CHAPTER IX

Reif didn't go home to rest, he was alone at home, and there was no need to go back to the house. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The duty room next to the construction site has tables and chairs and a fire kang, and the most important thing is a hot stove, the old man on duty is very talkative, as long as you bring your own food, he doesn't mind helping you get a little when you prepare lunch for yourself, and hot soup, eat a warm meal, and then walk around to bask in the sun, or chat with a few workers, and pass it at noon.

The food that Raifh brought was golden rattan powder, and the other workers were similar. The old man on duty was originally helping them make baked dough, but later the mayor said that he needed some oil for lunch during an inspection, so he asked someone to bring some oil. With oil, you can make pancakes, which taste much better and are much more comfortable on your stomach.

In terms of soup, the old man on duty was quite particular about his soup, he stewed the soup with rye flakes and small green vegetables, and from time to time there was a little minced meat in the soup - the rye flakes were his own, the little green vegetables were given by a student of the magic school who studied "winter planting", and the minced meat came from a gift from Master Qiao Xiu.

Unlike the big guys that Reif had seen in the past, the new big guys in Pyroxene Town were very kind, and the key was that they were willing to share the benefits with the poor, not just be polite.

The young magician who would send some green vegetables every day or two once said that the Void Kamen Okami taught them that if you really care about others, then you should show it with actual actions, and just words that stay on the lips are tantamount to deception. The young man was convinced of the great god's teachings, so he planted two instead of planting only one experimental field.

"Of course, two fields also have the benefits of two fields. Steve, who had just learned elementary magic, wrote in his report, "Comparing two fields against each other can improve the efficiency of experiments." ”

As for planting two fields, it will be more difficult and so on, he was born in a farmer's family. I don't take this hard work to heart.

For this student, Ferex is also quite satisfied. Although Steve is a little dumber than the other classmates, and his learning and comprehension of magic is a little slower, he has a calm and diligent personality, a rigorous style, and redoubles his efforts. It is enough to make up for the congenital deficiencies.

If you follow the route of a traditional mage, then a person with slightly lower innate intelligence like Steve is destined to not be able to go far. However, the "Magic Gunner" is an alternative mage that is extremely biased towards combat, and it pays more attention to agile skills and careful thinking, and is less demanding on intelligence. Even if Steve can't be a good magic gunner, at least he can be a good battle mage.

In fact, if Ferex can break through the limits and step into the realm of legends, it will not be difficult to promote a slightly less talented but diligent and attentive student. "Talent" is an insurmountable barrier for mortals. For the extraordinary, at least the gap between the "mediocre" and the "talented" is completely remedied. It's just that the step between "talent" and "genius" is unthinkable.

For the vast majority of trades, "talent" is completely sufficient.

It's like the diggers, and Reif is the most talented of the diggers. Even in thick protective clothing, he is able to adjust his body well, putting less burden on his body under the same workload and working more in the same amount of time.

The pickaxe they use is an enchantment tool. It's stronger than a regular pickaxe, and it's also able to record the number of swings and the force – that's the key to calculating pay.

Construction has started until now. More than a month has passed, and when the wages are settled, Reif is nearly 20% more than the average digger. This means that he works the same eight hours a day, but his workload is equivalent to more than nine and a half hours for someone else.

It's a pity that he will only bury his head in hard work, and he is not good at interpersonal communication and management, otherwise. Ferex wants to promote him to be the captain of the excavators!

"What a pity!" At a meeting, she specifically mentioned this excellent excavator, "obviously a very good talent, but unfortunately he is clumsy and not good at management." ”

"There are always some people. In addition to working hard and doing their own work better than others, they are not good at anything else. Sui Xiong said with a smile, "At the end of the year, you can give him a 'model worker' medal." ”

"Model worker?" Ferex looked at it for a while, and nodded.

People are not pigs and dogs, and they are not just full of food and drink. As the mayor of the town, she not only wants to increase the income of the residents and improve the living conditions of the residents, but also to make the residents see hope and have the motivation to move forward and make their lives more glorious.

It's a great idea to award medals to outstanding workers like Raif!

This happens all the time in the military, and some outstanding soldiers are awarded medals even if they are not able to make meritorious deeds that are sufficient for promotion. Of course, the gold content of this kind of medal is much lower than that of meritorious service medals, but a medal is a medal, and in any case, it is also a rare honor.

And the soldiers who can get this kind of medal will be very respected after they are discharged from the army, because it means that they may not be good enough, or they may lack opportunities, but they must be very good and reliable people.

