40,000 Years of Cultivation

Without saying a word, Li Yao poured psychic energy into his eyes, turning his eyesight to the limit, carefully observing the workers in the big iron factory.

From such a distance, the workers moving between the blast furnace, pipes and various steel structures are like black and brown ants.

Most of them wrapped themselves tightly in gray cloaks, wearing simple protective masks and eye masks, but the exposed skin was smeared into grayish brown and dark black by dust and pollutants, and they also wore protective earplugs. For this reason, the action seemed dull and slow, really like a mechanical crawler with an unwound clockwork, or a group of lifeless corpses.

Li Yao understood why Wuyoujiao was able to expand wildly around the big iron factory without being discovered. No matter whether these workers practiced "Wangyou Jue" or not, they don't seem to have any emotions and desires, just like a metal fatigued machine!

Most of the workers work hard in the depths of the mine or inside the factory, so it is naturally impossible to observe them directly, but Li Yao saw rows of workers crawling out of the mine, dragging trucks of raw ore from the depths of the mine.

Even this kind of fairly simple work that can be completely replaced by psionic puppets is all undertaken by the primitive miners. Where Li Yao can see, the only psionic puppets that can be seen are the overseers scattered all over the commanding heights— -The entire big iron factory is actually mechanically supervising human work, maintaining a cold and iron-blooded order!

Li Yao even saw that a cross-shaped execution platform was erected in a corner of the factory area. A primitive miner was tied to it by a big five flowers, but there was a combat puppet holding an electromagnetic whip, facing the miner's scarred back. Take it away.

"Flap! Pop! Pop! Pop!"

Sparks flew everywhere, and flesh and blood flew everywhere, and the primitive miner was so painful that he screamed sternly.

Hundreds of primitive miners were forced to watch by the battle puppets. Their mouths and noses were all covered by protective masks, and they couldn't see their expressions clearly, but judging from the twitching of their shoulders, they were obviously in extreme fear and extreme anger.

And looking at the blood-stained look around the execution platform, it was obvious that people were sent here every three to five to kill chickens and monkeys.

Li Yao clenched his fists and murmured, "What crime did this worker commit to be beaten like this?"

Long Yangjun said: "He was given a dozen lashes. He is always a serious crime such as damaging magic weapons, rather than a petty crime such as taking too long to go to the toilet, right?"

Li Yao was taken aback: "What, too long to go to the bathroom is considered a'little sin', is it a whip?"

"Of course, the immortal cultivator feeds so many workers and pays monthly wages, not to support you to come to the bathroom all day long."

Long Yangjun said, "According to different genders and ages, there are also different times for going to the toilet. If you do not return to your work station after five minutes of overtime, it is a violation of the rules of the big iron factory and at least a whip is required."

Li Yao was stunned for a long time, then carefully observed the commanding heights and firepower points around the entire large iron factory, and continued to ask: "I think the battle puppets set up by the cultivators here are indeed quite advanced. It’s much better, but why don’t you see too many civilian puppets? A lot of simple and repetitive crude work can obviously be done with civilian puppets, right?

"It is strange to say that the overall technological strength of the empire is at least several decades ahead of the federation. This is true in terms of military magic weapons and combat puppets. However, in terms of civilian magic weapons, civilian puppets, and the unifying spirit net, it seems that there is no advantage, even in In some areas, the Federation is even better!"

"Don't you understand, because there is no demand for this!"

Long Yangjun whispered, "Your Star Federation pays more attention to safeguarding the rights and interests of ordinary people, which leads to extremely high costs for factories to hire ordinary people. If you want to reduce costs, you can only invest a lot of new technologies and new resources into industrial automation. As well as the field of research and development of civilian puppets, civilian puppets are used to replace the original workers. There will be a demand for this before there will be a technological explosion.

"But the empire has absolutely no worries in this regard. It can unscrupulously reduce the cost of the original people to the limit, without considering any benefits, rights, or occupational diseases.

"At the same time, the empire can also use various methods with extremely strong side effects, such as activating demonizing genes or overloading the use of stimulants, to improve the work efficiency of the original people and expand the cost advantage.

"Under this circumstance, the empire's civilian puppet industry will of course not develop. All new technologies and new resources have been invested in how to squeeze the primitive people out!

"The principle of the Great Unification of the Lingnet is the same. In fact, no matter the four major families, the local warlords and landlords, and even the underground emperors like Li Minghui, they don't like to connect the entire empire together, because the Lingnet means Information, and information is inherently equal, dangerous, and uncontrollable.

