Be the savior from Frostpunk

Chapter 16 The Lost Expedition and the Rail Car

While the children were eating, Li Jianghao used his unskilled language skills to create a story about an ancient hero who used fire to defeat demons and protect the tribe, and told the children that the muscular and intelligent hero in this story was named Shang.If you have nightmares in the future, you can call this name to bring good luck.

At this time, Li Jianghao didn't know that the mere mention of some names would cause huge waves in the "gap" that does not exist between countless universes.Some beings from unknown lands are instinctively turning their sights to look at the reason why the waves were stirred up.Those beings are so huge that they may have forgotten why they turned to look at a remote corner when they turned their heads.

In the afternoon, news came from the lighthouse, and the personnel on routine duty saw the returning reconnaissance team through binoculars, and many figures followed behind them.

According to the original plan, these expedition teams were to arrive at the energy tower first. They lost their way in the wind and snow, but fortunately the offset distance was not far away.Even if normal development finds them after the plot begins, these people are still alive.It's ten days ahead of schedule, 9 engineers, 22 workers and 4 children who don't know why are there with the inspection team.

However, after getting more labor, let these people rest for a day, and let the workers devote themselves to work on the third day of the ten-day novice benefits, and finally collected all the resources within the range of the energy tower within today.A small resource depot was even built to hold the extra coal during this time.

These coals are enough for the camp to upgrade the heater, steam hub and shearer building before the first cool down, and complete the self-sufficiency of coal.

Li Jianghao announced that normal work shifts would be temporarily restored, and no one, including engineers, would have to work overtime until 60 p.m. every day.Thanks to the joyful reunion and the cessation of delayed flights, as well as the surplus resources to provide tents for everyone to live in, the hope value finally returned to 5%, and the dissatisfaction value was also controlled at around [-]%.

After all, it is difficult to eliminate the negative emotions of human beings. These emotions are not all dissatisfaction with oneself, but more of confusion about the future.It's just that the repetitive work now gives them the meaning of living, and they can still eat and wear warmth for the time being.

For the code that can reduce the value of dissatisfaction, Li Jianghao was the first to die in the duel field.These workers in the era of the industrial revolution obviously didn't have more leisure entertainment, and they actually liked to watch people duel, and there was a chance of causing injuries.In case someone dies, Li Jianghao really has no place to cry.So he directly bypassed the code of the duel field and promulgated the tavern code, and built the tavern next to the energy tower, next to the kitchen.

In this way, after five tents, a kitchen, an ambulance station, and a tavern have been built, there are no empty spaces in the inner circle of the energy tower.

Because all the workers have been working in the open air these days and no collection station has been built, everyone has more or less suffered some abrasions.After all the resource points were exhausted, they lined up at the ambulance station to bandage their wounds, then turned around after eating and threw themselves into the tavern.The workers are also talking to each other about what work they will do tomorrow.

"Huck, I heard you've been with the engineers these days, do you have any inside information?"

The workers laughed and looked at Huck, who was also coming to drink with a cane. They asked deliberately to see what Huck could say.But the workers didn't expect to hear any news, they just made a secret bet. If Huck didn't know anything, the loser would have to serve as a waiter for everyone here and pour wine one by one.

Huck saw the ridicule of his companions, but he was not in a hurry to refute. Instead, he took a sip of hot wine slowly and said calmly:
"Don't be scared when I say it. I heard the mayor talk to Andrew in the afternoon. The mayor is going to lay a track on the road leading to the cemetery. This will cause us to not have enough resources." To build a coal shearer, you can only build a logging machine to ensure the supply of wood. And the steel will run out, alas”

Huck stopped suddenly, and as he was speaking, the workers who were laughing at first quieted down, their faces tensed, and they forgot to swallow half of the wine in their mouths, waiting for Huck to finish speaking.

"Huck, why have you turned into a guy who talks half-talk? Come on! Why are you sighing?"

"That's right, Huck, the resources we have collected these days are obvious to all. Why are we only laying a track, and we don't even have the resources to build a coal shearer?"

"What is that track going to be used for? The most important thing is to give priority to building a shearer to ensure the operation of the energy tower. What does the mayor think?"

Huck waited for people to express their own doubts, then took another sip of wine, and then said slowly:
"Mr. Mayor and Andrew have designed a small rail car that can travel on the track through steam. It seems that the engine is not inside the train, so the train will be much smaller than the steam locomotives we saw in the empire. From the perspective of energy Start from the ambulance station in the center of the tower and arrive at the front of the cemetery all the way. On the open space there, build a coal shearer. You also know that the coal collected now has exploded, and the coal shearer can be built later. Wait until the railcar is built , what role it can play, then I don’t know.”

Huck finished his explanation in a mysterious manner, sighing secretly that he had accomplished his task so skillfully.The workers quickly shifted from their doubts about the mayor not building the coal shearer in the first place to the mysterious rail car, and began to discuss what the rail car could be used for.

Huck, who had completed his task, naturally finished his drink leisurely and was ready to go back to the ambulance station to rest.

That's right, it was Li Jianghao who gave the order to build the tavern and let Huck spread the word among the workers.He knows very well that if orders are issued rigidly without explanation, the dissatisfaction value will increase rapidly.

But first build a tavern as a place for workers to discuss, and then let Huck, a fellow worker, spread some true or false news in it so that people can think about the problem in a predisposed way instead of being incited by emotions to become dissatisfied. Development is within your control.

After completing this set of preparations, Li Jianghao felt that he had the talent to be a politician.During the day, he and Andrew deliberately let Huck listen while discussing, and let Huck remember to give some wind to the workers at night.

Huck and Andrew may not have realized the profound meaning of Li Jianghao's actions, but Bernard, whose freedom was restricted, showed a bit of contempt after everyone left, saying:

"I thought you were so noble, but you turned out to be a politician who plays with people's hearts."

Li Jianghao sighed, and said: "Where is it, compared to you who deceived all the people here before you were kind, what I have done is still far behind."

(End of this chapter)