Chapter 1475: Tower of Akasha

"The Tower of Akasha."

As the worker responded, a look of confusion flashed in Chen Ling's eyes.

"The Tower of Akasha... what is that?"

"...We don't know either. It's a blueprint drawn by Lingxu-jun himself." The worker paused for a moment. In his gaze toward the unfinished high tower, a complex emotion flashed—there was helplessness, expectation, and even a hint of... piety.

Just like a believer looking up at the god he believes in.

"But Lingxu-jun said it will guide all of humanity toward a bright future," the worker said solemnly. "As long as this tower is built, we can find a way to destroy the Red Star. We will no longer need to worry about various natural and man-made disasters and can live safely and securely..."

Chen Ling saw his expression and then asked:

"But does building a tower require so many people?"

"A normal tower doesn't, but this one... is a bit special."

The worker didn't seem to intend to reveal much, pointing casually to areas nearby:

"That's the cafeteria, that's the bathroom, that's the dormitory... Oh, there should be over a hundred thousand people on this construction site now, working in three shifts. While working in the middle of the night now, the other two shifts are sleeping and eating... In about three hours, it will be the next batch's turn to rotate."

"The area on the left is the processing area for raw building materials. The processing is divided into three steps. Only materials that meet the quality requirements can be used to stack the high tower."

"Construction has been underway for half a month, but the progress of the tower's construction has barely reached one-fifth. Building the Tower of Akasha is quite troublesome... mainly because it wastes people."

"And over there..."

While the worker was introducing it nonchalantly, Chen Ling was preparing to ask more questions when many figures carrying seven or eight stretchers rushed over from the front. They charged toward the specialized medical area. If Chen Ling hadn't reacted quickly, he probably would have been bumped into.

"This is an emergency route! Who told you to block the road!" The figure carrying the stretcher at the front glared fiercely at Chen Ling, then continued to run wildly forward without looking back.

Chen Ling looked down and realized that there were lines of different colors on the ground, like subway route maps before the Great Catastrophe. People from different departments could only walk along specific trajectories without any intersection between them, perfectly eliminating the situation of movement congestion caused by too much human traffic, directly pulling the personnel dispatch efficiency of the entire area to the highest...

It was precisely because of this that tens of thousands of people were busy on this construction site at the same time without appearing crowded or chaotic.

Is this the overall planning ability of a mathematician?

"What happened to those people?" Chen Ling asked, pointing to the pale figures on the stretchers.

The worker didn't answer. He walked with long strides to the building where the few people had just been carried out and grabbed a figure who looked like a person in charge, asking:

"How is the pass rate tonight?"

"Still not good... More than forty people, five hours, only made seven qualified bricks... Six of them were made by God Path possessors," the person in charge shook his head. "Those ordinary people fainted eight at a time. It's estimated that they need to rest for at least 12 hours before they can return to the production line."

The worker's face was incredibly ugly, "No... at this speed, we can't meet Lingxu-jun's target at all."

"Then what should we do? Over a hundred thousand people in three shifts, the efficiency is already at the limit!"

Just as the two were talking, Chen Ling's gaze glanced at the area inside the building. This was like a super factory. Countless figures were sitting in the massive space, busy with something with their heads down. Because there were no electric lights, each person had a kerosene lamp on their table. The dim, flickering light created a depressing and dull atmosphere spreading within.

Secret Pupils climbed onto Chen Ling's eyes. With the blessing of extremely strong vision, he saw clearly what these people were busy with in their hands...

Bricks.

Or rather, bricks that were in the process of being processed.

These bricks didn't know what firing method was used, but their surfaces were unexpectedly glowing with a faint blue light. At this time, these figures were staring wide-eyed, carefully drawing something on the surface of the bricks.

Someone finally finished drawing and put the brick on the edge of the table. Soon, a supervisor walked over, picked up the brick, looked at it carefully for a few times, then shook his head, and on the spot took out a hammer and smashed the brick to pieces... The next second, a new brick was sent to him.

The worker seemed to be on the verge of a breakdown, questioning something while holding the broken brick, but the supervisor still shook his head coldly. After saying a few words, he left without looking back.

Similar scenes were staged in this super factory at all times. And at the very front of the factory, several supervisors were carefully packing up a few bricks and sending them out of the factory...

The fingertips under Chen Ling's cuffs moved, and the next second, something landed in his palm.

No one around noticed anything unusual.

After the two finished communicating, the worker took Chen Ling away.

Chen Ling asked again:

"What's going on with those people?"

"What else could it be? They spent too much mental effort and fainted," the worker waved his hand. "Alright, you've visited enough. Don't ask about what you shouldn't... Hurry up and leave. If you don't leave, I'm going to call the security team."

Chen Ling then realized that there were far more than one such factory. A steady stream of bricks was sent out from these factories, processed uniformly in one place, and then sent to the high tower under construction...

Then, in the hands of many busy workers, they were carefully built into the high tower, building up bit by bit.

Although Chen Ling didn't know much about architecture, he understood general common sense. It's not easy to build a high tower purely with bricks. Before the Great Catastrophe, most high towers were either steel structures or used reinforced concrete to lay a solid foundation, but the current human domain clearly didn't have that technology...

This high tower built of bricks and stones became more difficult to construct the higher it went. One had to be careful at all times. Once any mistake occurred, the entire tower would be abandoned.

Chen Ling didn't waste any more time with this worker.

He left the factory area directly, his brown coat walking through the dim streets.

It was already late at night, the lanterns on both sides of the street had been extinguished, and the entire city was shrouded in darkness, with only the high tower under construction in the distance still brightly lit.

Chen Ling slowly took out the thing from his cuff.

It was a brick.

He held the brick toward the direction of the tower's light. With the help of the faint light, he could vaguely see the patterns on it... function lines that were so perfect they looked like they had been carved out of a Cartesian coordinate system wandered on it.

Chen Ling looked carefully for a long time, only seeing a line that seemed to be a Fibonacci sequence. He couldn't even understand the other function images. The brick in his hand was more like a puzzle piece; its top, bottom, left, and right seemed to be connected to other bricks, and only then could those function images be pieced together... This was a perfect work of art outlined by a large number of function lines.

Chen Ling found it hard to believe that such extremely fine things were actually hand-crafted by humans...

"Is this the reason for your massive mobilization of manpower..."

Chen Ling looked at the brick in his hand, his eyes narrowing slightly,

"What... exactly do you want to do?"