wavenovel Chapter 154 Using the Ancestor as a Battery? One Sentence, and the Dragon Soul Awakens!
Chapter 154 Using the Ancestor as a Battery? One Sentence, and the Dragon Soul Awakens!
"Come on, everyone, stop sitting around, there's work to be done!"
Holding the blueprints in one hand and tossing the warm, smooth "battery" in the other, Lin Fan excitedly shouted to the group of employees who were "meditating" in the courtyard.
As soon as he finished speaking, the entire courtyard came alive.
The group of golden-haired hunks and mercenary gardeners, who had just digested the "Nebula Cucumber" and were bursting with energy, swarmed around it like hungry wolves, their eyes filled with desire.
"Sir! What are your orders?"
"Sir! Which base are you going to dismantle this time?"
"Sir! Are you going to plant some new variety again? I feel like I can level up again!"
Looking at this group of employees who were even more excited than if they had been injected with chicken blood, Lin Fan nodded slightly in satisfaction.
Excellent team cohesion and work enthusiasm; they deserve a little red flower.
"Neither."
Lin Fan cleared his throat and slammed the construction blueprints for the [Tiangong Kaiwu Workshop] onto the stone table with a crisp "thud".
As the blueprints unfold, a building brimming with profound Taoist charm and futuristic technology leaps off the page.
Pointing to the blueprints, his face beaming with anticipation for a bright future, he declared with boundless enthusiasm:
"Today, we will neither destroy nor plant crops."
"Let's...get some construction done!"
"See that? This is our courtyard's future 'central kitchen' and 'logistics support center'! Our goal is to achieve full automation of all production and daily life throughout the entire courtyard!"
Lin Fan's voice grew louder and louder, as if he could already see how pleasant his future retirement life would be.
"From now on, the tea I drink will be grown, picked, roasted, brewed, and served to me by itself!"
"The vegetables I want to eat are grown, picked, washed, and chopped by themselves, ready to be cooked!"
"The pots and pans I need are all made by the machine itself—it's refined, forged, and washed until they're sparkling clean!"
"And we," Lin Fan summarized succinctly, "can simply lie down and enjoy it all!"
He's already starting to fantasize about the ultimate blissful life where even going to the toilet is done by a robotic arm that hands him toilet paper.
However, the employees in the yard were completely dumbfounded after hearing this grand plan.
The faces that could strike fear into the hearts of enemies outside were now filled with bewilderment and astonishment.
Fully automated?
Then... what should we do?
Ares was the first to lose his temper. He grabbed his precious toilet brush and charged forward as if defending a faith.
"Sir! You mustn't!"
He looked utterly heartbroken, as if Lin Fan's decision was robbing him of the most sacred right in his life: "If everything is fully automated, then... then who will clean your toilet?!"
"Yes, sir!" the head gardener exclaimed anxiously, waving his fist, which was as big as a clay pot. "If you make all the vegetable planting fully automated, where will we put all this strength?"
"Sir! The joy of forging by hand is something that cold machines can never replace! Please reconsider!" Mu, an Aries, unusually remonstrated with a serious expression.
For a moment, the courtyard became as noisy as a vegetable market.
These people, who could cause a major earthquake with a stomp of their feet in the outside world, are now arguing with their boss to keep their jobs of "cleaning toilets," "farming," and "blacksmithing."
This extremely bizarre scene left the four Fang sisters, who had just started working, feeling dizzy and disoriented, as if their worldview was being repeatedly crushed.
The "corporate culture" in this courtyard is just too... too ahead of its time.
"That's enough!"
Lin Fan's head was throbbing from their noise, and he yelled in annoyance.
"How can everyone's thinking be so rigid?!"
He pointed at these "blockheads" with exasperation: "Who said that with full automation, you'd have nothing better to do?"
"You could go and maintain the machines! You could do their maintenance! You could research how to upgrade them!"
"At the very least, you can hold an internal competition! See who can maintain the machines that produce higher quality tea, bigger cucumbers, and non-stick pans!"
