Chapter 33: Is there also apple flavor for promotion?
"The factory is already under construction. It's expected to be a large factory with 10,000 employees. All the builders are supernatural beings. It will be completed in a month." Zhou Qin reported the progress of the factory to Ji An. "The boss is afraid of delaying production, so he has already found some people to set up a small workshop to start work."
Ji An nodded. The nutritional supplements were urgently needed. The sooner they were produced, the better. The sooner they were sold, perhaps many lives could be saved.
Wan Xueying blinked her beautiful eyes and said, "The auction is about to begin. Representatives from various bases have arrived one after another. They all brought good things. As the organizer, our boss naturally cannot fall behind. Although a space storage item is enough to kill everyone, the nutrient supplement can be the last appearance as a mysterious guest, which will definitely be shocking!"
Thinking of the unbelievable expressions on those country bumpkins' faces, Kong Zhongcheng laughed and said, "I can guarantee that a space storage item and a nutrient can definitely confuse these people. They thought that we have entered the interstellar age just because they haven't come to our base for a few days!"
Interstellar Era? Ji An said with a smile: "Maybe next time they come, it will be real!"
Several people were laughing and happy. Although they all knew that Ji An was very powerful, they did not take his words seriously.
Xicheng has been really busy recently. Some time ago, someone came to recruit volunteers for an experiment, offering a volunteer fee of 100,000 yuan. This is really too much, enough to buy a life in this apocalypse. Everyone swore that it was a human experiment.
Even if there are clear-headed people who say that the *** experimental project will not conduct human experiments, no one will listen. People are always willing to believe what they want to believe.
As a result, the volunteers returned as scheduled, not only without any missing limbs, but also healthy and plump, bringing back a large sum of money and an astonishing piece of news: there was something called a nutrient that only required one credit point to keep one from going hungry for a day. This news made those who had finally calmed down and spread rumors boil again.
"There's no way there's anything like that. Do you think you're filming a movie?"
"I told you, there must be some conspiracy at the base, otherwise why would they be so kind and generous to give out 100,000 yuan to support us, who are considered rubbish without awakened powers by the superpower users!"
"Those volunteers must have been bribed by the money, that's why they are talking nonsense!"
"Nutrients, they sound like good stuff, one credit point for one, it would be great if they were real!"
Before this wave of discussion had died down, people came to the base and bought 500 acres of land in the most remote, desolate place in East City, where even rats didn't visit, to build a large factory with several thousand employees.
The main difference is that the workers recruited by this factory are mostly ordinary people, accounting for 80%. The remaining 20% are recruited from people with special abilities, all of whom are management positions.
This structure is convenient for management. After seven years of the apocalypse, ordinary people have developed a natural fear of people with special abilities. A first-level primary special ability user can easily manage a group of dozens of people.
Level 2 psychics can be hired as workshop directors, and level 3 psychics can be hired as production managers. This upwardly compatible model saves the recruitment of psychics to the greatest extent.
Factory recruitment notices were posted in every corner of Dongcheng District, and people crowded in front of the notices.
"The basic salary is 1,800 yuan, full attendance is 300 yuan, and bonuses are piece-rate, with no upper limit. One day's meals are provided and you will be full." The person squeezed at the front read aloud to the people behind him.
"Guaranteed food?" People's attention was drawn to these two people. It was so difficult to get food in the apocalypse. Many factories did not provide food. Even if they did, they only provided one meal a day, which was just a moldy steamed bun, which was not enough to fill them up.
But even so, it is good enough to be full. How many people can't even afford a moldy steamed bun?
"Really? It's guaranteed to keep me full. I can eat ten steamed buns in one meal. Can you give me some?"
"I'll give you a hundred, okay? Ten more, what are you dreaming of? Two at most."
"That's fine too. If my wife and I can both go in, I'll eat one and my wife will eat one. We can save two steamed buns a day, enough for the elderly and children at home."
"It would be nice if we could give out two steamed buns."
In a factory, workers were working and whispering, "Have you heard? The base is coming to our side to build a factory. They are hiring ordinary people. The wages are about the same as ours, and they will provide food!"
