Extreme Cold Era: Shelter Don't Keep Waste-Chapter 905 - 133: The Third Floating City Module

Perfikot was not concerned about the emotions and reactions of the Marsel people; the planned Energy Tower was set in motion as scheduled.

The gigantic metal tower gradually rose amidst the wind and snow, its intricate structure and the steam pipelines spreading across the entire city were gradually perfected by the diligent work of the laborers.

After all, France was not the Northern Territory. If an Energy Tower was built in the Northern Territory, the construction efficiency would be much faster than this.

Whether it is the manufacturing of parts for the already systematic Energy Towers or the use of large construction robots, all make the Northern Territory far ahead in the construction of Energy Towers.

But in the old world? Perfikot could only order parts from the Northern Territory via the Empire's mainland and then transport them to Marsel using floating airships for assembly.

Back and forth, not only was the efficiency extremely low, but only the parts for one Energy Tower could be transported at a time.

But the situation was as it was; France itself lacked the technology to produce Energy Tower parts, and Perfikot had no intention of improving it.

Building Energy Towers for them is one thing, enabling them to construct Energy Towers themselves is quite another.

However, even though the technology for Energy Tower parts could not be provided, the mines outside the city received her technical support and transformation.

The current mineral output has doubled compared to before the transformation, while the number of required workers has decreased by 20%.

The appearance of the mine has also been completely renewed: the originally chaotic mine entrances have been reinforced into neat arch-shaped tunnels, the track systems extend underground like a spiderweb, and steam-powered ventilation equipment constantly delivers fresh air to the depths of the mine. 𝒇𝓻𝓮𝓮𝙬𝙚𝒃𝒏𝓸𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝓬𝓸𝒎

Of course, the number of miners couldn't help but reduce because a previous riot caused quite a loss of miners at the mine.

Some of the mining carts destroyed and tunnels that collapsed have still not been completely repaired, and the dark red bloodstains on the ground intermittently appear under the cover of snow.

Though Perfikot threw some former officials and stationed officers who couldn't be cemented into the walls by her into the mine, the gap left for miners was still relatively large.

Thus, Perfikot had no choice but to lower the required number of workers, increase the rate of automation, and thereby reduce the reliance on manpower.

What this brought was not a reduction in what miners had to do, but rather a surge in mineral resource output.

After all, the total amount of mineral resources a steam mining machine can excavate in a day is much more than relying purely on manual digging.

Those enormous steel claws could easily tear through hard rock layers, their work efficiency astonishing even the most seasoned miners.

Now miners no longer need to hammer away with pickaxes; they mostly load the crushed ore into transport carts after the engineer-operated machines shatter the rock layers and mineral beds, then use steam-powered transport carts to haul the ore back to the surface.

These workers no longer need to perform such heavy physical labor as in the past, but instead require more mental labor, doing more things than in the past, so overall they are not much more relaxed.

But most miners prefer life now; at the very least, they can eat their fill.

The mine cafeteria's chimney reliably bellowed smoke daily; the food provided might not be delicious, but at least the portions were sufficient.

Perfikot built a compressed biscuit factory and a sugar factory locally in Marsel, using alchemy to produce compressed biscuits and sugar blocks to provide food for the residents of Marsel.

These things were clearly not tasty; even with sugar blocks, it was difficult to make people feel the hard compressed biscuits were delicious.

Residents invented various methods to soften these brick-like foods: some hammered them into pieces to cook porridge, some held them in their mouth to let them soften slowly, and even some ground them into powder and mixed them with other ingredients.

But anyway, putting two compressed biscuits into water to dissolve and then adding a sugar block makes a bowl of sweet porridge that fills the stomach, which indeed solves the dietary problem for the Marsel people, who almost couldn't get enough to eat before.

This also slightly changed the Marsel people's attitude towards Perfikot.

After all, people are realistic; in the face of a situation where there is more fuel to keep warm and more food to fill the stomach, most ordinary people still cherish their life more and can tolerate some exploitation and domination.

On the market, people started whispering, "That Victory woman is cold, but at least, she keeps her word."

Children, upon receiving rations, no longer hide but properly greet the officials distributing supplies.

Whenever the sounds of construction come from the direction of the Energy Tower, people stop their work and glance for a moment, their eyes showing fear along with a trace of vague anticipation.

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In such an atmosphere, the third Floating City module on the Floating City was completed.

Although only the basic part of the construction was completed, with various facilities and armaments still needing subsequent refinement, its main structure as a Floating City module has been completed.

The completed third module connected to the previous two modules; Perfikot's hexagonal honeycomb structure designed at the beginning allowed perfect linkage, forming a gigantic whole.

On this basis, the Floating City can even expand 'infinitely'.

The completed third module is somewhat different from the previous two; the first module initially designed as a combat module due to considerations of the sacred war, was later altered into a comprehensive module with various production equipment added due to numerous considerations.

Subsequently, with the completion of the second module and their combination, Perfikot adjusted the first module, transferring some factories to the second module while restoring the combat capability of the first module.

However, Perfikot did not completely restore it to a combat module but combined it with the second module into a combination of both combat capabilities and logistical production capabilities.

Now with the third module, Perfikot felt she could recreate her initial design.

Namely, allowing the three modules to each have different functions in order to improve the overall operational efficiency of the Floating City.

Among the current three modules of the Floating City, there are no particularly noticeable distinctions, though the first module leans more toward combat, and the second more toward logistics, there is not obvious specificity.

This is certainly because various reasons forced compromise, but in terms of design and use efficiency, there are somewhat unreasonable and wasteful aspects.

Perfikot plans to integrate the functions among the modules, subdividing the three Floating City modules into combat, resource production, and logistics military industry directions.

In this way, not only can the combat efficiency of the Floating City be enhanced, but a better platform for subsequent production, manufacturing, and logistical supply can be provided.