Sanchez felt like he was dreaming. If it weren't for the daily training that made his whole body sore, he would have thought it was just a sweet dream.
But the feeling of his whole body falling apart made him clear that he wasn't dreaming.
He had become the oldest card artisan among all the people enrolled.
Every day, he could feel those strange gazes coming from all around him.
But he didn't care. He had long since gotten used to such gazes.
He just trained seriously every day. He knew that no matter what his adversary had recruited him for, he had to do his best.
He didn't have any great ideals, and he didn't want to prove himself.
To tell the truth, he sometimes didn't understand why he was so hardworking. Maybe it had become a habit of his.
Speaking of training, the daily training was completely different from all the training he had done before.
What they did the most every day was physical training and formation training.
The card artisans around Sanchez were all complaining. They had never heard of a card artisan needing such a huge amount of physical training and formation training.
But those guys only dared to complain under the table. No one dared to complain openly.
Their instructor was the young man Sanchez had interviewed, and he was really awe-inspiring.
It wasn't that his personal battle power was strong, but that he had an imposing manner about him, an imposing manner that made people obey him!
Of course, there would never be a lack of unruly ones among the card artisans.
But, without exception, those guys all had miserable endings.
If they made any trouble, they would be immediately kicked out of the team.
Every day, a large number of card artisans were kicked out of the team.
Some bad-tempered guys flew into a rage when they were kicked out and tried to attack the instructor.
Thinking of that, Sanchez unconsciously raised his head to look at the two equally young card artisans beside the instructor.
There was a beautiful female card artisan with a hot body that always made people want to swallow their saliva.
There was also a male card artisan who never spoke. He was like a block of wood. No, he was like a cold metal sculpture.
But it was these two people who would finish off anyone who tried to attack them at the first moment!
Good lord, Sanchez still couldn't forget that scene!
He could guarantee that it was the most efficient killing he had ever seen!
Those self-proclaimed elites in the card artisan teams he had been in were like babies who had just learned to walk in front of those two.
It was simple, effective, and straightforward. There were no fancy techniques, but it contained a fatal magnificence.
The two of them immediately shocked everyone present. From then on, no one dared to make a move.
The two of them took the corpses out of the training room. Even the woman could carry two of them with one hand. The two card artisans didn't say a word during the whole process, and the young military instructor didn't even bat an eyelid.
All the card artisans kept quiet out of fear.
They weren't blind. Those two card artisans and the instructor's every move showed their indifference to death, which made them feel a bone-chilling chill.
After that bitter battle, Lu Xiaoru and the bar-browed man's perception had improved by leaps and bounds after their injuries had healed. They had successfully broken through the Level Five barrier and reached the mid-rank Level Five.
After going through several life and death battles, the two of them had incomparably firm wills and rich combat experience. Their strength was far from what it had been in the past.
Not only him, but almost all the card artisans who had survived the battle had their perception enhanced to a considerable degree.
Actual combat was the best teacher for a card artisan.
The reason battle card artisans were so much more awesome than ordinary card artisans was precisely because they grew through constant battles and weren't blindly trained.
Sanchez still didn't understand all that, but he knew that as long as he trained honestly, there wouldn't be any problems.
The boring physical training made all the card artisans feel like they were in hell.
The military instructor was like a cold machine, unusually strict, and he never explained why.
Such primitive training disappointed many card artisans. They had thought the Snow Silkworm Card Artisan Firm would have some advanced training method.
What they hadn't thought was that what was waiting for them was just daily physical training.
The disappointed card artisans and those who felt it was too hard left one after another.
The strange thing was that the cold military instructor didn't stop them at all and let them leave.
Influenced by those card artisans, more card artisans also chose to leave.
So, the rumor that the Snow Silkworm Card Artisan Firm didn't live up to its name spread more and more widely in the market.
Those card artisans who left spared no effort to publicize the hellish life they had experienced in the Snow Silkworm Card Artisan Firm and the primitive training methods of the Snow Silkworm Card Artisan Firm.
However, there were still many who stayed, such as Sanchez.
They gritted their teeth and kept repeating the boring physical training and formation training.
There were fewer and fewer companions around them, but that couldn't shake their determination.
