Chapter 297 Preparing for Test Drive

The factory director was a veteran who met Fang Meng on the battlefield. He was a decisive and magnanimous man with a very cheerful personality. He had high hopes for Fang Meng, a young man who was brave and resourceful and dared to fight and kill on the battlefield at a young age.

The key point is that this guy risked his life to carry him back to the front lines from enemy fire, saving his life.

So when he learned that Fang Meng wanted to borrow a small server room to modify his car, he agreed without hesitation and personally found him a small server room that was not currently in use.

Even when Fang Meng wanted to buy some parts from the machinery factory, he helped him run around to get them. If their factory didn't have them, he would use his connections to get them from other machinery factories.

Otherwise, even if Fang Meng had the proper paperwork, the necessary parts wouldn't have been delivered so easily and quickly.

The factory manager didn't ask many questions about Fang Meng and his men's plans to modify the car. In his opinion, it was just a few well-off young people messing around with their own things, and at most they would just repaint the Jeep and replace some small parts.

Then the secretary said that Fang Meng's jeep should be ready and they were going to test drive it at the back of the factory soon. Coincidentally, the factory director's secretary knew Li Mingde, the captain of the criminal investigation team. He heard that they had modified the engine to increase the speed. The factory director couldn't sit still.

He quickly called over several leaders from the factory office and ran over together. When they arrived at the back of the factory, two cars were already parked in the open space. One of them was the military jeep that Fang Meng and his group had driven there, and the other was a car that the factory director and the others recognized—their prized police car from the Kaiyuan City Public Security Bureau.

"Mongko!" The factory manager saw Fang Meng standing next to the military jeep and quickly led his men over.

Fang Meng turned around upon hearing the voice, a broad smile on his face: "Old squad leader, what brings you here?"

"Didn't I hear from Xiao Li that you guys modified the car's engine to increase its speed? Is that true?"

Their most important project at Kaiyuan City No. 1 Machinery Plant is the production of automobiles and tractors. The engine is like the heart of a car, and no one knows better than them how important it is.

Over the years, both their factory and the other automobile manufacturing plants in the province have been working to increase vehicle speed. In the end, it was the Kyoto Machinery Research Institute that spent a lot of time and money to increase the engine speed of the vehicle from 60 mph to 90 mph.

At the time, it certainly shocked and surprised many people. However, with the development of the times, a speed of 90 miles per hour has become increasingly unable to meet the needs of vehicles, especially when compared with foreign countries, which makes it seem how backward they were when they were excited and satisfied.

Unexpectedly, they heard news of increased vehicle speeds again today. The key point is that this news didn't come from any mechanical research institute, but from their small mechanical factory.

Although these individuals were not from their factory, the fact that they were able to assemble the new generation of engines within their factory was enough to make the entire Kaiyuan City No. 1 Machinery Plant feel honored and excited.

Their era was so backward. Being backward meant being vulnerable to attack. People of their generation had experienced enough war, and they wanted their country to become strong so that outsiders would never dare to attack them again, so that the next generation could live in a truly peaceful era.

Fang Meng understood the old sergeant's excitement, and smiled as he raised his hand to pat the jeep next to him: "No matter how much you say, it's not as good as seeing it with your own eyes. We're going to test drive it now, and we can compare it with the one from the branch office. The old sergeant even drove enemy tanks back in the day. If we didn't try it out ourselves..."

"This isn't a good idea. The engine hasn't been tested yet, and its safety can't be guaranteed. Why don't we test drive it first?" The deputy factory manager immediately stepped forward, trying to stop his eager factory manager.

"What are you afraid of? Back when I was driving tanks on the battlefield, no one helped me test drive them." The factory director pushed aside the dawdling deputy factory director speechlessly.

The older this old fellow gets, the more indecisive he becomes. To put it nicely, he's cautious and meticulous; to put it bluntly, he's timid and cowardly. The factory director, whose temperament has become increasingly erratic in middle age, often looks down on his old buddy.

"Don't worry, comrade, I'll take care of the car. The old sergeant will sit in the passenger seat." Fang Meng naturally couldn't let the factory director test drive the car himself. After all, they were old comrades-in-arms, and he still had that much camaraderie. Without the factory director's displeasure in refusing, Fang Meng quickly said, "This is the first vehicle with an increased speed. You might not be used to driving it yet. The road conditions here aren't very good, so for safety reasons, I have to drive the car. If you don't want to, then just wait here for me to come back."

Fang Meng didn't tolerate his old comrade-in-arms. He spoke bluntly and even rolled his eyes at him, clearly threatening, "If you're different, then I won't play with you anymore."

The factory director knew this brat's temper all too well. He was a very capable man. He seemed honest and simple, but in reality, he was quite cunning. He was a capable person with both strength and skill. In the few years he had been the factory director, the First Machine Factory was basically his personal fiefdom. No one dared to speak to him like that on ordinary days.

But the factory manager really only tolerated Fang Meng's bad temper. In his anger, he only got angry for a moment, then curled his lips, muttered something, and turned to get into the passenger seat.

"Fine, don't move aside then. Who are you trying to scare? I wasn't raised to be scared by you."

"Bang!"

The factory manager closed the car door, stuck his head out of the window, and excitedly urged Fang Meng, "Hurry up, you're so young, why are you dawdling like this? Get in now."

Fang Meng rolled his eyes speechlessly, then turned to his little girl and spoke softly, his attitude completely reversed.

"You don't need to come with me for the test drive. If there are any abnormalities, I will record all the data."

Bai Nuo glanced at the middle-aged man in the passenger seat and nodded with amusement: "I drove around in front of the server room before, there shouldn't be any problems. You should pay special attention to whether there are any abnormalities in the engine after the speed exceeds 90 km/h."

"good!"

Fang Meng smiled and ruffled the little girl's hair, then turned and waved to Li Mingde next to the police car not far away, before striding towards the driver's side door of the jeep.