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Rive carried a pickaxe and walked wearily up the inclined tunnel. He felt that he was about to collapse.

As a skilled miner, a mere four hours of digging work - and it was just digging soil - was not a heavy physical job for him. But the trouble was the work clothes he was wearing. This strange suit was thick and heavy, and it wrapped him tightly from head to toe, even his eyes, nose and mouth were not exempted. Except that the eyes were inlaid with special crystal pieces, and there were special ventilation masks like pig noses in front of the nose and mouth. Anyway, it was very cumbersome and stuffy.

Stuffy, he never thought that he could feel stuffy in the shade of the house and the snow and ice did not melt all day!

"It was better in winter!" He couldn't help but sigh, "Although the mud was frozen and it was very hard to dig at that time, at least I didn't have to wear this strange suit!"

Of course, this was just a sigh, not a complaint. Because Mayor Felix, who was in charge of the excavation, had repeatedly emphasized that there was dangerous negative energy underground, and only by wearing this suit could they avoid being hurt by it.

"Negative energy is not a knife or a poisonous snake. It will not hurt you immediately, but will only hurt your body slowly." He still remembered what the beautiful female mayor said at that time, "If you don't wear this protective suit, you will slowly feel mental depression, fatigue, and loss of appetite, and then you will be prone to illness, and it will not be easy to recover after illness... Basically, at this point, you will almost die, but if you are lucky enough to survive, then what awaits you will be deeply eroded by negative energy and become a zombie or a skeleton..."

Felix repeated such words to them at least twenty times, and she even required every excavator to be able to repeat such a paragraph - it doesn't have to be very accurate, but the general meaning cannot be wrong.

She even found a group of mice to demonstrate the results of negative energy erosion to the excavators. Seeing those healthy mice quickly weakening and falling down in the thin gray negative energy, and one of them surviving by chance became stiff and dull, with a green light like a ghost fire in its eyes, all the excavators were frightened.

Therefore, even if they were uncomfortable and easily tired when working in this suit, they would never dare to take it off.

"Your Majesty, the equipment you gave them is really luxurious!" Felix watched the excavators slowly walk out of the tunnel from a distance, stay in the purification array for three minutes as required, and then impatiently take off the protective suits, and couldn't help shaking his head and said, "These guys probably can't even dream of how expensive the suits they are wearing are..."

Sui Xiong smiled: "People-oriented. If Pyroxite Town is to be revived, it will require a large number of manpower, especially skilled workers. And even if the town is revived, it still needs to serve people. In my opinion, these excavators are much more precious than those magic glue protective suits. . "

"Five hundred gold coins for a protective suit... If you use this money to recruit mercenaries, you can at least find ten strong men who can fight and kill with swords and bows."

"With you and Qiao Xiu in Pyroxene Town, the military force is enough. We can save the money and invest it in more valuable places." Sui Xiong said with a smile, "Besides, these protective suits are not wasted. They are very durable and can be used for a long time. With their help, ordinary people can also be asked to harvest special mushrooms in the future. It is much safer and more efficient."

Felix curled her lips and did not agree with Sui Xiong's statement. But she did not oppose Sui Xiong's approach. On the contrary, she liked this approach of cherishing human lives - except for a few perverts, almost no one dislikes a magnanimous and kind leader.

What's more, Sui Xiong is no longer as simple as "magnanimous and kind". When he returned from this trip, he found that as the tunnel was dug deeper and deeper, the concentration of negative energy in the tunnel was much higher than that on the ground. Although this level of negative energy will not cause any immediate harm, and the purification array after work can eliminate most of the effects, it will still accumulate to a level that is enough to cause serious illness or even death.

So he immediately notified Felix and asked her to prepare more appropriate protective measures for the excavators.

Felix had no objection to this. She originally planned to buy "magic pattern cloth" woven with magic plant fibers to make protective clothing, and to achieve the protective effect by adding the effect of the entry-level spell "energy resistance" to the magic pattern cloth. But Sui Xiong rejected this opinion and asked her to purchase magic glue cloth that can be built-in with the effect of the primary spell "energy protection" and make a fully covered heavy protective clothing.

This greatly increased the investment. Based on the current 30 diggers, 30 sets of magic pattern cloth work clothes with the "energy resistance" spell only cost less than 1,500 gold coins in total. If you go through some internal channels, it can even be reduced to 1,200 gold coins; but 30 sets of magic glue cloth heavy protective clothing with the "energy protection" spell cost 500 gold coins each, which adds up to 15,000 gold coins - and this is still a friendly price!

