speaking, a powerful electric current suddenly shot out from the front of the car, shocking Harvey so much that he shuddered and passed out.

In the warehouse area, a large number of newly assembled toy cars were scattered like ants. Each car was about 20 centimeters square and consisted of a flat plate and four wheels. These cars could be easily inserted into a corner of a storage box, allowing the box to be lifted and carried away, just like ants moving house.

No one knows where those boxes full of raw materials were taken.

The entire experimental factory was like a giant mouth, constantly devouring the resources it needed.

Steel, aluminum, copper, lead... rubber, cotton, machine oil... bones, flesh, fat...

They were merged and recombined to create everything the wonder needed.

"Mr. Walter, there seems to be a serious problem outside!" the guard outside said anxiously, knocking on the door.

Walter glanced at the unmoved Lin Qing and didn't let him in. "Just say what your question is."

"Uh... the monitoring room reported a malfunction; all surveillance cameras are out of service. Also, there was a false fire alarm in the processing area; after it was deactivated, a worker shouted that a machine tool had mysteriously disappeared. Furthermore... two porters reported strange noises coming from the warehouse; they tried to open the door to check, but it was locked from the inside. And... people unconscious from electrocution have been found in various areas of the factory. We suspect this place is under attack by the enemy, and they may have already infiltrated the factory!"

"Where are the guards patrolling the factory?"

"They said everything was normal... and they didn't see any movement around."

"Alright." Walter already had a guess about the cause of the matter. "Arrange for the unconscious person to receive treatment. You don't need to worry about anything else."

"But..." the guard hesitated.

"Do as I say!" Walter commanded in an unquestionable tone, which then dismissed the people at the door.

Lin Qing remained outwardly calm, but glared at the camera with displeasure.

Immediately afterwards, she received a message on her phone.

It was Requiem that sent the message, its tone somewhat aggrieved: "I've tried my best to control the noise... but you won't let me drive them away. It's impossible to go completely unnoticed under these circumstances, but all the impact is kept to the level of 'haunting,' and these people will forget about it in a few days."

Can ghost stories lead to electric shocks?
However, Lin Qing was too lazy to bother with it. If anyone was still hung up on today's strange phenomenon, Walter would handle it himself.

Judging from the boss's expression, he has most likely realized that the factory is no longer what it used to be.

After waiting for about ten more minutes, the robotic arm descended in front of Lin Qing under the watchful eyes of both of them. Its fingertips held three prosthetic eyes. After Lin Qing installed her own, she poured the remaining two into a container and handed it to Dr. Wei.

"Give it a try," she said succinctly.

Theoretically speaking, this failed product is no longer usable—its neural connection mechanism dissolved during testing, and it can now only be used as a display sample. Moreover, the eyeball was sterile when it was soaked in saline solution, but now it has been taken out and passed through a dusty ventilation duct, and has been handled by Lin Qing. No normal person would want to put such a thing into their eye socket.

But Dr. Wei opened the internal partition of the metal eye socket without hesitation and inserted one of the eyeballs.

A miracle happened.

He felt a tingling sensation in his eyes, and his half-missing vision began to receive new electrical signals... Lines of connection code appeared in the darkness, like stars illuminating the night. Finally, all the self-checks culminated in a single sentence: "Connection successful."

In an instant, the lost scene returned to his mind!
(End of this chapter)