musicians of old

Chapter 78 Radioactive Materials

The working environment in No. 15 workshop made Fanning feel that it was unexpectedly good.

Not too greasy, good ventilation, adequate lighting, no excessive noise, smoke, body or paint odors.

Fan Ning, who moved bricks in a chemical factory in his previous life, had a disgusting stereotype of this kind of workshop, but at this time he couldn't find any proof.

It is tall, wide and big, full of mechanical complexity and violence.

Scanning several different production interval lines at a glance, workers in light gray overalls mostly work in a sitting position, and even avoid some jobs that bring heavy physical exertion.

Except that the factory building is too large and looks empty and high, it is a bit like a classroom or conference room with rows of tables and chairs.

Seeing a group of people coming in, the supervisor urged the workers to straighten up and speed up the movements in their hands.

Silver bright steel bars, lead brass bars, nickel-nickel-nickel copper bars, glass and rubber... Raw materials are transported into the site by a gear conveyor belt, inspected for surface condition and dimensional accuracy in turn, and processed on a steam lathe.

"What's that?" Fanning pointed to several rooms in the upper part of the factory building.

They need to climb up the steel plate stairs at the corner of the factory building, and then walk along the suspended steel plate path on the edge of the wall to reach them.

"The offices and lounges of the technical team leaders of the workshop." Julius replied, "The two innermost and larger ones are the place of Mr. Elov, the chief engineer of the workshop, who is responsible for the regulation of some production parameters. , and sit at the main console."

Fan Ning nodded, and led the crowd through the production process areas such as the gear milling machine line, balance wheel machine line, and splint machine line in a zigzag-like trajectory.

He stopped in the drawing area of ​​the dial, and looked at a girl with a dark yellow complexion and a thin figure, except for her eyes that were a little bit aura.

The girl wears a monocle and holds a smearing tool similar to a brush from her previous life. First, she dips in the silver-black paint, gently holds the tip of the brush with her mouth, and then carefully picks up the gear strip and sends it to the dial in front of her. Paint the pointer on it and engrave the lettering.

The owner of the factory, Stanley, saw Fan Ning stopped to watch, and he took the initiative to introduce: "We are rushing to produce the latest commemorative watch of the 913th year of the Golden Langia New Calendar. Pre-sales have begun in July this year. Their largest The selling point is that the luminous hands and scales can be read at night without any lighting..."

Fanning listened to Stanley's narration, squinted his eyes, and stared intently at the girl's movements.

In fact, before he came here, he already had seven or eight guesses in his heart!

During the investigation in the labor residential area, DuPont described the symptoms of the workers before death, and the glowing corpses... What made him, a man of science and engineering, think of the first thing is not a mysterious factor, but——

Radioactive material!
Later, when he was walking, he recalled the timeline on the blue star in his previous life.

Two landmark radioactive elements, polonium and radium, were discovered and purified around 1900—the end of the Victorian era, which is similar to the background of this world.

However, the technology tree of this world is a little bit off, and it is too hard on the development of the steam industry.

Fan Ning has been to the school library several times in the past few days, and also wandered around the chemistry subject collection area where he used to make a living in his previous life.

He found that the achievements of modern chemistry in the previous life are basically illuminated here, but as long as it is the theory leading to the modern direction, there is no germination here, such as physical chemistry and electrochemistry in the modern sense, such as structural chemistry, Chromatography, and also, nuclear chemistry.

After all, this is still an old industrial world where mysticism prevails.

Fan Ning activated his spiritual sense, imagining that three beams of light converged on his chest, causing the cold pearl-colored sphere to expand slowly, enveloping everything in his field of vision.

He "sees" the paint box, the dial, the tip of the brush, and the girl's lips, all showing a black and white striped light and shadow color. Iterating.

When Joan arranged the backtracking mystery, one of the items placed in the altar was a penny copper coin wrapped in dark material, which was similar to this kind of light and shadow.

The phase of "Yan"?

Could it be that the rays produced by the fission of radioactive substances exist as a kind of "derived" phase fluctuation in this mysterious world?
The heterogeneous light and shadow of the phase is not unique to extraordinary items, ordinary objects are also faintly visible, while living things, stars, and a small amount of minerals are relatively stronger.

The colors that Fanning saw spiritually were not much richer than ordinary dead objects.