Such people may not be qualified for key positions, but at the grassroots level, at the local level, they must be respected and loved pillars, and to exaggerate, they are the load-bearing pillars that support the edifice of "society".

Ferex and Josius sent vegetables and grease to the diggers, mainly to gather the hearts of these strong laborers as soon as possible. Sui Xiong told them that money is secondary, and people's hearts are the key to doing things. So they all thought of some ways to win people's hearts as much as possible.

For example, right now, Qiao Xian is patrolling the forests near the town of Pyroxene with his men. They used the magic compass developed by Satan, the leader of the mage group, to find the gathering point of those negative energy, and took advantage of the daylight to nail the special purification pillar into the ground, and then urged the power of the magic pillar, which could not only temporarily destroy this gathering point, but also establish a temporary purification node in turn.

This is done to reduce the possibility of skeletons appearing around the town at night, and thus to avoid the annual "Extreme Night" skull tide.

"Polar Night" is an astrological concept, roughly every year between mid-autumn and late autumn, there will be a night with extremely active negative energy. Such a night is called the night of the Pole.

In the Ash Forest, every year on the night of the Pole of New Year, an endless army of skeletons sprung up to launch a frenzied attack on all those who settled here. Many pioneer villages were destroyed in the night of Jishuo, and there was no one alive in the whole village. Even if a town with relatively strong defense such as the Four Towns hadn't been built against the edge of the ash forest, it would probably not be able to stop the terrifying tide of skeletons in the Extreme Night.

When Sui Xiong had just come ashore, he had witnessed the tide of skeletons on the night of Jishuo. For ordinary people, it is really a terrible catastrophe.

Not only that, but every month, there are often small waves of skeletons on the New Nights of each month. This kind of skull tide is naturally nothing to the town, but it is still very threatening to the village.

Qiao Xiu and the others destroyed the negative energy gathering points around the town one by one and established purification nodes, with the ultimate goal of building an extremely large-scale purification array.

This is the subject of Satan's current research, he has chosen the direction of "purification" as the key to breaking through the legendary realm, according to his calculations, if this extremely large purification circle can be successful, it means that his thinking and calculation are correct, then if you want to step into the legendary realm, you only need enough magic power.

For a scholar-type magician like him, magic is not a problem, it is nothing more than a large ritual. The key is to be sure that you are on the right track in order to avoid ritual failure.

If his research succeeds, it won't be long before the Mask of the Void Church will have a true legendary mage, a wise man who can use his intellect to help this ship navigate through the ages.

The people of Pyroxene Town didn't know about these things, but they knew at least one thing - what Qiao Xiu did was very good for Pyroxene Town.

Great benefits!

This made the townspeople feel a little more fond of the terrifying red-haired man with a spark-spewing nose, and they also had a little more trust in Mayor Ferex, who ruled the town, and the Void Masquerade Church behind the mayor.

Compared with the rulers who only built the city walls in the past, and never cared about the lives of people outside the walls, this new group of rulers obviously saw farther, and were more humane and more considerate of everyone.

Raise wages, stabilize prices, repair houses, rebuild farmland, open up mineral veins, and clean up the environment...... Mayor Ferex and her companions and subordinates are really doing something good for the benefit of Pyroxe.

Some of these things they have done have achieved good results immediately, some of them have no effect for the time being but are good in the long run, and some of them have long wanted but have never been able to get them.

With all these measures taken together, the residents of Pyrox Town naturally chose to trust and support Mayor Ferex. Whenever she appeared in the town, the residents would take the initiative to salute her. At this time, there was no fear in their hearts, but admiration.

Not only that, but the Church of the Void Mask's influence in Pyroxene Town is also growing rapidly. Many of the inhabitants who had no clear faith in the past were willing to go to the priests of the Church of the Void Mask, and pray with them to praise the strange-looking great deity.

When the special mushrooms in the first tunnel were growing vigorously and the soil around it began to purify, the residents of Pyroxene Town finally couldn't hold back and cheered, laughing so much that tears flowed out of their eyes when they saw the ground that had faded its gray and black color and re-revealed the color of the soil itself.

"You're such an amazing person...... Uh, great God. In the air, the goddess of wealth, who had covered her figure with her divine power, said to Sui Xiong, "I have never seen a god who can win people's hearts in this way. In my opinion, you don't seem like a god, but like a virtuous monarch who never really existed in human legends. (To be continued.) )