Reif, carrying his pickaxe, walked wearily up the sloping tunnel, feeling like he was going to die. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

As a skilled miner, four hours of digging – and just digging – was not much physical work for him. But the trouble was his overalls, a strange set of heavy clothes that wrapped him tightly from head to toe, even his eyes, nose and mouth. It's nothing more than a special crystal inlay in the eyes, and a special ventilation mask like a pig's nose in front of the nose and mouth, which is very cumbersome and stuffy anyway.

It's sweltering, he never thought he could feel the heat in the shade of such a house, and the ice and snow all day long!

"It's still winter!" he couldn't help but sigh, "Although the mud was frozen and it was hard to dig at that time, at least I didn't have to wear this strange suit!"

Of course, this is just a sigh, not a complaint. Because Mayor Ferex, who was in charge of the excavation work, had repeatedly emphasized that there were dangerous negative energies underground, and only by wearing this suit could you avoid being harmed by them.

"Negative energy is not a knife or a poisonous snake, it will not hurt you so immediately, it will only slowly hurt your body. He still remembers what the beautiful mayor said, "If you don't wear this kind of protective clothing, you will slowly feel sluggish, easily tired, and eat less, and then you will be easy to get sick, and it will not be easy to recover after being sick...... You're almost going to die at this point, but if you're lucky enough to get through it. Then what awaits you is to be deeply eroded by negative energy, turning into something like a zombie or a skeleton or something......"

Something like that. Ferex repeated it to them at least twenty times, and she even demanded that every digger be able to repeat such a passage—not to be precise. But the general meaning cannot be mistaken.

She even brought in a group of rats and demonstrated the results of negative energy erosion to the diggers. Watching those originally healthy mice quickly wilt and weaken in the light gray thin negative energy, and the last one to fall, while one of the lucky ones who survived became stiff and dull, and their eyes glowed with a green light like ghost fire, all the diggers were frightened.

Therefore, even if they are uncomfortable and easily tired when working in this suit, they will never dare to take it off.

"Your Majesty. The equipment you've given them is extravagant!" Ferex watched from afar as the diggers slowly walked out of the tunnel, stayed in the purification circle for three minutes according to the regulations, and then impatiently took off their protective suits, and couldn't help but shake their heads and said, "These guys probably never dreamed of how expensive that suit on them was......

Sui Xiong smiled: "People-oriented." For the town of Pyroxene to be revived, it needs a lot of manpower, especially skilled workers. And even if the town is revived, it will be to serve the people. In my opinion, these diggers are much more precious than the magic rubber suits. ”

"Protective clothing for 500 gold coins each...... This money recruits mercenaries in words. At least enough to find ten strong men who can swords and bows and arrows, and dare to fight and kill. ”

"With you and Qiao Xiu in Huishi Town, the force is enough. It's a good way to save money and invest it in more valuable places. Sui Xiong smiled and said, "What's more, these protective suits are not wasted." They are durable and can last for a long, long time. With their help, it is also possible for ordinary people to do it when harvesting special mushrooms in the future. It's much safer and more efficient. ”

Ferex pouted. I don't agree with Sui Xiong's statement. But she did not object to Sui Xiong's approach, on the contrary. She loved the love of human life — with the exception of a handful of perverts, there was hardly anyone who didn't like a generous and benevolent leader.

What's more, Sui Xiong is no longer as simple as "generosity and benevolence", 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 much higher than that on the ground. Although this level of negative energy does not cause immediate harm, and the purification circle after the work is completed can eliminate most of the effects, it will still accumulate over time to the extent that it can cause serious illness or even death.

So he immediately informed Ferex and asked her to start preparing better protection for the diggers.

Ferex didn't have a problem with this, she had planned to buy a "magic cloth" woven with magical plant fibers to make a protective suit, and add the effect of the entry-level spell "Energy Resistance" to the magic cloth to protect it. However, Sui Xiong vetoed this suggestion and asked her to purchase magic tape that could build in the effect of the primary spell "Energy Protection", and make a fully covered heavy protective suit.

This makes the investment greatly increased, based on the current calculation of thirty excavators, thirty sets of magic cloth overalls with the "energy resistance" spell only need less than 1,500 gold coins, and if you go through some internal channels, it can even be reduced to 1,200 gold coins, but 30 sets of magic cloth heavy protective clothing with the "energy protection" spell will cost 500 gold coins each, adding up to 15,000 gold coins - this is still a friendly price!