"Really? How much food would that take?" The worker continued to work without slowing down, and replied, "If we, the hard laborers, were to eat as much as we wanted, our factory would be bankrupt in two days."
"That's what the recruitment notice said, but I also think it's fake. If they really let everyone eat it, someone would steal it. After the first one, there would be a second one. How could the factory afford it?"
"Hearing what you said, it makes sense. I was tempted at first, because it provides food and clothing, and I was thinking of quitting my job and going there. But forget it, what if it's just a gimmick."
"Don't bother yourself. It's so hard to find a job now, especially for ordinary people like us. It's not easy to find a job, so cherish it."
"That's not true. My brother's factory doesn't provide food, so he has to find it himself. Even though our factory only has one steamed bun, I envy him to death."
The management had heard the workers' discussion. The workshop manager reported to the factory director, Li Mingcai, "Boss, some people in the factory have been feeling uneasy lately. They are all discussing the base factory, saying that they are providing food for the workers."
Li Mingcai curled his lips and said, "Don't worry about them. A bunch of ordinary people can't make any waves. If you don't want to work, just drive them away. These days, people have to eat, so just give them something to eat."
"Yes, Boss." The workshop manager couldn't help but ask, "Boss, the base factory said they would provide food for free. Is that true?"
To be honest, if it was true, he would be a little moved.
"Oh, what do you think?" Li Mingcai squinted at the workshop manager, "You believe this nonsense, how much food is enough for those people to eat without restraint?
And you guys in management are almost all supernatural beings, and one person eats as much as ten people. Do you think there will be plenty of food before the end of the world? "
Li Mingcai snorted, "Now the land is polluted, the water source is polluted, and we have to rely on people with special abilities to provide us with food and water. Special abilities are not endless, but limited. We can only grow a limited amount of food, so how can we eat? We can only live on the northwest wind? Do you listen to them?"
"Boss Li, what are you talking about? You look so happy?"
Li Mingcai was startled. Why did the voice sound so familiar? It seemed to be that group of stupid inspectors.
Li Mingcai turned around and broke out in a cold sweat. It turned out to be an inspector from the base’s supervision department.
"Chief Tian, didn't we just finish the inspection this month? You are here this time..." Li Mingcai is annoyed by these inspectors the most. They always fail to come to provide supplies. Can he send these people away quietly?
Section Chief Tian said with a smile: "Director Li, don't be afraid. We are not here for inspection this time. We have something good to tell you. Let me introduce you to Xia Jianzhou, the head of the promotion department of our Jingshi base investment factory."
Li Mingcai was suspicious. Why did the base factory contact him? What did they want to promote to him? He didn't want to buy it.
There are millions of horses galloping in my heart, but I still have to smile on my face.
"Hello, Minister Xia, nice to meet you." The two shook hands.
"I'm glad to meet you, Director Li, too." Xia Jianzhou pretended not to understand the fake smile on Li Mingcai's face and said warmly, "Actually, I came here this time to discuss a business deal with you."
Li Mingcai immediately responded with caution: "I don't have any money. I invested all my money in the factory. My pockets are cleaner than my face."
Xia Jianzhou almost choked on his words, but he pretended not to hear and continued, "It's not a big deal. I heard your factory has eighty workers, so it's only eighty credit points a month."
"Eighty credit points? No problem." He was so scared that he thought the base factory was begging for alms.
If he really wanted to beg for alms, he couldn't refuse, after all, he couldn't beat the big man. Now it was 80 credit points per month, and he gave more than that to the people above.
"Then Boss Li, shall we sign the contract?"
"Okay, okay." Although he didn't have many credit points, Li Mingcai agreed on the spot.
"Boss Li, did you sign the contract without even looking at it?"
Li Mingcai said proudly: "It's okay, it's just a small amount of money, I'll just pay it if I lose it."
"I advise Boss Li that you should take a closer look, lest you buy too much food next month and have some left over."
"There is still some food left. What kind of joke is Minister Xia telling..." Li Mingcai muttered to himself, but he still took a closer look at the contract, and then he was so shocked that he almost screamed.
