Him and their stars

"It's not about chewing sand, it's about supporting construction!" Simon Vayali corrected: "When this place is completed, you can directly become the director of the factory. Is that what Director Ruhr and Mr. Babalu said? "

"I don't want to be the director of this factory. I also know that I am not the material! Really, I should go to Sinsunchon University of Technology for further study. I have even prepared the notice and tuition fee. Why is my head so hot? , have you come here?" Busca said angrily.

"Because you are also a member of the youth club and you have such passion. You came here when they said that we could build another red maple factory in Xinyumen. That's why we get along so well." Vayali smiled.

"Now, that guy Babaru should have arrived in Nephi, right?"

As the former chief engineer of the Red Maple Factory, Busca certainly knew that his level was just that of an ordinary senior technician. Fortunately, over the past year or so, the Engineers Guild Hall has been opened in Maple City, and many high-level technical consultants have also settled in. Busca likes to spend time there after work, and he has indeed learned a lot of real skills.

Busca originally planned to follow the example of his good friend Babalu of Rumina and study for a short-term degree at a nearby university. He already knew the metallurgical process very well, but if he really wanted to become a genuine chief engineer of a giant heavy industry company in the future, he would still need to continue his studies.

Therefore, on the recommendation of the old factory director Mr. Ruhl, Busca prepared to study for another master's degree at the New Suncheon Institute of Technology. That university is not a top-tier prestigious school, but it is very suitable for a technical and practical person like Bouska.

However, in September last year, when Red Star Office, led by Red Star Office, Red Maple Factory and New China Heavy Industry over New China were preparing to build a new factory in New Yumen and needed a group of volunteers, he signed up by mistake.

Ever since, this young technician who had never left Lumina in his whole life, and who had rarely even set foot outside Maple City and the factory, came to a new continent more than two million light years away from his hometown.

When he and his two hundred companions—one hundred and twenty Earthlings and eighty Lumina people—had just passed through the Nantian Gate in a boat, they immediately regretted it.

Now, we are already two million light years away from our hometown.

Many Lumina people who had the attribute of "relocating to a new home" burst into tears on the spot. You know, when we were at Hongfeng Factory, these were all the technical backbones and advanced elements. Who among the technical backbones in the steelmaking plant is not a tough guy?

Then, when everyone arrived at Xinyumen, they regretted it even more.

The vast deserts and wastelands occupy nearly one-third of the planet's surface. The tallest trees are less than five meters long, and most of them are shriveled and flammable eucalyptus species. Although groundwater is relatively abundant and wells can be drilled to solve the drinking water problem, the supply is limited and it is absolutely impossible to take a refreshing bath every day.

Buska, who grew up in Rumina, a forested place with abundant grass and trees, was quite uncomfortable with it. But he is still relatively well. After all, he is an earthling and is naturally adaptable. But the Lumina friends in the team were completely different. They are physically strong, but they "relocate to their homeland"; they are brave and fearless, but they "relocate to their homeland"; they are united and upright, but they "relocate to their homeland".

In short, the people of Lumina have many advantages, but their adaptability to unfamiliar environments is hard to describe.

No, in the first week of work, twelve of the eighty Lumina technicians fell ill, so serious that they could not even speak. If it weren't for the fact that there was a medical team of 20 people who came with everyone, bringing enough medicines and various facilities, the team was led by Miss Nair, the granddaughter of Master Trend from the Engineers Guild, a doctor with medical knowledge. A psyker with great abilities might really be wiped out.

Compared with the harsh natural environment, the sand people's hostility to outsiders is actually nothing.

Busca and his friends did not take the sand people's malicious intentions seriously. Although they were just ordinary workers, they had fought with real swords and guns to protect the factory and enemies from all walks of life. Pirates, horse bandits, beast tides, the black hands of the government and capitalists, even the lackeys of the empire, and even the lord-level behemoths of the virtual realm have all been seen.

Compared with these, they are still nomadic ministers and sand people from the era of small city-states, so what are they?

Even though this group of sand people actually had a lot of advanced weapons in their hands, Busca didn't think they were any threat at all, and they couldn't even defeat the security militia of their Red Maple Factory.

In fact, on the third day after arriving at Xinyumen, when everyone was still worried about the harsh environment of this planet, the camp where everyone was conducting field inspections was attacked by sand people. Busca called on everyone to take up arms and use off-road vehicles as bunkers for defense, successfully repelling the enemy.