"What do you call this? This is called the transformation and upgrading from 'manual laborer' to 'intellectual laborer'! Do you understand?!"
Lin Fan's lecture, delivered with such overwhelming force, left the group of "employees" completely bewildered.
Transformation and upgrading?
mental laborers?
Although I can understand each word individually, when put together... it sounds really impressive.
"Alright, it's settled then." Lin Fan was too lazy to explain any further. He simply waved his hand and used his trump card, "Anyone who objects again will not get any cucumbers this month."
This statement is more effective than any profound truth.
The entire courtyard instantly became so quiet you could hear a pin drop.
Everyone stared intently at Lin Fan with eyes that were filled with resentment, yet also with submission and longing.
"That's right."
Lin Fan nodded in satisfaction, picked up the blueprints, and began issuing orders.
"Mu!"
"Yes, sir!"
"You're in charge of overall technical guidance. Take a look at the structure and runes on these, see if you can handle it?" Lin Fan handed the blueprints to Mu.
Mu solemnly took the blueprints, and after just one glance, his eyes instantly shone with a light more dazzling than the stars!
"A masterpiece of craftsmanship! Exquisite artistry! No! This is... this is a miracle! Sir, the Dao of weapon crafting contained within... this is simply a supreme method tailor-made for me!"
He held the blueprints, his hands trembling violently, and he was completely absorbed in a state of frenzied enlightenment.
"Alright, alright, stop going crazy." Lin Fan waved his hand, interrupting his spellcasting. "As long as you can handle it."
"Yes! Sir! I guarantee I'll complete the mission!" Mu snapped back to reality, patted his chest, and made a solemn pledge.
"Okay." Lin Fan nodded, then looked at the group of mercenary gardeners. "You guys are in charge of the foundation and civil engineering. Go and level that empty space next to the vegetable garden. Then, dig out those 'Nine Heavens Breath Soil' from the vegetable garden and spread them under the foundation."
"Yes, sir!"
At the gardener's command, he led his group of burly men, carrying black hoes, and charged forward with a roar of excitement, as if they were robbing a bank.
"Saga!"
"Yes, sir!"
"Go to the backyard warehouse and move that half of 'Starry Black Gold' over. While you're at it, go to the World Tree and break off the thickest branch for me to use as a roof beam."
"Yes, sir!" Saga accepted the order, and with a single swipe of his hand, he tore open the "other dimension" and disappeared.
"Camus!"
"Yes, sir!"
"Go, drain the 'Mysterious Dark Water' from the water vat and prepare to mix it with mud."
"Yes, sir!"
……
Lin Fan issued the orders one by one in an orderly manner.
The entire courtyard instantly transformed from a leisurely retirement home into a bustling construction site of epic scale.
A group of gods, Saint Seiya warriors, and super mercenaries unleashed unprecedented enthusiasm for building a "fully automated central kitchen."
Fang Qingxue and her three cousins stood there dumbfounded, completely numb to the scene before them, a scene brimming with magical realism.
They felt they weren't there to be maids.
They came to witness the birth of a myth.
Finally, Lin Fan strolled leisurely to the center of the construction site, where the foundation of the future "Tiangong Kaiwu Workshop" would be located.
He crouched down and casually placed the "Ancestral Dragon Jade," which he defined as a "battery," in the very center of the foundation.
"Alright, energy core, in place."
He dusted off his hands, stood up, and then, in a casual tone as if waking someone up, spoke lightly to the unremarkable jade pendant.
"Hey, you inside, wake up!"
"Time to get up... and generate electricity."
The voice just fell.
In that instant, the world lost its color, and all was silent!
"hold head high--!!!!!"
A dragon's roar, filled with boundless majesty and ancient grandeur, suddenly soared into the sky from that small jade pendant without warning!
Golden light exploded, and the dragon's might was like a prison!
The sky above the entire capital changed color as a golden dragon shadow, visible to the naked eye, pierced through the heavens and earth, as if announcing to the world the awakening of an ancient emperor!