"What the hell? Nutritional supplements. One credit point for each one. Can it just keep you going for a day?"
"Yes, this is the latest nutrient developed by our base, and it is also the main product of our factory." Xia Jianzhou said: "Since Director Li is our factory's first cooperation partner, the promotional price of one credit point per bottle is valid for a long time. Of course, even if we return to normal prices in the future, Boss Li will also enjoy this preferential policy."
"I remember that you are a superpower, Boss Li. I will give you some special nutritional supplements for superpowers."
Due to the evolution of their superpowers, the physical fitness of those with special powers undergoes earth-shaking changes. They need more nutrients than ordinary people, and the most basic nutrition they need is also different.
Li Mingcai stared straight at the ten ordinary-looking flat strips made of the most common PVC material lying in Xia Jianzhou's palm. There was only one line of small words on them: Nutrients for Superpowers, followed by apple flavor and a simple nutritional ingredient ratio table.
"Are what those people said true? Do nutritional supplements really exist?"
"Of course, Boss Li, you will know once you try it."
Li Mingcai drank one immediately, and it tasted a light apple flavor. He hadn't eaten an apple in many years, and he didn't expect to be able to taste the apple flavor today. He was really moved.
Li Mingcai smacked his lips, then realized something was wrong. He had to go out to do something this morning, so he was in a hurry and didn't eat breakfast. He felt hungry just now, so he took a nutritional supplement and felt full.
Yes, he felt very full now, as if he had eaten ten bowls of rice, but in fact he only took less than ten milliliters of a nutrient solution.
Li Mingcai's business acumen made him realize the benefits of this thing immediately. He said, "Minister Xia, I would like to place a private order for 100 pens. Still at the same price, one credit point per pens?" As he said that, Li Mingcai was about to transfer the money.
Xia Jianzhou stopped him, "Director Li, this is for people with special abilities. The price is not the same as before. One credit point is the price of an ordinary nutrient. You know, an average person with special abilities eats as much as ten ordinary people. If it is compressed into a nutrient, the amount may seem the same, but the nutritional value is ten times higher, so the price is naturally different."
Xia Jianzhou finally said, "A bottle of superpower nutrient is ten credit points."
Li Mingcai felt that the price was acceptable, and it also had the apple flavor that he had never been able to eat in the last days, so he said, "Okay."
However, Xia Jianzhou said, "Ten credit points can only buy the most common flavors of nutritional supplements, such as sweet potato, sorghum, potato, etc. You just ate apple flavored ones, which are fruits, but they are luxury goods, so the price has to be doubled, 20 credit points per bottle."
Twenty credit points can solve the problem of food and clothing for a day, and you can also taste the apple flavor that is hard to find in the end times. Li Mingcai thinks it is worth it, "Okay, I want a hundred apple flavors."
"I'm sorry, apples are hard to come by. I only have two here. You ate one just now, so there's one left."
"What other flavors are there?"
"For now, we have banana and pear flavors for the fruit. The meat-flavored supplements include braised pork flavor and red sausage flavor..."
Li Mingcai's order was directly increased to 100 tubes per month. Ordinary nutritional supplements all had the most basic flavors, while the nutritional supplements for superpowers had ten basic flavors, and the rest were all of various different flavors.
The promoters from the base factory visited those factories and 70 percent of them signed orders, only 30 percent chose to wait and see. Even some factories that did not provide meals before placed an order.
At this time, the nutritional supplements produced by the small workshop have been served on the tables of the headquarters and the research institute.
When people from these two departments came in at noon, they found that their cafeteria had changed.
The original buffet food was removed and replaced by plates with long flat objects on them. There was also a small label on each plate, which read: corn flavor, sweet potato flavor, sorghum flavor, steak flavor, honey fries flavor, mint flavor, braised pork flavor, milk flavor... There were no less than twenty flavors in total.
People from the two departments had heard of the nutritional supplements a long time ago but had never had the chance to see them. Today they finally saw their true appearance and were quite curious, so they all came forward to get them.
