Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 405: What I Saw on the Second Floor Underground

Perfect changed his clothes and came to the second level of the Chernobog dungeon with only the old butler and Befa, who were also dressed differently, and two Iron Fire Knights.

This place is deeper than the first floor, so the lighting is worse.

Although Perfect took the lighting issue into consideration at the beginning of its design, no matter how many lighting and ventilation holes were reserved in the dungeon, the lighting would not be very good.

So when walking on the streets on this level, you can clearly feel the dimness underground and the relatively more turbid air.

Of course, these are only compared with the first floor of the dungeon. Although the conditions are somewhat different, there are still no problems with daily life.

On this floor, Perfect has already laid heating pipelines for every building. The heating pipes can drive the reserved generator coils in the building to generate electric current and light up the reserved lights.

This was a scene that would only occur during the Second Industrial Revolution, when humans entered the era of electrification.

But under Perfectoct's control and influence, the electric light would have come out many years earlier, and there would no longer be any inspirational stories about the so-called great inventor.

Originally, Perfect wanted to use the thermal energy of the energy tower to set up a large generator to power the entire underground city. In this way, he would only need to lay electrical wires for each building.

This will also save some trouble for future electrification renovations and avoid having to move the heating pipelines.

But after careful consideration and field research, Perfect had to give up this tempting idea.

There was certainly nothing wrong with her idea of ​​generating electricity, but considering that the energy tower was not essentially to provide daily life consumption for the dungeon, but to maintain the temperature, Perfectcot felt that if it only provided electricity and then used electrical appliances for heating, it would be a bit like taking off pants to fart.

If both the heating and power supply systems are installed, the pipeline trenches reserved on the underground city streets will undoubtedly be insufficient.

The electrical wires are fine, but those heating pipes take up a lot of space.

It is impossible for Perfect to lay the heating pipes on the road, so she would have to consider setting up guardrails to prevent people from coming into direct contact with the heating pipes and getting burned.

As for wrapping with asbestos or other protective materials? Perfect wanted to do that, but considering the current level of construction protection, using asbestos would be like killing people, so Perfect gave up the idea in the end and just wrapped a layer of insulation cloth invented by Weier around all the heating pipes to reduce heat loss from the pipes.

After all, although the pipelines are placed on the streets and the heat emitted can increase the temperature of the streets, considering that these pipelines are used to heat every building, it doesn't matter if the temperature on the streets is slightly lower.

This also meant that Perfecto only reserved one steam-driven generator coil for each household. The power was not very high, just enough to light a few light bulbs.

But this is more than enough for many people living in the underground city.

Compared with their previous life, the days now are already very happy, and no one would complain about the light not being bright enough.

Besides, if you feel that the electric lights are not bright enough, you can still light candles or kerosene lamps. Perfect did not prohibit even this, but only emphasized fire safety and did not want fires to occur in the underground city. Walking on the streets of the second underground floor, Perfect could notice that the people living here were quite different from those living on the first underground floor.

The most obvious things are clothes and spirit. Most of the people here don't have any bright and beautiful clothes, and they lack the relatively warmer and more lively spirit of the underground level.

This is easy to understand. After all, this is the second underground floor. Most of the people who can live here are ordinary people who cannot buy houses on the ground or civilians who don’t even have a place to live.

The only reason they were able to live here was because Perfect was kind enough to allow them to exchange their above-ground residence for an underground one.

As for their residence on the ground? That was also provided by the government of the Northern Territory after they arrived in the Northern Territory.

So here, there are relatively more people who are grateful to Perfect.

Although most of them are just lower-class people in Chernobog, living a life of near poverty, with at most three meals a day and no worries about food and clothing, this is already a very happy day for them.

You have to know that in the past, let alone having enough food and clothing, just finding a roof over their heads every winter was a luxury that some people had to consider.

In the past, most people living here did not have their own houses. They rented cheap apartments or low-rent housing, and some even had to rely on assistance from the workhouse to barely make ends meet.

These people work every day at an intensity that almost overdraws their bodies to earn a meager salary, and then try their best to feed their families.

But all this would be difficult to achieve in Langton.

Except for some relatively dangerous jobs or jobs that others are unwilling to do, the wages of low-level people like this in Langton are visibly low, and most of the time they cannot even fill their stomachs.

Families like this can only barely get themselves 80% full, and then have to bear the pressure of high-intensity work every day. You can imagine how difficult it is for them to eat well.

Even though they came to the North and Chenobog, Perfecto also promulgated a large number of laws and regulations to improve the treatment of ordinary workers as much as possible, but this is obviously not something that can be accomplished overnight, so these lower-class people in Chenobog are only slightly better off than Langton.

At least in Chernobyl, everything is in ruins. As long as you are willing to work hard, you can still earn enough money to feed your family.

In particular, the many preferential policies that Perfecto has adopted for workers have meant that as long as the workers in Chernobog work hard every day, they can earn enough wages to support their families.

Although life in the underground city does have some inconveniences compared to life on the ground, it is indeed a relatively happy life for these lower-class people.

However, Perfect did not simply believe everything she saw. While visiting the residents here, she was also secretly understanding the situation of the entire neighborhood to avoid the bad habit of some people only reporting good news to her and not bad news.

This visit actually brought up some issues for Perfect, which prompted her to examine her own designs from the bottom of her heart.

(End of this chapter)