Xia Lei busied himself with work till ten in the evening and it was long dark when he left the company. Liang Si-Yao came by in the afternoon after work asking him to go back with her but he’d rejected her because of work. This was also reasonable - he couldn’t keep going to his Master’s place when he had his own place to go home to.

He drove alone on the highway with only the lights of the buildings and neon lighting before him. Xia Lei was also alight with thoughts which he could not quiet.

‘I’ve only completed about 3% of the machine after a long day of work. I’ll need over a month of time to be able to finish up the whole machine and I’ll have an intelligent lathe then…’

Being able to complete an intelligent lathe in a months’ time was a feat that no machinist could do alone. However, Xia Lei was different. He could process high-precision parts with normal lathes using the power of his eye and remember all the drawings and circuits at a thought. He may...