Village chief, your township enterprise sells laser cannons?

After waiting for more than two hours, the countdown on the system panel finally reached 0. At the same time, the system's mechanical voice rang in Lin Man's ears once again.

"Calculating the technological development progress, please wait!"

After he finished speaking, the system seemed to freeze and became completely silent.

After waiting for a long time without any movement, Lin Man raised his hand and slowly touched the transparent system panel. Feeling the physical presence of the system panel, he then clenched his hand into a fist and punched the panel twice.

What to do if the equipment breaks down?

Just pat it twice. If you can't pat it properly, then pound it with your fist. If you can't pound it with your fist, then use your foot instead.

His two punches seemed to have an effect; as soon as he finished punching, the system panel, which had been silent until now, finally showed some activity.

A brand new text message popped up on the system panel, and the system's mechanical voice rang in Lin Man's ears.

Villager satisfaction is being calculated.

Compared to last week, the following events occurred this week.

Incident 1: Encountered a complaint from villagers.

Event 2: Settlement of wages owed by former village chief Lin Yaozu.

Event 3: Getting the metal processing plant back in operation.

Event 4: Provided activity space for elderly villagers.

Based on comprehensive evaluation, the villagers' satisfaction score was 63.

Official satisfaction assessment in progress.

Compared to last week, the following events occurred this week.

Event 1: Restoring administrative order in Hongxing Village.

Event 2: Paying back the wages owed by former village chief Lin Yaozu to reduce the risk of a group falling back into poverty.

Incident 3: Resolving a siege-like crisis among the masses, avoiding casualties, and preventing a crisis of trust in the authorities.

Event 4: Restore production order at Xinhui City Hongxing Precision Metal Processing Co., Ltd. to reduce the risk of mass poverty.

Based on comprehensive evaluation, the official satisfaction score is 91!

[Enterprise satisfaction calculation in progress.]

Compared to last week, the following events occurred this week.

Event 1: Resumption of production at Xinhui City Hongxing Precision Metal Processing Co., Ltd.

Based on comprehensive evaluation, the company's satisfaction score was 85.

Economic development accounting is underway.

The village collective received 17844.32 yuan this week.

The village collective enterprise received 2697574.32 yuan this week.

Compared to last week, the economic growth rate has increased by 100%.

Based on comprehensive evaluation, the economic development score is 87.

[Teaching development accounting in progress.]

Compared to last week, there were no new students transferring in this week, no new teachers arriving, and no teaching activities being conducted.

Based on comprehensive evaluation, the teaching development score is 0!

Population calculation in progress.

Compared to last week, three people transferred out of the village this week, while no one transferred in.

Based on comprehensive evaluation, the population development score is 0.

Lin Man was completely stunned when he saw the text that popped up in the system.

In his mind, the area most likely to receive a low score was economic development, since Hongxing Village was a mess from top to bottom. But to his utter surprise, the area that stabbed him in the back at the crucial moment was population and education development.

Two zeros!

It seems we need to focus more on population and education development in the future. The system says there has been no investment in education, so we should organize a primary school study tour for the village every week.

There's also the issue of population. The village agreement needs to be adjusted. If residents transfer their household registration out, they have to give up the village's revenue. While reducing the number of residents transferring out, we also need to find ways to trick and deceive people from other places into coming in.

This is...

At that moment, he silently prayed that the system's overall score calculation would remove the lowest and highest scores.

Then, a weighted average is calculated on the remaining scores.

In this way, his final score will be one point higher than the score obtained by simply adding the scores together and then calculating a weighted average.

As a science whiz, Lin Man quickly figured out the scores for the two calculation methods.

The weighted average of all scores is 54.333.

After removing the lowest and highest scores and taking a weighted average, the final score is 58.75.

It is indeed a few points higher, but not by a particularly large margin.

It was a complete waste of time. Having come to this conclusion, Lin Man opened the system's scoring and reward rules.

If the overall score is below 50, white crystal ore will be awarded.

A score of 50-60 will be rewarded with green crystal ore.

A score of 60-70 will be rewarded with blue crystals.

A score of 70-80 will be rewarded with purple crystal ore.

A score of 80-90 will be rewarded with a golden crystal.

A score of 90-100 will be rewarded with red crystal ore.

Whether it's 54.33 or 58.75, it's in the 50-60 range, so this time you can only get one green crystal ore.

Six reward levels, green crystal ore—I've given up hope of ever getting any of this stuff!

Luck won't save you from bad luck, and spending money won't change your fate!

So be it!

With a sigh in his heart, Lin Man lay flat on the bed and quietly waited for the system to finish settling accounts.

[Ding! The overall score for technological development has been calculated. After verification, the final score for this week is 54.33 points. Reward: 2 Green Crystals!]

With a flash of light on the translucent panel, two green spheres, about the size of an adult's fist and glowing green, appeared out of thin air about 20 centimeters above Lin Man's nose.

Upon seeing these two things, his eyes widened instantly, and he instinctively covered that handsome face with his hands, his body rolling over in the process.

Just as I rolled to the side, I heard two dull thuds behind me, like heavy objects hitting the ground.

The sound made Lin Man gasp.

If that hit my nose, I'd be dead for sure.

Also, the reward crystal isn't just a single, stingy crystal, so does that mean there's a possibility of getting a whole bunch of crystals?

If that's the case, then that's interesting!

After calming down, he reached out and picked up the two spheres. The spheres felt almost weightless and had a slight warmth. They were not stones, nor glass, nor jade.

Try squeezing it first. If you can't break it, go downstairs and get a hammer.

Taking a breath, Lin Man slowly closed his eyes and squeezed the two spheres with both hands at the same time. However, the spheres were not as indestructible as he had imagined. Instead, with a gentle squeeze, a crisp breaking sound came to his ears.

The broken shell dissipated with the sound, and the next second, Lin Man felt a heavy weight in his hand.

The sudden sensation made his arm feel heavy, and when he opened his eyes and focused on his hands, he was completely stunned.

Because he had an extra gold bar in each of his hands!

These two gold bars are similar in length to a typical 6.9-inch screen smartphone, but only about half the width and thickness of a smartphone.

Feeling the heavy weight in his hands, Lin Man loosened his grip and threw the two gold bars onto the bed.

Under the energy-saving light, the two golden bars shimmered with a faint golden light, and a string of numbers was printed on the side facing Lin Man.

999.99924k pure gold.

The density of 24K pure gold is 19.32 grams per cubic centimeter. Lin Man calculated the weight of the two gold bars by gesturing with his fingers.

The minimum weight is 4.5 kg, but there could be a difference of several hundred grams!

That's a total of 9 kilograms of gold!

9 kg!

He opened the system panel again and couldn't help but chuckle as he looked at the technology development settlement page, which had once again entered a countdown.

From the perspective of technological development, gold doesn't really seem to be anything precious; at most, it can only be considered a precious metal with very wide applications.

It's somewhat understandable that green crystal ore can yield gold bars.

But the problem now is how to explain the origin of these two gold bars!

Who put the gold bar in my hand?