There's something wrong with me

Chapter 208: Ten Times Stronger!

After the notification, he came out of the base.

Zhang Feng stood at the base entrance, waiting for Old Liu to call people amidst the vigilance of a group of special forces personnel.

At the same time.

On the fifteenth floor of the Data Center, at a special external affairs department.

The expressionless Old Liu was leading a few personal guards, intending to go in and arrest someone.

But before Old Liu could go in.

Whoosh—

The Superconducting detection door in the hall opened.

A middle-aged man was carried out by several people, his legs weak.

He was the person in charge of Superconducting manufacturing in Tan Province, 'Team Leader Zheng'.

And strictly speaking, he was not actually a Superconducting research personnel within the Data Center.

He was more of a production representative for Tan Province, leading his small work team and stationed inside the Data Center.

This facilitated Superconducting handover and various negotiations between the two locations.

Although online conversations could be completed in the virtual world, including calling the Data Center.

But this traditional mode of resident office work is still continuing.

Especially as Team Leader Zheng saw it, being able to work at the Data Center, be stationed at the 'Heavenly Court', and enjoy the various cultivation treatments of 'ranking among the immortals'.

This was the best destination all official personnel dreamed of!

But the premise was not to have any accidents.

And like now, he was only left with fear.

Because this matter was definitely a major incident!

It was also Great Xia's first 'Superconducting safety incident!'

And a few minutes ago, after he received the news of the accident, he completely lost composure, directly greeting the families of the Factory managers over the phone.

Given his position, scolding these Factory managers with not-so-low official positions was really like scolding grandchildren.

Because besides being the manufacturing representative for Tan Province, Team Leader Zheng also had a special identity: the eldest son of the former top leader of Tan Province.

Including Team Leader Zheng's siblings, who are now also in important positions in various provinces.

Team Leader Zheng's family had great influence.

But now that this had happened.

He was definitely going to be in trouble, likely demoted all the way down.

His siblings might also be affected by the aftermath, turning their originally smooth paths into ones with more thorns, or even dead ends.

Thinking of this, Team Leader Zheng's mind was truly a blur now.

Especially seeing Liu Zong personally come to escort him, his head felt even heavier, his body tilted backward, and he almost fainted.

Because such a scene, on the path of officialdom, was absolutely nightmare-level, bar none.

"Liu... Liu Zong... I..."

He was trembling as he spoke now. Even though he was an old hand in officialdom and shouldn't be like this, when truly facing the disaster befalling himself and his family, who could talk and laugh freely, with clear thoughts?

"Breathe..."

However, he was indeed worthy of being called an old hand.

At this moment, he was trying to breathe slowly, wanting to calm down quickly, and even more, wanting to quickly express his mistakes to try and slightly salvage the situation.

Even if the actual operation wasn't his problem, but more of the Factory's problem.

But as the person in charge, and specifically the person in charge of Superconducting manufacturing, and this matter being about Superconducting, and even more, a problem of aging.

Therefore, his failure to repeatedly ask people to inspect was a solid case of being difficult to absolve of blame.

To be honest, he could have completely taken a helicopter, commuting daily between the Data Center and the site for on-site inspections.

He had the authority to call a helicopter; it wasn't that it wasn't given to him.

He wanted to say all these words to Liu Zong, to Councilman Liu, and wanted to fully admit his mistakes.

But he was truly too nervous, too scared. After adjusting his breathing, after several "I... I...", he still couldn't organize his words.

At the same time.

Old Liu originally wanted to give him a chance to admit his mistakes, because cultivating a provincial-level person in charge was not that simple.

So to a greater extent, Old Liu wanted to hear his summary of mistakes and then have him receive corresponding punishment.

And fundamentally, Old Liu actually didn't want to give up on him.

But seeing his state of mind like this.

Old Liu's expression also turned cold, giving him no chance to speak anymore.

The current Federation is in a critical period of great development, requiring efficiency and speed.

This efficiency and speed also include the speed of quickly admitting and quickly recognizing one's mistakes.

"Let's go, Zhang Zong is waiting for us at the site, you can think slowly on the way."

Plop—

Just one sentence, 'Zhang Zong is going to the site'.

Team Leader Zheng really fainted.

Because this had progressed from nightmare-level to 'ultimate hell-level'.

"Take him away."

