Chapter 226 – Musical Theatre's Judges Sent to Hospital after Listening to Florida Man Singing "A Whole New World" During Audition.
DING
<Your alchemy factory has refined 20 medium-grade Floridian Dantian Pills.>
<Your alchemy factory has refined…>
Every day, one of the alchemy factories produced a batch of Floridian dantian pills. As for the other factory, it mass-produced 20 medium-grade elemental pills every ten minutes.
The quality of these pills was far inferior to the ones made by alchemy workshops. However, the production rate was second to none. Because of these factories, Leo had endless supplies of pills for his employees and customers.
Leo wished he had more of them. He hoped the next gacha would bless him with more of these factories.
As Leo had promised Esen's subordinates, he reserved the Floridian dantian pills for the death knights, liches, and grim reapers. Until everybody got their pills, he would not put these items on the supermarket's shelves.
He stopped inspecting the facilities and checked on the land vehicle factory next.
This facility had been put on idle as Leo didn't have enough material or resources to supply this factory. After Immortalium ingots and goddess milkium ingots entered the shopping mall's inventory, the factory's workers transported all necessary materials into the facility and waited for Leo's instruction.
Leo entered the factory. He opened the facility system and checked what he could build in there.
DING
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Land Vehicle Factory Level 15
Engineer Automaton (2/20)
Technology (7/20)
Vehicle Quality (6/20)
Production Speed (0/20)
Currently Making: None
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Current Buildable Vehicles
- Motorcycles – Standard
- Motorcycles – Scooter
- Motorcycles – Sport Bike
- Motorcycles – Motocross
- ATV
- 2-Door Pickup Truck
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The choices were limited as the building's technology was still level 7. However, the portraits of the vehicles seemed to be from the 90s, which didn't seem so bad.
Curious about what the factory could do, Leo chose the vehicle that required the least materials – The scooter. As scooters were friendly to drive for beginners, Leo believed it might sell if he could upgrade it later on.
The factory only took one Immortalium ingot and the goddess milkium ingot. The factory's mannequins rushed down the elevator and fetched several large chunks of stones extracted from the quarry. Then, they hurled them on the factory's belt and operated the machines.
RUMBLE
Sophisticated machines hummed. One of them injected strange Qi into the raw stones. Then, blocks of chrome-color ingots exited the machine and sat on the running belt. Each ingot was in a different size, and the belt machines sorted them.
One of the machines pushed the largest ingot to another belt, which brought the mineral to a pool of mercury-like liquid. The ingot fell into the pool and emitted a burning iron odor.
A claw machine slowly lowered and grabbed the material in the pool. The claw was 9,999 times more precise than any toy claw machine in modern arcades. Thus, it had no issue pulling out the grey ingot.
But when it came out of the water, it was no longer an ingot anymore. Magically, the mysterious stone ingot turned into a frame of a scooter.
The claw machine brought it toward another pool of black water, where another machine had smelted and poured Immortalium and milkium liquid inside.
The black and white liquid moved as if it were sentient. The substances coated the bike's frame and seeped into the core of the mineral.
Watching how the machine manufactured the bike's frame was mesmerizing for Leo. He spent 10 minutes staring at the machines in a daze before he came back to his senses.
He scratched his head and complained.
'Damn. I see. This is why those factory videos on YouTube are so satisfying to watch.'
Leo left the factory before he changed his mind. He only checked the timer to see when the bike would be finished.
<Time Remaining: 49 Minutes, 33 Seconds.>
It was fast! This factory could potentially make 24 scooters every day! Although it was not comparable to modern factories, it was good enough for a factory with only two working mannequins.
Leo strolled around the shopping mall to kill time. He waited for the bike to finish.
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An hour later, Leo returned to check on the first production of this factory. He found a humble grey scooter, which resembled the Honda Elite 250 in the 90s except for its chrome paint job.
Leo was excited. He brought it out of the factory and tried starting its engine.
Unfortunately, it had no fuel. The scooter's engine was silent.
"Aw. Do you still need gas? Too bad for you, I'mma upgrade you and make you use the MAGICAL QI instead of gas!"
Leo stroked the handles and tried to summon the system menu. As usual, the system menu showed up, displaying its name, level, and upgrade options.
Similar to the M16's case, the system allowed Leo to upgrade it to level 15, which was the maximum level of the shopping mall. In addition, the price of each upgrade was a measly 10 YOL!
"Hehehe. I see. If I make the items, the upgrade cost will be cheap! Then, this bike can be sold for some profits!"
Leo contemplated his business plan. As the bike cost him 140 YOL in total as he upgraded it to the max level, he needed to sell the price higher than regular pills. Moreover, the bike required special materials to make, so Leo had to add the material and production cost to the calculation.
'To be honest, I can just sell them at a cost price. But I don't have to upgrade every bike to the max level, do I? I can just make it passable by changing them into a QI-EV bike. Then, I can set the price for cheaper… How about 300 YOL per basic unit? I can still charge my customers 50 YOL for each upgrade!'
He made his decision. He would test the bike and show everybody the new merchandise first. Then, he would experiment with lower-level bikes to see which was marketable.
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VROOOM
A few minutes after Leo had brought out the bike, he drove it out of the shopping mall and laughed.
The vehicle entered the highway and sprinted toward the east, which led to the Tang Clan District. Workers and clan members on the road leaped out of the way in panic.
Leo grumbled as the road became a walking street. He switched the vehicle's gear a notch. Then, it stunned everybody.
The scooter was flying!
"KAHAHAHAHA! A WHOLE NEW WOOOOOORRLD!"
Leo began singing Aladdin's song even though no woman was there to sing the female part. As no one was there to sing with him, he sang the female part himself. As a result, the song sounded weird. Combined with his tone-deaf voice, everything was horrible.
While Leo flew with his bike, the people below looked up and watched him. But because of Leo's bad voice, everybody plugged their ears. Some of the commoners shed tears of pain and cringe because of the loud tone-deaf voice.
"DAMMIT! STOP SINGING!"
"ARRRRGH! MY EARS!"
"MAKE IT STOP!!"
Aside from the people who hated Leo's singing voice, many cultivators speculated what Leo had done this time.
"What's that? A flying sword?"
"That's definitely not a flying sword. It's more like a two-wheeled cart of a performer trope."
Meanwhile, Tang Xuan noticed Leo's new toy and his obnoxious tone-deaf voice. He rubbed his temples while he tried to figure out what Leo was riding.
"Two wheels, strange frames, and that sophisticated engine… Is that a new personal flying ship? That looks very creative."
While Tang Xuan admired the bike, young people from the Tang Clan drooled. Many teenagers who had never flown with their own power wondered if the new vehicle was a special flying ship or a flying artifact that they could use.
Some of them gossiped.
"I heard the Cugatti Flying Sword was the top brand of flying swords. But that is different."
"It seems friendly to the users, too. Look at how Lord Florida Man sits on the small chair. If you can sit on a flying sword, wouldn't it make it easier to use?"
"Indeed. Even people with balance issues might be able to use that!"
"I wonder if it's for sale. I want one."
"Me, too."
"Me, three."
Many cultivators prayed that Leo would put one of the artifacts on sale. They wished that the supermarket would put something different on sale on day.
