When Xia Lei walked over, Konrad was talking in German and Shentu Tian-Feng was interpreting for him. 

“Mr Konrad says we have to solve not just the undersea cabling problem but our electrical engineering problem. We need to improve our systems or else the power plant would run into stability issues.” Shentu Tian-Feng looked serious and professional. “This is a big investment of our Vientaine Group and the higher-ups also look favourably upon the environmentally friendly aspect of the project. We must solve these problems now or they will pop up again after the project’s completed and the plant is in operation. We’d be a laughingstock then.”

“I don’t know about these. Ask him which places have problems and how we can fix them,” said Shentu Tian-Yin.

Shentu Tian-Feng said to Konrad in German, “You know what to say. Just say your piece.”

Xia Lei, who had just walked over, was struck by realisation. Something was afoot!

Konrad nodded, then spread the drawings in his hands, pointed at them and said, “This place here needs changing using our German...