This price frightened Ferex, as a high-level mage who was accumulating knowledge and power to step into the legendary realm, more than a thousand gold coins was not a large amount for her, it was nothing more than a slight pain in her flesh, but fifteen thousand gold coins...... Is it 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, it's too extravagant!

But since Sui Xiong has already made a decision, she can only implement it. Fortunately, Sui Xiong didn't let her break the bank too much after all, and only let her buy raw materials, and the production of protective clothing and enchantments were all handled by His Majesty the Jellyfish God himself, and the cost was finally reduced to two hundred gold coins per protective suit, with a total price of six thousand gold coins.

Looking at this protective suit, Ferex was worried that "what if others learn our technology" is no longer necessary. I believe that there is absolutely no businessman in the world who will get nervous and invest such a huge amount of money just to do some business with the essence of negative energy.

Energy Essence is just a low-end magic material, and it's not worth spending so much money!

"In fact, if you do the math, this investment is still cost-effective. Sui Xiong said with a smile, "These protective clothing can be used for at least twenty years, and the magic cloth overalls can be used for three years at most." In terms of long-term investment, the price difference in protective clothing is actually about half. Wouldn't it be cost-effective to exchange this difference for a group of skilled and reliable workers?"

"And you think, with this kind of strict protection, the workers can stay healthy all the time. They will become a strong support for the revival of the town and even the construction of a new society. That's something you can't get in exchange for!"

Ferex smiled bitterly and acquiesced.

Outside the tunnel, Reif had been purified and had taken off his heavy protective suit. He rinsed the suit under the pipe that flowed out the clean water according to the regulations, and hung it in the designated place.

After doing this, he came to the "rest stop", took a cup of tea made from roasted rye from a large wooden barrel that was supposed to contain ale wine, and took a deep sip.

The lukewarm tea gurgled down his throat and into his stomach, calming his originally irritable mood a lot, and his tiredness was unconsciously eliminated.

In fact, he was not very tired in the first place, but it was just because of the stuffiness, which gave him the illusion that "I am tired". Now that he was back in a more comfortable environment, he certainly recovered as the illusion vanished.

Supposedly, he could have continued to work for a while. But the morning's work is over, and the suit needs time to drain, so he can go home safely, have lunch, and take a break to prepare for the afternoon's work.

An excavator only needs to work eight hours a day, which is also the rule set by Sui Xiong. Of course, there are a whole lot of reasons to explain this, but in the end, the reason is "habit".

For Sui Xiong, whether it is dangerous work that needs proper protection or an eight-hour working day, it is a natural habit and there is nothing to discuss.

Whether it was Laifu, the digger who knew that he was immersed in the work, or Ferrex, who was in charge of the revival of the entire town, they could not understand Sui Xiong's habits.

Just like "old-age security", "sickness and work-related injury insurance", "holidays", "working meals", "overtime allowance" and other things, this world originally had absolutely no such concepts, and it was all because of Sui Xiong's habits that they were promoted in the Void Mask Playground.

However, so far, it has only been promoted in the Void Mask Playground.

Even though many good gods praised these systems, and even tried to emulate them, in the end, only playgrounds were able to persevere.

Other places want to follow suit, firstly, it is impossible to have as much money as the Void Mask Playground - there are not many places that can make money every day, and secondly, even if there is really so much money to invest, there is still a lack of a social basis that can accept these practices, knowing that every penny invested in welfare is the profit of the investor himself. The merchants would not be willing to give up such a large profit, and the nobles would not be willing to give so many benefits to the lords. Even the churches of good deities may be able to do this internally, but if they want to promote it, it is still impossible.

Only the city built by Sui Xiong out of thin air can directly use such a set of rules. Other than that, nowhere else, neither!

Even in Huishi Town, Sui Xiong did not directly apply the various guarantees and benefits in the playground, but decided to take a step-by-step approach to promote social progress little by little.

He remembered the famous saying that "communism does not fall from the sky", and in other words, a system that relies on the power of the gods to promote directly will definitely not be the progress he wants.

Progress will come little by little, and for the current Pyroxene Town, this level is almost enough.

Of course, this is not going to last forever. When the man-made ore veins begin to produce output, or when agriculture improves, he will definitely further promote social progress, so that the living conditions of the people in Pyroxene Town will continue to improve, and the town will move in the direction he wants.

Thousands of high-rise buildings have risen from the ground, and now it is almost only the foundation laying stage. (To be continued.) )