I manufacture weapons in the Middle East and am wanted globally?

By the time the pickup truck finally made its way back to the factory gate, the sun was almost setting.

Evening comes quickly in Della. As soon as the sun begins to set, the light dims abruptly, as if a switch has been flipped.

Chen Zheng parked the car, jumped out, and pushed open the gate to enter the yard.

Baldy and Chiang Kai-shek were still working, their muscles twitching.

Damn, I'm so touched. From now on, flights from Vietnam will take off on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, and from now on, flights from Monster Factory will take off on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays!

The bald man stood in front of DMG MORI, his fingers flying across the control panel, adjusting programs, changing tools, calibrating tools, and starting the machine—his movements were fluid and seamless.

Kaishen was at the Haas VF-2, having just finished milling a sleeve. He was blowing away the metal shavings with an air gun, and after finishing, he put it on the worktable and turned around to get another piece of material.

The two laborers worked together so well that they were like one person.

"Bald guy!" Chen Zheng shouted.

The bald man turned around and jogged over.

"Goo?" It tilted its head up to look at him, its big eyes blinking.

Chen Zheng squatted down to look it in the eye.

He reached out and patted the bald man's shoulder. The grayish-brown skin felt a little rough, but it was warm, just like a human's.

"You've worked hard," he said.

The bald man tilted his head: "Goo?"

Chen Zheng smiled, stood up, took out his phone, and opened the Monster Factory app.

The interface is still the same.

Against a dark background, a fanged monster stares with its eyes wide open in the upper left corner.

The middle few lines of text—

Monster Factory Lv.1

Regional Influence: 32! (Upgrade from 100)

Gold: 0

Monster Workers: 2/20

He clicked the "Recharge Gold Coins" button.

A simple interface pops up with just one line of text and an input box: "Recharge ratio: 1 USD = 1 Coin. Please enter the recharge amount:"

He tapped the amount, entered "4000", and then clicked "Confirm Recharge".

A notification pops up on the screen—

Please place the recharge amount in front of your phone's camera and remain still until the scan is complete.

Chen Zheng spread out the $4000 on the table, pointing his phone camera at the stack of banknotes.

A green scanning frame appeared on the screen, like a QR code payment. A green light scanned from top to bottom and then from left to right.

[Scan complete! Top-up successful!]

Current Gold Coins: 5000

Chen Zheng exited the recharge interface and went to the [Monster Shop].

[Can summon monsters]

Level 1 Monster Servants: 1000 Gold Coins/each (Processing Accuracy +10%, Processing Speed ​​+10%)

He clicked on [Summon], and a quantity selection box popped up. He entered "4" and then clicked [Confirm].

A loading circle popped up on the screen and spun for two seconds.

[Summoning...]

Chen Zheng put down his phone and took a step back.

The factory was silent for about three seconds.

Then, four figures appeared out of thin air on the cement ground in the corner.

It's exactly the same as when the bald man and Chiang Kai-shek first appeared.

It was about half a person's height, with grayish-brown skin, short and thick limbs, a round head, and two large eyes that took up most of its face.

He was wearing gray overalls with a logo on his chest—a fanged monster icon.

The four laborers stood still, blinked, looked around, then looked at each other, and then simultaneously turned to look at Chen Zheng.

"Gurgle?"

"Coo coo?"

"Coo coo coo?"

"Gurgle."

The voices were of different pitches, like a chorus.

Chen Zheng stood there with his hands on his hips, looking at the four new kids, and couldn't help but grin.

"Alright, alright, stop dawdling." He walked over, squatted down, and looked at them one by one, each with its own unique features.

He pointed to the one with the pointed head: "Your name is Niu Yi."

Pointing at the one with the big ears: "Your name is Niu Er."

Pointing to the one with white spots on his stomach: "Your name is Niu San."

Pointing to the smallest one: "Your name is Niu Si."

The four laborers exchanged a glance, then nodded simultaneously: "Gurgle!"

Chen Zheng stood up and turned to look at Baldy and Chiang Kai-shek.