"They prefer to close themselves up, close the door to dominate the king, or only let in information that is beneficial to them, and brainwash the primitive people-in this case, it is strange that the Great Unification Spirit Web can develop. Too!

"So, it’s not that the empire’s technology is inferior to the federation, but that they are developing in different directions. Don’t underestimate the combat puppets in front of you. I once stole one and came back to dismantle it. It’s indeed very sophisticated and complicated. Very advanced!"

"I know."

Li Yao watched as a small group of battle puppets had executed the whipping on the primitive miners, and white-painted medical puppets stepped forward to heal and apply medicine to the victim, and a group of battle puppets escorted the other miners back to the mine. The whole process was in order, and there was no mess, and there was not even half of the immortal cultivator nearby.

This means that the control brains of these battle puppets are advanced to a certain extent, and they can independently make quite complex logical judgments and simulate various situations.

With such a powerful control brain, their combat effectiveness will naturally not be weak.

However, Li Yao still didn't understand, "Why don't you see any immortal cultivators around the big iron factory? They are all fighting puppets maintaining order. Isn't Li Minghui here?"

"You have also seen that the environment here is too bad, naturally the immortal cultivators will not stay here all day."

Long Yang Jundao, "Generally speaking, the management composed of immortal cultivators and the private soldiers of the Black Iron Group will stay in the upper space. Five hundred meters above the big iron factory, there is a large-scale training field. And the rest area, that is the residence of the immortal cultivator.

"And Li Minghui rarely stays underground. He mainly runs relationships in the world of cultivating immortals on the ground, walks through the back door, and manages business in groups!

"But the big iron factory in the past few days is indeed extremely empty-you have changed the world on the ground, and you have set off stormy waves in the underground world. Many underground sects and groups that were originally attached to the Dongfang family have all become dogs of the mourning family. However, Li Minghui took the most powerful assassin under him, took the opportunity to expand his territory, swallowed all the nearby forces, and changed the original surname of Dongfang to Li, or how to make up for his godfather. What about the deficit?

"Because the underground world is in chaos, Wuyoujiao intends to take advantage of the chaos and count the time, there is one last day!"

The two of them observed clearly the distribution of forces and the surrounding environment of the big iron factory, and silently retracted into the depths of the mine, and along the hidden gaps unknown, they quietly sneaked into the surrounding areas of the big iron factory. Living Area.

This is a patchwork of shack and caves. It is the home of the workers. Not only all the workers’ family members live here, but there are also many providers of food, clothing, shelter, food, drink and entertainment, and occasionally walks and lanes, coming and going. Traders in underground space.

Compared with the depressed, cold, lifeless factory area, although it is like crazy ant nests and beehives, it has a somewhat vibrant taste. People's screaming and screaming sounds can sometimes even overwhelm the top of their heads. The noise.

Long Yangjun told Li Yao that immortal cultivators take a laissez-faire and self-defeating attitude towards the primitive people outside the factory area, and rarely go deep into the shack where the sewage flows in the living area to search and maintain order. The main reason is that those immortal cultivators are reluctant to pinch their noses to come to such a dirty place without any oily water.

Originally, Li Minghui had also thought about using the battle puppet as a police officer in the living area to strictly control all the primitive people. Later, he discovered that there were too many emergencies in the living area and the environment was too complicated. The battle puppet’s crystal brain could not handle it. ——To turn the "soldiers" who simply kill and suppress them into "policemen" who have to deal with all the trivial matters, at least two levels of crystal brains must be replaced.

Calculating that the price was too high, and it was unnecessary, Li Minghui dismissed the idea and only appointed some senior miners who seemed to be on their own to serve as the managers of the living quarters, with a very clear attitude-as long as it does not affect the production efficiency in the factory. , Don’t make a big mess, what the living quarters of the primitive people have become is not something he cares about.

The protector of Wuyoujiao was named "Xu Zhicheng". He was originally a model worker well-known in the big iron factory. After the two sons left one after another, in order to express their "preferential treatment" to him, the group let him become a community. Managers.

Since Xu Zhicheng has become the great guardian of Wuyoujiao, he naturally has a way to manage the area under his jurisdiction in an orderly manner, and become the district with the best public security and least trouble to the immortal cultivators. The workers living in this district are particularly hardworking and productive. The efficiency is particularly high, and it has gradually gained the trust of the senior management of the group. The living quarters are managed by his method, that is, one by one, they are turned to the worry-free education. Until today, all the surrounding living quarters have been taught by the worry-free education. High penetration and firm control, in turn surrounded the big iron factory and black iron group in the middle!