Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 781

As a young alchemist who had just graduated from college, Henry felt that he had always been lucky.

He was originally just the son of a small vendor in the lower town of Longton. Although his family ran a grocery store, it was barely enough to maintain a decent life.

After all, the Lower Town area is different from other places. If you want to open a store with peace of mind, protection fees and various tributes are indispensable.

A large portion of the family's monthly income is turned over to local gangs and various government departments, and the remaining money is only enough for the family to barely get by.

But even so, his family still found some money to send him to school instead of staying in the store as a clerk.

Although Henry felt that it was not a bad idea for him to be a waiter, after all, he was not opposed to inheriting the family business.

However, Henry's father hopes that he will not stay in the downtown area, but find a way to make a name for himself and not go back to that rotten place in the downtown area.

Henry listened to his father very much. Perhaps it was because children from poor families had to grow up early, Henry was also very sensible and knew that the opportunity to study was not easy to come by.

So in school, Henry was very diligent and studied hard, and completed elementary and middle school with excellent grades.

However, just as he was considering whether to go to college, the empire announced the end of the world.

The entire empire was in complete chaos, so the bigwigs naturally didn't have to worry about the end of the world. They could live well even if the world was destroyed.

But small people like Henry's family have to worry about their own livelihood and consider how to survive.

Fortunately, Henry was lucky. As an outstanding graduate of the school, he was admitted to the university and was therefore included in the list of imperial migration.

After all, college students are still elite talents and scarce resources for the empire of this era.

The family was able to come to the North, and Henry had the opportunity to successfully complete his studies.

Not only that, he also learned the fantasy alchemy that Perfectocte publicized and became an alchemist.

Although he was not a particularly powerful alchemist and had no achievements worth mentioning, as an alchemist he would have no trouble finding a job in the North.

This allowed Henry to successfully get a job that was enough to support the entire family, so that his father didn't have to work as hard as before.

Even Henry's sister was able to enter a school established in the North, gaining the opportunity to study which had been almost impossible before.

After all, before, their family could only afford to support one child to go to school, and it was impossible to support a second one. If his younger sister wanted to go to school, Henry would have to go to work early to earn money to supplement the family income.

Because of this experience, Henry's gratitude to the Northern Lord was deep in his heart. Like most ordinary people in the North, he was full of gratitude and respect for Perfectot.

Especially since he was an alchemist, he admired Perfecto, the most talented alchemist in the empire, even more.

So, when the Northern Territory officially recruited alchemists, Henry, under the persuasion of his father, became a technician in a mine under the name of the lord's mansion, responsible for equipment maintenance and inspection.

"Henry, there is a problem with machine No. 4. It seems that the mining head is stuck. Go and have a look!" The manager called Henry's name and asked him to check the equipment.

Henry responded, put on his protective suit and left the lounge.

As a technician, Henry does not have much work to do every day. When he comes to work, he will hand over the get off work to the technician on the previous shift, then inspect once to confirm that all the equipment is operating normally, and then he can go back to the lounge and wait for the end of the day. The rest is to inspect once more before leaving get off work, and then hand over the work to the technician who will take over.

If any temporary failure occurs, Henry needs to investigate it, but it is not a big deal, nor is it a very hard job.

All the equipment operates automatically, and there are maintenance puppets to perform daily maintenance. All he has to do is solve problems that the maintenance puppets cannot solve.

This problem doesn't occur very often, but it does happen once in a while, and Henry, as a technician, needs to take charge at this time.

"We can't delay production! We can't delay the lord's plan!" This is what the manager says every day.

Some colleagues disliked the manager's nagging every day, but Henry saw it as a fact.

Because their mine serves the lord, delaying production will affect the lord's plans.

This was unacceptable to Henry, who had received favors from his lord.

He could not repay the lord's kindness to their family, and the lord did not need his repayment, but Henry still could not tolerate affecting the lord's plans because of his own reasons.

Since the lord doesn't need his reward, he should do his job well, because it is the only thing he can do for the lord.

Henry arrived at the problematic machine No. 4 and went in through the maintenance passage.

This is a huge automatic mining machine. The mining head installed on the front of the machine, which is as big as a carriage, can easily dig through frozen soil and rock layers, crush and dig up the ore, and transport it to the hopper behind the machine.

Its mining speed is so fast that it is many times faster than traditional manual mining by miners.

After all, it is already very hard work for a person to dig out 200 kilograms of ore a day, but 200 kilograms is only the mining amount of one round of work of the mining head of this mining machine.

Henry quickly found the location of the fault. A piece of flying ore had stuck the transmission gear, causing a decrease in efficiency.

He temporarily shut down the entire No. 4 mining machine, then reversed the stuck transmission gear, cleared out the stuck ore, and checked the entire machine again to make sure there were no other problems. Then Henry restarted the No. 4 mining machine and put it back into operation.

"Manager, the fault of mining machine No. 4 has been eliminated." Henry reported the news of troubleshooting to the manager.

This is a necessary process and any problems that are resolved must be reported in a timely manner.

Similarly, if the problem cannot be solved, you can also provide timely feedback in this way to allow more professional technicians to solve the problem.

In addition to practicing alchemists like Henry, there are two alchemists with the title of technician in the mine.

As for higher-level alchemists, there are of course some, but they are not usually stationed in the mines, and they are responsible for more than just the work of the mine.

Several mines around them serve a steel mill, and more advanced alchemists are mainly stationed in that steel mill to ensure that the blast furnace operates normally.

This entire system can ensure that the blast furnace produces 5,000 tons of steel every month. It is already a very large steel production system that requires a large number of people to maintain.

(End of this chapter)