Mary's figure was a little like Happy Padding, but he didn't have Happy Padding's murderous aura. His skin was dark, which was the result of working outdoors for a long time.
He was a new mining card artisan, and a high-grade one at that. His job was to be in charge of planning and arranging the work in the entire mining area.
He had more than 30 mid-grade mining card artisans under him.
That was the standard configuration for a medium-sized mining area. In that small valley, it could be described as luxurious.
Mary enjoyed high treatment, which he was very satisfied with. The newly recruited mining card artisans all had pretty good strength, and none of them liked to cause trouble.
To tell the truth, that was the job he was most satisfied with so far.
The boss didn't ask much, but he had enough authority to not point fingers.
However, looking at the mountains of ore, he was a little confused.
Their daily mining volume was quite shocking. Basically, they only needed two days to fill up a warehouse.
One warehouse after another was filled up, and the rate of consumption of ore was far less than the mining progress.
If that went on, he was afraid that there would soon be no place to store the ore they mined.
He found the supervisor, Xi Ping.
Xi Ping was a little surprised that Mary would come looking for him. "Have you run into some problems, Director Mary?"
"Yes."
Mary didn't beat around the bush and said directly, "Director, our ore has been piled up in the warehouse, but the rate of consumption is too slow. Should we consider slowing down the mining rate?"
Xi Ping hadn't thought Mary would come looking for him about that.
The materials seized from the Downstream Alliance had basically filled up the warehouse at the Valley Nest base, and there wasn't much space left.
Under normal circumstances, Mary's suggestion wouldn't be wrong.
But he knew how shocking the amount of liquid extract was on the list that Mobley had given him. Although the pile of ore looked like a lot, it was far from enough to produce the liquid extract.
The most important thing was that he knew what Chen Mu was doing.
He had full confidence in the boss.
Just then, the boss asked him to go to the refining workshop.
There were 12 silver-white cards in front of Chen Mu. The cards were completely silver-white, and they were made from a kind of four-star blank card.
That kind of four-star card was made from the inner bark of the silver star tree through a special process. It looked like an extremely thin piece of forged silver.
The composition on the surface of the shiny silver-white card was very strange. Three thick purple lines were arranged in parallel, with countless tiny branches growing out from their sides. At first glance, it looked like three purple tree roots covered in fibrous roots.
Ru Qiu stared at Chen Mu with a burning gaze. She was very curious about what those cards were actually used for.
She had participated in the entire process of making those 12 cards, but she didn't know what they were used for.
Chen Mu still gave her the production plan as usual, but she was surprised that she didn't understand a single thing.
That had undoubtedly piqued her curiosity to the extreme.
Although she hadn't understood most of the production plans in the past, it was the first time that she didn't understand anything at all like that time.
Who was she?
She was the designated next dean of the card making division at the Origins Academy, Ru Qiu, who was known as a genius!
She wasn't a beginner.
She believed that if she were to go through a professional appraisal, she could easily obtain the title of a high-grade card master.
But, she couldn't understand a card that Chen Mu had made from beginning to end. How could that not make her depressed?
Depression and curiosity were like two worms drilling into the bottom of her heart. She couldn't wait for Chen Mu to demonstrate the use of those 12 cards right away.
Chen Mu didn't notice Ru Qiu's abnormality.
Once he started working, he was incomparably focused.
Speaking of which, that was a habit he had developed while making one-star power cards.
The reason was simple. If he weren't focused and failed to make the cards, it would be a loss that could affect his daily life.
There were a lot of metal parts piled up in the refining workshop.
Not one of those metal parts wasn't new and shiny. They were all custom-made by Chen Mu from a mold company.
The specifications of those parts were all determined by Chen Mu himself. Although the cost of custom-making them wasn't low, it was a lot cheaper than buying a machine and then dismantling it.
Since Chen Mu had made such a large number of orders, plus the recent rise of the Snow Silkworm Card Artisan Firm's reputation, the company had specially sent some technicians to help Chen Mu for free.
Those technicians had been immersed in metal craftsmanship for a long time and were very adept at assembling the parts.
Seeing that, Chen Mu simply handed over the assembly work to those technicians. The core and most crucial part of the newly designed separator were the silver cards he had made, so he didn't have to worry about any leakage.
