Chapter 639

The saying "men are boys until they die" is truly correct. No, now I should use "death is like the wind, always by my side" to describe myself.

Although it's a bit of a perverse hobby, it's exciting!

Lin Cheng took out a mirror, tried to straighten his face, and said something pretentiously.

Teasing Jueqing time and time again caused her to clamor to kill him in a fit of rage, but it was impossible for her to kill him, or even hurt him.

As long as he had the system to rely on, why would he be a coward!

"Alright, alright, the depression and dullness of these days have vanished. Time to get to work, there are assembly lines and magic energy converters waiting for him to build."

Lin Cheng gradually began his work inside.

Outside the forging room, Jueqing looked at the tightly closed door with anger in her eyes. She could only vent by continuously plucking the strings, bombarding the forging room door with waves of sound like a storm. But don't talk about ripples, it didn't even stir up a speck of dust.

The seemingly stormy sound wave attacks seemed to be attracted the moment they hit the door, wasting Jueqing's spiritual power in vain.

Seeing this, Jueqing fell into deep thought. A moment later, she snorted coldly in anger, turned around, and left the blacksmith shop.

Lin Cheng was hiding in this turtle shell, and she really had no way to deal with him. Moreover, the artifact spirit inside the pipa also told her that Lin Cheng, as the forger of the spirit weapon, had command authority. If he wanted to, other spirit weapons would swarm her in an instant, and even it couldn't protect her.

Many external factors forced Jueqing to abandon her plan. However, there is plenty of time.

She would kill this bastard Lin Cheng one day!

Even if it wasn't her, as long as she saw Lin Cheng have bad luck, she would be happy to see it.

Yes! That's it!

Soon, Jueqing went to find Gong Miss Qianhui to tell her about her encounter, the series of events including being provoked and teased by Lin Cheng. She vividly performed the dialogue between the two at the time, which exhausted Jueqing.

Gong Miss Qianhui nodded, not fully understanding, indicating that she barely understood.

It was probably that Lin Cheng teased and angered Jueqing, and Jueqing came to her for an explanation! And demanded that Lin Cheng be properly punished!

"Don't worry, I will definitely teach him a lesson!" Miss Qianhui patted her chest and promised.

She was also very confused in her heart. Lin Cheng almost never interacted with Jueqing, so why did he suddenly tease her?

Although she was a bit silly and cute, she wasn't stupid. How could she believe Jueqing's one-sided story? What if Jueqing was also sowing discord between them? Or perhaps Jueqing had one-sided designs on Lin Cheng?

That was not certain.

Night.

"Lin Cheng, Jueqing said you teased and provoked her, what is going on?" Before going to sleep, Miss Qianhui took the initiative to ask.

"I knew Jueqing would find you, the matter is actually like this..."

Lin Cheng felt the soft flesh on his waist being grabbed by someone, and soon told the whole story. From him asking Jueqing to play a song for him, questioning her professional ability, then her breaking her own strings and insisting he compensate her, to him giving her a pipa with the mindset of not causing trouble. After Jueqing finished playing, Lin Cheng felt it wasn't very good, and Jueqing suddenly wanted to hit him and even attacked him.

With Lin Cheng's hot temper, he definitely couldn't be a coward, but he didn't expect Jueqing to be relentless.

"That's roughly the situation."

Lin Cheng's account was roughly the same as Jueqing's, but he added his own thoughts and guidance. This was nothing, but without comparison, there is no gap. Jueqing didn't want their relationship to be too stiff, so she described it simply.

Coupled with Lin Cheng's personal, complex description, Miss Qianhui was roughly guided by Lin Cheng to understand what was going on, and finally reached a conclusion.

Jueqing really had designs on her Lin Cheng!

She actually attacked her dear Lin Cheng, woo woo, this damn bad woman.

"I'm sorry, Lin Cheng, I blamed you."

Actually, his purpose in provoking Jueqing was very simple, just pure provocation and courting death. I just like the way you can't stand me but can't kill me, hehe.

"By the way, Elder Zhai asked me to tell you today that the inscription competition is in three days, and not to be late."

Although he really didn't want to go.

"Sleep, sleep~"

"Ah~ annoying, I'll do it myself... today I want to be on top."

Three days passed in a flash.

