A 10,000-fold Increase System, Picking Up Garbage and Becoming a Technology Giant

23: Chapter 23 A robust security system! Who dares to invade?As the sky slightly brightened in the early morning, a touch of fish-belly white appeared on the horizon, and golden sunlight flooded the entire factory building, perfectly hitting the four shiny silver characters of ”Panshi Foundation.”

It was a newly hung metal sign. The dark gray base plate made the font particularly eye-catching. Standing at the entrance of the factory, it instantly added a touch of a proper factory appearance to this dilapidated scrap yard area.

Chen Fan had an unlit cigarette in his mouth, squinting at the sign. Wang Defu leaned in beside him, wiping the floating dust off the sign with a handkerchief while patting the dust off his hands, his voice full of emotion: ”Good heavens, after nearly two months of tossing and turning, it finally looks like a factory. Xiao Fan, do you think this broken place of ours can really...”

Before he could finish, the second half of his sentence got stuck in his throat. His originally relaxed face instantly tensed up. He nudged Chen Fan with his elbow and lowered his voice significantly: ”Hey! Look over there, at the corner of the wall!”

Chen Fan’s heart tightened, and he looked in the direction he was pointing.

Fifty meters away, beside the bumpy dirt road outside the scrap yard, a dusty van was hiding listlessly behind an old locust tree. The car body was covered in a thick layer of dust, almost blending in with the surrounding wasteland. However, the window, which was rolled down a small fraction, was like a sneaky eye peering directly toward the factory building.

With such a surreptitious posture, anyone could tell they were up to no good.

”It should be Scar Qiang’s people.” Chen Fan’s eyes darkened, his gaze locked tightly onto the van.

As soon as he finished speaking, the van suddenly started. They must have seen that Chen Fan had discovered them. The engine let out a roar like a broken gong, and the rear of the car kicked up a large cloud of yellow dust. Without even looking back, it made a sharp turn, jolted onto the main road, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Wang Defu’s face instantly dropped, his brow furrowed into a deep frown, and he spat: ”Bad luck! It’s only the first day of hanging the sign, and they come to spoil the mood.”

Chen Fan didn’t say a word. He just stubbed out the cigarette in his hand and turned to walk into the factory, his steps fast and heavy: ”This is a reminder—we need to upgrade the factory’s security immediately.”

In the past, with just the two of them guarding a scrap yard, they only had to prevent petty theft at most. But now it was different. Panshi Foundation had officially started production. Once performance improved later on, who knows how many eyes would be watching. If security wasn’t up to par, a major incident would happen sooner or later.

Walking into the factory’s control room, Chen Fan asked Xiao Zhi to design a complete security system. The requirement wasn’t just ordinary monitoring, but the kind that could provide early warnings, interceptions, and countermeasures.

”Instruction received, designing plan.” Xiao Zhi immediately took on the task. A few seconds after the electronic voice faded, Xiao Zhi sent the design plan to Chen Fan.

Based on the list, Chen Fan organized a bunch of junk that needed to be collected: old dashcams, scrapped smartphones, rusted agricultural sprayers, discarded vibration sensors from construction sites, and several broken aerial drones... Chen Fan gave the list to Wang Defu and had him gather these scraps. He would be responsible for the modification and installation himself.

He originally thought he could take a break, but for the next three days, the entire Panshi Foundation factory area turned into a massive modification site. The clanging of hammers, the sizzling of welding, and the roar of machinery didn’t stop from morning till night.

The first thing completed was the Early Warning Layer.

Wang Defu dug out over twenty scrapped dashcams and old phones from the electronic waste pile. These things either had broken screens or bulging batteries. He performed Amplification on each device. The amplified devices could not only capture clear images in the pitch-black night but also automatically recognize human silhouettes. Even if a stray cat passed in front of the lens, they could distinguish it accurately.