Two veteran employees stood to the side, tilting their heads to look at their new colleague with curious expressions.

"Bald guy, Chiang Kai-shek." Chen Zheng waved, and two laborers trotted over. "These four newcomers are yours to train."

The bald man puffed out his chest: "Goo!" (Received!)

Chiang Kai-shek nodded vigorously, "Coo coo!" (Understood!)

Chen Zheng pointed to the equipment in the factory and began assigning tasks.

"Bald guy, you take Niu Yi and Niu Er and are in charge of Demag and Has. Chiang Kai-shek, you take Niu San and Niu Si and are in charge of CAK5085, SK40P and T2108."

He paused, then added, "Now we have enough manpower. We don't need one person to do all the work. It's an assembly line operation, with each person specializing in one process. We need to be fast and maintain consistent quality."

He walked to the materials area and pointed to the pile of steel: "From now on, we won't make gun barrels separately anymore. We'll make complete guns, all complete guns."

He took out his phone from his pocket, opened the blueprints for the Stechkin APS, and several monstrous laborers began to gather around to look at them. Then the bald man started assigning tasks.

Niu Si, the smallest of the laborers, walked to the materials area, rummaged through the pile of steel with his three stubby fingers, and precisely pulled out a seamless 45# steel pipe.

It has an outer diameter of 32 mm, a wall thickness of 5.5 mm, and a length of 400 mm. It weighed itself in its hand; it was a little over three kilograms. Then it turned and walked towards the saw.

He clamped the steel pipe in a vise and picked up a handheld band saw from the workbench.

Niu Si held the steel pipe with his left hand and gripped the band saw with his right, aiming it at the marked cutting line—

stab-

The saw blade cuts into the steel pipe, sending iron filings flying.

Chen Zheng's eyes widened.

Niu Si's hands were as steady as a precision machine tool.

The saw blade feeds at an unbelievably uniform speed, with each cut reaching the same depth, resulting in a perfectly straight kerf without the slightest deviation.

Its eyes were fixed on the cutting line, unblinking, and its three fingers gripped the saw handle with just the right amount of pressure.

The cut was so smooth it looked like it had been made on a lathe, with very few burrs.

Niu Si took the chopped ingredients off the vise, looked at them in his palm, and nodded, seemingly quite satisfied.

Then it turned around and handed the material to Chiang Kai-shek.

Kaishen took it and placed it on the chuck of the CAK5085. He quickly tapped the control panel a dozen times with three fingers, and the spindle rotated, the cutting tool was fed, and iron filings flew out like snowflakes.

The roughing operation of the outer diameter involves a single cut to a depth of 2 mm, a feed rate of 0.2 mm per minute, and a spindle speed of 800 rpm.

These parameters were set by Chiang Kai-shek himself. Chen Zheng glanced at them and found that they were almost twice as fast as the parameters he usually used, but the surface finish of the car was actually better.

The roughing-out process took forty seconds.

Chiang Kai-shek took the semi-finished product off the chuck and handed it to Niu Si.

Niu Si took it and turned to run towards the SK40P.

The SK40P is a CNC lathe manufactured by Baoji Machine Tool, specifically designed for rough work.

But Niu Si wasn't used for rough work; it was used for fine work.

Niu Si clamped the workpiece, brought up the program, and started it.

The final cut on the outer diameter is 0.2 mm deep, with a feed rate of 0.05 mm per minute and a spindle speed of 1200 rpm.

The outer diameter ranges from 32 mm to 14 mm.

Niu stood in front of the control panel, tapped a few times with his fingers, and brought up a program.

The DMG MORI spindle begins to rotate, cutting fluid is sprayed out, white smoke rises, and the milling cutter moves rapidly across the workpiece, cutting out the shape of the sleeve, the outline of the trigger guard, the sight mounting slot, the firing pin hole, the shell extraction hook slot, and so on...

A complete APS sleeve, removed from DMG.

All processes are completed in one go, without changing clamps or re-clamping.

Chen Zheng picked up the sleeve and examined it from all angles.

