[Factory Type: Inflatable Doll Manufacturing Plant]
[Factory Description: Occupies an area of 50,000 square meters, containing six inflatable doll assembly lines. Requires 360 workers, with simple operations and minimal training needed. Can produce 360 inflatable dolls per hour, with a profit of 200 yuan per doll. Doll dimensions can be downloaded from universal data, or custom-made using real-life models for molding.]
[Construction Cost: 180 million yuan]
[Remaining Factories Needed: 5/100]
Jiang Ye blushed, simultaneously calculating the profits of the two factories in his mind.
Assuming a 10-hour workday, the profit of the carbonated soda plant was 30,000 yuan per day.
The daily profit of the inflatable doll factory, however, could reach 720,000 yuan!
The difference was immense; naturally, building the doll factory was more profitable.
However, Jiang Ye suddenly realized he had no opportunity.
In just this short while, the remaining factory slots for the doll manufacturing plant had dropped from 5 to 1!
Jiang Ye waited for another two minutes, and the factory information for the doll manufacturing plant finally disappeared.
Clearly, someone else had undertaken the construction of a doll factory this week, snatching up all the slots.
Only the carbonated soda plant remained.
Jiang Ye glanced at the remaining slots for the soda plant; there were 25 left, which had decreased by one in half a day.
Perhaps the profit margin was too low, so not many people were willing to build it.
But for Jiang Ye, the soda plant's profit was already good. Most importantly, it could support at least 10 workers. If it operated on three shifts a day, that would be 30 workers.
The immediate priority was to gather ten million yuan in funds to build a factory!
He lay down to sleep; this amount of money would be earned in a day or two, so there was no need to worry.
At five in the morning, Jiang Ye was woken by a rumbling sound.
The commotion outside was like an armored convoy passing through; even the base vehicle seemed to be trembling.
He sat up and looked outside, seeing a sky full of spaceships of various models, landing in groups on the open ground like bomber formations.
Xu Yan, dressed in a black suit, was walking over from a distance.
Jiang Ye quickly got up, washed, changed, and opened the door. Xu Yan happened to reach the entrance.
"Good to see you again, Mr. Jiang," Xu Yan extended her hand. "The construction team will arrive in two minutes. We still need you to confirm the location of the town."
Jiang Ye shook her hand. "The flat open area to the north, about 200 meters from the sea."
Xu Yan took out a phone-sized object from her pocket. It was foldable, and when unfolded, it became a tablet computer.
She tapped on the screen, bringing up a satellite image of the nearby aerial terrain. The courier center was visible as a bean-sized dot. Jiang Ye's base vehicle was too small and was marked with a small circle.
"You can tap on the screen to confirm the location," Xu Yan handed him the tablet.
Jiang Ye raised his finger. A matchbox-sized square automatically appeared on the screen; this was the town to be built. Wherever Jiang Ye's finger moved, the town followed, like placing buildings in a tower defense game.
He tapped the screen, placing the town on the open ground north of the base.
"This location is relatively close to the sea, only four hundred meters from the courier center, and there's ample open space around it, convenient for future expansion."
According to Jiang Ye's vision, at least a coastal city like Qingdao or Los Angeles should emerge in this area, gathering tens of thousands of colony governors from the entire planet.
Xu Yan took back the tablet and tapped to confirm.
The roaring sound outside intensified again, as all the spaceships and construction machinery repositioned themselves. The data had already been automatically transmitted to them, and they were correcting their positions.
"I'll head to the construction site to prepare. We'll start in ten minutes," Xu Yan said.
"Thank you for your hard work," Jiang Ye nodded.
Xu Yan jogged towards the construction site, while Jiang Ye headed straight for the courier center.
He opened the door and went upstairs.
Isabelle, in a white silk nightgown, her hands in her pockets, her hair messy, looked sleepy.
"What's going on outside?" she asked, confused.
"The construction team for building the town has arrived," Jiang Ye replied.
"So soon?" Isabelle blinked. "You sit down and wait for a moment, I'll make you some food."
"Can I help you?"
"No, no, it'll be quick."
Isabelle yawned and went to the kitchen to get busy.
Jiang Ye stood by the window, overlooking the construction site in the distance.
A large number of construction robots poured out of the spaceships, their numbers comparable to an army unit.
There were also several hundred workers wearing hard hats. They first assembled into formation. Xu Yan stood at the front and said a few words, then they dispersed and went to their respective positions to work.
Clanging sounds echoed everywhere. Welding sparks could be seen from afar, and rolling dust billowed up from the construction site. Although there were water cannons specifically spraying mist, there was still a lot of yellow smoke and dust rising into the high altitude. At first glance, it was reminiscent of the Yellow Wind Monster from Journey to the West, snatching Tang Sanzang with flying sand and rolling stones.
"Stop staring, it's time to eat!"
Jiang Ye turned around. The table was already laid out with many dishes. Isabelle sat down and started eating.
This morning's meal was as lavish as ever: thin-skinned shrimp dumplings, custard buns, Malay cakes, puff pastry egg tarts, xiaolongbao, rice noodle rolls, spring rolls, small fried dough sticks, and hot chocolate.
The egg tarts were exceptionally well-made, reminding Jiang Ye of the egg tarts he ate during a trip to Macau when he was a child.
Isabelle taught him to dip the fried dough sticks into hot chocolate. Jiang Ye thought to himself, "This is crazy, who eats chocolate with fried dough sticks?" But after trying it, it actually tasted quite good.
They spent nearly an hour on breakfast.
Jiang Ye kept craning his neck to observe the situation at the construction site.
The construction team started building simultaneously from various locations, first leveling the ground, then erecting houses. The construction efficiency was very high. During the meal, the frames of five or six houses were already completed, looking quite good from a distance.
"I'm going out to sea to make money. I'll be back at noon," Jiang Ye said, putting down his chopsticks and getting up.
"Okay, I'll save some food for you," Isabelle nodded.
He left the courier center and headed straight for the dock.
Usually, when he came to the dock, he could see many pearl oysters.
But today was an exception; almost none were visible, they had all disappeared.
Jiang Ye immediately pulled up the fishing net by the shore.
A large pearl oyster lay inside, its shell already open, emitting a foul odor similar to a herring can.
It was dead.
Jiang Ye didn't feel it was a pity; this pearl oyster had earned him at least several million yuan in total, which was already quite valuable.
He untied the net, took out the oyster, and placed it on a flat reef nearby.
He lifted its shell to look inside.
Many worm-like creatures, like noodles, were wriggling and biting into the oyster's flesh.
It turned out it had been bitten to death by sea worms.
In the middle of the worms lay many shimmering pearls.
Jiang Ye grabbed some sand and sprinkled it heavily onto the pile of worms. After a few handfuls of sand, all the worms fled, wriggling out of the shell and swimming away into the sea.
Only then did he reach in and pick out all the pearls.
The pearls were varied, of all colors, the smallest only the size of pomegranate seeds, and the largest nearly the size of lychees.
After picking out all the pearls, Jiang Ye counted them in his hand: 21.
He returned to the base vehicle and placed the pearls into the trading bay one by one to check their estimated value.