NOVEL NEXT Chapter 118: Can't Afford It at All
After putting in brand-new furniture, one could move in with just a suitcase. Lan Zhi was very satisfied. The students who had received generous rewards were also very satisfied. However, Shang Ruqi hadn't left yet. During this process, he not only took several sound-recording stones and asked her to make portable players whenever she had time but also asked Chang Lize to help set up a table and handle affairs on the spot. As soon as he saw that her residence had been tidied up, he immediately asked, "Are the portable players ready?" Lan Zhi handed them to him. "I've slightly modified the details. After recording, the arrays will directly become ineffective. Have a look and see what you think." Shang Ruqi took a look and thought it was good. Then he handed them to Chang Lize. "Xiao Li, take them to the Sound Cultivation Pavilion and ask the sound cultivators to help record some songs and tunes." Chang Lize: "I'm not called Xiao Li!" Shang Ruqi patted his head. "Good boy, Xiao Ze." Chang Lize ran off happily. Shang Ruqi then turned to teach Lan Zhi. "If there's anything that needs someone to run errands in the future, just let him do it. He grew up here since childhood and is more familiar than anyone else with who to turn to in different situations. Moreover, we watched him grow up, so people will more or less give him some face." Lan Zhi thought to herself silently that Chang Lize was eager to make a lot of money for those from poor families. If he knew that Shang Ruqi only planned to let him run errands, would he cry until he fainted at home? After that, Shang Ruqi told her about the current progress. According to the plan they had discussed before, they would first make ten thousand portable players as a trial. To save costs, they didn't plan to buy sound-recording stones from outside. Everything would be completed within the star academy. The Pinglan Star Academy currently had 985 in stock, which could be directly made into ordinary portable players. Additionally, there were 200 raw stones. There were 127 cultivators in the Artifact Cultivation Pavilion who could make sound-recording stones, and they had already started working. Lan Zhi nodded. This efficiency was okay. The Array Cultivation Pavilion should be able to start work tomorrow. Who would have thought that Shang Ruqi would say directly, "Let's go to the Array Cultivation Pavilion now." Lan Zhi was just about to say goodbye and go back inside. Hearing this, she almost tripped over herself. "Don't we need to rest?" It was almost early morning! Shang Ruqi didn't answer but asked instead, "Are you tired?" Lan Zhi: "Not really." Shang Ruqi said, "Then let's finish the work first and then rest." Lan Zhi: "..." She had joined the Merchant Hall for less than half a day. Even a donkey in a production team wouldn't be used like this! On second thought, if the array cultivators could familiarize themselves with the array diagrams earlier, tomorrow's work would surely go more smoothly, and she could also save herself some trouble then. So she followed him to the Array Cultivation Pavilion. Then, she saw a group of array cultivators who didn't go to sleep in the middle of the night and were getting ready to work hard. Did they have to be so competitive? However, that was good. The harder they worked, the less trouble she would have. As long as she taught them, she could just sit back and enjoy her share. Yes, for this production of portable players, neither the star power pen nor the replication array could be used. They simply couldn't afford it. Currently, they could only use the cheapest labor force - the students of the star academy! Shang Ruqi was quick and decisive in handling affairs, and Lan Zhi didn't procrastinate either. She immediately copied hundreds of copies of the array diagrams of the sound-insulating array and the sound-gathering array and distributed them to them, asking them to first try drawing on the array paper. If there were no problems, they could then work on the sound-recording stones. After all, if the array drawing failed, at best, the star qi would dissipate, and at worst, there would be a star qi explosion. Even a very small explosion would cause damage to the sound-recording stones. If one was damaged, it would increase the cost by eighty to a hundred coins. The Pinglan Star Academy now wished it could split one coin into two. They didn't want to waste a single sound-recording stone. What Lan Zhi hadn't expected was that these two array diagrams were too difficult for the array cultivators.