Old Liu then instructed the guards to help the person up.

After arriving above the base.

A brand new Superconducting cruise craft was already parked at the helipad.

It looked like a small passenger plane, but its speed reached 4000 kilometers per hour, even higher than some previous top fighter jets.

And in front of the cruise craft.

Zhang Feng saw Old Liu and others dragging someone over.

Seeing the person in charge had fainted.

Zhang Feng didn't have many thoughts, but he knew that in the current high-pressure production environment of the Federation, within the wave of rising large industries.

Under such 'subconscious' mental tension, with something like this happening, it was very normal for someone to be scared unconscious.

If he hadn't been scared unconscious, but instead spoke calmly.

That would mean he had a very good mentality, was full of energy, and being full of energy would imply he wasn't usually tired or working hard.

Then he should be dealt with even more.

Of course, it's not excluded that some people have very good mentalities, such as himself and research personnel like Old Liu, as well as some major project leaders, and everyone in the Planning Department.

Such mentalities are trained under 'more than twenty years of long-term high pressure'.

This Team Leader Zheng looked to be around forty.

When the extraordinary powers first began, he hadn't even graduated from university yet.

As a young man, how could he have any high-pressure experience?

Zhang Feng had already seen Team Leader Zheng's information; his family background was prominent, coupled with his own excellent management abilities, everything had gone smoothly for him.

"Still need to train their state of mind," Zhang Feng mused, walking towards the plane while saying to Old Liu who followed, "In the future, anyone entering the Data Center, even external resident personnel from various provinces."

"Besides observing their necessary state of mind, their mental training should also be strengthened."

"Yes!" Old Liu took out a small notebook and jotted it down.

At the same time, he was followed by only one guard, who was holding Team Leader Zheng.

The four of them boarded the cruise craft together.

But inside this globally unique cruise craft.

About ten minutes later.

Team Leader Zheng, who had just woken up, had no thoughts of excitement. Instead, he cautiously glanced at the resting Zhang Zong from time to time, and occasionally looked at the expressionless Old Liu with a pleading look.

He wasn't trembling now, but with Zhang Zong here, it caused him to not even dare to speak.

Also at this moment.

Old Liu's guard, seeing Team Leader Zheng looking around, said in a formal tone:

"Team Leader Zheng, please maintain a seated posture and avoid large movements."

On this supersonic cruise craft, although some internal rune devices could already offset the tremendous G-forces caused by high-speed travel.

But it was a combination of new technologies after all.

Therefore, Team Leader Zheng's occasional body movements could sometimes break a certain structural balance in the runes.

Of course, the runes were relatively stable and wouldn't be easily broken even at supersonic speeds.

Furthermore, with Zhang Feng here, the runes were absolutely balanced.

As a result, the guard's warning was more about telling the other party to 'Stop moving! Be honest!'

It was just that Team Leader Zheng was somewhat of a person of status, so the words were still polite.

"Okay... Okay..." Team Leader Zheng didn't dare to look around anymore after hearing the warning.

Including these two 'okay' words, they were the only two words he spoke throughout the journey.

...

A moment later, crossing two thousand li, they arrived at the Superconducting Factory in the suburbs of Tan Province.

This Factory area was very large, the size of a village or town, containing all facilities for daily life.

And on the residential streets within the Factory area, there were also restaurants, small amusement parks, and entertainment like KTV.

Although called a large Factory, it was actually already considered a town.

Including the outskirts of the Factory, there were also street stalls and housing construction, faintly showing signs of developing into a real small town.

Overall, it was thriving, a prosperous large industrial base.

But looking down from the sky, Zhang Feng saw a processing Factory area the size of a football field that had completely collapsed due to a machine explosion, also affecting many surrounding buildings and facilities.

The affected area was roughly three li in radius.

The injured personnel were not just a few people within the Factory area, but were constantly being reported and increasing as excavation continued.

Fortunately, the Superconducting walls resisted a lot of the impact, and the people in the Factory had sufficient resources and all cultivated.

This resulted in very few deaths.

The surroundings were also placed under martial law, and the Factory personnel, relevant local law enforcement and medical personnel, including the Martial Department who also sent people, were clearing the building debris here.

And with the help of professional martial artists.

Humans were the best cleaning machines; large stones weighing nearly a ton were easily lifted by two martial artists and placed onto a recycling vehicle.