Afterwards, more than a thousand corpses of sand people were found at the scene. The only casualties on our side were two unlucky ones who suffered scratches. They applied some medicine and were alive and kicking the next day.

Of course, the Thirteenth Fleet and the New Yumen Security Command did not dare to neglect their safety. Half a company of marines were specially assigned to take turns on duty at their stations carrying heavy weapons. The previous battle was fought jointly by the Marine Corps and technicians.

The lieutenant who led the team at the time was greatly shocked by the fighting power displayed by the workers. He felt that the skills and tactics of these workers may not be as good as professional soldiers, but their ability to execute orders and prohibitions is definitely comparable to that of elite troops.

"Cloth workers? Have you ever served in the military?"

"We only have three hours of military training for the militia members of the Security Department every week. However, all the young people in the factory participate. On average, each person should have one or two hours of military training every week."

"Oh, then..."

"However, everyone has still touched a gun and has some actual combat experience."

The lieutenant was even more incomprehensible. Because he didn't understand, he was even more shocked.

Therefore, for a long time, this group of technicians from two million light years away became the most partisan group in the entire New Yumen. If they hadn't spent most of their time working in the field, they might not have had to spend money to buy watermelons in the south of Tulong City.

However, Chief Engineer Busca still had a hard time. He still didn't like chewing sand, but he didn't like the bustling Tulong Port even more.

Even though it is the only city in Xinyumen that has a sense of the sci-fi era, once you get there, there is no need to allocate water. You can take a shower if you want, or even find a place to take a Turkish bath.

Now, the only thing that can bring him relief is his job. Civilization finally began to appear in this land that had been a brown desert for hundreds of millions of years. This is indeed the credit of Busca and the others.

Busca and his friends found huge reserves of high-quality iron ore on the northern foothills of the largest Kililuo Mountain in Xinyumen. It is said that there are also considerable vanadium ore and titanium ore. So everyone prepared to build a new metallurgical industrial base here.

People from the Red Star Institute and New China Heavy Industry who came with them obtained a large plain on the outskirts of Tulong and prepared to build a large-scale ship components factory and machinery parts factory.

Busca estimated that if this factory operates well, the next step will be a shipyard. His hometown, Lumina, and New Seville, which is in the same system, are thinking about jointly building an orbital shipyard. Of course, the design scale is not large, but we can still build some cargo ships and small gunboats for channel protection.

Now that the preliminary facilities and workshops at the metallurgical plant have been built, the next thing to consider is the transportation issue. The most cost-effective way is to lay a light track between two factories that are more than 300 kilometers apart.

However, he lacks heavy construction machinery and even less labor.

Fortunately, in the first month after he arrived in Xinyumen, Mr. Summers also arrived, preparing to open the second branch of the Engineers Guild Hall. He also brought three pieces of good news and one piece of bad news.

One of the good news is that his good friend Babaru finally got the admission notice from the Department of Natural Philosophy of Ocean University. The big black beetle scored very low on the edge of the passing line during the written examination, but it is said that during the interview with Shinshuncheon, the score was very good. It is said that it was because of his past "social practice" that he really impressed the examiner.

Ocean University is the top university in the alliance and even the entire universe. The reason why it is top-notch is because it has many celebrities. The reason why there are celebrities is because their examiners have good vision and know how to choose the types that are easy to become famous during the interview. It's more like an interview with a large company than selecting students.

The second good news was that the people who rushed to Xinyumen with Summers were the second batch of Red Maple Factory volunteers brought by his other friend Xia Xia Ke, more than 2,000 people. Only 500 of them were technicians and engineers, and the rest were all elite factory security militias. They were all heavily armed, including quite heavy weapons.

...Actually, the current factory protection team of Hongfeng Factory is no longer a militia. Because a large amount of high-quality Taishi alloys were provided to the Far Coast Military Region, the military region also began construction of new fortresses in Earl Star Gap and Lucknar Corridor. Vice Admiral Sylvester, the admiral of the Ninth Fleet and the commander of the Far Coast Military Region, was extremely pleased. With a wave of his hand, he gave the plant protection team a local guard force.

