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Chapter 168 New Direction

"Ha ha···"

Upon hearing Liu Xiaodong's words, he immediately burst into laughter without the slightest hesitation.

However, unlike his loud laughter, Guo Shugui had a serious expression, as if what Liu Xiaodong said was true.

He chuckled a few times, but the two people opposite him didn't laugh. Their two completely different reactions made him stop laughing as well.

"Okay, you guys tell me, what do you want me to make?"

Let me see how difficult it is. Anyway, I'll be busy with the tasks you guys gave me next!

After he finished speaking, he looked at the two people opposite him, but Guo Shugui interrupted him.

"Let me explain. Actually, I did some research beforehand, especially recently."

I previously sent out some questionnaires to our car owners, mainly asking them what suggestions they had for our company's future products.

As soon as he finished speaking, Liu Xiaodong sat up straight on the sofa and turned to look at Guo Shugui.

"Huh? How come I didn't know about this? You didn't tell me on the way here!"

"What did these car owners say? If I had known you had this survey beforehand, why would I have bothered with all this?"

Guo Shugui ignored Liu Xiaodong and continued speaking.

"Fatty, just listen carefully, I'm about to get to it!"

We added four options to this question: jet ski, all-terrain vehicle, electric motorcycle, and car.

And what do you think is the one with the most choices and that interests you the most?

"Cars?" "All-terrain motorcycles?"

The two people gave two different answers, but both of their answers involved four wheels. Liu Xiaodong said a car, while Li Zhenhua answered an all-terrain motorcycle!

After hearing their answers, Guo Shugui smiled broadly and shook his head at them.

Just as the two were about to get up and deal with him, Guo Shugui immediately started talking again.

"Hehehe, the feedback I received most frequently wasn't from either of the two you mentioned."

It's an electric motorcycle, or more precisely, a new energy motorcycle.

Especially with oil prices about to skyrocket, there is an increasing demand for electric vehicle production.

It already accounts for 68% of the market, so my view aligns with market research: electric motorcycles!

After Guo Shugui finished speaking, both listeners fell into thought.

Li Zhenhua didn't know what Liu Xiaodong was thinking, but this answer still surprised him.

I thought his suggestion of an all-terrain motorcycle was already outrageous enough, since such vehicles don't sell very well in China and don't have road permits. He was just giving what I considered the most unlikely answer.

However, upon closer examination, electric motorcycles do indeed have significant potential for development.

New energy is a sunrise industry, and phasing out gasoline-powered vehicles is inevitable. Their move into electric motorcycles can be seen as a strategic move towards the future.

In his view, electric motorcycles can be considered an early foray into this field.

After thinking about it carefully, is it only possible to make things happen in the motorcycle field? Why can't we make motorcycles with four wheels?

A motorcycle company once said that making cars is actually very simple; isn't a car just four wheels and two rows of seats?

Moreover, they are doing very well now, and have even acquired world-renowned brands whose car logos include seat belts.

Does that mean he can't do it? Of course he can, it's just that he replaced the internal combustion engine with an electric motor and a battery.

Moreover, his advantage lies in the huge advantage of his virtual laboratory. He's determined to succeed in building cars, and he refuses to believe he can't produce one.

Even if it's incredibly difficult, can it be more difficult than manufacturing an airplane?

It's definitely not comparable to manufacturing airplanes. He can even carve airplanes out of thin air by hand, so cars are no problem for him either.

Keep in mind that even if he only sleeps six hours a night, he still spends three years in the virtual laboratory.

Give him a month, thirty nights, and that's equivalent to ninety years.

Even if he doesn't understand anything at all, starting from scratch, he doesn't believe that after ninety years of dedicated study on one subject, he won't be able to thoroughly understand it.

Wasn't that how airplane development went back then? If one month isn't enough, then two months; if two months isn't enough, then add another month.

In reality, it did add a month, but in the virtual lab, it was equivalent to adding ninety years!

Then he shifted his thoughts from electric motorcycles to four-wheeled cars, and eventually, in his mind, four-wheeled cars were almost evolving into tanks disguised as cars!

At this moment, his mind was racing, filled with many wonderful ideas.

As he contemplated these things, an indescribable smile involuntarily appeared on his face.

This smile might seem perfectly normal to him, but to the two people opposite him, it was anything but normal.

It was like watching a pornographic film, which seemed extremely lewd, but then the two of them were frightened by his smile.

At this moment, Liu Xiaodong and Guo Shugui had only one thought in their minds.