But Fanning just felt an extremely dangerous atmosphere, which was a strong warning from the depths of spirituality!

Dupont and Monroe didn't seem to feel any difference, which made Fanning uncertain whether his sense of danger was due to studying "candles" or because he knew the existence of radioactive substances.

Although Fan Ning can't know what kind of radioactive substance it is, he judges that the risk is acceptable for the three of them to stay a few meters away for a while, but of course, it is not suitable to stay for a long time.

Because the female worker used such an extreme method of lip contact, it took about three months before she died. The risk should be between Class III and Class IV radioactive sources—after all, with the current technology in this world, it should not be refined. Produce high-purity radioactive element salts.

Watched by her superiors, the police, and several gentlemen, the thin labor girl slowed down her hands, smiled unconfidently and defensively, and tried to stand up at the same time.

"Girl, good evening." Fanning gave her a gentle look, and motioned her to sit still, "Excuse me, how long have you been in this job?"

"It's been a month a few days ago, sir." The girl smiled restrainedly.

"Is there anything uncomfortable recently?"

The girl thought for a while and replied: "The joints of the hands and feet are a little painful, and it happens every year when it's cold."

"How's the working hours here? Do you feel tired?" Fanning continued to ask.

Julius, who was standing aside, explained at this time: "The company implements the imperial standard 12-hour work system, divided into two shifts at 6 o'clock and 18 o'clock. However, this workshop is special. Before that, it only had 8 o'clock to 20 o'clock. One shift, because the new model has not been launched soon, and the production capacity has not yet been fully filled..."

"I'm asking about her." Fanning interrupted.

Julius smiled mischievously.

"Girl, you go ahead and tell the truth, it doesn't matter." Fan Ning smiled gently.

"It's the same as what the boss said, sir." The labor girl looked at Fan Ning a few more times, "However, the production tasks have increased recently, and we work overtime until twelve o'clock every day..."

She lowered her head and added softly: "Tired is naturally more tiring, but the company also paid extra salary corresponding to the extra working hours."

Julius looked at Fanning and smiled calmly.

It doesn't look like it's hiding something...Fan Ning's spiritual sense has always been shrouded in these two people.

"Look at the production record ledger." Fan Ning said.

"...Huh?" Julius was a little taken aback, probably because she didn't expect Fanning to pick up these details.

As a high-level executive, she would not pay too much attention to these things, and secondly, she could not understand what Fanning was thinking.

"Just to show Mr. Fanning." Stanley, the owner of the factory, said at this time, "The production line leader will have detailed records, so ask them to bring the ledger."

A minute later, Fanning began to look through the ledger in his hand.

The watch workshop started production and debugging in July this year, and entered a stable "eight to eight" production rhythm in mid-August. From the second half of November, the production time changed from 7:8 am to 11:8 pm.

It matches what the labor girl and Julius said.

"Is there any problem? Mr. Fanning." Julius asked.

"Why was the shutdown time the day before yesterday nearly two hours earlier?" Fan Ning closed the ledger and asked.

Stanley, the factory owner, frowned and rolled his eyes. Even Dupont and Monroe, who were standing beside him, were stunned. They seemed to think that the question was too tricky and weird, and they couldn't figure out what Fanning was up to.

Julius seemed to want to explain, but was interrupted by Fanning: "Let him speak."

Everyone looked at the production line leader who was wearing neat gray overalls and white gloves with a dazed expression.

"Sir, we did let everyone get off work early that day." The team leader swallowed and replied, "It was a temporary arrangement by the chief engineer, Mr. Elov. Without his coordination, we couldn't guarantee the precise operation of the production line as a whole."

Fanning laughed: "DuPont, Monroe, let's go visit Mr. Elov."

The two immediately heard the meaning behind his words.

If it is said that Fanning can doubt it with only [-]% certainty based on the information at the party, the pointing time of the stopped clock, and today's investigation results...

Then, coupled with the revelation of the clock being confirmed at this moment, he is almost 100% sure——

Mr. Erov, the chief engineer of the watch workshop, is the "experience officer" in the underground party!
"Click, click..."

Under the eyes of everyone, Fan Ning smiled lightly, and then dialed down the hammer of the revolver!
　Thank you for the monthly pass of the crowd, DEVILANGEL, Arthur, and HuaY~Thank you for the reward~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)