The surface finish was better than any APS he had ever seen, with sharp edges, smooth lines, and even the chamfer on the inside of the trigger guard was meticulously done.

He put down the sleeve and turned to look at Haas.

Baldy and Niu Er were milling the gun barrel.

The APS receiver is simpler than the slide, but there are still many processes involved – magazine well, hammer mount, trigger mounting hole, grip mounting hole… more than a dozen processes are all completed on a Haas VF-2.

Baldy was in charge of programming and tool setting, while Niu Er was in charge of clamping and starting. The two worked together like one person; one was clamping the workpiece while the other was already preparing the next tool.

Fifty-five seconds.

One gun barrel was milled.

Then there's the T2108 deep hole drilling machine.

Niu Si stood in front of the drilling machine, holding a blank of an APS gun barrel in his hand. It was 14 mm in outer diameter, 180 mm in length, and made of No. 45 steel.

It clamped the blank onto the chuck, adjusted the position of the clamp, and then started the spindle.

The drill bit started to spin, spinning at high speed, and the cutting fluid sprayed out, pouring onto the drill bit and producing a wisp of white smoke.

Niu Si stood in front of the control panel, three fingers on the feed handle, his eyes fixed on the depth gauge, not blinking.

Deep hole drilling, drilling all the way to the bottom.

A 7.82 mm through hole, 160 mm in length, the drill bit went in, came out, went in, came out—without retraction, without chip removal or pause, all in one go.

Niu Si did not stop the machine. It loosened the chuck, rotated the workpiece, re-clamped it, and changed to a new drill bit—an reamer, 8.2 mm.

Then change the drill bit and reamer, 8.22 mm.

Then comes the most crucial step – rifling.

Niu Si took the wire drawing head out of the toolbox and installed it on the spindle of the drilling machine.

It adjusted the angle and feed rate, and then started.

The scalpel goes in from one end of the gun barrel and comes out from the other.

With each pull, a shallow spiral groove appears on the inner wall of the barrel. It has four right-hand rifling grooves with a twist rate of 240 mm.

One cut, two cuts, three cuts, four cuts.

After making the fourth cut, Niu Si turned off the main shaft, removed the barrel from the chuck, held it up to his eyes, and looked at it against the light.

It nodded and placed the gun barrel in the finished product area.

Chen Zheng glanced at the timer on his phone.

From the moment Niu Si picked up that steel pipe until now—six minutes have passed.

A Stechkin APS gun barrel, from raw material preparation to finished product, takes only six minutes!

The six laborers each performed their duties, working busily but without chaos.

CAK5085 is doing rough machining of the barrel, SK40P is doing fine machining of the barrel, DMG MORI is doing the slide, Haas is doing the receiver, and T2108 is doing deep hole drilling for the next barrel...

assembly line.

A real assembly line.

Each process has a designated person in charge, and each workpiece flows between machines like an invisible river.

Chen Zheng walked to the assembly area, where Chiang Kai-shek was assembling an APS.

Slide, barrel, receiver, recoil spring, firing pin, trigger assembly, magazine... all the parts were machined, and Chiang Kai-shek assembled them quickly with three fingers, his movements as skilled as a master craftsman with twenty years of experience.

First, the barrel is pressed into the mounting bracket of the receiver and locked in place with a retaining pin. Then, the recoil spring and guide rod are installed into the slide, and the firing pin and extractor are installed. Finally, the slide is placed onto the guide rail of the receiver, pulled back, and clicked to return the slide to its original position.

Khairy pulled the slide back, the metallic scraping sound crisp and smooth. He pulled the trigger, click, a clean firing.

He released the safety again and pulled it three times in quick succession—click, click, click, three shots in a row, with a steady rhythm.

He placed the gun on the worktable and turned to grab another one.

Chen Zheng glanced at the time.

From the time Niu Si started feeding until now—27 minutes.

A complete Stechkin APS takes twenty-seven minutes from material preparation to assembly.

What does that mean?