When Xi Ping rushed to the refining workshop, he happened to see those technicians assembling.
"Is this the new separator, Boss?" Xi Ping asked in a low voice as he looked at the large machine being assembled.
Although it hadn't been completely assembled, the parts that had been assembled were five or six meters tall. It was doubtlessly a huge object.
Chen Mu nodded. "Mmmm, but it's not finished yet. We won't know how efficient it is until we try it."
Xi Ping nodded to show that he understood. He didn't say anything and stayed to the side to watch quietly.
The assembly work was completed very quickly. Those technicians were very adept and much faster than if Chen Mu had done it himself.
It was six meters tall, and its main body was like a huge horizontal water tank. There was a three-meter-wide conveyor belt leading to the entrance at the top of the main box.
On the other side, there was another conveyor belt.
Chen Mu didn't hesitate and walked to the front of the separator.
He opened a small door at the bottom, and behind it was a card slot.
He took out a card and inserted it into the slot.
There was a light buzzing sound, which was light and weak.
The ore that had been prepared was quickly sent along the conveyor belt to the entrance. The conveyor belt kept sending the ore to the separator, while the remaining slag powder was sent out from another conveyor belt.
So, it was to make the separator!
A look of disappointment flashed through Ru Qiu's eyes.
She wasn't interested in the separator because it required strong metal-making skills, which she didn't know a thing about.
Xi Ping stared excitedly at the test tube that was used to hold the extract. The extract in the reagent tube was increasing at a much faster rate than the previous separator.
No, it was much faster!
In an instant, the several tons of rock and stone that had been prepared had been used up. The efficiency of the new separator was really jaw-dropping.
The powerful performance of the separator immediately stimulated everyone, and the remaining 11 separators were assembled as quickly as possible.
The refining workshop, which had been a little empty, suddenly became crowded, and the light buzzing sound lingered in the ears.
Xi Ping hurried Marie to speed up the mining. He had seen with his own eyes how the ore had turned into a pile of slag in the blink of an eye. The speed at which the new separator consumed the ore was really too fast.
Seeing that the performance of the new separator was really powerful, Chen Mu breathed a sigh of relief.
The production of the purple fluorescent ore's extract was one of their most important trump cards.
As long as they could guarantee the production of the purple fluorescent ore's extract, no one would dare have any ideas about them for a while.
Exhausted to the extreme, Chen Mu couldn't resist the tide-like tiredness any longer. He said a few words to Xi Ping before falling into a deep sleep.
He had been studying and studying like crazy those last few days, which had stretched his nerves to the limit.
Chen Mu slept for two days that time.
When Chen Mu woke up, he saw Xi Ping smiling in front of him, holding a box in his hand.
Seeing Xi Ping's expression, Chen Mu knew nothing had happened. He pointed to the box in his hand and asked, "What is this?"
"Ha ha, Boss, this is the nutrient solution that Miss Sue Lochiro specially prepared for you. It can supplement your physiological functions."
Xi Ping smacked his lips as though he were savoring some delicacy. "Speaking of which, Miss Sue Lochiro really cares about you. How enviable!"
Nutrient solution?
Chen Mu took the box in Xi Ping's hand with a puzzled look. After opening it, there were indeed a few tubes of pure light blue liquid inside.
He picked one up and poured it into his mouth. It seemed to be fruit-flavored.
But each reagent tube was only the size of an index finger. After Chen Mu poured it out, the tube was empty.
It was gone before he could taste it carefully. Chen Mu reached out and was about to take another tube.
Xi Ping saw Chen Mu's movement and hurriedly stopped him. "Boss, Miss Sue Lochiro said that this thing shouldn't be taken in large quantities. You can't take more than one tube at a time, and you can't take more than two tubes a day."
"Oh." Chen Mu could only withdraw his hand resentfully.
But he quickly felt his whole body warm up, and his spirit improved a lot.
He looked at the empty reagent bottle in his hand with some surprise. This thing was really effective!
Seeing this, Xi Ping smiled meaningfully and went to busy himself.
Chen Mu, who had just walked out of the Valley Nest to get some fresh air, received some exciting news.
Bogner was back!