This price scared Felix. As a high-level wizard who is accumulating knowledge and power to enter the legendary realm, more than 1,000 gold coins are not a big number for her. It's just a little painful. But 15,000 gold coins... This price is enough to find a group of top killers to assassinate a king, but it's used to make protective clothing for a group of laborers?

Really, this is too extravagant!

But since Sui Xiong had made the decision, she could only execute it. Fortunately, Sui Xiong didn't let her spend too much money. He only asked her to buy the raw materials. The production of protective clothing and enchantment were all done by His Majesty the Jellyfish God himself, and the cost was finally reduced to 200 gold coins per set of protective clothing, with a total price of 6,000 gold coins.

Looking at this set of protective clothing, Felix's previous worries about "what if others learn our technology" no longer need to be mentioned. I believe that there is absolutely no businessman in the world who would be crazy enough to invest such a huge sum of money just to do some business in negative energy essence.

Energy essence is just a low-end magic material, not worth spending so much money!

"Actually, if you calculate carefully, this investment is still worthwhile." Sui Xiong said with a smile, "These protective suits can be used for at least 20 years, while the magic pattern cloth work clothes can only be used for three years at most. In terms of long-term investment, the price difference of protective suits is actually about half. Using this price difference to exchange for a group of skilled and reliable workers, isn't it very cost-effective?"

"And think about it, with this strict protection, the workers can always stay healthy. They will become a strong support for the revitalization of the town and even the construction of a new society. This is something that no amount of money can buy!"

Felix smiled bitterly and tacitly agreed with this statement.

Outside the tunnel, Lai Fu had been purified and took off the heavy protective suit. He rinsed the protective suit under the pipe that was flowing out of clean water according to regulations and hung it in the designated location.

After doing this, he came to the "rest stop" and used a bamboo tube to take a cup of tea made from roasted rye from a large wooden barrel that was supposed to hold beer, and took a deep sip.

The lukewarm tea gurgled down his throat and into his stomach, calming his originally irritable mood and unconsciously eliminating a lot of fatigue.

In fact, he was not very tired at first, it was just because of the stuffiness that made him have the illusion of "I am very tired". Now that he has returned to a more comfortable environment, as this illusion disappears, he will of course recover.

In this case, he could have continued to work for a while. But the morning work was over, and the protective clothing also needed time to drain the water, so he could go home safely, have lunch, and then take a short rest to prepare for the afternoon work.

An excavator only needs to work eight hours a day, which is also a rule set by Sui Xiong. Of course, there are a lot of reasons to explain this, but in fact, the reason is still "habit".

For Sui Xiong, whether it is the need for proper protection for dangerous jobs or the eight-hour work system, it is a natural habit, and there is nothing to discuss.

Whether it was the excavator Laifu who only knew how to work, or Felix who was in charge of the town's revival work, they could not understand Sui Xiong's habits.

Just like "pension security", "disease and work injury security", "holidays", "work meals", "overtime allowances", these concepts were absolutely non-existent in this world. It was all because of Sui Xiong's habits that they were promoted in the Void Mask Amusement Park.

However, so far, it has only been promoted in the Void Mask Amusement Park.

Even though many kind gods have praised these systems and even wanted to try to imitate them, in the end, only the amusement park can persist.

If other places want to imitate, first of all, it is impossible to invest as much money as the Void Mask Amusement Park - there are not many places that can make a fortune every day; secondly, even if there is so much money to invest, there is a lack of a social foundation that can accept these practices. You must know that every penny invested in welfare is the profit of the investors themselves. Merchants will not be willing to give up such a large profit, and nobles will not be willing to give so many benefits to the people. Even if it is the church of the good gods, they may be able to do this internally, but if they want to promote it, it is still impossible.

Only the city built by Sui Xiong out of thin air can directly use such a set of rules. Other than that, no other place can do it!

Even in Pyroxene Town, Sui Xiong did not directly apply the various guarantees and benefits in the amusement park, but decided to take a step-by-step approach to promote social progress bit by bit.

He remembered a famous saying, "Communism will not fall from the sky." From another perspective, a system directly promoted by the power of gods will definitely not be the progress he wants.

Progress must come little by little, and for the current Pyroxene Town, this degree is almost enough.

Of course, this situation will not continue. When the artificial mineral veins begin to produce, or the agricultural situation improves, he will definitely further promote social progress, so that the living conditions of the people in Pyroxene Town will continue to improve, and let this town move in the direction of his ideal.

The towering building rises from the ground, and now it is almost just the foundation stage.