"Apple flavor? Let me try it. I haven't eaten apples in years. I really miss it." A researcher took a nutritional supplement from the plate, unscrewed it, drank it, and then his eyes widened.
He originally thought that even if such a small thing had apple flavor, it would not be too strong, just a little bit. Unexpectedly, the apple flavor was very pure. After drinking it, the whole mouth was still filled with the sweetness of apple.
"It tastes good." The researcher wanted to take another one, but was reminded that each person was limited to one.
The canteen manager smiled and said, "One nutrient supplement is enough for the basic nutrition needed by the human body. If you eat more, you can't absorb it, and it will easily cause nutrition to accumulate and turn into fat, turning you into a fat person."
Although the canteen manager spoke very tactfully, everyone was smart and understood that only one cigarette was allowed per person.
The research department also replaced the nutrient supplement today. People in the research department have only heard of this thing but have never seen it.
Now that they have finally seen the real thing, everyone is curious about it, even more enthusiastic than the people in the command center.
"This thing is so small, can one stick really keep you going for a day?"
"Of course!" Wu Youyang also came to eat with his students. This was the first day the nutritional supplement was launched, so he had to come and show his support. After all, no matter how much, he had contributed to this.
Everyone on Han Yaokun's side looked over, and even Wu Youyang walked over proudly with his students.
Rong Fan took out a braised pork flavored nutritional supplement and said with a smile and boastful expression, "I liked this flavor before, but I didn't expect the cafeteria also has it."
Wu Youyang said cheerfully, "I like apple flavor. Fruits are expensive now. I didn't make much money before, so I couldn't afford to buy them. Now, I can eat nutritional supplements to satisfy my craving and fill my stomach."
Wu Youyang deliberately unscrewed the nutritional supplement in front of everyone, drank it in one gulp, and then smacked his lips, "It tastes good, and it makes me feel full! My stomach was growling just now, and I'm full after taking the nutritional supplement."
"Researcher Shi Jun is here too." Wu Youyang deliberately cue Shi Jun. He still remembered how this guy had blocked him in the corridor of the research institute and humiliated him before. At that time, he was worried that the nutrient had not completed clinical trials and could not say anything. Now it was finally his time to turn the tables and feel proud.
"I remember that Researcher Shi Jun's salary was about the same as mine before. I guess he couldn't afford to buy fruit. Here, there are many fruit-flavored nutritional supplements. You can pick whatever flavor you like."
Shi Jun's face twisted and he almost couldn't hold it. This guy must be calling him out to retaliate for his previous ridicule. But this time, Shi Jun couldn't refute it. Nutritional supplements affect millions of people. What can he say?
Shi Jun could only grit his teeth and accept it, hoping that the nutritional supplement was not as magical as rumored, so that he could find some faults and retaliate.
As a result, Shi Jun's face became even uglier after taking the nutrient. Although the dosage of the nutrient was small, its taste was really strong. The taste of honey fries filled his mouth, as if he had really stuffed a large mouthful of fries into his mouth. While his taste buds were satisfied, his stomach also felt a happy fullness, and his whole body was filled with the strength of being full.
Even if Shi Jun wanted to find any fault, he couldn't find any. He couldn't just talk nonsense, because that would be embarrassing not only for Wu Youyang but also for himself, making him look stupid and arrogant.
Shi Jun smirked twice, "It tastes good."
Wu Youyang raised his neck like a victorious rooster, shook his gorgeous feathers, and said proudly: "Students, let's go, eat and drink enough and go back to sleep. We have to work on space technology in the afternoon. Our time is very tight and we can't waste it!"
"Yes, professor!" Rong Fan took the lead and responded loudly.
At first, they followed Wu Youyang to switch jobs to Ji An, but many people secretly laughed at them for being stupid, saying that they could not achieve anything by following a kid who hadn't even grown all his hair, and that their lives would be ruined.
But what about now? Nutritional supplements! They are the treasures that sustain billions of people!
Wu Youyang led his students to leave the stage in high spirits, leaving everyone envious and jealous.
