Be the savior from Frostpunk

Chapter 276 The Power of Machinery

These wandering merchants stopped communicating. They realized that it was useless to talk here, and those unlucky people were still trapped underground, so they called for friends, and even those seemingly genteel bards took off their robes and tied their hands. He rolled up his cuffs and headed towards the iron mine.

Back at the residence, Thorne leaned against the corner and closed his eyes, saying that he didn't need to rest.

Li Jianghao walked out of the window and looked into the distance, the location of the so-called collapsed iron mine.

"Do you want to send industrial robots to deal with it? According to the poor industrial capabilities of this world, they have to move all the gravel, open a passage, and rescue the people inside, and it will take more than ten days."

Thorne can hear the conversations of the people in the hall from upstairs, and naturally, what Li Jianghao is thinking now,

"Save people, lives are important."

"If you do this, the local secular state will get involved. As the businessmen say, it is just some black industry of the powerful. Just pretend it is a natural disaster and ignore it. If you have to get to the bottom of it, then what? It’s not so easy to tell the difference.”

"When will you care about this? As a follower of the Emperor, don't you want to punish rape and eliminate evil?"

"It's nothing, I'm just curious how you would choose to do it. If you are willing to flatten the backward system in one go and temporarily bring a new distribution system to people. Then what will the world develop into after you leave? You know, if you succeed, people in this world will not be infested by monsters, and there will be no foreign enemies. The basic moral quality of people in this world is already very good. If there are no foreign invasions, more Homo sapiens will develop The ugliness of the world will be revealed one by one."

The muddy ground has caused a huge hindrance to people's movements, and the internal water seepage caused by the collapse of the mine is also a potential danger for the people who are still alive inside.

Thorne is right. At least for now, the low-productivity Monster Hunting world is generally peaceful, and the basic moral level is the highest among all the worlds he has ever experienced.

People's interest was quickly extinguished a lot. I am afraid that not many people can be saved.

There was a crisp inlay sound, followed by a slight vibration, as if some metal was fixing the boulder.

Even the traveling merchants who came with enthusiasm subconsciously told themselves that they could not save many people.

And what's even more frightening is that it's starting to rain now.

The few people on the inside are powerless.

Finally, fix the searchlight that was still a little bit precarious just now.

Small gravel can be cleaned quickly, but those big ones require the joint efforts of multiple people, and even some equipment to move them.

As soon as the merchants sat down firmly, they felt a huge vibration from the ground. They all stood up and went to the window. They could only vaguely see a huge pillar shining with the flames of a furnace, which seemed to be embedded in a large moving object. on, gradually approaching the rescue site.

The people who arrived began to move the stones, and built a temporary lighting bracket and awning, so as not to hurt the hands of those who came to the rescue.

The leader of the rescue team patiently persuaded them and led the traveling merchants further away. They built a rest camp further away and placed these traveling merchants here.

The traveling merchants were slow to recover from the almost earth-changing scene in front of them, subconsciously nodded, and were led to a distant place.

It can be seen from the non-local traveling merchants rushing to save people, even if doing so will directly discover the real reserves and dangers of iron ore, they are hated by that powerful man.

"That is the choice of people in this world."

Only at this time did people see clearly that the soldiers from New London, who called themselves the Sons of Thunder, were raising their right arms one by one, and the weapons on them were replaced with a metal bracket. pile.

They can fix a huge boulder by themselves and lift it up. The power armor valves on their bodies discharge high-temperature steam to dissipate the moisture brought by the heavy rain.

"What the two of them mentioned just now, if it can be sold, I will pay a higher price than all of them! I can even get the blood of the ancient dragon!"

The captain of the rescue team coughed a few times to moisten his throat, and then came to the traveling merchants with the temporary rescue regulations issued by New London, and said loudly:
"According to the temporary industrial rescue regulations, unrelated persons should evacuate the work area immediately to avoid secondary injuries. We will do our best to rescue survivors and protect people's lives and property."

Before ordinary people could be surprised, they saw more ordinary soldiers from New London arriving behind them, carrying various building components and building a huge room around the rescue area, completely avoiding the impact of heavy rain.

"May I ask if these building components held by your soldiers can be sold? What about the metal bracket arms that those armors just used? I believe these things will be very popular in industrial places in other countries and regions!"

"That, that, can we watch from nearby? Just watching, it will definitely not affect your work!"

Li Jianghao was not hesitant because of the possible shady scenes behind the collapse of a small iron mine, but he was really thinking about how if he brought the next level of industrial productivity into the world, those subsequent changes would be for ordinary people In other words, would it be more terrifying than living in the world of monsters now.

Before people had time to see it clearly, a huge white light spread far beyond the dim incandescent light of an oil lamp. It was even so dazzling that people couldn't help but cover their eyes.

"I'm sorry, please go to the consulate to discuss these matters with the relevant departments in detail. You have to leave here. This area will be used as a fixed place for a large industrial equipment. It is best not to stand around."

The traveling merchants seem to no longer worry about the people trapped underground. With such a large rescue team, what else can they worry about?
They began to use their keen businessman instincts and tried to negotiate business.

"Andrew, inform Huck to dispatch a reserved industrial robot and two engineers."

Click!

When normal monsters do not riot, domesticated herbivorous dragons or other docile monsters can be used as labor force. Now it is too inefficient to rely on human rescue in heavy rain.

Li Jianghao opened the stable channel casually and pointed in the direction of the iron mine.

On the east side of the southern coast, the open-pit iron mining area is still intact, but the mine tunnel leading to the underground has collapsed. From the perspective of the external terrain, even the internal passages may be affected. Only by manpower cleaning can only be rescued. The hand closest to the exit of the mine.

The back end of the room that was built just now began to unfold, and the sound of gears moving on the track that was laid at an unknown time came here all the way.

Later, as the large object approached the light, people could see its whole picture.

The six-legged steel creature slowly squatted on the fixed base.

The giant mechanical arm below moved forward and began to clean up the collapse of the mine with terrifying efficiency.

(End of this chapter)