In domestic military factories, with their assembly lines, skilled workers, specialized fixtures, and dedicated equipment, the assembly time for a Type 54 pistol is approximately forty minutes to an hour.

27 minutes.

This has reached the assembly line speed of a top-tier military factory.

No, it's even faster than the top-tier one!!

Chen Zheng picked up the newly assembled APS, pulled open the sleeve, and looked at the firing pin and extractor inside.

He closed the slide again and pulled the trigger. The trigger pull was about two kilograms, the stroke was even, and the return was crisp. It felt even better than the batch that Abu Ali took yesterday.

He lowered his gun and took a deep breath.

I did a quick calculation, and it's about 52 games a day!

But this is not the limit.

If there are enough materials, enough machines, and enough hard work—this number can double, triple, or even tenfold.

He looked up and his gaze swept over the five pieces of equipment in the factory.

DMG MORI DMU 60 5-axis CNC lathe, Haas VF-2 vertical machining center, CAK5085 CNC lathe, SK40P CNC lathe, T2108 deep hole drilling machine.

that's it.

With this broken equipment, six unpaid monster laborers can make more than fifty guns a day.

Chen Zheng suddenly remembered something.

He opened the app and went to the page for "Unlockable Devices".

Most of it was still gray, but he could already make out a few lines of text—

[CNC Cylindrical Grinding Machine] Unlock Requirements: Factory Lv.2, 5000 Gold Coins

[CNC Internal Grinding Machine] Unlock Requirements: Factory Lv.2, 5000 Gold Coins

[Vacuum Heat Treatment Furnace] Unlock Requirements: Factory Lv.2, 8000 Gold Coins

[Coordinate Measuring Machine] Unlock conditions: Factory Lv.2, 3000 gold coins

【…】

He took a deep breath and put his phone back in his pocket.

We need to speed up the expansion.

We need to find a way to get more equipment, more materials, and more orders.

Just then... my phone vibrated.

"Feed?"

"Mr. Chen?" A young voice sounded somewhat familiar.

"it's me."

"I'm Assam," the other person said, "from Lebanon, the driver who delivered your supplies."

Chen Zheng's eyes lit up: "Assam! Of course I remember you, brother!"

"About the order you asked me to help you with last time."

Assam lowered his voice, a hint of excitement in it, "I've found a client here in Lebanon, and he wants to see you."

Chen Zheng's heart skipped a beat.

"When?"

"Two days from now," Assam said, "can you come to the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon?"

"That place is the territory of the bubble tea shop, right?" Chen Zheng said hesitantly.

"Why do you care who your business partner is? Don't worry, the milk tea shop has a good reputation."

Chen Zheng thought about it for a moment and then agreed.

If it's not dangerous, why would I make any money?

"By the way, it would be best to get some rifles, AKMs and SVDs would be ideal," Assam said softly. "This is a huge order, you can't handle it all by yourself, but if you can get even a small piece, you'll be rich."

Chen Zheng's expression shifted upon hearing this.

Is the bubble tea shop going to take on Israel again?

It seems so!

"Okay! I'll definitely be there in two days. By the way, could you please pick me up? I can hire you as a guide for $500 a day."

Assam smiled and agreed.

See you then.

"goodbye!"

After hanging up the phone, Chen Zheng took a drag of his cigarette.

He frowned; his most important concern right now was his safety!

Hiring!

He browsed through some military forums on his phone.

There are many types of security guards.

Prices vary, but the quality also varies greatly.

Hehehe... You can't expect Battlefield Fries to cost the same as Delta "Bridgeblock Dogs", can you?

Find a reputable one!

Chen Zheng found many PMC company phone numbers and contact information at the top of the Middle East military forum.

For example, there are Blackwater, G4S, Control Risks, Israel's IZO, Jordan's Warriors Center, and even IS, among others.

Indeed, the world is a huge commercial center; even extremist organizations can become PMCs!

Among them, he saw a familiar name – Huaxin Zhong'an.

Cough cough cough, whatever, whatever! I'm planning to go back to China later anyway.

The last name Chen Zheng saw was "Reflex Responses"!