Not far away was a processing Factory, where useful materials could be decomposed and reprocessed.

The buildings in the manufacturing Factory area all contained Superconducting materials.

There were even similar Superconducting partition walls every other building, precisely to prevent such incidents from happening.

Thud thud thud...

Followed by a tremor-like impact sound from the cruise instrument.

Zhang Feng swept it with his Spiritual Sense and saw Group Leader Zheng trembling.

At the same time.

After Group Leader Zheng saw the disaster scene below and the damaged area and injured personnel, he knew no one could save him.

...

That night.

Zhang Feng and Old Liu returned to the Data Center and held a full staff meeting regarding issues such as character and safety.

Group Leader Zheng, on the other hand, was left at the scene to fully cooperate with the local staff.

And that night, official news was released.

The responsible persons at the relevant Factories would be strictly investigated, while the safety director and Factory director would be directly replaced and held criminally liable.

A few days later, after comprehensive research by relevant units, Group Leader Zheng's handling was also decided.

This was not made public; it was internal.

One, he would leave the Data Center and his cultivation benefits would be canceled.

Two, he would go to the foreign court Factory in the South Continent, where the seventh batch of Superconducting Factories was being built.

Three, he would start as a management group leader within a small Factory, conduct daily self-inspection and correction, and write progress reports every day.

This was the entirety of his punishment.

Because he was actually quite capable, and to be honest.

He previously managed Superconducting manufacturing for a province and had to handle everything personally; no one could withstand that.

One cannot deny all his achievements in Superconducting production because of the success or failure of one incident.

If one were to judge a person like that, all Prefects would be gone.

If a murderer appears within the Federation, it's the responsibility of all security departments.

If someone made a mistake in cultivation and caused a death.

Zhang Feng would also have to pay with his life.

Furthermore, the final investigation results were also released.

It was the chief production group leader in safety production, who was also the de facto second-in-command at the Factory.

He and several technical management personnel wanted to save some maintenance costs for aging equipment and pocket the money, which is why they didn't report it.

They were the culprits who caused such a major accident; there was no question, it was direct death penalty.

Others were at most implicated as victims.

The reason for being so strict with Group Leader Zheng was also because he just happened to be the 'first case'.

The old saying is, he was made an example of.

In fact, to be honest, he was very unlucky and very innocent.

However, he was incompetent in managing his subordinates, didn't go to the site daily, and operated remotely from the Data Center every day.

This was also a case of 'laziness' causing trouble.

Because investigations showed that the issue of aging machinery had not been a one or two day problem at this Factory.

In any case, upon investigation, there weren't many good people.

So, after deliberation, they made an example of Group Leader Zheng, punishing a minor offense severely.

However, this punishment, while seemingly severe, would allow him to bear more responsibility and take on more production burdens if he could endure it and rise again.

...

Unconsciously, another year passed.

Due to Group Leader Zheng's incident, the total Superconducting production increased by 0.03%.

It seems it was effective, as some Factories were indeed cutting corners or saving costs.

Now that they were being strictly monitored, they didn't dare to cause trouble, and production naturally increased.

As for those Factories that increased production by cutting corners, they were reprimanded and fined, and the matter was considered closed, as if it hadn't happened.

As for those aging Factories that thought they were clever and still maintained their original production volume.

They thought that as long as they maintained their original production volume, they wouldn't expose themselves.

But as the Extraordinary Department, the department responsible for 'issuing and supervising Extraordinary Merit Cards', was fully established and conducted secret investigations.

These seemingly clever Factories had their personnel and high-level management replaced one by one according to the appropriate penalties.

With efficient rectification, the production volume increased from 0.03% to 0.05%.

The apparent difference of 0.02% seems small, but it can build two Superconducting small buildings and their supporting facilities like Z1.

And the cost of a complete set of Superconducting small buildings is currently five hundred billion.

This is not the electricity cost from infinite energy, but physical materials.

Five hundred billion worth of planetary materials.

It is limited material.

...

After two years of internal integration and crackdown.

This matter has come to an end.

Including the fact that with the occurrence of this incident, other industries also saw varying degrees of production growth.

Zhang Feng was happy about this: firstly, there were far fewer parasites; secondly, after more than twenty years of the extraordinary era, there were only this many parasites, proving that most people were still united.

