novelraw Chapter 1306 660: Stirring Things Up!
Chapter 1306 660: Stirring Things Up!
Whether blue surpasses indigo, Ji Jue doesn't know.
Since the teacher assigned him a task, he started working earnestly, clocking in at the workshop every day from then on.
Honestly speaking... he wasn't this diligent when he was an apprentice before.
Back then, if he wasn't hanging out outside, he was on his way to hang out, genuinely sitting in the teacher's workshop and attending class was surprisingly rare.
Given the rare chance, Ji Jue seized the opportunity, using the gaps in optimization to chat with the teacher, organizing his questions and ideas.
Most of the time, questions went unanswered, and Ye Xian couldn't be bothered to rack his brain, he merely pointed in a direction, leaving Ji Jue to explore on his own.
Raised like wild.
Oddly enough, Ji Jue, this rascal, loved this set-up, occasionally in his wild growth he could find some unexpected surprises from the direction Ye Xian gave him.
The more he thought about it the more questions arose, even crafting a bunch of eerie things within the framework of Nine Forms and Spiritual Essence Refining, to the point where, for the sake of his own sanity, Ye Xian got tired of understanding it.
Thus, every day at work, eating junk, and conducting research, he finally had a bit of the craftsman's secluded demeanor, being too busy to handle everything.
Even with the likes of Ye Xian above him, and carrying Isis as an all-purpose assistant, he was still struggling to manage.
Having too many projects on hand was a nuisance.
The study of Nine Forms continued, while the supplement and revision of Three-phase Alchemy needed to keep borrowing strengths from others, the modernization of Fluid Alchemy was proceeding steadily, secretly conducting some research not permitted by the Association.
Expansion of the workshop, funding from New Spring, development of Coastal Industry, promotion of new products by Coast Technology, and the upgrade and recruitment of Punabantu Blessing Park.
Once a person gets busy, there's work everywhere.
As a result, he completely put Nirvana's troublesome matters out of his mind.
Anyway, Nirvana had nothing much going on, as long as Heavenly Furnace Old Dog didn't appear in front of him, he considered him dead, just like a meow!
Previously going to Nirvana's lair, they merely met, issued a credential, and then he returned.
Other than that, nothing was said.
One could say... it had gotten to the point where saying anything would be redundant?
Call it brotherhood?
When Ji Jue saw Old Dog's face, he knew that he probably wasn't destined to escape being welded to Nirvana and Mohist for a lifetime, nothing he said would matter.
Even running through the registration and joining procedures wasn't necessary.
Amongst all of Nirvana, there weren't many with a pedigree as upright as Ji Jue's...
No wonder Marvellous Old Deng had such a calm demeanor, after downing this left-over wine, recruiting Ji Jue was almost a done deal.
Carrying a Non-Attack Ember in one hand, engineering dodgy stuff out of sight, forever pondering blowing up cesspits, first the Federation then the Empire, wherever he went there would be explosions. If you're not a Mohist, then who is?
If you're not Nirvana, then who the heck is Nirvana?!
As for the illicit business and shady dealings within the organization, Heavenly Furnace didn't need to assign tasks to Ji Jue, he'd find work to do on his own.
If there really was a need to set KPIs, Ji Jue would probably be the top-notch salesperson.
After all, even when just moonlighting at Nirvana, one still needed to eat, sleep, and get on with life, and generally wouldn't engage in trouble-making without reason, people like Ji Jue who'd jump into any potential pitfall and embrace deadly duties were indeed rare treasures.
The biggest advantage though, was the intelligence-sharing aspect, where basically Ji Jue could venture back to Marvellous Old Deng and nearly all the intel within Nirvana would be accessible to him.
Whatever large-scale changes might occur beneath the Vortex, any moves by Seeder, Ji Jue wouldn't be completely blind to them.
Aside from that...
Just wait.
Wait.
What Ji Jue lacked the least was patience.
Another day rushed by, Ji Jue rubbed his face, staring at the power armor in front of him, he couldn't help but let out a long sigh, several days of optimization work all in vain.
In his quest for stable operation under peak-speed conditions, Ji Jue exhausted his wits modifying the pressurization and tail spray of two auxiliary engines, stability was achieved but costs soared, complexity increased, and with increased complexity, stability ironically decreased... rendering modifications utterly worthless.
This job, where every move affected everything else, when one thing moved, everything moved, forming a tangled web of interconnected parts.
Additions and subtractions struggled to yield immediate effects; even if effects were achievable, they were often constrained by cost-effectiveness and numerous technological patent barriers.
What he truly could do was rely on extreme testing, gradually identifying the shortfalls requiring solutions, remedying what he could, and for those unfixable, lowering future maintenance difficulties.
Treat headaches with head cures, and foot pains with foot cures.
While catching up on lessons...
He never envisioned that after the craftsman hustle, he'd need to circle back for mechanical engineering, upon finishing this task, he ought to be prepared to snag a level-one certification in transmission...
"Why does this damn life never stop spinning itself?"
Ji Jue wafted out of the workshop like a ghost, took two steps, and collapsed on the sofa into some indescribable form, exhausted beyond words, drooling.
Without regarding the angry gazes beside him, he casually picked up some nearby snack chips.
Devour your beef stew flavor!