Chapter 82: Triumphant (1/2)
Chapter 82: Triumphant
Translator: EndlessFantasy TranslationEditor: EndlessFantasy Translation
When Ye Chong requested to use the Blue Ocean Academy’s modification workshop, Headmaster Lan agreed without any hesitation and even brought him to the academy’s most advanced workshop himself! As Ye Chong entered Blue Ocean Academy’s reputedly most advanced workshop, seeing rows and rows of dream-like top class machinery, he was mightily envious! Headmaster Lan generously declared that he was free to use the devices as he see fit, and that materials were provided too. Ye Chong felt like diving straight into his work!
Even Shang went into a frenzy, howling in excitement!
Headmaster Lan grinned as he saw Ye Chong’s bland expression turn into a rich array of emotions for the first time. He was secretly pleased at himself. ”Young man, I don’t believe there’s no way to keep you here!” Headmaster Lan had seen all sorts of people in his life, and knew the ways of appealing to one’s interests!
Ye Chong began immediately, studying the many devices and mechanisms that he had never seen before, oblivious to Headmaster Lan, standing at the side!
Headmaster Lan smiled, taking no offense, and left quietly by himself. Before that, he ordered the person in charge of the workshop to fulfill Ye Chong’s requests, whatever they may be! Of course, he hinted a little at the person’s unfortunate and inevitable farewell to the academy should he fail to satisfy Ye Chong, and the employee felt fearful enough that he nodded profusely like a docile animal!
Ye Chong did not notice when Headmaster Lan left. If he knew that his vigilance had dropped to such a state, one wondered how he would take it. Shang was also uncharacteristically cooperative this time, accessing the virtual net and procuring the holographic schematics for an automatic noodle making machine without fuss. Ye Chong and Shang discussed amongst themselves, while the person in charge of the modification workshop assisted by his side with great care, fearing that Ye Chong’s dissatisfaction would leave him without a job!
The person in charge stared as Ye Chong went into a daze, quiet as a mouse, for fear of interrupting whatever strange thoughts Ye Chong was having at the moment.
As he thought of all the effort he had put into securing his job at Blue Ocean Academy, and all the sweat and tears, he felt extremely discontented!
While today’s modern society would not allow anyone to die of starvation, a person without a stable job would have to visit the relief center to receive government aid. One was guaranteed a basic living condition, but to achieve more, one would have to climb up the economic ladder!
Ye Chong was having a heated discussion with Shang! While Ye Chong was far worse in calculations than Shang, his occasional insight often impressed both Shang and Mu! As such, Ye Chong often proposed some unusual concepts, while Mu and Shang demonstrated, complemented and improved those concepts!
Suddenly, Ye Chong thought of a problem, and began to look around him.
The person in charge saw Ye Chong’s behaviour, and immediately knew that he was looking for something. He hastily approached Ye Chong and put a smile on his face. ”What are you finding for? I’m the person in charge of this workshop, just let me know if you have questions. The headmaster had informed me that all the materials here are at your disposal!”
Ye Chong froze. When he realized that he did not notice a person being so close to him, his expression turned sour. He relaxed after deducing that the person had no ill will against him, and warned himself against such carelessness!
However, since the person had offered, Ye Chong spoke, ”I need flour and water!”
The person in charge was all ready for Ye Chong to ask for the most precious and expensive materials, thinking that he must procure materials for Ye Chong, even if he had to stake his life for it. What he did not expect, after all the mental preparation, was for Ye Chong to ask for flour and water.
Ye Chong took over the flour and water that the person in charge had procured for him, and, right before the person’s disbelieving eyes, he began to make noodles in Blue Ocean Academy’s most advanced modification workshop.
After five hours of hard work, Ye Chong looked satisfied at the massive machine before him, while the person in charge stared in stupefaction. Since the modification workshop had no automatic noodle making machine, he had used the tools and materials in the workshop to make a new one under Shang’s guidance.
Ye Chong carefully tasted the newly made noodles. The person in charge watched as Ye Chong used a mech’s hollow leg that was over thirty kilograms heavy in place for a bowl, and felt like jumping off a building!
”Hmm, the taste was not bad, almost identical to the one I make myself.” Of course, Ye Chong had no intention of inviting the person in charge for a taste. Instead, he swallowed all the noodles like a hungry tornado!
Ye Chong pointed to the automatic noodle making machine, and asked the person in charge, ”Can I take this with me?”
The person in charge nodded mechanically.
He watched on as Ye Chong lifted the machine that weighed a few hundred kilograms and disappeared outside the door, and felt infinitely helpless. ”Heavens, was the fellow crazy?” He felt like he had just seen a most sarcastic joke. ”A person making noodles in Blue Ocean Academy’s most advanced modification workshop? Kneading the dough on an ultra-smooth benchtop, one of only a hundred in the entire Fal galaxy? Eating out of a hundred-thousand-zuan mech’s hollow leg? He did not even clean the hollow leg up after finishing his meal!”
”Could it be that world was truly changing?” The person in charge felt like he burned a fuse in his brain somewhere, as he stared blankly at Ye Chong’s gradually diminishing figure through the workshop’s entrance.
The next day, news of Ye Chong’s job offer acceptance as Blue Ocean Academy’s mech mechanics teacher spread fast throughout the academy grounds, as though the news had grown a pair of wings. Everyone’s attention was focused on the news, and the main event that was the MP Games had, for the first time in history, been largely ignored.
In the headmaster’s office, only Ye Chong and the headmaster were present.
Headmaster Lan smiled lightly and said, ”Mr Ye, please let me know if you have any requests! I think we’ll make a great team!”
Ye Chong thought for a moment before speaking, ”I’d like to take courses for alchemy!”
Shang leaped in excitement, having no indication of his decision beforehand. ”Ye, hah, you’ve finally come around, that’s great! Ah, weren’t you reluctant to learn alchemy before this? What led to the change in mind?”