Having laughed for a good while, Tak-hyeon slowly caught his breath and asked Do-beom,

"It's genuinely impossible anywhere else?"

Do-beom recalled what he'd been told at Ilhyeon Heavy Industries before reporting.

"Yes, sir. They say it's a method no one anywhere has attempted. Crucially, for the method to be possible at all you need a modified Goliath crane — and the number of places worldwide that could even attempt something this uncertain can be counted on one hand. And even those places can't easily try it, given their financial situations."

"Ha ha ha. He's caught them all off guard. Right off guard."

Tap, tap.

Tak-hyeon tapped the photograph of the crane.

"This is exactly what I wanted. The judgment and the nerve to strike where no one else has thought to look. This is precisely what Ilhyeon needs right now."

He studied the photographs several times more.

"Not just Ilhyeon Heavy Industries — take this as a model, make training material out of it, and distribute it across all of Ilhyeon. Electronics, Construction, the Hotel, everywhere."

"Chairman. Surely not that far… The results aren't even in yet."

Do-beom worried Tak-hyeon might be making a rash judgment in his delight.

If they made it group-wide training material and the thing ultimately failed, the damage would fall not only on the Secretariat but on the Chairman himself.

But Tak-hyeon saw it differently.

"The results aren't in? No. This is as good as decided already."

Bang.

He struck the desk, his voice full of conviction.

"They lifted the ship, and not only that — they welded the lifted blocks together. Or are you telling me the photographs are doctored?"

Do-beom hurriedly waved a hand.

"Doctored? Certainly not."

"Then there isn't a single reason it should fail, is there?"

Do-beom found himself with nothing to say.

If the photographs weren't false, then Tak-hyeon was right — no reason to fail existed.

"Even a man like me can see that welding it suspended in the air, as in the photograph, is easier. And that means the time to completion is unquestionably shorter than before. Which…