I'm not a drama god

Chapter 1475: Akashic Tower

"Akasha Tower."

As the worker responded, a hint of doubt flashed across Chen Ling's eyes.

"What is...Akashi Tower?"

"...We don't know either. It was Lingxu Jun who drew the blueprint himself." The worker paused for a moment, looking at the unfinished tower with a complex emotion in his eyes, including helplessness, expectation, and even a hint of... piety.

It's like a believer looking up at the god he believes in.

"But Lord Lingxu said it will guide all of humanity toward a bright future," the worker said solemnly. "As long as we build this tower, we'll be able to find a way to destroy the Red Star. We'll no longer have to worry about natural disasters or man-made calamities and can live in peace and stability..."

Chen Ling saw his expression and asked:

"But does it take so many people to build a tower?"

"A normal tower wouldn't need that, but this one... is a little special."

The worker didn't seem to want to reveal much, and randomly pointed to nearby areas:

"That's the cafeteria, that's the bathroom, that's the dormitory... Oh, there should be over a hundred thousand people working on this construction site right now, divided into three shifts. While we're working late at night, the other two shifts are sleeping and eating... In about three hours, it will be time for the next shift."

"The area on the left is where the building materials are processed. There are three steps involved. Only materials that meet the required quality can be used to build the tower."

"Construction has been underway for half a month, but the tower's construction progress has barely reached one-fifth. Building the Akashic Tower is quite troublesome...mainly due to the lack of manpower."

"And over there..."

As the worker casually introduced himself, Chen Ling was about to ask more questions when a group of figures, carrying seven or eight stretchers, rushed in from the front. They rushed towards the specialized medical area, and if Chen Ling hadn't reacted quickly, she would have been hit.

"This is the emergency route! Who told you to block the road!" The figure carrying the stretcher in front glared at Chen Ling fiercely, then continued to run forward without looking back.

Chen Ling looked down and realized the ground was covered in different colored lines, like a subway map from before the apocalypse. People from different departments could only walk along specific paths, without crossing each other. This perfectly eliminated traffic congestion caused by excessive traffic flow, and directly maximized the efficiency of personnel dispatch throughout the entire area...

It is precisely for this reason that tens of thousands of people are busy at this construction site at the same time, but it does not seem crowded or chaotic at all.

Is this the overall planning ability of a mathematician?

"What happened to those people?" Chen Ling asked, pointing at the pale figures on the stretcher.

The worker didn't answer. He strode to the building where several people had just been carried out, grabbed a figure who looked like the person in charge and asked:

"How's the pass rate tonight?"

"Still no luck... Over forty people, five hours, and only seven acceptable bricks... Six of them were made by Shinto masters." The person in charge shook his head. "Eight of those ordinary people fainted in one go. They'll probably need at least 12 hours of rest before they can return to the production line."

The worker's face was extremely grim. "No... At this rate, we can't meet Lord Lingxu's target at all."

"What should we do? With over 100,000 people working in three shifts, efficiency has reached its limit!"

As the two were talking, Chen Ling glanced at the area inside the building. It looked like a super factory. Countless figures were sitting in the huge space, busy with something with their heads down. Since there was no electric lighting, there was a kerosene lamp on each person's table. The dim light flickered, and a depressing and dull atmosphere spread within.

The secret pupil climbed up to Chen Ling's eyes, and with the blessing of his extremely strong eyesight, he could see clearly what these people were busy with...

brick.

In other words, bricks in the process of being made.

I don't know what firing method was used to make these bricks, but the surface actually glowed with a faint blue light. At this time, these figures had their eyes wide open, carefully drawing something on the surface of the bricks.

Someone finally finished drawing and placed the brick on the table. Soon a supervisor came over, picked up the brick, looked at it carefully, shook his head, took out a hammer and smashed the brick to pieces... The next second, a new brick was delivered to him.

The worker seemed to be on the verge of collapse. He held the broken bricks and questioned something, but the supervisor still shook his head indifferently. After saying a few words, he left without looking back.

Similar scenes are constantly playing out in this Gigafactory. At the front of the factory, several supervisors are carefully packing up a few bricks and sending them out of the factory...

Chen Ling's fingertips under his sleeves moved, and the next second, something fell into his palm.

No one around noticed anything unusual.

Only after the two finished their conversation did the worker take Chen Ling away.

Chen Ling asked again:

"What happened to those people?"

"What else could it be? He fainted from exerting so much energy." The worker waved his hand. "Alright, we've had our tour. Don't ask unnecessary questions... Let's go now. If you don't leave, I'll call the security team."

Chen Ling then discovered that there were far more than one similar factory. A constant stream of bricks were shipped out of these factories, processed in one place, and then delivered to the base of the tower under construction...

Then, in the hands of many busy workers, it was carefully built into the tower and built up bit by bit.

Although Chen Ling didn't know much about architecture, he did have a basic understanding. Building a tall tower purely with bricks wasn't easy. Before the Cataclysm, most towers were either constructed with steel or had a solid foundation of reinforced concrete. But the human realm clearly didn't possess that kind of technology...

This tower made of bricks and stones becomes increasingly difficult to construct the higher it goes. One must be careful at all times; if any mistake occurs, the entire tower will be ruined.

Chen Ling didn't waste any more time with the worker.

He walked straight out of the factory, walking down the dim street in his brown coat.

It was already late at night, the lanterns on both sides of the street had been extinguished, and the entire city was shrouded in darkness. Only the tall tower under construction in the distance was still brightly lit.

Chen Ling slowly took out the thing from her sleeve.

That's a brick.

He held the brick toward the light from the tower, and with the help of the dim light, he could vaguely see the patterns on it... lines of function that were so perfect that they looked like they were taken from a rectangular coordinate system were running on it.

Chen Ling looked at it carefully for a long time, and only saw a line that seemed to be the Fibonacci sequence. He couldn't even understand the other function graphs. The brick in his hand was more like a puzzle. It seemed that it should be connected to other bricks on the top, bottom, left and right. Only in this way could the function graphs be pieced together... This was a perfect work of art outlined by a large number of function lines.

Chen Ling found it hard to believe that something so exquisitely detailed could be made by human hands...

"Is this the reason why you're recruiting so many people?"

Chen Ling looked at the brick in his hand, his eyes narrowed slightly.

"What...exactly do you want to do?"