Lin Cheng completed the forging and initial operation of the assembly line, as well as the magic energy converter, an instrument that could efficiently convert and utilize magic crystal energy, with a utilization rate of 100%. The Second Imperial Prince Li Li Jian's people hadn't arrived yet, but Lin Cheng had already started production first. In this world, no one understood forging and inscriptions better than him. The number of magic crystals on hand was enough to run steadily for a month, and the Red-Eyed Mercenaries delivered some magic crystals on time every day, so it wasn't a big problem. Plus, with the efficiency of the fully automatic intelligent production line, producing twenty improved magic crystal internal combustion engines a day was not a problem at all.

"Only twenty a day, the efficiency is still far from enough."

Eating breakfast, Lin Cheng muttered to himself, lost in thought about the current situation.

Being able to produce twenty magic crystal internal combustion engines a day was already the limit of the assembly line. The only way was to increase the number of assembly lines.

Not to mention whether the Second Imperial Prince Li Li Jian had succeeded, once successful, after verifying and developing various machines, the empire would need a large number of magic crystal internal combustion engines. His efficiency here must be improved, otherwise, he would be blocking his own path to wealth.

Secondly, Lord Xuan Lord Xuan Wuji and Lei Yi should be coming back soon, and they also needed 20,000 mechanical mounts, which also required an assembly line.

"Mm... let's tentatively set the goal at five assembly lines, one for backup, and the other four for producing magic crystal internal combustion engines."

After making his plan, Lin Cheng secretly intended to implement it.

However, he suddenly remembered that today was the first day of the Inscription Recording Friendship Competition, and he had to go and take a look no matter what.

"Miss Qianhui, do you want to go watch the competition together?"

"Can I go too? Don't I need to watch the shop?" Miss Qianhui was very excited and happy about Lin Cheng's invitation. Although everyone knew about Lin Cheng and Miss Qianhui's relationship, Lin Cheng hadn't taken Miss Qianhui to any public occasions.

Now that Lin Cheng invited Miss Qianhui to go together, it undoubtedly had the meaning of making it public. Although everyone knew, the female fans who admired Lin Cheng still held a glimmer of hope.

Now this glimmer of hope was about to be crushed!

"Give them a day off today, pay their wages as usual, we'll go watch the competition together, as a rare vacation."

As the boss, Lin Cheng could naturally decide whether to open for business today.

"Us?"

Miss Qianhui whispered, her face blushing and her heart beating faster. This was simply a sweet date. Lin Cheng looked at Miss Qianhui strangely and nodded.

"Yes, let's go together."

When the carriage from the guild came to pick them up, Miss Qianhui finally understood what Lin Cheng meant by "us."

Lin Cheng and her, and not only that, but also Xiaohong, Yunshang, and Valkyrie Ailin—it could be said the whole family was going!

She knew it wouldn't be so easy to have a date alone with Lin Cheng.

The competition site for inscription recording.

To hold this competition, the Blacksmith Guild specially rented the midfield area from the City Hall for three days.

The first day was the preliminary round, the second day had over two hundred people, and the third day was the final.

The number of participants went from dozens to hundreds, but it didn't matter. The Inscription Recording Friendship Competition was not a formal competition; it was just an impromptu, unofficial competition by the Rock City Blacksmith Guild, and its commemorative significance was far greater than its competitive significance.

Lin Cheng and President Holder were the final judges. Originally, there were only the two of them as judges, but because there were too many participants, they had to temporarily pull in a few fair blacksmiths from the guild who had good inscription skills but were not participating in the competition to make up the numbers.

The temporary judges had one vote each, for a total of five people. Lin Cheng and President Holder each had five votes. The maximum was fifteen votes, the minimum was zero, and the one with the most votes won.

The rules for the preliminary round were also very simple: record the most inscriptions on designated items in the shortest time. If two or more people recorded the same number of inscriptions, the judging panel would make the final decision.

After everything was ready.

The Inscription Recording Competition, symbolizing a new chapter for the empire's blacksmiths, officially began.

Today should have been an incredibly beautiful day for Miss Qianhui, but because of the blockhead Lin Cheng, the date that should have been incredibly beautiful was ruined.

That was fine, after all, she was the main wife, she had to be magnanimous to be a qualified head of the family.

How could that Xiaohong or Valkyrie Ailin threaten her position? Hmph, she was Lin Cheng's favorite!

However, after the competition started, things changed. Lin Cheng and Holder, sitting on the judges' bench, presented a shocking contrast.