Legend of the Planet Builder

Chapter 53 - 53 53 Special Steel

?Chapter 53: Chapter 53: Special Steel! Chapter 53: Chapter 53: Special Steel! “How’s it going?” Qiu Yang asked.

“Not bad,” He Xingzhou said, “Quality inspection, top grade!”

At this moment, the second printed inspection report came out. Qiu Yang grabbed it, looked it over carefully, and laughed out loud: “Indeed, top grade! One of the most difficult special metals to smelt in the world, and we’ve managed to smelt it!”

“This is steel that can be used on aircraft carriers!” exclaimed an expert from He Xingzhou’s team, elated: “To develop this, we’ve researched for over a decade! Today we finally have results!”

“Really?” The other senior members of Baosan also received the inspection report, and upon seeing the results, they smiled so wide they couldn’t close their mouths.

“Now Shen Zhou finally has the capability to produce this world-class special steel!”

“This plasma furnace is too incredible, it’s several grades higher than the smelting equipment we imported!”

“I’ve seen the quality of the special steel we imported before, and it seems not as good as ours, right?”

“From now on, we won’t need to import these special steel materials anymore. We can make them ourselves and even export them to the whole world!”

Nishikawa Kenta and other experts from Japan also saw this inspection report, and they were all too familiar with the numbers on it.

“Did they really manage to smelt it?”

“Amazing! This is the world’s top-tier special steel! Smelted using that plasma furnace!” The people began to converse in Japanese.

“This level of steel, even our conglomerate can’t make it, especially the plasma smelting technology, which we can’t master properly. How did they do it?” whispered one expert.

“Nagata-kun, are you sure there wasn’t any problem with the testing process?” Nishikawa Kenta couldn’t believe it—or rather, didn’t want to believe this fact.

Once Shen Zhou has the capacity to smelt special metals, it means not just special steel but other special metals as well can be produced.

With Shen Zhou’s current steel production ranking first in the world, with their production capacity, they won’t take long to dominate the global special metals market!

“Nishikawa-kun!” Nagata Yuusuke’s expression was grim, and he spoke with bitter tone, “I was personally involved in every process. They didn’t manipulate anything in either the raw materials or finished products. It’s true.”

“We’re doomed.” Nishikawa Kenta’s hands were trembling as he held the inspection report, unable to imagine how he would face the higher-ups of his consortium back home.

Qiu Yang and the others enjoyed watching their expressions. Even a fool could tell that these experts from Japan were feeling absolutely terrible.

It was a stark contrast to their previous arrogance!

“Feels great, we’ve been dealing with special steel for decades, and finally, you’ve had your comeuppance!” Qiu Yang laughed inwardly.

He Xingzhou also shared the inspection report in the Xuanwu Plan group chat, saying, “Melting success, this test was for ultra-pure bearing steel, one of the more difficult kinds. According to our design, there are other centralized furnaces for smelting other special steels or special metals like Titanium Alloy, all without any issues.”

Qin Peng immediately commented, “Good job! Nicely done! Lad, you might as well join the military. With this achievement, getting a first-class merit isn’t a problem at all!”

He Hongwei commented, “I agree, with this special metal, many of our weapons equipment can be upgraded and manufactured independently!”

Kong Qing commented, “Hahaha, we are all part of the Xuanwu Plan, all the same.”

He Xingzhou, “… (Emoji: Dumbfounded)”
In the factory, there were still many more melting tests to be carried out, and they needed to adjust the formulas, melting other kinds of special steel.

These were tasks that He Xingzhou no longer involved himself with, leaving the team members and Baosan experts to research.

He returned to the Beijing Watchtower Research Institute, to continue with other metal smelting technologies, as well as research on vacuum induction furnaces, ultra-high temperature arc furnaces, and so on.

At the same time, videos of all this, after being edited by Xu Zhilan, were published online.

“Space Air Mother Ship Model Making Video Series (1) Special Metal Smelting.”

More than a month had passed since the last teaser was released. When He Xingzhou’s videos were initially distributed across the internet, they attracted a lot of attention.

But since he hadn’t updated for a while, the popularity had cooled down recently.

The comment section was incessantly filled with requests for updates, and this time, He Xingzhou finally released the first video, which the long-waiting fans quickly opened to watch.

In the video, He Xingzhou introduced, “In this episode, we start with the first step, to obtain the special metal for the Space Air Mother Ship model. Although it’s a model, the strength of the special metal is definitely usable on an actual Space Air Mother Ship!”

In the video, he introduced the plasma furnace as well as the properties of the special metal.

When the audience saw the newly smelted, reflective special steel on camera, they felt as if they were partaking in the process themselves.

“Watching this video feels like forging a divine weapon, starting by working the iron. It’s exciting!”

“Yeah, even though it’s just steelmaking, it’s more thrilling than watching a movie!”

“My gosh, He Xingzhou is indeed awesome, I’ve seen the news saying we’ve independently smelted special steel!”

“It’s too short, the author is too stingy! Didn’t get enough from one episode, hurry up and release the next one!”

“??? Wasn’t it supposed to be about making a model? And then they accidentally made a world-class technological breakthrough?”

“I have no idea but it’s impressive!”

“Everyone knows, He Xingzhou appears to teach us how to make models, but in reality, he’s breaking technological monopolies!”

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On a short video platform, He Xingzhou’s video was released for just ten minutes and immediately topped the hot list at number one!

It received millions of likes and millions of comments.

People who were not interested in technology also began to pay attention to this news.

And those around the world who were watching He Xingzhou started to feel fear!

It hasn’t been long, and he’s already made breakthroughs in the field of special metals. Could he really continue to break barriers in ultra-precise machining technology like machine tools?

At the end of He Xingzhou’s first video, he teased, “Next episode, we will design the blueprints for the Space Air Mother Ship model and make a machine capable of processing the parts.”

“Machine tools, machine tools! He’s really going to do machine tools!”

“Hurry and check, how did his team manage to do this? Could it be that someone from our side leaked the technology?”

“Recently, our security departments have noticed frequent activities of suspicious individuals.” Inside the Xuanwu Plan group chat, Cui Weimin warned He Xingzhou, “They are very interested in you and the Watchtower Research Institute. Don’t leave the country before we have absolute security assurance.”

“We have already deployed extra manpower, we can completely ensure the safety of you and your team domestically.”

He Xingzhou, “Understood! I won’t be going abroad anytime soon.”

He Xingzhou was also very clear that the world was not that peaceful, and there would definitely be those who were displeased with him.

Before developing super technology equipment to ensure his safety, he would not take risks.

He usually stayed within the Watchtower Research Institute and other research institutions, so safety was not a problem.