Cthulhu Gonfalon Chapter 8:
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Reif carried a pickaxe and walked up the sloping tunnel tiredly, feeling that he was almost exhausted.
As a skilled miner, four hours of excavation work-and only digging-is not a heavy physical task for him. But the trouble is that this set of work clothes on him, this weird set of clothes is thick and heavy, which wraps him tightly from head to toe, even the eyes, nose and mouth are no exception. It is nothing more than the eyes are inlaid with special crystals, and the nose and mouth have special ventilation masks that look like pig noses. Anyway, it is very cumbersome and stuffy.
Sultry, he never thought he could feel sultry in the shade of a house where there is still ice and snow all day long!
“It’s still good in winter!” He couldn’t help sighing, “Although the mud was frozen at that time, it was very difficult to dig, but at least you don’t need to wear this strange suit!”
Of course this is just a sigh, not a complaint. Because Mayor Felix, who is in charge of the excavation work, has long emphasized that there are dangerous negative energies underground, and only by wearing this suit can you avoid being hurt by them.
“Negative energy is neither a knife nor a poisonous snake. It will not hurt you immediately, but will slowly hurt your body.” He still remembers what the beautiful mayor said at the time. “If you don’t wear this kind of protective clothing, you will slowly and slowly feel lethargic, tired easily, and appetite decreased. However, hòu is easy to get sick, and it is not easy to recover after being sick… Basically it is almost at this stage. Damn it, but if you are very lucky and can survive it. Then what is waiting for you will be deeply eroded by negative energy and become something like zombies or skeletons…”
Something like this. Felix repeated it to them at least twenty times, and she even asked every excavator to be able to repeat such a passage-it doesn’t have to be very precise. But the general meaning cannot be wrong.
She even found a group of mice to demonstrate to the excavators the results of negative energy erosion. Watching those originally healthy mice quickly languish and weakened in the light gray thin negative energy, and finally fell down one by one, and the one who survived by chance became rigid and dull, and his eyes glowed with a green light like a wildfire, all All the excavators were frightened.
Therefore, even if it is uncomfortable and easy to get tired while working in this suit, they will never take it off.
“Your Majesty. The equipment you gave them is really luxurious!” Felix watched from a distance as the excavators slowly walked out of the tunnel and stayed in the purification circle for three minutes according to the regulations. hòu took off his protective clothing impatiently, and couldn’t help but shook his head and said, “These guys probably never dreamed of how expensive their outfits are…”
Sui Xiong smiled: “People-oriented. To rejuvenate the town of Pyroxene needs a lot of manpower, especially skilled workers. And even if the town is rejuvenated, it is necessary to serve the people. In my opinion, these excavators We are more than those magic glue protective suits.”
“Five hundred gold coins a piece of protective clothing…This money is enough to recruit mercenaries. At least ten strong men who know how to use swords, bows and arrows, and dare to fight and kill.”
“There are you and Qiao Xiu in Pyroxene Town. The force is enough. It just happens to save money and invest it in more valuable places.” Sui Xiong said with a smile, “Not to mention these protective suits are not a waste of fèi. They are very durable and can be used for a long time. With their help, ordinary people can also harvest special mushrooms in the future. It is much safer and more efficient.”
Ferex pouted his lips. Doesn’t agree with Sui Xiong’s statement. But she did not oppose Sui Xiong’s approach, on the contrary. She likes this practice of cherishing human life-except for a few perverts, almost no one dislikes a forgiving leader.
What’s more, Sui Xiong is no longer as simple as “generous and benevolent.” When he returned from this trip, he found that as the tunnel was dug deeper and deeper, the negative energy concentration in the tunnel was already much higher than the ground. Although this level of negative energy will not have any immediate harm, and the purification circle after work can eliminate most of the effects, it will still accumulate enough to cause serious illness or even death over time.
So he immediately notified Felix and asked her to prepare better protective measures for the excavators.
Ferex has no opinion on this. She originally planned to buy “magic pattern cloth” woven into magical plant fibers to make protective clothing, by adding the effect of the entry-level spell “energy resistance” to the magic pattern cloth. To the protective effect. But Sui Xiong rejected this opinion and asked her to buy magic tape with the built-in effect of the primary spell “energy protection”, and make a full-covering heavy protective suit.
This has greatly increased the investment. Based on the current 30 diggers, 30 sets of magic cloth work clothes with additional “energy resistance” spells, which add up to less than 1,500 gold coins, go through some internal channels. If it is, it can even be reduced to 1,200 gold coins; but 30 sets of magic tape heavy protective clothing with additional “energy protection” spells, each of which costs 500 gold coins, which adds up to 15,000 gold coins—this is still Friendly price!