Especially in the integration of various regions.

Within the next year.

The gradually growing Extraordinary Department, together with the 'Big Brother Martial Department', formed a joint review in a pincer movement.

Coupled with the largest scale military and police forces, they formed irregular interspersed operations on top of the alliance between the two, striking against those who slipped through the net.

Some related industries that secretly resold high-grade Ling Stones and deliberately inflated the prices of extraordinary items also became much more restrained.

Although this could not be completely eradicated, it was at least much better.

Moreover, Zhang Feng no longer wanted to crack down on them because the conceptual design for the dome had been completed.

According to estimates by relevant units, within ten years, humans will definitely be able to live on the Moon, achieving the first step of interstellar colonization.

And then, having already begun to step into space, there was no longer much need to crack down on crime.

Because when the interstellar era arrives, the Federation won't be able to reach that far.

If criminals were to truly create a black market in outer space, outside the range of Superconducting quantum communication.

They couldn't possibly chase after them every day.

With that effort, it would be better to consolidate forces, build up the Moon, and then try to immigrating to other planets.

Zhang Feng's goal was the vast starry universe.

To plant Great Xia's unique flag in every galaxy.

After that would be the Federation community.

Even in the fourth year of his return, in September.

Zhang Feng was browsing the internet in the base that day and discovered a book that was recently very popular.

Titled "A Man Should Conquer the Universe".

This book was written by a great author based on the preface to the Moon immigration plan officially released a year ago.

It contained many interesting civilizations and some conflict plotlines.

The protagonist was a person named 'Z', who, as the leader of the Earth Alliance, was gentle, kind, yet possessed absolute dominance and leadership.

Under his leadership, humanity quickly occupied more than half of the solar system.

And at the end, Z and a group of senators sat inside a cosmic battleship at the edge of the solar system, looking out at the farther and deeper starry sky.

This was the end of the first part.

Seemingly there were no problems; the Earth Alliance in the book also needed someone like Z.

He absolutely fit all the character settings for a leader.

To be honest, Zhang Feng also found it very engaging.

But everyone in the real Federation who read this book.

All knew that the protagonist of this book was actually written about himself.

Z was the abbreviation of his name.

It could be said that thanks to him, this book sold extremely well within the Federation.

Zhang Feng also felt it was quite good and thought that the civilizations described within could be borrowed, recreated in the virtual world, and then used as exercises for dealing with external civilizations.

And he looked forward to this author writing more civilizations for him to copy.

But Zhang Feng didn't know that this author was also waiting for the 'Pioneer' to occupy the solar system before he would continue copying and write the second part.

Zhang Feng and he were both waiting.

...

Another month passed.

He didn't get to copy the book, but good news arrived.

There were two months left until the new world.

The compression array for the first weapon had been perfected.

The orbital weapon could also achieve planetary attack range, sending energy strikes from Earth to the Moon, which is three hundred eighty thousand kilometers away.

However, during the strike, the energy would gradually weaken due to factors such as the expansion of the light spot and the scattering by interstellar dust.

But it was still enough to cleanse 20% of the Moon's surface area.

Especially at the center point of the strike, the scorching temperature would melt even solid Superconducting material.

Defense facilities that could withstand hydrogen pellets were like a piece of paper under the orbital cannon's strike.

Zhang Feng also estimated that if he learned the compression array, he could increase his destructive power by at least several times.

After that, he continued learning.

Zhang Feng suddenly discovered that it was directly proportional to his base Spiritual Mind.

Or rather, he only had ten strands of Spiritual Mind, so the compression was also limited.

For example, if he drew ten talismans, copied them a thousand times in higher dimensions, and then rearranged them with ten strands of Spiritual Mind to form an attack array, that would be the final combat power he could unleash.

The effect was roughly 8 to 10 times that of before.

Well, nothing more to say, keep copying.

Even with 8 times the combat power, a single spell cast would be comparable to the destructive power of a city-wide area.

Equivalent to box-level.

...

For two months, Zhang Feng was learning the compression array and studying its arrangement.

Unconsciously.

After finishing his studies, only three days remained.

Finally, he would summarize.

Three days passed in the blink of an eye.

That night.

Zhang Feng finished his meal in the base's large dining hall with satisfaction, came to his bedroom, and looked at the adventure countdown.