Chapter 170: Countdown

"There are a total of ten power switches and four separate circuit breakers. Not those cheap ones you used before, but proper, industrial-level breakers this time," Chihiro explained as he gave us a brief tour of all the small changes he implemented while I was convinced he would abandon the project.

"It's the kind you see in power plants, physically separating two conductors through a fully autonomous system. As for those knobs, the aim was to give the operator much finer control over the flow of energy, going from having the full might of the factory's power output on a single knob to having each of those knobs control merely a tenth of its full power. And as for the biggest change of all…"

Chihiro moved over to the window before pointing his hand toward the place where we all saw the disaster start.

The innermost chamber of the factory.