This price shocked Felix. As a high-level mage who is accumulating knowledge and power to step into the realm of legend, more than one thousand gold coins is not a big sum for her, nothing more than a little It hurts for a while, but fifteen thousand gold coins… This price is enough to find a group of top killers to assassinate a king, and use it to make protective clothing for a group of laborers?
Really, this is too extravagant!
But now that Sui Xiong has made a decision, she can only execute it. Fortunately, Sui Xiong did not make her too expensive after all. She only bought the raw materials to make protective suits and enchantments, all of which were done by His Majesty the Jellyfish God himself. Finally, the cost was reduced to two hundred gold coins per suit. The total price is six thousand gold coins.
Looking at this protective suit, Felix had previously worried about “what if someone else learns our technology” and there is no need to mention it. I believe that there is absolutely no businessman in the world who will get nervous and invest such a huge sum of money just to do some business with the essence of negative energy.
The essence of energy is just a low-end magic material, it’s not worth spending so much money!
“Actually, after careful calculation, this investment is worthwhile.” Sui Xiong said with a smile, “These protective clothing can be used for at least 20 years, while the magic cloth work clothes can be used for at most three years. With long-term investment Look, the difference in protective clothing is actually about half. Isn’t it cost-effective to trade this difference for a group of skilled and reliable workers?”
“And you think, with this kind of strict protection, workers will be able to stay healthy all the time. They will become a strong support for the town’s rejuvenation and even the construction of a new type of society. This can’t be exchanged for much money! “
Ferex smiled bitterly, acquiescing to this statement.
Outside the tunnel, Reif had been purified and took off the heavy protective suit. He rinsed the protective clothing under the pipe that flows out of the clean water according to the regulations, and left it to dry in the designated place.
After finishing this, he came to the “rest station” and took a cup of tea made with roasted rye from a large wooden barrel that was supposed to contain ale with a bamboo tube, and took a deep sip.
The lukewarm tea gurgled down his throat and into his stomach, which calmed his original irritability and his tiredness unknowingly.
In fact, he was not very tired originally, it was nothing more than the sultry heat, which gave him the illusion of “I am tired”. Now that he returned to a more comfortable environment, as this illusion disappeared, of course he recovered.
Ordinarily, in this case, he could have continued to work for a while. But the morning work is over, and the protective suit needs time to drain, so he can go home safely, eat lunch, take a short rest, and prepare for the afternoon work.
An excavator only needs to work eight hours a day, which is also the rule set by Sui Xiong. This can of course be explained by a lot of reasons, but in the final analysis, the reason is still “habit.”
For Sui Xiong, whether dangerous work requires proper protection or the eight-hour work system is a natural habit, and there is nothing to discuss.
No matter whether it was Raif, the excavator who was immersed in the work, or Felix, who was in charge of the revival of the entire town, they couldn’t understand Sui Xiong’s habits.
Just like “old age security”, “sickness and work-related injury protection”, “holidays”, “working meals”, and “overtime subsidies”, this world originally had absolutely no such concepts. It was all because of Sui Xiong’s habits. It was only promoted in the Masked Void Amusement Park.
However, so far, it has only been promoted in Masked Void Playground.
Even if there are many good gods who admire these systems, they even want to try to emulate them, but in the end the only thing that can persist is the playground.
If other places want to follow suit, first of all, it is impossible to have as much capital investment as Masked Void Playground-there are really not many places that can make money every day; secondly, even if there is so much money to invest in It also lacks a social foundation that can accept these practices. It is important to know that every penny invested in welfare is the investor’s own profit. Businessmen would not want to give up such a large profit, and nobles would not want to give so many benefits to the citizens. Even for the churches of good gods, they may be able to do this internally, but it is still impossible to promote ~IndoMTL.com~.
Only cities built by Sui Xiong out of thin air can directly use such a set of rules. Apart from that, no other places will work!
Even in the town of Pyroxene, Sui Xiong did not directly apply the various guarantees and benefits in the playground, but decided to adopt a gradual approach to promote social progress little by little.
He remembers a famous saying, “Communism will not fall from the sky.” From another perspective, a system directly promoted by the power of gods will definitely not be the progress he wants.
It takes a little bit of progress. For the current pyroxene town, this level is almost enough.
Of course, this situation will not last forever. When the man-made mineral veins begin to produce, or the agriculture is getting better, he must further promote social progress, so that the living conditions of the people in Pyroxene Town will continue to improve, and the town will move toward his ideal direction.
Thousand-foot tall buildings rise on the ground, and now they are almost at the foundation stone laying stage. (To be continued.)
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