Many researchers began to whisper to each other, "I didn't expect that they were so capable. Nutrients, things I couldn't even dream of."
"Many people secretly laughed at Wu Youyang before, but now they are slapping themselves in the face."
"To be honest, although I didn't say it before, I secretly thought that Wu Youyang's choice was mentally ill. Now it seems that I am the short-sighted one, and Wu Youyang is the one who really has foresight."
"This time, I wonder how many people will be ready to make a move." The two researchers looked at each other and didn't dare to continue.
Among the students, Meng Changan had a complicated expression, feeling both envious and jealous.
A student said, "I thought Rong Fan was useless. He followed Professor Wu Youyang to move to that place. He would not have much development and would definitely be left far behind us. But now it seems that Rong Fan will lag far behind us in the future."
"Did you hear what Professor Wu Youyang said? His students are already researching space technology, and it seems they are involved. But here, they have come up with something new, and we are still confused about space technology."
"Meng Changan, it would have been better if you had followed Professor Wu Youyang at that time. Although Professor Wu Youyang values Rong Fan more than you, you two are both his most valued students. There was no one available there at that time, and if you had followed them, you would have definitely been valued."
"It's hopeless now. Just wait and see. There will definitely be many veteran researchers who want to switch jobs there. Even if you want to go there, you won't be reused like Rong Fan."
Meng Changan himself knew that with every step he took, the gap between him and Rong Fan would only get bigger and bigger. Moreover, Rong Fan was ahead and he was behind, so he could only look up to him from afar.
Meng Changan clenched his palms unwillingly, but he was helpless.
Just as everyone guessed, Wu Youyang was stopped as soon as he turned a corner after leaving the cafeteria. "Congratulations, Researcher Wu Youyang. You must have won a large bonus for developing the nutritional supplement this time."
Wu Youyang laughed loudly and gestured a number. The person asking the question gasped and said enviously, "So much! This is enough for the project leader's bonus. The base is really generous this time."
Wu Youyang said carelessly: "My boss is not under the management of the base. This is a bonus my boss personally gave me. It's small money. I have a student named Rong Fan. I asked him to do more things, and this is the amount."
The person asking the question was dumbfounded. A student earned more than him.
However, this is not the end. Wu Youyang continued to attack: "But that's just small money."
This is just bragging, the person asking the question smiled falsely.
Wu Youyang pretended to be casual and said, "The biggest part is still space technology. My boss has too many things to do, so he is happy to try new things and is too lazy to touch the experiments he has done before. So he threw space technology to me. I am so busy every day that I wish there were 72 hours in a day. Time is not enough."
That's all in vain, that's all money! Who doesn't know that space is a huge profit?
The questioner's eyes widened this time, and Wu Youyang continued, "The nutrient solution is also ready, but my boss, who loves new things and hates old ones, doesn't care anymore and just threw everything to me. I have to go to various factories to provide technical guidance on nutrient solutions, and I have to deal with space technology over there. I really can't split the time. I'm thinking about giving up some profits and leaving the space technology to my student Rong Fan."
"No, no, give it to me, I'll do it!" The intellectual approached Wu Youyang and stuffed a bag of meat jerky into his hand. "Old Wu, you know I'm quite capable and experienced. Tell your boss to hire me and I'll help you build a space. Don't worry, you'll definitely get all the benefits when the time comes."
Wu Youyang said in embarrassment: "You know my boss is very popular recently. There are too many people who want to change jobs, and there are too many excellent ones. He is overwhelmed. Forget it, I recommend you to give it a try. Let me make it clear that if it doesn't work out, you can't blame me."
"I don't blame you, I don't blame you." The person who asked the question said repeatedly: "As long as you are willing to help me, I will thank you. Whether it succeeds or not, I will treat you to a meal at the restaurant."
"Okay." Thinking about the taste of the restaurant, Wu Youyang licked his lips. He hadn't eaten for a long time and was a little greedy.
The two separated, and before they had gone far, Wu Youyang was stopped by someone again, "Old Wu, do you think Boss Ji is short of manpower? How about you recommend me to try..."
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