"Could it be that this unreliable guy on the other end is thinking about something else again? I hope he doesn't cause any more trouble. Putting everything else aside, my heart can't take it!"

Seeing this, Liu Xiaodong couldn't help but ask, and even stood up and patted Li Zhenhua on the shoulder as he asked.

"Bro, wake up! What are you laughing at?"

You're not thinking of expanding too much again, are you? Can I just remind you, our operation is already big enough.

Let's stop expanding into other businesses and just focus on having fun in the motorcycle industry, okay?

Otherwise, if it pounces too hard all at once, Guoba and I really couldn't handle it!

Guo Shugui immediately realized that Liu Xiaodong's words made perfect sense; it was truly surreal.

Other companies are afraid of growing too small, but these two are the opposite; they are afraid of growing too big or too fast.

It's not that the two of them don't hope for something good, but they're genuinely afraid of being worked to death!

"Brother, don't laugh. Your smile makes my heart tremble. This time, let's just be honest and do something decent in the motorcycle industry, that's all."

"Don't go overboard! Fatty and I really can't handle this!"

His smile and his wonderful daydreams vanished the moment the two of them interrupted him.

His senses gradually returned, and after listening to what the two had to say, his thoughts returned to the question he had just asked.

He slammed his hand on the armrest of the sofa with a thud.

"I've made up my mind. From now on, I'm going to focus on electric vehicles, and nobody can try to stop me."

I'm really interested in electric vehicles now. Actually, I made my own motors when I was working with machine tools before.

I became interested in this stuff back then, and your suggestion this time is great; it's brought this idea back to my attention."

He then gave Guo Shugui and the other man a thumbs-up, praising their suggestion.

The two people opposite him felt a great weight lifted from their hearts after hearing his words. They thought to themselves...

Even if he causes a huge commotion, it's just an electric motorcycle. What kind of mess can he possibly make of it?

This topic is very limited, and there's not much room for him to do anything special. At most, it's just a motorcycle, and he can use the sales channels he just established.

With that in mind, Liu Xiaodong and Guo Shugui had achieved their goal for this trip: to get him to work on electric motorcycles.

After saying all that, the three chatted for a while longer, and it was at this moment that Liu Xiaodong's phone rang.

While he was out answering the phone, when he returned, he was carrying three whole lamb spines on his shoulder and a red plastic bag in his hand.

He returned to the living room, slammed the lamb spine on his shoulder onto the coffee table, and placed the bag in his hand on the coffee table as well.

"Alright, now that we've finished the important stuff, let's move on to the next topic. It's been a long time since the three of us had a proper meal together."

I had made arrangements before I came, and someone reserved three servings of lamb spine for me.

The plastic bag contained five pounds of mutton.

At this point, Liu Xiaodong gave a lewd laugh and whispered to the two of them, looking like he was stealing something!

"Hehehe, there's more good stuff in the bag! I specially asked someone to leave some for me, two sets of red waistbands and one set of white waistbands, plus two sticks!"

As he spoke, he held up two fingers, gesturing towards the two of them.

Li Zhenhua looked at the lamb spine wrapped in a transparent plastic bag on the coffee table, then at Liu Xiaodong's lewd expression.

A nickname for this man immediately came to mind: it seemed that every time you met him, sheep would suffer.

The name "Sheep-Destroying Master" is truly fitting. He not only eats meat but also gnaws on bones, and he doesn't even spare other people's treasures. What else could he be but "Sheep-Destroying Master"?

"Fatty, I'll give you a nickname: Sheep-Destroying Master. It suits you quite well, haha!"

After speaking to Liu Xiaodong, he picked up the three lamb spines from the table and walked towards the door.

"You two, don't just stand there. Come with me to the blacksmith's shop up ahead. There's a big cauldron there; it'll be good to pack up your things."

Most importantly, if I eat lamb spine hot pot in my new home, I'm afraid the smell won't dissipate for a week.

At this moment, Li Zhenhua also remembered that the three of them had spent a lot of time together before, and they had discussed food quite a bit.

This lamb spine hot pot is one of their signature dishes besides roasted lamb.

Soon the lamb spine was pressed into the pot, and all the other delicacies were cleaned and placed on a plate.

The meal lasted from noon until evening. In the middle, Liu Xiaodong called Wang Mei over, and Li Yun also came back at noon to join the group of people eating dry food.

After the meal was finished, all the food that Liu Xiaodong had brought that morning was eaten by the group.

At night, with the food we ate during the day still on the road, the car drove exceptionally fast.

After finishing his drive, he once again entered the virtual laboratory and embarked on a new scientific research journey.

(End of this chapter)