Now, the Red Maple Factory Guard Militia has become the official "Lumina Planet Local Guard Group". There is a reinforced group of 3,000 people, and the members are all formal soldiers who can lead the army and have military status. Xia Shaike, the director of the security department, even has the rank of major of the security force.

With more and more friends in Xinyumen, Busca and his friends will finally not be too lonely.

The third good news is that a large-scale military operation will be launched immediately. The stormtroopers of the Thirteenth Fleet, combined with Xia Xia Ke's Red Maple Factory Guards, launched a large-scale military operation. Seven well-known sand people city-states and nomadic tribes were wiped out at once.

Busca, who already had a strong sense of class, really felt that all those aristocratic gentlemen should be hanged from street lamps.

It seems that slaves and commoners were still living in the Bronze Age, but the gentlemen were already living in large houses with ecological domes, eating worms fried in butter and taking Turkish baths.

He naturally applauded his own actions. What made him even happier was that the sand people were killed, but at least half a million civilians and slaves were liberated.

These are all natural labor forces!

Summers from the Engineers Guild found Bouska: "In addition to the old, weak, women and children, there are 200,000 young and middle-aged people who can work. I will hand them over to you. Organize their labor, and you should be the best in this regard. We're very familiar with it. In this way, it shouldn't take long for the light rail from the Metallurgical Base to Tulong to be completed, right?"

"But, the light track design you gave me is almost a straight line, right? This will go directly through the hilly area, and the ground needs to be leveled. I don't have heavy machinery at hand."

Summers nodded: "Heavy equipment will not be delivered until a while. The labor power gloves and impact power hammers designed by Red Star are very easy to use, and the size can be adjusted, and can be used by humans, Lumina and sand people. New China Heavy Industries sent one million sets this time."

"But we have to find a way to feed them." Busca was both happy and worried. I immediately started to wonder how much it would cost to employ 150,000 workers based on the Community minimum wage. Then, he was immediately overwhelmed by the astronomical figure.

"I, we can't ask for help from the factory, right? The factory has been expanding, and the cash flow is actually quite tight. This time we were sent to support Xinyumen, and we did our best," Busca said.

Summers nodded: "I have done the math. Five kilograms of sweet potatoes and five kilograms of upland rice per person per day is enough for them to feed their families. If we can provide them with two kilograms of salted fish or dried earthworms every week, they will be full of energy for the whole week. of."

"Food?" Busca suddenly realized, but still did not feel relieved: "The food we seized from the masters of the Sand People is not much, right? It can last for two months at most. And the food in Xinyumen is not bad at all. Can’t we produce it ourselves? Is it possible to expand food imports from the empire?”

"That was before." Summers said with a smile: "The people from Red Star Office and New China have been working at the estuary of the Inland Sea for the past three months. Now they have built a large hydroponic farm, using the Captain's water in Lu Temperature-resistant grain varieties cultivated on the permafrost soil of Mina. The current grain growth is very good, and it is estimated that there will be a bumper harvest next month."

Busca was completely relieved this time.

Named "Seed of Life No. 1" by Yu Lian, it includes twenty-three crops, fruits and vegetables, and was sent to New China for planting as early as last year. After all, they are seeds cultivated by Guabi using the most original life energy of "Touch of Life". They can adapt to most extreme climate conditions and soil, and the yield is also very high.

The fruits produced also have the necessary nutritional value, but the only drawback is that the taste is not very good. However, this is to solve the food gap, and taste is naturally secondary.

"It seems that among the psyker masters in the past, no one thought of using psionic energy to cultivate food seeds." Buska said.

"This is why we follow him." Summers said.

Busca agreed, but added: "...However, if we were in the mainland, the minimum hourly wage would be 1.25 blue coins. But here, we only spend ten kilograms of grain and two kilograms of salt every day. fish."

Busca felt for a moment that he seemed to be a bit exploitative of the poor.

"This so-called basic salary standard can only be reached by a few prosperous galaxies such as the solar system." Summers shook his head and said: "Moreover, these sand people do not even belong to this era. If you give them cash, they will They are just at a loss and don’t even know where to go to exchange for food.”

Busca had to agree with this and couldn't help but sigh: "So, we have to teach them to write."

This time it was Summers who was stunned.

"They can't always belong to this era, right? Phew, now it's my turn, Busca, to cause trouble! That guy Babalu will be so jealous! Phew, practice is the best as expected. University!”